TESTED RECIPES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 160, 22 June 1932, Page 4

TESTED RECIPES

EXCELLENT HOME DAINTIES. (Contributed). These recipes are reliable and very good, and are kindly contributed by a reader who is also an excellent cook. Anyone who has a specially good recipe which is well tested will find that many readers will appreciate it if those people would send the recipes to “Stella.” Amateur cooks are always very glad to profit by the genuine experience of others. Economical recipes are specially welcome, for nowadays it is the home housekeeper who is now often short of money and who needs help in making tho best of things. A’inegar Cake. (No Eggs). lib. flour, Jib. butter, Jib. lard, Jib. sugar, 41b. raisins (seeded), Jib. sultanas, chopped walnuts, 1| teaspoons mixed spice, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons carbonate of soda, 4 dessertspoons vinegar. Cream the butter and sugar, then beat all together, adding the vinegar last. Bake for two hours or more. Kidney Soup. 1 ox kidney. Wash this well and then cut up into small dice and roll in flour. Have a little boiling fat in a saucepan and brown the kidney in it. Add chopped carrot, parsnips and onions, also 1 quart water. Simmer for two hours; season it. Let the soup stand overnight and then remove the little layer of fat. This soup may be utilised twice, if not all eaten. The kidney will make a savoury with milk or stock and herbs on toast, or more water and vegetables may be added and more soup made from the original meat. Hot Water Pudding. 1 cup flour, 1 cup bread crumbs or biscuits, J cup sugar, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 cup sultanas, lemon peel, essence lemon, 1 teapsoon carbonate soda, and a large tablespoon butter or dripping dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water. Steam for 34 hours and this will be a good, cheap pudding. Mother’s Cake. Weight of 2 eggs in butter, sugar, and flour, 4 teaspoon carbonate of soda, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, essence of lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar, then add the melted butter and other ingredients. This is a very delicious cake which may be varied with different icings.