Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 26 August 1909, Page 3

Household Hints.

APPLE BREAD. Boil a dozen good sized apples that have been carefully cored and peeled, until they are periectly tender. While still warm, mash tbem with double the amount of flour, and add the proper proportion of yeast. The mass should then be thoroughly kneaded without water, as the juice of the apples will make it suffiicently soft. , It should be left to rise for twelve hours, then formed into loaves, and baked when quite light. Apple bread was the invention of a scientific Frenchman, and it has been highly recommended for its wholesomeness. DELCCIOUS VEGETABLE SOUP. Take six or eight good sized potatoes, two medium turnips, one fourth head cabbage, three onions, two carrots, small bunch parsley, a few stalks of celery if liked, and chop all fine for ordinary soup. Boil in just enough salted water to keep from burning. Have ready two quarts of good rich milk heated to boiling; turn this on the boiled vegetables. Add a generous lump of butter, a little pepper and serve piping hot. EMPRESS RICE. Wash a cupful of best rice, and cook it slowly in milk till quite tender and the milk is absorbed; sweeten to taste, and flavour with vanilla. Melt three sheets of gelatine in a little milk, stir it into the rice, pour into a wet mould, and leave till cold. Serve with any kind of stewed fruit. CURRIED RABBIT. Put two ounces of nutter or dripping into a stewpan over the fire, and slice into it an onion, and fry tili the onion is brown but not burnt. Add a dessertspoonful of nice curry powder, and stir well. Then add the rabbit, cut in joint?, and keep stirring adding more butter if necessary, Throw in a little salt and white pepper, and add gradually a teacupful milk; stir all well together over the fire, then set it at the side of the fire to stew gently for an hour or an hour ami a half. If it appears too rich, sk«ni off some of the butter and add more milk. Directly Ihe rabbit i.*: done, lake it up, thicken and flavour the sauce, add a squeeze of lemon juice, and stir while it boils for a few niniutc.-. Then return the rabbit to the pan, and simmer all together for ten minutes. Serve in a border of nicely boiled rice. VEAL IJRAWN. I This is a ta.?ty way of using up the | remains of a knuckle of veal. Cut i the meat into small pieces while it is j still warnt; season well with pepper, salt, sweet herbs, and lemon rind. Add some lean bacon and slices of hard boiled eg#. Arrange in a tin, S |Hiur over a little of the liquor in i which it was boiled. Put some weight on the top. When cold, turn oul ! garnish nicely, and serve. COFFEE BUNS. Try this recipe; . Mix three ounces of butter with three ounces of castor sugar; add a beaten egg, one teaspoonful of coffee essence. Stir the earbor.al" "f -oda into the flour, and beat both into the other ingredients. Heal well togetln r and bake in small buns in a quick ovei. SKWING MACHINE HINTS. Sewing machines :rori!ctime3 refuse to sew thin goods., The b?st remedy is to lay a slip of paper ench side of the seam, slip it under tl.e pressor foot, and sew with steady force. After sewing, the paper can be pulied off. White stuffs with much dressing in them, loaded silks, and wiry woollens are also apt to cause trouble. For the white stuff rub the seams with a little soap; for the silk, use a bit of wax; for the wool, a soaping with wax afterwards. TO WASH CORSETS. After soaking corset for half an hour spread it on a table or any flat surface; take a good stiff scrubbing brush and scrub inside and outside,rinse thoroughly, starch, and when partly dry, iron. TO PREVENT I vONS FROM STICKING. Tack a piece of Bru::st!.T carpet on a ; block of wood about eighteen inches j long and six wide, place tacks on edges, j then coat top with melted paraffin or the **nd of candles melted; when ironing rub iron over this and wipe with cloth, and irons will be smooth and not stick. TO PREVENT POCKETS TEARING. The corners of apron jwekets soon rip, but if a small button, preferably one with four holes, is sewed to each upper corner of the pocket it will prevent ripping. It ii a common fallacy with very many women to imagine that a good complexion is a possession within the reach of only the favoured few upon whom Nature bestowed it at birth, and that those who arc the unhappy possessors of muddy, sallow skins must be content with them for the rest of their lives. This is a great mistake. There is absolutely no reason why, with proper care and attention, every woman should not possess a clear complexon. A bad digestion, lack of sufficient fresh air, and too little exercise, arc responsible for many of the differenct complexions one sees about, and a few simple rules conscientoiusly attended to, will soon work wonders. The Flavour of Salad Dressing is greatly improved by the addition of finely chopped capers or pickles. Salt for Table Purposes will be improed by the addition of a very little arrowroot. This will prevent lumps. Peach Leaves make a delicious flavouring for custards and milk puddings. Use them in summer when possible. Before turning out a Pudding let it stand for three minures to allow the steam to escape. . Stains on Flannels may be remoevd by applying yolk of an egg and glycerins in equal quantities. Leave it for an boor and then wash out