HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

HOT WEATHER DRINKS. DR. PEREIRA'S RECIPE FOR GINGER BEER. White sugar, live pounds; lemon juice, a quarter of a pint; honey, -i quarter of a pound; bruised ginger, five ounces; water, four gallons and :i half. "Boil the ginger in three quarts of water for half an hour; then add the sugar, lemon juice and honey, also the remainder of the water, and" strain through a cloth. When cold, add the white of an egg, and a small tablespoonful of essence of lemon. Let the whole stand for four days, then bottle. The beer will keep many months. This quantity will mako a hundred bottles. As yeast is not used, the beer requires to be-kept some time before being opened. The honey gives a peculiar softness to the liquid.

Put the thinly peeled rind of four lemons into a large earthen pan, also the strained juice of the lemons, two ounces of root ginger, well bruised, two and a half pounds of loaf sugar, and half an ounce of cream of tartar. Pour over these ingredients two and a half gallons of boiling water, and when just, lukewarm add two talbespoonfuls of fresh brewer's yeast. Stir the fluid, and leave it to ferment until the next day. Then skim the yeast from the top, pour the beer carefully from the sediment, and bottle for use. The corks should be perfectly sound; put them into boiling water before use, and then securely wire down. In two days, this beer is ready for use.

For this beer allow one pound of loaf sugar, one ounce of root ginger, and half a lemon to each gallon of water (if lemons are scarce, use a tablespoonfill of citric acid and a small teaspoonfnl of essence of lemon). Slice the lemons, pour boiling water over all the ingredients named, and leave, the liquid to colo a little; then add enough yeast to make it work well, say about one tables poonful of yeast to each two gallons of beer. Leave to stand for twelve hours at least; after which, the beer should be bottled and wired down.

Boil two pounds of loaf sugar in pint of lemon juice until the sugar is dissolved. Pour out the syrup, and wiien it is cold put it into bottles, and cork them. When wanted for use, put a tablespoonful of the syrup into a tumbler three-parts full of cold water. Stir in twenty grains of carbonate of soda, am! drink during efFervescence.

When making summer In- p-.. • only half an nance of Harle instead f oil" ounce, as in th ■ ■ recipe:--One ounce of Robinson's p ><e. lev, one quart of boiling * at. juice of half a lemon, and taste. As a thirst-quenchej i! should bo thinner than it woulu be :f an ounce of barley were used. ANOTHER RECIPE FOR BARLEY

To a quart of water add a teacupfnl of well-washed pearl barley; bring it gently to the boil: skim it carefullv until no more scum rises, and continue simmering for half an hour. Then may bo drunk as it is; or, again it. may lie drunk as it is; or, again, :t may be sweetened to taste and flavoured with any syrup liked, or acidulated with strained lemon juice. A spoonful of currant or any other fruit jelly stirred into a glass of barley water is another way of varying the flavour. Hot water poured on a spoonful of black currant jam makes it pleatant to drink.

Mix together one beaten egg, one cupful sugar, half cupful nnlk. J cupful butter, 1 tenspoonful cream, of tartar, I teaspoonful baking soda, and enough flour to for ma stiff dough. Mix well, and drop on buttered tine, sprinkle caster sugar over. Bake in a quick oven. OATMEALAPi:. This drink i> not only an agreeable Ihiiv>t -quencher, hut like barley water, it n nourishing. Four ImiTng water over a 11 an«1 (11' of oatmeal, and when cold strain from the sediment, sweeten to taste, ami flavour with lemon rind or lemon juice. This is medically recommended as the •'best hot, weather drink." An admirable (hirst-quern her - nil equal mixture ol cold tea. and soda water, or wea"k cold ten with n *lieo oi lemeil ill it.

HOME-BREWED ALE

FIFE BROTH

SAUSAGE FRITTERS.

WARMED-UP MEAT

GRAVY FOR HASHES.

GINGER BEER FOR IMMEDIATE USE.

AN EXCELLENT RECHAUFFE 0* MUTTON.

GINGER BEER. ANOTHER WAY

BABY'S MID-DAY NAP

EFFERVESCING LEMONADE

BARKEY WATER

WATER

"KISSES."

Add two pecks of malt to 2 gallons of hot water; cover the vessel closely with a cloth, and leave lor 3 hours; then pour tiie liquid through a sieve to remove the grain. Put the liquor into a boiler, and when it boils add 4 ounces of hops, and continue boiling for 1 hour; then rub it off into a barrel to ferment, Icovering it Tvith a cloth, and allow it to become cool enough to feel only just warm to the finger. Now add J pint fresh brewer' 3 jeast; ferment for 12 or 15 hours. Strain the beer through a fine 6ieve to keep out the yeast, arid then pour it into a barrel. Let it remain for a week, after which it will be ready to drink, but it improves by keeping.

Put into a large saucepan a few ribs of pork (about 1 lb., perhaps.) Add 1 onion, sliced, Jib. of barley, and l a seasoning of salt and pepger. Cover well with water, and boil slowly for 3 hours. Half an hour before serving add 12 potatoes, peeled, and cut in quarters, and when these have boiled soft, the soup is ready to serve.

Take a few cooked or uncooked sausages, cut each sausage into two or three pieces, and roll in flour. Make a frying batter, and d p the prepared sausages into it, then drop into smoking hot fat. Fry a nice golden colour, dram, and serve hot. These fritters may also be served with tomato sauce or with fried tomatoes. The tomatoes are fried in the frying pan in sliced and then arranged in a pretty border around the fritters.

Slices of cooked cold meat thoroughly heated in hot gravy, which is not allowed to boil after the slices are placed in it, do not lose their nutritive value. Meat boiled in gravy will become tough, in fact, leathery; but rewarmed in a gravy made as follows, the dish will be very palatable.

Break the bones into small pieces, and put them and the trimmings into a stewpan with just sufficient water to cover, also a small onion sliced, a carrot sliced, a grain of celery-salt, a little parsley, a bay-leaf, a leaf or two of thyme, some salt, and pepper. Simmer very slowly for two hours, then strain. To each half pint of gravy allow lialf an ounce of butter, and a dessertspoonful of flour. Melt the butter in a separate pan with the flour, and fry brown. Put in the gravy. Stir until it boil*;, and season to taste, then use as required. Hashes are often very indulgently made; watery and tasteless, with the meat reduced by fast boiling to the consistency of leather. Thackeray, the famous novelist, married very young; he was very poor, and had an inexperienced wife. "Tell me," he on r ,e said to a woman friend, "how to make n hash which tastes of something besides water and onions."

This is another, and more uncommon, method of re-worming cooked mutton. Cut the meat into thin slices, and boil the bones and trimmings for the sauce. Cover the bottom of a greased piedish with a thick layer of bread crumbs, add three tablespoonfuls of stock to moisten them, and on the top arrange slices of meat slightly overlapping each other. Sprinkle them with chopped pickled gherkins, or other pickle, some salt and pepper; cover with more bread crumbs, and more sauce.

Repeat the process till the materials are all used, making the top layer a rather thick one of bread crumbs. Well moisten with gravy; finally, cover with greased paper, and bake the pie very gently for half an hour. Serve in tli« dish in which it is cooked.

Lp to the age of four years, this custom should be maintainedj but I very much fear many of the sensible old habits are quickly dropping out. When a young child begms to trot about, it is continually on the move, and a rest at noon, or even before that hour if early risfng is the custom, is absolutely necessary in order to calm the baby-brain and rest the limbs. A young child is growing all the time, physically and mentally, and it is too great a strain to expect or allow it to keep up from early morning till perhaps a late hour in the evening. v Apart from the benefit to tho child, its mother can go on with her household duties without hindrance, in Unconsciousness that her baby will not re. quire constant watching for at least* an hour. • T tic '/