Household Help Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 27, 26 November 1898, Page 1

Household Help Column.

AH communications for the Household Help column should be addressed " Annette, c/o Advertiser, Waimate. Correspondents may use initials ornom de plume in signing queries or answers • but all must enclose their names aad addresses as a guarantee of good faith and also observe the press rule of writing on one side of the paper only. Two recipes have been sent for Mrs M iNo. 1 from Minnie and No. 2 from Mr* ().

MARMALADE. No. 1. Weigh your fruit, as you require an equal weight of loaf sugar; then peel the nrangee ; put the peel, cut in pieces, into a preserving pan ; cover with water ami set on the fire to boil. Next divide vonr oranges into gores, and remove the pips and the white pith which adheres from the Bjan. By this time the peels will be tender; drain them, put one on the -other in a little pile, and with a very sharp knife out them into shreds as, thinly as let all boil, stirring the while, for from, half an hour to three-quarters, until the syrup "jeUys" (you should test it from tme to time.) Let your marmalade cool slightly before pouring it into pots ; made m this way.it should be as clear as can be desired. But remember, you cannot make satisfactory marmalade unless you buy good, sound Seville oranges. ,

No. 2. - „.< 8 pints of water to each Ib. of oranges. Out up the oranges and put iri water for 24 hours and next day boil till/ttltins are tender, then let it stand for 24, hours, piit W ' T"!* 0 6Ve 7 lb> ° f pul P' boi * Sib fiour. Six lemons to every dozen oranges improves it. .Don't include the lemons m the count of water. ' '" Y<C. sends recipe to M.E.G,'

OHOPOLATJ? ROULADE. The ingredients required are:— 6 , - OXisifted sugar, 5 eggs, and two tablespooii- , fuls of flour pr what is .better, one of flour And two of bread crumbs. Beat up the' yolks of the eggs in' the sugar for "twenty minutes, add the 'flour and, bread crumbs, and last stir in ,the well-whisked .wh'ite^ of the^ggs. Pour into, a buttered. or flavpured baking tin, antf bake in a slow, oven for about twenty-five .. minutes.. When done, let, it cool, a kittle, and, $heiV , very carefully take it out of the tineas not to break it, and spread with the follow- > ing • mature :— l£ O2 chocolate,^ pjeces «4it ii B W^f^ a d , es > se^-spo9nfuhof. * mJk, *U boiled together until smodtiband' thick. NowroHupthe'cake^Sh fine castor 'sugar and .serve, ,ooM.v^lf chocolate is ,not cared for, apripofcanv; nice preserve may be B^bstituU'^ ; the cake being rolled up, as usual ,. after-" wards. •< "■ / , t , iytrs ,^V. sends, Recipe for, Aliqb.-^ < : i

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