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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 4 (Supplement)

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i VEGETARIAN KEOEPES. ' -I '''' Wheatmeal Gems.-One cup of milk, I one egg, one cup of wheatmeal, ono cup I •-white flour. Take the milk, a yolk of egg, ' and beat vigorously, add salt to fluid. ! wheatmeal and flour mixed. Beat all 1 thoroughly for five minutes, then fold in ' tho white of egg which has been beaten stiffly. Drop into heated gem irons. Bake in hot oven 15 minutes. 'This quantity is sufficient for one dozen gems. Parsnip Soup.— parsnips cut into slices, with a dessertspoonful of butter, put into a saucepan and steam with the lid on until ' tender, then rub through a colander, add ' one quart of milk, heat to boiling, add ~ one dessertspoonful of flour which has been braided in cold water.. Add .salt ju3t before serving. Green Pea Roast.— cups of green peas, (soak over-night). Boil in a small ' quantity of water until tender, rub through a colander, mix in a few crumbs and a little cream or butter, salt to taste. Place in a piedish with little pieces of butter over the top. Brown slightly. Serve with mint sauce. Split Pea Roast.— cups of split peas, wash and tie in a muslin bag, place in boiling water and boil two and a-half hours. Then turn in a piedish, mash with butter or cream, salt to taste, smooth over top with butter or cream. Bake for about ten minutes. Servo with mint sauce. Mint Sauce.—Mint, juice of lemons and ■" sugar, mado in the usual way. Lettuce Salad—Lettuce chopped fine, one egg, one tablcspoonful of cream, two lemons, yolk oi hard-boiled egg, lemon juice and sugar, little salt, and pour over . cut lettuce. Nut Meat Pies.— a cup of macaroni, half small tin of nut meat, cut in small pieces, one onion chopped fine and boiled until tender, one egg boiled hard, little thyme and sage, salt to taste. Boil the macaroni in salted water for one hour, |, strain, and mix with the other ingredients, !. chopped fine. Enough for one dozen pies. Pastry.— and a-half cups of sifted , ' flour, one cup of Crisco, one teaspoonful ' salt, half a cup of very cold water. All the materials must be as cool as possible. Sift the salt into the flour, rub in the , butter with a knife, spoon, or the tips of ■' the fingers. Add the cold water, a little ;,j at a time, making tiny, soft masses, and . press these little masses together. Toss ; upon a floured board, and roll out with ,''. as little,' manipulation as possible. It \ should be rolled forward only not back and forth, and on one side only.. If two crusts are used, the lower one should be cooked first. '.'.•'. YOU MIGHT TRY. v ' Rubbing discoloured glass with used tealeaves. It is wonderful how this takes off any stains. Afterwards rinse in clear water. Rubbing steel fenders or fire-irons every • ' day with a chamois leather. If you do this they will very seldom need a regular cleaning, unless in a very damp place. '■}■ In that case steel is liable to rust if not I well cleaned once a week. i Cleaning steel that'has rusted with fine emery paper sprinkled with parflin. Don't 'i rub up and down, and then across and i across, or.it will look scratched. Do it I either up and down or across and across I all the time. ... .... i Holding a knife that has been used for I onions under the cold water-tap, and well | rubbing.it as soon as iit is done with. f But if you forget to do this rub it up and §> down in the earth.in the garden a time f- or two, "aiid then ' wash, and the.- smell ] will quite disappear. ':' Dabbing a window that you want to ;. make opaque with a lump of soft putty ;.' •until the surface is; evenly covered. It I is a quick and • quite satisfactory way of |i doing it if you want something cheap, and If .!don't mind" much whether;. it looks nice ■1 -or notf. .•:.'.::•' .';■'• • • i h Rinsing your 1 , chamois leather after i washing in clean, fairly strong' suds. : Then I squeeze as dry as you can, pull into shape, I and hang on a line in an airy but''not |> a very hot place. . Rub gently between I the hands once or twice while it is dryla ing, and it will be as soft as when new.