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Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 34

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BBOILBD Oysters.— Dip 24 large, freshly- \ opened oysters in half breadcrumbs and hah! I biscuit dust. Flatten them with the hand and broil them on a well-greased broiler for j two minutes on each side, then salt them j lightly and serve on six pieces of toast. Steak ok Kidney Pudding.— lf kidney, cut in small pieces and soak it, and season that or the meat. Make a suet paste of flour, suet, and milk ; roll it and line yonr pudding basin with some. Put in the kidney or steaks, and a little gravy, cover with some paste, pinch round the edge, then cover with a cloth and boil a considerable time. Lemon Queens. — Cream £lb butter, add slowly £lb sugar, the rind of one lemon and one scant tablespoonful lemon juice; then add the yolks of lour eggs, well beaten. Mix quarter teaßpoonful soda, quarter teaspoonful salt, with 4£oz flour ; add this. Then the whites of four eggs, beaten stiff. Bake in small tins from 20 to 30 minutes. Butter I the tins thickly. Potato Pudding. — Boil and mash some potatoes, rub them through a colander, then make into a thick batter with milk and two eggs. Lay some seasoned steaks in a dish, then some batter, more steaks and then batter, until the dish is filled. The last layer must be batter. Put in oven and bake a fine brown. i Biscuits.— Delicious biscuits for teas are made thus: Mix 21b sifted flour with lflb sugar ; rub into this l£lb butter in the same way as for shortbread ; then add the stiffly whipped whites of seven eggs; roll the mixture out very tbin, and cut it into biscuits _ with a paste cutter, and bake a light brown in a hot oven for 10 minutes. When done let them stand till cool. Earebits. — Bits of cheese have many uses. They can be grated for macaroni, melted for Welsh rarebit, toasted, or used to bait the mousetrap. A good but not wholly unknown dish is made by spreading grated cheese over s slice of buttered bread, cayenne peppering the whole thing, and leaving it in the oven until the bread is brown, and the whole thing so hot you can only just eat it. It tastes like Welsh rarebit, is not so much fuss to prepare, and doesn't have any aid or beer in the recipe to scare temperate folks. Transparent Pudding. Take £lb fine sifted sugar, £lb batter, and some grated nutmeg, about a quarter of a teaspoonful; Beat eight eggs thoroughly well, then mix with the above-mentioned ingredients, put the mixture in a saucepan, set it on the fire, and stir till it thickens, then turn it into a basin to cool. Have ready a dish lined with rich puff paste round the edge, and pour into this your pudding, adding a little orange and citron peel (candied). Bake in a moderate oven. This pudding will cut light and dear. ; Potatoes are very nice if slioed and placed in layers alternately with beef steak, sprinkled with sufficient pepper and salt and some rich gravy poured over the whole, which must be baked in a moderate oven. Half a cup of butter is considered equivalent to £lb in weight ; £lb sugar by weight is about a heaping cupful by measure. Take one cup and a-quarter pastry flour to equal 4|oz in weight.