THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4423, 12 June 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : ' RECIPIES. Soft Ginger Bread.— 4 small cup 8 of flour ; 3 tablespoons of ginger ; 1 cup of sour cream ; 1 cup of butter ; 1 cup of treacle or golden syrup ; 1 cup of soft sugar ; 3 eggs ; \ teaspoonful carbonate soda. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs, then ■cream, treacle and lastly flour with the soda. Bake in a shallow tin for la- to 2 hours. Berlin Buns, —1 lb flour; three eggs; 1 cupful sugar; raspberry jam ; half lb butter or dripping ; 2 teaspoonsfuls baking powder. Sift the flour and rub in the butter, stir in the baking powder, sugar, and a pinch of salt, beat up the eggs and pour them in with sufficient sour milk to form a stiff paste, knead for a few minutes, roll out abont half an inch thick and cut into large rounds. In the middle of each round put a spoonful of raspberry jam and fold the paste over it us in making apple dumplings. Fry in plenty of hot fat, roll in sugar and serve. Plum Pudding—a lb beef suet ; •4 lb flour ; f lb breadcrumbs ; -k lb stoned raisins ; lb currants ; \lb moist sugar ; }lb candihd peel; the rind of 1 lemon finely grated ; £ nutmeg ; a little mixed spice ; 4 eggs, and some milk. Shred the suet finely ndx it with the flour, breadcrumbs, rMsins, currants, sugar, candied peel cut in small strips, grated lemon rind, grated nutmeg and spice ; mix thoroughly together, then add the eggs well beaten, and a little milk ; put in a buttered basin, tie over with a cloth, and boil the pudding five hours.

HINTS FOR THE HOU:E

Grease, or blacklead stains on carpets can be removed by covering them with a paste made of Fuller’s earth and water, to which either a little spirits of turpentine or ammonia had been added. Leave till dry, and then brush.

A little salt sprinkled over coffee or cocoa before the water is added, will help to bring out the flavour.

To take away the taste after eating onions, put a little pcwdered camphor in a tumbler of water, and with it rinse the mouth out thoroughly.

SELECTIONS,

You have a disagreeable duty to £o at twelve o’clock. Do not darken nine and ten and all between with the colour of twelve. Do the work of each and reap your reward in peace. So when the dreaded moment in the future becomes the present, you shall meet it walking in the light, and that light shall overcome its darkness. — Gkoiigs Macdonald. An element of weakness in much of our resolving is that we try to grasp too much of life at one time. We think of it as a whole, instead of taking the days one by one. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill.—E. B s Pusey.

The great high-road of human welfare lies alon the highway of steadfast well-doing; and. they who are the most, persistent and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort Smiles.