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BETTER BATTERS
Starting from the hard- an extra something thờ knifed worked Yorkshire puckling, most ones never know-and there is of us explore the family tree safely on the kitchen table if by easy stages vin fritters, your courage fails on the down waffles and girdle pancakes, to drop. Continental "crepes" and beig- nets. Most people start with
new flavours this time? pancakes because they feel at home with them, and they cer- A little grated orange rind cook. tainly have their moments. ed in the batter, and marmalade
WHY not branch out with
sance poured over as they go lu The mixture improves with table. Or hot fruit puree, like standing, which is a lift for a gingered apple, or plain plum, busy housewife. She can mix or hot apricot jam, spread and and leave the flour to swell, rolled inside each one. picking up the job to her credit. nt the frying stage.
If you go Continental you add
a tablespoon of brandy, rum, or TO one egg use 4oz. house- liqueur to the batter. These hold flour, mixed with pancakes are often stuffed by a
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LEMON PANCAKES
HE most important thing is to mix the batter a long tline before it is wanted, Some prople even think the pancakes are lighter if the butter is mix- ed the day before. It is worth while making more batter than you liced and Jam-filled pancakra
Serving Ittle next day as hot cake for tes Sitt foz, of our into a bow! with a pinch of salt, break a egg lato a well in the middle, and mix in the flour from the sides, adding pint milk slow- ly. Beat for
tenst ner minutes after the batter is 19 smooth, and then leave for at least two hours. Just before making the pancakes add 14 pint more milk and beat until the top is covered with bubbles.
Finnan Haddock Savouries
THERE is something very Insty about fibron haddock, but have you ever served them in the following ways? All three methods of preparing the Ash are excellent:- Aberdeen Finnants
Have one or two boneless anons. For carb Alunan allow 1 table- spoonful oatment, 1 teaspoonful but- ter, teaspoonful chopped parsley, pepper and salt.
Prepare the fumons in the usual way. Tonst the oatmeal in a pan til it is dry and Just beginning to retour. Adil the other ingredients, mix well. and spread over the Annans, either whole or cut into llets,
Fd into shape, and bake in a well-buttered fireproof dish from 15 to 20 minutes. Done in this way the i Ash is specially tasty served with tomato sauce.
Finnan and Cheese Savoury
Put ozs seraped innan hadduck
Cook three to ozs. uratexi
ne to taste. Stir over a slow heat
Plic on
a frace of cornflour for crisp- spreading of liqueur-flavoured ness, a pinch of salt and half- butter, or served flamber, with pint of milk. Using a wooden hot spirit poured over the dish spoon, make a well in the flour and set alight at the last mo- and drop in the unbeaten egg, ment. Crepes Grand Marnier. gradually stirring with enough prepared in leafy garden set- milk to form a smooth cream. ting, lured crowds of Exhibition After using two-thirds of the visitors in Paris last year, yet milk, work up a steady rhyth- there's nothing to stop us going mic beat with the back of the ahead on that right now. spoon for ten full minutes.
Then there are savoury Such devotion reaps the re- notions. too-folded with # ward of fine pin-point bubbles to sprinkling of gented cheese and raise your pancake standard seasoning afterwards with a beyond description. In other conting of cheese sauce for the words, Madam-you will earn a final grilling or baking. name for them, unless you have cakes envelop grilled sausages, half a pint of mixture. Grease measure of milk, is useful for tablespoonful milit.
Pan- dariole tins, you get 12-14 from pancake mixture, using half into a pan with 1 oz butter and i already scen to that.
creamed fish or vegetables, or them and drop a speck of cook- timbale fritters.
five minutes. Add 2 Finally, add the rest of the milk any minced meats you care to ing fat in each, then set on a gently and pour all into a jug think of, coming to table happily baking sheet in a hot oven until long handles in all shapes and fill the mixture thickens.
You buy iron moulds with cheese, 1 beaten egg, salt and cayen to await requirements.
Half the snag of cooking sauce.
with seasoned gravies or tomato the fat smokes. Pour in the sizes-shells, cups, hearts, dia-toast, garnish with sprit of parsley, batter is a question of starting
batter to reach half to two- monds, fairy rings, etc., for and serve at once You add a pinch of herbs, to thirds full, and bake briskly about half a crown. They are Finnan and Cheese Pufs temperature. Baked or fried, the batter, with hearty season- (Regule 9) for about 15-20 ideal for cold supper fillings of the fat must be lively and hot ing to bring it into line, rolling minutes, when frothy tops will creamed, chicken or so the mixture sizzles when they each cake
Have some scraps of rough puff similar with filling as it is have blown up to show what putty mixtures, or as desserts Pastry. Roll out thinly and cut into meet. Have lard, or whatever cooked.
rounds. Put into il basin 2 OZA, you use in the fry-pan or
they can do. Reduce the heat with frult and cream inside, and scraped finnan and pour over IL baking tin, really smoking to and crisp if they remain un- they are crisp all through-an
Relays of pancakes keep hot slightly (turn to Regulo 7) until can be made in advance.
teaspoonfuls melted butter. Add start cooking and get a prompt covered, while smaller frying other ten minutes or so-and creamy flour mixture is a basic Brush edges of pastry with remainder Beating the egg into the grater cheese, salt and cayenne, and sufficient beaten egg to moisten. rise. As usual-little items pans of 5 to 6 in. in diameter, serve very promptly with hot secret of light batters. make or mar big moments.
Some-of egg, put a spoonful of fun mix- make them sizeably attractive, You know the tip for running Baked batters, on the con-
"lemonised" golden syrup sauce. times we use frothed white of ture on the centre of each, fold over in pancake batter with a twist trary, need wide enough tins to breakfast coffee one morning, cook occasionally goes one bet-and bake in het over fifteen minutes. Again--try these with the egg, but the thrifty Scottish crushed vermicelli or breadcrumbs, and glaze with egg. Sprinkle with of the pan to cover the bottom ensure they are evenly cooked. when spring sunshine tempts ter and misses egg altogether. thinly. With a mere film of fat so which you do not
Serve hot, garnished with parsley. to greet it, you get a succulent small a pan to make central the batter overnight this time. remember a certain Old Betsy As a mystified ten-year-old, I for an early start. You make erepey cake that responds to sogginess.
making delectable snow pan- DEEP fat conting batters cakes one "frozen north" winter are a story to them- near Inverness. She used two
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the toss, lissom and feather The American Popover is ours light. Of course, you do toss by adoption, as it cooks, the
your pancakes? They take on crispest way. Using small selves, but moderately thick tablespoons of very clean un-
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