HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 December 1913, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A FEW RECIPES.

Apple Croquettes.--Pare and slice a sufficient number of apples to make one quart. To this quantity allow one heaping tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of cornflour. Two eggs, and'sugar to taste. Put two teaspoonfuls of water into a saucepan with the apples, then add the butter; cover the pan and stew gently until the apples are tender; add sugar and grated nutmeg to taste. Mix the cornflour with one tablespoonful of water until perfectly smooth. Then stir in the apple and oook for ten minutes longer. Beat the eggs without separating them, and add them quickly with the hot apple and cook all together for one minute. Hub the mixture through a sieve on a buttered plate: Stand on ico till perfectly cold. Mould into croquettes, brush over with beaten eggj roll in fine breadcrumbs,, and fry in plenty of smoking hot fat. Drain and serve immediately. croquettes will be found a valuable addition to roast pork and goose, and by many people are liked with veal. Marmalade Cakes. —Six heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, one level teaspoonful of baking powder, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, two heaping tablespoonfuls of butter, one tableapoonful of marmalade, two eggs and two tablespoonfuls of milk. Cream' the butter and sugar together, add the eggs, and beat the mixture well. Stir in t(lio marmalade, flour, and baking powder. Bake in fancy tins in a fairly quick oven for about fifteen minutes.

i Coeoanut Layer - Cake.—Beat four ounces of butter and half a pound of sifted castor sugar to a light cream. Add one by one, beating well between each addition half a pound of sifted flour to which two large teaspoonfuls of baking powder have been added, a little salt, one teaspoonful of vanilla flavouring, and half a pint of milk. When all axe in, beat for five minutes. Stir in the stiffly beaten whites of five eggs, and bake at once in four buttered sandwich tins. When quite cold make, the following mixture : Beat the whites of two eggs as stiffly as possible, add a pinch of aalt, "and enough icing sugar to make n thick paste. Spread this over throe of the cakes, sprinkle thickly with desiccated coeoanut, place the cakes one updn the other, sandwich fash- I ion, pressing them well together. I Brush oyer tho top of cake with the white of egg mixture, sprinkle with more coeoanut, and dredge with ; fine castor sugar. j

Oold tea leaves l>ound on a burn take out the-fire at once. The juice of a lemond before breakfast will often cure a.^bilious headache, but. no sugar must be taken with'it. •■ '•" Handkerchiefs which have beanie yellow can be made snow-white by soaking them in pipeclay and .water for twenty-four hours. To make, linen easier to write on when marking it, dip the piece to be marked.'.in cold starch, and the pen will write without scratching. When cleaning knives, damp them before rubbing on the board, as they produce a better polish and clean much Quicker. When washing ribbons, wind them tightly and smoothly round a bottle when wet, let them remain until dry, and they will require no ironing. To impart a delicate odour to linen, saturate a piece of cotton or blotting paper with oil of lavender and place it among the various articles.