MY COOKERY CORNER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8171, 12 July 1912, Page 11

MY COOKERY CORNER

NURSERY PUDDINGS. Delicious Gingerbread Padding—Two ounces finely-chopped suet, three ounces breadcrumbs, one tablespoonful of treacle (made warm), two ounces flour, one teaspoonful ginger, one teaspoonful baking powder, half cupful of milk, one ounce of brown sugar. Mix dry ingredients, and moisten with the milk and warmed treacle. Put into buttered mould, and steam three hours. Serve with lemon sauce. Steamed Bread Padding—Required; Six ounces of stale bread, two ounces of flour, three ounces of raisins, three ounces of suet, three ounces of Demerara sugar, one egg, one lemon, half a pint of milk, nutmeg. Boil milk, add bread; reboil, and beat smobthily with a fork; add the sugar. Chop the suet with the flour; add these, also the grated rind and tho strained juice of the lemon and nutmeg to taste. Stone the raisins, and chop half of them. Well grease a pudding basin.

decorate it acro>.- in two lings by pressing half raisins aguinst the greased sides of the basin. Mix the rest of the raisins in the mixture. Press it gently into the basin, cover with a piece of greased paper. Steam two and n half or three hours. Turn out carefully. Serve with lemon or vanilla sauce. French Pancakes—Two fresh eggs, two tablespoonfnls of milk, one tablespoonful of self-raising Hour, and one tublespoonful of castor sugar. Put tho flour in a basin, add tho sugar, and mix it well in. Make a hole in the flour, add the eggs (previously lightly beaten), and beat it. all together. Have ready two buttered saucers, put half the mixture in each. Bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes till a light golden brown, and then spread with any kind of jam. Turn each over like a half moon, and servo very hot. Jam Fritters—Take small stale sponge cakes, cut them in halves, spread a thick layer of raspberry jam between them and press firmly together. Dip each cake in fritter batter and brown in boiling lard. Dust in sngar and serve with vanilla syrup.