HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

North Otago Times, 6 August 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Straightening jelly— Put one ounce each of sago, ground rice, pearl barley, eryngo-root, and gelatine, previously soaked, in cold water; boil gently till reduced one-half. Strain and set aside till wanted. A A few spoonfuls of this jelly way be dissolved in broth, tcii, or milk, It is nourishing ami easily digested, Fried eggs and rice are popular for breakfast. ■ Parboil sonic nicely washed rice, then siniiner till cooked in- some good stock or gravy with half a teaspoonful of curry powder, cayenne, salt, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Set on a hot dish with frieH eggs on the top. . • —•!— Kabbit salad—Cut the rabbit into fillets, remove the bones, rub the salad bowl with an onion or garlic, and lay in the meat; pour over, a puree from half a tin of tomatoes rubbed through a sieve, or use tomato sauce; sprinkle shalot or tarragon vinegar over, and a teaspoonful of spiced vinegar. On the top arrange lettuce, garden and water cress, radishes, and, if the rabbit was stuffed, cubes of the stuffing. Serve with the cruets and a moist sugar for those who like to miy their own salad dressing.

llow to make gruel-Ingredients: One, tablcspoonful of oatmcnl, one pint of boiling water, two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and sugar or salt, Mix the oatmeal smoothly with the two tablespoonfuls of cold water, . then ''pour on the boiling water gradually, stirring it. all the time ; put it into a small saucepan, bring it to the boil, and let it simmer for half an hour, • stirring it very often to prevent it burning, and to make it smooth. Serve it with sugar or salt. If the oatmeal is very : coarse, the gruel should bo strained, .. v '

- in 11 . 'Rice, cake.—Required ; lib. flour, •Jib. rice flour, Jib; sugar, 'Jib, butter four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of. baking powder, one leaspoonful essence of venilla, salt and milk. Mode: Ileal- butter to- a cream, add the yolks of the "eggs and the sugar ; beat very lightly. Then add the flour (after being well dried before the fire or in tho oven), bakingpowder, pinch of. salt, vanilla, , and •sufficient milk to make a nice thick batter.; Beat up the whites of the eggs to a still' froth, and add- them last. Mix all very .lightly and, bake for two hours in .'a moderate oven.

It used to be death..m Lapland to marry a maul, without the. consent of her parents-or guardians, Tluit. being obtained, it was customary lor ihfe young couple to run a race in which the girl, was allowed a start of one-thirdv of. the whole distance. By this means she could easily outstrip the ■ would-be bridegroom, anil if she did so he knew lie was reiected If the damsel, approved of her suitor,

she would run fast at lirst-to test the truth o[ his .love, and then voluntarily -halt: before- the race- was o\cr Veal.and ham: pie.—Cut up 21b. of good \etil into cutlets and Jlh of boiled haw, . or- lean'bacon, : pepper and salt to taste, and place in- layers in rt ideep -piedislr; sprinkle a few savoury ; herbs among the ■ meat, and add t\\o . hard boiled eggs cut in slices; I'oin about half a pint oi .coldavatcr in the dish,, and,cover- it with'.i light picuysti oiimuunt it Iwilh;leaves, and brush;over with:the yolk of, an ""egg, hake it In a hot o\o/i lor itn 'hour 'and a h.ili'm laripcr * \jhi'iijl is'lak'ii mil til ilii* i'khguu,\ .slunito I" ; ?d l|ir,i\t 4he lop Hi' t|u pie, list mot