HOUSEKEEPER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2697, 30 August 1917, Page 2

HOUSEKEEPER.

HINTS FOR BUSY HOUSEWIVES. When making blue-water.for clothes add a little salt. This distributes tW colour evenly and prevents "patches. Before frying bacon, put the rasher*. into boiling water for two or three minutes. They plump out to twice their original thickness, and all chance is removed of their being too salt.

Tomatoes should always be skinned before being used for salad. To do :his easily, place the fruit in a basin md pour boiling water over it. You ,ill find that tho skin can be removed ,-ithout any trouble.

Before applying blacklead for polish uig, make a pad of old cloth and rub soot from the back of the grate or from the flues on all the greasy parts, ine •-rate will then take the polish readily, and much labour will bo saved.

If you possess a stono hot-water bottle that is cracked, fill it with sand, then place it in the oven three hours before it is needed, and you will find it quite as useful for warming a bed as when it was new. The sand retains the heat longer than water.

REMOVING RUST FROM NICKEL.

1* First smear the rusted place with greaso and rub it well in ; this in itself frequently will remove a groat deal ol tho rust.' Allow the grease to remain for several hours, and then remove it with a rag which has been dipped in ammonia. This usually will remove all traces of the rust. If, however, a

stubborn spot or two remains, Wipe it with a little dilute hydrochloric acid. The acid should be used very quickly and with care, otherwise it will remove the nickel as well as the rust. When all the rust has disappeared, wash tne place where the treatment was appliea thoroughly with clean water, and then j use a metal polish.

OUR FAMILY DOCTOR.

To Correct Acidity of the Stomach for

Children or Adults. Kluid or powdered magnesia may be uFt'd in mild cases, but a more effectual remedy for this complaint is the neutralising mixture composed ot powdered rhubarb, 2 scruples bicar- * Uiato potash, 2 scruples glycerine, half an ounce essence peppermint— A) drops. Sufficient water to make 4 ounces. Children may take a teaspoonful diluted with a little water; adults, a dessertspoonful occasionally till relieved. A Dyspepsia. If a person wishes to get rid of dvspepsia, he must give his stomach ,nd brain less to do. It will be of little service to follow any particular regimen, to live on chaff, bread, or any such stuff, or to weigh his food etc., so long as the brain is in a constant state of "excitement. Let the brain have proper rest and the stomach will perform its functions But if the person passes ten or twelve hours a day in Lis office and takes no exercise his stomach will inevitably become paralysed, and if the person puts nothing into it but-a biscuit it will not. digest it In manv cases it is the brain .that s the primary cause. When business , is over P endeavour to forget business matters', and give the brain some.rest. Do not sit down to a meal with the mind absorbed in business matters. Divert the mind by means of some innocent recreation, as gardening or other recreation. Never shorten the usual hTurs of sleep. Take more or less exercise, in the open air every day. Eat moderately, slowly and that which seems to suit you. If any particular clish disagrees with you, however, neyoi touch it It is a mistake to imagine that one must live on rye bread or oatmeal porridge. A reasopable ?™*W of nutritious food is essential to the mind as well as the body and banish all thoughts of the subject. It, is not proper to consult treatises on dyspepsia If one is constantly talking 5 thinking of dyspepsia they will surely have it, as well as some other complaints, when the mind is contantlv dwelling upon it Endeavour to forget that one has a stomach. Keep a clear conscience, live temperately, regularly, cleanly, and goodi ™tntious food, but avoid excess in that as wel' as in all other things.

08KK17L RECEII'TH pecially written for this columu STEAMED JAM ROLL.

Ingredients: lOozs. flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 4ozs. clarified fat, 1 trill water, lib. jam. . Method: Make a short crust of floui, baking powder, fat and water: roll out very thinly, grease a mould, line bottom and sides with paste, place in a layer of jam, then a layer of paste, until mould is full, leaving pastry for last layer Cover with buttered paper, steam I hours and serve with ]am sauce.

LEMON BUNS. Ingredients: 1 lb. of flour, 8 ozs. of sugar, 6 ozs. of butter, 3 eggs, J gill of milk, grated rind of a lemon \ teaspoonful of essence of lemon, 1 piece candied peel. „ , , , . Method: Sift the flour and baking powder, rub in the butter lightly, add the sugar «and grated rind and mix well. Beat the eggs, add the milk and essence, pour into the dry ingredients, keeping a little back to glaze the tops. Sh \o lightly into rounds, using a little flour. Place on greased oven sheets. Glaze over top with •egg, on which put a strip of peel and a littlesugar. Bake in rather hot oven for ]o minutes.

COFFEE CAKE. Ingredients: 1 cup of butter, li cups of sugar, 21 cups of flour, 3 cup of nilk, 8 largo eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls ol :reain of tartar, 1 teaspoonful of cai,onate soda. After baking 1 tablepoonful of butter, 1 dessertspoonful jach of sugar, cinnamon, and grateu peel. I Method : Beat tho butter and sugar I to a c earn, add the well beaten eggs then the milk gradually, and lastly the flour, cream of tartar, and carbonate of soda sifted to remove all lumps. I fix well and pour into a well-greased baking dish or flat cake.tin, and bake from 40 to 45 minutes in a moderate wen. Turn out on to a cooler. Melt tho butter and brush over it, and Sjhißo on as quickly as possible the 3 nnamon, sugar and peel mixed together. When cool cut-into squares or diamond shapes to servo. CANARY PUDDINC Ingredients: 2 ozs. of butter, 4 ozs. of sugar, 6 ozs. of flour, 1 small teaspoonful of baking powder, tho grated rind of one lemon, 1 teaspoonful of essence of lemon, 2 eggs, * giu oi 111 Method: Beat tho butter and sugar. to'a cream, add the well beaten eggs, , then the milk and essence, and lastly, the lour, baking powder and lemon .~1 Mix well, pour into a well. Seised mould?and7team for li hours. Servo with lemon sauce.