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Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 63

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APPLE SALAD,

To a. dish of thinly-sliced, juicy, sweet apples add a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar to each layer,' and one cup of wine, any kind preferred.

POTATO PUFF

Beat a pint of mashed potatoes and butter the size of an agg (melted) until very light. Add half a cup of cream and two eggs beaten separately. Beat well and pile irregularly in a dish, and bake quickly a nice brown.

BOILED RICE PUDDING.

Wash two teacupfuls of rice, and soak it in water for half an hour; then turn off the water, and mix the rice with Alb raisins, stoned and cut in halves; tie the whole in a cloth, leaving loom for the rice to swell twice its natuial size, and boil two hours in plenty of v.-atar. Serve with wine sauce.

APPLE SNOWBALLS

Boil Jib rice m half a pint of milk for half an hour, then strain it off; pare and core the apples without dividing them, put a small quantity of sugar and a clove into each, then put a crust of rice round them, and tie each apple in a cloth; boil for three-quailcrs of an hour, remove the cloths, and seive.

SPANISH CROUTONS

Stamp our rounds from thin slices o: brown bread, fry quickly :u a little butter, and let get cold. Whisk till stiff half a gill of cream, stir into it three dessertspoonfuls of grated cheese, and salt and pepper to taste. Put little rough heaps of this on each crouton, and sprinkle over a few browned crumbs.

IUCE SNOWBALLS

Wa3h two teacupfuls of lice, and boil it in one teacupful of water mid one of miTk, witli a little salt. If the rice is not tender when the nulk and water are absorbed, add a little more milk and water. When the rice is tender, flavour with vanilla, form it into balls, or mould it into a compact form with little cups. Place these rice balls round the inside of a deep dish, fill the dish with a soft custard, and serve either hot or cold. Tha custard and balls should be flavoured witi? tha same. _ __

PULLED FISH.

Take lilb cooked fish, free from sklu and bone, add to it Boz of breadcrumbs and a gill of cream. Mix the above well, and season with a. tablespoonful of anchovy essence, 3oz of butter, a tablespoonful of made mustard, pepper and salt to taste. Stir all in a saucepan over a. quick fire, then press it together on the bottom of the pan to brown. Turn on to a dish, brown side upwards, and garnish with friend parsley and sliced Jemon. Care is needed to have this nicely-browned, but not burnt.

BEEP KIDNEY.

One pound of kidney, 2oz butter, one dessertspoonful of flour, pepper, salt, a cupful of boiling water, one tableapoonfnl of mushroom ketchup, lemon juice, or vinegar. Trim and cut tli© kidney into slices, season -with ealt and pepper, and dredge well wuk flour, fry on both sides, and v/lien. the pieoca are con* |>rou£b Jiit &c& out; mfil #» »*& «»3

make a gravy with the butter, flour, pepper, salt, and water; shake them round, simmer Tcr one minute, add the mushroom ketchup, lenmn I juice, or vinegar, pour over the kidney, nncl j ee:ve.