THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4433, 10 July 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES, Rabbit Soup.— Soak about l lb. ! of bacon for a few minutes, then cut it into small squares, and fry them. When the bacon is done, and the fat quite boiling, add any bits of rabbit, neatly cut, and fry that, adding an onion, a eschalot, a small carrot, and a turnip, a sprig of parsley, and a bunch of mixed herbs.

Add as much stock as will cover the whole, and simmer for at least U hours. Mix a tableapoonful of flour with water to a smooth paste, and season with pepper and salt and add this to the mixture in time to allow of its thickening well. When ready, strain, and serve very hot. Scotch Oatcake.— Put about 2 or 3 lbs. of oatmeal into a basin with sufficient salt to your taste ; pour in | as much warm water as will make the meal into a nice working dough. Then mould each piece round, roll j out thin, rub the surface of the cake well with the hand, roll thin, and cut into four. Quickness is essential, as the warm water has a tendency to make the dough tight or stiff. Bake the same as scones, and when cooked put before the fire to dry. Madeleines. —4 ozs. of butter; 4 ozs. castor sugar ; 4 ozs. flour ; 2 eggs, and 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix in a bowl the sugar

and butter (slightly warmed). Add the flour, then the two jolks of eggs, the whites lightly beaten, then the teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat it briskly. Pour it into an enamel or china mould, which you have buttered, and powder it over with breadcrumbs. Bake it carefully for an hour in a slow oven.

HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

When onions are of too strong flavour to be pleasant for sauce, boil a turnip with them, but remove it before using the onions.

The juice of half a lemon in a cup of black coffee, without sugar or milk seldom fails to cure a case of headache.

If you want to shut off the view from any window, you can do it very cheaply by dissolving in a little hot water as much Epsom salts as the water will absorb. Paint this over the window while hot, and when dry you will have a very fair imitation of ground glass.

SELECTIONS.

Happy is he that knoweth and that

seryeth the true mission of his

life, Confeßiug Providence his guide, through blessings and afflictions ; He that never wavered from his duty,

nor shrank from faithful witness, Enduring all things cheerfully, as

given by God’s hand. Each of us hath his own vocation, special, sure, and ordered ;

And each of us is thereto fitted, if he will but well obey ; But those who hate the yolk, and

kick against the beam, Hinder where they ought to help, and break their wheels with ruin.—

Tupper.

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken, Not myself, but the seed that in life

I have sown, Shall pass on to ages —all about me forgotten, Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done : So lot my living be, so be my dying ; So let my name lie—unblazoned, unknown ; TJnpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remembered ; Yes—but remembered by what I have done.—l3r. H Bonar.

No man is born unto himself alone : Who lives unto himself, he livds to

none : The world’s a body, each man a

member is, To add some measure to the perfect bliss— Where much is given, there much shall be required ; Where little, less.— F. Quarles.