RECIPES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1872, 5 July 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

RECIPES.

Boiled Indian Podding. — One pint of meal, one teaspoonful of salt, one quait of milk ; mix and sweeten. Put it in a strong cloth, leaving room for the pudding to swell ; place in a kettle ol boiling water and allow it to remain three hours. Serve with sweetened cream or swoet sauce. Cured Beef or Tongue. — One peck of coarse salt, eight pounds of white sugar, half a pound of saltpetre ; mix thoroughly, rub well over the meat. Pack in stane jars, and cover each layer of meat with a layer of salt. Keep the meat under the pickle with a plate and stone. This recipe is for 200 pounds of meat. Pickled Onions. — Use small white onions ; peel, then boil in milk and water for five minutes ; lay on a cloth to drain. Heat, but not boil the vinegar in which has been put cloves, pepper and cinnamon. Pat the onions into wide-mouthed jars, pour over the vinegar and cover close. PuFPHTTri. — One pint of sifted flour, in which rub butter the size of an egg, one teaspoonful each of cream tarter and powdered sugar, two eggs well baa ten. When thoroughly mixed add a half pint of milk in which has been dissolved a half teaspoonf ul of soda. Bake immediately. jfoTTON and Maccaroni Browned. — Boiltwo ounces of maecaroni until barely tender ; do not let it break ; drain and put it by to cool. Chop three-quarters of a pound of cold roast or boiled mutton, add one teaspoonful of curry, one and a half of salt, one ounce of butter, a beaten egg and one gill of milk ; mix all together thoroughly. Cut the maecaroni in bits half an inch long, and mix it lightly with the mutton. Butter a pie tin, and form the whole into a smooth, round, or oval mass in the centre ; Bpread half an ounce of butter over it and put it" in the oven ; when well heated, cover it with a beaten egg, seasoned with a small pinch of salt and two of curry ; scatter finely grated bread over the egg, and brown it ; serve on a platter garnished with parsley. This dish may be more highly seasoned if preferred.

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