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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)

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THE TABLE. Cahamei, Frosting : One cupful of brown, sugar, one square of chocolate, scraped fine, one tablespoonful or water ; simmer gently for twenty minutes, being careful not to let it burn. Spread on the cake while hot. Eggs in Peppers: Remove seede from green peppers and fill with seasoned minced cooked chicken; bake until almost tender, basting and fry in hot, deep lard ; while hot, roll them in powdered sugar. They should be put in a jar and covered while warm. Devilled Biscuits: Six milk biscuits, loz butter, cayenne, and salt. Butter the biscuits on both sides, seasoning well with cayenne and salt, and put them in the oven on a tin to get hot. Anotnei way is to use any kind ot thin biscuits. Soak them in lucoa oil, sprinkle with pepper and salt on both sides, and toast on the fire on a gridiron. Ginger Buns : One and a-half pounds of flow, lib of treacle, -Jib ot coarse sugar, ill) lard, buttei, or dripping, three eggs, loss ground ginger, allspice, half-pint of milk, one teaspoon carbonate of soda. Mix flour, sugai, butter, ginger, allspice, and soda together ; then add the milk (warmed a. little) to the treacle, and lastly the eggs, well-beaten. Bake in bun tins or patty pans in a quick oven. Herring Creams: Bone and wash a kippered herring, and rub it through a sieve. Add the yolks of two eggs and the white of one. Season with salt and pepper, and add two table-spoonfuls of thick cream. Put a little of the mixture in little paper cases. Bake to a nice brown, and garnish with fried parsley. Orange Cake : Take two eggs, their weight in butter, sugar, anil flour, one small teaspooufui of baking-powder, and tha grated rind of an orange. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, and beat well, then gradually add the beaten eggs. Grate the rind of an orange and add to it the dried and sifted flour. Mix in the- baking-pow-der, and stir lightly into eggs and sugar. Pour into a greased sandwich tin, and bake for half an hour. Allow it to cool, then ice, A Nice Way of Doing up Cold Meat: Take a piedish, and put a layer of potatoes in the bottom, then a layer of cold meat, then a layer of fried tomatoes, and onions; continue this until the dish is full. Add two hard-boiled eggs and a. little good gravy, flavoured with a little Worcester sauce then cover with a nice, short crust. Soft Gingerbread Without Eggs : One cupful each of sour milk, sugar, and golden syrup, two tablespoonfuls of softened butter, one teaspoon each of ground cinnamon, ginger, and soda; one-half of a tea,spoonful of salt, three cupfuls of flour. This quantity will make one nice square loaf, and half a. dozen medium-sized cakes baked in muffinpans, J* little sugar sprinkled over the cake as it goes) into the oven gives a sugary look and- taste many persons like. Banana Trifle : Slice tin bananas, place in a glass dish, sprinkle a little sugar, and pour a little sherry ever; then let it stand an hour. Put a thin layer of jam over the bananas ; pour a rich boiled custard flavoured with lemon or vanilla, made only with the yolks of eggs, over the whole. Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, flavoured same as the custard ; head this white on the top.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. lodine Stains: Wash with alcohol, then rinse in soapy water. Shake a little Horn on trays, then take a clean, soft duster and rub lightly; you will then find it will remove all spots. Lamp-wick soaked in vinegar some 24 hours before being used will give a cleaner flame and a steadier light than those not so treated. To keep flies out of the larder sponge the window daily with a weak solution of carbolic acid and water. You will never be troubled with flies, if you do this. Grease Spots: Hot water and soap generally remove these. If fixed by long standing use ether, chloroform, or naphtha. All three of these must be used away from either fire or artificial light. -'~.■.. To save stair carpets nail several thicknesses of old carpet or canvas over the edge of each stair. , Change the wear of the carpet, constantly by shifting it up and down, buying a ya.'d extra in the first instance to allow for this. .:•- Ink stains jnay be taken out of mahogany by mixing a few drops of spirits of nitre in a teaspoonful of water. Touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture,, and as soon as the ink disappears rub it over with a rag wetted with cold water, or there will be a white mark, which will not be easily effaced. To sweeten jars and bottles which retain an odour of onions fill them with garden mould and: leave them out of doors a few days. When well washed they will be fit for filling with jam, or for any other use. Alumwater will restore almost any • faded colour if put into the rinsing water after the goods are washed. Don't pour boiling water over china packed in a pan. It will crack by the sudden contraction and expansion. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from discoloured teacups. When boiling milk, if a little water is first boiled in the saucepan this will prevent the milk from burning or sticking. An eiderdown, quilt can be washed in exactly the same way as blankets. Add three heaped tablespoonfuls of soap jelly (made by boiling half a pound of yellow soap in one pint and a-half of water) to three gallons or hot water, in which you can comfortably bear your hand. Wash in this and in another Euds prepared in the same way, and in a third if it does not look clean. Rinse ir. two lots of clear water, put through a wringer, shake, and hang in a windy place to dry. Shake often while drying. To Wash a- Hairbrush : Prepare a basin of warm water, to which a small piece of soda oi a teaspoonful of amnioni? has been added. Take a piece of soap and make a nice lather. New, grasping the brush by the handle, beat the water with the bristles, continuing this operation for several, seconds, when it mutit be repeated in a second bath of clean, cold water. There is no better way in the world of washing a brush than this. On no account should the whole brush ever be placed in the water ; as not only does this loosen the back, but it weakens the roots of the bristles also, and takes away the stiffness.

A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS. One of the yoragesi; looking women we have ever known. one whose principle in life was never to expect too much of people, and in this lies the great secret of happiness. A large amount of worry and trouble comes from our too great expectations of people. We expect too much of our children, for example. Ihey must be gifted, beautiful, obedient, little compendiums of all the virtues, and if they are not all this we think bitter things and sow wrinkles and grey hair and ill-health for ourselves. What right have we to expect so much of our own children? Blessed is the parent who looks tolerantly and philosophically on the faults of his children, and who realises that he has no right to expect too much of children so long, as the law of heredity holds good. Unless we ourselves are gifted, beautiful, and obedient tr the will of somebody els«, we have no right to expect such perfections of our children. The housekeeper expects too much of her servants, and she grows old and worn and ill-natured and unlovely in the disappointments that she encounters' every time she crosses the kitchen threshold. She expects, order, cleanliness, regularity, and scientific cookery from a slovenly, untrained Bridget or Dinah, and. because she does not realis'. her expectations she develops into* a domestic pessimist. Marriage! is declared a failure, chiefly because man expects a mere woman to exhibit the perfections of an angel, and woman expects a mere man to live on th? lofty ; plane of a demi-god. Blessed are the oride and groom who do not expect too much of each other. Their way is not likely to lead to the Divorce Court, and it may branch out in the direction of the kingdom of heaven. But what is to beeomc of all oui high ideals, and. all cur "high hoper and high desires," as the poet says? Well, if we must have these, let us have them lot ourselves alone. Exercise * healthy toleration towards other people, but hold up the highest possible standard for outi precious selves. We shall be perfectly safe in doing this, for we are not likely to grow cross, pessimistic, and prematurely old in worrying over our , own shortcomings. * ' i