HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9488, 18 April 1894, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

' THE TABLE. A Delicate Pudding.— Dissolve half I an ounce of gelatine in half a pint of cold milk ; let it come to a boil gradually. When hob bub nob boiling add the wellbeaben yolks of three eggs, stirr constantly. Sweeten to taste, and set aside bo cool. When cold stir in a pint of whipped cream, flavour with lemon or vanilla, and the lasb thing stir in the whites of the three eggs beaten bo stiff frobh. Serve with cake or fruit. Good Lemonade.—For a quart bake the juice of three lemons, using the rind of one of them. Peel the rind very thin, getting just the yellow outside. This cub into pieces and pub with the juice and powdered sugar, of which use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or jar with a cover. When the water is just at the boiling point pour ib over the lemon and sugar, cover it at once and let it get cold. Try this way once, and you will never make it any other way. Rabbit Podding.— Make some good suet crust, which place in a butbered basin, after rolling it out to make a lining. Lay in ib a small rabbit cub into little joints and half a pound of uncooked pickle pork, also cub small ; one small onion cub in quarters, and a good sprinkling of black pepper. Half fill the basin with stock, cover the meat with the rest of the suet crust, and eibher plunge ib into boiling water (afber tying ib in a cloth) for three hours, or steam ib for four hours. Ib is betber steamed. Chicken Salad.— Cut the white meat of ! chicken into small bits the size of peas; \ chop toe white parts of celery nearly as small. Prepare a dressing as follows:— Rub the yolks of hard boiled eggs smooth ; jto each yolk put half a teaspoon of i mustard, the same quantity of salt, a tablespoonful of oil, and a wineglass of vinegar. I Mix the chicken and celery in a large bowl, and pour over this dressing just before it is used. Sheep's Kidneys.—Bacon fat or butter, four kidneys, shredded bacon. Pub a tablespoonful of bacon fat or butter into a saucepan ; when ib boils, pub in bhe kidneys whole and skinned, burn them twice in 15 minutes; and if by this tiou they are nicely browned, bake them up in a spoon, cub each one open on a very hob dish, sprinkle a little pepper over, pub a piece of butter on each half; serve very hob wibh shredded bacon. Baked Mushrooms.— bhe tops, cut off part of the stalk, and wipe with flannel dipped in salt; lay in a tin dish with piece of butter on each, and season with salt and pepper. Bake from 20min to 30min. Arrange when done in a high stack in a vary hob dish, pour the liquor round them, and serve at once, the hotter the betber. GENERAL. For a Tanned Skin.—Express bhe juice of unripe grapes and house leek, and in the liquid dissolve a little sugar candy. Paint this over the face at night, or damp ib over by means of a soft rag, For Dry Dandruff.—The following lotion is admirable for dandruff, and also impoverished hair. Use it regularly for some little time, and also now and then a good pomade :—Glycerine, loz; tincture myrrh, £oz ; eau de Cologne, loz; tincture cantharides, Joz; distilled water, half pint. Camphor. — Camphor is a household remedy put to many purposes. The medicinal uses are principally in headache, cold in the head, and in nausea and fainting. In such cases camphor in solution is held to the nose and the vapour is inhaled. As tang as it is used in this way ib can do no harm; bub unforbunately many people take it internally in some form or other, and often run some risk in doing so. How to Take Creases out of Paper. —The creases may be removed from papers intended for binding by sprinkling them with water, throwing it on with a whisk broom, then putting the papers under heavy weights until dry. A crease in a picture may be damped, then covered with a cloth and ironed. New Socks. — pair of new socks feel very comfortable to the feet, bub the man who wears them before they are washed makes a mistake. Hosiery should always be washed before being worn, as the washing shrinks the threads and makes the socks wear as long again, besides preventing the feet being injured by the colouring. When pub on before washing they stretch out of shape, and can never be restored to the original form.