Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 1 December 1921, Page 41

Domestic

By Maureen

YORKSHIRE TEA CAKES. Take one ..pound of flour, add to it two teaspoonsful of baking powder and two ounces of white sugar. Dissolve one ounce of butter in a cupful of warm milk, and beat into it one egg. Work all into a light dough, and bake in patty-pans for about a quarter of an hour. BOILED SUET PUDDING. Ingredients: Half a pound of flour, three ounces of suet, half a teaspoonful of baking-powder, a pinch of salt, cold water. Method: Chop the suet finely, and put it into "a basin with the flour, baking-powder, and salt. Mix the dry ingredients to a stiff, dry dough with cold water. Form the mixture into a round, and tie firmly but loosely in a cloth, which should previously be dipped in boiling water, squeezed dry, and dredged with flour. Place the pudding in a pan of boiling water, and allow it to boil for two hours. Then turn it out, and servo with jam. BEEF-HASH PUDDING Cut into thin slices cold cooked meat Peel two large onions and cut them into the thinnest of slices. Melt two tablespoon of butter ; add the onions and cook over a fie, shaking gently from time to time, until they are a golden brown ; then add one tablespoonful of flour, and cook until browned ; add gradually two cupsful of stock or water, stirring all the time ; then add one tablespoonful of tomato ketchup, and cook for five minutes In a casserole or fireproof dish place alter, nate layers of onions and meat, cover with half a cupful of breadcrumbs mixed with ore tablespoonful of melted butter, and brown in a hot oven. HOW TO MAKE PINEAPPLE AND RHUBARB JAM. Allow four pounds of rhubarb to. one tin of pineapple chunks.'Cut the rhubarb small and nut it into a basin with two pounds of sugar, and leave all night. Next day, put the rhubarb juice and sugar'into your preserving pan with the pineapple chunks, adding the syrup. Boil for 10 minutes; add the rhubarb, and boil for another 10 minutes. Put into pots,' and, when cold, tie down. It is a , delicious jam. PINEAPPLE FILLING FOR LAYER CAKE. Tinned pineapple, cut up and drained from the syrup, spread between the cake layers, makes a very good filling. The syrup may be used for making the icing. Or the pineapple, syrup and all, may be thickened with a beaten egg (one egg to a cup of pineapple), and cooked together like soft custard. Or two tablespoonsful of butter may be rubbed together with two tablespoonsful of flour, and cooked with

one cup of chopped pineapple until thick enough to spread in a good, deep layer. . In every case a little sugar may be added, if desired. The sliced tinned pineapple should be chopped fine; and fresh .pineapple should be grated when you wish to use it for a cake filling. MAGNESIA AS A CLEANSER. * Powdered magnesia is splendid for cleaning white felt or beaver hats and many small light garments belonging to the children. All soiled parts should first be rubbed with the powder, and then thoroughly shaken and fresh powder applied. This should remain in the garment, or hat, for 'at least 24 hours, when it may be beaten out with a light cane or small rug-beater. HOW TO MARK PERFUME. It is not generally known that exquisite perfume can be made at home with very little cost and far superior to the chemically made scent sold at a high price. Here is the method : Procure some fresh ■ blossoms of your favorite flower when in full bloom, but not wilting; get a small sheet of cotton wool and some Florence or Lucca oil and a widemouthed bottle or jar of glass, such as jam is sometimes sold in. Cut the cotton wadding in circles to fit evenly in the jar. Dip one of the circular"pieces into the oil,, just saturating it, place in the bottom of the jar, on this put a layer of the petals plucked from the blossoms, sprinkle over lightly with fine salt, repeat alternate layers of cotton wool with the flower petals sprinkled with salt until the jar is full. Tie the mouth close with a bladder or a piece of white paper dipped into the white of an egg. Place the jar in a window, or out of doors, in the sun; After fifteen days uncover, and express the .scented oil from the contents and pour into glass-stoppered scent bottles.