ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

May, Taupo.—A good recipe for elderberry wine is as follows : To six gallons of berries add seven of water; add a quarter of a pound of allspice, two ounces of ginger, and a few cloves. Boil for half anJiour by which time it will probably be reduced to seven or eight gallons. Squeeze the berries well through a sieve, adding to every gallon three pounds of brown sugar. These quantities will suffice for a nine gallon cask. Next boil the liquor till it is clear, taking the scum oft as it rises. Put the liquor Into the cask and when cool add yeast on a piece of toasted bread. Fermentation will soon commence ; when it has subsided fill up the cask with liquor, and bung it down closely. F.S., Thorndon.—To make grape jelly : Put the grapes in a preserving pan with just enough water to prevent them burning. When hot rub them through a fine sieve to get out the seeds and skins. Weigh the pulp, and to each pound put fib of pounded loaf sugar. Boil 45 minutes. Pickles, Wanganui.-It is too late this season now to pickle walnuts. The inner shells have grown hard. The best time to get them is about Christmas. The only use you can put your walnuts to now is to dry them in the sun until the outer covering peels off, and then use them for dessert. L F.H., Waitara.—You can remove the 'paint from your windows by dissolving one pound of washing soda in two quarts of boiling water, and wash off the paint with a soft flannel. K.L.M., Masterton.-I have seen the fur trimming you require at Kirkcaldie and Stains. Flo, Hastings.—T cannot answer you in this column. Send me a stamped addressed envelope and I will give you my advice on the matter.