THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4491, 20 November 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES. Egg and Cheese Sandwich.— Grate 1 cupful of mild cheese, and mix it with 4 eggs which have been boiled for 3 minutes, cooled and then chopped fine. Season with butter, pepper, and salt, and spread on thin slices of bread and butter. Chocolate Macaroons— Take \ lb of pulverised sugar ; £lb grated vanilla chocolate, and mix with the beaten whites of 2 eggs, cover a tin with white paper, drop small cakes of the mixture upon it with a spoon, and bake in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes.

A Dainty Custard.- 2 tableI spoonsful of cornflour to 1 quart of milk, 3 eggs, with sugar and flavouring to taste. Beat the whites of the eggs separately, and to a stiff froth. Cook the custard by placing the basin in which you mix it in another [ pan of boiling water. When it has thickened take it from the fire and beat in the whites of the eggs. This is the time to add the flavouring. The egg is sufficiently cooked if rapidly beaten into the hot custard and the custard is rendered almost as light as whipped cream, and it may be heaped in glasses or put into one large glass dish. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

To get rid of ants try cayenne pepper. If it is a cupboard that is infested, have the shelves well washed first, and then sprinkle liberally with the cayenne, giving any holes from which you think they come sp; fial attention.

To freshen a carpet, put a teaspoonful of fluid ammonia into a pailful of warm water and wipe the carpet with a cloth wrung out of it. This method removes the dust, brightens the colours, and speedily kills any insects that may be lurking in it.

Oil marks on wall paper may be removed by applying a paste made of pipe-clay and cold water. Leave it on all night, and brush it off in the morning. A second application may possibly be necessary.

SELECTIONS.

Never speak of a man’s virtues before his face, or of his faults behind his back, the observance of which will at one blow banish flattery and defamation from the earth.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action, done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.— Stern.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good natured. It will lighten sick-« ness, poverty, and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity and render deformity itself agreeable. It is only from those who have themselves suffered that we may expect sympathy or consolation in our distress. A heart that has bled for its own, can seldom be hardened to another’s woe.