HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9714, 9 January 1895, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

THE TABLE.

Pish and Rick Croquettes.—To one breakfast cupful of any remnants fish add two or three spoonfuls of boiled rice, a little onion chopped and fried, loz butter, a little sugar, pepper and salt to taste, a grating of nutmeg, and a few breadcrumbs. Warm, mix well, and with the yolk of one or two eggs, make up into balls, fry brown, and serve with mashed potatoes.

Lesion Cake.—Take the yolks of four eggs and beab with two cups of castor sugar until quite smooth. Whip the whites to a stiff froth and add to the yolks and sugar. Then beat in slowly one cupful of dried and sifted flour, and the grated rind of a large lemon. Line a tin pan with buttered paper, pour in a cake, and bake for about half an hour in a brisk oven.

Chocolate Creams.—Pub some chocolate or cocoa in a saucer over a kettle of boiling water to soften. Pub two cups of sugar and one of water and a quarter of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar in a saucepan, and boil until the liquid hangs instead of dropping when a little is poured from a spoon. Then pour into a basin and stir until it creams, which ought to be about one minute. Make into balls and roll in the chocolate.

Welsh Cheese Cakes.—Have ready some tartlet tins lined with pastry made with Jib flour rubbed with Jib butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, and enough cold water to make a paste. Fill the cases with mixture made of the white of one egg in butter, sugar, flour, and half a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beab butter and sugar together, add beaten egg, flour, and powder. In each lined tin put a very little jam of any kind, then one spoonful of the cake mixture, and bake in a pretty quick oven for half an hour. This quantity makes about eighteen cakes. Italian Stew.—Well beat lib or more of steak or gravy beef, and put ib into a. stone jar, with one Spanish onion sliced, six cloves, Jib beef kidney, cub into small pieces, a little bit of thin lemon rind, some pepper and salt. Cover the whole with stock or gravy, place a lid on the basin, and pub it in the oven to bake for four hours. A little while before serving remove the meat from the gravy ; take away the lemon rind and cloves, and thicken the sauce with smoothly blended cornflour. Pub the meat back into the gravy, and when quite hot serve with sippets of toasted bread. Strawberry Meringue. — Ingredients: Puff paste, half-pint strawberries, sugar to taste, whites of three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of white pounded sugar for the meringue. Cut a* round of puff paste as large as a dinner plate, and bake to a light brown. Draw it to the oven door and lay upon ib the strawberries rolled in sugar, cover these with the meringue, heap it on so as to appear as rocky as possible, and bake till it is faintly tinged a yellow brown. In making the meringue see that the whites of the eggs are quite fresh ; whip them in a cool place and on a cold dish until they become a stiff froth, then gradually beat) in the pounded sugar. GENERAL NOTES. Floorcloth.Floorcloth should never be scrubbed, but after being swept should be rubbed over with a cloth' moistened with lukewarm or cold water; on no account use soda or hot water, which would remove the paint in time. To Remove Rust from Steel.—Steel knives or other articles which have become rusty, should be rubbed with a little sweet oil, then left for a day or two in a dry place, and then rubbed with finely-powdered, unslaked lime, until every vestige of the rust has disappeared, and kept in a dry place wrapped in chamois leather. Hair Brushes.—ln washing hair brushes never use soap. Take a piece of soda, dissolve it in warm water ; stand the brush in it, taking care that the water only covers the bristles. It will almost immediately become white and clean. Stand it to dry in the open air, jyith the bristles downwards, and ib will be found to be as firm as a new brush.

. Ovid's Recipe for Wrinkles. — Take equal parts of bean and barleymeal, and mix with raw egg. When the mass is thoroughly hard and dry it should be ground into a fine powder, and made into an ointment with melted tallow and honey. A thick layer of this applied to the face every niphb was warranted to smooth out all wrinkles and make the skin as soft as a baby's. _____________