HOME INTERESTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 50

HOME INTERESTS.

TROUT, SCOTCH FASHION. Required: Trout (number according to size), fine oatmeal (about a tabiespoonful to each fish), about 2oz of butter, salt, cayenne, half a lemon. Clean, scrape, wash, and well dry the trout. Melt the butter, grease a gridiron, then dip the fish (both sides) in the butter. Then coat them all over with oatmeal, shaking off gently any that will noi stick. Lay the fish on the gridiron and grill over or in front of a clear, sharp fire. Time, about five or more minutes, according to their thickness. Take them when cooked off the gridiron, dust with seasoning, and serve on a hot dish with slices of cut lemon as a garnish. PLAIN APPLE TRIFLE. Required: Half a pint of custard, half a pint of stewed and sweetened apples, some stale cake, a few fine crumbs, grated nutmeg, decoration to taste, a little jam.- Take a deep glass dish. Cut the cake in email cubes and put in a layer. Over them spread a little yarn (apricot or strawberry for preference) Add a layer of apple. Over this sprinkle a few fine crumbs. Continue with these layers. Over all j>our the warm custard. When Bet and cold, grate a little nutmeg over the top, or decorate more elaborately if desired. The same ingredients iorm a very tempting mixture for cus-tard-cups, and give a charming result if a good layer of red jam is put in first of all. TOMATO SAUCE. Required: Twelve pounds of tomatoes, 21b of onions, two or three cloves of garlic one level tablespoonful of mustard seed, one’level dessertspoonful of salt, one toaspoo-nful of cayenne pepper, half a teaspoonful of cloves half a teaspoonful of all-spice, Jib of sugar! |b of raisins, one quart vinegar. Slice “the tomatoes, skin and slice the onions; nut them into a preserving pan with the raisins and garlic, and cook gently until the onions are bob If the tomatoes are dry' a little water should be added. Rub through a colander. Add the other ingredients!" the cloves, all-spice, and mustard seed beim* tied m a muslin bag. Boil quickly ioiTWflt IIOU Th * rf n , renlOTO th« spices. Bottle when cold. Cork the bottles tightly and after corking dip the tops in melted sealing wax or paraffin. Store in a cool airy place. * CAULIFLOWER WITH SAVOY SAUCE. The sauce is a specially nice one for many fiAk f’ EU u "■ rabbit or chicked or fish, etc. Required: One medium-sized cauliflower For the sauce: One ounce of flour, half a pint of water, cue gill of milk, loz of butter, one raw eg— two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, one tablespoonful of Vorcostor sauce, one tablespoonful of grated cheese seasoning to taste. Trim, and wash the cauliflower, soaking it some time in cold salted water in order to draw cut undesirable lodgers. Put thee auliflower in a roomy pan with boiling salted water to cover it Boil gently about half an hour or till tender, but not broken. Then raise it carefully, dram well, and place in a hot vegetable dish. Press gently together with a ciean cloth and strain over the sauce and sprinkle over the cheese. To make the sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan stir m the flour smoothly, add the water and milk; stir over the fire till boiling, strain in the lemon puce, add the bottled sauce, and cool the sauce for a few seconds to -et it just off boiling point. Now pour in the beaten egg, recook over & gentle heat for a minute, but do not boil it. Season to ta=te and use as directed Sometimes, if I want to make the sauce look green, I add finelychopped cress or parsley to it; and sometimes I omit the egg, though, of course the sauce is not quite so rich without it. ’ EGG- AND TOMATO CUTLETS. Required: Two hard-boiled eggs, two tomatoes, two tablespocnfuls of thick sauce one teaspconful chopped parsley, 0:10 yolk of egg, seasoning, Joz of fat. Melt the fat in a pan, dip the tomatoes in boilino- water then remove the skins, cut in slives, and cook m the fat till soft; rub through a Bl fY e - Chop the eggs, mix into the sauce, add the tomato pulp, seasoning, and chopped parsley. Beat up the yolk' of the ’ t- and add. Mix well and cook over a gentle heat till the mixture binds. Turn into a plate cool Shape the mixture into cutlets and dip into the slightly whipped white of on egg, breadcrumbs, or fine oatmeal, and bake in a hot oven. If the mixture is too soft when shaping add some breadcrumbs to it. COSY CORNER CLUB: SYLLABUS FOR 1921. As several members of the C.C.C. have expressed a wish to have the syllabus for next year published several months ahead so as to give members plenty of time for getting up the subjects, I have prepared one to be printed now. Members will see that I have taken advantage of suggestions made at the discussion meeting. Anemone asked if there were regulations as to length of contributions. I don’t think there has been a definite limit lately, and till our usual muster is larger perhaps there need not be; new members may be guided by the length of recent contributions, only we roust all remember that newspaper space is precious in days. SYLLABUS. MAY.—MEMBERS’ MEETING. Members are invited to choose their own subject and mode of treatment. If they oannot readily compose an original paper

good selections in either verse or prose may be sent; preferably ones likely to be new to most-readers. JUNE.—YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBY OR AMUSEMENT. This, I think, should be a popular subject. I remember a former “bobby” meeting, but quite long enough ago to have the subject treated again; at that meeting a number of interesting papers were sent in. I have added “amusement” in case some members may have no special hobby. A “hobby” is their favourite pursuit carried on with activity and enthusiasm; pursuits carried on purely for amusement or relaxation a# ordinary novel reading are not “hobbies.” JULY.—NATIVE PLANT LIFE. Members may treat this subject as they please, either writing the general charaoteristics of our flora, or describing special plants —as some of those of their own locality. Should there be any members not familiar with native vegetation, as any one lately out from the Home country, “flowers” 01 “gardening” may be chosen as an alternative topic. AUGUST.—A PICTURE MEETING. Members are invited to tell the circle about some picture or pictures that they specially admire, or to tell of some artist’s life and work. Neither picture nor artist need be world./ famous ones; this will give a chance for treatment of New Zealand painters. As an alternative topic members may write of “Art Needlework, old and new.” SEPTEMBER.—NATIVE BIRDS. . topic may be treated variously as the “Native Plants” topic. Both will be specially adapted for country dweller*. A* an alternative subject, members are offered “Maori Legends,” and asked to select some specially attractive legend from Maori folklore. OCTOBER.—DISCUSSION MEETING. Members are asked to discuss the contributions of the session. They may also make for the next year’s one. The exact dates for sending in papers will be published in due course