A Book of Mediterranean Food

From La Cuisine à Nice, H. Heyraud PATAFLA (a good recipe for a cocktail party or a picnic) 4 tomatoes, 1 large onion, 2 green p ...

black pepper and salt. Now fill the two halves of the loaf with the mixture, press them together and put the loaf into the refri ...

OIGNONS À LA MONÉGASQUE Choose small pickling onions. Peel them and put them into a little boiling water. When they are half coo ...

are nearly cold drain most of the water away, leaving enough to cover them. Stir some of this water into a teaspoon of cornflour ...

onions, slices of salame sausage, and parsley. SALADE AUX ÉPINARDS Plunge some cleaned spinach into boiling water for 3 minutes. ...

cucumbers. ...

A Few Sweets Ices in Athens * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ‘Somewhere round about half-past six that evening I was take ...

these ices to discover which were the most delicious. Some of the fervour which has given martyrs to science was mine. I underst ...

habit it was to meet here at dusk.... I heard which were the best six ices on the list and of those six I ate four. Then, thinki ...

pistachio nuts, rose-water, sesame seeds, and other Arabian Night ingredients. Very often little bowls of yoghourt are handed ro ...

Mackenzie are still, so far as I know, a speciality of the large cafés in Athens; one does not find them, though, in the small t ...

eaten for its thirst-quenching properties. In the winter there are the succulent dried figs and raisins of Greece and Smyrna; te ...

looking fan-shaped pastries, filled with cream cheese and spices, called sfogliatelle, and their Christmas sweet, pastiera napol ...

produces delicious candied apricots and other fruits confits, and no one who has seen them will forget the gorgeous displays of ...

professional pastrycook or confectioner than to that of the amateur cook. I have tried, therefore, to give recipes for the sweet ...

pomegranates and mash them into a silver bowl. Sprinkle with rose- water, lemon juice, and sugar and serve iced. WATER MELON STU ...

and put on the ice. BAKED BANANAS Peel and split bananas and cut in half. Place in baking dish with butter, brown sugar, orange ...

making of the syrup which is so important. 2 oranges, 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 grapefuit, 2 bananas, 3 fresh figs, 2 slices pineapple, ...

it should be prepared several hours before it is needed. APRICOTINA ½ lb dried apricots, ¼ lb butter, 2 oz sugar, 4 eggs. Soak t ...

you have a smooth thick cream. Leave it to cool. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, and pour the whole mixture into ...