Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 172, 12 July 1909, Page 3

Household Hints.

Onion Soup.—Put into a saucepan butter the size of a pigeon's egg. When hot add two or three large onions, sliced, thin; stir and cook them well until they are red; then add a half teacupful of flour; stir this also until it is red, watching constantly that it does not burn. Now pour in about a pint of boiling water and add pepper and salt. Mix it well and let it boil a minute; then pour it into the soup kettle and place it at the back of the range until almost ready to serve. Add then a quart of boiling milk and two or three-well mashed boiled potatoes. Add to the potatoes a little of the soup at first, then more, until they are smooth enough to put into the soup kettle. Stir all well together; taste to see if the soup is properly seasoned with pepper and salt, as it requires plenty, especialy of the latter. Let it simmer a few minutes. Serve hot, with pieces of toasted bread, cut small.

Fruit Salad. —Use large canned peaches. Place one half peach on a bed of lettuce leaves, and serve with the following mixture: Take equal parts of chopped celery and pineapple. Heap on peach. Then lay on this a good tablespoon of rich mayonnaise dressing and sprinkle English walnuts chopped fine on top.

Madiera Cake. —Line a cake tin; cream well together six ounces of butI ter and six ounces of castor sugar. Well whisk four or five eggs. Sieve nine ounces of flour and hal* a teaspoonful of baking powder; acid to the flour the grated rind of one lemon; acid flour and sugar until ai! is used. Pour the mixture into the- greased tin. Bal:o in a moderate oven. When it has bee: in about twenty minutes place two large slices of citron peel on cop of the cake. This must not be done too soon or it will sink in. —Cottage Pudding. — One pint of flour, one egg. one cupful of sugar, one cupful sweet milk. three tablespoonsful of melted butter. one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspocr.sful oj cream tartar, or two teaspoor.sful of baking powder. .S'auee for thv pudding is made of or.e j i:.t of -.vator. one half cup sugar, butter or.e half the size of an egg, o::v small >'-up '■: ':>;•:•- ries or ri;.■ f.- currants, masked, boil ar.-i thicken a little with flour. In winter raspberry jam or jellies may be used, instead of the fresh fruit.