Part 23 (1/2)

The following is an original recipe for cheese without rennet given me by Mrs Wallace, a well-known pioneer in Food Reform.

Put the strained juice of 3 lemons into a quart of boiling milk, then remove immediately and set aside to cool. Place a wet cheese-cloth in a hair sieve and place in the contents of the saucepan. Let drain, shape by gathering the cloth together, compress and leave for a little. Garnish with parsley.

Eaten with raw tomatoes and oatcakes it is delicious. The whey, if sweetened to taste, forms to those who like it a pleasant, cooling, and health-giving beverage.

Manhu Wheat Yorks.h.i.+re Pudding.

Three tablespoonfuls Manhu Wheat, 2 eggs, a little over half a pint of milk; salt to taste; 1 oz. b.u.t.ter.

Put the wheat in a basin, mix with milk until it forms a nice batter; add a little salt. Beat up the eggs very lightly, and add to the batter. Put the b.u.t.ter in a small baking tin in the oven, and, when hot, pour in the batter.

Bake about 20 minutes in a sharp oven.

Breakfast Savoury.

Allow 1 egg, 1 small tomato, 1/4 oz. b.u.t.ter or vegetable b.u.t.ter, to each person. Scald, peel, and slice tomatoes, and fry till quite cooked in the b.u.t.ter. Add seasoning to taste--salt, pepper, little grated onion, pinch herbs, a little Vegetable Extract or Ketchup--any or all of these--and the eggs, which may either be dropped in or slightly beaten up. Scramble till set, and serve heaped up on hot b.u.t.tered toast. A pleasing variety of flavour is produced by subst.i.tuting walnut b.u.t.ter for the other. The toast might also be spread with a very little ”Marmite.”

MODEL DINNERS FOR A WEEK.

SUNDAY.

Brown Soup. Nut Omelette. Almond Custard with Stewed Fruit.

MONDAY.

Hotch-Potch. Sausage Rolls. Canary Pudding with Appel-Moes.

TUESDAY.

Clear Soup. Savoury Lentil Pie. Lemon Cream.

WEDNESDAY.

Tomato Soup. Scotch Haggis. Cobden Pudding.

THURSDAY.

Mock Hare Soup. Kedgeree. Provost Nuts Pudding.