WOMEN’S INTERESTS

Grey River Argus, 30 April 1938, Page 9

WOMEN’S INTERESTS

HINTS FOR THE HOME

[BY

“TOHEROA”]

IN THE KITCHEN. Bacon and Tomato Toasts: Allow one tomato, one rasher of bacon, and one egg per person. Scald and peel the tomatoes. Halve and fry. Remove rind from bacon, chop and fry bacon, then heap on tomato halves, and serve on rounds of toast, end sprinkle with paprika. Poach the required number of eggs and place on top of each tomato toast, and serving piping hot. Kidney Toast: Take four kidneys, four oblongs or squares of bread, seasoning, butter. Skin the kidneys. Split them open end remove the core. Then season them with pepper and salt. Toast the bread on one side and butter the untoasted side. Place the toast in the bottom of the grill tin, butter side uppermost. Arrange the kidneys on the rack of the tin, just above the toast, and grill them till they are tender, keeping them turned. Any goodness that oozes from them will thus dron into the prepared toast. When the kidneys are ready, squeeze a few drops of lemon iuice over them and serve on the toast- ******* Spiced Sausages: Mix one heaped tablespoon sugar, two heaped tablespoons flour, two tablespoons vinegar, one tablespoon Worcester sauce, 11 cups boiling water, and a little pepper and salt. Put mixture into a dish and add one onion (grated), one small carrot (thinly) sliced, and one lb of sausages. Cook in slow’ oven for one hour. Marrow With Apples: Peel and core 1 medium-sized marrow. Mix together 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, salt and pepper, knot of butter. Peel, core and slice thinly 2 or 3 apples, and stuff marrow. Put in meat dish with some dripping, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and roast in hot oven till just tender and brown. Take out of dish and pour off fat, leaving enough for gravy, add 1 tablespoon flour. 1 teaspoon curry powder. Mix all to a smooth paste and add stock and sim mer till cooked. Put marrow back in gravy to warm through, and serve with the vegetables or lingers of toast. A good dish for meatless days. New Tray Sets: Have you seen the “hospitality tray sets?” This is a "help yourself” scheme for when you are entertaining. The tray set includes an automatic toaster, a pair of double-com-partment dishes for sandwich fillings and tit-bits, a knife, a board on which to cut up food and four small trays. Each of the trays is large enough to hold a sandwich plate and cup and saucer. By this means you “help yourself” instead of sitting round a table for a formal meal. “Highball” Glasses: Highball glasses, also suitable for any long drinks, are painted with colourful designs. Each glass has a different design so that each guest “knows his own.” Fruit is popular for the designs, but fish and animals appear on the glasses as well. * • * * * * * * Bright Silver: • Shine silverware as you dry it by using a tea cloth that has been soaked in a mixtewe of whitening and water. Cloth, of course, should be allowed to dry after the soaking. ******* Vanilla Sandwich: For vanilla sandwich, cream together 4oz. each of butter and sugar Beat two eggs in thoroughly, the) 4oz. of self-raising flour sifted with a pinch of salt. Lastly, add a quarter of a teaspoonful of vanilla essence Put into a prepared tin, 7in. or Bin. in diameter, and bake in a good moderate oven for about half an hour. For the filling put loz. or more of sugar and half a pint of milk into a double saucepan, after reservingthree tablespoonfuls of the milk. When hot. pour on to two beaten egg-yolks, and stir well. Blend the cold’milk with Soz. of cornflour, mix well with the hot milk, return all to the saucepan, and cook for a few minutes until thick, stirring one way. Turn into a basin, add vanilla essence to flavour, cover and leave to get cold before putting between the cake. Apple Rings: One large cooking apple will make a mix with flour, onion, parsley, salt and cayenne; add gravy and stir over gas until it boils —cook for three minutes. Fill the cases with the mixture. heaping high in the centre. Place in oven for few minutes to ensure thorough heating. Sprinkle with the chopped parsley and serve at once. ******* Cakecrumb Layer: Stale cakes can be used for this, especially if they are the sponge or madeira variety. Butter a small casserole dish and put in a layer of cake crumbs flavoured with lemon juice. Add a layer of peeled and sliced apple, a banana cut into fingers, castor sugar, and more cake supper sweet. Peel it, cut it into rings, sprinkle with nutmeg, and dip in a sweetened batter mixture. Fry until deep golden brown ******* Dresden Patties: Bread, 6oz. cold poultry, 1 small onion, 1 gill brown gravy, salt, cayenne, chopped parsley, trying fat. 1 tablespoon flour, bread crumbs. Cut bread into slices two inches thick. Stamp in rounds about three inches in diameter, then with cutter two sizes smaller mark out a round. Hollow out the centre so as to leave a neat case. • Dip in milk, drain, brush over with egg, coat with breadcrumps, wet, fry and drain. , Salmon Croquettes: Ideal for a quick meal are salmon croquettes. Melt a nut of butter in a pan, stir in a heaped tablespoon of flour, then sufficient milk to make the mixture thick and smooth. Season with pepper, salt and chopped parsley, then add the flaked salmon. * Turn on to a dish and form into .sausage shapes. Dip in beaten egg, I coat with breadcrumbs, then fry in deep fat until a golden brown.

Cheese Croquettes: Take 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flout', 1 small cup milk, 1 egg, 3 tablespoons macaroni, 2 tablespoons grated cheese, some salt, nutmeg,' cayenne. Melt the butter, then stir in the flour gradually. Next add the milk and bring to the boil, stirring all the time. ■ Add the beaten egg, and cooked macaroni, cheese and other ingredients, then turn on to a dish and leave till cold. Make into balls. Then roll in egg and grated cheese and breadcrumbs. Fry in boiling fat. « Giblet Pie: Giblets, 1 onion, salt, cayenne, bacon. 2 hard boiled eggs, short-crust oi’ flaky pastry, water. Wash the giblets well. Cut into convenient sized pieces; also cut, onion and cook in water until tender. Put the giblets and onion in a pie-dish. Add the sliced eggs and bacon. Pour over a little of the stock. Cover with pastry in the usual way. Bake in a hot oven 20 to 25 minutes Servo very hot. **»**•« Curried Pot 1 Baked beans, the stand-by of every “one woman’s” provision cupboard, form the basis of an excellent dish. Put half the contents of a small tin of beans into an earthenware baking pot, add any available vegetables—an onion cut into slices, some finely chopped celery, a spoonful of cooked beans, rings of cold potato. Pour in a tablespoonful of water to prevent the mixture from becoming too dry. stir in a heaped teaspoonful of curry powder and add the remainder of the beans and a little more curry powder. Cook in a moderate oven. ****** Chocolate Nut Fingers: Six or Boz. flaky pastry, 11b. castor sugar, loz. ground rice, white of 1 egg, apricot jam, 1 dessertspoonful cocoa, 2oz. ground almonds, vanilla or almond flavouring, loz. almonds. Roll out the pastry thinly and line the bottom of a small baking tin. Blanch, skin and chop up the almonds. Mix the cocoa, ground rice, sugar, and ground almonds together. Whisk the white to a stiff froth and. add. with a few drops of flavouring. Mix all to a soft paste, if necessary a little cold water may be added. Spread just a very thin layer of jam over the pastry, then cover with the prepared mixture and spread evenly. Brush the surface over with water, and sprinkle the chopped almonds on the top. Bake in a hot oven for about 15 to 20 minutes. When almost cooked, froth up a little white of egg extra to that given in the recipe, and brush the mixture over with it, then dredge freely with castor sugar. ' Return to the oven for a few minutes until lightly browned, then put on to a sieve to cool. Put on to a flat surface and cut into fingers with a sharp knife, then arrange on a plate.

Loose Covers LINKING up odd pieces. Even ill-assorted furnishings can be made into a harmonious scheme if you give them matching loose covers. I am thinking in particular of a delightful living room in the home of a newly married couple. They had not too much money with which to set up housekeeping, but they had heaps of enterprise and enthusiasm which proved very good substitutes. Various aunts and uncles had given (hem odd pieces of furniture which did not, at first, look very happy with the one or two modern things they had bought themselves. And then the girl thought of concealing the Victor ian dining chairs beneath loose cover, of natural hessian, to match the easy chair covers. Piped with tangerine braid, and with bold modernist flower garlands embroidered in wools on the backs, the covers looked smart, and up-to-date. A similar garland was worked In the centre of an extra hessian panel which was slip-stitched to the back of the easy chair. This is easily removed for dry cleaning, and takes a good deal of wear from the actual cover.

Household Hints THINGS USEFUL TO KNOW. When putting a cake to cool, be careful not to stand it in a draught. Sponge the throat every morning with “ery cold water for five minutes. This strengthens the voice and wards off colds. Discoloured draining-boards, tables, etc., may be cleaned by scrubbing with cold water and salt. Pour a little cold water over grease on a table so that the grease will be hardened and not soak into the wood.