Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 9 October 1913, Page 57

Domestic

By Mauiieen.

Assorted Cakes. Four eggs, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of flour, three ounces of butter, one level teaspoonful of baking powder, and one teaspoonful of vanilla extract; Beat up the eggs and sugar together over a saucepan of hot water for twenty minutes; remove the basin from the pan and beat up the contents until they are cool. ■ Sift in the flour and baking powder, add the butter, melted. Mix carefully, adding the extract. Turn into a flat buttered and papered tin, and bake in a moderately hot oven for twenty minutes. When ready, remove the paper, and when cool cut into neat cakes. Cover them with pink, white, and chocolate frosting. • . To Dry Herbs. Herbs should be pulled on a dry day and just before they flower. Cut up the roots and free them from dust it may be necessary to wash them. Put them either in a slow oven or in the sun till they are quite dry and crisp, but not at all brown. Pull all the leaves off and rub them down, them rub them through a coarse sieve and bottle for use, or they may be tied in, bunches by the stems and hung till dry, then put in paper bags for use. Mushrooms may be dried slowly in the same way, pounded, and rubbed through a sieve. This mushroom powder is excellent added to soups and stews. Rutland Crumpets, y; Half a pint of buttermilk, half a pound of flour, a pinch of salt, half an ounce of sugar, a pinch of bicarbonate of soda, one egg. Put the flour and salt in a bowl, add the sugar, make a well in the centre of the flour, put in the beaten egg, add a 1 title of the buttermilk, stirring the flour with a wooden spoon from the sides into the centre, beat well to get out the lumps, add the rest of the buttermilk, blend the bicarbonate of soda in a little buttermilk, and add last thing before cooking. Heat a very clean griddle, rub over with a small piece of dripping or lard, take a spoonful of the batter, and pour on the griddle as many spoonfuls as it will hold; cook until a light brown on one side, turn over and cook through. Butter; put two crumpets together and serve very hot. Household Hints. Sponges that have lost their freshness should be soaked in milk for several hours, wrung out, and then rinsed thoroughly in warm water to which a teaspoonful of carbolic acid has been added. They will come out as good as new. - Three tablespoonfuls of baking soda ■in a quart of water applied with a rough cloth will remove the old. varnish very easily when you wish to revarnish furniture. To cleanse a frying-pan which smells of onions or fish, fill the pan with water, and when it boils drop in a red-hot cinder. Afterwards rinse and wash in the usual way. - ‘Apples cut in irregular pieces will , cook more quickly in a pie than if sliced, for they do not pack closely as slices do, and so the hot air comes more easily in contact with the fruit and cooking is facilitated. If you get a cut that will not stop bleeding, there is nothing like cold water. Don’t bandage the hand, but hold it above the head and pour the coldest water procurable over it. The worst case of bleeding will usually yield to this treatment. U For hoarseness bake a lemon as one would an apple. Squeeze a little of the - thickened and heated juice over lumps of sugar and take frequently.

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