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Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 73

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* OATMEAL CRISPS

Mix two cups of lolled oats, one cup^ of sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder, two beaten eggs, one large .tablespoon of "butter melted, and two teaspoons of vanilla in tho order given. Drop by toaapoonfuls on greased (not buttered) tins, and bake in a moderate oven till a delicate brown. TJse the pancake turner to lift from the tins

ALBERT CAKES

Half a pound of flour, good teaspoonful of cinnamon, three saltspoonfuls cf sugar, a few drops of lemon juice, one egg, and a little jam. Rub butter into the flour, cinnamon, and sugar. Roll out ono-third of on inch. Cut in strips Sin wide and two strips lin wide. Lay down centre of broad strip a little jam. Put iittle crossbars across ocntrc of jam. Wet edges of strips of pastry, and lay on narrow strips. Brush over with sugar and water. Bako 20 minutes. Cut in fingers, one crossbar to -each cake.

COFFEE JELLY.

Soak one-half box of gelatine in one-half cupful of cold water two hours. Pour over it one pint of strong, hot coffee. When dissolved add a half-pint of boiling water and three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, and strain into small moulds. Bervb with "whipped cream.

MADEIRA CAKE.

"Work 3oz butter to a cream, Tttld 4oz castorsugar beat 10 mhrtftes, -thsa. mix in two eggs and 4oz flour, and ngain beat 10 minutes." Bake about threeguarters of an hour .jn a tin , lined with wellbuttered paper. ' Por chocolate ' cake, add to abovo loz powdered chocolate.

CHICKEN SALAD.

-Cut cold-boiled '-fowl or remnants of xoßst chicken in Jin dice. To two cups add one and one-half -cups of celery cut in small. pieces, chilled in cold water, drained *nd dried in a towel. Just before serving moisten with cream, oil, or mayonnaise dressing. Mound on a salad dish, and garnish with yolks of hard-boiled eggs, or if proiorred cut -thin slices from small pickles and curled celery.

POTATO PUREE.

Take half a dozen potatoes, and put them on to boil in cold water. Tn .a quarter of an hour drain the water off and pour in a pint of boiling -water, add a quarter of an onion, a piece- of parsley, a bay leaf, -and a head of celery cut in small pieces. Boil all together till the vegetables are soft. Press them through a. Eievc, and put aside io keep hot. Put a quart of milk to boil, rub a tablespoonful of flour into "the size of a nut of butter, add to the boiling milk, and stir till it thickens. Pour over the puree of potatoes, -and serve at once.

APPLES A LA PORTUGAISE.

Peel anfl cora sonio good -white cooking apples, and cook them in syrup till tender, but not cut of shape. Place them in » deep dish, fill tho centres with some je<s currant jelly, and decorate irith glace chsiries. Boil tho syrup till ihick, odd some ,of. the jelly to it, and colour with cociuncal ±0 <■ pretty pink, then pour it round the apples.

BAKED EANCAKES.

Beat 4oz of butter with. 602 of sugar to a cream, ncH terse yell-"beaten eggs, and by degrees 603 of flour, moistening with half a. pint of fresh milk. Butter EOino shallow tins, pour in Hie mixture, and bake in a quick oven for about 10 minutes. Have ready .» very Lot t'.ato, lay a, pancake in it, spread liberally with jam. and pile them up in this manner, ore on top of the other, powdering sifted sugar o\er all. Serve surioundccl •with, slicts of lemon.

3AVOHY BEEF PIE.

Cut 21b of steak mto rather thin slices of as nearly tho same sizo aa possible, flatten, them out, and spread each with a layer of +he forcemeat described below. Then roll the niea-t up, and pack it tiglttly in a stewpan, cover it \vith stock, let it cook in a moderately hot oven for an Hour and a-half. Then remove carefully and plaoe it in a .picdish; measure the stock, and add gelatine to it (which has been previously soaked) in tho proportion of Joz to half a t>int; rf sheet gelatme is need, rather less Than half the quantity would be required. Strain the stock over the meat, and when it is cold cover it with a good light paste, -which should bo brushed over with a. beaten, -egg and baked m a well-heated oven. The pie should be kepi in -a cold place for some time after it is quite cold, so that the stock may set in a firm jelly. Por the forcemeat, mix 6oz ox fine white breadcrumbs with two tabiespoonfuls of chopped parsley, a dessertspoonful of fiaely-nmwed onion, ft very little grated lemon peel, and 2oz of lean ham or boiled bacon, little grated nutmeg, and moisten the dry which lias been pounded or passed through a sieve ; reason with, pepper, salt, and a little grated oatmeal and moisten ibe dry ingredients with sufficient beaten egg to forjH a fairly soft paste.