THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4431, 3 July 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : I RECIPIES, ; Candied Peel. —To make candied i peel, choose sound, fresh citrons or lemons and cut into quarters lengthwise. Remove all the pulp and soak the rinds in salt water for three days and then in fresh cold water {for one day. Next boil in fresh water till tender. The rinds are next drained, and covered with a syrup of sugar and water, using 1 lb. of sugar to a quart of water. The rinds will begin to look clear in about half an hour, when they should be drained again. A thick syrup is then made —1 lb. of sugar to a pint of water—and the rinds boiled in it over a slow fire till the syrup candies. When this happens, the rinds may be lifted out, drained, and allowed to dry. Carrot Pudding. — \ lb. breadcrumbs ; 4 oz. finely chopped suet ; i lb. stoned raisins ; f lb. carrots ; i lb. currants ; 3 ozs. sugar ; 3 eggs ; milk ; \ nutmeg. Boil the carrots till tender enough to mash to a pulp ; add the remaining ingredients and moisten with sufficient milk to make the mixture the consistency of thick batter, pour into a buttered basin, tie a floured cloth over, and boil for 2| hours. French Jelly.—Soak 1 oz. of gelatine in three cupfuls of cold water for £ an hour ; then put it in a saucepan with 2 cupsful of water and 2 cups of sugar ; boil for 20 minutes, take off, and stir till nearly cold, add a teaspoonful of citric acid, and a little essence of lemon ; wet 2 soup plates, pour in the mixture, and let it stand all night. Next day cut into slices, roll in sugar. HINTS FOR THE HOILE. Brush dark dresses thoroughly with a clean, hard brush, dipped in blue water, and then hang them up to dry. This revives dark blue and 1 black materials and makes them look almost new. Pineapple juice is very valuable ; as a digestive. Half a slice an inch 1 thick is sufficient at a time. I i

Boiled linseed oil and spirits of wine mixed in equal parts, make an excellent furniture polish.

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Exemption from mistake is not the privilege of mortals, but wheq our mistakes are involuntary, we owe each other every candid consideration ; and the man who, on discovering his errors, acknowledges and corrects them is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred.— Pye Smith.

Let one play the fool; With mirth and daughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying

groans.—Shakespeare

In reading authors, when you find bright passages that strike your mind, and which, perhaps, you may have reason to think on at another season, be not contented with the sight, but take them down in black and white ; such a respect is wisely shown, as makes another’s sense one’s own. — Byron.

Who reads incessantly, and to his reading brings not a spirit and judgment equal or superior, uncertain and unsettled, still remains deep versed in books, and shallow in himslf. —Milton.