Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 98, 11 September 1908, Page 4

Household Hints.

Small Omelettes in Batter. —■ Break four eggs into a basin and season to fancy with salt and pepper, or with mace and nutmeg, add one ounce of butter, and two tablespoonsful of cream and water (the Italians never use milk to their omelette). Beat the whole all well together, with a fork or whisk. Have ready in an omelette pan some sweet lard, and when nearly hot, pour into it the omelette. With a knife raise the edges from the pan, that it may be properly done. When the omelette is set, and one side a golden brown, double it over and set before the fire for one minute, and serve at once. Jam may be placed upon it, before folding of liked. Many cooks hold the pan with the omelette in before the fire before folding. It will then rise to a great height.

French Rolls.—Rub an ounce of butter into a pound of flour, and mix with a well beaten egg, a little yeast, and sufficient milk to make the dough moderately stiff. Beat well, but do not knead, let it rise, and bake on tins in moderately hot oven. Stewed Liver and Bacon.—Slice six ounces of fat bacon, put it in a saucepan over the fire, add a sliced onion, and let all cook until lightly browned. Add one pint of water and when it

boils up put in the liver. Let all simmer very gently for nearly an hour. Take out the liver and bacon, put it on a hot dish, and keep it hot while the gravy is thickened with flour and seasoned. Arrange the liver and bacon daintily on a dish with the gravy poured round.

Stale Cake Pudding. A delicious pudding may be made of crumbs of stale cake or even breadcrumbs. Place a layer in the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of raspberry jam-- continue putting in these alternate layers until the dish is nearly full. Then pomover it two eggs beaten in milk, and bake in a moderate oven. This is excellent cold, served with custard.

Pastry requires a sharp, steady oven where it can cook quickly. Careful watching is necessary, and an experienced cook will test the heat of the oven with a piece of paper, or thin sk'ce of bread, before cemmeneing her work.

Boiled Custard Pudding.- - Mix two well beaten eggs with half a pint of milk, and add sugar and nuinvjg to taste. Boil about twenty minutes, pour into a dish, and serve either hot or cold.

Yorkshire Buns.--Rub six ounces of butter into a pound of flour until quite fine and free from lumps, then add half a pound of castor sugar and a little essence of lemon. Mix the above ingredients with the well beaten whites of four eggs, and make into a nice consistency with a little milk. Just before baking stir in two teaspoonsful of baking powder, and put in a moderately hot oven as soon as possible.

Rolls. —Put an ounce of butter into half a pint of milk, together with a piece of German yeast about the size of a walnut, and a little salt. Break the yeast into small pieces and let all gradually warm together until dissolved. Then mix with two pounds of flour, let it rise for an hour, knead it, make into seven rolls and bake. A little saffron boiled in haif a cupful of milk also makes them very good. Baked in a cake about two inches thick they resemble Sally Lunns. Potato Pudding.—Take eight ounces of boiled potatoes and rub them through a sieve, so that they are quite smooth and free from lumps. Mix them with two ounces of butter beaten to a cream, a quarter of a pint of new milk, the rind and juice of a lemon, two well beaten eggs, sugar to taste and a little salt. If liked, a crust of rough pull" paste can be put around the edge of the dish, before baking the pudding.

To Peel onions.—The best way to peel onions is to hold them under a tap of running water. No matter how weak the eyes may be, they will not be hurt if the onions are peeled in this manner.

To Prevent Tin Poisoning.—-Before using a new saucepan always fill it with water, add a lump of soda and some potato peelings, and let all stew some hours. Then wash out thoroughly and all danger of poisoning from the tinned lining will be gone.

: J. Knives should never be allowed to stand in hot water, for unless the blade is'riveted to the handle the heat will cause the blade to loosen and drop off. To mend a knife or steel fork which has come out of the handle fill the hole in the handle with finely powdered resin. Hold the rough end of the knife or fork in the fire until it becomes hot, but not red-hot; insert it in the powdered resin, and hold it in a straight position until it is firmly fixed. Obstinate Tea Stains can be removed as follows: Mix together equal parts of yolk of egg and glycerine, lay this on the stain and allow to dry in. When washed the traces of tea stain should be gone.

To Remove Grease Spots from Carpets. —Mix Fuller's earth and magnesia together in equal proportions (by scraping and pounding). Form this into a paste with hot water and spread on the spots. Next day brush off and, if necessary, repeat the process. Temperance Ginger Wine, made from this recipe is very good: Boil together for rather over thirty minutes six pounds of well crushed loaf sugar, three ounces of ginger, and three gallons of water. At the end of that time stir in the whites of three eggs well beaten, place the whole aside until thoroughly cool, and then cook with five lemons, sliced, from which the pips have been removed. Arid half a small teacupful of yeast, leave it to ferment for about three days, bung it up, and it is ready for use.

Borax and honey is an old fashioned mixture which was formerly in general use in the nursery as a cure for whitemouth, which afflicts milk-fed infants when scrupulous cleanliness is not observed in their feeding The white patches are due to a fungus which thrives on honey, so that the good effects of the borax are practically destroyed by the honey. Instead of mixing borax with honey, it should be mixed with glycerine, a teaspoonful of the former to a dessertspoonful of the latter. About a saltspoonful of the mixture given daily will soon cure the disease, but it is better to prevent white mouth by using perfectly clean bottles, by washing out the infant's mouth after each meal with a clean linen rag dippd in cold water containing a pinch of borax.

An exchange says there is only one way to get a perfect green hedge quickly, and that way is to put the plants at the proper distance apart, and then plait them together horizontally whenever there is sufficient growth to enable this to be done. Instead of clipping the young plants three or four times a year, the whole of the growth of the plants is preserved. There is a constant production of lateral shoots from the bend, which fill up the space from et surface of the ground to the top of the hedge, which becomes so dense that a cat can hardly creep through, and an elephant cannot breach it.

We are in receipt of the September number of "Good Cheer," published in Wanganui. This New Zealand Home Journal, which is all thath its title typifies, is a really creditable production in every way, and we are not surprised that it has become popular. It is certainly good value for half a crown per annum, including a free cut pattern with each issue.