BLACKBERRY TIME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

BLACKBERRY TIME

TRY THF.SE NEW RECIPES

Blackberries are at their best just now and most peoplo, including the children, have been out on jolly picknicking expeditions tp gather berries for jam and jelly. Your family is sure to appreciate these recipes, and if you do not care for the berries used alone to make jam you may like to try the following method: — Blackberry and Plum. —Wipo stalk, halve and stone 21b. of plums, stew with a pint of water for five minutes, add 51b. of blackberries and boil for fifteen minutes. Add 51b. sugar which has been warmed, stir iintil it melts, then cook until the jam sets when tested. ( Blackberry Pudding.—Mix 2oz. flour, Joz. chopped suet, 2oz. sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, with a well beaten egg and half a gill of milk. ■When these ingredients are thoroughly blended add ilb. blackberries and 2oz. breadcrumbs, pour into a buttered pudding basin, boil for two hours and serve with any sweet sauce. Blackberry Pancakes. —Beat separately the yolks and whites of two eggs, then add the yolks to a quarter pint of milk. Cream 2oz. butter with 2oz. sugar, and mix with the milk and egg. Mix a teacup of flour with half teaspoon salt, and a teaspoon baking powder, and stir in these dry ingredients to the liquid mixture. Lastly add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs, stirring lightly, and about 6oz. blackberries. Drop the batter in tablespoonfuls into boiling fat and cook a golden brown. Drain on greaseproof paper, sprinkle with sifted sugar and servo hot. Blackberry and Banana Mould.—Cook lib. blackberries with just sufficient water till nearly tender, then add two bananas cut into small cubes, and cook with blackberries very slowly for anKeep Marrows Fresh Marrowi can be kept fresh for a much longer period if a little piece is scooped out of the top and filled with Water and the marrow hung up in a cool place. Renew the water each day. | '' b [ y | |m " imi • m ' | other 10 minutes. Add sugar to taste and stir in loz. of gelatine previously dissolved' in a little hot water. Let tho fruit cool a little before adding gelatine, pour into a wet mould and set aside till firm. Blackberry and Apple Tart. —Prepare apples, stew with sugar, and a little water till clear and soft. Add the blackberries, cook till they are soft, and allow to become quite cold. Make the pastry, cut a piece off, roll out larger piece, and line a fireproof flat dish or sandwich tin with it. Pour in the fruit mixture, roll out smaller piece of pastry and cover top. Sprinkle with sugar, bake in hot ovei} till pale brown, and serve hot or cold. Blackberry Gateau. —Make a sponge cake mixture in a round tin, and when cold hollow out the centre. Stew blackberries with apples, sugar, and very little water till soft and thick and allow to become quite cold. Pour the mixture into the centre of the cake, decorate ' the top with whipped cream flavoured with... vanilla, and serve as soon as possible. CARRON OIL STAINS M.H. has also come to the aid of J.T., who had carron oil stains on a boiling silk frock. She writes:—"Try soaking and working the stained parts in a solution of equal parts of ammonia and turpentine mixed together. Afterwards, or when stain goes, wash out carefully with some soap and water. Let it"havie at least an hour to soak as carron oil is a very hard substance to remove. But before trying this method. which needs care in use on silk, a solution of some soap in methylated spirits might give complete success,if allowed a Tittle while to act, assisted by gentle rubbing. If both these' fail, ether, petroleum, chloroform and \anilino are all good solvents for this type of stain, chloroform especially being very good. If stains have been on a little time and hardened, what remains, after treatment with any of the above, could be got out by soaking for a few hours in a strong, warm solution of -sugar and water. Dissolve as much l sugar as you can in sufficient water, and keeping the solution warm, let the stained part soak in it."