LADIES’ COLUMN

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 675, 14 October 1921, Page 2

LADIES’ COLUMN

(By “Ru-Ru.”‘

Stfeak and African Sauce.

21b steak, 1 onion, 1 iteasyoonful flou)r, 1 desert spoonful of vinegar, 1 desert spoonful tomato sauce, 1 teaspoonful of made mustard, a little pepper and salt, 1 teacupful of stock or water.

Made.—Fry and -grill the steak, place on a hot dish in the oven. Cut the onion in slices and fry in the same pan the steak was fried in, dredge in the flour, then add vinegar, mustard and tomato, seasoning and stock. Stir well and cook for 3 or 4 minutes. Strain it and pour over the steak and serve.

Kidneys a Sa Brochette.

4 sheeps kidneys, 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, 3 table spoonfuls of fine bread-crumbs, 1 teaspeonful of lemon a little very finely-minced onion, salt and pepper to taste. Method.—Wash and skin the kidneys dry them, split them lengthwise, but not. quite through, leaving enough meat and skin to act as a hinge, dip them in melted butter, and put them on a skewer to prevent |them closing up. Grill them for five minutes, turning them several times. Have 4 pieces of buttered toast ready, also 4 pieces of fried bacon, and the stuffing very hot. Dish by putting a slice of bacon on the toast, then a kidney filled with the stuffing on top of it.

Cheap Breakfast or Lunck Dish.

Boil the lower half of a shin of beef till the grisjtle is quite soft, in barely enough water to cover. Cu,t up the meat and gristly parts, while hot. Season with pepper and salt, and, if liked* a little nutmeg. Mix abou|t % pint of stock with it. Put all into" a bowl or basin. Turn out next day and serve cold.

Sea Pie.

21b steak or gravy beef, ilarge onion, 1 carrot, 4 potatoes, 1 pint watei, i4lb suet crust, salt and pepper. Method. —Cu|t meat into pieces, about two inches fry them in a small quantity of dripping, a nice brown. Cut all the vegetables into thin slices, place -them on top of steak, acjcl seasoning, and the pint of water, Make a nice suet crust, roll out in a round to fit the inside of saucepan, put it on top of the vegetables and simmer for three hours . Then lift out the suet crust, place meat, vegetables .and gravy on hot dish, cat the paste into nice pieces, and put them round the edge of the dish.

Cccoanut Pudding,

Half pint milk, %lb desicated cocoa, nut, 2 table spoonfuls cake crumbs, 2 table spoonfuls sug-r, 2oz buter, % pint cream, 6 eggs, essence vanilla (about 2 jteaspoonfuls. Method.—Cook the eocoanut in milk, cream, butter and sugar together, beat yolk of eggs well, and add to butter and sugar. When milk is off the boil stir gradually in the eggs, cream, butter and sugar, cake crumbs and. essence. Then add three whites of eggs, whipped to stiff froth. Put this in a souffle dish, and bake half an hour. Whip the other three whites of eggs stiffly with three table spoonfuls of castor sugar. Spread this meringue on top of pudding and brown lightly and serve. ®

Chocolate Custard.

1 pint milk, 3oz chocolate, flour, Yioz butter, 2oz sugar, 2 egg s, % teaspoonful essence vanilla. Method—. Grate the chocolate, dissolve over fire in a little of the milk. Mix flour and butter |to ,a paste, stir into the saucepan. Boil few minutes, stirring all the time. Take from fire, allow it to cool a little, then add the eggs, well beaten, sugar and vanilla. Pour into a buttered pie dish. Bake in a moderate oven.

Tennis Cake.

Half lb flour, 6oz butter, 6oz sugar, 4oz raisins (stoned and chopped), 2 oz dried cherries (cut small), almonds, (blanched and chopped), 1 or 2oz peel, rind* and piece of half lemon, 4 well-beaten eggs, loz finelysliced angelica, *4 teaspoonful of baking powder, Mode,-—Cream the butter, dredge in flour, add sugar, raisins, almonds, peel and eggs. Beat ten minutes, then add cherries and angelica. Bake about one hour, or longer. When cold cover ail over with almond paste, and ice with lemon water icing (recipe of which was given in a previous issue). y Dough' Nuts.

Six oz flour, 2oz butter, 2oz sugar, 1 egg, Vi teaspoonful baking powder,

some jam and a little milk. Method.—Rub the butter into flour, add sugar and baking powder, beat the egg and add the milk. Make into stiff paste and roll out thin, Cut with a small cutter;, put a little jam in centre, wet the edges, place another round on top. Have a pan of boiling fat and fry them a golden brown. Drain on paper. Sift icing sugar over before serving. If jam is omitted and golden syrup served with them they are equally nice. Spice NuVs.

Three-puarters lb flour %lb treacle, 2oz butter, 2oz brown sugar, % 07 ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful carb. soda, orange peel. Method, —Warm the treacle, add to it the butter (melted),' the sugar, spice, soda and orange peel, minced finely. Pour the mixjture into flour, knead into a dough, roll out and cat with a cutter. Bake on a greased tin in slow oven for ten minutes. Good Sponge Cake. Ten eggs, their weight in sugq/r, w'eight of 6 in flour. Beat whites and yolks separately till very light, then mix them. Add sugar, and beat again for % hour or more. Sift in flour mixing lightly, Bake in greased tin for over an hour. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Soap rubbed on a bee sting will give instant relief. The quickest and best way to freshen salt fish is to soak it in sour milk.

If a lamp wick sticks find will not work easily, pull put a thread at each edge. This will mend matters without any more trouble.

To clean hair-brushes.—Take a table spoonful of ammonia to a quart of water and 1 tea spoonful of borax 1 , Dip the bristles up and down, rinse in w;arm water and dry in the shade.

Washing lamp chimneys is a waste of time. Just hold them over the steam of a boiling kettle, then rub them with a dry newspaper, folded into a wad. Rub with a soft cloth, and they will be all that can be desired.

* REMEMBER!

That a thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

That there is no duty we so much under-rate as the duty of being happy.

That a happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a fivepound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill, and their entrance into a room is as though another candle has been lit', That no one is so blind to his own faults as a man who has the habit of detecting the faults of qthers. That every man leaves on the sands of time,”' —footprints which mark the direction of his life, and either open or keep beaten a path for followers. That the brighest of jail lights is the Light of the world. That we pass this way but once ; then in the short time given to us let us try to brighten the lives of those in sickness or trouble. A kind word or deed gives courage to many a desponding heart, and leaves a beautiful ray of light to form the halo of hope. That to repress a harsh answer, confess a fault—to stop—right or wrong—in the midst of self-defence, in gentle submission, sometimes requires a struggle like death. But> these three efforts are the golden threads with which domestic happiness is woven.

That nothing can give greater pleasure than to make those about us happy