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Otago Witness, Issue 972, 5 September 1889, Page 34

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Onion Omelet.— Cut six small white onions in slices, fry them in a little butter ; when nearly done moisten them with milk, add pepper, salt, and nutmeg, mix all with.

six eggs, beat all well together, and fry -in butter. This omelet may be varied by the addition, of a little chopped parsley.

Buttermilk Cakes. — Take one pint of buttermilk and stir into it as much flour as will form a dough, with one tablespoonful of dissolved caibonate of ammonia. Roll the dough out in sheets, cut into cakes, and bake in a moderate oven. The carbonate of ammonia may be obtained at any chemist's. It never imparts any taste to the food, as the heat disengages the carbonic acid gas arid the ammenia.

Anchovy Toast.- -Into a small stewpan break three eggs, with a tablespoonful of cream (or milk), a pinch of salt and a little cayenne pepper, add loz butter; stir these, without ceasing-, over the fire until the mixture becomes thick, have ready a square of buttered toast, cover lightly with anchovy paste, then spread the eggs over, and serve very hot.

Queen Cakes.— Wash lib butter in a little orange flower water, and beat it to a cream with a wooden spoon. Add to it lib finely-powdered loaf sugar, and mix in gradually eight well beaten eggs, lib dried and sifted flour, fib currants, a little nutmeg, and 2oz of pounded bitter almonds, adding last of all a wineglassful of brandy. Beat the whole well for an hour, and then bake for 10 minutes in small, well-buttered tins in a moderately heated oven.

Maooaeoni.— Take 4oz of good cheese grated, and the same quantity of maccaroni, boil the maccaioni in water until tender, with a pinch of salt ; when done, drain the maccaroni, and put into a stewpan with 4oa of butter, a little white pepper, two tablespoonfuls of cream, and part of the grated cheese, mix all well together over the fire, then put in the dish, with the remainder of -the grated cheese on the top. It must not be browned but may be put into the oven for a few minutes to make quite hot.