THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4470, 2 October 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Oub Lady Fbibnds : RECIPIES,

Curls -Into an ounce of flour stir a teaspoonful of ground ginger and spice, mixed. Warm £ lb of golden syrup until it will melt an ounce of butter put into it. Add this to the dry ingredients, spread it on a baking shelf, and bake in a quick oven. Let it stand for 2 or 3 minutes after being taken out of the oven, and then roll into curls. Everton Toffee.— Take 1 lb of sugar ; a cupful of water ; 4 ozs of butter ; and six drops of essence of lemon. Put the water and sugar into a pan, and beat the butter to a cream ; when the sugar has dissolved, add the butter and keep stirring the mixture over the fire till it sets when a little is poured on to a buttered dish. The essence of lemon should be added just before the toffee is done. The toffee itself should be poured on to a buttered dish.

Making Bread.—The following is a good recipe for making household bread :—Take one bushel of flour ; 4 potatoes ; a little milk ; £ pint of yeast ; and 2 gallons of water. Boil the potatoes until quite mashed, and then rub them through a sieve with a little warm water. Rub the yeast through the sieve to the flour, and stir to it the above mixture. Let it stand for 2 hours ; then make it into a dough, kneading it well and set it to rise another 2 hours, when it will be fit for making up. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. An excellent furniture polish is made by mixing together one-third of alcohol and two-thirds of sweet oil. Apply with one soft cloth and polish off with another. A good way to clean zinc utensils is to dip a piece of cotton in kerosene and rub the articles with it until the dirt is removed. Dry afterwards with a cloth, so as to get rid of all the grease. SELECTIONS. They say of poets they must be born such; so must mathematicians, so must great generals, and so indeed must all other denominations of men, or it is not possible that they should excel. But with whatever faculties we are born, and to whatever studies our genius may direct us, studies they must still be. lam persuaded that Milton did not write his “ Paradise Lost,” nor Homer his “ Iliad,” nor Newton his “ Principia,” without immense labour. Nature gave them a bias towards their respective pursuits, and that strong propensity, I suppose, is what we mean by genius. The rest they gave them-i selves.— Cowper.

Our privacy may, perhaps, sit down in peace ; but never man did attempt a common good without opposition. It is a sign that both the work is holy and the agent faithful when we meet with great opposition.— Bishop Hall.A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a headwind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. Opposition is what he wants, and must have, to he good for anything Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. lie that cannot abide the storm without flinching or quailing, strips himself in the sunshine, and lies down by the way-side to be overlooked and forgotten ; but he who braces himself to the struggle when the wind blows, gives up when the former has done, and falls asleep in the stillness that follows.— G- Neal.