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ONE, TWO, THREE-GO!
creamed
crisp
Fry both bacon and sausages to a snappy crispness to add to stuffed baked potatoės.
Cornish
Teas And
Saffron Buns
Cornish saffron buns are cooling on a wire tray-and from the oven comes a whiff of savory air, telling of the Cornish pasties cooking there. I have made splits, too, and there is thick clotted cream to eat with them.
I learned to make these Cornish dishes one winter when we had a cottage at St. Ives, and I remember Lizzie, who taught me to make pasties, saying, "Feed your friends well, love, and they'll never desert you!" Then she'd take a bite of hot pasty and grin at me. She made her pasties like this:
Cornish Pasties
Make a short crust by rubbing
2 ounces lard and
1 ounce butter into
1⁄2 pound flour
which has
sifted three times with a Pinch of salt and
been
1 teaspoon baking power, Mix to à stiff paste with a little Cold water, using a knife to mix. Divide the paste into two portions and roll each into a circle about a quarter inch thick. Peel and chop
1 large onion
2 medium potatoes
2 carrots
1⁄2 small swede which has
been
boiled for 10 minutes, and cut 1⁄2 pound lean steak into small
pieces. Spread half of each circle of pasty with layers of
onion, carrot, potato, meat, potato, swede, onion, in that order, making the filling slope down from the middle of the pastry
to the edge.
Double
the pastry over the filling and pinch the edges well together. Bake on a greased tin for 30 minutes in a hot oven. These are good either hot or cold, and little individual ones are fine for picnics.
Put
sauce
on
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to make
Peanut butter is kind to baked macaroni,
Saffron Buns
Simmer
1 heaping teaspoon saffron in
TRY IT SOMETIME
Into each life some caviar comes, some lemons are bound to fall.
Caviar is not to be confused with. the necessities of life. Neither åre pearls. Both are rare and therefore to be kept so.
It is like painting the lily to add. riced egg to a caviar canape. Bet- ter save the eggs for a souffle.
Remember that caviar is no meal in itself. Keep your canapes small.
..
An appetizer is an allure to the
1 teacupful of water until the appetite. It isn't meant to appease
water is bright yellow. Leave
this to cool while you rub
14 pound lard into
1 pound bread flour sifted with a Pinch of salt. Add
1/2 pound sultanas,
Currants, and
it.
No matter what the ingredients
of the cocktails are, caviar is sure to make them taste better.
The apple was inade famous by
Chopped peel, equal portions of an episode in the Garden of Eden.
each; and
6 ounces sugar, ór more if yours-
is a sweet tooth. Make a well in the mixture and pour in
1⁄2 yeast cake dissolved in a little warm water. Mix, knead and
It has since lost, no prestige.
Apples wear coats of many colours. But they are always apples.
--
One occasion when Nature was allow to rise in a warm place ahead of the times was when she about an hour. Then mix in evolved the apple. the saffron water; knead and form into buns: Let them rise again and bake in a hot oven about 30 minutes.
Sift:
Cornish Splits
2 teaspoons baking powder with 4 pound flour,
1 large tablespoon sugar, and a Pinch of salt. Rub in
cup butter, and mix to a moist dough with
Man took the pattern and produc- ed the pippin. How the pound sweet came about is another mat- ter.
Next to apple pie, applesauce in a glass saucer makes my heart beat faster.
Applesauce is of two kinds-the puree and the glace. Give me the latter.
Stew quartered apples in a little water and sugar until they're tran- sparent. Then cook down the juice
3/4 cup of milk: Turn on to a to an almost sirup.
floured board and knead light-
ly till free from cracks. Shape Chill it. Incidentally, it's great into round balls the size of a on hot boiled rice. Sauce cold, and large
egg. Place close to-
rice hot. gether in a well-buttered pan, and brush with melted butter.
An apple dumpling is steamed. Bake in a quick over (450 deg. And with maple sugar it rates F.). When they are done pull biographical sketch in the what's them apart and cool on a wire what of the table:
tray. When they are quite
a
cold, split them and spread Peanut butter has more than one with strawberry or raspberry string to its bow. Don't always jam and clotted cream and put think of it between two slices the halves together again.
to make
French toast covered with apple purce and sprinkled with cinnamon starts the day right. And ends it fairly well too.
Caviar
the right way
Caviar is the essence of elegant simplicity. “It asks only the touch of an onion-and the kiss of a lemon..
Little pearl onions may decorate your canapes, but chopped onion, în small amount, should be mixed with the caviar. A little lemon goes long-way, but that little is important.
bread.
au
of
Adding two or three teaspoonfuls to a cream sauce
for macaroni gratin will surprise the macaroni and give you a brand-new thrill. The peanut butter has known about it all along.
A stuffed baked potato slips down as easily as peas off a prize fighter's knife,
But don't pass up crisp bacon and bits of sausage in the stuffing. Mix- ed with the creamy potato, these are as attractive as a cockade on the hat
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parrot escapes, never chase it, or it will be frightened away. Get a walking-stick and hold it in front t of the bird He will soon hop on to it, then you can gently lift the stick to the door of the cage, thus time and labour.
saving