THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4485, 6 November 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES, Rice Biscuits.— Take 7 ozs. of flour, i lb. ground rice, 7 ozs. sugar, and 7 ozs. of butter. Mix into a paste with 2 eggs well beaten. Roil out, and cut with a small fluted cutter, then bake in a moderate oven until a light brown. Almond Blancmange.— Take 4 tablespoonsful of cornflour, 1 quart of milk, and sugar to taste. Mix the cornflour with cold milk to a smooth paste, then make the remainder of the milk hot, and pour it gradually over the cornflour. Return it to the saucepan, and boil gently for 8 minutes, stirring all the time. Sweeten to taste, and flavour delicately with almond essence and pour into a wetted mould. Serve with custard.

Stewed Beef Kidney.—Take 1 lb of beef kidney, skin it, cut in pieces, and remove all the fat and pipes ; put 2 ozs of butter in a stew-pan, fry the kidney in it for 5 minutes, stir in 2 ozs of flour, a finely chopped onion, 2 tablespoonsful of ketchup, some salt and pepper, and when these ingredients are well cooked, add a pint of stock, and simmer for 20 minutes ; just before serving, add 2 teaspoonsful of finely chopped parsley. Serve on a hot dish with sippets of toast. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. Fat or suet will keep sweet for a much longer period if separated from the skin, finely shredded, and mixed with flour. Keep in a dry, cool place. To clean knives that have fruit or vinegar stains on them, rub them after washing with a freshly cut raw potato. . Dry and polish on a knifeboard in the ordinary way. Lemon-juice and whiting mixed to a soft paste and well rubbed in, will remove stains from ivory or >one handles. Rince in hot water afterwards, and dry thoroughly. If castor oil is applied to warts every night for three weeks, the warts will probably by that time lave completely disappeared without leaving any mark. SELECTIONS.

" A friend is a balancing pole ” said an athlete, “ a balancing pole withont which it is impossible to walk safely the tight - rope of life.”—

“ A friend is a jewel ” said a pretty girl, “ that shines brightest in the darkness of misfortune..; — “ A friend is a volume,” said a journalist, “ a volume of sympathy, bound in cloth as a rule, though in rare cases the binding may be silken.”

“ A friend is a gold link,” mused a jeweller, “ in the chain of life.” “He is a plaster,” said the physician, “for the cuts of misfortune.”

“ Like ivy,” said the botanist, ‘ it clings.”

“ A friend,” said a sad-looking woman, “ is the first person who comes in when the whole world goes out .”—•

When our friends invite us to a feast, is signifies little if we arrive at a late hour; but when they call for our consolations we should fly to them in an instant. Visit your friends in their misfortune rather than in their prosperity.— Chilo.

A mountain is made up of atoms, and friendship of little matters, And if the atoms hold not together, the mountain is crumbled into dust*— Tupper.