HAY BOX COOKERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 20

HAY BOX COOKERY.

(By E.W.M.) JIEEF BOL'UJIiT. Three or 41b top-side, 3 or 4 eacli oarrots. Lurnirw, onions, or leeks (all sliced). 2oz or 3 tiiblespoonfuls oatmeal, pepper and salt. At the bottom of tho billy lay half the vegetables, then the meat, oatmeal, and seasoning; also I blade uf niat't , , 2 cloves, 3 peppercorns', 3 sprigs parsley, 2 sprig's thyme, 1 sprig marjoram, tied toother (if no homegrown herbs are handy, a toaspoonful of dried mixed herbs makes a pood substitute) ; the remainder of the vegetables on top. Well cover with liquor, and if room 1 pint more. Keep the vessel tightly shut; boil for 45 minutes, then put in hay-box six hours at least, longer if convenient. Remove the bouquet of herbs when dishing up. IRISH STEW. One pound meat (cut in bits), 2 or 31b potatoes, 1 bunch of parsnips, 3 or 4 onions (chopped small), 1 tablespoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful pepper, 1 quart stock or water. At the bottom of the billy put a layer of sliced potatoea and parsnips, strew over some of the onion, and some pepper and salt; then half the meat, and some more seasoning; then another layer of potatoes; then the remainder of the meat, on : ons, parsnips, and seasoning; cover with the rest of the potatoes. Fress all close, and last of all add the liquor: boil half an hour. Pus in hay-box six hours. ENGLISH STEW. Parboil the outer leaves of a cabbage, chop up coarsely, grease the ineido of a billy, press the cabbage firmly round the sides, nnd cover the bottom, put a layer of meat (eool<ed meat can be used), then a layer of sliced onion, also a layflr of cooked haricot beans, or any other leftover vegetable, theu a layer of meat; cover with cabbage, add 2 teaspoonfuls vinegar, I pint of liquid, pepper and salt to taste. Boil half an hour. (Put in haybox six hours, or longer. RICE OR iBAJtDEY STEW. One. pound meat, Jib rice or Soz liarley, 2 or 3 onions (either whole of chopped). 2 or 3 turnips or carrots (sliced), pepper and salt, i quarts -.quor. Soak the rice or barley over night. Then put in the billy, with the meat cut up, and tlie vegetables. Boil 'haH an hour. 'Finish off in the hay-box. Six hours sTiould be sufficient. iXBW ENGLAND BOILBD DETNER. Two medium cabbages. 2 medium swedes, 4 potatoes, (i carrots, 6 onions, 21b loan salt pork, 4 cloves, 4 allspice. Parboil the cabbages, drain. Put the carrots and swedes cut in quarters into a billy, add tho cabbages, then tho meat; cover with the onions and potatoes; cover with water, add the spices, also popper and a little salt. Boil threequarters of an hour, then put in hay box for six hours or longer. Arrange vegetables on dish, with the salt pork in the centre. NOTE.—(A description of liow to make nnd use a hay-box was given on this page last Saturday. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Ouc of the interesting exhibits at the Thrift "Exhibition was a display of homemade cleaning materials; all well-tried recipes in constant use. The following 1 were some of the recipes shown made i up:— TOOTH POWDER. Ingredients.—2oz. precipitated chalk, loz. powdered orris root, loz. baking . soda. Mix well together and sift three times. 'Keep in covered jar or tin. This is a ■ cheap and excellent recipe, and is in regular use by tlie maker, who thois I saves a good sum during the year. RECIPE FOR. FURNITURE POLISH. ■ Ingredients.—l cup or i-pint 'boiled linseed oil (this preserves wood), 1 cup lor J-pint turpentine (this polishes), } cup 'or i-pint vinegar (this removes stains), I cup or J-pint methylated spirit (this dries and gives a gloss). i -Method.—Mix vinegar and oil gradually to a thick cream, then add turpentine and spirits. Bottle, and shake I before using. BECIFE FOR SILVER POLISH. Ingredients.—2 level tablespoons borax, J cup alcohol or methylated spirit, i precipitated whiting. j Method.—Dissolve borax in one cup oi boiling water; when cold add alcohol or methylated spirits, and mix with these gradually sufficient precipitated whiting to make a thin cream. Keep in a bottle, land shake before using. A quick polish may be made by mixing precipitated ifhiting with ammonia.