Oatmeal Cookies.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20768, 1 July 1937, Page 14

Oatmeal Cookies.

Take 2A cups oatmeal, 2| cups flour, 1 cup butter and A cup water, 1 cup light brown sugar and one teaspoon baking soda. Cream the butter gradually, add sugar and continue creaming; add water, oatmeal and flour. Knead with the hand. Roll into a thin layer and cut into small round pieces. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Filling: Half a pound of dates, i cup sugar, f cup cold water. Heat, stirring constantly until it forms a paste. Spread one half of cookies with paste, place other half in top and cook in oven. Rabbit Rare-Bits. First, choose a young rabbit: this is easily determined, first by size and

secondly by the muscles in the legs. If doubtful, take two small rabbits in preference to one large one. Choose the rabbit also with the most inside fat. At once wash the rabbit in many dishes of clear, cold water, then plunge it into a bucket of cold water in which a handful of salt has been dissolved. Leave all night, then wash again and replace in a fresh bucket of salted water. Next day take out the rabbit, wash again, cut into pieces and place in a dish of skim milk for a few hours. Then put in a pan of cold water to which half a teaspoon of carbonate of soda has been added and bring to the boil. Pour off the water, dry each piece of meat carefully, roll in flour, then fry in deep fat with onions, etc., before placing in a casserole with

some herbs, stock to cover and some slices of bacon. Cover and cook slowly for several hours. Another pleasing method, after washing and soaking the rabbit as directed and also bringing to the boil with carbonate of soda, is to leave it whole, stuff it with a good forcemeat stuffing, roast and serve with bread sauce, strips of bacon and a good gravy. So if you have not tried this way, do try during the winter. Very young rabbits, after being treated to these preliminary methods, are delicious fried in butter and eaten hot for breakfast. Rabbit pie we all know how to make. If you like it cold don’t forget the addition of hard-boiled egg and plenty of finely chopped parsley and jnion juice—not strips of onion.

Delicious Fruit Salad. To make a delicious fruit salad, peel, core, and cut up some soft eating apples and a few pears. Peel and cut into rounds one or two bananas, add one or two sliced peaches, some peeled and stoned grapes, in fact any fresh fruit, excepting oranges. Make the dressing. To the juice of three add that of two lemons, put the juice into a saucepan, with half a cupful of granulated sugar, and let it boil, stirring all the time. Remove the saucepan from the fire, and, when the mixture has cooled a little, stir in a gill of cream. Pour this dressing over the salad and leave it in a cold place. Decorate it with a few glace cherries and serve with wafer biscuits.

Brown Pudding. Ingredients: 1A cups plain flour, A cup good dripping or margarine, A cup sugar, 2 tablespoons raspberry jam, 1 teaspoon carbonate soda, A cup milk. Method: Sift flour, rub in fat, and add sugar. Make a well in the centre, add jam, and stir, then pour in the warm milk and carbonate soda. Stir well together, pour into a well-greased mould or basin, but do not fill more than three parts full. Cover with a greased paper, and steam for 2 hours. Turn out; serve hot with a suitable sauce or custard. Wheatmeal Family Cake. If it is cake you want, and wholesome try this; it is delicious. £lb. butter,

sugar, J cup white flour, 1A teaspoons cinnamon, 3 cups wholemeal, 1A cups milk, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 1A teaspoons soda, 1 cup dates, 2 cups nuts, 3 tablespoons golden syrup. Method: Stir 1 cup milk, sugar, butter, golden syrup in a saucepan, until the butter melts. Dissolve the soda in the other I cup of milk. Mix the dry ingredients and add the warm mixture, and nuts and dates. Add the soda last. Bake half an hour, and allow to cool before turning out. Eggless Ginger Sponge. It scarcely seems possible to make a sponge without eggs, but it can be done, and this is the recipe: Sift together 1 large cup of flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon

ginger. Cream together 1 tablespoon butter, cup sugar. Mix in 1 tablespoon golden syrup. Dissolve A teaspoon soda in i cup milk and add to the butter and sugar; beat well, then mix in the flour and beat thoroughly once more. Bake as a sandwich or as one cake. Ginger Sponge Pudding. Ingredients: flour, soz. suet, 3oz. sugar, 1 level dessertspoon chopped preserved ginger, 1 cup treacle, pinch salt, £ cup milk. Method: Sift flour, salt, sugar, and ginger, add chopped suet, and make a well in the centre, and pour in the warmed treacle. Heat milk slightly, stir in the soda, and dissolve it, and add this to the treacle, and stir all well together, pour into a well-greased pudding

mould, only three parts filling the mould. Cover with a round of greased paper and steam for 2$ hours. Turn out and serve hot with a suitable sauce or custard. Apple Sauce Cake. Tlte ingredients are: Sugar two-thirds cup, apple sauce 1 cup, raisins twothirds cup, pinch salt, butter one-third cup, flour 1 and one-third cups, spices 1 teaspoon, soda two-thirds teaspoon. Method: Cream the butter and sugar, add the apple sauce, then the dry ingredients and raisins. Bake in a slow oven. The spices may include nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves. Ice with white or chocolate icing.