HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4426, 19 June 1909, Page 3

HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES. Fig Pudding.— Chop Alb figs very finely, mix them with jib of coarse sugar, a tablespoonful of treacle, 4 tabletpoonfuls of milk, Alb flour, jib of suet, an egg, and a pinch of grated nutireg. Put the pudding into a buttered mould, and boil for 4 or five hours. tweet Omelette.— Break g eggs into basin, omitting whites of 3, whisk well, gradually adding 2lbs of powdered sugar and 2 ozs of butter in small lumps. Stir well, to thoroughly mix the different ingredients. Next put 2ozs of butter into a frying pan, and put it over a fire, and when it begins to bubble pour in the egg mixture. Stir till there are signs of setting, then turn over the edges of the omelette, so as to form an oval, and go on with the cooking. The top is browned by holding the pan in front of the fire. Sprinkle with finely powdered sugar before serving.

Toffee.- I—Use 1 — Use two oups white sugar, one cup -water, a de-'sertspoonful of vinegar, and any flavouring essence. Do not stir. Butter the saucepan all over before you put in the ingredients. It is ready when a little dropped into water becomes brittle. HINTS FOR THE HOU.'E.

Alcohol will remove grass stains from linen with very little rubbing. Discoloured knife handles may be rubbed with brick dust and vinegar. When making boiled starch stir it round with a wax candle. This will prevent the starch sticking to their on and save much trouble.

\ SELECTIONS. The more people do the more they oan do—he that does nothing renders himself incapable of doing anything While we are executing one work, we are preparing ourselves to undertake another.— Hazlett.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility—witty .without affectation, free without indecency—learned without conceit, and novel without falsehood.

Keep him at least three paces distant who hates music and the laugh of a child. —Layater.

Childhood is a time of joy and hope, of mingled love and fear. 'When pure the smile, the thought, the heart, the laughter, and the.Wr.