USEFUL RECIPES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19308, 8 October 1932, Page 10

USEFUL RECIPES

Mixed Vegetables: Have you ever tried mixing turnips and potatoes? The latter gives the turnip a more delicate flavour, while the turnip imparts a sharpness to the other vegetable that it otherwise lacks. Boil potatoes and mash with a fork, adding hot milk and butter. Butter is all that is necessary for the turnips. When you have them to a creamy consistency, blend, adding pepper and salt to taste. Cabbage Casserole: Wash a small white cabbage, chop finely, and add a minced onion, Mb. lean minced meat, preferably cold pork or veal, and half a teaspoonful salt. Place in a greased casserole, cover with half a cupful cold water, and one tablespoonful tomato sauce. Bake about half an hour, until the cabbage softens, add one slightly-beaten egg to which three tablespoonfuls milk have been added, sprinkle with grated cheese, and bake 20 to 30 minutes, or longer if uncovered. Spinach Salad: Boil some spinach and chop finely, season with salt and pepper, vinegar and a little oil. Press firmly into small round moulds, leave for a while, then turn out and decorate the tops with hard-boiled eggs arranged to represent marguerites; to do this cut the whites of the eggs lengthwise into strips, and radiate them from the middle, leaving a space in the centre to be filled in with sifted yelk, garnish with lettuce and the remainder of the eggs cut in quarters. Serve with mayonnaise sauce. Orange Jelly: Put the strained juice of four Seville oranges and the thin rind of one into an enamelled saucepan with a pint of water and eight sweet oranges—freed from the rind and white pith—and cut into slices a quarter of an inch in thickness—and the pips of all the oranges. Simmer very gently for half an hour, then strain the liquid until it is quite clear. Weigh this, boil it for five minutes, put with it its weight in good loaf sugar, and boil again till it jellies. Put it into jars, cover it in the usual way, and store in a cool, dry place. Time altogether about one hour. Preserved Oranges: Twelve good sized oranges, 61b sugar, 9 pints of water. Grate off the surface of the orange rind, then wash the fruit and put it in fresh water to soak for 12 hours; wash in plenty of water before using. Cut them each up in 4 or 5 slices, removing the seeds. Add the water, and boll without stirring for three hours; add the sugar and boil for Vi hours longer. Only stir till the sugar is dissolved. Carefully remove all scum. Orange Velvet Cake: Three-quarters of a pound flour, Ub butter, Sib castor sugar, 2oz cornflour, 5 eggs, h cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar. 1 level teaspoonful salt, and 3 oranges. Cream the butter, and beat with the sugar till thoroughly light; add yolks of eggs, half the milk and the flour, which must be sifted with the cornflour, cream of tartar, soda, and salt. Have the peel of the oranges ready grated, add the rest of the milk and the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and stir very gently into the mixture. Bake in 4 shallow well-greased tins for about 15 minutes. Spread with orange cheese cake or whipped cream, and ice with orange icing. Orange Nog:Two-thirds cup sugar, 2 cupfuls orange juice, 1 1-3 cupfuls chilled evaporated milk diluted with 11-3 cupfuls ice water. Dissolve the sugar in orange juice and chill. When ready to serve, pour orange juice slowly into diluted milk. Shake vigorously in a tightly-covered fruit or cocktail shaker. Serve immediately. Yield, six servings. Lemon Nog: One half cup water, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice, 1 cup milk—thoroughly chilled. Combine first three ingredients and pour into milk. Wrisk thoroughly and serve cold. TO PRESS TROUSERS. After cleaning or washing trousers, fold in the usual way, then take a dry, clean sheet of brown paper, lay on the trousers, and press with a very hot iren. PILLOW SLIPS. The old-fashioned pillow slips, with i their tapes and buttons, needed a good J deal of attention. i The tape:} were always pulling and 1 wearing off and the buttons did not j lo.ig survive the mangle. | The newest slips have one long end j to tuck in quite fiat so no fastenings i are needed. 1 Old pillow slips could be adapted to I this method by having a deep strip of 1 linen or cotton sewn on one side of the j opening after the buttons or tapes have | been taken off.