SOME DAINTY DISHES AND HINTS FOR THE HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 3

SOME DAINTY DISHES AND HINTS FOR THE HOME.

Wheii baking buns or pastry always have a very hot oven, so that they rise and cook quickly. Hot milk at "night is invaluable for those who sleep badly, Drink it really hot. the last thing, and u good night will generally follow.

A sprained ankle should be put at once into hot water for ten minutes. Afterwards if the pain be severe apply a bran-bag dipped in hot vinegar. For sore eyelids which are the frequent cause of loss of cyclases, apply a little castor oil on the litis each night. The soreness will disappear and the evelushes will grow strong. A Plain Seed Cake.—ißub eight ounces of elarilied dripping into one and a-half •pounds of dried flour, then add one ounce of earraway seeds, half a pound of sugar, and two teaspoirafuls of baking powder. -Mix all with an egg beaten into half a pint of milk. Make at once in a moderate oven for two hours'.

■Peppermint creams arc quite easily made. Try this veeipe: Beat up the whit* lot an egg with a small tcaspoonful of I water and twenty drop* of essence of ■ peppermint. Stir'into it about as much icing sugar as will make a stiff paste, probably the best part of a pound. Lay the paste on a board, which has been dusted with icing sugar, and roll out to an eighth of an inch thick with a rollbgpin (also diluted with icing sugar). Then cut into rounds the size of a florin. Set in a cool place to dry before storing in boxes.

Fresh meat must never be salted when frying, as the salt extracts the juice and hardens the fibre.

When stewing fruit add the sugar after the fruit is cooked and stir it in gently with the handle of a wooden spoon.

'lo clean a galvanised had thoroughly wash first with soap and water, then dry it and scour with paraffin and sand. Thi's ■will remove all stains and make it perfectly dean, while a further washing with soap and soda water will remove all smell of parallin. The sink deserves constant attention, and a wise housewife will look at it from time to time even if her servant be experienced. Keep the sink basket in it mid put all bits into it. These must be burned each day after the early dinner, and the sink and the basket should then be scrubbed with hot soda water. It is the work of two or three minutes only, and perfect sweetness will be the result, Leek Soup.—Take five leeks and a carrot, cut them in thin slices, and fry in two ounces of butter or clarified dripping till they are a golden brown j add to them one quart of boiling stock, a small onion stuck with cloves, a small bit of mace, a bay leaf, ami a s<pfig of thyme. Let the v. ..rotables boil till qulto ■ tender, then rub all through a sieve (ex- ! Copt the spices). Return to the 'sauce- | pan, add three tablespooufuls of rico. ■ boiled ;k for curry, and serve with ■ grilled Parmesan cheese.

Indian pudding U an excellent wuluiiij; for thi s season. Urease it pmliliiig-disii and line it with a lialit suet eni*t.' Put in niteruue layers »f „liml upplew. (|Uartvrs of oranjje. ami pieces of H Scatter siis;.ir over all, and' a pineli "of jfingev. Cover with suet erust. and boil for two hours. Turn nut and serve.

Vyiicn eleiiniitj! tarnished silver, wash it lirst in very hot water in whieh n tenspoonful of aninionia has lieen added to n c|uan of water, using soap as well. Dry thoroughly, and then clean with some reliable plate-powder, moistening it with methylated „,)i r jt. It muv take three in- tour eleanimp lo net a'renllv hi'.'li polish if the silver is in a verv bail state.

The Little Peacemaker.—lt isn't so long ago that a well-known commercial ninn was liPnvil to declare thai, of all the (lnnifKlic peacemakers of his neHiiiiiataiicp. tin- homelv little dried currant carried tliv palm, "Many a pudill as,' said he, "gins' down without » murmur because there arc plenty of currants in it, and ninnv an otherwise impossible i-ake is tolerated for the same reason." Now, if that is a mail's idea of a currant, what is a woman's? Simply flint this fruit is a perfect godsend tn i lie young housewife—a friend Hint will help her out of innumerable tight corners.

I'.ccl".. Caribnldis'. Prepare a .short paste with '/,lb fresh butter, 2oz lard and Soz Hour, u pinch of salt, mil the necessary water, Roll out tin- paste and cut into rounds with a pastry-cutter, into each round put a piece of fresh butter the size of a filbert, one teaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonfnl of currants. I lather up all the edges of the pastry, keeping: the fruit, etc., inside, roll it very lightly, then make two incisions' in the top. ami brush over with egg. link: for about twenty minutes in a moderately-heated oven.

A simple ilowev-holdev. and one that costs onlv a few pence, call be made of a liiie-ineshed' wire netting. A piece of netting about twelve inclicr. square 'W.it left- hv some workmen. This was crumpled up in the hands and used in n howl for holding roses, chrysanthemum*, or any kind of Mower*' with such good results that it is now preferred .to any other kind,

Herring's Koe on Toast.—Take sonic soft herring's roe. wash thoroughly and place in a pie-dish with one buy leaf, half-a-dozen peppercorns, a dessert-

spoonful of salt, and sullicicnt vinegar and water to cover them. Set in a nioderalv oven for h'llf an li'iur. When cooked drain the roj's. -Spread' sonic

strips of toast with hut lev and French mustard in equal proportion.-., spread the roe evenly on the toast, and put into a moderate' oven to get really hot. The liipior can lie strained and used again.