Household. RECIPES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1794, 5 January 1884, Page 6

Household. RECIPES.

Love-Knots. — Little cake 3, called " loveknots" are nice for tea : Five cups of flour, two of sugar, one of butter, a piece of lard the size of an egg, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, half a teaspoonful of soda ; rub the butter sugar and flour together fine, add the other ingredients, roll thin, cut in strips one inch wide and five inches long, lap across in true love-knots, and bake in a quick oven. Ciiicken a L'ltalienne. — Take half a pound of La Favorita macaroni and boil it in water with a lamp of butter. When it has boiled a quarter of an hour draw off the water and cover the macaroni with milk, and salt and pepper and a Bniall onion, and. two or three cloves; boil until the macaroni is tender but unbroken. Boil a chicken in the usual manner, cut it up and lay it on a hot dish, pour the macaroni over it (remove the onion), grate one quarter of a pound of Parmesan cheese over the dish, and then brown it in the oven. Maids op Honor. — One cupful of sweet milk, one of sour, one of sugar, a lemon, the yolks of four eggs, a speck of salt. Put all the milk, in the double boiler and cook until it curds ; then strain. Eub the curd through a sieve. Beat the sugar and yolks of eggs together, and add the rind and juice of the lemon, and the curd. Line little patty pans with puff or chopped paste, rolled very thin. Put a large_ spoonful of the mixture in each one, and bake from fifteen to twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Do not remove from the pans until dbld. Meringues. — Meringues, which are pretty to serve with cako at a summer evening entertainment, are made after this receipt : To one pound of pulverized sugar allow the beaten whites of eight egga ; beat the sugar and eggs slowly together : sift a little sugar over a sheet of thick white paper ; and drop from a spoon the mixture of sugar and egg upon it. A tablespoon evenly full will make them the proper size and shape. Allow about two inches ©f space between them. Have the oven bo hat that they will bake with the door left open, so that you can watch them ; the moment they are browned take them ou*-. If you choose to take the trouble, remove the soft inside, and fill with ice cream or red jelly. A deep platter with whipped cream in the centre and the meringue around the edge is a handsome ornament for the table.

In Borne a small Egyptian obelisk has been discovered in an excavation behind the Churoh of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, near the site of the Temple of Isis and Serapis. It lies at a depth of fifteen feet and is in a good state of preservation. A sphinx in basalt was found, also, with a cartouch on the breast.