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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 4 (Supplement)

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SAUSAGE IN Cases: Of roust and boiled meats there are seasons when some of us have had a temporary surfeit. In sultry weather the appetite (best sauce to meat) is not present, or it is capricious, and should be tempted. Something light and savoury is what is needed, and sausages in eases may be classed in that category Mash some cold potatoes nicely, add seasoning, and make into a. substantial crust with Hour and milk. Roll out ami divide the paste into oblong pieces, lay a. sausage in each, fold the paste round it. Lay the cases in a well-greased baking dish, and put a little butter on each one. Basic them until nicely browned. It is better to fry the sausages beforehand. .

A Tasty Dish: Make a batter of a quarter pound of Hour, a tablespoonl'ul, of salad oil, a pinch of salt, and a-ouartcr pint of tepid water. Mix these thoroughly, and then add the whiles of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Cut some cheese slices two inches in length and one in width, sprinkle them with pepper, salt, and dry mustard. Dip the slices in salad oil, and then coat with batter, and try in deep boiling fat. The cheese may be spread with butter instead of oil and seasoned afterwards. The batter must be fairly stiff. The white of eggs should be very lightly stirred in, and only just before use.

Potato with Meat Soup: Pare potatoes and cut into cubes and drop in a cold batter. Have ready sliced onions, one-third as much as of potatoes, fat meat (salt pork or bacon), one-third as much as of onions, cut into short, narrow strips. Drop the meat into an empty hot soup kettle over the lire and fry lightly brown, add onions, stirring to prevent burning. Add potatoes, season with salt, cover with boiling water, and let boil about fifteen minutes, then add pepper and celery salt, and it is ready to serve. Mailre d'Hotel Sauce: Beat a heaping teaspoonful of butter to a cream in a warm bowl. Add the juice of half a lemon, a saltspoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Sometimes a bit of nutmeg or chives is added. When the whole is evenly mixed (it will take a little time) place it niton ice to harden. It will keep almost a week. Mailre d'hotcl butler is not. only excellent for fish, but is unsurpassed spread over a juicy porterhouse steak. Barley Pudding: Take a quarter of a pound of pearl barley. Wash and simmer in a. small quantity of water, pour oil" the water, and add milk and flavouring as for rice pudding. Beat up with sugar, a little nutmeg, and an egg if desired. Cut a few apples into small pieces, lay at the bottom of a buttered dish, pour mixture over it, and bake for an hour.

Lemon Cream: Cold sweet dishes are always acceptable at this time, and anything slightly acidulated is refreshing; lemon cream, for instance. Soak half a packet of isinglass in half a pint of cold milk, add the thin yellow rind of a lemon and a-half, nibbed oil' on an ounce and a-half of sugar; dissolve over the lire in the milk. Make a custard with half a pint of milk and the beaten yolks of two eggs; stir in another ounce of sugar. Mix all together, not allowing (he custard to boil. Keep stirring until it has cooled. Serve in a glass dish. '" General Satisfaction": Cover the, bottom of a piedish with stale cake; put over the top a layer of preserves or jelly; separate two eggs and beat the yolks; add two-thirds of a cupful of milk, two lablespoonfuls of sugar, and pour this aver the, cake and preserves; let it island for live minutes, and bake ir a quick oven for twenty minutes until set. Beat the whiles of the' eggs to a stiff froth, add two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and beat again; spread (his over the top of the pic, dust thickly with sugar, and brown in the oven. This may lie served warm or cold and without sauce.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Coal gas, whether from the stove or gas pipes, is fatal to all plant life. Many of the new-old revivals in ribbons would match to a " T" the strings of some very ancient bonnets. A few drops of ammonia twice a week in a can of rain water will make fuchsias, geranniums, and other flowers bloom freely. ' When putting silver away use several lumps of camphor, wrapped in flannel, and an air-tight box, and the brightness will be preserved. Always save the water in which rice, macaroni, or anything of a like nature, has been boiled. It is excellent for soups, gravies, etc. Lemon-peel taken from a lemon which is required lor the juice only should be placed in a thin paper bag and hung near the lire to dry thoroughly. Grated lemon-rind is a great improvement to cakes and puddings. Before cooking tapioca, soak it in cold water until it is considerably swollen, and allow a pint and a-half of milk to every ounce of tapioca, weighed before soaking. This is a, very useful invalid food when thoroughly cooked.

To wash an eiderdown quilt make a lather of hot water and soap jelly (a heaped teaspoonful to a gallon); add a little liquid ammonia. Put the quilt in this and leave for a few minutes. Souse well up and down in this and another suds prepared in exactly the same way. Use a third lot if it does not look clean. Rinse in two lots of clear, warm water, to which a little ammonia has been added. If you have a wringer run it through this. If not, hang on the line in a windy place and let it run dry, squeezing the lower ends occasionally between your hands ,as the water drains to the bottom. As if dries, shake frequently. To Clean Bamboo Furniture: Bub with a small brush dipped in warm water and salt. The salt prevents the bamboo becoming yellow. Clean wicker chairs and Japanese and Indian matting in the same way. A Sewing Machine Secret: Take out the screw that Isolds the footplate, remove it, and you will be surprised at the amount of fluff accumulated there. Then clean under the whole of the plate and the little grooves with a penknife (having first removed the needle). Very often this accumulation of Huff is tiie cause of a machine running hard and not working well.

HOW SHOULD HUSBAND OR WIFE

BE REFERRED TO? There are several ways in which a, wife refers to her husband when speaking to others. She calls him by what our ancestors termed his " forename" if she is in the company of relatives, and she talks of "John." When conversing with friends or strangers it may be "My husband," "Mr. Black," "Mr. 8.," oi 'merely "Black." Sometimes she will work in. "John" even to those who did not know his front name, and probably scarcely know the man himself. The use of the Christian name seems likely to provoke undue familiarity in strangers and ordinary friends. Some wives support the usage on the ground that he really is John to them, that the friends know it and will not attempt to copy. This may ho a correct view, but in many cases it will be found advisable not to follow this practice. To refer to him merely as " Black" is a custom which most poi-sons will condemn on reflection, for it is devoid of respect to one's life partner. Of course, the wife docs not mean it in that way, but it has that ring about it, and decreases the respect of others. "Mr. B." is not very much better. The two forms of reference to which no exception can be taken are "Mr. Black" and My husband.'' Some object that Uie latter savours too much of possession ; this may be so if too much emphasis is placed on the possessive pronoun, and it makes a variation on Mr. Black" if a' wife has to mention her husband frequently. The so-called " sign of possession" often finds more antagonism when a husband uses it in referring to his better half. There is a lurking suspicion in the minds of some ladies that the men cannot rid themselves of the idea that woman is a mere item, a piece of furniture, a, cattel, and they object to any expression that suggests proprietorship. In one celebrated instance there appears to have been some such reason for the constant use of the team "my wife." It is that of Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist of the time of Charles 11. He often speak l of his wife in his confidential outpouring; in his diary, but he never "calls her by hei Christian name, or by her title of Mrs. Pepys. It is always "my wife." Pcpy; was* inordinately jealous of his young anc pretty spouse.