THE RIGHT RECIPE

Evening Star, Issue 20582, 6 September 1930, Page 22

THE RIGHT RECIPE

Vanilla Squares (by request).—3oz butter, one teacup sugar, one egg, onethird 'cup milk, one breakfast cup Hour, one teaspoon vanilla, one teaspoon baking powder, chocolate or cocoa to taste. Melt the butter and sugar, add the egg ,and beat well together, add chocolate, milk, and vanilla, then flour and baking powder. Spread evenly in a greased tin, and bake in moderate oven about ballhour. Chopped almonds may be added. Cut in squares while warm. DATE LOAE. Soak one cup stoned dates in J-cup water with one teaspoonful soda for one hour or more. Beat two tablespoonfuts butter and J-cup sugar to a cream, then add one beaten egg, two cups of flour, and lastly mix in the dates. Bake about an hour and a-balf in moderate oven. NUTYEKS (by request). Quarter-pound butter, half-cup sugar, one egg, one and a-balf cups flour one tcaspoonful baking powder, one cup cut-up dates and walnuts mixed. Beat butter and sugar, add egg, then flour and dates. Drop in teaspoon on cold greased oven tray and bake in moderate oven. A FEW DAINTIES FOR AFTERNOON TEA (To be oaten hot). Cup Muffins. —Cup Muffins are made with lib self-raising flour, 2oz lard, one cup milk, heaped teaspoon baking powder, loz sugar, pinch salt. Mix the flour, baking powder, and sugar in a bowl, flub in lard and make into a soft dough with the milk. Roll out on a floured board until half an inch thick and cut into rounds the size of a teacup. Bake quickly in a hot oven, split, butter, and servo at once. Sultana Scones.—Three-quarters of a pound plain flour, 2oz sultanas, loz sugar, pinch salt, half-teaspoon baking soda, teaspoon cream of tartar, sufficient milk to a soft dough, 2oz butter or lard. Rub shortening into flour and salt, add sugar, fruit, and cream of tartar. Dissolve soda in milk and mix quickly. Roll out into two rounds about -Jin thick. Cut each round into four avid bake in a hot oven about ten mini) tes. Potato Splits.—Half a pound cold mashed potatoes, 2oz flour, loz butter, salt, baking powder, a little milk. Molt the butter avid boat into potato, add salt, flour, and baking powder, then a very little milk, till you have a firm dough. Roll out on a floured hoard till in thick. Prick over with a fork, cut into squares, and bake on a tin in a quick oven. Split and well butter to serve.