ODDS AND ENDS

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 18

ODDS AND ENDS

When browned breadcrumbs are wanted in a hurry, just bake a lew pieces of stale bread in the oven and then put them through the mincer. Baked apples do luxe! Pare and core required number of apples and fill the centres with favourite jam, I lace on a buttered tin arid brush each one well with beaten white of egg. Cover each with a mixture composed of equal weight of ground almonds, spongecake crumbs, and castor siigar, Bake in fairly hot oven; ready in about twenty minutes. Then watch them disappear ! Prick nutmegs with a pin to see if they are good. '/If they are, the natural oil will immediately spread round the tiny puncture. To avoid the disappointment of seeing a well-beaten white of egg fan down again before it can be used, be sure to add a pinch of cream of tartar when the egg is half-beaten. Finish beating as usual, and the white loam will “stay put” as long as you want it. If a number of eggs have to ho boiled at one time, put them in a Iryingbasket and lower slowly into the boiling water. There is less danger of their cracking this way. It is easier to remove them, and each is boiled exactly the same length of time. Oil cooking stoves are a blessing to those living in the country. The shelf under the oil-burners is not easy to clean with an ordinary brush ; but the feathered wing of a chicken acts splendidly and fits into every corner. Wipe the "wicks away from the centre, not straight round as one docs for lamps.