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BUTTERED PEARS. Peel some medium-sized stewing pears, core them, and fill the space left with butter, mixed with a little golden syrup. Place on a buttered baking tin, and cook gsntly in a moderate oven,^ basting from time to time with, butter. When half-cooked, pour over them some golden syrup, diluted with a little lemon. . juice, and flavoured with ground cloves. Baste frequently with the syrup during ths remainder of the time they ■are in the oven. FISH SALAD. Take two cupfuls of cooked fish, half an . ounce of horseradish and chopped cooked onion, a quarter of a slice of fresh cucumber, three cooked pots toes cut in small pieces--Sprinkle with a few drops of lemon juice, . 'and pcur over the following sauce. Serve with: lettuce and tomatoes: — Put the yolks of two • raw eggs in a basin, pour in the oil very s".owly, stirring gently at the rame time iill . it thickens, then add two saltspoonfuls o£ salt, one spoonfuL of mixed mustard, a geed • sprinkling o£ pepper, .a de33srtsrjonful of sugar, a tablespocnful of>tarragon .vinegar, and two isblesponfuls of thick cream. The- iDgredi— . ents must ba added in the, order- in -which* they' are written. - - '■- •-. . GATEAU. YiEiUfOISE. ... "■ -. " .Ingredients- for , the. cake:. 'Six ounces of^onr^",'j 2cz of., butter, 4oz-.of srfgar, ihree'.«?ggs ' ,on.Jy),\.a- littla milk, an&'a- pinch, -of carbdnsto"*..'of' soda. J?O2 Aits fining: Quartir pint "©£--■ ■cream, -one white' of egg, aiid " a 'litt/e green—** gage o? other jam. BeHt the whites cf cgsv solid and set aside; beat the butter, -sugar, ' milk, and soda until the mixture looks like cream; flavour with vanilla or lemon essence; add the flour ard the whites of eggs alternately, whisking hard; put into a- buttered tin and bake in a quick ovea for 20 minutes; when cold, split open, spread both pieces with - jam, whip the cream with the white of one egg. spread it over the jam, *.ay on. the top pie~s, and decorate with bits of bright jelly. PATE DE I/APIN. The day before a pie* is to be made, tak« a rabbit and boi:e it carefully; remove the ' liver, a«d mhice it up with about a quarter of a pound cf fresh pork. Take some more pork (about a pound), cut it into pieces, arid put it intc an earthenware or enamelled dish; add. the minced liver and two onions chopped witli parsley, some thyme, and a bay leaf; season with pepper and suit. Cut up some strips cf bacon as wide as a finger, and add a glass of good red wine ; mix all well together, ' and leave it to marinade till the following d«y. When ready to make the pie, take scruq rough puff paste and line a wall-grossed piedish, *urn the mixture into it, including the - wine, cover the dish with pastry, make ,»•'* little hole at the top for the steam to escape, and it is ready for baking. This pie *ca!s better co!d than bot, and it keeps well. "Streaky pork should be chosen for it, with equal £van- . tities of lean and fat. ' JiAUBETTA .SANDWICHES. Cream cheese, 3oz of spiced" beef , two tea- ' spoonfuls of mustard, ealt to taste, and- a. iiltlo •. butter. Pas 3 the bsef ■ twice- through -a mincing i 1 machine, pound it thoroughly, adding a iifti-9 ' butter, and if Or is not highly spiced, n 3itt)e - black pepper; pound the cream cheeee-wif2* ' ' the mustard and a small quantity of eiiJt until a-11 are well blended and of the con&is- - tency of butter; spread thin slices of J bread" i . with this' mixture instead, of butter; 'cover ' one slice with a layer of pounded beef, md place it on another with the cream cheese mixture; cut it into neat squares, and gfrmsh the dish with parsley. ' TIADELEINES. For these some fluted shell-shaped tins, usual'.y known ss "Madeleine" tins, are required. Beat Jib of freah butter uti'-il it ia vhite and creamy ; then add the same quantity of white sugar, and beat agnin for 10 minutes; divide £lb of flour into five portions; add one egg to the butter and sugar, and then one* of the portions of flour ; wheu these- are well worked in, add another egg and more Sour, until all the latter aad five eggs have been used ; stir in half a teaspoonful of baking' powder, and fill the tins at once with the mixture. The tins should be thoroughly brushed over with butter, and then lightly sprinkled with flour; thiß will ensure tba cakes turning o\it without sticking, which i particularly important when fluted tins ara used. RAGOUT OF EGGS. Fry a teaspomul of chout>ed r>.iioj in » dessertspoonful 01 clarified dripping, and -when the onion is lightly coloured stir in a. tablespocnful of flour and mix with the drioping. _ Add half a pint of milk, and stir till the- '[ sauce is smooth and thick. Season ■with salt, pepper, and a little mace. Simmer for 10 ' minutps, and strain; cut four hard-boiled eggs'into slices, put them in a saucppan, and pon.. , the sauce over them, and add a dessertspoonful of chopped parsley, and six drons of vinegar ; r cr lemon juice. Take some haricot beans * which have been boiled till tender, drain them. ' and heat with a little butter; arrange rou-nd a dish, and pour the egg mixture into the . middle. ICED ROLL?. Take }lb of flour. 2oz of butter, and loz of white sugar; rub n*l well together; baat up the yolk of an es-e; with a little water, add to the other ingreclient'?. and make into a paste. which must he worked well for one minute and then rolled out; have ready some minca pia tins, butter them, line them with the r>aste. put a little ball of naper in each (to keep the lid of paste raised), thsn put a lid of naste over them ; bake in a emick oven ; when taken out of the oven turn them bottom upwards, and as goon as cold take a. penknife and cut a hole the size of a sixpence and take the paper out; beat the -whites or two eggs to a strong froth, cover the rolls with it, and dust them well with sifted sugar; ■put them in a slow oven to brown ; when ready for serving, fill them with stood custard, and put a little sweetmeat on the top. — It is a singular coincidence that between January 1 nnd December 31 the Royal National lifeboats were launched 365 times on wrvioc. Five hundred and thirty lives and 27 vessals were saved.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 70
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