THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4449, 14 August 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES,

Golden fiuns.—6 ozs. of flour ; 3 ozs. of castor sugar ; 2 ozs. of butter ; 2 eggs ; 1 teaspoonful baking powder ; 1 teaspoonful marmalade. Beat the butter, sugar, and eggs together, add the marmalade, and lastly the flour and baking powder. Mix well and bake in small tins in a brisk oven for 15 minutes.

Cornflower Cheese —First grate the cheese you wish to use, and then boil slowly in sufficient milk to dissolve it.. In the meantime, for every \ pint of milk used, mix smoothly a teaspoonful of cornflour with a little cold milk.- Then add to the boiling milk and cheese, and cook all together, while stirring, for ten minutes. Season to taste with cayenne pepper, made mustard, and salt, and serve on hot buttered toast.

Arrowroot Biscuits.- Take 8 ozs. of flour; 8 ozs. of butter ; 6 ozs. of arrowroot; 8 ozs. of best white sugar ; and 6 eggs. Beat the butter to a cream, and add it to the well whisked eggs ; stir in the flour gradually and beat all thoroughly together. Roll the arrowroot, mix it with the finely pounded sugar, and work in the other ingredients. Drop the dough from a spoon, on a buttered tin in small pieces, and bake in a slow oven for 15 minutes. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

When ironing chiffon or muslin, always put tissue paper over it and use a tolerably cool iron. When stuffing a fowl which is to be roasted, prepare and insert the stuffing over night and truss the bird. By this method the flavour of the stuffing penetrates throughout the whole bird and makes it delicious.

To clarify fat after frying, throw in a few slices of raw potato and simmer all for a few minutes. SELECTIONS.

A memory without a blot or con amination is an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment.— Bronte. As a gladiator trained the body, so must we train the mind to selfsacrifice, to “ endure all things,” to meet and overcome all difficulty and danger. We must take rough and thorny road as well as the smooth and pleasant ; and a portion at least of our daily duty must be hard and disagreeable ; for the mind cannot be kept strong and healthy in perpetual sunshine only, and the most dangerous of all states is that of constantly-recurring pleasures, ease, and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough without seeking them ; let them not repine, but take them as a part of that educational discipline necessary to fit the mind to arrive at its highest good.— Bray.

I cannot but look on a cheerful state of mind as a constant, habitual gratitude to the great Author of Nature.— Addison.