Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 113, 7 December 1908, Page 3

Household Hints.

Eggs with Tomatoes.- -Put two or three tablespoonsful of butter in a frying pan, add a chopped onion, let cook a few minutes, put in a quart of canned tomatoes. When hot add several eggs, well beaten. Pcur boiling water over toasted bread, turn it off quickly, arrange on a platter, and pour over it the egg and tomato mixture. Tomatoes with Rice.--To a teaeupful of cooked rice add three teaeupsful of canned tomatoes, season with a little sugar, salt, pepper, and butter. Put in a baking dish, set in a hot oven until the top is brown.

Rice Pie. Mix together one cup of sweet milk, two beaten egg yolks, half cup of sugar, half cup of boiled rice, and a piece of butter as large as a walnut. Beat thoroughly, put in a double boiler, and cook until the egg is done. Remove from fire, flavour to taste, and pour the mixture into a baked pie-shell and cover with meringue made with the whites of the eggs and a little powdered sugar. Put in the oven a few minutes to brown lightly. When cold drop small lumps of jelly around the top. Cottage Cheese Pie. —To one cup cottage cheese, add one cup sweet cream, one beaten egg, three tablespoons sugar, mixed with one tablespoon flour, a pinch of salt, and cinnamon to taste. Bake in an undercrust. The cottage cheese is made by placing some clabbered milk over the fire and letting it warm through, and then pouring it into a cheesecloth bag, and hanging it up. When the whey has dropped out, mix the cheese smooth with a little sweet cream and salt it to taste.

Orange peel dried and grated makes a very fine yellow powder, that is delicious for flavouring cakes and puddings.

A piece of potato stuck on the point of the knife when peeling onions, will prevent the fumes from making the eyes water. Recent ironmould, "or rust stains, may be removed with cream of tartar. For old stains use a strong solution of oxalic acid.

To whiten rabbit, or fowl, place on the fire a little water, just bring to the boil, take out and plunge into cold water.

Tasmanian Tarts.--Peel six large apples, and take out the cores without cutting them through. Cut six slices of bread, without the crust, the circumference of the apples. Butter a dish well, and dust over it a suspicion of powdered cinnamon ; lay the bread in it, and put an apple on each piece, fill the holds made by the removal of the cores with fresh butter, caster sugar and a few small pieces of preserved ginger. Put the dish into a gentle oven till the apples are thoroughly cooked but not broken. As the butter and sugar melt away, add more; send to the table on the dish they are baked in.

Pancakes. Half a pound of dry flour, three eggs, a saltspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, a tablespoonful of sugar, and enough milk, with a wineglass of old ale, to make into a smooth batter. Grease the pan with a little batter, then pour in a teacupfu! of batter, cook a golden brown colour, then turn and do likewise. Dish at once, but do not put too many on one plate at once.

Tooth Powder.—Mix together equal parts powdered chalk and charcoal, and add a small quantity of Castile soap; these produce a powder which will keep the teeth beautifully white.

In connection with the disturbances at Whale Island in the Bay "of Plenty, there have been different theories advanced. A party of Whakatane residents on Thursday last went for a cruise round the Island. No signs of immediate volcanic action were apparent, but on the Northern side of the Island it was evident that portions of the high cliffs had tumbled into the sea. A good many fissures were also seen and the sea in the vicinity was greatly discoloured. Mr J. A. Pond, of Aucklnd, a former owner of the Island said he would not be surprised to learn that the disturbance had been caused by enormous landslips.