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

Ingredients : Half a pound of Flour Two ounces of Butter Two ounces of Sugar One ounce of Sultanas One teaspoonful of Baking Powder A little Lemon Rind One Egg Milk. 1. Rub the butter into the flour, pick the stalks off the sultanas, mix all the dry ingredients together. 2. Beat the eggs and add two or three tablespoonfuls of milk. 3. Pour the egg and milk on to the flour, making a stiff mixture. Add a little more milk if necessary. 4. Place in heaps on a greased tin and bake in a hot oven about twenty minutes. N.B. — This quantity should be sufficient for eight or nine buns. AUSTRALIAN KIDNEYS Ingredients : Kidneys Streaky Bacon One Egg Bread Crumbs Toasted Bread Pepper. 1. Skin and cut the kidneys in halves, dust each one with pepper. 2. Trim the bacon. In each rasher wrap half a kidney and fasten with a small skewer. 3. Half an hour before breakfast, brush over with beaten egg and cover lightly with fine bread crumbs. 4. Place in a buttered tin and cook in a hot oven for twenty minutes. 5. Serve on strips of toasted bread. BREAKFAST DISH OF EGGS Ingredients : Eggs Butter Vermicelli Fat for Frying Watercress. 1. Put as many eggs as required into a saucepan of cold water, bring to a boil and cook for eight minutes. Drop into cold water. 2. Remove the shells carefully, dip the eggs into melted butter and then into some crushed vermicelli, 3. Place carefully into boiling fat and fry a golden brown. 4. Drain, arrange on a hot dish, and garnish with thinly-cut and rolled brown bread and butter, and watercress. CHEESE STRAWS Ingredients : Quarter of a pound of Flour Two ounces of Butter One and a half ounces of Parmesan Cheese Yolk of an Egg Salt Cold Water. 1 . Rub the butter into the flour, add the salt and grated cheese. 2. Mix to a stiff paste with the egg and a little cold water. 3. Roll out on a floured board into a strip four inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick. 4. Cut into straws, place on a floured tin and bake in a moderate oven. 5. The straws should be served in bundles tied round with narrow ribbon. CHICKEN MOULDS Ingredients : Batter Cold Chicken Cooked Ham Pepper and Salt Grated Nutmeg Bread Crumbs Bacon Toast. 1. Mince the chicken and ham, mix them together and season with pepper, salt, and nutmeg. 2. Butter some moulds and nearly fill with some rich batter. 3. Put a dessertspoonful of the mince into each mould and cover the top with fine bread crumbs. 4. Cook in a hot oven until the batter is set. 5. Turn out on to a hot dish and between each place a roll of grilled bacon. 6. Serve with a rack of thinly-cut toast, EGGS A LA SUISSE Ingredients : One ounce of fresh Butter Four ounces of Parmesan Cheese. Four Eggs Pepper Cayenne Nutmeg Salt. 1. Spread the bottom of a baking dish with butter. 2. Grate the cheese, and sprinkle half of it into the greased dish. . 3. Break the eggs upon the cheese without disturbing the yolks. 4. Cover with the other half of the cheese, over this scatter tiny pieces of butter. 5. Place the dish in the oven for fifteen minutes, or until the eggs are just set. 6. Hold in front of the fire for a few minutes or brown lightly under the toasting grid of a gas stove. 7. Serve very hot. EGGS ON SAVOURY TOAST