TESTED RECIPES

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 February 1932, Page 14

TESTED RECIPES

LUNCHEON OR DINNER. CREAM PIE. Put. itwo cupfuls of milk into a double saucepan with a piece of butter the size of an egg and heat thoroughly without boiling. Beat together two eggs, a tafolespoonful of cornflour, and ha?f a cupful of sugar, add to the hot milk and stir until thick. Flavour with vanilla essence and leave to cool. Have ready a pie-dish lined with cooked pastry, pour the cool mixture into this and drop stiffly beaten and sweetened white of egg in heaps on the top. Serve cold. PRUNE PUDDING. Finely chop half a pound of prunes that have been cooked and stoned. Stiffly beat the whites of five eggs, fold into them half a cupful of powdered sugar with half a teaspoonful of; cveam”of tartar and a pinch of salt. Add this mixture to the prune, and bake in a buttered dish for twenty minutes. tServe hot with whipped cream. FRUIT CREAM. Peel five bananas, rub them through a sieve, and then add the juice and pulp of two oranges, the juice of one lemon, three-quarters of a cupful of powdered sugar, and a tablespoonfiil of gelatine which has been soaked in a quarter of a cupful of cold water and dissolved over boiling water. Blend thoroughly. When the mixture begins to thicken add a cupful of stiffly whipped cream, pour into mould or individual glasses, and set on ice. Turn out and serve, garnished with whipped and sweetened cream. CHOCOLATE PUDDING. *Seald four cupfuls of milk, pour on to two cupfuls of breadcrumbs, and leave for twenty minutes. Add twothirds of a cupful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Dissolve 'two ounces of grated chocolate, thin down with a little of the milk strained from the breadcrumbs, and combine the two mixtures. Stir in two well-beaten eggs, put into a greased pie-dish, 'set in a pan of hot water, and bake for an hour. Serve with hard sauce. ORANGE PUDDING.

Peel six oranges, divide them into sections (removing the pips) put into a pudding dish, and sprinkle with sugar. Scald four cupfuls of milk, «tir in a teaspoonful of flour mixed with a little ced'd milk, add two whole eggs and three yolks (all well beaten), sweeten to taste, and cook until thick When c.ohl pour over the oranges. Cover with meringue made from the white of the three eggs and. some fine sugar. Place tlie pudding-dish in a pan of cold water, put into a hot oven and lightly brown the meringue.

MARROW SWEET. Take a medium-sized marrow and split lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds, fill with plums after taking out the stones, cracking them, and adding the kernels, and a good allowance of sugar. Tie securely with bands of tape, place in a tin or pie-dish with about 2oz butter. Bake in a moderate oven threequarters of an hour, basting with the butter at intervals. 'Serve with cream.