Yorksview
Treat yourselves with these old
Yorkshire recipes - submitted by Yorkshire Housewives in 1935 to The Yorkshire
Observer.
New recipes added each month.
Tomato Soup
1lb fresh tomatoes or 1 pint tinned tomato pulp
1 quart of stock
1oz of butter
1 onion
2oz raw lean ham
salt and pepper
2 tablespoonfuls cornflour
Slice the tomatoes and onions into a pan with
the butter and ham;
cover and cook slowly half an hour. Rub through a sieve, adding the stock,
then boil up and season. Mix the cornflour with cold water
pour the soup on to it, return to pan, and boil up.
Toad in the Hole
1/4lb of beef kidney
1/2 lb beef
6 tablespoonfuls of flour
1 pint of milk
1 egg
pinch of salt
Mix the salt with the flour, break the egg in a
basin, do not beat it,
but mix it with the flour. Add the milk very gradually, beat well
and let it stand a little while. Cut up the meat, lay it in a well-greased tin.
Pour the batter over it, and bake 1hour in a moderate oven.
Ilkley Cakes
3oz butter
2oz treacle
1/2 teaspoonful mixed spice
grated lemon rind
2 tablespoonfuls ground ginger
1/4lb of flour
1oz rice flour
1 egg
1 teaspoonful baking powder
2oz brown sugar
little milk
Cream the butter, work in the
sugar by degrees, add the treacle,
spices and a little lemon rind, and mix well together.
Sieve the two kinds of flour and add them alternately with the egg and a little
milk.
Beat the mixture until air bubbles begin to appear, and add the baking powder
and the coconut last.
Half fill greased tins that have been dusted out with flour and sugar
and bake in a moderate oven for 20 mins.
Fruit Punch
1 quart cold water
2 cupfuls sugar
2 cupfuls chopped pineapple
1 cupful orange juice
1/2 cupful lemon juice
Boil water, sugar and pineapple for 20 min.
Add fruit juice; cool and strain.
Dilute with water when required.