HOUSEHOLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 915, 13 September 1889, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD.

Baked Beans and Pork.— A quart of haricot beans soaked all night and boiled 20 minutes ; drain, and place in an earthenware jar with a lid. Put three-quarters of a pound of pickled pork into the jar, and water just sufficient to cover the whole. Bake from 6 to 12 hours.

Hingham Puddintg. —That has proved to be good. One cup molasses, one cup cold water, quarter cup melted butter (scant), three cups flour, one cup raisins, one teaspoonful soda. Steam three hours. Sauce— One cup sugar, half cup melted butter, one egg, one tablespoonful cold water, added just before using ; flavour with lemon or vanilla, if you like either. Tri-Cologred Cake —This cake is mixed in three different dishes and then put in a large pan altogether, so that when baked the cake will appear striped. Dark part—2 cups of sugar, dark brown, yolks of 7 eggs, 2 cups of butter, I tablespoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg, i cup of molasses, 1 cup of sour milk, 5 cups of flour, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. White part —1 oup of white sugar, three-fourths of a cup of butter, -1 cup of sweet milk, 3 cups of flour, whites of four oggs. KeJ part—l cup of red sugar, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. l cup ot butter, 2 cups of flour, cup of sweet milk, whites of three eggs. Honey Toffee. — Take lib of honey, the same quantity of moist sugar, and butter. Rut them into a saucepan large enough to allow of fast boiling over a clear fire. Put in the butter first and rub it well over the bottom of the saucepan, then add tho honey and sugar, stirring together with a knife. After the mixture has boiled for about 10 minutes ascertain if it is done by dropping a little iuto cold water. Now prepare a large shallow dish rubbed all over with butter, and pour the toffee on to get cold. Filling Cracks in Floors.—A very complete filling for opeu cracks in floors may be made by thoroughly soakiug newspapers in a paste made by lib of flour, 3 quarts of water, and a tablespoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed. Make the final mixture Oibout as thick as putty, a kind of paper putty, and ‘is will harden like papiermache,