THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4499, 4 December 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES, Ginger Bread Pudding.—Mash 6 ozs. cold potatoes ; G ozs. flour ; 3 ozs. suet ; 3 ozs. moist sugar ; } teaspoonful ginger ; !- teaspoonful baking powder ; nearly \ pt. treacle. Fill a basin exactly and boil for 4 hours.

Fairy Pudding.—l pint of milk ; l- oz. gelatine ; 3 tablespoonsful sugar ; 3 eggs ; essence to taste. Heat the milk, beat sugar and yolks of eggs and add to the milk and gelatine. When thickening take oil' the fire and add whites, of eggs well beaten. Stir quickly and pour over sponge cakes (cut in strips) in a previously wetted mould. Put in a cool place to set.

Almond Biscuits.—} lb flour; \ lb. butter ; -!f lb. cornflour ; i lb. sugar ; 2 eggs ; 1 teaspoonful of baking powder; } a teaspoonful cf almond essence. Beat the butter and sugar together, add yolks of egns well beaten. Roll out thin and spread an icing on the top made by beating the whites of the eggs with icing sugar ; then cut into finger lengths and cover w’ith chopped almonds, put on a cold oven slide, and bake in a moderately hot oven till a light brown. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE. Sprains and bruises should be rubbed with liniment. The following \ i excellent recipe : —Take two p...s of camphorated oil and alcohol, and one part of chloroform. Shake well before using, and apply with the palm of the hand. When staining a floor don’t forget, that the stain should be applied with the grain of the wood—that is, up and down the boards, not across, and when polishing follow the same plan. New irons should be very gradually heated the first, time. After they are inured to heat they will not so easily become rough. SELECTIONS. “ Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound, When cut by wit it casts a brighter beam ; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.” —Young. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions ; the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.— Coleridge.

Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know, ere long — Know how sublime a thing it is, To suffer and be strong.— Longfellow.

Be stirring as the time ; be fire with

fire ; Threaten the threatener, and out-

face the brow Of bragging horror : So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviours from the great, Grow great by your example, and

put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. — Shakespeare.