THE HOUSEKEEPER

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 11

THE HOUSEKEEPER

SEASONABLE RECIPES.

Cucumber Soup.—Peel. four cucumbers, cut them in dice, and fry gently in butter. Add four cupfuls of veal stock, two cupfuls of milk, salt, and pepper, and mace to season, and cook for two _ hours. Strain through a fine sieve, thicken with butter and flour, reheat, and serve very hot. Beef Olives.—One and a-h^lf pound of rump steak, two ounces of suet, three ounces of breadcrumbs, one egg, one teaspoon of parsley, sweet herbs, and lemon peel, and one pint of brown sauce. Cut the beef into thin slices and trim them off; take the trimmings, suet, crumbs, and parsley, and a seasoning of lemon peel, herbs, etc, and chop finely and bind into a paste with an egg; take a small piece of this forcemeat, and roll it up in a slice of steak; do this until you have used up all the material; either thread them on small skewers or tie up with a string, and place in a saucepan. Pour round them about a pint of brown sauce, and stew very gently for one hour. Take them up, slip off the skewer, arrange on a hot dish, and fill in the centre with dressed vegetables and pour round the sauce. ,

Apple and Plum Chutney.—4lb apples (peeled and cored), 21b plums, 12ozs brown- sugar, lib onions, ilb sultanas, £lb salt, 3ozs mustard, loz ground ginger, ioz cayenne pepper (or ioz if liked), 2 quarts vinegar. Stone the plums. Chop -fruit finally, and simmer 4 hours,.,..

To Preserve Fruit with Salycilic Acid. —3 gallons of water, 31b of sugar, loz of salycilic acid. Boil the water and sugar 15 minutes, and put it away in the pan till cold. Now mix the acid jn a separate vessel with 1 pint of the toiling eyrup, and set it aside to cool. When both are cold mis . together, and pour over fruit in the bottles, and make perfectly tight. The fruit must be sound, and not: quite ripe. Always run a little bottling, wax around the caps after screwing up to make quite sure of their being airtight. : HOME HINTS. To whiten a kitchen table, trash in cold water and scour with the following mixture;— Half pound sand, jib soft soap, £lb lime. Dip the scrubbing brush into the mixture and scrub the way of the.grain, not against it. To flush a sink that has become clogged with grease use washing soda dissolved in boiling water. To remove iron rust, dissolve loz of oxalic acid in one quart of water. Wet the rust spot in this and place it in the sun. The rust. will disappear in from three to twenty minutes. Rinse thoroughly. Wetting the rust spot in the solution, then holding it over the ststimof a boiling tea kettle will produce the same result. If anything; is spilt on the, stove while cooking sprinkle some salt over it, and it will prevent any unpleasant smell. The flavour of cocoa is much improved if a pinch of salt and one or two drops of vanilla essence is added in the making. Beat the cocoa quickly for a few minutes before serving it. After washing linoleum wipe it over with water to which a little thin glue has been added. This gives it a nice polish and.does not make it slippery. Stains can he removed from 6teel fenders by rubbing with a piece of raw potato. A -very tiny pinch of carbonate of soda well stirred into the milk as soon as it arrives will help to keep it sweet in hot weather.

Water in which potatoes have Been boiled is Very good for sponging soiled silk and ribbons.

It milk is burned while boiling pour it into a clean jug and stand it in a basin of cold -water till quite cold, when the burnt taste will have disappeared.

To make a drawer run smoothly and open easily.rub the runners with a lump of healed 'beeswax. This is usually very effective.