The Housekeeper,

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1911, Page 11

The Housekeeper,

_ « HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Calendar of Weights and Measures. — In order to facilitate quick division of recipes commit to memory, or tack up over your kitchen table, the calendar for weights and measures. Knowing what each measurement weighs helps materially in using recipes. One cupful is a half pint. One cupful of flour weighs four ounces and measures sixteen level tablcspoonsful. One cupful of butter weighs eight ounces and is sixteen level tabtespoonsful. Sugar is the same as butter. Ten medium-sized eggs weigh a pound. One tablespoonful is an ounce of common liquids. One teaspoonful is a fluid drachm. One level lablespoonful of flour is a quarter of an ounce. One tablespoonful of sugar is half an ounce. One tablespoonful of butter is half an ounce. One dessertspoonful is a half tablepsoonful. Four level teaspoonsful equal one tablespoonful. Eggs should always be given by weight, not by count, as they vary in size. The old-fashioned sponge cake — ten eggs, their weight in powdered sugar, and half their weight in fiour — is a perfect recipe. A rule of this kind always produces good results, and see how easily it can be divided. One can use any number of eggs, simply weigh them, ueo an equal weight of sugar, and half tho weight of : flour. ' In making sponge cake the best results are obtained bjr beating tho yolks, sugar, and rind and juice of half a lemon for : ten minutes. Fold in the whites and then mix in carefully the sifted flour. A wire egg-beater is the best for all the mixing, as well as the beating. Sponge cake requires a hot oven. If you bake the batter in gem or layer pans ten minutes is sufficient time; a "loaf^' .will require a full half hour. Mending Old Linen. — It is very often difficult, when mending a large hole in old linen, to prevent the darn from puckering. To remedy this put a piece of tulle or fino net over the hole and tack it on, and_ the darn mado in the meshes will keep it very flat. The best darning medium for the purpose will be threads drawn from another piece of linen of equal thickness. A Sore Thioat.— This is said to be excellent for a sore throat. Toast a slice of broad, soak it In boiling vinegar, and apply it to the throat the last thing at night as hot as can be- borne. It shquld be removed in the morning. Grease on Floor. — When grease is spilled on the kitchen floor pour cold water upon it at once. This will hai'den it, and prevent its soaking into the boards. When Washing Flannels. — When washing flannels, never let them lie long in tho wator if you want them to look nice. They should be washed and hung out to dry as quickly as possible. Remember, when ironing 1 them, only a modorately hot iron should bo used. A Suet Hint.— lf s-uet bo molted down in the oven and put into jars, it will keep for any length of * tim^, and is much easier to chop up if treated in this way. Puddings will keep better if mado with suet that has been melted in the oven. The Oven. — If tho oven gets too hot ' when baking meat it is a Detter plan 10 lower the temperature by placing a basin of water in the oven than by leaving tho door* open. When the water becomes heated ihe rising steam prevents the contents of tho oven from burning. To Clean Sponges. — To clean sponges, ono of tho finest things is butter-milk, if you can get it. Let the sponge soak in it for few hours, and then wash it out in cold water; it will bo beautifully clean. For those who cannot get butter-milk, ammonia or lornon juice will do equally well. To Renovate Black Silk. — To renovate old black silk grate a large-sized potato, pour a breakfast cupful oi water over it, and allow to stand for half an hour; then strain through muslin, and sponge tho silk on both sides with tho potato water. Iron while damp, on tho wrong side. Thib makes tho silk look almost liko new when finished. Bottled Tomatoes. — Heat jars and use rubber rings. Wipe tomatoes quite dry. Put them into jars wirii one tablespoonful of salt to each jar. Fill jars witli boiling water till they overflow. Then Ecrew down very tißht. HOW TO UTILISE COLD MEATS. Cut off a few moderately thick slicns, dip them in eKK and bre&dcrmnbfc, and fry them a light brown. Arrange thorn on a hot dish with a border of fried tomatoes, and you have a nice breakfast dish. Line a piedish with cold mashed potatoes. Over this put a layer of chopped onions. Fill up with small pieces of any kind of cold meat and two hard-boiled eggs cut in pieces. Season to taste. Covor it with potatoes and bako it. Cut off a few thin slices of the meat, lay on each a' very thin slice of bacon, rover this with forcemeat, and roll it iip. Bake in a moderate oven, and serve with browned potatoes or potato chips. Mince half a pound of cold meat finely, add two onions well chopped, and scasoniug to taste. Prepare a good suet paste (as for jam roll), cover this with the mixture (instead of jam), and boil' it in the usual way. Serve :t: t with white sauce or good gravy. Mince about a quarter of a pound of cold meat and mbc it with a little forcemeat (or if preferred two tablespoonfuls of breadcrumbs and half a teaspoonful of parsley). Season to taste. Now take six lai'igo tomatoes. Scoop out tho middle of each and fill the cavity with the mixture. Put a tiny piece of butter on the top of each and bako them lor a quarter of an hour. Serve hot with good gravy., Mince about half a pound of meat and mix with it two ounces of lean cooked ham, half a teaspponful of parsley, pepper •and salt to taste, and fill previously prepared pastry cases with this. Put on a cover of pastry, bake it a nice light brown, and then bruph over with beaten ea;o>. Return it to the oven fo' 1 a few minutes. Servo hot or cold.

"How did you make your neighbour keep his chickens in his own yard?" '"I went out every night and hid a bunch of egg-s on my lawn. Then 1 let him beo mo gathering them in the morning.' BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. The most successful medicine in use for bowel complaints ia children is Chamberlain'b Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy. II can always be depended upon to cure Diarrhoea and Dysentery. This preparation has been in constant us 9 for nearly forty years and has met with uniform success everywhere.—Advfc,