HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 185, 23 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

HOP BEER. Ingredients: 2oz. hops, 21h. s ignr, i pint Mast. 2oz. bruised ginger, 2) gadons water. Method- Boil th.' bops and ginger :n tiie v.i.tei for about 20 minutes, stirling ocea-ionaliy; add the sugar, and ftir unt I dissolved: .strain into a largo open vessel, and when lukewarm add the yeas:; cover with a thick cloth, and let it work lor 21 hours, h will lie ready to bottle next day. Bottle and cork we]!. Keep in a cool place. i It iviil be tit for use in a lew davs. * * * MOCK CREAM. Ingredients: I breakfasteiipful of milk. 1 dessertspoon each of cornflour, butter, icing sugar and vanilla cw-onee. Method: Blend the cornflour with a little of the milk, put the remainder "ii lo bod m an enamelled saucepan. When boiling stir in the bbnded cornour, cook for a lew minutes. Have ready the butter and icing sugar thoroughly mixed in a basin, pour on to it the boiling cornflour mixture and a. few drops vaniM-i essence, mix well, and use wh.n cold. APPI.K AND (I RRANT ROI.YPOLY. Pare, core and cui six large cooking apples into shees. put them in a saucepan with tiie finely-chopped rind of a lemon, one quarter of a pound of brown sugar and cook till soft, then add a little nutmeg. Haw ready a suet crust, roll it out thinly, spread the apples over the paste, sprinkle with the currants, previously washed and dried, roll the pudding up, tie in a floured c'oth, and bod for two hours. TAPIOCA AND APPLE PUDDING. Put on.' teacupful of tapioca into three pints of water and allow to stand for two or tiiree hours on the stove to warm, but not cook. Slice half a dozen apples, previously peeled and cored, add one teacupful of sugar, and mix all together. Bake for one and a half bonis. POTATO HASH. Ingi-niicnts: ilb cold minced beef or mutton, llh cooked potatoes, 2 tablespoons nrlk, loz butter, j teaspoonfiil sa'r. i teaspbon pepper, 1 dessertspoon Hour, j pint water, a little tomato sauc? for flavouring, if liked, a dessertspoon chopped parsley, thyme, and marjoram, or, if preferred, 1 dessertspoon very finely chopped shallots. Method: Mine? the meat finely, mix with it the flour, pepper and sitlt, chopped herbs, tomato sauce. Put alt into a saucepan, add the water, stir if over the lire tili it comes to a hod, then cook genfcly for •"> minutes. While cooking heat and mash the potatoes; m x with them the butter and milk. Have ready a greased pie-dish, line with mashed potatoes, pour in the meat mixture, cover over the top with more potato; g'aze with the yolk of egg. score with a knife. Bake m a moderate oven 2o to 3(1 minutes. * * # ROUGH PUFF PASTRY. Ingredients: lib flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt, 4oz lard, ;'. or loz butter, 1} gill water, squeeze lemon juice. Metiiod : Sift flour, baking powder, and nalt-, break lard and butter into pieces the size of small nut and add, stir round lightly until the pieces are well eovcivd with flour, mix water and lemon ju'cc together, pour in steadily, niakmg rather a soft dough, put on to a floured board, knead, roll into thin sheet, fold into three, and then in two, roll to shape and size required. * * # METHOD OK CLEANING AN EIDERDOWN QUILT. Prepare for washing the eiderdown quilt by dissolving some lux or finelyshredded soap in very hot water. When dissolved add some cold water till the solution is just warm. Shake quilt to remove any dust, put into the tub of water, and carefully squeeze and rub lightly ti'l the dirt is all removed, then rinse thoroughly in warm water till all trace of so.ap has been removed; wring out as dry as possible,, shake well and dry in Uie open air. in the wind. As it dries shake occasionally to keep the down loose, as it is likely to stick together and so dry in a hard ball. When quite dry the down should be evenly regulated into Us different divisions, then the quilt should be folded and put away till required. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK. When your heart is asking for sympathy .and understanding, when you feel your loneliness the most, pour forth the balm of Divine healing to another's need, and you will find that it has satisfied your own.— ?. .1. Campbell.