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Southland Times, Issue 20523, 27 June 1928, Page 3

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CREAMED STEAK. Sent in by “Myra,” Wyndham. Round steak, about two inches thick. To each pound of meat use half cup flour. Found the flour into the meat, turning and dredging and pounding on both sides; add salt and pepper to taste during this process. To each pound of meat use three tablespoons lard or butter, and when very hot in a frying-pan put in the steak and brown it on both sides; then fill pan three-quarters full of boiling water and set it at the back of the stove and simmer one hour HAMBURG STEAK. Sent in by “Myra,” Wyndham. Melt a tablespoon butter in a saucepan, and in it put four teaspoons of finely-chop-ped onions. Make the steak into small flat cakes, and cook them in the mixture till brown on both sides. Remove the cakes and dust into the pan one tablespoon of flour, mix and brown, and pour in half cup boiling water, with salt and pepper to taste. Stir till smooth, and pour over the steak in the hot platter. Serve with potato chips. CHEESE FINGERS. Sent in by “8.M.,” Invercargill. Take 3ozs each of grated cheese and flour, 2oz butter, 4 teaspoon baking powder, salt and cayenne to taste. Mix ingredients to a stiff paste with a little milk, roll out and cut in strips about 3 inches long. Roll round and bake on a tin for five minutes, when the fingers should be just tinged with brown. CARROT JAM. Sent in by “A.E.5.,” in answer to “L.A.,” Morton Mains:— Wash and scrape some young carrots, boil until they are quite soft, then rub through a sieve. For every pound of pulp, add one pound of white sugar, half a dozen bitter almonds chopped small and the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Boil for ten minutes, skimming well. It should then set when tested. RIBBON CAKE. Sent in by “Valeao,” Makarewa, in answer to “June,” Invercargill:— Five eggs, cups flour, 1 cup milk, 1 cup butter, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar. Cream, butter and sugar, add the egg yolks, then milk. Beat well and add dry ingredients then the stiffly beaten whites. Divide into three parts—leave one plain, colour one with cochineal, and the other brown with loz dissolved chocolate. Bake and out together with jam, and ice the top, /

APPLE PUFFS. “J.L.,” Waikiwi, also sends thia recipe. Pare and core one pound of good cooking apples, then slice them. Put the slices into a saucepan, with two tablespoons of cold water, and a small piece of stick cinnamon. Stew until the are quite pulpy. Remove the cinnamon, sweeten to taste, and put the pulp away to cool. When the apple is cold, roll out half a pound of puff paste to an eighth of an inch thickness. Cut strips four inches wide, then cut these across to make fourinch squares. Brush the edges with cold water. Put a tablespoon of the apple pulp on one half of a square, then fold the other half over, corner to corner, so as to form a triangle. Press the edges firmly together. CHEESE STRAWS. Sent in by “8M.,” Invercargill. One heaped spoonful of butter, rubbed into a cup of flour, 1 cup of grated cheese, salt and cayenne. Mix with milk, roll very thin, cut into strips six inches long, bake and serve piled log-cabin fashion or tied in bundles. A RECIPE IN RHYME. If you want a good pudding, To teach you, I’m willing, Take two pennyworth of eggs, When twelve for a shilling And of the same fruit That Eve had once chosen— Well pared, cored and chopped, At least half a dozen. Six ounces of bread (Let your maid eat the crust); The crumbs must be grated As fine as the dust. Six ounces of currants, From the stones you must sort, ■Lest they break out your teeth, And spoil all your sport. Six ounces of sugar Won’t make it too sweet; Some salt and some nutmeg Will make it complete. Three hours let it boil Without any flutter, Then serve it up With sugar and butter. The only complaint housewives will have is that eggs are no longer twelve a shilling I —Editor, Home Office.

CARROT MARMALADE. In answer to “L,A,” Morton Mains, from “A.E.S.” Grate three pounds of peeled carrots on a vegetable grater, add the juice and grated rind of four lemons and seven large cups of cold water, let stand all night. In the morning boil one hour, then add four pounds sugar, and boil about another hour.