PEACHES PLENTIFUL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 13

PEACHES PLENTIFUL

SOME SEASONAL DISHES. FAMILY MEALS SIMPLIFIED. Peaches are very plentiful just now and very inexpensive, and the wise housewife will make the most of them by using them to the best advantage for the family meals (states a correspondent). _ . An exceptionally .simple dish is to peel the peaches, ‘place them in a cold place, on ice for preference, and then, just before serving, pour over them some very cold milk that lias been slightly sweetened and flavoured with vanilla. This is a splendid dish to .serve when friends come unexpectedly to a meal, for it is so easily, and at the same time quickly, prepared. Peach custard is rather more trouble, but is most delicious. Take the required number of peaches, peel them and cut them up into small pieces. Lav these into the bottom of a glass dish and then prepare the following custard : Melt two tables poonsful of butter in saucepan, stir in two tablepoonsful of flour, and gradually add one cup of milk. Stir until the mixturethickens, then add two tablespoonsful of sugar and the yolk of one well-beaten egg. Bring to the boiling point, and then ponr over the peaches. Whip up the white of the egg into a stiff froth, adding to it one tablespoonfu lof sugar. Return to the oven jul serve either hot or cold. Then there is peach mousse. For this take two cups of peach pulp, one cu pof sugar, two cups of cream, quarter to half a teaspoonful of almond flavouring and one teaspoon ful of lemon juice. Put the fruit through a sieve; acid the almond flavouring and acid the stifflv-beaten cream. This mixture is then put into a very cold olaee and allowed to set. It may also be used as an ice-cream basis, and is then served with peach sauce prepared in the following manner: Pulp some peaches to obtain about one cupful of syrup, and heat. Thicken with one teaspoonful of arrowroot to which one teaspoonful of water has been added. Boil for about five to six minutes, and then add half a cup of .sliced peaches. Set. in a cool place and pour over peach mousse just before serving.