THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4464, 18 September 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Oun Lady Fkibnds : RECIPIES.

Cheese Straws —Take 2 ozs. of butter ; 2 ozs. of flour ; 2 ozs. of grated cheese ; and a little salt and cayenne. Mix these ingredients into a paste, roll out thin, and cut into fingers about i inch wide, and 2 inches long. Lay them on greased paper, and bake for a few minutes in a hot oven. Serve cold. Two ozs. of breadcrumbs and the yolk of an egg can be added if liked. Fluffy Cakes.-Beat 6 ozs. of butter and £ lb. castor sugar to a cream ; add £ lb of cornflour and one egg well beaten; then add i lb. of self-raising flour and one e 6'S* . Beat well again, and then beat in one teaspoonful of baking powder, and flavour with vanilla. Rather move than half fill some well greased patty tins, and bake in a moderate oven for from 15 to 20 minutes, according to size.

Haricot Beans.- 1 quart haricot beans ; 2 ozs. butter; a pinch of sugar, 1 pint of stock ; 1 teaspoonful of chopped parsley ; 1 onion, seasoning. Soak the beans for 12 hours, in cold water, drain them on a sieve, throw them in boiling water with a little salt added, and boil for 2 hours ; drain off the water, add the butter, parsley, onion, the two latter chopped fine, sugar, seasoning, and stock, simmer together for one hour, turn on a very hot dish and serve at once. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

Medicine stains may be removed from silver spoons by rubbing them with a rag pipped in sulphuric acid, and washing it off with soap* suds.

In boiling eggs hard, put them in boiling water. It will prevent the yolk from colouring black. In order to shrink wool and flannels, they should be plunged into boiling water ; let the remain until the water is quite cold, then wring out and dry.

SELECTIONS.

Moderation :

This is the centre wherein all both Divine and human philosophy meet —the rule of life—the governess of manners—the silken string that runs through the pearl chain of all virtues—the very ecliptic line under which reason and religion move without any deviation, and therefore worthy of our best thoughts, of our most careful obser" vation.— Bp. Hall.

The illimitable, silent, neverresting thing call Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, quiet, like an allembracing ocean tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and theD are not. This is for ever very literally a miracle ! Carlyle.

Time has been described as a beautifier and as a consoler ; but it is also a teacher. It is the food of experience, the soil of wisdom. — Smiles.

Thinkers are scarce as gold ; but be, whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size* — Lavater.