THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4461, 11 September 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Fronds ; recipies.

Baked Fish -Clean and trim any small fish ; put them in a deep pan with a gill of vinegar; \ pint of melted butter, and two onions chopped small* Lay in the fish with a seasoning of two teaspoons" ful of salt and some pepper. Bake, basting frequently with the sauce. Serve with the sauce in the dish. Time to bake 6 lbs of fish, 20 minutes.

Tennyson Cakes.— Beat 3 ozs of butter to a cream with 3 ozs of sugar, put \ lb of flour into a basin, mix with it one teaspoonful of bakiDg powder, add by slow degrees to the butter and sugar ; then add a well-beaten egg, and a few drops of flavouring. Make all into a smooth dough, form into small cakes, and bake in rather a quick oven for ten or fifteen minutes.

Smothered Beefsteak.— Prepare a seasoning of breadcrumbs, herbs, minced onion, grated lemon rind, and a little piece of butter, and a sprinkle of pepper, salt and mace. Spread this over the steak, which must be cut in one piece and of one thickness, roll it up, secure with a string, and put it into a stewpan, with, a slice of pork and a pint of water. Cover and stew for about two hours, or even longer, according to the size of the steak. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. To restore the elasticity in cane chairs, sponge the backs of the seats with hot water, till the cane is thoroughly soaked. If the cane be dirty, use a little soap. When dry, the cane will have shrunk, and the seats will have the springiness they had when new.

If you have silver that is not in daily use, the best plan is to thoroughly clean it, then wrap it in flannel, and keep it in an air-tight box, with a lump of camphor. Kept in this way, it will be beautifully bright and clean, and ready for use at any time. Cold tea is the best thing for cleaning varnish. Take the tealeaves which are left in the pot, pour some boiling water over them and. let them stand ten minutes. Strain and use the water to wash the varnish with, wiping it thoroughly afterwards with a soft cloth. SELECTIONS. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none ; be able for thine

enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friends Under thine own life’s key ; be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.—

Shakespeare

Beware ambition ; Heaven is not reached by pride, but by submission.—T* Middleton.

Learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things ; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.— Thackeray.

It is a good thing to admire, by continually looking upward, our minds will themselves grow upward ; and as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admiration and enthusiastic reverence for excellence impart to ourselves a portion of the qualities we admire. Here, as in everything else, humility is the surest path to exaltation—Dr. Arnold.