Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes

OLIVES.— See Beef Olives. ONIONS A LA CREME. Ingredients. 6 or S nice White Spanish Onions. J pint of Cream. I tablespoonful of Fine Flour or Maizena. 2 oz. of Butter. Boil the onions in two or three waters till nice and soft, and also to take off the strong taste ; drain them, and lay them in a warmed vegetable dish. Have ready a sauce made of the flour, cream, and butter, as follows : Rub the flour and butter well together, then add a few spoonfuls of boiling water. Stir nice and smooth till quite mixed, then add the cream or milk, and keep stirring till nearly boiling. Pour this sauce over the onions, and serve hot. Time, two hours. ORANGE PRESERVE.— See "Naartje Comfyt." [illustration: O] OYSTERS (SCALLOPED). OYSTERS (SCALLOPED) Ingredients. • dot Oysters. a or. of Fresh BuUtf. A tea-cup of Grated Bread-crumbs. Pepper, Salt. A little Lemon Juice. Butter some tin scallop-shells, or, if you have not any, a small pie-dish. Strew a layer of crumbs, then some thin slices of butter, then oysters enough to fill up tin or dish. Cover with bread-crumbs and slices of butter, add pepper, salt, and lemon, and some of the liquor kept from the oysters. Put butter over the whole surface, and bake in a quick oven. Brown in the oven. Serve in dish or shells in which it has been cooked. Time, quarter of an hour. OVENS {IMPROVISED). For travellers camping out in South Africa, Nature has provided wonderfully good ovens in the ant-heaps, which are plentiful in this country. Supposing that there was little or no shelter, and, as would be quite natural, great difficulty in lighting fire where wood is scarce, the traveller should halt in the vicinity of an antheap. He should make a hole at the side and go on scooping it out until there is a good-sized cavity ; then make a hole at the top just large enough to fit a saucepan or kettle on. After collecting some dry grass, set it alight, and place it in the cavity. The inner walls of the antheap being mostly composed of fine dry grass, it will soon ignite, and in a very short time the pot or kettle will be boiling. If he wishes to bake a loaf the oven would be found sufficiently hot, the hole at the top having heen filled up with clay, which can be obtained by mixing the stuff taken from the ant-heap with water. If the traveller be halting in a wooded part, an oven may be improvised by scooping a hole in a bank or ravine and heating it with wood. For an improvised stove, travellers should provide IS6 OVENS (IMPROVISED). [O themselves with an empty oil-drum — one that would contain six gallons of oil — the top to be cut out, and at about four inches from the bottom, two holes, four inches square, to be made on opposite sides. Lay some wood in the drum, and light the fire, then place the saucepan on the top. This would be found useful in either windy or rainy weather, and has been used by fishermen in open boats at sea. In travelling the oil-drum will form an excellent stowaway for small articles. "PAARL LEMOEN"—See p. 164. PANCAKES. (Mrs. Brink. An old Recipe.) Ingredients. 6 Eges. A little Salt. \lb. of Flour. 2 tablespoonfuls Melted Butter. X tea-cup of Warm Water. i quart of Milk.