Recipe Corner
p. 78 · Read in the full issue
READERS are invited to send in their favourite recipes using Islands in gredients or ingredients readily ob tained in the Islands. Ten shillings will be' paid for each one published.
Occasionally we get a recipe from a male reader—why not, men appreciate cooking more than women—and this one comes from Mr. Seymour Gates Pond, all the way from the Explorers’ Club in New York city. He says that once having sunk your teeth into THIS pie, you’ll be satisfied with no other.
Coconut Pie
Filling: 34 cup sugar. 3 tablespoons cornstarch. 2 cups milk.
Peel of 1 lime cut in one piece. 2 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 coconut grated.
Meringue: 2 egg whites. 2 tablespoons sugar.
Mix sugar and cornstarch. Add milk, ?gg yolks, grated coconut and lime peel.
Cook until mixture thickens. Remove peek Add vanilla and put filling in a previously baked pie-shell.
For the meringue beat egg whites, add sugar and beat till stiff. Cover pie with meringue and bake to light brown.
Baked Bananas
6 firm ripe bananas. 2 tablespoons sugar.
Juice Vs to 1 lemon or lime.
Slice bananas In pie-dish. Sprinkle sugar on top, and squeeze lemon juice over all. Bake in hot oven till brown and crisp on top.
Serves four. —Mrs. L.J.8., Inus, Bougainville.
Mock Whitebait
Grate 2 medium sized white Kaukau (sweet-potato) and, add about a cupful of chopped shallots (some of the green is nice, too), salt.
Beat three eggs and add to potato, shallots and salt. Fry tablespoons-full of the mixture very quickly until brown.
Mrs. R.P., Kavieng, NG.
In May the Bank Line ship Eskbahk lifted a full load of smoke dried copra from New Guinea, for the first time in the Territory’s his tory. Rabaul supplied 4,500 tons of it; Madang 900 tons. From Rabaul over 1,000 tons of coconut oil were also shipped and approximately 600 tons of coconut meal.
U Mr. G. G. Bailes, proprietor of Rabaul Metal Industries, has suc cessfully tendered for land in Malaguna Road and intends to build a large and modern workshop there shortly. He will expand his business to include general roof and pipe plumbing, including copra dryer flue pipes.