TRIED RECIPES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 27

TRIED RECIPES

Mock Turtle Soup.—'After boning half a calf's head, put the bone into a sauce, pan with three carrots, four onions, two leelcs, one turnip, half a parsnip, fourcloves, ten peppercorns, two blades of mace, then add five quarts of ordinal* * stock or the liquor that the meat part of the head lias been boiled in. Let this all boil gently for three hours, keeping it well skimmed; then strain it carefully through a hair sieve, and return the soxip to a clean stewpan. Bring it to tho boil, stir into it one tablespoonful of arrowroot that has been mixed with a little sherry, and one ounce of glaze and a few pieces of the glutinous part of the head that has been cooked, and the hard outer ekin removed: also add a tablespoonful of strained lemon juice and a dust of coralline pepper before serving. . Eggs and Spinach.—Well wash in several waters two pounds of fresh spinach, put it in a saucepan, and cover with cold water; add a tiny piece of washing soda and a pinch of salt, bring it quickly to the boil, and, when tender, strain it in a wire sieve, rinsing it with cold water. Press all the water from it, using a saucer or gallypot for the purpose: then chop if. finely on a board. Return it to the stewpan, add half an ounce of butter, a pinch of salt, and dust of coraline pepper. Make it quite hot and arrange it on rounds of buttered toast, placing on the- top a poached egg which has been trimmed with a round cutter. Sprinkle the egg with a little chopped parsley and coralline pepper.

Spanish Beefsteak.—Put a tablespoonfut of butter in a hot stewpan. Put m a round steak, and brown slightly on both sides, then put in half a tin of tomatoes, or the equivalent in peeled and sliced ones. AVitli chopped onions and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer together for half an hour. Tough; poor beef is much improved by this method, made tender, and of better flavour.

Buttered Eggs.—A breakfast or supper dish. Break four or five eggs into a buttered dish, and place it in the oven. When the white is set, season with salt and pepper, and serve at once.