DELICIOUS PARTY SWEET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 2

DELICIOUS PARTY SWEET

ORANGE WAFER GATEAU. Prepare and cook wafers as follows: Cream J cup margarine or butter well, gradually add cup sugar and beat until very light. Add 1 unbeaten egg and beat well. Sift together 1| cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 3 tablespoons cornflour, add the grated rind of 1 orange, and add it alternately to butter mixture with i cup milk and ■.} cup orange juice. Mix well and spread a small quantity on an inverted well greased and floured sandwich tin. Do not spread too near the edge, as the batter will run down the sides during the baking and spoil the look of the wafer. These wafers may be baked on a greased and lightly-floured oven slide and a round tranced out the size of a sandwich tin. Bake in a moderate oven for about 10 minutes or until a golden brown. Turn wafer on to a cooler and continue to cook batter. Join layers with the following: Put 1 cup orange juice in a saucepan with 2 tablespoons lemon juice. | cup sugar, and 1 cup water. Bring to boiling point and add 2 tablespoons cornflour diluted with a little of the juice or water. Stir over gas until thick and quite clear. Remove from gas. beat in 1 egg-yolk, and 1 dessertspoon butter, a little at a time, then allow to cool. Spread a little on top of last layer and sprinkle with chonped walnuts or almonds. The wafers may be filled with ice cream and chopped fruit, which make? a delicious party sweet.