The Art of Living in Australia - novelonlinefull.com
You’re read light novel The Art of Living in Australia Part 65 online at NovelOnlineFull.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit NovelOnlineFull.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy
* Time--5 Minutes.
Mix the meal and flour together, rub in the b.u.t.ter or lard and the sugar; mix into a dry paste with water, knead till smooth. Roll out very thin, cut into rounds, and bake in rather a slow oven.
LEMON PUDDING
* 1/2 lb. Flour--1d.
* 3 oz. Suet--1d.
* 1 Egg--1d.
* 2 Lemons--1d.
* 2 oz. Sugar *
* 1/2 gill Water--1/2d.
* Total Cost--41/2 d.
* Time--Two Hours.
Sift the flour, chop the suet finely, and mix together. Stir in the sugar and the grated rind of the lemons, beat up the egg, add the juice of one lemon, and mix the pudding into a dough with this, and a little water if required. Dip a cloth in boiling water, tie the pudding in it; plunge into boiling water and boil two hours. Take out of the cloth and turn on to a hot dish, and pour round it the following sauce: Squeeze the juice of the other lemon into a small saucepan, stir in some sugar and a gill of water, and boil up; it is then ready.
BLACK CAP PUDDING
* 1 pint Milk--2d.
* 2 Eggs *
* 1 oz. Currants--2d.
* 1/2 lb. Flour--1d.
* Total Cost--5d.
* Time--One Hour.
Put the eggs into a basin, beat in the flour, and then the milk, pour into a battered basin. Clean the currents and drop them in; steam for one hour, turn out of the basin, sprinkle with sugar, and serve.
ROCK CAKES
* 1/2 lb. Flour *
* 2 oz. Dripping--1d.
* 1/4 lb. Sugar--1d.
* 2 oz. Currants--1d.
* 1 Egg--1d.
* 1 oz. Peel--1d.
* 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder--1/2d.
* Total Cost--51/2 d.
* Time--15 Minutes.
Rub the dripping and flour together, stir in the sugar, currants (well cleaned), the baking powder, and the peel. Beat up the egg and pour it in, and make into a very stiff dough; take up in rough pieces and lay on a greased tin, bake in rather a quick oven for fifteen minutes.
KINGSWOOD PUDDING
* 1/4 lb. Flour--1/2d.
* 1/4 lb. Bread Crumbs--1d.
* 1/4 lb. Raisins--2d.
* 6 oz. Suet--1 1/2d.
* 1/4 lb. Sultanas--2d.
* 1/4 lb. Sugar--1d.
* 2 Apples--1d.
* Total Cost--9d.
* Time--Six Hours.
Mix the flour and bread crumbs together. Any dry pieces of bread will do if put through the sausage machine; shred the suet finely and mix it in with the sugar. Stone the raisins and pull them in half, and clean the sultanas; mix these in. Peel and core the apples; put in the pips, chop the apples finely, and add them. Let it stand for an hour, and then mix it into a paste; the juice from the applies and the sugar will be found sufficient. Press into a basin, tie down tightly, and boil at least six hours. This will be found an excellent pudding if well boiled.
DELHI PUDDING
* 1 pint Milk--2d.
* 1 oz. Almonds--1d.
* 2 oz. Sugar *
