Recipe Corner
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(Ten Shillings paid for each Recipe published.) IF you have no eggs available, try these recipes:—
Maori Kisses
2 tablespoons butter. 4 tablespoons sugar. 1 cup flour.
Pinch salt.
Vanilla essence. 1 dessertspoon cocoa. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 2 tablespoons milk. 1 cup dates. 1 cup walnuts.
Cream butter and sugar, and add other ingredients, including chopped dates and walnuts. Put in small balls on oven tray, and press flat with fork. Bake in moderate oven. When cold stick together with white vanilla icing.
Egoless Chocolate Cake
IV2 cups flour. 1 teacup sugar. 1 tablespoon cocoa. 1 teaspoon baking powder.
Mix these above ingredfents with Vz cup cold milk.
V 2 cup milk.
Vi lb butter. 2 teaspoons golden syrup. 1 teaspoon soda.
Heat these four ingredients in a pot.
Pour the hot mixture into the cold and mix quickly. Put paper in bottom of the tin, and hake in fairly hot oven for 20 minutes. LEAVE IN THE TIN TO COOL, Ice with chocolate icing, and for a special party, fill with mock cream flavoured with peppermint essence.
Mock Cream
3 tablespoons butter. 3 tablespoons sugar. 3 tablespoons milk.
Beat these together until they curdle.
Add flavouring and continue beating until it suddenly goes thick, white, and creamy.
Any left over will keep in refrigerator.
For orange or pineapple cake, use fruit juice instead of milk, and add crushed fruit after the cream is made. This is also excellent for table use with desserts.