Recipe Corner
pp. 82-84 · Read in the full issue
READERS are invited to send in recipes using Pacific Islands in gredients or ingredients readily ob tainable in the Islands. Ten shillings will be paid for each one used.
Egg-Fruit In Coconut Cream
Peel and slice egg-fruit into a fire proof dish alternately with sliced onion, a sprinkle of salt and some finely chopped green chilli. When the dish is full, pour coconut cream over, add a layer of bread crumbs (if liked) cover and bake slowly in a moderate oven.
Coconut Cream (or Lolo) Grate the flesh of a ripe coconut.
Pour a cupful of very hot water over it and squeeze the mixture well to express all the goodness. Strain the liquid through muslin. As well as with the egg-fruit, this cream can be used with many other vegetables and fish or as a substitute for cream with sweet dishes. —“Marsala.” NSW.
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Pawpaw Upside-Down Cake
2 cups sliced p?.wp?.w. 2 tablespoons lemon juice. 1/3 cup brown sugar.
I I A cups flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 94 cup sugar. 1 egg.
Vi cup milk.
Vi. cup shortening.
Vi teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon butter.
Pour lemon juice over pawpaw and allow to stand 15 minutes. Melt butter and brown sugar carefully in an oven proof flat dish. Place layer of pawpaw on sugar mixture.
Cream shortening, add 94 cup sugar and when beaten add beaten egg.
Sift flour, salt and baking-powder to gether. Add to mixture alternately with milk. Pour batter over the pawpaw.
Bake in moderate oven 50 to 60 minutes.
Serve lemon or lime sauce.
Lemon or Lime Sauce 1 tablespoon butter.
Vi cup sugar.
V-t cup cold water.
I tablespoon arrowroot. 94 cup boiling water. 2% tablespoons lemon or lime juice.
Mix sugar and arrowroot to a smooth paste with cold water. Cook until mixture clears and thickens, stirring all the time. Take off stove and add butter and lemon juice.
Mrs. E. J. L., W. Samoa.
fl A young lawyer from Queensland is now practising in Port Moresby with Mr. Norman White. He is Mr.
Desmond Gordon Sturgess, who was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court on July 3.
II A Malaria Research Officer, Dr.
Laird, and his wife, who are en gaged in the South Pacific Commis
sion’s research scheme for investi gating the conditions under which anopheles mosquitoes will breed, arrived in Honiara, BSI, in early July. From research conducted in various islands of the Pacific, it is hoped to find out why malaria is prevalent in some Pacific islands, while other similar islands are malaria-free.