Cookery for busy lives and small incomes

Method. — ^Prepare the herrings as directed for star-gazing pie ; fill a pie dish in the same manner, sprinkling between the herrings chopped apples and onions ; pour in a cupful of water, and cover with a paste crust. Bake for about two hours in moderate oven. Rabbit Pie Ingredients. — 1 rabbit, | lb. of bacon, pork, or sausage meat, 1 onion, pepper and salt to taste, pastry, flour. Method. — Cut the rabbit into neat joints. Put some flour on a flat plate with pepper and salt. Cover well each piece of rabbit with it, place them lightly in a pie dish, with the bacon cut in pieces and the onion chopped ; pour in a cupful of water, cover with the crust, and bake in a moderate oven. Beef Steak Pie Ingredients. — Beef steak, pepper and salt, pastry, flour. Method. — Cut the steak into thin strips, the way of the grain, roll each round a piece of fat, dip them in flour, which is mixed on a plate with pepper and salt, lay them lightly in a pie dish, pour in a cupful of water, cover with a crust, and bake for about two hours. A little ox-kidney in the pie is a great improvement, and a few potatoes sliced make it a more economical dish. Potato and Bacon Pie Ingredients. — 3 lbs. of potatoes, 1 lb., or less of bacon, 4 onions, a little sage, plain pastry. Method. — Peel and slice the potatoes thinly and chop the onions. Put a layer of potatoes in a pie dish, sprinkle over some chopped onion and a little sage, and season with pepper and salt ; lay on some slices of bacon cut in pieces, cover with sliced potatoes and chopped onions and sage ; place on these more bacon, and continue in this way until the dish is full ; pour in some water, cover with a crust, and bake from an hour and a half to two hours. Giblet Pie Ingredients. — 2 or 3 sets of giblets, 1 or 2 onions, a little thyme, a little ham or lean bacon, pepper and salt. Method. — Thoroughly clean and prepare the giblets, then put them into a stewing- jar with the onions sliced, the thyme, bacon, and pepper and salt to taste, cover with water and simmer gently for an hour ; then put the giblets into a pie dish, and when cool cover with a plain crust, and bake for an hour. Sausage Rolls Ingredients. — Sausages, flaky or other crust. Method. — Roll out the pastry and divide it into pieces of equal size, wet round the edge with water, lay a sausage on each piece of pastry and roll it round it. Put them on a slightly greased baking-tin, and bake for about half an hour. , Apple Tart Ingredients. — Apples, cloves, moist sugar, pastry. Method. — Peel, core, and quarter the apples, pile them in a pie dish with sugar to sweeten them, and two or three cloves. If the apples are not very juicy, add a little water. Cover with pastry, and bake for half an hour or longer, according to the kind of apple used and the size of the tart. Fruit Tart Any fruit tart may be made according to the foregoing recipe, substituting other fruit for apples, and leaving out the cloves. Jam Tarts Make like mince pies, using jam instead of mincemeat. Treacle Tart Ingredients. — Pastry, treacle, bread crumbs, or coarse oatmeal. Method. — Line a tart or baking- tin with pastry, trimming it round the sides ; pour treacle over and sprinkle with bread crumbs or coarse oatmeal. Bake until the pastry is cooked. Paste Sandwiches