The housewives' book of recipes & hints

Steam potatoes and chop up roughly. Mix whilst hot with the dressing and pile down the centre of a long entree dish. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Boil carrots, cut into rings and put in two _ rows down either side of the potatoes. Wash and cut long stalks off watercress and arrange to form two outer rows. Serve very cold. Dressing. 1 Level Tablespoon Flour 4% Pint Milk and Water A Nut of Margarine + Teaspoon Made Mustard 4 Level Tablespoon 2 Tablespoons Vinegar Soya-bean Flour Chopped Mint or Parsley Salt and Pepper Melt margarine and add Soya-bean flour and flour. Cook for a. minute or two. Add milk and water and boil without stirring. Whisk well and add seasonings and mustard. Take off the heat, whisk in the vinegar and add the chopped mint. Mrs. Harwood. TWO-MINUTE CHUTNEY. For made in a minute chutney, mix into a tablespoonful of plum or gooseberry jam. One teaspoonful of Worcester sauce. Very delicious with cold meat and potatoes baked in their jackets. Mrs. Moorhouse, 28, Granny Lane. GREEN TOMATO CHUTNEY. 4lbs. Green Tomatoes loz. Salt 14lbs. Onions 41b. Sultanas 14Apples tlbs. Sugar, Peppercorns to taste Slice apples, tomatoes and onions, and boil with other ingredients | in 1$ pints vinegar for 4 hours. ANON. | SWEET PUDDINGS. SUET PUDDING. 1 Cupful Bread Crumbs 2 Tablespoons Sugar + Cup Suet or 2 Tablespoons Raisins 2 Tablespoons Flour 1 Tablespoon Jam 4 Teaspoon Carb. Soda Mix with milk or water. Steam 2 hours. Mrs. Wm. Clarkson, Hopton GROUND RICE FILLING. 2ozs. Ground Rice — lsozs. Margarine » Qozs. Sugar ; 1 Egg Pinch of Flour Beat egg and sugar ten minutes, add ground rice and flour, add butter last. Mrs. Clarkson, Hopton Lane ~GRETNA PUDDING. 4 ozs. of Suet 1 Egg 8 ozs. of Sugar 1 Tablespoon of Jam 4 ozs. of Breadcrumbs + Teaspoon of Bic-soda MrrHop—Mix dry ingredients, add jam and beaten egg. Steam 2 to 8 hours. Mrs. J. BARRACLOUGH. AN EASY SWEET. A light but very delicious pudding can be made from slices of bread and margarine, covered with custard and baked. . When you have some to spare, add a few sultanas, or small pieces of dates, figs or prunes. Stale cake can be used in the same way. Mrs. Moorhouse, 28, Granny Lane, APPLE and BLACKBERRY ROLY. | Cooking time 30 minutes. ~ Quantity four helpings Potato Pastry — 40z8. Mashed Cooked Potatoes 40z8. Plain Flour + Teaspoontul of Salt 20z8. Cooking Fat 2, Teaspoonsful Baking Powder Filling — 1b. Cooking Apples +lb. Blackberries, 2oz. Sugar Metuop— Mix flour, baking powder, salt. Rub fat into flour. Add potatoes, preferably cold and rub in lightly. Mix to a very dry dough with cold water, knead well. Roll out into an oblong shape. Peel, core and chop apples, wash blackberries. Spread apples and blackberries on the pastry, sprinkle with sugar and roll up, seal ends of roll, place on a well-greased tin, and bake in a - moderate oven for 30 minutes. Mrs. Lamb, 18, Standard Lane IMITATION SUET PUDDINGS. 8 oz. Self-raising Flour 4 ozs. of Raw Potatoes (peeled) & Teaspoonful of Salt Cold Water to mix Put the flour and salt in a basin. Grate the potatoes, mix them with the flour and add water to form a soft dough. Put at once into a greased basin, put a piece of greased paper over the top, ' and steam fortwo hours. Serve with treaele or jam. This paste may be used for meat or fruit puddings. It is an excellent substitute for ordinary suet crust. A FRIEND. A CREAMY RICE PUDDING. Take one tablespoonful of Rice, cover with water and let swell a little, then add one tablespoonful of -Breakfast Oats, Sugar to taste, fill up with Milk (either dried or fresh), grate a little Suet on top, and cook slowly. Helen Lister, Fern Hill, Battyford COTSWOLD PUDDING. 4 ozs. Self-raising Flour 1 Dried Egg 2 ozs. Suet 1 Tablespoonful of Sugar 1 Tablespoonful Custard Powder Pinch of Salt