HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 November 1926, Page 17

HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

-- - o Salad rolls are a convenient way of providing bread and butter and salad. Qi-der a sufficiency of dinner rolls. Cut the end off each, slightly hollow the roll, and butter it. Have your salad very dry, a mixture of shredded lettuce, diced celery, and beetroot with a suspicion of eschalot is nice, Fill each roll lightly with the salad. Put the salad dressing in a. bottle, and just before serving pour a little into each roil. i , For rhubarb turnovers use good short pastry. Out into .squares. Fill with rhubarb thht has been baked, and allowed to go cold. Before laying the fruit on the pastry squares mix in a couple of passaonfruit. liub a heaping teaspoonful on each square, turn over, pinch the edges, and brush over with milk, or white of egg. Bake in - a quick oven, .and dust over with sugar. Toasted marshmallows provide great amusement for the whole picnic party, providing the tire is big enough for them to siit around it. Each person must be provided with a long stick thin enough to hold a marshmallow on its point, and long enough to prevent the holder being scorched. If paper plates, spoons, forks and drinking cups are provided, the above menus will not be heavy. Beverages at a picnic, if anything but the universal tea be required, are the heaviest part of the provisions. "Where plenty of water is available a carbonating' bottle with a sufficiency of charges, though heavy, is considerably lighter than a. corresponding quantity of bottles. With this apparatus available a number of delicious drinks mav be concocted. Iced fruit drinks may be carried in thermos bottles. Homemade fruit syrups may be brought for mixing irith the soda-water, and will be much, appreciated. A very simple form of fruit drink can be made by using a. quart of water to one pound of a.ny iam, such, as raspberry, or red currant jellv, with the juice of a. lemon,. When cold, strain it and bottle it. It can be poured into the carbonating bottle, or may be mixed with the soda-water. It is particularly delicious.