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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)

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' THE". TABLE. Bread Soufi-lk: Three ounces of breadcrumbs, one pint of milk, two eggs, sugar, • pricot jam. Pour the boiling milk over the breadcrumbs, and cover closely for an hour. Beat in lightly the yolks of two, eggs and sugar to taste. , . Line, a pie-dish with jam, add the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs to the mixture, and pour over. Bake for half an hour in a steady. oven. Inexpensive Pancakes Six ounces of flour, one teaspoonful of baking-powder, one egg, three-quarters of a pint of milk, lard for frying. Make the battel when it is required, and do'not let; it stand. 'Mix. one teaspoonful of baking-powder and a pinch of salt with six ounces of flour. Beat thoroughly one egg,, add three-quarters of a pint of milk, and then mix .in gradually the flour, etc. Fry in very thin pancakes ill the usual way, and serve with quarters of ,lemon and sugar. Fried Hominy Cakes and. Sauce Piquante : A quarter, of a pound of hominy, a quart of water, egg and bread•crumbs, and frying fat. Boil the hominy in the water for three or four hour's until the, water is absorbed but the hominy not dry. Add salt, and then spread the mixture out on flat dishes. ~ When cold cut into fancy shapes, dip in egg and then in breadcrumbs, and slightly brown in oven. Lemon Rice: Three ounces of rice, one pint of milk, three ounces of castor sugar, one egg, juice of one lemon, essence of lemon. Cook the rice in the milk till tender; and then sweeten with an ounce of sugar, and flavour with lemon essence. Pour into a pie-dish, and serve with this sauce. Beat one egg till stiff with , two ounces of sugar, _ then add gradually half a teacupful of boiling water, and flavour with lemon juice. Batter Eggs and Spinach : Seven eggs, ,one-pound of spinach, half a pint of milk, flour, pepper, and salt. Poach six eggs, then allow, them to get cold. Make a batter with one beaten egg, half a pint of milk, and sufficient flour to make it of the right consistency. Pepper and salt the eggs -well, and then dip; them in batter and fry a. golden brown. Cook the spinach and arrange it in a long mound on the dish. Place the eggs on it and serve. ART OF THE CASSEROLE. - • Chicken en Casserole: Jleat three tablespoonfuls of butter or dripping in a skillet, and fry in it until light brown a thinly- ' sliced onion. Disjoint a tender chicken weighing four or five pounds, roll the pieces in flour, and fry them in the fat in the skillet until they are a rich Heat a large . casserole in the oven and place in it a carrot cut in dice, a cup of diced celery, and a minced onion. Place the chicken neatly on top of these vegetables, pour over it a. cup and a-half of thin soup stock or hot water, add a teasponful of salt, cover the dish tightly, and bake it in a moderate oven two hours. A good variation upon this recipe is to omit the celery, to add half a bay leaf, and to put on top of the chicken when placed in ' the casserole a half-cupful of button mush--rooms. Finally, add a cup of hot water or stock. Small birds, either whole or split, are excellent cooked by either of the methods just described. * A whole chicken, also,, may be cooked "by either method,, but should be removed from the, casserole when served, for convenience in carving. •The sauce may then be strained to serve -with it. ' ' - | .. .-■■/'• -. " -. ' ' ; HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Hot milk is even better than boilingwater for removing most stains. Books keep better when exposed to the air than when shut up in a book-case. ; An, apple placed in a cake box will keep a rich cake fresh and moist for a long time. . v"' ' "/ '•' *' Pearl ; knife handles should be cleaned with a rag dipped in fine salt, then polished with a leather. V ; To clean a spice mill grind two tablespoonfuls of rice through the mill, and all traces of the spice will be removed. Paint stains on floors may be scoured off by soaking them for a little while in turpentine or benzine, and then rubbing them with pumice stone or glass paper. , A i Warning: Never place a good piece of 'furniture very near a fireplace. The heat-dries the .wood and glue, often causing rot where the parts are joined together. i j ■ i

I INDIGESTION. (By "Cured.") Food must be eaten in sufficient quantity, and must bo digested, and be converted into blood; Nature makes this one of her most imperative. laws of. life. During the process of digestion food is entirely changed in composition by the action of the juices of the internal organs through whiph it passes. In the.mouth it is thoroughly mixed with the saliva. Then it is swallowed, and enters the i stomach, where it is acted upon by, the gas- j trie \uices, and becomes partly liquified. < From the stomach it passes to the smaller J intestine— is about 18 feet in length— i and there certain portions of the food nro j liquified by the bile and other juices. ' The j food thus.niado fluid is in a condition to lw j absorbed into and become a constituent-part of the blood. The indigestible portion of the food is discharged'into the larger intestine, whence it, is in turn expelled from the bodytogether with other refuse matter. Just as certainly as that it is necessary to life i that food must be absorbed, so, likewise, is it essential 'hat the blood must be in a condition to absorb the food. Torpidity of the , liver is the chief cause of nearly every ease of indigestion, and when the liver is torpid the kidneys are .generally sympathetically affected. The blood.: which, should be transformed, cleansed, and filtered by the kidneys and liver, then contains Uric and biliary poisons, and is therefore a feeble absorbent of nutriment. This condition of the blood reacts upon the nervous system of the. digestive organs, and prevents the. flow and alters the quality of the digestive juices. Tho entire nerve energy of a person suffering from indigestion is weakened, owing,to tho contaminated condition of the blood, aud the general feeling of mental and physical depression, -which is experienced during an attack of dyspepsia, is duo to this cause. Tho blood must be continuously purified by the action of. the liver and kidneys, or good digestion cannot bo expected to occur. Many sufferers from indigestion obtain temporary relief by eating predig-ested foods or taking medicines, such as pepsin, which act as digestives in the intestines. A course of such treatment merely encourages a slothful action of the digestive organs, and causes irritate the digestive organs into temporary them to become gradually weaker and less capable of performing their duty, just in the same way that a person who takes little or no exercise becomes incapable of responding to any demand for exertion. Other sufferers and abnormal activity by taking purgative medicines o frequently that presently the stomach and intestines refuse to act except under such irritating stimulation. The only ' rational and permanent cure for indigestion is to create such a condition of tho blood that each corpuscle becomes hungry for food, and ready and eager to absorb it. Tho digestive secretions will then respond to the demands of the blood, and the stomach and intestines will perforin their work as a. matter of .course. ' When the biood is laden with uric and biliary poisons it cannot adequately absorb food, and makes but a feeble attempt to do so. Warner's Safe Cure is not a purgative Medicine. It permanently cures indigestion and dyspepsia, simply becauso it restores tho liver and kidneys to health and activity, so that the blood naturally becomes free from uric and biliary poisons, and ravenous to absorb nutriment freely. Nutriment is then conveyed by the Wood to the nerves throughout the body. The nerves of the digestive organs being properly nourished, the organs are in a condition to do their work efficiently. Nature is merely aided in her efforts to preserve a balance in the manifold ami complex' processes of waste and renewal by which life is maintained. In addition to the regulars and 2s 9d bottles of Warner's Safe' Cure, a .concentrated form of the medicine is now issued at 2s 6d per 1 Kittle.- Warner's Safe Cure (Concentrated) is not compounded with alcohoi, and contains the same number of doses as Hie 5s bottle of Warner's Safe Cure. -