READERS' EXCHANGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)

READERS' EXCHANGE

CABINET PUDDING There has been an excellent response to " Elsa's" request for a recipe for the old-fashioned cabinet pudding. Hero is a selection of the delicious sweets recommended by readers. Thanks are due to E.J. (Herne Bay) for the following. You will need some stale cake (sponge or madeira), 2oz. each of finely-chopped peel, glace cherries, sultanas, ratafias (or macaroon biscuits), 4 eggs and 1£ pints milk. Grease tin or mould, put a piece of greased paper in the bottom, and decorate with cherries and angelica. Cut cake into dice, put into tin with ratafias and fruit. Beat eggs, add milk and pour over the cakfe. Set to soak lor about half an hour. Cover the tin with a well-greased paper, and steam gently for li hours. Serve with apricot sauce.

A less elaborate recipe is recommended by "Tilly" (Newmarket), similar ones being sent in by E.J., in addition to the above, and by M.H. (Auckland). Take six thin slices of bread, one pint milk, two eggs, one tablespoonful sugar, two tablespoonfuls raisins and a few drops or almond essence. Cut raisins in halves, cut the bread into inch-wide strips, tapering at the and of uniform length. Decorate a well-buttered basin with the raisins and line with strips of bread. Beat eggs, add sugar, milk and flavouring and stir until sugar is dissolved. Cut scraps of bread into die <=-, put in basin and pour the custard over them. Then cover with greased paper and steam gently for one hour. Pumpkin Cheese TJecipos for two kinds of pumpkin cheese have been forwarded in response to Mrs. A.'s request. Here are two delicious savoury dishes recommended by M.H. (Auckland). ' (1) Take 21b. of peeled and sliced pumpkin; steam in a little water till tender; drain, add two largo tablespoonfuls cooked rice and mash together, adding two tablespoonfuls butter, pepper and salt to taste, and half a gill cream or milk. Beat up two egg yolks and stir these in with 2oz. grated cheese Turn mixture into a baking dish; sprinkle with a good layer of grated cheese, a layer of breadcrumbs ovei this, with a few little bits of butter scattered on top. Then bake 15-30 minutes till nicely browned in a good oven. (2) Peel and cut up a young pumpkin into piece l ! about lin. thick and lay them in a buttered pie-dish. Pour over them some tomato sauco or

tomato puree, or simply two or three

tomatoes pulperl and crushed, then put on a thick layer of grated cheese, and over this a layer of breadcrumbs with some little bits of butter sprinkled over all. Bake in a moderate oven till pumpkin is tender. L.A. (Hamilton) kindly forwards a recipe for pumpkin and lemon cheese, which she recommends for tarts and cake fillings. Steam 31b. pumpkin till tender. Beat it well and add jib. butter, 31b. sugar, grated rind and juice of three lemons. Simmer for half an hour and then put into pots and tie down. Questions and Answers "Worried" (Cambridge) asks advice about treating a tin bath on which the wmle paint has gone yellow and rustylooking. L.A. (Hamilton). —Many thanks for the compliment. G.T.S. (Remuera) would like recipes for barley sugar sticks and home-made ginger-beer. " Perseverance " (North Auckland), would like a recipe for really good puff pastry.