HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 284, 26 August 1922, Page 13

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

The Home Cook. CHEESE SCHAPPE. Heat two cupfuls of milk in tho top of tho chafing dish or double boiler. Mix one tablespoonful of cornflour with a small amount of cold milk, and add to the hot milk, stirring until it thickens. Chop eight young cnions finely, using also part of tho green tops, and add with half a cupful of grated cheese to the sauce. Add one and a half teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of cayenne, and ’ a pinch of curry powder, ana pour over buttered toast. This is delicious served with cold meat or in combination with Hot halted potatoes and lettuce. SPINACH AND EGGS.

Boil two pounds of spinach; when it is well drained pass it through a fine sieve. Put two ounces of butter into a saucepan, and when it is melted stir in the spinach. Season it with salt, popper, and a pinch of powdered sugar; and two tablespoons of cream. Pile in a hot dish and decorate with sieved yolk of egg, quarters of hardboiled egg, pr arrange in a fiat bed and lay neatly poached eggs on the top, or arrange as a border with scrambled e.ggs in tho oentre. BEEF MOULD. Put four ounces of breadcrumbs into a saucepan, and pour in sufficient hot beef gravy to moisten them; lot the mixture boil up, and when a thick paste is formed remove the jan from the stove and add the yolks of two eggsi, then half a pound of finelyminced beef, and the liver, which has been cooked with a few slices of onions in clarified bacon fat, and then rubbed through a sieve Season the ingredients with salt, pepper, and a little cayenne; then sth- in one tablespoon of tomato sauce and the whites of two eggs whiskod to a stiff froth. Butter a plain tin mould, fill it with the prepared meat, place a piece of buttered paper over the top, and steam it steadily for an hour, then turn it on to a hot dish, cover the top with grated horse radish, and surround with savoury brown sauce.

TO MAKE ICED COFFEE. Required—l heaped tablespoonful of coffee to each half pint of water, about 6oz. of castor sugar, } pint of croam, 4 pint of milk, vanilla essence. Make quart of the coffee by putting 4 heaped tablespoonfuls into a quart of boiling water in a pan. Bring to the boil and boil up well, remove from the fire, then .boil up again. Do this three times, let it staid for five or ten minutes, then strain. Put tlie sugar, and milk into a pan and stir until the sugar has melted, then bring 'to the boil, add to the coffee, ana put into a cold place. When quite .cold add the cream and a few drops of vanilla essence, and put the jug in an ice cave or place it in a vessel of some sort well packed round with ice.

Domestic Jottings. WHEN ARRANGING FLOWERS. It is a great mistake to mix flowers m a vass unless it is known that they will tJirivo well together. Mignonette will often cause other blooms tn the same vaso to droop. Sweet peas affect the health of other flowers and last longest when they are placed alone. Some roses will not do well m a vase containing another variety of rose.

TO REMOVE FRUIT STAINS. Stains caused by fresh fruit are quite easily removed if cold water is applied while tho marks are still moist. But often it is not possible to deal with tho stain immediately it has been made, and it may be dry before it can be touched. Soap should not be used, because the alkali in it may fix the stain in the fabric. By far the best plan is to stretch the material over a basin and then pour nearly boiling water over the mark. Very delicate fabrics may be treated by spreading them over a piece of blotting paper and then sponging on the wrong side with hot water. When a mark _ still remains, try moistening it with a little lemon juice and then quickly rimin'-- it with hot water. EASE FOR BLISTERED FEET. An old-fashioned remedy for a blister on the foot caused by walking consists of the application of a little plaster of cabbage leaf. A piece of the fresh leaf is wrapped round the affected part. Pieces of stamp paper may be used to keep the leaf in position. The cabbage leaf has a soothing influence on the sore place and will often enable one to continue walking in oomfort. The action of the cabbage leaf is m.ox-e complete if ft short rest oan be taEen after the plaster has been applied.

CLEANSING lODINE STAINS. lodine —that invaluable panacea for sprains, cuts, and many another, ail-ment-—has a way of making the most appalling dark brown stains on anything it touches. The best remedy is to put the stained material out into the open air straight away, and leave it there for 10 or 12 hours, at the end of which time the marks will have disappeared. 'The fabric should always be put outside immediately the iodine has been spilt on it, however, before the stain has time to dry or set.

CLEANING A GEORGETTE BLOUSE. A georgette blouse may be cleaned by pouring abcut a quart of petrol into a bowl,- dipping the required article in and rubbing gently for a few minutes. Squeeze and_ hang out; when thoroughly dry, iron in the shrinking. Keep naked flame well usual way. This method prevents away from tho petrol.