HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 23

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Amber Pudding. —Five eggs, two whites left out, half-pound lump sugar pounded fine, not quite half a pound of butter melted and mixed with the sugar, then the eggs mixed in, and a little candied peel, and flavoured according to taste. Mske a p:isto, line a pudding dish with ife, pour' the mixture in, and cover with- paate. When baked, tarn it out iv a glass dish, strew over with sugar, and eat cold.

Bread Sauce tor a'Boast Fowl.— Chop a small onion fina, and boil ' ii in a pint of milk for five minutes; then' add' about ten ounces bread ctumb3, a bit of butter, pepper, and salt to season ; stir tho whole on the fire for ten minutes. Do not let it boil.

Gingerbread Ntjts. — Take two pounds of flour, rub into it three-quarters of a pound of butter, then add one pound of sugar and one pound of troacle, two ounces of best powdered ginger, 'two ounces of finely sliced candied peel, and lastly two egg 9, well beaten. Divide the mixture into cakes of any sizs you like, and bake in the oven. Chocolate Cream. — Scrape two ounces of chocolate into a pint of milk ; add sugar to your taste ; then boat up the yolks of four large egga, and mix all together. Put it into an snamelled saucepan, aefc it on the fire, and keep stirring it until it boils ; then remove and let it cool before being served up. This makes a nica supper dish, espooially for tho coming hot season ; it should be placed in custard cupa, or in a flit glass dish ornamented with " snow," coloured or white.

Potato Cakes. — Two potatoes, a little salt, a breakfaetcupf ul of flour, one ounce of butter. Boil the potatoes, peel and bruise them, and work them into a pasta, then add a little salb, and mix it in a large breakfastcupful of flour. Roll out the cake, and cut it into six or eight pieces. Bake it slowly in a metal frying-pan, in which pat previously about one ounce of butter. The cakea should be of a light colour, and require constant attention while b.iking.

Croup can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and molaesea. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife or grater and shave off in small particles about a teanpoonful of alum ; then mix it with twice ita quantity of molasses, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almoßt instantaneous relief will follow.

Branches of the elder bush hung in the dining-room of a house will clear the room of flies. They have an odour which the insects detest,