The Housekeeper.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 11

The Housekeeper.

VARIOUS RECIPES. Haricot Puree.— Ono pint of haricot beans, ono onion, one tea/*poonful of salt, pepper, one pint of milk, and two quarts of water. Soak beans in cold water all night. Then put into a saucepan with water, suit, nnd sliced onion. Let it boil gently for /our hours. Then put it through a coinnder into a basin, stir in the milk odd pepper and salt, and pour back into a saucepan to get hot. Stir while wanning. When quite hot, pour into a tureen and fcervo. Cok'ry Soup. — Soup is bo generally popular that a recipe lor it will bu appreciated. Uoil thtee or tour large heaus of celery, with an. onion and three huge potatoes, until tender. Drain them, nnd pass nU through a siove. Dilute tho pulp to tho nghi comsiiitency with equal parts of nuik and wiiter in which the vegetables werot boiled, and half an ounce oi butter roiled in flour, Benson with white pepper and «tlt, boil up and serve. JLlund dice of fried bread with tho soup. Potato Puft>r.— One pound of cold boiled floury potutoos;, 2oa of butter, two raw eggs, ono gill of cream or milk, pepper, and salt. Hub tho potatoes through a wire sieve, warm the butter till it is hist oily, and add to it the potatoes ; bent them till they nro like cream. Bent tho oggs till they are frothy, then «dd them and the cream or milk to tho potatoes. Sea»on {he mixture well. Heap it up neatly in iv buttered piedish. Bake it in a sharp oven till i.t in woll browned and light nnd puffy. Serve nt onco. Madeira Sandwiches. — Half n. pound of buiter, half a pound of sugar, four figg»i three-quarters of a pound of flour, threequarters of a teaspoon ful of baking powder, half a. gilL of milk, essenco of lemon. Bent the butter nnd hug«r to a crenm, add the egga one nt a time, and the cshmicc of lemon, then add the ini'.k, and lastly ' tho flour and baking powder. Put tho mixture iv flat buttered tins, nnd bake in a quick oven. When cold, cut them through, and spread with raspberry Juan. Coconut Drop Cakes. — Take half a pound of desiccated cocoamit, put in a basin with a quarter of a pound of castor sugar, and a pinch of salt, cream two ounces of butter, and boat three eggs intd it gradually. Stir into the coconut, make little mounds on paper, and bnko in a moderate oven, twenty minutes. Rlvubnrb Charlotte. — Lino a picdish with sponge cake. Well «tuw a uundle of rhubarb with a good amount of sugar, &»y half a pound, and small pieces of candied peel. When cool place in prcdish on tho enko, and when quite cold put pioces of whipflpd cream on top. Chocolato Bread Pudding.— Soak two cupfuls of fitalo bread in ono quart of milk, scalded, for half an hour; melt two nquaies of chocolate over hot water ; add half a cup of sugar and enough milk from tho broad and milk to make it pour easily; add it to the bread with onefourth cup of sugar, pinch of s,nlt, ono teaspoon of vanilla, and two egga slightly beaten ; turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake one hour in a moderate oven ; servo with hnrd sauce. . Apple Tart.— Lay a disc of puff paste on a round tin, and place a strip of paste nil round it as for mi ordinary jam tart. Spread on the inside iv layer of apple marmalade, a quarter of an inch thick. Peel and core some/npples, cut them in slices a qtinrter of nn inch thick, trim all tho slices to the same shape, dispose of these slices over tho -marmalade, overlapping ench other, and in some kind of pnttern ; strew plenty of sugar over, nnd bake in a quick oven till the upples uro a good colour. HOME HINTS. To Prevent Wooden Heels Wearing Down at iho Sides.— Hammer in five or more drawing pins, at twopence a dozen, round tho edge of the heels, where tread comes most. They will wear much longer. Ttn's is an especially valuable hint for outdoor shoes. A Very Useful Bint.— A little dry mustard rubbed on the hands will remove the smell of fish or onions, or any, other disagreeable odour. Rusty Flat Irons.— Rusty flat irons can be made clean and as smooth as glass bj tho use of beeswax and salt. Tie a lump of wax in a piece of cloth, and keep it for the purpose. When the iron is hoi, rub it with the wax, nnd then scour with a papor or cloth sprinkled with snlt. Wax the iron nßnin before putting it away, for v little film of wax will prevent the formation of rust. To Clean "Whitewash. — "When a whitewashed ceiling has become blackened, apply a layor of slnrch and water to it with a piece of soft flannel. Allow it to dry, then brush off lightly with v brush. Tho blackness will have disappeared, leaving no marks whatever. For tha Face. — Lemon juice and fresh cream makes an excellent nourishing food for the skin. The former tones it up, while tho latter supplies tho fat needed to nourish it, if wrinkles are to bo kept at buy. For Pimples. — If you suffer from pimples eat liberally of watercress. There is no better blood purifier. Watercress is rich in iron, and so is very good for those who nro inclined to be unrcmic. To Clenn Brass. — To ' clean brass nothing is bolter than the old-fashioned plan of rubbing first with a paste mnde of powdoroil balhbriok and paraffin, and then with dry powdered bathbrtck. A mixture of lemon' juice nnd clmlk used in the same way is also excellent. To Clean Decanters. — To clenn water bottles and decant-eis, mix together half a gill of vinegar and a handful of Knit Shako well in the decanters )o be clean* ed, and no matter how discoloured, this treatment has been tried and found successful.