Gas cookery

Ingredients. — X lb. Flour, X lb. Sultanas, X lb. Suet, X lb. Castor Sugar, 2 ozs. Candied Peel, 1 teaspoonful of Baking Powder, a little Nutmeg or Grated Lemon Peel, X pint °f Milk, 1 Egg. Method. — Sieve the flour, shred and chop the suet finely. The sultanas must be well picked and cleaned with flour, and the candied peel cut in thin shreds. Mix all the dry ingredients together, then beat up the egg in the milk and thoroughly mix. Bake for half an hour in a greased tin. Note. — That the gas be full on for ten minutes, then reduce it to one-half and put the pudding on grid shelf under the browning shelf, and gradually reduce the gas, turning it out the last five minutes. Tapioca Pudding. Ingredients. — i pint Milk, 2 ozs. Tapioca, 1 oz. Castor Sugar, 1 Egg, ]/2 oz. Butter. Method. — Cook the tapioca in the milk over the gas for a few minutes. Remove from the gas, let it cool slightly and stir in the butter, sugar and egg, well mix, then pour into a buttered pie dish, and bake for about 20 minutes. Treacle Tart. Line a pie dish with short crust. Mix together one gill of golden syrup with two ounces of bread crumbs. Add the grated rind of one lemon, and the juice. Pour this into the pie dish and bake in a slow oven about half an hour. Vanilla Souffle. Ingredients. — 2 ozs. Butter, 1 oz. Flour, 1 gill Milk, the yolks of 3 Eggs and the whites of 4 whipped to a strong froth, 1 oz. Castor Sugar, and a few drops of Essence of Vanilla. Method. — The soufflee mould must be well buttered with 1 oz. of clarified butter, and also a band of buttered paper tied tightly round and about two inches above it. Then make a panada with the butter, flour and milk, and dissolve the sugar in the milk first. Let the mixture cool, and add the yolks of the eggs one at a time and beating each well in. Lastly, add the whipped whites and then the vanilla. Pour this mixture into the mould and steam it gently about an hour. Turn it out carefully and serve with any kind of jam sauce. West Riding Pudding. Ingredients. — The weight of two Eggs in Flour and Sugar, a few drops of Vanilla Essence, 2 tablespoonsful of Jam, 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder. Method. — Butter a small pie dish and put in the layer of jam. Whip the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes, and lastly, stir in the flour, baking powder and flavouring. Put this mixture on the top of the jam and bake about half an hour. Yorkshire Pudding. Ingredients. — X lb* self-rising Flour, 1 Egg, X pint Milk, pinch of Salt. Method. — Pass the flour through a sieve into a basin, add a pinch of salt ; make a well in centre and break an egg into it, add a little of the milk, and mix gradually and smoothly. When half the milk is in, beat it well for ten minutes and then mix in the rest ; let the batter stand for at least half an hour before using. This may be used for pancakes, boiled batter and baked batter puddings. Lemon Jelly. Ingredients. — 6 Lemons, iJ/z pints of Water, 6 ozs. Loaf Sugar, i inch of Cinnamon, 2 y2 ozs. leaf Gelatine, 4 Cloves, 2 Eggs.