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Otago Witness, Issue 1976, 3 October 1889, Page 34

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Gingeebeead. — Mix well together 21b flour, £lb butter (oiled), los ground ginger, and a tablespoonful baking powder; then stir in 21b of treacle. Bake in a slow oven, putting it in as soon as made, and watching it carefully afterwards.

Brandy Snaps.— Mix a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of grated ginger into £lb flour, and to this rub 4oz butter and the freshly grated rind of a lemon. Mix it to a paste, with about 2oz treacle and a few drops of lemon j uioe. Flour the pastry board, roll out your pastry as thin as possible, and cut it into rounds with a tumbler. Bake in a moderate oven, and roll round your finger into a cone before it hardens, which it very soon does, so you must be quick about it. Keep the snaps in a closely- shut tin or they will lose their crispness.

White Cake.— Take a cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, three cupful 3 of flour, and four eggs. Beat the butter to cream, and add the sugar, the flour, and lastly the eggs. Flavour the mixture with nutmeg or grated lemon rind. Dredge flour on the table and roll out the cake to the thickness of the third of an inch. Put the cake on baking sheets, prick them lightly with a fork, and bake for 15 minutes in a well-heated oven.

Pound Cakpj.— Rub lib butter into lib flour and lib sugar and £lb ground rice; then add £lb currants, Jib sultanas, and £lb lemon peel, and moisten with eight eggs. Stir it well, and bake in a well buttered and papered tin for two or three hours. In

baking.a large cake like' this great attention must be .paid! 'to. tne oven 1 . It should be rather hot at first, but cooler afterwards, to allow the cake to be baked all through.

Beef Olives.— -The preparation of beef is a favourite' one and exceedingly. Cut l^lb rump steak into slices of 6in or 7in long, and about 4in wide. Rub each over with the beaten yolk of an egg. Have ready a cupful of bread crumbs, mix with 2oa chopped suet or marrow, a spiig of chopped parsley, a little beaten mace, and the grated rind of a lemon, mix well, and season with pepper and salt. Spread the 'mixture thickly on the steak, roll each round, fasten with a small skewed, and brown lightly in an oven. When browned, lay the olives in the bottom of a stewpan, pour over a pint of brown gravy, a. tablespoonful of catsup, a tablespoonful of lemon vinegar, "and a .bit of butter rolled in flour. Stew gently one hour and a-half, and serve with the gravy and garnished with forcemeat balls.