[Editor: This article was included in “A Woman’s Column” (edited by Mary Gilmore), published in The Worker (Sydney, NSW), 2 January 1908.]
Cheese dishes for people in a hurry.
Scotch Rarebit. — Place some thin slices of cheese in a pan or plate where it will melt — say over the kettle or a saucepan. (If the cheese is of poor quality add a little butter). Dust with a sufficient flavoring of mustard and pepper, stirring it well in. Serve very hot on toast. It only takes five minutes or so in the making. If liked a small quantity of porter, wine, or ale may be mixed with the ingredients.
Welsh Rarebit. — Toast and butter some bread. Toast some cheese in slices on a toaster or before the fire. When sufficiently done lay on the bread, and sprinkle with pepper, salt, and a dash of mustard.
Two savories we had as children were — (1) Put into a saucepan half a pint of milk, and break into it some bread, crusts and all; beat as it soaks up the milk, and when just about boiling stir in (to taste) some good crumbled or grated cheese, salt and pepper or Worcester sauce. It was an excellent family dish, as a little cheese went a long way, and all stale bread was used up. Eat with slices of bread and butter. (2) With a sufficiency of pepper, salt, hot milk, or butter, beat up flaked cheese into a saucepan of freshly boiled potatoes. Beat well with a fork to mix and aerate, steam for a few minutes and serve hot.
Lemon Syrup. — Boil 21bs. of white sugar in two pints of water till thoroughly dissolved, and strain into a basin to cool. When cold add one ounce of citric acid and essence of lemon to taste, stir till dissolved. Then bottle for use. About two tablespoonfuls are enough for a glass of water.
Lemonade Powder. — Well mix one part tartaric acid to one of bicarbonate of soda and two of sugar, adding when mixed a little essence of lemon mixed in drop by drop. Use a teaspoonful of the powder to a glass of water.
Ginger Beer Powders. — Thirty parts of bicarbonate of soda in blue papers. Five parts of ginger, with twenty-five tartaric acid and sixty parts [?]powdered sugar, in [?] papers.
Source:
The Worker (Sydney, NSW), 2 January 1908, p. 15
Editor’s notes:
Unfortunately, this article on the Trove website was damaged or poorly scanned; as a result, several words in the last paragraph were indecipherable.
lbs. = pounds; plural of “pound” (a unit of measurement); the abbreviation of “pound” is “lb.” (plural: lbs.), derived from the Latin “libra pondo” (meaning “a pound by weight”), being an ancient Roman unit of measurement (a “libra” was a balance or scales, with which items were weighed)
[Editor: Changed “sause” to “sauce”.]
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