EVERY-DAY COOKERY

Wairarapa Age, 19 November 1919, Page 2

EVERY-DAY COOKERY

TRIED RECIPES

Spanish Sauce. —Four strips bacon, one chopped onion, half chopped green pepper, third teaspoon pepper, two cups tomatoes, four chopped olives. Cook the bacon and when light brown remove from the pan. add the onion and peppers and cook in the fat until slightly brown. Add the. tomatoes and cook until thick. Mince the bacon, add the pepper and salt if needed, and.tho olives. Serve round the omelet.

Sponge Sandwich. —Well Beat the wh ; .fcfß an*} yokes of four eggs separately, having added a pinch of salt to the whit© and a cupful of sugar yolks,; mix together and stir lu 1 ""* good three-quarters cup of flour, to which has been added half teaspoonful carbonate of soda, and one small teaspoonful of cream o! tartar. Melt - a dessertspoonful of butter to oil and pour in after the foregoing ingredients have been thoroughly mixed. Bake in sandwich tins in a quick ovon.

Jewish Cake.—Take three , eggs, orie cup of flour, (three-quarters cun sugar, quarter-pound butter, halfoacket spice, one tablespooriful water. half teaspoonful cream of tartar, quarter {easnoonful carbonate soda. Heat the eggs and sugar together, tnen add melted, butter, water, flour, ~re»m" of tartar, soda, and spico. Bake in a moderate oven for ; cen minutes, in two sandwich tins. To make tho vanilla" filling take one tablespoonful melted butter, half-cur icing sugar/ and onei tablespoonful of vanilla.

Oarrot Broth. —Scrape and cut three or four large" carrots in eighths and boil until tender. Heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil in i spider and add ono tablespoon a time, one "cup of fine oatn:<?al. Sti? until the oil is absorbed by the oatmeal. Add one cup of carrot stock, and cook for ten mimvtes. Continue until ope quart of stock has been used, Erring conntantly. Cover and cook until the oatmeal is thoroughly done. Seapon with salt, pepper and nutmeg. This is an excellent dish for tbe fireless. The carrots may be serveu as a vegetable at another meal.

Old-Fashioned Hermits.—Ono and a half cupfuls of brown sugar, half a cupful of treacle, half a cupful of sour milk, into which one level teaspoonful of baking soda has been mixed, half a cupful of butter or beef cjrioplng, two eggs, three cupfuls of flour, otte cilpful of chopped raisins, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teasooonful of ground cloves, and a little nutmeg. Flqur tho "raisffis" well and stir them in last. Mix to a stiff dough and bake In a good oven. The above mixture makes a good rock-cake recipe. Drop £ho mixture in dessertspoonfuls on to a greased slide, an'd bake for ten minutes fET a not too hot oven.

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