WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5516, 20 December 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

CHRISTMAS RECIPES. USEFUL HINTS. As Christmas draws near, the question of poultry arises in most homes. Following are some useful directions for stuffing :— For turkeys, sausage forcemeat makes the best seasoning. Ingredients :' 21b sausage meat, 4 level teaspoons freshly made breadcrumbs, i teaspoon mixed herbs, I teaspoon sage, 1 tablespoon salt, i teaspoon pepper, the liver of the turkey finely chopped, stock. Cut the meat into small pieces and pass it two or three times through mincing machine. Add it to the breadcrumbs, herbs, liver, seasoning, and mix well together. Moisten with very little stock and use. For duck, a sage and onion stuffing is made. Ingredients : 2 onions, 8 tablespoons breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon sage, 1 teaspoon butter, little milk. t Parboil the onions, chop finely, and mix dry ingredients, rub in butter, add sufficient milk to bind. Christmas Cake. lib butter, 11b suggar, lib raisins, 21b currants, Jib citron peel, lib lemon peel, 12 eggs, essence lemon. Prepare fruit and sift flour. Beat butter to a cream with the hand, add the sugar slowly and beat till it is light to the feel and pale in colour. Add eggs by degrees, leaving out the whites of three. If the mixture curdles add 2 tablespoons of the flour. Add flour and fruit alternately, then essence of lemon and a pinch of salt. Bake 4 hours in a moderate oven. The icing : Almond paste, ilb sweet almonds, 2 eggs, 41b castor sugar, 1 teaspoon orange flour water (or orange juice). Blanch almonds, and chop very fine. Beat yolks of two eggs and white of one. Put almonds, eggs, and sugar in saucepan. HOUSEHOLT HINTS. Excellent braces for men’s wear can be cut from old motor tubes. See that the rubber has not perished, then cut out with a keen-edged knife. The braces will last for months. If you find it nauseating to take medicinal salts in warm water, take them in cold, or, better still, iced water. If a hot drink is taken shortly afterwards the efficacy of the saline draught will be increased. Woollen stockings past wear may be unravelled and clipped into small pieces, which are as good as kapok for stuffing cushions. Silk stockings similarly treated make good filling for smaller covers.