HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD NOTES

TRIED RECIPES. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIES HARICOT BEANS AND ONIONS Ingredients: 1 pint of haricot beans, ■I -onions, a little good brown gravy, pepper and salt to taste, and a little flour. Method: Soak the beans all night wr'th a. teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, wash them well, and boil untill soft. Chop the onions finely, fry them in butter a golden brown, dredge them with a I'ttl.e flour, add the gravy, pepper and salt, and tho beans, mix well, and serve hot. This <".s a> good, wholesome dish, and will serve children as a substitute for meat. CONVENT EGGS. Ingredients: 1 large white onion, 1 tablespoon of butter,l tablespoon of plain flour, 1 pint of milk, 4 new laid eggs, 4 i-ouds of bread, pepper and salt to taste, and one small box of .sard'nes. Method: Cut the onion (into th'.n slices, put them into a stewpan with the butter, cook slowly with the lid on, so as not to allow them to brown, add gradually the flour, pepper and salt and the milk, strring all the while. Have the sardines skinned, boned and pounded to a paste, and add them to the onion stew. Boil the eggs hard and .when cold shell and halve them. Toast the bread a good brown, place half an egg on each sfcee, pour over each piece the onion and sardine mixture, and serve very hot. bakb:d jam roll. Ingredients: Jib. of flour, Jib. of butter, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 egg and sufficient water to make a stiff dough. Method : Rub the butter into the flour and sugar, break the egg over it, and mix with a knife, then add the water. Roll out on a floured board, spread with a stiff jam, preferably plum or raspberry, fold up into a flat roll, brush over with milk, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in a brisk oven. Serve with boiled custard or cream, cold or hot. KHAKI CAKE. Soldier's Sister sends this dai.ity. Ingredients : 3 cups of self-raising flour 3"~eggs, 1 cup of treacle. 1 cup of sugar, -] of 1 cup of butter. 1 cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, I saltspoon of nutmeg, 2 scant teaspoons of cinnamon, i teaspoon of ground cloves, A cup of sultanas or raisins, si x dates. Method : t ream the butter and sugar, add the treacle, ithon the eggs, well beaten, then alternately the flour, to which the spices have been added, and the fruits well chopped and mixed, and the ■-our ml'k in v. uich th.' soda Jias been dissolved, n.-i-r ip a large cake d : sh, or divide in--1 1 small cakes. ECONOMY IN THE I.SE OF Mil CHER'S MEAT. Buy Boil's. —"We cannot eat the '■Due-,' < i course not. But two or three pennyworth of bones cut fresh from the meat can nearly always be bought, and :i very large quantity or nutriment may be extracted by boding. Some cooks unwisely throw away bones which have been stewed for threj or four hours. This is a very great mistake. One of the most famous Ereneh chefs says that though bones yield a wonderful amount of nutriment after cooking for twelve hours, yet thev will yield still more after a further twelve hours. This statement made by such a competent authority must be credited. Cooks less well skilled in culinary art imagine that because there is no meat on the bones they are done with so far as nourishment ; - concerned. There never was a greater or more wasteful mistake. With a small income and a huge family to feed provide soup: its character ran be varied from day to day by means of different vegetables, herbs, nnd a thickening of rice, peas, pearl barley, oatmeal, cornflour or other flour.

Above nil precautions to take when proparng soup, see that one? the pot (nines to the boil it docs no more than simmer afterwards. To be hasty with tlv* cooking inevitably spoils the flavour of the soup, reduces the quantity needlessly, wastes fuel, and fills the whole house with a very unpleasant odour. With all those serious objections none but the most unintelligent or careless cooks will suffer the souppot to boil continuously. Another i'-unous Fivnoli chef said that 'J the put should only snrle" meaning the creaming of the water that suggests i broad smile - what is meant by a beaming countenance in fact.

FOT? THE ECONOMICAL HOUSEWIFE. When -tewing apples. add a few chopped dates-they an a givat :m----nrovement. • • • Don't throw aw.iv bacon and rh?e*e rinds: they will add nour shment and flavour to any soup. •"• • « Don't throw away waste-paper—-twist it into thick, fairly tight faggots. I T s.<> it instead of firewood. • • • Ink can bo removed from Tnen by moistening the stain well with paraffin and then washing as usual.

The peel of lemons should l>c saved and dried and plated among the sugar to be used for cakes. Thv's g'ves 1* slight flavour to the sugar. # * * * Whipped cream goes much farther if the wb'-to of an egg is added Itefore whipping. Add a pmch of salt to the whites to make them froth easily, and take car. 1 that the beater is thoroughly dry. * # * * Faded carpets should be taken up. we!! beaten an dbrushed, then laid down again in tho'r places. Xow .take a put of vinegar and add boiling watet till you can only just hear your hand in it. Rub every part of the carpet with a perfectly clean floor-cloth, rrequently wrung out in the vinegar. This wi'l restore the colours and the carpet will look Ike new.