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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 8

Recipe Corner

p. 74 · Read in the full issue

T) BADERS are asked to send in recipes using Islands ingredients or ingre dients readily obtainable in the Islands.

Ten shillings will be paid for each one published.

Vegetable Cheese Pie

1 dstspoon fat. 1 small onion finely minced. 1 dstspoon browned flour. 1 teaspoon curry. 1 cup of stock or water.

Salt, pepper to taste.

IVz cups cooked diced vegetables (or tinned mixed veg.). 4 oz. S.R. Flour. 1 tspoon butter or good dripping. 2 oz. grated cheese.

Vi, teaspoon celery salt. % gill milk.

Melt the fat and fry the minced onion j until lightly browned. Add the flour, salt, pepper and curry and cook for 2 minutes. Pour in the stock or water and stir until the sauce boils and thickens.

Add the cooked vegetables and place in a 7-inch sandwich tin. Sift the flour and salt and rub in the butter. Add the cheese and mix to a soft dough with milk.’

Turn onto a floured board and knead lightly. Roll and cover the vegetables in the tin. Glaze with milk, bake in a hot oven from 20 to 30 minutes. —Mrs. MH, Rabaul, NG. ]

Clam-Spaghetti Casserole

1 tablespn. butter. 2 tablespns. onion, finely chopped. 7 ozs. minced clams. */4 teaspn. salt. 1 16-oz. tin spaghetti in tomato sauce. 2 tablespns. grated cheese.

Melt butter in saucepan over low heat.

Add onions and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add minced clams with 2 table spoons clam juice, salt and spaghetti; mix well. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Spoon into casserole, sprinkle with cheese and bake until cheese is lightly browned. —Mrs. LA, W. Samoa.

Quick Fried Rice

1 cup diced tomatoes. 1 cup diced onions or eschallots. 1 cup chopped cabbage, lettuce or beans. 1 cup chopped meat (bully beef or any kind). 7 2 cups boiled rice. 1 egg. 3 small pieces chopped root ginger. 2 tablespoons soya bean sauce.

Fry tomatoes, onions, cabbage, etc., in a little fat till slightly browned. Add meat. Break in egg, and partly cook.

Next add rice, ginger and sauce stirring well. Chopped eschallot tops give a colourful and tasty touch, if added just before serving. (Serves six.) —Mrs. LJB, Rabaul, NG. I