CHRISTMAS SWEETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19510, 14 December 1926, Page 9

CHRISTMAS SWEETS.

Turkish Delight,—Required: One pound of loaf., sugar; the whit© and shell of orio egg, a good pint of. water, two ounces of finest wheat starch, a large half of a lemon, " one and a-half dessertspoonfuls of orange water, cochineal, quarter of a <easpoonful of lemon essence. Pat the sugar in a saucepan with the water. Add tho lemon juice (strained), the egg shell finely crushed, and the white (well whipped). Boil for five minutes, removing the scum Put tho starch into a basin, pour on to it. a quarter of a pint of cold water, and istir until tho starch is quite dissolved. Strain this in:to the boiling syrup and continue boiling until tho'isyrup is very thick. Have ready two greased dishes. j urn half the delight into another saucepan ; stir into it the lemon essence and then pour it on to one of the prepared dishes. Tint the remainder with a few drops of cochineal colouring and stir in the orange waterWhen cool, turn the delight on to a board plentifully sifted with sugar,, dust icing sugar over it, and leave till quite cold; Then cut into large squares, roll them in icing (sugar, and then, if noi to be eaten afc once, put into an airtigit bos with plenty of sugar sifted over them. A French Rice Cream.—Required: Out pint of milk, one gill of cream, two ounces of rice (Carolina best), one ounco of castor sugar, one and a-qtarter ounces of gelatine, a little,, lemon jeliy* a few glace cherries, vanilla, one lemon. Put the washed rice, with the hot milk and grated lemon rind, into a double saucepan to cool* until the rice is in a thick creamy mass. When nearly cool add the sugar, the whipped cream, and gelatine dissolved in about half a gill or Jess of water. Pour into the prepared mould and leave until set. Dip the mould into hot water to turn it cut and serve with a border round of chopped jelly or stewed fruit or jam. To prepare the mould: if time allows, into u wet mould pour sufficient xraraed jelly to form a half-inch deep layer when set. When firm arrange on this a ring of halved! cherries and some moie jelly- I>t this set, and the a tho nca mixture is poured on the top as previously