DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 15 May 1919, Page 41

DOMESTIC

£ • (By Maureen.) ‘ /* Nr,,, / Date Pudding. i |4 Ingredients: II cupfuls of breadcrumbs, I -a cup-j ful of sugar, 2oz butter, grated rind and s juice, of a j lemon, jib of dates, 2 eggs. Method: Stone the dates;: mix with dry ingredients. Beat up the eggs and add i them. Put ! the lemon juice in last. Steam in buttered mould for two hours. |j , Eggless Birthday Cake. | Ingredients: Four breakfastcupfuls of flour, lib of butter, 2 breakfastcupfuls of sugar, fib of currants, £lb of raisins or sultanas,-candied peel to taste, lj cupful of milk, a liberal teaspoonful of baking soda, a level teaspoonful of crushed carraway seeds, a small teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, the same of mixed spice, a little essence of almond, lemon and vanilla (none to predominate). Method: Cream the butter and sugar. Add part of the milk without soda, then the flour, with fruit and peel mixed through it, then work in the remainder of the milk with the soda in it. Bake slowly for two and a-half to three hours. Keep for 14 days before cutting ; it is then like good 'pound . cake. ‘ But .it , must be kept ~ : for the fortnight before being cut into. A ' : - . Spice Biscuits.Ingredients: A cupful of flour,' a cupful of ground rice, a cupful of sugar, 2oz of .butter, 2- eggs, half 3 packet of mixed spice, a teaspoonful , of soda, 2 of cream of tartar, a pinch of salt. Method: Mix butter and sugar together, then work -in the eggs unbeaten. Mix in the rising spice and flour. -Roll into balls, then flatten a little. Bake in a moderate oven. Place on a cold oven slide. Banana Custard. Ingredients; 4 bananas, an egg. a cupful of hot milk, a tablespoon of sugar. Method : Peel and

cut up the -bananas with a ; silver or, bone knife, and ) place them in a buttered pie dish. Beat tip the egg, ! and add the hot. milk and the sugar. Pour over the bananas and ; f bake, placing the < pie dish in ’ a baking | dish containing water, U '• ? ,r?. ‘ ,A; 'A .Tasty Lunch Dish, tr;; :?r-< •; Ingredients: Some cold cooked meat, onions, rice, mashed potatoes, and a small piece of dripping, pepper, and salt. Method : Pour boiling water over the onions, strain) and put them through . the mincer with the meat. ' Add equal quantities of mashed potatoes and cooked rice to double the amount of meat and onions. Mix all together, put in the seasoning, and place in a well-buttered pie-dish. Bake in a moderate oven until a nice brown. Serve with tomato sauce. - Household Hints, To remove shine from a black cloth skirt rub it well with a piece of flannel dipped in spirits of turpentine; dry in the open air. ' To clean white woollen dresses or coats, take a clean cloth and dip it in dry ground rice and rub all soiled spots, using a new cloth as the old one becomes dirty. Then shake the garment and it generally will look as good as new. The taint can be removed from a saucepan in which onions have been cooked by half-filling the vessel with water; to which a handful of tea leaves has been added, and boiling it for five minutes. A To remove mud stains from black silk or woollen dresses, first let the material become perfectly dry. and then brush off the mud. Any stain that remains should be washed with a piece of flannel dipped in hot coffee in which a little ammonia has been added.