FOOD
Dinner treats
Having friends over for dinner? The following recipes are quick treats which will keep them coming back for more. Just watch out for those waist lines.

POTATO SCONES
1lb Mashed Potatoes
2 teaspoons Salt
1/4 Stick Butter
1 scant cup Flour
Add butter and salt to potatoes, beat well and then add flour. Knead dough lightly on a floured surface, roll out to 1/4" thick and
cut into triangles. Cook on a hot greased gridle till brown both sides.
We have these for breakfast, the same way as you'd have hash-browns
SHEPHERD'S PIE
1 large Onion
2 tablespoons Oil
1lb Cooked Lean Ground Beef
1/2 pint Rich Meat Gravy
1-2 teaspoons Worcester Sauce
1-2 tablespoons Ketchup
Good pinch of Mixed Herbs
Salt/Freshly Ground Black Pepper (to your taste)
Potato Topping
1+1/2lbs. Potatoes
Salt & Pepper
2 tablespoons Butter
4-6 tablespoons cream or milk
1 Small Egg (beaten)
Cream cooked potatoes with butter, cream/milk, and a little of the egg, season. Reserve remaining egg to brush top. Peel and
finely chop onion and fry in oil until tender and golden. Add cooked groud beef, gravy, Worcester Sauce, ketchup and herbs.
Mix well, season. Put into a baking dish and top with creamed potatoes. Decorate with a fork and brush with beaten egg. Bake
in hot oven @ 400 for 20-30 minutes until potatoes are golden brown and crisp.
HADDOCK LYONNAISE
1lb.Haddock Fillet
1 tablespoon Flour
Salt
1/2 level teaspoon Paprika
1 Onion
1lb. Tomatoes
2 tablespoons Marg.
Chopped Parsley
Cut fish into 1" pieces. Mix flour, salt and paprika and toss fish in this mixture. Skin tomatoes, melt marg. and fry onion
gently.Add fish and fry to brown. Add tomatoes and if necessary some water. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Sprinkle
parsley and serve with creamed potatoes or steamed rice.
CHICKEN STOVIES
1+1/2lbs.Boneless Chicken Breast
2lbs.Potatoes
1 Onion
2 tablespoons Butter
Salt & Pepper
Cut chicken into pieces. Peel the potatoes and slice thickly. Skin and slice the onion. Place alternate layers of potato, chicken
and onion in a casserole. Season each layer with salt and pepper and dot the potatoes with butter. Just cover the mixture with
water. Cover and bake @ 350 for an hour.
POTATO & HAM BAKE
1/2 lb.Cooked Ham
3/4 lb.Finely Sliced Onions
1/2 lb.Tomatoes Peeled & Sliced
1 lb.Potatoes
Salt & Pepper
1/4 cup Grated Cheese
1/2 Pint Milk
1 Egg
A Dusting of Nutmeg
Cut potatoes into thin slices and arrange a layer in the bottom of an ovenproof dish. Dice the ham and mix it with the onions
and heap them on top of the potatoes. Cover this with sliced tomatoes - leaving enough to decorate top - and cover with another
layer of potato slices. Beat the egg, add milk, salt and pepper and a dusting of nutmeg and pour over the potatoes. Scatter
grated cheese over the surface. Bake @ 355 for half an hour then reduce heat to 310 for a further hour. Garnish with tomato
before serving.
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