THE HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13455, 6 April 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE HOME.

THE TABLE.

Haricot: Three pounds of the best end ol • neck of mutton, three or four onions, thre: or four potatoes, four carrots, salt, cayenne, a cabbage. When denuded of some of its I fat, out the mutton in pieces, put it into la stewpan and let it fry a pale brown in its own fat or a little dripping; add the onions cut in slices, and let them fry for a short time, then put in the potatoes and carrots cut in slices, the cabbage cut in quarters, add a cupful of boiling water. j Cover the pan, and let it stew very gently for three hours. Serve all dished up to-, getlier on a hot dish. Macaroon Pudding: Soak one dozen j macaroons ten minutes in sherry wine,! grape or orange juice, and then remove i them. Beat two eggs slightly, and add tive tablespoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt.; one cupful of milk, and one cupful of cream, j one-quarter teaspoor.ful of almond extract., and four finely-powdered macaroons. Turn, this mixture into a pudding dish, arrange the soaked macaroons on top. cover, and bake thirty minutes in a hot oven. j Betsy Pudding : Required—Six ounces of. pieces of white bread, one quart of milk,j two or three eggs, half an ounce of butter,, sugar and flavouring to taste, a little apricot jam. Break up the bread very small,, place in a basin, pour the milk over, cover! with a plate, and put. all on the stove to soak. When the bread is soft, beat it well, with a fork till there are no more lumps, left, whisk the yolks of the eggs, arc! add to the mixture the butter. Grease a piedish. and place a layer of the preserve at the bottom, pour in the bread, etc., and bake for three-quarters of an hour. Beat the whites of eggs to a still froth, turn the pudding out on a dish, pile the whites] of eggs on it, place in a hot oven for a. few moments for the eggs to brown slightly,! and serve.

Poor Knights Required—Slices of stale bread, a little milk, a little Hour, clarified dripping, some red jam. lake slices oil bread half an inch thick, and cut each into finger-shaped pieces. Soak the pieces of| bread in milk long enough to soften, but! not to break them. Drain the pieces' through a sieve, dredge with flour, and try in boiling dripping until nicely browned! on both sides. Place these oil kitchen paper to drain, and serve with jam between every two slices (sandwich fashion); sift sugar over, and serve piled on a d'oylev.

Bananas and Custard : Remove the skins from five large bananas and split lengthwise, spread over each half strawberry jam, and lightly place the halves together again, arrange neatly in a glass dish, and pour over the fruit a pint of good custard.

Apple Omelette: Mix together two eggs, 2oz of sugar, loz of castor sugar. Take five or six apples, which have been stowed whole. Pass through a sieve, mix well together with the castor sugar and eggs. Put an ounce of butter in a frying-pan, and pour in the mixture. Serve with castor sugar.

Sultana. Scones: Rub 2oz of butter into lib flour, loz of castor sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,. and a little salt. Mix into a nice light dough, with milk, working in at the same time a handful ot sultanas. Roll out. or shape with the hands, into three-cornered shapes, and bake until lightly browned in a good, steady oven. 'the above have all been tried, and aiu very good. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To Clean Windows : Use warm water and a little borax. Wipe drv, and polish with crumpled newspapers. To Polish Steel Fenders and Fireirons: Remove all dust, then polish with brass polish, and finally with soot, being careful to always rub in the same direction. Steel treated thus will have a brilliant polish, and will not easilv rust.

I To Save Coal: When you are not cooki ing keep the dampers in, for thus you willi | save both coal and the firebrick of the stove. !If the kitchen tire roars waste may be j known to be going on, and the Hampers should be regulated to reduce the draught. To Clean Tarnished Silver: Add a teaspoonful of ammonia to half a cupful of j water, and with this damp some finelypowdered whiting so as to form a. paste. Apply this with a leather to the silver, ; rubbing it well. Use another leather to remove the whiting, and give the silver a final polish. Linoleum: This may be washed over with milk and water, or kept clean by rubbing j with paraffin oil a cloth. For polishing linoleum there is nothing better than beeswax and turpentine; but polished floors are better avoided in houses where there are little childrn or infirm old people. To Renovate a Straw Hat: A badly sunburnt hat which has once been white may be bleached with sulphur, but the homo! milliner would do wisely not to attempt! j this. Instead, if the shape be becoming, I she should dye it with one of the new ligiit. j tints—leaf-green or heliotrope, for instance J —which may he bought for a trifle at any stores.

To Burn Waste Paper: It is often difficult to dispose of old papers, for, if burn-! Ed, they are apt to be carried blazing up the chimney and set it alight. To destroy them without danger, roll the papers up lightly, wind them round with wire, and then place them lengthways in the grate. Thus they will consume slowly like a log, and perfectly safely. The same wire will do duty again and again. To clean carpets, go over them once a week with a broom dipped in hot water, to which a little turpentine has been added. Wring a cloth in the hot water, and wipe under pieces of furniture too heavy to be moved. HOW THE GIRL "AT HOME" MAY SAVE MONEY. I There are few people in the world who |do not wish for more money than they al- | ready possess. It is not given to all of these, of course, to increase their incomes, I still some of them live under such condij tions that economy is no great trouble— ! they are able to save money, which is surej lv the next best thing. [ The girl "at home," for instance, has | often quite a small allowance, she has far | fewer sovereigns each year than the sister who seeks a living in workroom or at desk. Oil the other hand, however, she has less necessity for spending, so that conditions are even after all. Thus, for instance, she has time to wash her own blouses, get up her own lace, mend and make her less important clothes, and hunt round the shops until she has found the cheapest and the best. She has more opportunities of taking care of her clothes, too. which in itself means saving money ; whilst she can wear up her' old frocks in the morning so long as she be clean and tidy, a necessary economv, which the girl who is obliged t< go out "Into the' world and see strange folk is not able to do; and again, she can stay indoors when it. is very wet, so that she is not a victim to the inevitable shabbying of clothes which rain causes, in itself no small thing.

HUNTING FOR GRIEVANCES. A good many of lis do this, and doing it make our own lives and those of friends around us wretched and miserable in every I way. We all have grievances undoubtedly, jno one is perfect, so how could our relaI tives do their duty in every ease. NeverI theless. the grievances are mnde 110 less | important by looking out for them, whilst I (lie person who does this gives herself somej thing of a bad time. Who was it who said "there wis nothing | good or ill but thinking made it so?" Those who have had any experience know that j this >s true, and we are wise if we remember it on the occasions when othei people are unkind or do ill. Refuse to think ol 1 it. Make yourself happy with, otlun j| fortunate happening, and so forget this one. ,} It. ; s far more profitable certainly than | hunting lor grievances, brings joy into tilt [I greyest life which still has something nice . | to remember, and will surely induce other,j to love one, hich alter all should bring aorne comfort to the soul.