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Otago Witness, Issue 3274, 13 December 1916, Page 53

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COFFEE CUSTARDS. Make a quarter of a. pint ci very strong coffee and strain Well. Mix it with a pint of boiling milk, sweetened to teste, then beat the yolks of five eggs, and etir them into the milk gradually. Stand the basin in a saucepan of boiling water, and place over the fire. Stir till tho custard thickens. SNOWDON PUDDING. ■Grease a basin, and decorate it with a few raisins which have been doncd and cut in halves, care being taken to dry them. MijJ in a basin Jib of ground rice, Jib of breadcrumbs, Jib of brown sugar, a pinch of salt, and Jib of finely-chopped suet. Make a halt in tho centre, and drop into it a well-beaten egg and two tcaspoonfuls of inarmalade,_ add? ing just enough milk to moisten tho ingredients. After mixing, put all into the pre< pared basin, cover with a greased paper, an<t steam for from two and a-half to three hours. Turn out, and serve with or without hstcon or custard sauce. COLD LUNCHEON SHAPE. Three ounces of rioe, one pint of milk, & pinch of salt, 2oz of sugar, two tablespoon* fuls of marmalade. Well wash th© rice, and soak it .in tho milk for three hours. Put it into a pan with the salt, and cook till tender. Add the sugar and flavouring, and pour the mixture into a wet border mould. When sot, turn out, and pile up the centre with marmalade, and arrange a little round the outside of the rice. SPECIAL FISH SALADS. Cold white fish, tomatoes, lettuce. Bait and pepper, cayenne, melted butter. Choose some firm, ripe tomatoes, and scoop out tho pulp carefully, so that the skins are whole. Mix the flaked fish with the pulp, pepper, salt, a sprinkling of cayenne, a lifctlo melted butter or white sauce. Fill the tomato sheila with the mixture, finishing with a little loose, fine cress on the top. Arrange the lettuce leaves daintily in the dish, sprinkle with vinegar, and stand tho I'-mntces rnnong them. Kings of hard-boiled egg can bo added aa a garnish, if liked. CHRISTMAS CAKE, Ingredients: Half a pound of butter, Jib sugar, four eggs, jib sultanas;, -Jib currants, Jib mixed peel, lOoz flour, 2oz shredded sweet almonds, half a teaspoonful baking powder. The rind of one lemon, grated; also juice of same. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, clean and prepare the fruit; grate in the lemon rind, and add the-' juice. Thesa must be put into a good-sized basin with the flour; add the baking powder. Then stir in tho eggs, well beaten up. Mix all thoroughly together and pour into a well-greased caka tin, and bake in a moderate oven for three or four hours. Should the oven bo very hoj at the bottom, stand the cake tin in a flat tin of sand to prevent any burning to thtf cake. ECONOMICAL CHRISTMAS CAKE. Put into a basin ljlb of flour and a pinch 1 of salt, lib of castor sugar, putting aside a tablespoonful of tho latter. Crumble finely into the flour Jib of butter and Jib of lard, and when these are all thoroughly mixed add lib of currants which have been previously well washed, dried, and picked. Shred finely |lb between lemon and orange peel, and mix these in with two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pood grate of nutmeg, and a tea* spoonful of mixed spice. In a small basin beat 2oz of yeast with the tablespoonful or castor sugar, and beat until the whole becomes a liquid. Warm a teacupful of milk to a tepid heat, and Jtdcl it to the beaten yeast, mixing all with the- drv ingredients and beating thoroughly. Now beat two ejrgs, and, lastly, add these again, beating vigorously. Put th? mixture into a- greased loaf tin or large- cake tin, cover with a towel or a paper, and set the cake to risw far one hour in a warm place. At the end of this time bake the cake in a moderate oven for from three to three and a-half hours. SIMPLE WHITE CAKE. Put a teacupful of butter into a basin with two teacnpfuls of fine sugar, and beat these with a wooden spoon until a light cream is formed. Mix a ieaspnonfiil of baking powder with three teacupfuls of flour. Beat the yolks of three eggs, and add to them a teacupful of .Tailk. In email quantities add the yolks and milk to the beaten cream alternatoly with tho flour, sriving the mixture a thorough beating. Add a little lemon or vanilla flavouring, and then mix In gently tho whites of the eggs stiffly beaten. Place the cake in a greased and papered tin, and allow it to bake fox an hour in a moderatelyhealed oven.