HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4414, 22 May 1909, Page 3

HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES. Sponge Cake — 3 eggs ; H breakfast cups flour; breakfast cups sugar (soft) ; \ breakfast cup boiling water ; 1 teaspoonful bakiDg powder. Beat eggs and sugar for 20 minutes, then add slowly boiling water lastly flour and baking powder. Bake for about an hour. Buttermilk Cake — l lb flour; \ lb butter or good beef dripping ; \ lb sugar; I lb currants ; 2 teaspoonfuls carbonate soda ; i pint of buttermilk or sour milk, and any other fruit desired ; essence to taste. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add the" milk and flour with soda mixed in it, then fruit and essence. Bake three hours in a slow oven.

Ranfurly Pudding:.— Line a baßin thinly with ordinary suet crust, then take 4 tablespoons of cornflour mix with a little cold water and make into a thick paste with boiling water, then add 4 tablespoonfuls of golden syrup, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar; juice and rind of a lemon and a handful of any kind of dried fruit. Mix well and put into the lined basin, covtr with crust and steam two hours.

Sponge Crust.—U breakfast cups flour ; 2 oz. butter; little sugar ; £ pint milk; 2 teaspoons cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon carbonate soda. Dissolve soda in milk. Pour over hot fruit and bake slowly until nice and brown.

HINTS FOR THE HOU3E.

Put a little dry starch in clear warm water with which you wash windows. When dry, rub off, then polish with a cloth.

If broken china is mended with white lead and then let to harden thoroughly, the piece will be actually as strong as when new ; the entire secret is to let the article mended set till. dry. It is better if you can leave it for a whole year, although six or eight months will do very well. Rubber bands should be put round the piece to hold it firmly in place.

SELECTIONS

Many preserve themselves by humbling themselves ; the bullet flies over him that stoops. —M. Henry.

Growth manifests itself by a simplicity, that is—a greater naturalness of character. There is more usefulness and less noise, more tenderness of conscience and less scrupulosity, more peace and more humility. When the full corn is in the ear, it bends down because it is full.—Cecil.

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of Eternity.—M. M. Brewster.