GINGER DELICACIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 17

GINGER DELICACIES.

On these coid, wet days anything made with ginger is particularly welcome. There is .something about the golden-brown tinge and the . spicy flavour it le-ncls to -calv-e-s or jpracxcLiii’gs that seems to fill a very necessary place on the winter menu. The following are. a few good household recipes for ginger delidaeies: Ginger Cake. —Two-thirds cup treacle, fill with sugar; 1 cu.p butter or dripping, fill with hot water; 2 cups flour, 1. teaspoon soda, 1J tablespoons ginger, 1 egg, a little ground' cloves, allspice, and shredded lemon peel. Put treacle ancl sugar into basin, pour boiling w’ater on butter and lemon, when melted, and treacle and .sugar. Blend well, then add beaten egg and stir in flour with ginger and spices. Lastly, dissolve .soda in 1 teaspoon cold water and stir in. Bake in a slow oven.

Ginger Pudding.—Take 2 cups flour, 2 taiblespoonfuls sugar, 1 dessertspoon ginger, a .piece of butter the .size of an egg, rubbed into the flour, 2 tablesjpooms treacle, 1 teaspoon carb. soda, dissolved in a little milk; mix to the consistency of batter; pour into buttered mould .and steam 3 hours. Serve with .sweet sauce.

Treacle Sponge Pudding.—l breakfast cup and a,-half of flour and of breadcrumbs, Jib finely-chopped suet, 1 teaspoon baking powder, J teaspoon egg-powder, 2 dessertspoons ground ginger, and 3 tablespoons golden syru.p. Mix together all the dry ingredients, then add the syrup, and just aist much milk as wall make the mixture into a. batter. Put into greased mould and steam: 3 hours. Sponge Gingerbread.— Jib butter, 2 breakfast cup® flour, 1 teacup milk, 1 heaped teaspoon soda, 1 teacup sugar, 1 teacup golden .syrup, 1 dessertspoon spice, 2 dessertspoons ground ginger, sultanas, cream, butter and sugar. Warm: the syrup .and dissolve soda, in the milk. Mix and bake in a shallow cake tin in a moderate oven.

Ginger Bis'euits. —\ cup butter, 2 cup® flour, 1 dessertspoon ginger, J cup sugar, 1 tablespoon golden syrup, J teaspoon cream of tartar; J teaspoon soda, teaspoon cinnamon, hot Water to mix. Mix, roll out, cut into round® and bake in a quick oven.