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BETTER BATTERS

Starting from the hard- an extra something the knifed worked Yorkshire pudding, most ones never know--and there is of us explore the family tree safety on the kitchen table if by easy singes via fritters, your courage fails on the down waffles and girdle pancakes, to drop. Continental "crepes" and beig- nets. Most people start with pancakes because they feel at

new flavoure this time? home with them, and they cer. A little grated orange rind cook- tainly have their moments. ed in the batter, and marmalade sance poured over as they go to

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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 at the frying stage,

If you go Continental you add

1 tablespoon of brandy, rum, or

T one egg use 4oz. house- liqueur to the batter. These hold flour, mixed with pancakes are often stuffed by a

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There is safety on the kitchen table if your courage fails on the down drop

August 16, 1939:

LEMON PANCAKES T most important thing Is to mix the batter a long time before it is wanted. Some prople even think the panenkes are lighter if the butter is six- ed the day before. It is worth twhile

making more batter than you need and serving Uttle Jam-Alled

pancakes next day as a hot cake for ten,

Sift 4oz. of flour into a bowl with a pinch of salt, break an eng into a well in the middle, and mix in the flour from the Bidica, adding pint milk slow- ly. Bent for nt teast five minutes

after the batter is smooth, and then teave for at least two hours, Just before. making the pancakes add pint more milk and beat until the top is covered with bubbles.

Finnan Haddock

Savouries

THERE is something very tasty

about a Annan haddock, hul; have you ever served them in the following ways? All three methods | of preparing the fish are excellent:- Aberdeen Finnana

Have one or two boneless finnans. For each Annan allow 1 table- spoonful oatmeal, 1 teaspoonful but- ter, teaspoonful chopped parsley, pepper and salt.

Prepare the finnarts in the usuali way. Toast the oatmeal in a pan ti it is dry and just beginning to colour.) Add the other ingredients, mix well, and spread over the finans, eithert whole of cut into liels.

Fold into shope, and bake in a well-buttered fireproof dish from 15 to 20 minutes. Done in this way the fish is specialty tasty served with tomato sauce.

Flunan and Cheese Savoury

to a pan with 16 oz butter and 1 tablespoonful

a trace of cornflour for crisp spreading of, liqueur-flavoured ness, a pinch of salt and half- butter, or served flambee, 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 grated cheese and raise your pancake standard seasoning afterwards with beyond description. In other coating of cheese sauce for the words, Madam--you will earn a final grilling or baking. Pan- dariole tins, you get 12-14 from pancake mixture, using half

Put 4 ozs scraped finnan haddock, name for them, unless you have cakes envelop grilled sausages, half a pint of mixture. Grease measure of milk, is useful for already seen' to that.

milk. Cook three to ...... creamed fish or vegetables, or them and drop a speck of cook- timbale fritters. Finally, add the rest of the milk any minced meats you care to ing fat in each, then set on a

Ave ininutes. Add 2 oz. grated 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 the mixture thickens.

You buy iron moulds with cheese, 1 beaten egg, salt and cayen- ne to taste. Stir over a slow heat. to await requirements.

Half the snag of cooking sauce.

with seasoned gravies or tomato the fat amokes. Pour in the sizes-shells, cups, hearts, dia- toast, arnish with sprig of parsley, File on

batter is a question of starting You add a pinch of herbs to thirds full, and bake briskly about half a crown.

batter to reach half to two- monds. fairy rings, etc., for and serve at once. temperature. Baked or fried, the batter, with hearty season.

They are Finnan and Cherse Puffs the fat must be lively and hot ing to bring it into line, rolling (Regulo 9 for about 15-20 ideal for cold supper fillings of so the mixture sizzles when they each cake with filling as it is have blown up to show what patty mixtures, or as desserts/stry. Roll out thinly and cut into

minutes, when frothy tops will creamed chicken

Have some scraps of rough puff meet. Have lard, or whatever cooked.

rounds. Pui into A basin 2 OZU. you иве in the fry-pan or

they can do. Reduce the heat with fruit and cream inside, and scraped finnan and pour over it 2 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 80-and creamy flour mixture is a busic Brush edges of pastry with remainder ozs, grater cheese, salt and cayenne, Beating the egg into the and sufficient beaten egg to molsten. rise. AB usual little items pans of 5 to 6 in. in diameter, serve very promptly with hot secret of light batters. Some of egg, put a spoonful of finnan mix make or mar big moments. make them sizeably attractive.

You know the tip for running Baked batters, on the con-

"lemonised" golden syrup sauce: times we use frothed white ofture 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 hot oven fifteen minutes.

Again-try these with the egg, but the thrifty Scottish crushed vermiecht

and glaze with egg. Sprinkle with or breadcrumbs. 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 use too for an early start. You make

Serve hot, garnished with parsley. to greet it, you get a succulent anal a pan to

As a mystified ten-year-old. I crepey cake that responds to sogginess.

make central the batter overnight this time. remember a certain Old Betsy the toss, lissom and feather The American Popover is ours

making delectable snow pan- light. Of course, you do toss by adoption, as it cooks the

DEEP fat coating batters cakes one "frozen north" winter your pancakes? They take on crispest

ure story to them- near Inverness. She used two small selves, but moderately thick tablespoons of very clean un

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HOOSE 4 or 5 vegetables in scà- 'son, such as cauliflowers, carrots, pens, and cabbages, and cut or shred them into small plects.

Mell 2 ozs. of butter in a stewpan and add the prepared vegetables and (2 tablespoonfuls of water to it. Put the lid on the pan and stew gently for three-quarters of an hour.

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