Housekeeper.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 423, 2 June 1904, Page 7

Housekeeper.

DAINTY BUT INEXPENSIVE DISHES.

SUPINE ATPLE CUP.—Pour the juice slCli cff k tin of pineapple, cut the fruit a&t into small pieces, end put into A bowl. Pour oyer a quart of boiling water. When cold, add sugar to taste and the juice, together with two bottles of lemonade.

Lemon Blaßomange.—-Soak an ounce of gelatine in a quart of milk for two hours, add to it a strip of very thin lemon-peel, sugar to sweeten, and twelve blanched almonds chopped very fine. Simmer, all together until the gelatine is dissolved and the milk flavoured. Strain into a wet mould, set aside until firm and cold, turn out, and serve with good custard poured round. Cornflour C*ke.-—Take six ounces of cornflour, three ounces of caßtor-eugar, three ounces of butter, one teaspoonful of baking-powder, two eggs, and one spoonful of milk. Beat the butter to a cream j mix with it the sugar and eggs and milk. Mix cornflour and baking-powder, and add these by degrees, beating the mixture quickly for ten minutes. Bake in a brisk oven.

Baked Shrimps.—Shell a pint of perfectly fresh shrimps, and place them in a pie-dish which has been nioely lined with short crusb. Season with pepper and salt, and add a little melted butter, also cayenne and ketchup to taste. Cover with orust, and bake. Serve very hot.

THE CLOTHES CUPBOABD. The reason why the so-called washable gloves so often prove unsatisfactory is because the process is not properly managed. The gloves should be washed in cold water always, and never in warm, and afterwards they should be stretched on the hands.

Young wives should always dress with simplicity and taste, and, above all, only spend within their income. When they are beautiful this makes them still more beautiful} and when they are ugly it makes them far less so. To Cl.an a Black Silk Dress.—Use a sponge dipped in cold, strong black tea, Hang out in the air when the. silk has been well sponged. Pipeclay, if applied dry, will remove stains on light dresses. It should be allowed to .remain on for a time, and then be shaken oft in the air. THE COOK'S CORNER. For making rich pastry without being expensive mix with milk instead of water. Sandwiches should have all the ornsts removed. These crasts can be made -into delicious bread-puddings. , '. ' Some milk rubbed on oilcloth or linoleum gives it a polish almost equal to beeswax. A few drops of spirits of salts is a good thing to clean drains, sinks, &c. Butter may be tested by smearing a little of it on a clean piece of paper, which should be rolled up and set alight. If the butter is pure the smell is pleasant, otherwise it is deoidadly tallowy. ". To Save your Hands.—The nasty odour arising ■while washing up plates, dishes, or anything that has been used fo* fish, will be entirely prevented if a little vinegar be added to the water they are washed in, and will keep the hands nicer at the same time.