THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4446, 7 August 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Oub Lady Friends : RECIPIES.

Floating Pudding —Take two tablespoonsful of cornflour; 2 ozs. of sugar ; one pint of milk, and 2 eggs. Mix all well together, and boil for a few minutes ; then pour into a shallow dish, sprinkle well over with sugar, and place over it another dish until cool. Remove the dish, when the pudding will be found floating in syrup. Gelatine Pudding.- Pour 1 cup of cold water over a packet of gelatine, and add H cups of sugar. soft add a cup of boiling water, the juice of a lemon, and the whites of 4 well beaten eggs. Beat all well together, until very light, put in a glass dish and pour over it a custard made of 1 pint of milk, the yolks of 4 eggs, and the grated rind of 1 lemon. To be eaten cold.

Black Angel Cake —1 egg ; \ a cupful of sweet milk ; a cupful of sugar; & cake unsweetened chocolate. Cook these ingredients till it thickens, and let cool while making the cake part as follows : —1 cupful of sugar ; £ a cupful of butter creamed ; two eggs separately beaten ; \ a cupful of sweet milk ; 2 cupsful of flour ; a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in the milk (do not use any cream of tartar) ; a a teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix the cake thoroughly, then add the chocolate paste, and beat well. Baku in two layers, and put together with white icing. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. A little soft soap rubbed into the seams of creaking shoes often prevents the unpleasant sound. The skin of an old fowl should be taken off before cooking, as it is apt to give a bitter taste to the liquor in which it is boiled. Bait traps with sunflower seeds, i and you will soon get rid of rats and mice. SELECTIONS. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth, which compose it, are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind— Cioero. If thou desirest to be borne with, thou must bear also with others. — T, A. Kempib. You’ve seen the world —The beauty and the wonder and the power, The shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades, Changes, surprises,—and God made

it all! —For what ?Do you feel thankful,

ay or no, For this fair town’s face, yonder river’s line, The mountain round it and the sky above ? — Browning.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.— Lord Herbert.