Household Items.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Household Items.

Baki i) Fisii. — First, dip the fnh quickly in boiling water ; then wipo the scales off ; rinse in cold water ; wipe it dry ; pprinklo salt both inside and ou*;, about as much as you would for steaks. Then dip in flour ; place the pan that you are going to bake it in, in the stove with a piece of butter in it the sizo of an egg. Let it melt so that it covers the pan. Your pan should be about the length of your fish ; if larger, the butter will be apt to burn. Place your fish in it, the inside of it next to the pan. Put it in a hot oven, and bake one hour, if it is a large fiah, less time if smaller. It should be well done, and of a nice brown color.

Poached Eggs. — Nearly fill a frying-pan with boiling water. Add a little salt and vinegar. Break your eggs one at a time into a wet saucer, and slip from this upon the surface of the water. Cool slowly threo minutes, take up with a perforated skimmer, and lay carefully upon rounds of buttered toast.

S'ieued Hari\ — To two hares, take half pound of fat salt pork, one large onion, one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoonful browned flour, pepper and salt, half a lemon, peeled and sliced thin, half cup gravy. Slice the onion, dredge with flour, and fry brown in the butter. Add half cupful gravy, and when well mixed turn all into a saucepan. Put in the rabbits, jointed as for fricasse, the sliced bacon and lemon. Season, cover close and stew one hour, or until meat is tender. Thicken with browned flour, boil once, and serve.

Mutton Chops.— Trim off superfluous fat and skin, beat each chop flat, and lard each with strips of fat salt pork, drawn quite through bo as to protect both sidea of the chop, put into saucepan, sprinkle with minced onion, pepper and parsley and barley, and cover with any weak broth you may chance to have. Put on the saucepan lid, set it where it will not boil under one hour. Then increase heat and simmer half hour, or until tender. Take up the chops and keep hot. Thicken gravy with browned flour, add juice of one lemon, one large spoonful mushroom catsup, stir one minute. Put back the chops and heat to a weak boil. Lay chops on di3h, pour over the gravy, and serve.

Li:mon Snvps. — One cup of sugar, half a, cup of butter, two egga, quarter of a tablespoonful of soda dissolved in a little milk, flour enough to make a stiff batter, boil thin. For polishing mahogany, walnut, etc., dissolve beeswax by heat in spirits of turpentine until the mixture becomes viscid ; then apply with a clean cloth, and wipe thoroughly with a dry flannel.

Coi'kke c\ke. — One cupful Jof sugar, 1 cupful of molasses, 1 cupful of cold coffee, | cupful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of soda, .1 cupfuls of flour, cinnamon, oloves, and fruit. Like all other fruit cake, it is better after standing several days. Supinass and effeminacy jhavejruined more constitutions than were ever destroyed by excessive labors. Moderate exercise and toil, so far from prejudicing, strengthens and consoli- ■ dates the body.