Tasty and Topical

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23939, 14 October 1939, Page 18

Tasty and Topical

BLACK AND WHITE WAFER PIE Take ilb potatoes, one large onion, Jib cooked prunes, loz butter, loz grated cheese, stock, and parsley. Take a shallow, fireproof dish, butter it, and lay in alternate layers of thinlysliced (raw and peeled) potatoes, sliced onions, and cold, cooked, stoned prunes. Season each layer. Cover the top with grated cheese and chopped parsley. Pour in a little stock. Bake in a moderate oven with greaseptoof paper on top. Cook for about three-quarters of an hour, and remove the greaseproof paper a quarter of an hour before serving. This dish may be served with boiled beef.

DATE TORTE PUDDING Take H cupfuls chopped dates, £ cupful flour, h teaspoonful baking powder, pinch of salt, f cupful sugar, two eggs (well beaten), \ teaspoonful vanilla, 2 J cupfuls broken walnuts. Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat sugar into eggs, add vanilla essence, and stir in date and nut mixture; then add the flour mixture. Turn into a greased, shallow glass baking dish; bake in a slow oven for 50 or 60 minutes or until mixture springs back when pressed with a finger. Serve cold in same dish, topped with whipped cream, or serve in squares on individual plates, and top with cream. Dry breadcrumbs may be substituted for flour in equal amount.