Household Hints.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 170, 23 June 1883, Page 2

Household Hints.

I Breik-fast dish for Five Persons. — Bail one cup of rice, as for curry ; when done, add half-a-tin of salmon (having taken out all the bones), one tablespoonful of butter, a half teaspoonful each of pepper and salt. Mix well. Then put all into a grease 1 pie-dish, and bake a rich brown crust over. "^ Serve m same dish. Potatoes for Breakfast. — Mash up over night cold potatoes, either alone or with any other cooke J vegetables, or even a. small cup of finely chopped parsely ; add half-a-teaspoonful each of pepper and salty and put into a hot flying pan with abont a teaspoohfal of dripping., press the potatoes into a smooth cake, and leave to cook slowly — giving, an occasional shake ; then turn it without breaking, either by tossing like a pancake, or by putting a plate over, and then turning the pan over (though that's a lazy way.) Fry both sides a rich brown, and serve hot without any grease. Irish cup potatoes are especially good this way. Good Apple Pie.— Liae a deep pie plate with plain paste ; pare about six sour, tender apples, and cut m thin slices ; allow one cup of sugar, and quarter of a -grated nutmeg mixed with it ; fill the. pie-plate, helping full of sliced apples, sprinkle the sugar between the i avers ; wet the edges of the pie with cold water ; lay on the cover, and press down .securely so that uo juice may escape* Bake three-quarters of -an, hour, or less if tha app'es are very tender. No pie m which the apples are stewed beforehand can compare with this m flavor. Variety m Meals.— Nothing is more unsatisfactory thin to sit down day after day to the same bill of fare. There are houses where the mistress seams to have to have no in? entive faculty, acquired or innate. Breakfast consists from Monday until Saturday of the same fried pot k and potatoes, or sausages and cakes. Remnants of thing 3 come on again and again, growing small .by, degrees, till one grow 3 iir-sd of seeing the dish of apple-sauce or saucer of prunes, and is tempted to give them to the dogs or the pigs. Ail this can be remedied by a little plan. Manage for your own family as if you had guestß,aad vary the arrangement of your table and the articles of youc diet, tiealth will be preserved thus and dyspepsia averted . Jellies.— The mould on jelly ifomes from minute vegetable organisms m the air being- deposited on the surfaoe of the jelly. Hence it should be covered with egged paper as soou as possible after it is made. If too much sugar is used the jellywill candy ; if too little it will ferment; Tapioca Pudding. — Thre3 tablespoonfuls of tapioca, one quarb of milk") one tablespoonful of butter, two. egga, and salt. Mix the tapioci, m one half of the milk while cold, add butter, and stir over the fire uafcilr it ; -, boils. Pour iributtsred pudding dish, add the rest of the milk, sweeten to taste, add eggs wellbeatan, -fUror with nutmeg, and bake half an hour. , - Fruit Fritters. — lEake a bafcter of one pint of milk three eggs, a little salt, and one pint of flour. Stir m •slic9d apple?, c\unei peaches, or any fruit you choose.