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Otago Witness, Issue 3487, 11 January 1921, Page 50

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CHOCOLATE FLUMMERY. Required: One pint of milk, 20z.0f semolina, loz of sugar, Soz o.f chocolate, white of one egg. Put the milk on to boil. Chop the chocolate in email bits. Put these in a basin, pour on a little of the hot milk, and work the chocolate quite smoothly down with it. When the remaining milk is just at boiling point sprinkle and stir in the semolina. Cook carefully till it thickens and looks clear. Add the sugar and dissolved chocolate. Mix well. Whisk tha white of an egg to a very stiff froth. Stir it in lightly. Turn all into a mould that

has been rinsed with cold water. Leave ■until quite cold, then turn it out carefully and serve with cream or cold vanilla sauce. For the eauce use the following ingredients: One ounce of butter or margarine, one gill of creamy milk, sugar to taste, a few drops of vanilla. Slightly warm the butter if it is hard, just enough to be able to stir it easily with a whisk pT fork. Whisk in the milk gradually. Add the sugar and vanilla to taste. Whisk briskly for a few minutes, and then leave until very cold again, giving it a whisk up now and then. THE CARROT SALAD. Required: About lib of cooked carrots (new best), one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a few drops (or to taste) of garlic vinegar, about a gill of salad dressing (any sort), onei lettuce. Very gently wash and dry the lettuoe, as young lettuce bruises very easily, and pull it into convenientsized pieces—never out lettuce. See that the carrots are well scraped, then cut them into fairly thick rings. Put these in a basin and mix very carefully with the dressing, parsley, and vinegar. Season to suit the family tastes. Pile in a salad bowl, and arrange round a border of the prepared lettuce. Serve with a mayonnaise variety of salad dressing. EGG SANDWICHES. Boil eggs for half an hour. Do not drop in water to cool, as that toughens them. Let cool in the shells. When cold, chop fine, and mix with enough salad dressing to be quite moist. Have some crisp lettuce cut into shreds with a scissors. Spread thin bread with plenty of butter. Upon one of two matching slices spread a thick layer of the egg mixture. Cover with shredded lettuce, then place the top slice over and press together lightly. FISH SANDWICHES. Prepare exactly as for egg sandwiches, using fish instead of egg. MEAT SANDWICHES. Put meat through a chopper, salt lightly, and use as filling. The bread may be spread with mixed mustard if liked. CUCUMBER SANDWICHES. Have the cucumbers very crisp and cold. Cut in slices and put on the bread, cover with a rather jharp salad dressing, then proceed as Tor egg sandwiches. ORANGE CREAM. Take. a pint of orange jelly, and instead of dissolving it with a pint of boiling water use only a full half-pint. Have a tin of condensed milk (unsweetened). Whip up the milk in a basin with a whisk until slightly thick; the whisk should show its impression on the milk when it is sufficiently thick. When the jelly has cooled a little whip it into the milk. Pour into a wetted shape, and when cold turn out.