KITCHEN CORNER
TESTED RECIPES Scotch Almond Shortbread Five ounces of butter, Goz of flour, 2oz df sweet almonds, blanched and chopped line, 2oz of castor sugar. Beat the butter and sugar together to J a cream, add the flour and almonds gradually, roll out on.a floured and sugared board; cut out rather thick and put almonds on top. Bake on greased paper in a slow oven. Economic Pudding One pound apples, peeled and sliced, lib of breadcrumbs, -lib suet, some brown sugar and powdered cinnamon. Sprinkle a layer of suet in-a piedish, then a layer of apples, then sugar and
ciiiiinliidii, then breadcrumbs, fill dish, ending with suet; add n few tablespoons id' water and bake in a quick " y cn. s LiuiUfJiSjl Savdury Cheese One ounce butter, 1 tablespoon tomato sauce, 2.1 tablespoons grated cheese. Melt the butter first and then stir all together until melted. Drop in some lemon juice and a little cayenne, Spread on (oust. Norfolk Dumplings One pound flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 3oz butter. Rub the butter in flour. Mix with a little water and work into dumplings. Boil for 20 minutes. ' Walnut Ginger Bread Rub jib butter into lib of flour, add Jib of sugar, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, four large teaspoons of ground ginger, and mix thoroughly. Warm All) treacle and stir in, then add 2 eggs lightly beaten. Add a little milk
if mixture is too dry, one cup of shell ed walnuts. Turn into greased tin, anc bake one hour.
Baked Roly Poly
Rub half cup of butter or dripping into one cup of self-raising flour, mix into paste with water, roll out and spread with jam or sliced apples, then place in piedish. Then dissolve half a cup of sugar and one tablespoon of butter iii a large cup of boiling water, pour over roly_pbly, bake half an hour. Vinegar Loaf Now that eggs are becoming scarce the vinegar loaf comes in very handy. Two cups of flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of currants, : ] lb lard and butter mixed, 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda, 1 good grating of nutmeg, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar. Warm the milk, put soda in it, and melt butter. Mix all the ingredients together and allow the mixture to stand for ten minutes on top of the oven before placing inside. ; Ginger Biscuits Half pound butter, Jib treacle, i|lb sugar, lloz flour, 1 egg, J teaspoon carbonate soda, ginger*to taste, and milk enough to mix. Spread thinly on trays; when cooked cut in squares quickly. These biscuits need careful baking. They are delicious, and keep well if kept in an airtight tin. Sago Plum Pudding \ " One enp breadcrumbs, 1 cup sugar, '-3 tablespoons sago, soaked overnight iu enough water to cover, 2.tablespoons butter or dripping, 1 cup seeded raisins or mixture of fruit, 1 level teaspoon cream of tartar, dissolved in boiling water. Mix all dry ingredients together, then add sago and enough milk to mix well. Pour into greased mould and boil three hours.
Date Bread {Wholesome and Delicious)
Wash, stone and cut up the dates to measure,, one breakfast cup. Tut in a basin, add one level teaspoon of baking soda, pour over this f of a cup of boiling water, and allow to stand till cool. Beat together 1 egg,;} cup brown sugar, A teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon essence of vanilla. Add to the date mixture; stir in lightly 11 scant breakfastcups flour. When well mixed add 1 large teaspoon baking powder. Bake in a shallow, well greased tin about one hour. Cover tin with a sheet of paper in the oven; the bread will then be smooth and glossy, on top.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 12
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