KITCHEN-CRAFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

KITCHEN-CRAFT.

BOILED RICE. This is a good winter dish for the children, especially when served with jam. The cheapest rice is more nourishing than that which is too w r hite. Wash it well in cold water, and then drop into a large saucepan ready with boiling water. Boil sharply for 20 minutes, stirring to keep it from sticking. Then add 1 teaspoonful vinegar, or a squeeze of lemon juice, which whitens the rice. Strain in a collander and place at the side of the fire covered with a folded cloth to keep hot till ready for use. BANANA CHUT.NEY. Peel ana x slice in rounds, 30 large bananas and put into a pan with sugar, salt, and 2 bottles vinegar, and let boil for half an hour. Then add lib. sultanas and 1 tablespoonful onions. Put through a mincing machine and add 1 tablespoonful ginger, 1 tablespoonful mustard, i tablespoonful mixed spice. Just at the last add 1 tablespoonful golden syrup, and allow to boil slowly for about 1 hour. POTATO CAKES. A quarter of a pound of self-raising flour, saltspoonful of salt, loz. of dripping or butter, of cold boiled potatoes, about 1 tablespoonful of milk. Mash the potatoes quite free from lumps and heat the milk. Melt the fat in it; add this to the potatoes; then "knead in enough flour to make a stiff dry dough. Roll out on a floured board about an inch thick; cut into cakes and bake for ten minutes in a good oven, or five minutes each side on a griddle. ECCLES CAKES. Ingredients: 6oz. short or flaky pastry, loz. butter; loz. sugar; 2oz. currants; a little nutm6g; loz. peel. Melt butter; stir in peel (chopped finely), currants and nutmeg; do not cook, but let butter melt. Roll some pastry thinly; cut into rounds; put a little mixture oh each round. Damp edges, and pinch into balls. Turn over and roll into rounds till currants show through. Score with knife and sprinkle with castor sugar. Bake in moderate oven. A LIGHT SUET PUDDING. This suet pudding is very light and also nourishing. Surround it with any kind of stewed fruit. Ingredients: 4oz. of flour; 4oz. of breadcrumbs; 3oz. of suet; a pinch of salt; 2oz. of sugar. Use self-raising flour. Mix all the ingredients together and add enough cold water to form a light dough. Steam for one hour in a well ; greasecL basing . _ -- - - - i « > , V ■ ■>- •