PEACHIE PUDDINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18023, 19 May 1930, Page 5

PEACHIE PUDDINGS.

(,By Barbara B. Brooks.) Home Economics Department, Kellogg . (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Nearly everyone likes peaches either tinned or fresh. Their flavour blends well with other foods, and they may be used to advantage because they bring colour to otherwise uninteresting looking dishes. There are a number of delicious puddings made from preserved peaches. Peach Batter Pudding —Drain the •halves of tinned peaches. Place a thick layer of fruit in the bottom of a buttered baking dish and pour cottage pudding over it. Bake in a moderate oven (375 to 400 dog. P.) about thirty minutes. Cottage Pudding Batter. —cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, i cup shortening, } cup sugar, i teaspoon salt, 1 egg, i cup milk, \ teaspoon vanilla. Sift the flour with the baking powder. Cream the shortening and add the sugar and salt and the egg, well beaten. Then add the milk and flour alternately, then vanilla. English Peach Pudding. —One tin peach halves, 4 cup sugar, cinnamon toast, 1 cup boiled frosting, using 3 egg whites or 1 cup meringue. Heat the peaches and add the sugar. Arrange squares of cinnamon toast in the bottom and around the sides of a pudding dish. . Pour in the boiling hot peaches, cover the dish so that no steam can escape, and cool gradually. Chill and cover the top with boiled frosting garnished with bits of jelly or with meringue. Peach Tapioca. —One tin peaches, \ cup pow'dered sugar, 1 cup pearl tapioca, boiling water, 4 cup sugar, J teaspoon salt. Drain peaches, sprinkle with pow'dered sugar, and let stand one hour. Soak tapioca one hour in cold water to cover. To peach syrup add enpugh boiling water to make three Cups; heat to boiling point, add, tapioca drained from cold watei\ sugar j and salt; then cook in a double boiler until transparent. Line a mould or pudding dish with peaches cut in quarters, fill with tapioca, and bake in moderate oven thirty minutes; cool slightly, turn on a dish, and serve with whipped cream.