Housekeeper

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 7

Housekeeper

BATTER PUDDING. &JHKWO spoonfuls of fine flour, the ihw% whites of two eggs, and the yolk {jg&s of one egg, with sufficient milk to moisten- Beat well together, and boil twenty minutes in a batter basin tied in a cloth. Serve with brown sugar and cold batter. A teaspoonful of ground ginger makes a change, and the padding may be eaten with tiie same accompaniments of butter and sugar. FIG PUDDING. Chop six ounces of suet and half ft pound of best figs t add three-quarters of a pound of breadcrumbs and four ounces of moist sugar, Mix first the bread and suet, then the figs and sugar; add a little nutmeg, a well-beaten eg/, and a cup of milk When thoroughly mixed, put it in a buttered basin, tie over, and boil four hours without stopping. . KICH TA.PIOCA PUDDING. Boil a pint of cream and a pint of milk with sugar, a pinch of salt, and the thin yellow rind of a lemon. When boiling, put in half-a-pound of tapioca, and simmer over a slow fire until tender; then add a small piece of butter and five eggs, previously beaten. Mix, and pour into a dish, and bake till brown. If boiled too quickly, the tapioca becomes tough. SEWING-MACHINE. Drop a very little kerosene oil on the bearings of your sewing-machine, and work it rapidly for five minutes. It will then run with delightful ease and smoothness. LETTUCE. Half fill a shallow pan with water, and put the. lettuce, root downward, into it If more than one lettuce, xeep them well apart. Change tbe water frequently. When wanted, drain tbe lettuce, and if for salad, break it, and press in a clean dry cloth. Never Cat it with a knife, but tear it into convenient pieces.. . . KNIFE CLEANEB. If you cannot afford a keif e-cleaner prober, try a piece of old carpet, double it, and between the folds smear brick dust moistened with soap. .'Bub the knife blades up and down till clean, then polish in the same way with powdered and sifted bathbriok. All grease must be removed as a preliminary, by washing the $ cutlery in hot water and soda. Have* tin pot the exact height of the blades or the hot water will loosen the handles.