Recipe Corner

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.

Pawpaw Sauce Cake

1 cup diced pawpaw. 1 egg. 1 4 cup butter or margarine.

IVi cups flour.

Vi teaspoon ground ginger. 1 teaspoon lemon juice. 1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon. 1/3 teaspoon grated nutmeg. 1 cup sugar.

IV2 teaspoons baking powder.

Vi teaspoon salt.

Vi cup raisins or sultanas.

Stew pawpaw in a little water until » soft smooth sauce is obtained. Press mixture through a coarse sieve if neces sary. Cream butter or margarine, add sugar and add beaten egg. Sift salt, jaking powder, spices and flour together.

Idd pawpaw sauce and dry ingredients ilternately to the egg mixture. Fold in emon juice and raisins. Pour into greased loaf tih and bake in moderate >ven for 50 to 60 minutes.

Mrs. E.J.L., W. Samoa.

Banana Cake

4 oz butter. 6 oz sugar. 3 eggs. 2 ripe bananas, mashed. 1 level teaspoon soda. 1 level teaspoon baking powder. 8 oz flour. 2 tablespoons boiling milk.

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs beaten), mashed bananas, then soda dis

solved in boiling milk. Lastly add flour and baking powder. Bake in two greased sandwich tins for 20 minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees). Fill with whipped cream and sliced bananas or bake in one tin and ice with lemon icing.

Mrs. R.J.T., Nz.

Guava Jelly

Wipe guavas with damp cloth. Cut them up finely. Barely cover with water and boil thoroughly. Put into jelly bag and leave to strain all night.

Measure juice and allow a cup of sugar to a cup of juice, and for every six cups of juice allow one cup of strained lemon juice. Boil quickly till a little jelly will set in a dish when cool, then bottle.

This jelly will keep for a long time if put in air-tight jars.

Mrs. L.C., Suva.