Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery

sliced onions, chopped parsley, washed and broken lettuce, cucumber and radishes. 3. Simmer until tender. Season with pepper, salt and grated nutmeg and stir in the curry and ketchup. 4. Dredge in a little flour and add the boiled peas. 5. Serve very hot. VEGETABLE MARROW AND EGGS Ingredients : One small Marrow Four or five Eggs A large piece of Toast Two or three ounces of Butter Parmesan Cheese. 1. Cut and toast a piece of bread the size of the dish. 2. Boil a young marrow, cut each half into four pieces and place them on the toast. 3. Beat up four or five eggs and put them into a saucepan with the butter. 4. Season with pepper and salt and stir quickly over a clear fire until the eggs thicken. Do not allow it to boil. 5. Lay the eggs on the marrow, and grate a little cheese over each portion. 6. Serve very hot. VEGETARIAN DISH Ingredients : Half a pint of Kidney Beans Two Carrots Two Turnips One Onion One head of Celery One pint of Milk Half a dozen Mushrooms Pepper and Salt Juice of Lemon Mashed Potatoes. 1. Wash, slice, scald and blanch the vegetables. 2. Place in a stewpan and stew in milk until quite tender. 3. Turn into a pie dish, season with pepper and salt. 4. Skin and blanch the mushrooms, lay them on top of the vegetables and sprinkle a little chopped parsley over, and the juice of a lemon. 5. Place some small pieces of butter on the top and cover with mashed potatoes. Brown in a hot oven, 6. Serve hot with a tureen of melted butter. BEEF STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE Ingredients : One and a half pounds of Beef Skirting Quarter of a pound of Bullock’s Kidney One tablespoonful of Flour One teaspoonful of Salt Half a teaspoonful of Pepper Cold Water Three quarters of a pound of Flaky Pastry. 1. Make the pastry according to the recipe given under that heading ; place it on one side to cool for an hour. 2. Cut the meat into strips and then into thin slices and the kidney into dice-shaped pieces.. 3. Mix the flour, pepper and salt on a plate. 4. Dip each slice of meat into the flour and seasoning, put a piece of kidney and a small piece of fat on the meat, roll up and place in a pie dish. 5. Pour in a gill and a half of cold water. 6. Put a strip of paste round the edge of the dish, cover with a lid of the pastry and make a hole in the top and ornament with leaves. 7. Bake in a hot oven for half an hour, reduce the heat and cook for one and a half hours longer. BEEF STEAK PUDDING Ingredients : Two pounds of Steak Eight ounces of Suet One pound of Flour Two ounces of Kidney One Onion Parsley Pepper and Salt. 1. Chop the suet and add to the flour with a pinch of salt. 2. Mix with sufficient cold water to make a stiff paste, cut off one quarter for the lid.. 3. Roll out on a floured board and line a greased basin with the paste.. 4. Cut the steak into thin slices, dip into the flour, which has been seasoned with pepper and salt. 5. Roll a small piece of kidney in each slice of meat and place in the basin. 6. Sprinkle over the meat a finely chopped onion and a little parsley. 7. Pour in half a teacupful of stock or water. 88. Cover with a lid of suet pastry, and then with a cloth wrung out of cold water. Tie round with a string. 9. Place in boiling water and boil for three hours. BOILED BACON