Household Help Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, 17 September 1898, Page 6

Household Help Column.

All comnranications for the Household Help column should be addressed " Annette," c/o Advertiser, Waimate. Correspondents.niay use initials ornorn <de plume in signing queries or answers ; "but all must enclose their names and ad- ', dresses as a guarantee of good faith, and '.also observe the press rule of writing on one side of the paper only.

have received two very good recipes for gingerbread in reply to Jean.

Nol. 2 lbs flour, lib fine brown sugar, lib 'golden syrup, Jib butter, 2 teaspoons creani of tartar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, loz ground ginger. Eub the butter into the flour, mis in sugar, ginger, cream of tartar and soda, make a bay and add syrup and water to make a soft dough. 801 l out with a pin and bake in a well"buttered tin in a warm oven. When done wash the top with a thin syrup of sugar and water while hot. — A. B.

No 2. Nice gingerbread without eggs. 1 cup sugar, £ a cup butter, 1 cup best molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in liot water, nearly four

cups flcntr, lemon-peel if preferred. Mix ingredients thoroughly. Add soda water last, beating hard for two minutes. Bake quickly. — Florence. Jessie sends recipe in reply to M abt, Waihao : — Any one who can make bread can make a very plain loaf of the description you require by adding some sugar, spice, and currants to the dough ; but I think you will find the following a nice kind of bun -loaf : — Eub 4oz. of butter or clarified dripping into 21b of flour, and then add -g-lb of sugar (white or brown), lib of currants, £oz of carraway seeds, £oz of powdered allspice ; warm a pint of milk and stir into it three tablespoonfuls of brewers' or ioz of German yeast, pour this to the rest and mix till in a light dough, knead it well and divide the quantity into two loaves, putting them into tins lined high with buttered paper. Let the dough rise in a warm place in the tins for more than an hour, then bake in a fairly hot oven from one and half to two hours. Many thanks to A.8., Florence and Jessie.