RECOMMENDED RECIPES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 16

RECOMMENDED RECIPES

SOME COOL DISHES

Orango Sponge.- -Four large or six small oranges, 3 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, cyie lemon, 1J cups water, 2 dessertspoonfuls gelatine. Place, gelatine and water in saucepan on fire, and stir until dissolved. Add sugar, juice of oranges, and lemon. (or a small pieces of citric acid). ; Allow to qool, and then add the beaten white of eggs; beat until it looks like snow. Put in a glass dish and decorate with coloured jelly, or crystallised cherries. Serve with custard or cream.

Apricot Mould.—Take lib apricots, loz leaf gelatine, half a lemon, 2oz castor sugar, 1 pint of raspberry jelly. Dissolve the jelly, wet the mould, then pour a thin coating of jelly into it. Let that set, then put in some pieces of apricot, pour in enough of the jelly to cover them, and stand in a cool place to set. Eemove the stones from the fruit, place in a saucepan, to cook until soft, adding half a pint of water ana sufficient sugar to taste. Bub the apricots through a sieve, put the soaked gelatine into a saucepan, with the apricot syrup; let it dissolve gently, then strain in. the lemon juice, and when, cool stir in the pulp, mix together, then pour into a" mould.

Sherbert.—Fifteen, drops of essence of lemon, |lb castor sugar, Jib tartaric acid, Jib carbonate of soda. Sift well and sprinkle essence on the' sugar. Keep in a well-stoppered bottle. One small teaspoonf ul makes a delicious and refreshing drink.

Charlotte Eusse.—One pint red jelly, ipt milk, two dessertspoonfuls of gelatine, loz crystallised cherries, 2ok sugar, two eggs, essence to taste, one gill cream, sponge strips, and a few crushed biscuits. Set some jelly in a wet mould about one inch in depth. When quite set, line the mould with fingerstrips of sponge. Heat milk over the fire; beat egg; add to the milk, ana make a custara. Allow to cool a little; then add gelatine dissolved in a little hot water, then the sugar, essence, cream, and crushed biscuits; cut up cherries ana sponge pieces.^. When cola, pour into a prepared mould; set (on ice if possible) till firm; turn out. Arrange rest of jelly around the dish, chopped up roughly.