WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR TEA?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20710, 7 May 1929, Page 17

WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR TEA?

How often have you, the mother of a family, asked yourself this question? The children have had a good mid-day dinner, and you do not Avant to spend much on their evening meal, but would like to give them something warm and' appetising. Well, here are some suggestions. If you grow your own vegetables, you probably have a great many runner beans. Have you e jr tried poached eggs on finely-shredded beans? It makes as nice a dish as eggs on spinach. Another suggestion; A very little cold meat minced and nicely seasoned wi'.li pepper, salt, a little cooked onion or tomato sauce, etc., and mixed with a little beaten egg, enough to bind. Take a spoonful of the mixture and roll it up in a little strip of bacon. Pack the little rolls tightly together in a dry enamel pie dish; sprinkle finely-chopped parsley over all, and brown in the oven. Serve in . a border of finely-shredded beans or finelychopped cabbage. If the children are served only one roll each it will induce them to eat the vegetable, which is the main idea. But, perhaps, you have no beans but have some cold potatoes. Well, do not just fry them; do them this way: Mash the potato in a basin with pepper and salt and a good tablespoonful of chopped parsley; bind with beaten egg and form into balls. Flour and slightly flatten them, and brown in smoking hot fat. Drain on soft paper and serve with the bacon rolls. Done this way, the potato is not so greasy, and is, therefore, more digestible, and certainly more attractive looking. Tomatoes also are plentiful just now, so why not tomato savoury? Take three tomatoes,, cut them in half, scoop out the inside and mix with two tablespoons of breadcrumbs, a tablespoonful of cream, a small teaspoon of sugar, pepper and salt to taste, and a tablespoon of grated cheese. Fill the halves with this mixture and cook in the oven till tender. Serve on rounds of toast or fried bread._ If the children do not like cheese, leave it out, and use instead a little finelychopped and cooked onion. Tomato and rice savoury is very nice. Take a cupful of raw rice, cook till soft. Butter a pie dish, put in a layer of peeled and sliced tomatoes, a layer of cooked rice; then a sprinkling of curry powder, a layer of sliced and cooked onion, and so on until the dish is filled, using about a desert‘spoon of curry powder for the whole dish, and pepper and salt to taste. See that the top layer is of tomato, cover with breadcrumbs, and put into a brisk oven till thoroughly hot and browned. A very nice dish, also, can be made with almost any left over vegetable. A good, white sauce mixed with cauliflower, onion, marrow, and swede turnip, is excellent. Put into a buttered pic dish, with pepper and salt to taste, and according to taste, a grating of raw carrot, a grating of cheese, or some slices of tomato, or, indeed, all three, if liked. Cover with mashed potato, and brown in the oven, making it thoroughly hot.