THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4411, 15 May 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : This column ■will contain recipies for cooking and other useful hints for the home and will appear in every Saturday’s issue, we therefore ask for contributions of tested recipies, etc., which please address to “ Cuisine,” c/o the Editor. RECIPIES. A Mealy Potato —So often we are bothered with watery potatoes that many cooks declare there are certain kinds of tubers that never will cook mealy. But there is, one way of preparing them that will result well, and that is to put the potatoes on in cold water and let them become very hot, but just before they reach the boiling point pour off the hot water and substitute cold. This sends the heat already in the potato to the very heart of it, and makes the potato as dry when done as could be desired.

Soda Loaf. — 1 lb. flour ; 1 breakfast cup of sweet milk ; 1 teaspoonful carbonate of Soda; 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar ; 1 teaspoonful salt. Mode Put flour into a basin with the soda, cream tartar and salt, then pour in the milk and mix quickly, form into loaf and bake in a moderately hot oven for three quarters of an hour.

Cottage Pudding —2 tea cups of flour ; 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder ; 1 tea cupful of milk ; 1 oz. sugar,; 2 oz. butter ; 1 egg ; the grated rind of one lemon. Bake in a deep dish (well buttered), with a layer of jam at the bottom, for half an hour. Serve with sweet sauce.

Icing 1 OP Frosting.— l breakfast cup crystal sugar ; half breakfast cup milk ; butter, size of walnut. Boil 10 minutes and beat till thick enough to spread over small cakes or jam sandwich. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. Mixture for a Weak ChestSqueeze the juice of 4 lemons on 3 new laid eggs in their shells, let them stand 36 hours then strain (shells will be all dissolved) and beat up with ]- lb. honey, j oz. ground ginger, \ pint of old rum. Shake well and take half a wine glass three times a day. SELECTIONS. Saturday Evening.

Every Saturday evening has to my ear a gentle knell. The week tolls itself away, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and the perfect seventh, and I can almost hear them beating a melodious measure as they recede.— Beecher.

A river is an emblem of a good man’s course through life, ever simple, open, and direct : or if over-powered by adverse circumstances, he deviates into error, it is but momentory ; he soon recovers his onward and honourable career and continues it to the end of his pilgrimage.—W. Irving.

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness are our own. —- Milton.

The most natural beauty in the world is moral truth ; for all beauty is truth.— Shaftesuury.