Luncheon Menu

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 12

Luncheon Menu

salt. Peel and quarter the apples, remove the cores, and cut each piece in two or three pieces. Put a layer of fruit in a pie dish, then the sugar and cloves, and lastly, the rest of the fruit. Make the pastry, roll it out on to a floured board, and cut off a strip of pastry to go round the edge of the pie dish. Brush the edge of the dish with water before putting on the strip of pastry. Brush that also with water, then cover a- layer of apple (sliced thinly), sprinkle a little spice, dust over with'"sugar, and dot tiny .pieces of butter irregularly. Slice lemon peel very finely over the mixture. 801 l out more pastry, and cover the top with the piece of pastry, pressing the edges together and crimping them neatly. Put the dish in a quick oven and bake the tart for about half an hour. Serve with custard or fresh cream. Tarte Surprise. Take 4oz self-raising flour, a pinch of salt, loz sugar, 2oz lard. s Make into a light short crust, line round 1 a tin or plate with it, and fill with the following mixture: loz butter (just melted), 2oz ground rice, 3oz castorj sugar, 1 egg (well beaten), and a few drops almond essence. Beat the whole lightly together, then put on the pastry and bake quickly.

The peel should be cut rather .more coarsely than for ordinary marmalade^

Scotch Marmalade: Wipe 21b Seville oranges,-2 sweet oranges and 2 lemons with a damp cloth, and pare the yellow rind thinly off 3 or 4 of the Seville oranges. Cut it up with scissors into fine shreds and soak in a little of the U pints of water. Then peel the fruit, taking off all the white pith. Remove the pips and cut the fruit up finely. Soak the pulp for 24 hours in the rest of the water, and the pips, tied up loosely in a muslin bag. Put the shreds and the pulp into a preserving pan. Strain tho liquid from the pips and add it to the pulp, etc. Boil slowly for three-quarters of an hour.

Take off fire, add the sugar (91b. granulated) and then let it dissolve over a low gas, stirring well. Boil quickly until a little will sot when tested on a plate—about half an hour. Skim if necessary -and pul; into jars. Cover over when cool.