Try Some of These—

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 19

Try Some of These—

Baked Sweet Batter Pudding.— Quantity of "flowing" batter, 3 tablespoons currants, grated rind of half lemon, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons margarine. When the batter has stood for an hour sprinkle in the currants and lemon rind. Melt the margarine in the baking-dish, and when hot pour in the batter. Bake in the usual way. Serve very hot. Sprinkle it liberally with the sugar.

French Pancakes. —Two tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 2 dessertspoons butter. 2 tablespoons sugar. Cream the butter and sugar, add one egg, and beat well; then the other one, and beat again. Stir 'in the sifted flour, lastly the milk. Butter six deep saucers, half fill with the mixture. Bake in a quick oven 10 to 15 minutes, when they should be a golden brown on top. Turn out; spread jam on half. Fold over like an omelet. Serve at once.

Stuffed Savoury Pancakes. —Make the pancakes in the usual way, and when rolling them fill with one of the various stuffings: Puree of tomatoes, mushrooms fi'ied in butter, cold meat chopped and bound together with a sauce, puree of vegetables, puree of fish well flavoured, asparagus bound with white sauce, cheese bound with white sauce, oysters.

Toad in the Hole.—Quantity of "flowing" batter, 31b beef steak (minced or seasoned) or fib sausage meat, 2 tablespoons dripping. Melt the dripping in a baking-dish, pour in sufficient batter to a depth of half an inch. Bake this layer first till just set. Sprinkle the meat over the cooked batter. Add salt.and pepper if necessary, then pour over the rest of the batter to cover the meat. Return to a hot oven and finish cooking. Cut, into squares. Serve very hot.

Italian Fritters.—One egg, 1 table.spoon sugar/ J. cup milk, slices of bread, frying fat, sugar, cinnamon. Beat the egg well, add to it the milk and sugar. Remove the crusts from the bread, cut into finger lengths. Dip the bread into the egg mixture. Fry in boiling fat until a golden brown all over. Drain. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Serve at once very hot.

Cheese Fritters.—Quantity of "coating" batter, cubes of cheese, parsley, frying fat. Make the batter. Coat the cheese with the batter and fry in deep boiling fat till a>, golden brown. Drain on paper, serve at once on hot dish garnished with parsley. Sardines, fillets of fish, cooked, brains, tripe, slices of cold meat,,,salmo"n, sweet corn (drain and stir into batter, drop in spoonsful into fat), oysters, may be used in this way.

Apple Fritters. —Quantity of "coating" batter, apples, sugar, lemon, frying fat. Make the batter in the usual way. Peel and core the apples arid cut into thin rings. Coat each ring with batter and fry in deep boiling fat till a golden brown all over. Drain on white paper. Serve on paper doilies. Sprinkle with sugar and cut the lemon in thick slices. , Bananas, pineapples, or soaked dried peaches may be used in the same way.

Banana Fritters.—Sift together li cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of

baking powder, two, tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and J of a teaspoonful of salt. To one well-beaten egg add two-thirds of a cupful of milk, and add slowly to the dry ingredients, stirring constantly. The batter should be thick enough to entirely coat the fruit; if it is not, add a little more flour. Peel six bananas, cut into halves lengthwise; then crosswise, and dip into the fritter batter. Fry in deep, hot fat, 305 degrees Fahrenheit, turning frequently until golden brown. Drain, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve hot.

Banana Cake—Cream half of a cupful of shortening, add gradually It cupfuls of sugar, then stir in two stifflybeaten eggs. Put through the fruit press or sieve two or three bananas, to make one cupful, and add quarter of a cupful of sour milk. Sift together: Two cupfuls of flour, half of a teaspoonful of baking powder, three-quar-ters of a teaspoonful of salt. Add to the egg mixture, alternating with the liquid, then flavour with one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Pour into greased and floured layer cake pans and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven," 375 degrees Fahrenheit. When the layers are cold, put them together with whipped cream slightly sweetened, and spread whipped cream over the top. Or use banana icing.

Baked Bananas.—Peel bananas, arrange in a shallow heatproof baking dish, sprinkle with lemon juice and one tablespoonful of sugar mixed with 1-16 of a teaspoonful' of cinnamon. Bake in a moderate oven, 375 degrees Fahrenheit, until tender, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve hot.