RECOMMENDED RECIPES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 14

RECOMMENDED RECIPES

CHRISTMAS DISHES.

Mince Meat. —When making Christ-: mas mince meat, try this excellent recipe. The tripe i 3 a delicious improvement, but can be omitted if preferred: lib raisins (weighed when stoned), lib currants, lib "sultanas, 21b apples, lib candied peel, lib prepared tripe, 3 lemons, lib sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of mixed spice, 1 wine glass of sherry, 1 wine glass of brandy, or two wine glasses of sherry. Wash and dry tho fruit, stone the raisins, peel, core, and chop the' apples, chop tho candied peel, cut tho tripe into pieces as small as currants, grate the rind of tho lemons, add the juice to tho sherry. Mix all tho ingredients* togother, adding the sherry last, chop well, fill clean jars, and cover with preserving paper. Keep in a cool place. Bich Christmas Cake. —lib butter, lib sugar, lib flour, 10 eggs, 2oz almonds, loz peel; beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add yokes of eggs, then whites beaten very stiff, then tho flour and fruit. Bako 3 to 4 hours.

Excellent Plum Cake.—ljlb flour, lib currants, lib butter, lib raisins, lib sugar, Jib almonds, Jib mixed peel, 12 eggs,, and a wine glassful of brandy. Bake 3 to 4 hours.

A Very Good Cake.—fib of flour, Jib mixed fruit, lemon peel, and little nutmeg and ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, Jib sugar, Jib butter, 5 eggs. Important: Always.' mix butter and sugar to a cream %vhen starting ono 's cake-making, and add eggs, ono by one, or two by two, then dry ingredients. Make tho oven very hot, turn gas down to half as. soon as cake is put in. After about 15 minutes turn to quarter pressure for smother 15 minutes to 20 minutes, and then very low until cake is cooked. A skewer is the best test at tho final. If it leaves the cake "clean" it is safe to remove.

Christmas Plum Pudding.—ljlb of bread crumbs, ljlb flour, lib sugar, 21b of raisins, 21b currants, 21b suet, 1 packet of mixed spice, 1 nutmog (grated), 1 teaspoonful salt, 61b of sliced mixed peel , half tumbler of brandy, 1 dozen, eggs. Mix thoroughly together and put in a mould. Boil for six hours, and two hours on day wanted. Servo with hot sauce. Another exeellont recipe is lib bread crumbs, 2 tablespoon fuls flour, jib suet, Jib sugar, 3 tablespoonfuls treacle, 8 eggs, lib raisins, lib currants, Jib of sliced mixed peel, I! teaspoonfuls mixed spice, -Jib nutmeg (grated); mix ingredients well; warm treacle and mix in; lot it stand in a warm place for a few hours; beat yolks and mis them in next; then, lastly, the whites whipped stiff. Boil 8 hours.

Plain Plum Pudding.—Jib suut, Jib sugar, lib flour, Jib currants, Jib sultajuas, 2oz sliced mixed peel, 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda, half nutmeg grated, 1 egg; mix all dry ingredients thoroughly together, and mix tho treacle with a cupful of hot milk, and then pour into the.dry ingredients, mix, and boil in basin or cloth (leaving room for swelling); boil or steam for 24 hours. ■ "