Housekeeper.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 346, 25 December 1902, Page 2

Housekeeper.

FRESH orange peel thrown into water before it is to be used imparts a pleasant fragrance: and also softens it. Those, who do not like boiled cabbage or who want a new way of staging it, nny try this way: Pull cfi theouter leaves until yon-comb, bo ujo3,e that are crisp and. whita. Pull them off aad serve them with a mayonnaise as you would lettuc;. DELICIOUS COBN BEEAD ' One large cup of c ra meal and one small cup of hour; a half cup of sugar; two eggs, two teaipoonsfuls of baking powder, throe teaspoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonf ul of salt, milk to make a thin batter. Mix like cake and bake in a> biscuit tin. This recipe is sixty years old and is commended by Harper's Bazar. POTATOES A LA DELMpNICO. Hash four medium sized- potatoes;;- put in saucepan, add'a half tablespoonful of butter, half cup of eream. a little salt and pepper'; stir carefully for five minutes. Turn mto a baking dish, sprinkle over two tablespoonfuls of brea 3 crumbs. Put on bits of butter and leave twenty minutes in a hot oven. ~ .. STEWED MUTTON STEAK. * This must be taken from the centre of a jleg of mutton between the fillet and the knuckle, which is always reserved for boiling. Trim the steak, and take away every particle of.fit.. Put it in a saucepah just large enough' to hold it, with about half a pint of good stock, a carrot, an onion, cut in slices, two or three cloves, a small bit of mice, with pepper and salt. Let the cutlet simmer in this (after frying) fur about three-quarters of an hour, then strain off nearly all the stock into a clean stewpan and set it o rer a quick fire so that it may reduce to half its quantity. Then set the cutlet on a hat dish, ponn ever it the reduced gravy, anfl serve at once with any vegetable garnish preferred. f )

She was a housewife who weighed her when they came up &»mthe grocer's, and who fsad~ the fwany gas meter every morning in the week as one of her duties. When a water pipe in the cellar' sprung a leak the other 'day she knew exactly wh&t should be dose in the cas«, and «he went to the plumber and said: < One of our water pipes has burst.' 'Yes'm.' ' It is only a small leak.' , • Juat so, ma'am.' ',„'§ ;• It is handy to get at, and it won't take over half an ounce of solder and ft. ffca-» 1 . minutes' work.' . < - : 'Perhaps not, "ma'am-—perhaps not.' doubtfully replied,the plumber. 'But I'm sure of it, and when your man leaves the shop he won't have anything to return for.' ' Very well, ma'am.' An hour later the plumb jrVworkum appeared, and ho was eieorfced down cellar and shown the leak. 'You simply shut off the water aud solder it up,' said the housewife,- = * Yes'm,'but— —' ' There's no more to ba done. You haven't got to go back to the shop to get a crowbar or shovel or wrench. Just go right to work, and I'll allow quarter of an hour to finish up the job.' He went to work and she went upstairs, but in the course of ten minutes she caught him sneaking out, and exclaimed': •What'B the matter now? ..ifave you found some excuse for going to the shop P' 'No, ma'am—no, ma'am,' he replied, as he came to a halt. «Then what is it P What have you left the job for P' « Well, ma'am, while I haven't gjt to fro to the shop, I fool it my duty to tak<» a little walk and do some thinking-' ' What do you want to think about P' ' I wan't to figure o-it how to make a fifteen minute job last me two hours and a half, so that the boss won't send ma elsewhere to-day T As a reward for his honesty" he waa allowed to take a walk around the block at a slow gait.

HOW TO GET EGGS FOE NOTHING. A curious custom prevails at Davidstow, in Cornwall, on Shrove Tuesday. It is considered quite essential that every household should have pancakes at the mid-day meal, and those who cannot afford to buy eggs set about procuring them in the following manner:—ln bands of more or less tlian a dozen, the children commence perambulating the parish and visiting all the farmhouses in turn. At each door the children shout the following versas at the top of their shrill voices : Tippy, tippy toe. 5; Please give me an e?g 4nd I'll be go. . If you won't .give me that, G.ve me a lump of fat.-. . If you won't fiive me that, Give me as eld hat, •"■lf you won't give me that, '• Give me a horsewhip about my back. When this nonsense has been gabbed long .enough in different keys, and enough discord has been made, out comes the farmer's who seldom' fails' to brin< out an egg each, And something to eat for the child-en. If she has not e eggs to go round, a halfpenny each usually satisfies them. Many poor families get in this way more eggs than they can possibly use for the pancakes, aud they then turn an honest penny by disposing of the rest at a shop or selling them to another farmer's wife to put under a broody he-!. APRtL AS A BIBTH MONTH. Among inventors and innovators April is a favorite month for birthdays. It begins with Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blo.d, and it his Hahnemann with his homcepathy, Gassiot with his water battery, Morse with hia anestbebicai and Lord Lietar with hi? antiseptic dressing, says the ' London Chronicle Two inventors of looms figure on '-the month's list, Brunei and Marconi also appear. In-novators-like Mahomet and Booth jostle Jtogjatber anltheir, Zola and Hobbea (hot John Oliver) with Sir Robert Peel, inaugurator of bobbies and peelers, with Proebel of the kindergarten, Mary Carpenter of the reformatories, and Mary- Woolstonecraft, the pioneer of the new woman.. ■

j :•* QUESTION. i What ia the origin of the saying, ' Going ©ut to see a man ?'——Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C, was the scene of , many lectures and sfao wa of various kind?. , Adjoining it was a restaurant, "ibe name jof the proprietor beitig Aman. One nisjht iin the win®.of 18'J5. Arteraus Ward j lectured ioj the hall* and when he was ' about half through his discourse he sur- " prised his jaudience-with the announcement that they would have to take a recess of nfteea minutes so ai to enab'e him to go across the .street to see a mar. H, P. TracyJ then editor of the ' WasMn - ton Republican,' who was in tin audienc<», pancilied the folio wn; lines and sent them'to tie platform: 'Dear Artemus, if you will place yourself my s?uid« ance I'll take you: to .see [aim n withou. crossing trie street;'- Artemus acoeptel the invitation and while ike audienca awaited hi* ireappearahce be was making the acquaintance of Aman and luxuriating at a i rell known restaurant board Of course, tverjbody,understood nutters, and theref t re it became quite common for men to get no between acts'.to 'go out to see a man.'j * ""]'' .';'' ' 1 ATJBOCITY LANGUAGE. • A new Reading has been given to the term 'free wheel; in Japan. A ccording to the' Kobe Chronicle,' a young gentleman was brought) up at the Ku Saibanstn the i other day charged with stealing a bioyolo. - Asked whjj- he had done the thing, he said he w«V a student of English, and seeing a bjicycle standing idle, near a doorway, aja English friend told him that it was a frao wheel, wherehp n he had taken it outi for a ride, when' a policeman ' interfered rtnd deprived both himself and wheel of their 'Tae English,' as he to'.ijT the judge. \'ia an atrocity language.'i. -, V. • N upkinej is an'' eloquent • fello #. I heard hira 1 .bring down ( bhe hj nae last evening.' \ 01 ■'.'■ ' -\o ■ • How that PV ■-*'■• ' He succeeded, in .pervading the land* ord to reduce the renf.*' ' - - •