TRIED RECIPES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 27

TRIED RECIPES

Cheese and Tomato Pudding.—Put in a good-sized pie dish a layer of tomatoes (skinned and sliced) then a layer of grated cheese, covered with bread crumbs and pieces of butter spread on tlie crumbs; repeat these three layer's, tomatoes, cheese, and bread crumbs, seasoning each one, then pour in about a pint of milk, au/.l bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Spanish onions that have been scalded and boiled tender and chopped may be rased instead of tomar toes to vary this dish. Cheese Pudding.—Boil two-tablespoon-fuls of rice until tender, dry and put. ifi a pie-dish, then add an equal quantity of grated cheese, and put in the oven. When the cheese is melted, add the seasoning and a well-beaiten ogg; stir well together, and put in the oven for a few minutes longer. Meal Cake. —Take nine ounces of bread dough, four ounces of fine meal, two ounces of lard, a pinch of salt. Duab the bakingboaiyl well with flour, then mix the meal and salt together, then take the lard and dough and knead with the hand's until they are well mixed with all the ingredients. Then divide the mixture into four pieces, each piece to weigh four-and-a-half ounces, and roll each piece out very thin; out across each way with a knife to make four pieces, then prick all over with a fctlc, and bake in a moderate oven ten. to fifteen minutes. Dainty Cakes. —To halr-a-pound of finely chopped almonds, add three-quart-ers of a pound of icing sugar, two teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon ; work the whole into a paste with the whites of two eggs, and when well mixed turn out on a pastry board, which has been dusted with ’icing sugar, roll out into strips, and cut into fingers. Make some royal icing with lemon and cinnamon, spread evenly over tho cakes, and dry in a slow oven. Castile Pudding.—Take six large apples, one lemon, two table-spoonsful of breadcrumbs, one tableispoonful of suet, one good pinch of salt, a little nutmeg, one egg, and half-a-teaspoonfsul of carbonated soda. Peal, core and chop finely the apples, mix them with the breadcrumbs, nutmeg, salt and chopped suet, add the grated rind of the lemon, and half the juice, heat up the egg, and. stir it in. Mix the soda with a little milk or water, stir in well, put the mixture into a buttered basin, and pub a buttered paper over the top, then stand in a .saucepan with boiling water to come half-way up the basin and steam for four hours. Do not let the water boil away or it will burn.