NOVEL SWEETS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 October 1927, Page 15

NOVEL SWEETS.

TRIO OF RECIPES. Cocoanut Meringue Tart. —Take ilkdesiccated cocoanut, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, i cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, i teaspoon salt. Separate the eggs and beat tlie yolks till light. Gradually add sugar and beat well until lemon coloured, and then butter. Stir in milk, salt and three-quarters of the cocoanut. lour into a deep plate lined with short crust. Bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes When cooked and cool beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth. Add two tablespoons of castor sugar and sprinkle tlie rest of the cocoanut on top. Brown quickly in oven. Orange Mould. —One pint of water, one orange, .half a lemon, 2oz, of sugar 2oz. of cornflour, four oranges, cream. Mix the cornflour to a very thin paste with cold water. Bring the remainder of the water to the boil, then pour it on to the cornflour, return to the saucepan, and stir while it boils foi five minutes. Add the sugar and stir a minute longer. Take off the fire and stir in the yellow part of the orange peel grated, and the strained juice of the orange and lemon. 'Stir well; pour into a wet mould and leave to set. Turn out, surround with quarters of mandarin oranges and pipe with whipped cream. Fried Apples. —Wipe clean and cut in thick slices live or six good tart apples, removing the cores. Dust tlie slices with a mixture of a teaspoonful of sugar, a little pepper and salt, and two teaspoons of flour. Fry the slices, turning them once, in hot fat. Drain the slices and lay them around pork chops or hash as a garnish, oi place the slices on toast rounds and cover them with a little creamed minced ham.