HOUSEHOLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 844, 4 May 1888, Page 6

HOUSEHOLD.

Marrow Bones. —Cover each end with a piece of common paste, tie in a floured cloth, and boil for one hour and a half. Servo upright on toast, after removing the cloth and paßte. Mildew Spot. —Moisten a piece of white blotting paper with rectified spirits of wine and of ammonia, mixed with water to the proportion of one fourth ; put this threefold on the outside, and on the inside press •it hard ; and repeat the process until the stain disappears. . Pancake Pudding. —Make a few tbinsmall pancakes, fry them a light brown, spread them with currant aud apricot jam alternately, and roll them. Place them all around a mould, make some, custard, and pour into the middle, strewing it with the hits of 1 the pancakes cut off in fitting them around the mould, cover the whole with a small thin pancake, and steam it for tvvo.hours. Prencii Caice. —Mix equal quantities of fine flour and ground rice togather, half a pound of each. Put those, into a bowl with a pound of finely-sifted sugar, the grated rind of a lemon, and 4oz of sweet and one of bitter almonds, pounded together with a tablespoonful of orange-flower water. Beat 12 eggs separately, yolks from whites, and then mix with the above ingredients until the whole are thoroughly blended. Time, one hour to bake. Tongue Toast. — Take a . cold Btnokod tongue that has been well boiled ; mince it fine, mix it with cream and beaten yolk of an egg and give it a simmer over the fire. Having grated, cut off the crusts, toast very nicely some slices of bread, and then butter them very slightly. Lay them in a flat dish that has been heated before the fire, and cOTer each slice of toast thickly with the tongue mixture, spread on hot. This is a nice breakfast or supper dish. Pigeon Pie. —Rub the pigeon inwardly and outwardly with pepper and salt; put inside a dessert-spoonful of butter aud some parsley chopped with the livers, and a little of the same seasoning ; lay a beefsteak on the dish and the pigeons, cut in halves, upon it; between every two a hard-boiled egg ; add a small piece of ham on each pigeon, and pour a cup of water in the dish, Seafon the gizzards and the joints of the wings, and place them in the centre of the pie, and over them, in a hole made in the crußt, the feet carefully cleaned, to disclose the nature of the occupant within before the pie is cut. Cover with puff paste.