GINGER DELICACIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

GINGER DELICACIES.

Oil these cold, wet days anything made with ginger is particularly welcome. Them is .something about the goldenbrown tinge and the spicy flavour it lends to cakes or puddings that seems to fill a very necessary place on the winter menu. The following are a few good household recipes for ginger delicacies:— Ginger Cake.—Two-thirds cup treacle, fill with sugar; J,- cup butter or dripping, (ill with hot water; 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, tablespoons ginger, 1 egg, a little'ground cloves, allspice, and shredded lemon peel. Put treacle and sugar into basin, pour boiling water on butter and lemon, when melted, and treacle and sugar. Blend well, then add beaten egg and stir in flour with ginger and spices, lastly, dissolve soda in 1 teaspoon cold water and stir in. Hake in a slow oven. Ginger Pudding.—Take 2 cups flour, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 dessertspoon ginger, a piece of butter tho size of an egg, rubbed into the Hour,. 2 tablespoons treacle, 1 teaspoon carl), soda, dissolved in a little milk; mix to the consistency of batter: pom into buttered mould and steam 3 hours. .Serve with sweet sauce. Treacle Sponge* Pudding.—l breakfast cup and a.-half of flour and of breadcrumbs, ill), finely-chopped suet, 1 teaspoon baking powder, teaspoon eggjjowder, 2 dessertspoons ground ginger, and 3 tablespoons golden syrup. Mix together all the dry ingredients, then add the syrup, and just as much milk as will make' the mixture into a batter. l'ut into greased mould and steam 3 hours. Sponge Gingerbread.—Jib. butter, 2 breakfastcups flour. 1 teacup milk, 1 heapelt teaspoon soda, 1 teacup sugar, 1 teacup golden syrup, 1 dessertspoon spice, 2 dessert spoons ground ginger, sultanas. cream, butter and sugar. Warm the syrup and dissolve soda in the. milk. Mix and bake in a shallow cake tin in a moderate oven. Ginger Biscuits. —\ cup butter, 2 cups flour. 1 dessertspoon ginger, i cup sugar, 1 tablespoon golden syrup, !< teaspoon cream of tartar : , ! t teaspoon soda, teaspoon cinnamon, hot water to mix. Mix, roll out, cut into rounds and bake in a quick oven.