HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 97, 19 January 1924, Page 15

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

HOME COOK ORANGE CREAMHeat half cup of orange juice, one teaspoon of the grated rind, and quar ter cup of sugar, in a double saucepan. Beat the yolks of two eggs with quarter cup of sugar; add orange juice mixture, and cook over hot water, stirring until smooth and thickened ; add one tablespoon gelatine, dissolved in quarter cup of cold water, then strain into one cup of cream. Set dish containing mixture into a pan of iced water, and beat until it begins to §j»ift'en, mould and chill. RASPBERRY SYRUP. Choose ripe, juicy raspberries, remove the stalks, bruise the fruit well and leave in a cool place for 24 hours. Cover with muslin to exclude dust. Strain all the juice from the fruit through a fine hair sieve or muslin, measure, and to each pint allow half a pound of loaf sugar. Put juice and syrup into a pan, bring to the boil then simmer for half an hour. Remove all scum as it rises. Let it become cold, then put into small, ’dry bottle ■and cork securely. ORANGE ROLL. Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff; add the yolks and sugar slowly, then the grated rind and juice of one orange (enough juice to make onethird cup). Stir in one cup for four mixed with one teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt.. Pour into well-buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven for about twelve minutes. Turn out on a paper sprinkled with powdered sugar, spread with orange jelly, or any orange filling, and roll, quickly. ORANGE WAFERS. Cream half cup of butter, add slowly one cup of sugar and rind of one orange; dissolve one teaspoon of soda in a tablespoon of water, add it to half cup of orange juice, then add, alternately, with two cups of flour to the first mixture. Spread very thinly on a well buttered sheet, and bake .in a moderate 1 oven. When baked, cut in squares, and roll quickly, while hot. LEMON GINGI®. Take one teaspoonful essence of lemon, 12 teaspoonfuls essence of ginger, loz. citric acid, 31b. sugar and three qilarts boiling water. Dissolve the sugar and acid in the hot water, adding the essence when cooler, and bottling at once. . If more “nip” is required than is given by tho ginger, and if tincture of cayenne is available, two teaspoonfuls of the same is conX'dered by’ some to be an improvement.

DOMESTIC JOTTINGS CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH. Here is the best cure in the world for whooping cough:—Get a nice juicy swede, cut it into thin slices, spread these on a big dish, and put on each a little heap of brown sugar. At the end of 24 hours or so you will find syrup in the dish. The dose is a teaspoonful of tho syrup for every time you cough, taken at the time. I am told, ana can quite believe, that a pineapple treated in the same way is equally efficacious, but with a pineapple care must be taken that none of the little hairs from the eyes of the rind are swallowed. At any rate, pineapple would be. pleasanter to take, though swede juice is not unpleasant, and it was the latter which cured me in a few davs after they had worked from A to Z through the drug-shop without result. But “old wives” who dealt in “simples” had no pineapple to experiment with. TAR STAINS. Eucalyptus will remove the marks readily.’ Soak the spots in tho eucalyptus. If the eucalyptus leaves any mark it can be removed by rinsing gently in warm soapy water, or bv rubbing in a circular fashion from the edge of the spot towards the centre with a cloth dipped in petrel to which a very little salt has been added. INDELIBLE PENCIL MARKS. Correspondents have recommended tho use of methylated spirits in. removing indelible pencil marks. So,ak the stained part in the spirit and then sponge it gently with a cloth dipped in the spirits. Soaking tho spots in kerosene and hanging the article., in tho open air, leaving out night and day 'for three or four days, keeping tho spots moist with kerosene, might be effective. SHRINKING WOOLLEN MATERIAL To shrink woollen material before making it up. place it face dowr> wards on an ironing blanket, having first cut off the slevedges. Damp a strip of heavy unbleached muslin, place it over the material, and press with a hot iron, doing only a small portion at a time, Then remove the muslin and press directly on tho material until it is dry. Some thin materials will not stand, this treatment, so it is wise to experiment with a small piece first. CLEANING YOUR COAT COLLAR. When last season’s coat or suit is brought out again you are sometimes perturbed by the dusty, creased appearance of the collar. Cloth collars should be rubbed with ammonia and then with clear water and pressed beneath a cloth while still damp. .If this treatment is not wholly effective repeat. Sponge velvet collars lightly with hot water and ammonia. If the nap is crushed raise it. by steaming in front of tbe spout of a kettle of boiling water.