THREE GOOD IDEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1937, Page 11

THREE GOOD IDEAS.

FISH MACARONI. Cook three ounces of macaroni in boiling salted water .till tender and then draih.it.'- Make a white sauce by. melting two ounces of ..butter in a pan, then stir in gradually one and a half ounces of flour and one pint of milk and cook the sauce for a few minutes. Draw the pan .aside and add four ounces of grated cheese, the cooked macaroni and a pinch of pepper and salt. Grease a pie dish and put a layer of the sauce in the bottom of the dish, then add • threequarters of a pound of cooked flaked fish and cover the fish with the remainder ',of. the, sauce. Sprinkle the top with fine breadcrumbs and pats of butter and put.into.a-hot oven till nicely browned oh. top .and'-thoroughly heated. .. W -.i.'.""-!. Ginger Pudding. .;■■'■)) Cream together two. ounces of butter and. two ounces of brown sugar..' Add ..two beaten,eggs and beat well. Stir in four ounces, of self-raising flour sifted with a teaspoonful of ground ginger-and a pinch of salt.- beat in one or two tablespoonfuls of golden syrup, just enough-' to make a- fairly soft mixture which" 'yet- does not drop..quickly from the spoon. ; Have ready a greased pudding'basin.' Put two tablespoonfuls of golden, syrup 'at: the bottom and the

pudding mixture on top. Tic greased' paper over the top and steam for two hours. Apple Drops. . '. - Peel, quarter and core one pound of cooking apples and put'them into a pan: with the grated riiid .of a lemon arid a little water and sugar to sweeten. Cook till tender and then rub the apples through a sieve, Melt one ounce of butter in the apple puree and stir in gradually one well-beaten egg and seven ounces of self-raising flour. The mixture should be smooth and of the consistency of. a thick batter. Have ready a pan of smoking hot fat and fry. spoonfuls of the mixture till golden brown. Then drain on kitchen paper, dredge the drops with castor sugar, and serve at once. '. -