The Housekeeper.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 11

The Housekeeper.

m RECIPES. Orange Tart.— Take the juice and pulp of four oranges, either Seville or the common kind, and the rind of one pared as thinly as possible, and-eut into little snips ; work them thoroughly together with half a pound of sugar, two beaten eggs, a glass of good brandy, two ounces of butter, and two ounces of pounded and sifted biscuit ; completely lino a tart-dish with a very fine puff-pasto; lay in the ingrcdieuls, and bako it for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. When eaten cold some rich cream may be poured over the top before Bending it to table. This will greatly increase its richness. Spinach and Eggs. — Put tho spinach into a saucepan, having first washed it very clean in four or five waters. Cover it close and shake it about often. When it is just tender, and while it is green, throw it into a sieve to drain and lay it in the dish. In the meantime have a slewpan of water boiling, and break as many eggs into cups an you would poach. When the water boils, put in tho eggs, and when done, take them out with an egg slice, and lay them on tho spinach. Send it up with melted butter in a cup, and garnish the dish with an orange cue into quarters. ltecipe for Dough Cake. — Ingredient*: One and a half pounds bread dough, six ounces beef dripping, five ounces Demerara. sugar, currants, raisins, or carraway seeds. Method : Beat the dripping to a cream, roll out the dough, spread the sugar and dripping over it, told it up, place it in a, basin, and beat with a woodun npoon until it becomes a stiff batter, mix in tho currants, seeds, or raining, and place in a warm place for two hours to rise. Place in one or two greased tins, cover over with parchment paper, and bake in a slow oven for throe-quarters of an hour. They are nice eaten as they come out of the oven, or for the next two days ; if kept longer than this they harden and are not nice. Banana Pudding. — Two bananas, quarter pound castor sugar, Ihveo eggs, halt a gill of milk or cream, four ounces self-raising flour, one ounce of butter. Cream the sugar and butter, work in yolks of eggs, one at a timo. Add the flour (siftod), then stir in tho milk or cream; beat the whites of oggi to a itiff froth, j»oel the bananas and cut them into thin slices, put both into tho mixture, stirring them in gently. Havo ready some dariolo moulds or one pudding mould previously buttered; put in the preparation, three parts full, steam, or bake il for one hour. When it is done, turn it out on a hot dish, and cover it with a syrup or sweet sauce. Oyster Tartlets. — Make some light pastry tartlets, then tako some oysters, gently stewed in their own liquor and bearded, ono gill of stock, some lemon juice, one tablespoonful of vinegar, one gill of whito sauce, half a gill of tho oyster liquor, and a very little salt ; let all theso boil a few minutes ; then add, off tho fire, the yolk of an egg whwked up; now add tho oysters, then put in prawns and pieces of cooked mushrooms, and then fill up with the oysters and sauce. Sprinkle over each lobster coral and parsley rubbed through a sieve. Make it hot in the oven for ten, minutes before serving it. Oyster Fritters. — Make a light batter with one ounco of flour, one yolk of egg, ono dessertspoonful of olive oil, a pinch of salt, and half a gill of milk. Beat it well, let it stand for an hour, then carefully stir in tho whisked white of an egg. Beard ono dozen largo oysters, sprinklo 'horn over with lemon juice, and season thum with rait and pepper ; dip each oyster into tho batter so as to completely cover it, then drop them one at a time into very hot clarified butter or dripping, and fry them to a light brown; take them up, drain, dish them up, and serve hot. Seasonable .Dish (Tomato Pie).— lnto a quart of milk, teasoned with pepper and ealt, throw a quarter pound of mac*rooii and stew it till tender. Then strain the milk away from the macaroni, throw the latter into a colander, and pour cold water over it. Drain it thoroughly, and set_it aside. Meantime boil three large turnips, peeled and quartered, in the milk in which the macaroni was stewed. While tho turnips are cooking mince a Spanish onion. Spread part of the macaroni over the bottom of a pie-dish, scatter the minced onion over it, with a little cayenne and plenty of white pepper, adding little bits of butter over all. Now add a layer of grated Parmoean and another of bread-crumbs. By this time tho turnips, will be ready to strain and mash. Add a layer of tkem, and repeat tho layers till the macaroni and turnips, are all used up. Bits of butter should be all over tho top. Add" the hot milk which has been strained away from the turnips. Spread slices of tomato on ten oggs, and bake the pie in a brisk oven for twenty minutes. Double Cream (whipped).— The following is a good substitute for whipped cream, and cannot be distinguished from it: — Take quarter pint of milk and bring it to the boil, then remove it from the fire, and add to it threo sheets of Marshall's leaf gelatine, then strain it, and leave until it is somewhat cool; then mix into it half a pint of cream, and whip all together to tho desired consistency. HOUSEHOLD. Chapped Hands.— Chapped hands or lips may be cured by applying night and morning, a fow drops of this lotion: — Tannin, 2oz; glycerine, loz; rose water, 4oz. To Clean Bamboo Furniture. — Use a brush and warm water and salt to prevent it from turning yellow. When dusting carved furniture always use a painter's brush to get into all the crevices. To Remove Inkstains from white cloth, heat a pint of sweet milk, soak goods in it, and the stains will disappear. For Kitchen Floors.— If kitchen floors are paintod with boiled Jinseed oil, they are cleaned very easily. For Taking Out Fruit Stains moisten them and hold over tho fumes of a burnine brimstone match. Recipe for Grained Wood. — Cold tea is excellent for ©leaning grained wood. Eircoftent Furnituro Polish — Dissolve two ounces of Castilo soap in a pint of cold water. Dissolve two ounces of white wax and two ounces of beeswax in one pint of turpentine. When each group of ingredients is separately dissolved, mix both carefully and thoroughly together. Two or three tnblcanoonfuls of methylated spirits should thon be added. Bottle up und shake well before using. To Prevent Sodden Pabtry.- V- T hen making jam tarts, brush the paste that will bo undor the jam with beaten white of an agg and it will prevent it from getting sodden Easy Method to Fix on Buttons. — If tho buttons hmo coino out of upholstered furniture, carriage scats, etc., placo a new button on tho head of a hairpin, push the pin through tho cushion, turn the cads baok, and tho button will never oome.out again.