HOUSEHOLD MINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 354, 22 April 1911, Page 6

HOUSEHOLD MINTS.

Which home becomes moat endeared to the hearts of husband and wife—the one ready made, wherein everything needed is at hand and every want can be satisfied by the mere making; it known, or the home which has been built up bit by bit. a little now and a little later on, wherein each piece of furniture represents many loving acts of self-denial and personal sacrifices, and round which lingers the memory of scheming and plotting the getting of it gave rise to, and of the pleasure when it was got? Ask the happy aged couple, to whom prosperity has been the growth of years, what they consider to be the happiest time of their lives, and they will tell you the first few years of married Ife, when, with mutual love and self-denying patience, they built up their little home and watched prosperity gathering around them as the years went by-

Steamed Beef with Bacon.—Take four pounds of lean beef, free from the bone. Cut some narrow strips of bacon, and with a sharp-pointed knife insert them into the beef. Cut two onions into slices, and place in a basin. Rub pepper and salt over the beef, and place it on the onions. Place the bowl in a pan of boiling water, cover it with a plate, have the water halfway up the basin, and steam slowly for three hours to three hours and a half. Serve with a good brown gravy poured round, in which the onions should be mixed.

To make Indian fish cakes, take about half a pound of cold fish, free from skin and bone, and flake it. Add one teacupful of rice, nicely boiled and dried, stir in two ounces of clarified dripping, one desertspoonful of curry powder, a beatei) egg, and if necessary, a little milk. Stir over the fire for a few minutes, and then spread on a dish to get cold. Form into nice cakes, brush over with well-beaten egg, and then with breadcrumbs, and fry a gold colour. Mountain ash jelly is capital for eating with hare., rabbit, or mutton. The berries in many places grow in the hedgerows. Having picked the fruit off the stalks, set it in a pan and cover with water. Put the pan on the fire, and as the contents come to the boil take the fruit, mash it with a wooden spoon, and strain through a jelly bag. Add a pound of sugar to every pint of juice, and boil till it jellies. Set in small pots for use. To make orange cake, beat two ounces of butter and two ounces of lard to a cream; add four ounces of sugar, and the grated rind of one orange; beat together, add four ounces of flour, and mix with two eggs which have been well beaten. Stir in one teaspoonful of baking powder, place in a paper-lined tin, and bake about twenty minutes.

Young carrots a la creme: Boil some young carrots till tender, and then drain them. Melt an ounce of butter in a saucepan. Stir in half an ounce of flour and then one and a half gills of milk or white stock. Stir till cooked, add a little chopppd parsley, and then put in the carrots and serve in a deep fancy dish, ornamented with fried snippets of bread. Cocoanut biscuits are pleasingly made as follows: Mix together four ounces flour and the same cornflour; rub into this three ounces butter, add four ounces castor sugar, three ounces desiccated cocoanut, and a teaspoonful baking powder. Mix with two eggs, roll out, cut into shape with fancy cutter, bake in moderate oven. In making tea rusks, take one pound flour, four ounces butter, two tablespoonfuls castor sugar, two eggs well beaten, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, little salt. Mix all together, add eggs, and mix into a stiff paste with milk, roll out half an inch thick, stamp into small rounds. Bake in hot oven until risen, then cut in half with a sharp knife. Put back in oven, and bake until crisp. Train the children to lie perfectly flat on the mattress. It is the correct position, and their sleep will be more natural, their bodies healthier, and their backs straighter than of their heads were propped up by bolster or pillow; these can be gradually taken away if already in use. The dangers of garter 3 are not generally considered. They should never be worn by children. They check the circulation, and the seeds of varicose veins for later life are thus often laid. Suspenders made of wide elastic can be attached to the stays, and if three buttons be sewn to the lower end any variation in the length of the stockings can be arranged for. When drinking milk, sip slowly. Take four minutes at least to finish a tumblerful, and take only a good teaspoonful at one sip. This is the ideal way in which to drink milk. When milk finds its way into the stomach it is instantly curdled. If you drink a large quantity at once it ia curdled into one big mas?, on only the outside of which the juices of the stomach can work. If you drink it in little sips each hip in curdled up by itself, and the whole glassful finally finds itself in a loose lump, made up of little lumps, through, around, and among' which the stomach's juices may percolate and dissolve the whole speedily and simultaneously. Many people who like milk and know its value as a strength-giver think they cannot use it because it gives them indigestion. Most of them could use ii; freely if they would drink it in the way described.

.Salt on the lingers when cleaning fowls, meat or fish will prevent slipping. Salt thrown on a coal lire when broiling steak will prevent blazing from the dripping fat. Gait in water is the best thing t" clean willow ware and matting. Salt put on ink when freshly spilled on a carpet will help in removing the spot. Salt m the oven tinder baking tins will prevent their scorching on the bottom. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from discoloured teacups.