HOUSEHOLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 860, 24 August 1888, Page 6

HOUSEHOLD.

Ox-tail Soup. —Cut in pieces and fry two ox-tails ; cover with water and stow gently for thrae hours ; let the stock get cold, then carefully remove the fat ; add to it two turnips and one carrot cut into dice or strips, add four small onions which havebeeD previously sliced and fried in butter ; pepper, salt, and cayenne to taste, and a bunch of savory herbs, which latter remove before serving ; let it boil an hour or two more.

Potted Fish. —Pick the fish carefully from the bones, and pound it to a paste in a mortar. Put it in an earthenware jar, which place in a saucepan of boiling water. As

(soon as the fish gets hot, stir in a fourth of its weight of fresh butter, and a little essence of shrimps, or of anchovies, to heighten the flavour. If necessary, add a little salt and cayenne pepper to taßte. Stir the fish occasionally until nearly cold, then press it into Bmall pots, and the next day cover them with clarified butter or other good fat. Any kind of fish can be potted in this way, and will keep for a week or ten days. Beown Pudding. —Take equal quantities of well-washed currants, brown bread crumbs, and shred suet—Jib of each—add 6oz of sugar, half a glass of brandy, and the same quantity of cream; mix all together with six eggs well beaten, leaving out the whites of two. Bake in a moderate oven for two hours # Serve with sweet sauce and sugar over the top. Beignets Souffles. —Put about one pint of water into a saucepan with a few grains of salt, apiece of butter the size of an egg, and as much sugar, with plenty of grated lemon peel. When the water boils, throw gradually into it sufficient flour to form a thick paste ; then take it off the fire, let it remain ten minutes, and work into it three or four eggs, reserving the whites of one or two, which must be whisked to a froth and mixed into the paste. Let it rest a couple of hours, then proceed to fry by dropping into hot lard pieces of it the size of a walnut. Serve piled on a dish, with powdered sugar over and a lemon out into quarters, or make an incision in each beignet, and insert a small piece of jam or jelly.

An Excellent Recife for mending China. —Take a very thick solution of gumarabic in water, and stir into it plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a viscous paste. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges, and stick them together. In three days the article cannot again be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the cement renders it doubly valuable.