Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 50, 16 December 1925, Page 59

Domestic

By Maureen

mm nrf) -> : Orange Pudding. !; Mix 1 cup of sugar, £ cup rolled biscuits, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 orange—grate the rind and squeeze the juice—and 1 quart milk. Bake the whole like a custard and serve it cold. Cup Custards, Iced. Beat till feathery 3 eggs, add 1 quart milk, 1 cupful sugar, a pinch of salt, and stir well for several minutes. Pour the mixture into 6 tea cups, stand them in a tin or basin of hot water, in a cool oven and bake till quite firm. Remove them from the oven; be careful to dry the outside of the cups and stand on ice. Coffee Custard. Scald together 2 cups milk and 2 tablespoons finely-ground coffee and strain the mixture. Add 4 tablespoons sugar, j teaspoon vanilla, and J teaspoon salt. Pour 3 wellbeaten eggs into the mixture, mix the whole thoroughly and bake it in a buttered dish or in individual custard cups set in a panful of water. Ambrosia of Oranges. Peel and cut up as many oranges as you will need and remove all the tough tissue and the seeds. Place a layer of sliced oranges in the bottom of a dish, cover it with a layer of sugar and grated cocoanut, place another layer of oranges on top of that and continue, alternating layers of oranges with layers of sugar and of cocoanut, until you have filled the dish. Then sprinkle sugar and cocoanut on the top. Scotch Candy. 21b brown sugar, £lb butter, 1 teacup water, 1 lemon, fib oatmeal. Butter a shallow tin, lay the oatmeal in the tin. Boil the sugar, butter, water, and half the rind of lemon, cut finely. When boiled let it stand aside till the boiling has ceased, then stir in juice

20 minutes, their remove it. The cress can be eaten instead of being thrown away. To the water add 1 tomato and 1 onion; let simmer till done. Put your barley with mutton on in another pot, and let boil for 20 minutes, with salt to taste, then add remaining onions and tomatoes. When done add the watercress broth to it. This gives it the flavor of mushrooms. It is delicious. Add chopped parsley if liked. Household Hints. Salt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking in sour milk. To loosen windows that are hard to move or stuck from being closed a long time or during damp weather, melt a tablespoon of lard and pour a little between the window frame and casing; also on the roller and rope. To make crisp potato chips, slice potatoes very thin, cover with cold water, and let them soak for 2or 3 hours. Dry them well before frying, and you will find they will be more crisp, as the starch has been soaked out. To keep egg yolks fresh.—When only the whites of eggs are used, place yolks in a small cup and cover with a square of muslin folded small and almost dripping with water. Keep cloth wet and egg yolks cool. Yolks cared for in this manner will keep moist and fresh' tor a day or two.

of the lemon, and pour steadily into tin and allow to cool. Coffee Junket. Make a cup of strong coffee, let it clear, then mix with sufficient milk to.make it a quart. Make all together lukewarm, then stir in junket powder or liquid with 2oz castor sugar and a grate of nutmeg. "When cool it is ready. This is a very light sweet • for an invalid, inexpensive, and very much liked. Watercress Soup. Two small bunches of watercress, £lb barley, slb tomatoes, £lb neck of mutton, 3 large onions. Put watercress (after clean- ' ;j ing), stalks included, into little more than --.. «phalf a pint of boiling water, with a grain |,, - Tof soda and salt to taste. Let it boil for