THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4502, 11 December 1909, Page 3

THE HOUSEWIFE’S CORNER

To Our Lady Friends : RECIPIES. Spice Seones 1 lb. flour ; \ lb. butter ; \ teacup of golden syrup ; 1 teacup of milk ; a little mixed spice and cinnamon; 2 teaspoons baking powder. Warm butter, golden syrup and milk together and mix. Divide into large-sized scones and bake in moderate oven.

Stewed Steak.- 2 lbs rump steak ; make stuffing as below and roll it in the steak and make the ends secure so that it cannot come out ; 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs ; 2 tablespoons suet, chopped finely ; 1 teaspoon mixed herbs ; salt and pepper to taste ; little parsley ; 1 egg to mix. Make gravy as follows : Fry, without burning, 2 onions in 2 ozs of beef dripping ; mix 1 tablespoon flour ; 1 tablespoon Worcester sauce ; 1 teaspoon salt ; \ teaspoon pepper ; 2 small carrots ; 1 pint cold water. When this gravy boils put in the stuffed steak and simmer for two hours or until tender. HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

To remove ink stains from cotton materials, place immediately in milk and allow to soak for an hour ; then wash, repeat if necessary If woollen goods are washed in cold water they will not shrink. Squeeze the soapy water through them, rubbing makes them hardAn excellent remedy for rheumatism is to take as much Epsom Salts as would cover a threepenny piece in a cup of weak tea twice a day. If this is persevered with for months it will prove most effectual. SELECTIONS. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. —Bishop Horne. Then let the woes And joys of earth be to the death' less soul, Like the swept dew-drop from the eagle’s wing When, waking in his strength, he sunward soars. —Sigourney. A tender conscience is as sensitive to evil as the eye that closes its lids against the smallest atom of dust, or as the plant whose leaves shrink from the slightest touch of hand or softest breath of mouth.— Dr. Davies. O, faithful conscience, delicately clear, how doth a little failing wound the sore !—Dante.