EXCELLENT RECIPES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 15 June 1932, Page 4

EXCELLENT RECIPES

These guaranteed contributed recipes are proving very popular for most people like chocolate. Chocolate Sandwich. Ingredients: 3oz. castor sugar. 1 egg, Vanilla flavouring, loz. Cocoa, loz. butter or margarine, Jib. flour, J teaspoonful cream of tarter, 1/8 flat teaspoonful carbonate of soda, milk. Filling: Jib. icing sugar, 2oz. butter, Vanilla flavouring. Method: Sieve the flour, cocoa, cream of tarter, and carbonate of soda together. Whisk the egg aud sugar until thick and creamy and free from dark streaks of egg. Put the margarine into a saucepan and warm it sufficiently to melt it. Stir the flour into the egg and sugar and mix all lightly, together with the melted margarine and a few drops of vanilla. Stir in about a spoonful of milk if required. Put into a greased sandwich tin and spread over evenly. Bake in a hot oven for about 10 minutes. When cooked, put on to a sieve and leave until cold. To Make a Filling—Roll the lumps out out of tho sugar, then rub it through a fine sieve. Add tho butter and beat both to a cream. Flavour with vanilla. Split open the sandwich, spread the prepared filling over it, then put together again and dust with sieved icing sugar. Cocoa Mould Blancmange. Ingredients: 3 dessertspoonfulls cornflour, 1J dessertspoonfuls cocoa, 1 pint milk (or milk and water), pinch of salt, sugar and vanilla flavouring to taste. Method: Mix the cornflour and cocoa together, then mix to a smooth paste with a small quantity of the milk. Heat the remainder of the milk, with the salt and sugar added, then stir in the -cornflour, etc. Return to the pan and bring to the boil, and boil gently for ten minutes, keeping it well stirred all the time. Add vanilla flavouring to taste. Pour into a wet mould and leave until set, then turn out and serve. Note. —If liked less stiff, use.only 2} instead of 3 dessertspoonfulls of cornflour. Chocolate Lunch Cakes. Ingredients: jib- flour, 1 good teaspoonful baking powder, 6oz sugar, milk to mix, IJoz. cocoa, loz. margarinoe, 1 egg, few drops of vanilla flavouring. Method: Alix the flour and cocoa together. Hub in the margarine until like fine breadcrumbs. All the sugar and baking-powder and mix all together. Beat up tho egg and add to the dry ingredients, with just a little milk and a few drops of vanilla. Mix all to rather a stiff consistency. Put into small greased cake tins aud bake in a hot oven for about 15 to 20

mirutes. When cooked remove from the tins, and while warn dust well witu castor sugar. Chocolate Coconut Ice. Ingredients: lib. lump sugar, Jib. desiccated coconut, 3oz. cocoa, 1J gills milk, vanilla flavouring. Method: Put the cocoa into a saucepan and mix to a smooth paste with some of the milk, then stir in the remainder. Add the sugar and put over a low gas until dissolved. Bring to the boil, stir in the coconut, and boil for about 15 to 20 minutes, keeping it we'l stirred. Add a few drops of vanilla, then pour into a wet tin and spread over evenly. Leave until set, then turn out on to the other side and leave to dry. Cut into blocks and it is ready.