Cookery for busy lives and small incomes

Method. — Shred the suet and chop it very finely, put it into a bowl with the flour, add the baking powder and salt ; mix stiffly with cold water. Note. — When much suet is used, baking powder is not required. Baking powder is used to lighten the crust instead of fat. Another Crust for Boiled Puddings If suet is not available, use dripping, fat rendered down, or lard ; rubbing it into the flour until like fine bread crumbs. In other respects follow directions in foregoing recipe. Ten to One — A Cornish Pie Ingredients. — ^Beef, mutton, pork, or any other suitable meat, potatoes, a little chopped parsley or powdered thyme, 2 or 3 onions, pepper and salt. Method. — Peel and slice the onions from the top to the bottom, peel and slice the potatoes. Cut the meat into neat pieces, well season them with pepper and salt, mix them with the onions and potatoes and parsley or thyme. The potatoes should be in the proportion of ten slices to one of meat. Fill a pie dish with the mixture and pour in a cupful of water, cover with a plain crust, and bake gently for two hours. When mushrooms are plentiful, they can be used instead of meat. Kidney and Potato Pie Make like ten to one, using ox-kidney instead of other meat. Sausage Pie Make like ten to one, using sausage instead of meat. Macaroni and Pork Pie Rice and Pork Pie (For these see cheap meat dishes) Cornish Pasties Ingredients. — Equal quantities of meat and potatoes, or half the quantity of meat to potatoes, a quarter the quantity of onions that there are potatoes, pepper and salt, plain pastry. Method. — Peel the onions and potatoes, cut the potatoes into small dice and chop the onion. Cut the meat into small neat pieces. Mix (the ingredients together and season with pepper and salt. Roll out the pastry, lay a large basin on it and cut it into rounds with a sharp knife. Wet the edges of these rounds with water, lay on each a heap of the potatoes and meat, draw the edges together at the top and goffer them with the fingers. Place them on a greased baking-tin, and bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour. A little thyme or parsley is an improvement to the pasties. These pasties may be made with pork or bacon instead of fresh meat ; when these are used, put in a little sage. Star-gazing Pie — A Cornish and Devonshire Dish Ingredients. — Mackerel or herrings, slices of fat bacon, stale bread, a little parsley, pepper and salt. Method. — Open the fish and clean them, and remove the backbone ; season with pepper and salt and roll each one up. Crumble up the bread and put some at the bottom of a pie dish, cover with rolls of fish, sprinkle with parsley and cover with slices of bacon. Put the bread crumbs, fish, and bacon in alternate layers until the dish is full, pour in some stock, which can be made from the fish bones, or a little water, cover with a pie crust, and bake for about one hour and a half. Two or three herrings’ heads are put in the middle of the pie crust before it is baked, hence the name of the dish. In Devonshire clotted cream is often put into the pie. Herring Pie Ingredients. — Herrings, apples, onions, a little bacon, pepper and salt, pastry.