Household Hints

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 226, 19 January 1910, Page 3

Household Hints

FRIED STUFFED EGGS

Fried stuffed make a delicious luncheon dish. Boil the eggs for twelve minutes, and then drop them into cold water, and remove the shells without breaking the whites. Cut the eggs in two through the middle, take out the yolks, and mix them with minced ham and chicken, or any savoury meat on hand. Season to taste, add with salt and pepper the uncooked yolk of an egg, a few bread crumbs, and a little butter. Minced parsley and a soupcon of onion juice add to their flavour. Then put the eggs together again, pressing the sides tight; they should not be filled so full as to prevent this, and roll the eggs first in the white of egg and then in bread crumbs, repeating the process if the surface is not well covered. Fry in a basket in deep fat, and serve with tomato sauce and celery or parsley as a garnish. PROTECTION FOR SEWING MACHINE. When the sewing machine casters are of metal they will make a mark on matting and sometimes on hardwood floors, but this may easily be obviated by making small bags of canton flannel, a dark colour is less noticeable, which can be sewed over the casters, leaving room enough for them to roll easily, and still protect the matting from the usual unsightly marks. The bags should be neatly made and caught firmly to the legs of the machine. POT ROAST. Most any kind of beef, chicken, prairie chicken, pigeons, may be cooked in this way: Slice an onion, a few slices of pork, and put in the bottom of a kettle. Place on top what meat is to be cooked; add just water to stew it. Be careful not to use too much water; keep turning the meat and let it stew or roast slowly till brown and tender; then take out the meat; strain and thicken the gravy. USE FOR DRY CHEESE. When cheese is too dry to serve with apple pie, grate the cheese and spread a layer over the pie when it is still warm (not hot), as that melts the cheese and makes it tough.

HINTS ON PREPARING ICES. Flavour and sweeten rather strongly, for the process of freezing lessens the taste; use only those syrups and colourings that can be positively relied on for purity and strength. When following out a given recipe be very exact in weighing or measuring quantities of sugar, cream an 3 flavouring. When turning out ices from a mould, dip the mould in cold water. When not in use, keep the freezer quite dry and sweet.

WASHING THE HANDS,

It has recently been cl.aimed that cases of infection that could be accounted for in no other way have been explained by the fingers as a vehicle. In handling money, especially of paper, door knobs, banisters, car straps, and a hundred things that everyone must frequently touch, there are chances innumerable of picking up germs of typhoid, scarlatina, diphtheria, smallpox, etc. Yet some persons actually put such things in their mouth, if not too large. B=fore eating, or touching that which is eaten, the hands should be scrupulously washed. We hear much about general cleanliness as "next to godliness." It may be added that here in partciular it is also ahead of health and safety.

A MOSQUITO TRAP. All those whose lot unfortunately casts them in regions where the mosquito thrives fully realise the ravages of the pest, and the discomfort experienced from their attacks--not taking into consideration any maladies, such as malaria, which they disseminate—if proper precautionary methods are not practised. A simple and inexpensive little' trap which Mr Maxwell Lefroy, of the Indian Entomological Department, has devised and found highly effective is a distinct acquisition to every tropical residence. It is a small bojc some twelve inches square and nine inches wide, fitted with a hinged lid provided with a small orifice, over which moves a sliding cover. The box is lined with dark-green baise, and has a tin floor. The trap is placed in a shady corner of the room, and the mosquitos upon entering the house in the morning seclude themselves therein to escape the sunlight. When the insects have duly settled, the lid is shut, and about teaspoonful of benzine ejected into the box. Within a short time the flies succumb, Mr Lefroy continued this"l)rocsss daily until the mosquitos ceased to be troublesome, and within 81 days he caught and killed over 2800 of these inseets.