IN THE KITCHEN

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 261, 4 August 1928, Page 18

IN THE KITCHEN

EGGS.

If one has no patent beater available, eggs may be beaten quite quickly and efficiently by putting them in a clean, dry glass, covering with white paper, and shaking vigorously. Matters are further helped forward by the addition of a pinch of sugar. Yolks of eggs that arc left after the whites alone have been used will keep sound for several days if they are covered with a little cold water. When boiling a cracked egg, a teaspoonful of vinegar added to the water will prevent the egg oozing from the shell. POTTED MEAT. Buy beef that is lean and juicy, wipe it, and carefully remove ail skin. Now cut the meat into very small pieces. Weigh it, and to each pound allow from two and a half to three ounces of pure butter. Put both into a jar with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Cover the jar, put it into a pan with water reaching half way up, and simmer gently for three hours. Turn the contents of the jar into a basin and pound well with two boned anchovies. Add a pinch of nutmeg and more seasoning if necessary. Rub through a wire sieve. Put into small jars, press it in well, and coat with oiled butter. .SOME USES FOR HONEY. Honey is the natural street of man. It was the first sugar be ever had. No doubt the cave-woman kept bees. Good,, fresh butter, brown or wholemeal bread, honey, ■ tea or coffee—this is a satisfying breakfast, even for a hard worker. It is more easily digested than cane sugar, of which the jams are made." Our grandmothers used to make a toilet soap with honey, shaving up a pound of white soap, melting this over the tire, and putting in half a pound of honey, stirring and boiling. The soap was scented with a few drops of perfume and poured into a dish to cool. Honey cakes, too, they made, combining honey with sugar. This is the recipe: Three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour, three-eighths of a pound of honey, quarter of a pound of white sugar, candied peel, cut small, quarter ounce each of ginger and cinnamon. Melt honey and sugar together and mix with' the dry ingredients. 'Roll out the paste, cut into cakes and bake on greased tins in a moderate Oven. Apples are good baked in honey. Cooking apples are cored and their centres filled with honey. They should cook slowly in a fireproof dish, being served in the same dish in the honey sauce. Hpuey, glycerine, and lemon-juice mixed hnd shaken well in a bottle, make a soothing remedy for sore throat and hoarseness (due to colds). Honey is used to make a delicious home-made sweet. A cupful of granulated sugar, half a smaller cupful of 'water,. and the same measure of honey, a pinch of. cream bf tartar. Put all these into saucepan and heat 'slowly till it boils, and continue cooking gently. Beat the white of an egg stiffly, then pour the boiling syrup on this, beating well. Add lemon-juice for flavouring, and some chopped nuts or desiccated coconut. Continue beating till all the mixture is creamy. Butter a pan. pour in the mixture, and leave to get cold. Then cut into squares.