FoodNet

Australian sunshine cookery book for every housewife

1920

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Presented as published in 1920. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Get a nice full pig’s cheek and wash it thoroughly. Put on in warm water, bring slowly to the boil, and simmer for about 2 hours, when the meat should leave the bones easily. Cook the tongues in the same manner, but they will require from 3 to 4 hours. They will skin easily when they are done. Take all the meat from the bones of the cheek, split the skinned tongues down the middle, and arrange alternately in a basin. Put a weight on top, and turn out when thoroughly cold and firm. If the cheek is well washed before cooking, there will be no need to skin it, but if preferred, the skin could be taken off before cutting up the meat. Birds’ Nests. Hard boil 4 doz. eggs. Shell them carefully, and cover with a good coating of mincemeat. 1 lb. will be sufficient for this quantity.Birds’ Nests Keep the oval shape. Roll in dried bread- crumbs and fry a nice brown, slowly, to cook the meat. When cold, cut across with a sharp knife, and arrange each little “nest” in a bed of lettuce. Some chopped up beetroot or tomato sprinkled on the lettuce would add to the appearance. Rabbit en Casserole. Grease the casserole with a little butter, and sprinkle with breadcrumbs and chopped parsley. Line it with two or three strips of bacon. Wash the rabbit well, and cut into neat joints. Lay these in the casserole, sprinkling breadcrumbs, chopped parsley, a little thyme, and a little chopped bacon among them. Cover with milk—about 1 pint—Rabbit en Casseroleand make the top a good layer of breadcrumbs. Put in oven and cook slowly for about 2 hours. During the last quarter of an hour remove the lid, and allow it to brown. This could be made with water instead of milk, and if no casserole is available, use a pie dish with another one turned upside down on top of it. Mayonnaise. 1 teaspoon flour. 1 egg. 1$ teaspoons mustard. 4 cup milk. 3 teaspoon salt. 4 cup vinegar. 1 teaspoon butter.Mayonnaise Mix dry ingredients with milk and egg, and stir over the fire till thick and smooth, but not curdled. When cold, add vinegar, gradually stirring well. Will keep a very long time. “SUNSHINE” BISCUITS: 100 varieties to choose from. (7) BREAKFAST DISHES How to Prepare Fruits Before Cooking. As all raisins are cleaned, graded and packed or cartoned by skilled operatives and the most modern machinery, they re- quire little or no preparation in the kitchen before being used. When your grocer has fulfilled your order, store fruit in covered jars or tins, and prepare as required. Raisin Bread. 4 lb. flour. 2 lb. seeded raisins. 1 oz. salt. 1 pint milk (warm). 2 oz. sugar. 1 pint water (warm). 14 oz. compressed yeast. 2 oz. lard or butter.Raisin Bread Sift and warm flour, make hole in middle, crumble yeast, sprinkle 4 teaspoon sugar, add 2 tablespoons warm water, and make batter by drawing in a little of the flour. Cover and stand in warm place 15 minutes. Sprinkle raisins and sugar over flour, add lard or butter, and warm water and mix into soft dough, turn on to pasteboard, knead well, put back into basin, cover and stand till it doubles in size. Mould into loaves, and set to rise again in a warm place. Bake in hot oven (450 deg.) about 1 hour, according to size of loaf. When cooked. glaze with sugar and water syrup. Raisin Omelet (Sweet). 2 eggs. 4 cup water. 1 dessertspoon sugar. + cup raisins. 1 oz. butter.Raisin Omelet (Sweet) Put raisins and water into saucepan and cook for 10 minutes. Separate yolks from whites of eggs and beat each separately. Get a hot plate ready—melt butter in pan. Mix yolks, whites and sugar lightly together and pour all into pan. Stir until mixture begins to set. When lightly browned underneath, brown top by placing pan under gas griller or in oven for a minute. Slip on to a hot dish, spread raisins on half the ome- let; and fold the other half over. Sprinkle with castor sugar and serve at once. Omelet (Savoury). 2 eggs. 2 tablespoons ground ham. 1 oz. butter. 1 dessertspoon mustard pickles. Omelet (Savoury)