RECIPES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1378, 23 February 1900, Page 2

RECIPES.

Egg Mould for an Invalid. — Butter a pretty mould. Mines finely a small slice of ham and a tiny piece of parsley, season with just a suspicion of grated nutmeg and a dust of pepper. Mix all together carefully, and put the mixture in the buttered mould ; then place in carefully a quite new laid egg, set the mould into a pan of boiling water, and watch it simmer slowly for five minutes. Turn it out upon a white plate. Have ready some finger-lengths of toast with the crust removed ; place them in a small block tipon another plate, and lay a pot of ornamental butter beside them.

Common Egg Sauce. — Boil a couple of eggs hard, and wh n thfy are quite cold cut the whites and yolks separately mix them well, put them into a very hot tureen, and pour boiling to them a quarter-pint of melted butter ; stir, and serve the sauce immediately. Whole eggs, two ; melted butter, a quarter of pint.

Brown Onion Sauce. — Out off theends of an onion or onions, and slice into a saucepan in which two ounces of butter have been dissolved ; keep them stewing over a clpar fire until they are lightly colored, then pour in half a pint of brown gravy, and when they have boiled tender, *ork the sauce altogether through a strainer, season it with a little pepper, and sc-rve it very hot.

Common Pudding Sauce. — Sweeten a quarter-pint of good melted butter with an ouncn and a-half of sugar, and add to it gently a couple of glasses of wine ; stir it until it is at the point of boiling and serve it immediately. Lemon grate or nutmeg can be added to taste.

Seed Buns. — Required : Four eggs, four teacupfuls of sugar, two of butter, one of milk, a tablespoanful of carroway seeds, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, flour. Method- : Beat the ingredients well together, adding flour by degrees till a paste thick enough to roll out is formed. Make into small buns, and bake in a quick oven.

Beef Kidney. — Slice the kidney rather thin, after having stripped off the skin, and remove the fat ; season it with pepper, salt, and graced nutmeg, and sprinkle over it plenty of minced parsley, or equal parts of parsley and eschalots chopped very small. Fry the slices over a brisk fire, and when nicely browned on both sides stir amongst them a teaspoonful of flour, and pour in by degress a cup of gravy, bring the sauce to the point of boiling add a

morsel of fresh butter and a. tablespoonful of lemon jiice, and pour the whole into a hot dish garnished with fried bread. This is a French recipe and a very excellent one.

Pnr».«e of Parsnips. — Required ; A pound of sliced parsnips, two ounces of hutter, a quirt of stock, pepper and salt. M-thod : Cjok the parsnips in the butter ti!ltk?y are tender, add a pint of stock, and boil for half an hour \ pas? all through a fine sieve, add the rest of the stock, season, boil up, and

Golden Cake. — Required : Half a lb of butter, a pound and a half of castor sugar, three cupfuls of flour, half a cup of milk, the yolks of six eggs, white of one, a tespopnful of soda, twenty drops of essence, of almonds. Method : Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, then the, eggs ; beat all well; stir in the flour, to which have been added the soda and cream of tartar. Bxke in a buttered mould for an hour and ahalf.

Pretty D.finition.—A Muff. A muff is a thing which holds a young lady's hand without squeezing it.

Tommy (looking up from his book) : Pa what do they mean by Darwin's missing link? Pa: Why— ?r— Mr Darwin lost one of his cuff buttons, I suppose.

General Porter tells a story of his farewell to Mark Twain once when. Mark was going away. I said : " Good-by, Mark. May God be with you always." He drawlingly replied, 'I — hope — he will — but— l— hope, too,that he — may — £Jnd — some — leisure — momen ts — to — rake — care — of — you. '

Mrs Boardcm : ' How do you find the chicken soup, Mr Cowper.' Mr Oowper : ' I have no difficulty in finding the soup, madam, but I am inclined to think the chicken will be able to prove an alibi.'

1 W«,' he said, as ho got up to kindlo the kitchen fire, Move's young dream ; s all right so far as it goes, but the trouble is it is cn'y a dream. 1

You can always tell how much a husband loves his wife by the way he holds an urubrjlla. over her in a shower.

Cigarettes of green tea are said to he the la 1 ps 1 : fash-on with ladies of the West of London. Another triumph for the temperance party !