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Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 42

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Fruit Salad (By requeit) — Boil lib sugar with one pint and a-half of water till reduced to half, strain it through muslin, flavour to tasto with eaeuuee, and a le* drops of colouring if you like, tilice penrs, b-uiana?, peaches, &c, aud to*a all the fruit well in tbe oyrup, and sand it iv a cool place till required. The nure kintfs of fruit you use tbe bttfcer will be the salad. Fruit salad should bo served as a sweet. Plain Family Cake (By request). — Two cups of sugar, ono cup of butter, 'hrea and a-half cups of flour, one cup of milk, two Usaspoonfulo of bakiug powder, five eggs ; mix baking pj«der with fl'juc aud lib sultanas. Beat butrer and sugfcr together and then add other ingredients, puUiDg the flout in laati. Floating Icebbeg.— lnto three- quarters of s pint of cre&m pnb sugar to make it very Bweefc, and the juice and rind of a lemon gr&tcd. Beat ifc for 10 minufe-fl Cufc French rolls into thin glic* s and lay them iv a round dish on the Up of th« crtMU. Ou this put a Uyer of ap tooc or entrant j xni, aud .some slices oi roll. Pile upon this, very hijjh, a whip made of damson jam and tie whites of four eggfl. It should I c very rough and rocky looking. CitOQUKTTES — Ftur ounces of any cold mcab, 2uz ham or cojked bacou, minced parcley, popper and salt, li.z each butter and flour, a wineglus*fal of milk or stock, egg and bread" crumb. Finely mince the meat and bam, *nd add the flavouring. Bltn.i the flour in the butter over the fire, and when imoofch moisten with the milk or et^ck, and cook for five minuteH or so, and then stir ia tho minced meat;. Roll praJl q'jautifc'ts of tbe meat into any shape between tho bauds (fl'mred), roll in broadcrumb and f g*r, and fry in p'e 1 ty of boiling fab. Dram on paptr, and serve gurnished with par>ley. Jisr.LY Foa Sandwiches Instead of Jam.— The juice of two oranges and one lemon, one cup sugar, 1 and the samo of water. Boil together, and when boiling add one large tablespoon of coruflour blended with avo y litfcla water. Turn out, and when noarly cold put in a Bandwicb instead of jam with a littlo whito icing and some oocoaautcpriikled en top. They are delicious when cut into fingers. Lamb, Boned.— Remove all bones, acd stuff with baoou, suet, parsley (chopped), sweeb herbs, salt, cayenne, breadcrumbs, egg; then roll round and tie tightly, and bake. Potato Chips.— Wash and peel lib potatoes, dry and cut them into thin slices, try till a golden brown. Drain, and arrange on a hod dish, slice upon slice ; dusfc over with a little c.iirinia aud a teaspoonful of finely-chopped pfin-le/. Sponor Cakr — Five pggs, weight of four fa 6UJf&r and three iv flour ; be*fc sugar and egg» together for half an hour, and lightly dredge in the flour ; bu'ter a caket in, pour in mixture, and bake in quick own.