RECOMMENDED RECIPES

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1930, Page 14

RECOMMENDED RECIPES

CAKES AND PUDDINGS. Fruit Sponge. —Stew any fruit (apples, dried apricots, or peaches), and while hot pour over the following sponge mixture and bake in a good oven:—Two tablespoons butter or good dripping, two tablespoon© sugar, one egg, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder; and milk to make the consistency of very thick cream. # 48 48 . . * Delicious apple tart.—Alake an open tart as follows; 4oz cornflour, 4oz flour, 3oz butter, or dripping, one tablespoon sugar, two eggs, one teaspoon powder; rub butter into dry ingredients, add beaten yolks of eggs, make into paste, and roll out. . Line a piedish and fill with following mixture: Two .cups stewed apples, half-eup stoned raisins, quarter teaspoon cinnamon, one dessertspoon sugar. Mix well and fill tart. Bake in oven, then beat whites of eggs stiff, add sugar to make meringue, and slightly brown in slow oven. # # 48 48 Bran biscuits. —Two cups bran, 1 cup flour, 4 cup sugar (more if liked), 1 teaspoon cream tartar, i teaspoon carb, soda, small teaspoon salt. Enough cream to mix into a stiff paste. Roll out. Cut into shapes, and bake in moderate oven 20 to 25 minutes. # # «■ «■ Passion fruit cake. —This cake has a passion fruit filling; Jib butter, |lb sugar, Mb flour, 3 eggs, 4 small teacup milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Alix all ingredients, adding flour last, in which baking powder has been mixed Bake in buttered sandwich tin. For the filling boil together a little icing sugar and passion fruit. Allow to cool, and spread between. Ico with passion fruit icing. # 4» « * Apple tea cake.—Cream 1 tablespoon butter with 2 of sugar, add the beaten eggs and 1 large cup S.R. flour and about 3. or . 4 tablespoons milk to

make a fairly thick mixture. Put in greased large sandwich tin. Cover top with thin slices of apple, sprinkle well with sugar and dust with cinnamon, Bake in moderate oven for about 4 an hour. Nice buttered, either hot or cold. * * & Silver cake. —One lb sugar |lb flour, 41b butter, whites of 10 eggs whipped stiff, 1 large teaspoonful extract of bitter almonds. Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, then the flour, and lastly the flavouring. Flavour the icinw with rose water. 0 # * * * ■ Poor man’s fruit cake. —Economical and excellent is this unusual mixture. Dissolve a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in four tea spoonfuls of water. Put in a bowl, add half a cupful of molasses (substitute golden syrup), one cup of thick, sour milk, and three tablespoonsfuls of melted butter. Alix all thoroughly. Add one cup of brown sugar, and then stir in three cupfuls of sifted flour. Add one level teaspoonful each of cinnamon and ginger and half a grated nutmeg. • Stir in one pound of seeded raisins. Turn into a square breadpan and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. When done turn it out of the pan, and when cool put it in a tin box to ripen for at least one week. In case housewives cannot procure any of the special flours or tlic maple syrup, the Household Editress lias niade inquiries for their benefit and can supply the address of an old-estab-lished city firm which will fulfil orders for whole meal corn meal (the ..same as maize-meal), or rye meal, and can also supply fascinating little tins of genuine maple syrup in the form of a log cabin. The syrup comes in pint and quart tins, and costs 2s 3d and 4s a can.