A CORNER FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7440, 10 August 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)

A CORNER FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

INVALID COOKING

In most cases of illness as much depends on the diet as on the doctor. Medical advice as to the kind of food that the patient requires, and how often it is to be given, should be followed faithfully, as the slightest mistake may be attended with serious results. The cooking for a sick room must be the very best, and care and pains taken to make the food tempting and palatable. Milk is one of the best diets to give in sickness, a regular quantity at stated intervals, mixed with soda or lime water, but never allow the milk to stand in tho room, as it absorbs all the bad air, and would therefore bo the means of spreading infection. Milk slightest degree turned should be avomed either for cooking or drinking purposes. One great advantage of milk is that it requires no preparation, is available at once, and is both refreshing and nutritious. mutton nnoTtr. As a change from beef tea for invalids, mutton broth is welcome. Remove the fat from part of a loin of mutton and allow two pounds of lean and bono. Cut up the meat and break up tho bones, add a good piece of chervil, a head of celery, and a bunch

of parsley, with salt to taste. Pour two quarts of cold water over, boil, and simmer very gently till reduced to one quart. Strain, when cold remove all fat. Half a pint may be taken twice or three times a day. This is a supporting broth to any land of weakness.

A SAVOURY JELLY

Spread some slices of uncooked veal and ham in the bottom of a stew pan with two or three onions ; cover it and let it simmer on a very slow fire till it is a deep brown. Then put to it a quart of very clean broth, some white pepper, bruised, a little salt, and quarter ounce of isinglass, and boil ten minutes. Then strain it through a fine strainer. Now add the whites of three eggs, well beaten, strain the whole through a jelly bag near the fire, and pour in a clear and damped mould.

nUITERED KICK

A new and delicious way of cooking rice is as follows :—Get quarter of a pound oE rice, a pint and a half of milk, two ounces of butter, sugar to taste, and a little grated nutmeg. Wash and pick the rice, drain, and put it into a saucepan with the milk, stir in the sugar, butter, and nutmeg ; when the butter is thoroughly melted and the whole is quite hot, serve. After the milk is poured off, be particular that the rice does not burn. To prevent this, stir continually until it is ready to be served.

MADEIRA CAKES,

An inexpensive recipe for Madeira cakes is to use one pound of flour, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of butter, a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, a little grated lemon-peel, and two eggs. Put the butter into the flour, add the other ingredients—the eggs should be well beaten—roll out the paste, and make into little round cakes rather smaller than macaroons. If the mixture is not quite moist enough add a little milk.

VENTILATION,

It is quite as important for a housewife to see thatherhouse is thoroughly ventilated as it is to see that it is swept and dusted. Windows should be opened at the top and bottom in all rooms all the year round, so that the exhausted air may pass out in one way and fresh air come in in another. In winter or during rainy weather the windows should be closed after half an hour's airing. In summer they can remain open until sunset, and then closed to within an inch of the top. This little space makes the night's rest refreshing and beneficial.

AND BED CURTAINS,

A person when sleeping draws into the chest about fifteen times every minute a certain quantity of the surrounding atmosphere, and returns it, after a change within the lungs, mixed with poison. Thus the air of a bedroom is being poisoned by the sleeper during the whole night, and unless there is a constant current of fresh air, the health of the sleeper suffers. Light Japanese screens placed round the bed prevents a draught, and are to be preferred rather than bed curtains, which exclude too much air.