ECONOMICAL RECIPES.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17410, 24 May 1928, Page 9

ECONOMICAL RECIPES.

Cake. —Separate the while from the yolk, and whisk it up with a knife till it is stiff. Cream i tablespoonful butter with three of sugar. Add egg while, 1 tablespoonful of milk, 1 small cup of self-raising flour, 1 teaspoonful of cornflour. Bake in two small sandwich tins, and colour the tilling and icing brightly with cochineal for Peacli Blossom cake. Pudding. —Whip up the yolk in four teaspoonfuls of cold water. Cream one tablespoonful butter with three of sugar; add one cup of selfraising (lour, one tablespoonful of marmalade jam. Steam one hour for Canary pudding. Savoury Meat Pudding.—ingredients: Mb suet pastry, i}lb beef skirl or steak, 2oz sliced onion, 2oz sliced carrot, ,‘loz sliced potato', season lo lastc, V pint of stock or water, ioz dripping, and 2 teaspoonfuls Hour. Melt Ihe dripping in a saucepan, add the flour and onion, and fry them a good brown. Add the stock and stir till boiling. Season carefully. Grease a pudding basin, and line it in the visual way with the suet pastry, put in layers of beef, cut in thin slices and rolled up, carrot, and potato. Three-parts till the basin with the gravy. 801 l out and lit on the lid of pastry. Trim the edges, and cover the pudding with a clean cloth, tying it over securely. Boil steadily for two hours and a half. Serve in the basin with a table-napkin around it. Baby Cucumber Pickles.— Those sweet pickles make a delightful appetiser as an accompaniment to a sandwich. Wash one peck of freshly picked cucumbers in cold water, pack in a three-gallon stone jar to within a few inches of the top, I hen cover with one cupful of ground horseradish. Heat to llie boiling point, hut do not boil, one gallon of vinegar, three cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful of ground mustard, one cupful of salt, one cupful of pickling spices, and one teaspoouful of alum. Poor over Hie cucumbers and cover with a layer of fresh grape leaves and a weighted plate. They will he ready for use in several days. If packed in small attractive containers, these pickles make welcome little gifts to one’s friends.