HOUSEHOLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 849, 8 June 1888, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD.

Eggs for Breakfast. —A good way to prepare eggs for breakfast is to make a baked omelet. Take, six eggs, three even spoonfuls of flour, a little salt, and beat them well together—the more it is beaten the lighter it will be—then a,dd one pint of hot milk and keep on beating.’ /-Have a hot dish with some melted butter the size of an egg and-put into the oven. Bake twenty minutes . and eat when it comes from oven, for it will fall soon. -

Neapolitan Budding. —One large cup of fine bread-crumbs, soaked in milk, threequarters of a cup of sugar, one lemon, juice and grated rhind, six eggs, half a pound of stale sponge cake, half a pound of: almond macaroons, half a .cup of jelly or jam, and one small tumbler of sherry wine, one-half cup of milk poured upon the breadcrumbs, one teasDOonful of melted butter. Rub the batter and sugar together, put the beaten yolks in next, then’the soaked breadcrumbs, the lemon jaibe. and rhind, and beat to a smooth, light paste before adding the whites ; butter your mould very well and put iti the bottom a light layer of dry breadcrumbs; upon this a layer of; macaroons, laid evenly aud closely together. Wet this with wine, and cover with a layer of the mixture, then with pieces of sponge cake spread thickly with jelly ; next macaroons wet with wine, more custard, sponge cake, and jam until the mould is filled. Cover closely and steam in the oven three-quarters of an hour ; then remove the cover to brown the top. Serve with a sauce made of currant jelly, warmed, beaten up with two tablespoonsfnl of melted buster and a glass .of pale sherry. Orange Float.— One quart of water, the juice and,pulp of two lemons, one coffee cup of sugar. - When boiling add four tablespoons corn-starch. Let boil fifteen minutes, stirring all the time. When cold pour it over four oranges that have been sliced into a glass dish, and over the top spread the beaten whites of three eggs, s weetened and flavored with vanilla.

Vegetables with a strong flavor, such as onions and turnips, will be much improved by putting them; tP boil in cold water, renewing this from a kettle of boil<ng water as soon as it comes to a scald.

Oil-cloths should never be washed in hot soap-suds ; they should first be washed clean with cold water, then rubbed dry with a cloth wet in milk. The same treatment applies to a stone or slate hearth.