HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 333, 1 February 1911, Page 6

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

SOME USEFL RECIPES. Boiled Brisket of Beef. Two pounds of brisket of beef, a handful of sah, a carrot, two onions, a few allspice and whole black peppercorns, and half a pin of thick brown gravy. Wipe the meat carefully and place it in a saucepan with the other ingredients, add sufficient water to cover all, and bring to the boil. Cook: very gently for three hours, or even longer if you have time. Take up, wipe off the spices, and pour the thick gravy over. What is left over, should be placed in a cake tin and pressed. Sultan?. Cake. - The success of the cake depends entirely on the quickness with which it is mixed and baked. Have the oven the right heat to pop the cake in directly it is mixed. Take three-quarters of a pound of flour, three ounces of butter, six ounces of sugar, four ounces of sultanas, half a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, grated nutmeg, and carbonate of soda, and half a pint of sour milk. Mix all the ingredients in the usual way, dissolve the soda in the milk, and form all into a light dough. Pour into a greased cake tin, and bake at once.

Lemon Water Custard Powder. — j Take three eggs and separate the I yolks from the whites, beat the | whites to a stiff froth. Cream two j ounces of butter with two ounces of j castor supjar, add the grated rind and ; strained juice of a large lemon, the j yolks of three eggs, one by one, and j lastly beat in six tablespoonsful of cold water, and lightly stir in the ! beaten whites. Pour into a pie-dish j lined with pastry, and bake. Sift j sugar over before serving. j Stewed Apples and Cornflour. —Six ] spoonsful of cornflour, one pint and a quartre of milk, apples, sugar, ; andc loves. Put one pint of milk on to ; heat; meanwhile work the cornflour j into a smooth paste with the extra : milk, add a pinch of salt and sugar to ; taste to the milk as it comes to the . boil. Pour this, when quite boiling, : on to the cornflour, stirring rapidly. 1 Then place in a saucepan and stir ; while the cornflour cooks, for a few : minutes. Have the stewed apples, flavoured with cloves, arranged in a : deep pie-dish, pour the cornflour slowly over, put a few bits of butter ! on the top, and brown in the oven. Boiled Mutton and Pearl Parley. — Take the knuckle end of a shoulder of mutton, two ounces of pearl barley, two or three tomatoes, pepper and salt. Wash the pearl barley in two waters, place it in sufficient water to cover well, add the tomatoes, and bring all to the boil and cook for five i minutes. Let this cool a little, add J the mutton, and bring to i,he boil ; again, then simmer all slowly for two ! hours. Stir constantly and add more ; water if necessary. The other half j of the shoulder should be roasted. i

GENERALITIES. Potato water is excellent for cleansing mud stains from nearly any kind of cloth or garment. Rusty flat irons should be first slightly heated, and then rubbed with a cloth dipped in paraffin anu bath brick. If new boots won't polish, rub them over with a cut lemon and then leave until thoroughly dry. Repeat this remedy once or twice if necessary.

Instead of keeping parsley in water after gathering it, place it in an airtight tin. It can be stored in this way for months. When broiling a fillet steak half a pound in weight, allow seven or ten minutes for cooking. Place on a very hot dish directly it is cooked. Tin articles are best cleaned with soap and whiting, taking care that ail grease is previously removed from the articles.

I Taps of a bath room should be polj ished every day, as the touch of water ; dulls the surface of metal unless j cleaned off quickly, i If you put a little blue in the | water when washing the windows you j will find they brighten much better j than with seda, and it does not dani- ; age the paint. i When cooking onions, set a tin I cup of vinegar on the stove and let it I boil; no disagreeable odour will then j be in the room. If a saucepan be burnt, rub with a I damp cloth dipped in fine ashes, or a damp cloth dipped in coarse salt will : have the same effect. All new brushes and brooms should i before use have a fold of cloth or felt ! nailed round them (with tiny nails) so I that, in sweeping, the furniture will j not be injured. Dark evenings will turn many I thoughts to needlework. Those who ; have occasion to work satin stitch ; should not double the silk or cotton. ! Doubling causes the work to appear ; rough and coarse, because the "lie" jof the two threads is crossed, thereI fore an even stitch cannot be secured, | If a double thickness must be used j then two threads should be drawn ; together from the skein, and threaded ; ; through the eye of the needle. This should only be done in the finer numbers of silk or cotton. ■ Knives wiped with paper before ! washing frees them from grease, and they clean as soon as wasned by rub- ; bing with a cork dipped in very slightly moistened knife powder. Stains are more difficult to remove if ; leff some hours than if cleaned off at : once. The silver is always washed in 1 hot water with soap powder, rinsed in i second lot of water to which a very little soap has been added, and then i dried and polished at once before being j put away. This does away with the usual weekly cleaning, which we i then find is quite unnecessary.

In view of the fact that it has been i decided to abolish the red trousers of | the French soldiers, it is interesting ! to note that one British regiment, the ; famous 11th Hussars, still wears this j coloured article of dress, i