Ladies' Column.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 804, 11 September 1915, Page 3

Ladies' Column.

► .LANCASHIRE BRAWN. Fig's head, water, pepper and salt, pig's feet. Take a fresh pig's head, with a set of pig's feet, and stock them in salt and water all night, lifter thoroughly cleaning. Stew them gently 3or 1 hours, with only enough water to- prevent them burning, season to taste with salt and pepper, then take out all the bones and chop the meat up well, put into moulds and press. If the head is too fat, take off the ; cheeks and salt and dry for bacon, j This brawn is really nice and tasty.

YORKSHIRE PUDDING. 3oz. of flour, 2 eggs, good i-pint milk, 2oz. dripping, \07.. baking powder. Mix the flour, egg, mi'lk, baking powder, and pinch of salt well together into a batter ; put the 2oz. of dripping into a liaking tin, and make it quite hot, pour in the batter and cook at once in a quick oven- under the meat for 15 or 20 minutes. When cooked, cut it into squares about 2in. in diameter, and dish up on a napkin or dish-paper in a hot dish en couronne. The quantities given are for a baking tin about lOin. long by Gin. broad. If a smaller tin be used, the pud-* fling will be too thick.

FRUIT SAI.TS. goz. carbonate soda, loz. magnesia, 4ox. cream of• tartar, 4oz. tartaric arcid, 4oz. Epsom salts, 12oz. sifted sugar. Mix well together. Dose for adult, one teaspoouful in hit If a tumbler of water.

RIBBON CAKE. J-rb. butter, -ilb, <Pour, Jib. sugar, 1 teaspoon baking ponder, 3 eggs, 1 small cup niill<. Beat the sugar and butter together in a basin" to a cream, then, add eggs one by one, and beat well, then put milk and vanilla to flavour ; sil't in flour alternately with milk, divide the mixture into three parts, color each part a different colour, one chocolate, one pink, and the other can be left alone- Bake "each" separately in sandwich tins.; When cold, place one on top of the other, and bind together with an icing. WINE .TELLY. . 3oz. gelatine, Sib. loaf sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pint water, 6 lemons, £-pint wine. Soak the gelatine in the water for an hour, then put over a slow fire, add sugar, juice of lemons, rind of three, whites of eggs (well beaten), wine ; strain through mus lin or jelly bag. PUMPKIN" PIE. 1£ cup mashed pumpkin, £ cup sugar, £/ cup currants, 3 teaspoonful cinnamon, X tablespoon butter, k lemon peel, 2 eggs (well beaten) or .5-cup of milk.. Mix all into a smooth paste, and bake in fiat dish or plate, with crust top and bottom