THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 9 October 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES.

Ham and Potato Cakes- Mince llb of boiled lean ham, and have ready 1 lb of cooked potatoes, cold. Mash these smoothly, and mix with the ham, seasoning with a little pepper and salt. Stir in a wellbeaten egg, flour your hands, and form into small round cakes. Fry in boiling fat until nicely browned. Take up carefully, drain free from fat, and serve on hot plates. Cabinet Pudding —Well grease a basin, and stone 1 oz of raisins, press these on to the inside of the basin, and then pour in the following mixture. Soak lb of bread crumbs for 10 minutes in a custard made with 1 beaten egg ; \ a pint of milk ; 1 oz of sugar ; and a few drops of any flavouring essence that you may prefer. After pouring this into the basin cover with a piece of buttered paper, and steam for an hour. Serve with a good sweet sauce.

Baked Jam Puff.—Roll \ lb of butter in thin slices with the rolling pin. Mix a little more than i lb of flour to a stiff dough with water. Roll out thin and spread with a layer of butter, brush over with white of egg, fold up and roll out again, repeat the process three times, or till all the butter is used. Roll it very thin for the last time and cut into pieces of an equal size, place a dessertspoonful of jam in the centre of each, fold over twice, press the edges together so that the jam may not come through, place in a quick oven for 15 minutes, sprinkle with sifted sugar and serve. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. To blacklead a grate mix a little turpentine with the blacklead ; this makes a brilliant shine. Nickel silver mounts and ornaments can be kept bright by rubbing with a woollen cloth saturated with spirits of ammonia. To make a good polish for old oak, mix together two ounces of boiled linseed oil, three ounces of turpentine, one oz. of vinegar, and a quarter of a pint of methylated spirits. Rub the mixture well in and polish with soft dusters, finish off with a piece of soft flannel. SELECTIONS. Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance, But reverie is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. Better to read little with thought, than much with levity and quickness ; For mind is not as merchandise, which decreaseth in the using, But liker to the passions of man, which rejoice and expand in exertion : Yet live not wholly on thine own ideas, lest they lead thee astray ; For in spirit, as in substance, thou art a social creature ; And if thou leanest on thyself, thou rejecteth the guidance of thy betters, Yea, thou contemnest all men, —am I not wiser than they ? Foolish vanity hath blinded, and warped thy weak judgment; For, though new ideas flow from new springs, and enrich the treasury of knowledge, Yet listen often ; ere thou think much; and look around thee ere thou j udgest.—Tuppbr.