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Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 68

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TO COOK SOLES IS AN EASY FASHION. Butter a baking dish, lay the fillets of sole in it, cover with greased kitchen paper, and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. When the paper is removed the sole will be perfectly -cooked, white and delicate, and more appetising than if boiled or steamed. FISH BALLS. Any cooked fish will do for making little fish cakea or balls. Take the fish and carefully remove all bones or skin from it; then mix it well with cold potatoes, flavour it with salt, pepper, cayenne, and a little anchovy sauce. If liked, add a few breadcrumbs, and then mis the ingredients intc a paste with an egg, which should be well beaten before ii is added. Make small cakes of this mixture, and . fry. &QW. ia boiling ft&

SAUSAGE DUMPLINGS. Take as many sausages as it is intended to make dumplings. Bend each one into a. ring, and skewer it in that ijosition. Enclose it in good suet crust, pinch the edges securely to prevent leakage, aud tie each dumpling in a separate cloth. When all are finished, p lungs the dumpling into a pan of boiling water, and boil quickly till done enough. Brown sauce should be sent to table with them. This is a dish usually liked by children. MINCED PORK. Use cold pork, loz of butter, four apples, lour onions, a gill of gravy, salt, pepper, a dessertspoonful of flour, a little made mustard. Mince the pork, rub a stewpar lightly with garlic, melt the butter. Cut the apples and onions small, and fry them in the butter ; add the flour then the gravy ; boil up, stir in the mince, season with pepper, salt, and mustard, and simmer gent]y for 20 minutes. Serve with fried bieacl. Dear Enimeline, — I am sending the "following tried recipes, which I hope will be of interest to your readers. — Yours truly, YORK. CHARLOTTE POLONAISE ICED CAKE. Powdered sugar, two cups ; butter, half a cup; four eggs, beaten separately; cream, one cup, or rich milk with a, little cream ; preapred flour, three cups. The Custard. — Powdered sugar, one small cup; six eggs; flour, two tablespoonfuls ; cream, three cups ; chocolate, one small cup ; almonds, Jib; citron, Jib; macaroons, Jib; apricots, Jib; candied peacheai, Jib; cold milk. Beat the yolks very light, mix the flour with, the cold milk, then stir in the cream, then the yolks, slowly; boil for five minutes, stirring constantly. ISTow pour out the custard into three equal parts. First part. — The chocolate being grated, and the macaroons crumbled, stir them, with a tablespoonful of sugar with the first and boil for five minutes, stirring all the while; tfaer pour out and whip five minutes with an egg-beater, flavour with vanilla and set away to cool. Second part — The almonds having been blanched, chop them, then pound them into a mortar, putting in a few only at a time, adding a little rosewater from time to time. Chop the citron and mix with the pounded almonds, adding, sugar, three tablespoonfuls, and stir into the second part, heating to a boil; flavour with extract of bitter almonds, then set aside as the first. Third part — Chop the peaches fine and stir into the last custard, which will not need flavouring. The cake is baked in four layers with a custard of different colour or flavour to go between each, the top to be iced with lemon icing. LEMON BUTTER. Sugar, one cup and arhalf; whites of three eggs and the yolk of one beaten; butter, half a cup; grate the yellow of two medium-sized! lemons; then squeeze in the juice and mix a-1!, and 000k 30 minutes by setting the basin containing it into a pan of boiling water. Very nice for tarts or as butter upon bread. LADY FINGERS. One Jib of castor sugar and the yolks of six eggs_, well beaten ; add Jib of flour, and whites of six eggs, well beaten. Bake in lady-finger tins. COCOANUT MACAROONS. Sugar, lib; grated cocoanut, Jib; •whites of three eggs. Mix, sprinkle sugar on paper, t/ien drop the mixture thereon and bake quickly. Very nice. ORANGE JELLY CAKE. Sugar, one cup; butter, one cup and a-half; milk, half a cup; flour, two cups; -baking powder, two teaspoonfuls ; one orange, three eggs. Mix the cake as usual and bake in jelly tins; preserving the whites of two of the eggs for icing using two-thirds of a cup of icing sugar ; grate of the yellow of the orange to be sprinkled between the layers; but use the juice and chopped pulp of the orange in the cake mixture.

— Sucei, Tanner, and all the other fasting men would appear to be distanced by a young widower who lives in the Faubourg St. Antoine, Paris. This person lost his wife a few months since, and his grief took ihe form of a desire to starve himself to death. He had, it is affirmed, been without food since December 29, 1800. When found he was a mere heap of skin and bone. A neighbour poured some warm bouillon down his throat, and after a while he revived and wrote on a piece of paper, "Being unable to survive my wife, I resolved to commit suicide by starving myself to death."

A well-known resident of New Plymouth, frlio arrived in Wellington by the Manawatu £rain on Friday night, was relieved of a toocket-book containing £25 before lie uad |pl 4 Urn yailway platform.

Fears are entertained for the safety of the iron ship Piako, which sailed from Melbourne tor Durban on the 22nd No\ ember }ast, and has not since been reported. The Piako carried a cargo of wheat, liay, and biscuits. In reporting the decision of the case of \Tm. Brown v. Hamilton and M'Keirow, given by Mr E. 11. Carew, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court la~t -week, the names of counsel were transposed. Mr J. I<\ M. Fraser appealed for the plaintiff, and Mr 1\ R, Chitpman. for tin defendants.