A CUISINE COLLECTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3566, 29 August 1905, Page 4

A CUISINE COLLECTION.

Homo Sngiccttiona Which ShonUFtai it Place in the Housekeeper’* Scrapbook, To use marshmallows for a cake filling, they should be put in the oven for a few moments and stirred, while iu the melting stage, into a simple boiled frosting.

Take tins with an adjustable bottom prevent the old trouble of getting hiyer take out in shapely form. No matter how delicate the cake, by the use of these tins it may be removed without breaking, says the New York Post.

Save the pound cans in which baking' powder comes. They make excel lent molds in which to pack ice cream for serving. The slices possible at the table from such a iiig.i .'e convenient in size anti pretty : n ■ f.ect.

Onion juice improves the flavor of scrambled eggs, 11 uni m is liked at all. While a tablespoon Ita of butter is melting In the chafing dish, add a teaspoonful of onion juice or grated onion. This quantity is sufficient for six eggs.

Beefsteak as a dinner course is delicious served with broiled green peppers. Half a dozen young green peppers should be cut into quarters, and the seeds removed. Broil over a very hot fire until the ropes curt. Put a tiny bit of butter and a dash of salt on each piece, and serve cn the steak. The gelatine added to strained tomatoes to make tomato jelly gives it a flavor that many persons do not like. The tomato juice may be frozen instead, if preferred. It. should be seasoned with lemon juice, cloves and paprika, sweetened very slightly, strained and frozen in molds. A thick mayonnaise is served with this salad. A eooking-teaeher’s directions for boiling vegetables, even onion, cabbage or cauliflower, without filling the house with an unpleasant smell, are to ec ver the vegclables v\ ith boiling salted water atui stand the kettle aside, w.:ere they cannot, boil rapidly again, ut;Ml t under. It is the rt earn. aecord-

it..;- to this authority, that is driven off Ir rapid boiling that eafries away not otdy the odor but the flavor of vegetables.

A delicious chafing dish compound is made with oegs prepared in the Italian way. A cup of milk is heated in the tipper pan of the ehading dish, am! when it is hot half a cupful of builcd chopped spaghetti ami half a cupful of peeled and diced or sliced mushrooms are added, together with a ( (ahlespoonful of butter. Season well ‘ with salt and pepper, cook for two l minutes, ami add four well-beaten ■ ■■res. When the mixture begins to .thicken, add a tabl 'spoonful of ’•chopped parsley, reduce the flame and serve at once. I’enstnitst mid! Optimist. The pessimist is always throwing cold water on the optimistic fire