The Sure to Rise Cookery Book: Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints

teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder Rub butter into flour and Edmonds’ Baking Powder, add sugar, beat egg and milk together, and mix all into batter. Place some raisins at bottom of mould or basin, pour batter over, and steam for 1¼ hours. BEEF STEAK PUDDING. ½ lb. bread crumbs ½ lb. flour 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 lb. of steak ½ lb. suet 3 kidneys Seasoning Mix crumbs, flour, suet, salt to taste, and baking powder, with enough cold water to make stiff paste. Roll out and line a basin, leaving a small hole at the bottom of paste. Cut steak up and dredge with flour. Cut kidney small; add pepper and seasoning; cover with a thick layer of paste, and boil about 3 hours. COCOANUT CUSTARD. Put small teacupful of desiccated cocoanut in pie-dish, then make a pint custard of 2 eggs, and pint of milk, with two dessertspoonfuls sugar. Pour over cocoanut, and bake as usual. SUET DUMPLINGS. 1 teacupful flour 2 tablespoonfuls chopped suet Cold water pepper and salt to taste ½ teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 dessertspoonful chopped parsley Mix all the dry ingredients, rubbing suet into the flour, and make all into stiff paste with cold water. Cut and roll into balls, covering the outsides with flour, which prevents breaking. When ready, drop them into the stew, which must be boiling slowly, and cook for half-hour longer. APPLE DUMPLINGS. 3 ozs. flour ½ teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder 3 apples 3 ozs. suet 3 ozs. breadcrumbs ¼ teaspoon salt 3 dessertspoonfuls sugar Prepare the apples, make a paste of flour, suet, breadcrumbs, add baking powder, salt, and water to mix. Place a piece of paste round each apple, put dessertspoonful sugar in each, then cover the top. Put dumplings loose into pan of boiling water, when they come to surface give them ½ hour. ROLLED FRENCH PUDDING. Roll out a nice suet crust as for rolly poly, scatter over some chopped figs, dates, apple or lemon juice, finely chopped candied peel, breadcrumbs, golden syrup, ground ginger, and nutmeg, little pieces of butter here and there, roll