HOUSEHOLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD.

For a Delicious Lamb Pie.—Take some cutlets from the upper portion of a leg of lamb and cut them into nieces about three inches long aud wide ; season slightly with salt anil pepper. Let them stew in a little water for half an hour. Iu the meantime prepare a delicate paste, allowing a pound of butter to a pound of flour, adding water gradually enough to make a dough ; when iu readiness the upper crust should be the thickest. But in the stewed lamb with its gravy, intersperse some blades of mace, add a few sliced potatoes and boiled turnips, cover the meat lightly with some chopped boiled celery and pieces of butter, or for the celery boiled cauliflower may be substituted, seasoned with nutmeg. • Steaming Large Fowls.—lf you have any doubt in regard to the age of a turkey or any large fowl, it is a wise precaution to steam it until you can lift the wing from the body with ease. Do not stuff ,it befoie steaming, but two or three stalks of celery may be placed in it, and they will give a delicious flavour to the meat. It is better to use twine than skewers to keep the turkey’s limbs in proper place, there is so much danger of tearing the skin. It should be the cook’s aim to preserve the good looks of the fowl as far as possible. If it is well dredged with flour, after it ia put in tbe drippieg-pan to roast, aud then, littie lumps of butter laid on, it will help to give it the desired delicate brown. Endcliffe Buns.—Take 18oz of flour, 6oz of sugar, 4oz of butter, -Joz of baking powder, one egg, 6oz. of currants or Sultana rasins, and half a pint of new milk. Rub the powder into the flour, then rub in the butter, adding the sugar, currants or raisins, the egg (well beaten), and the milk. Mix all together, aud bake iu tins in a rather hot oven.

Apple Pudding. Pour a quart of boiling water over a cup of tapioca and let it stand one hour. Lay cut apples upon a butter dish ; two cups of sugar, a little lemon, vanilla to the tapioea ; pour this over the apples and bake oue hour ; canned peaches can be used instead of the apples. The simplest way to fumigate a room is to beat an iron shovel very hot, and then pour vinegar upon it drop by drop. The steam arising from this is disinfectant. Door.-t or windows should bo opened that it may escape.