CONTRIBUTED RECIPES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 4 April 1934, Page 10

CONTRIBUTED RECIPES

BUTTERFLY CAKES. ilb. of butter, 1 teacup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon milk. Beat butter and eggs to a cream, add eggs well beaten, then flour and baking powder mixed, and lastly milk. Half fill paper cases with mixture, place on cold oven shelf and bake 15 minutes in good oven. When cool slice small piece off the top of each, put a teaspoon whipped cream on, cut piece in half and stand pieces up on edge on whipped cream. If desired, decorate vrith small pieces of jelly. SHORT PASTRY. 2 breakfastcups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, Jib. butter, lard or dripping, pinch of salt cold water. Sift flour, rub in butter or dripping, add baking powder and salt. Mix with enough water to make a firm paste. Use as required. Bake in a quick oven. If liked, 2 teaspoons of sugar may be added to this pastry for sweet dishes. APPLE DUMPLINGS. J cup flour, i teaspoon baking powder, 3 apples, 4 cup suet (chopped), A cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 dessertspoons sugar.

Prepare apples, mix flour, suet, breadcrumbs, baking powder and salt together, add water to make a paste. Place a piece of paste around each apple, put dessertspoon sugar in each, then cover top. Put dumplings loose into pan of boiling water; when they come to the surface give them half an hour.

VANILLA SAUCE (for puddings, etc.)

1 pint milk, 1 heaped dessertspoon sugar, 1 dessertspoon custard powder (Vanilla flavour). Mix custard to a smooth thin cream with about i cup of the milk. Bring remainder of the milk to the boil, then stir in the mixed custard and cook a minute, stirring all tho time. Serve hot or cold. Add more essence if desired.

PERSONAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. S. Inglis and Mr. Dick Brodie have returned to Hawke’s Bay after spending Easter at Taupo. • « « Mr. and Mrs. 0. Krogh and Mr. W. Krogh, of Hastings, spent the Easter week-end at Taupo. R. 0. Kirk, of Petone, arrived in Hastings to-day to stay with Mr and Mrs. D. Hursthouse. Misses Mildred and Estelle Hamilton, who have been spending Easter in Hastings with Mr. and Mrs. A. Symes, Richmond Park, have returned home. * * • Miss Joan Landels has returned to Hastings after spending a few days with Mrs. Crisp in Gisborne. e * * Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stead, who have heen staying in Hastings for Easter have returned to Ridgemount. Mrs. Mcßae and Miss C. Mcßae, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Martin at Martinborough, arrived in Napier yesterday on their return to Wairoa. • » • Miss B. Barker, of Gisborne, i s staying with Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Dasent, at Manga tahi. s * « Mr. and Mrs. H. Fannin, who have been spending Easter in Napier, have returned to Hastings.