Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 2 October 1908, Page 4

Household Hints.

—_— + Kidney Omelet.— Four eggs, the number is optional, two or three kidneys, according to the size of omelet. First prepare the kidneys. Remove the skin and care and cut into dice. Melt half an ounce of butter into a saucepan, saute the kidneys in this until cooked. Sprinkle with pepper, salt and a dessertspoonful of iiour. Stir well in, add half ateaspoonfui of gravy or water, and boil up. A little chopped parsley is also an improvement. Now beat the eggs for the omelet to thoroughly mix them. Melt one ounce of butter in an omelet pan. season the eggs and pour in. Stir with a fork until lightly setting and keep the omelet loose from the pan Now place the kidney mixture in the centre of the omelet and lightly fold over. Serve immediately.

Chocolate Blancmange. —-Take IJoz. corn flour, one pint of milk, one tablespoonful of chocolate powder, or else of cocoa, tablespoonful of sugar, and a few drops of vanilla. Mix the chocolate powder or cocoa, with the cornflour, blend to a smooth paste with cold milk. Boil the rest of the milk and pour on to it. Return to the saucepan and boil for five imnutes, stirring well. Flavour with vanilla and sweeten with sugar. Set in a wet mould until firm.

A Cheap Cake—Boat four ounces of butter to a cream, ami mix with the well beaten yolks of three eggs. Then add six ounces of castor sugar, half a pound of currants, and a little lemon peel, also spice or nutmeg to taste. Beet the whites of three eggs to a froth and add to the mixture, finally stirrring in a pound of flour with which has been mixed a heaping spoonful of baking powder. If the. cake is too stiff add by degrees about a quarter of a pint of milk and mix all thoroughly. Line a tin with greased paper, and bake from an hour and a half to two hours.

To Candy Lemons or Oranges.- -Rub the peel over with salt, cut them in halves, and put them to soak for two or three days, changing the water once then boil the peel until tender, change the water three times. Have ready good syrup made with one pound of sugar to a pint of water; scald the peel in the syrup until it looks clear. Other fruit may be candied in the same man ner, but neither boil nor soak, only put them in hot syrup.

Rice for Curry.--Many people give themselves an unnecessary amount of trouble when boiling rice for curry. They boil it, strain it. pour cold water through it, and even then find that they have to separate the with a fork. A long resident in India tells us that all we need do is to put the rice into a dry saucepan, and pour into it as much boiling water as will completely cover the rice, fit the lid on tightly, and keep the saucepan at the side of

the range, where .the contents cannot boil —only slowly simmer. The rice when done will have absorbed the water, and will be swollen to its fullest extent, without breaking; the flavour, too, is much richer when cooked in this way.

To Clean a Chiffon Blouse.— Well cover the blouse with powdered ammonia, roll it up tightly and leave it for a day or two. Then shake out the blouse, which will then look like new.

Ink Stains on Boards.-I\lay be removed by vinegar or sails of lemon. Another recipe is scour the board with sand, and wet with water in which a few drops of oil of vitriol are mixed. Old Stains on Wall Paper.--Mix some powdered pipe clay and water to the consistency of thick cream, and put a thick layer on the spot. Leave for about twelvle hours and then brush off with a stiff whisk.

Sweet Pickle for Tongues. —This is made with three pounds of coarse salt, half an ounce of saltpetre, six ounces of coarse sugar, one gallon of water. Boil together for half an hour, removing the scum as it rises until the liquid is quite clear, then pour it into an earthern jar or pan. Let it get quite cold, then put in the meat, letting the liquid completely clover it. Allow it to remain for eight to fourteen days, according L to the size of the meat. A

I large tongue generally takes about four ! weeks to pickle properly. Tongues should not bo pickle.fi with other kinds ox meat, but. always alone.

Era-s Esns. To i Ean brass pans, n;h them will) p.-;v..■!•. red 'path brick moistened v; iib vmegsr. -Afterwards wash (hem. and. win n dry. polish with :i little whitim.; 0:1 a leather or soft cloth.

Candle Ends. Should not be wasted. Take a fairly largo cork- one that will fit nicely into the pocket of the candle stick--- place a stout pin or noodle in the centre of it. and on 'lbs fix the candle end. It. may thus be used up' easily. Another plan of economising candle ends is to dissolve their wax in turpentine, and {<' n:-e ii for door polish me;. If is cheaper than bees wax and turpentine, and equally good for this, purpose.

To clean rusty steed, cover it with paraffin, and leave if for twenty four hour?. 'Wipe off the paraffin, and polish, (he steel with powdered emery until it is bright..

A son of Erin went into a druggist's shop and asked for throopenn' worth of laudanum. "What do you want, three" peniv'worfh of laudanum for?" inquired the druggist, suspiciously. "For threepence." replied the Hibernian, simpiv.

Grazed shins, although they appear but trifling accidents, are very serious matters unless they are promptly treated, and may cause the injured one to be obliged to keep to the house for a month or six weeks. As soon as possible after the accident, soak a piece of lint or clean linen rag in a mixture of equal parts 01 water and Goulard water, audi bind it over the injured part. Moisten the linen as it becomes dry. and in a day or two the wound will be nicely healed. Goulard wafer can be purchased at. any chemist, and should ho labelled "poison" and kept with care which all such substances require.