HOME MAKERS' CORNER

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 April 1948, Page 8

HOME MAKERS' CORNER

‘EGGS ARE SCARCE AND EXPENSIVE” Here are two ot three rather nice eggless recipes which may he useful at this time of year. All have been tested. Gingerbread: i cup butter or good dripping, 1 cup golden syrup, 1 dessertspoon soda, 1 teaspoon each of ginger, spice, and cinnamon, pinch salt, 2 cups flour, i cup boiling water, 2 small cups sugar. Syrup need not he warmed. Add hot water last. Moderate oven. Delicious Cake: }lb. fat (butter, lard, or dripping or partly made up), fib. sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 4 teaspoons vinegar, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 2 large cups flour, vanilla, fib. dates or other fruit (chopped), 1 dessertspoon golden syrup, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons soda. 1 large cup milk, pinch salt. Beat fat and sugar till light, add milk, syrup and soda after heating; mix flour, cocoa and baking powder and add. Mix well and then add dates and nuts, and, lastly, vinegar and vanilla. Bake f hour in fairly hot oven. Ice with plain chocolate icing. Dainty Pudding: 1 large cup flour, 2 tablespoons jam, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon dripping, 4 cup sugar, 1 small cup milk. Mix all together and steam If hours. Caramel Dumpling: fib. flour, 40/S. butter, J teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt. Rub butter into flour and mix to stiff with water. Roll and place in a colander. Kill with sliced apples sweetened to taste. Pinch sid«s together and tip joined side down into piedish. Mix 2 tablespoons butter and sugar, and spread thickly over dumpling. Bake J an hour.