HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1903, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

USEFUL INFORMATION FOR THE j KITCHEN. ( [bushrooms on Toast.—Rub the tops of the mushrooms with a piece of flannel dipped in salt. Have some butter heated in a saucepan, into which pnt the mushrooms, with salt, cayenne, and ground maco; let them stew gently until the butter his almost disappeared ; then add cream and the grated rind of a lemon. Only simmer them till quite done ; serve them on toast, and put a squeeze of lemon-juice over each. Turkish Stew. —Out the remains of cold roast beef into small nieces, half-inch squares ; put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, put the meat with this and stir until the meat is nicely browned ; then remove it from the fire, add four tablespoonfuls of tomato ketchup and half a cup of solid tomatoes; and one small onion sliced, half a cup of stock, half a teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper; cover and let simmer for half an hour. Serve in a border of rice. j Banana and Strawbekry Cream.— Required : Six bananas, strawberry jam, a pint of thick cream, a few drops of lemon-juice. Skin the bananas, rub them through a sieve, or mash smoothly with a fork ; add enough strawberry jam to well flavour the bananas, and, if it is not a pretty pink colour, a drop or two of cochineal. Add the lemon-juice, whip the cream carefully ; mix it lightly with the bananas. Heap it up in a glass or silver dish; arrange pink-and-white curled ice-wafers round it.

A Good Christ:; s Cake.—Put half a pound of fresh !. i.cer, half a pound of moist sugar, ai.J work with a wooden spoon until creamy ; add, one at a time, four eggs, whisking the mixture each time ; stir in one pound of washed cur- | rants, half a pound of stoned raisins, half a pound of sultanas, two ounces of candied peel, teaspoonful of mixed spice and one of baking-powder, three-quarters of a pound of flour ; bake in a moderate oven two to two and a half hours. This cake will keep a month in a tin. Plum Cake. —lngredients : Three teacupsful of flour, three teaspoonsful of baking-powder, one cupful of treacle, one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of butter, half a pound of stoned raisins, half a pound of currants, two ounces of citron, a little spice, three eggs. Wash the currants, stone the raisins, aud cut up the citrou fine ; work the bakingpowder and butter into the flour with a little spice. Put in the other ingredients, and stir in the beaten eggs, adding a little milk if necessary. Pour into a buttered I cake-tin, and bake in a slow oven.