HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5802, 20 January 1906, Page 10

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Rabbit Stewed iu Milk and Onion#.— Wash a young rabbit, uad soak in warm water for about 30 minutes; thou dr.v in soft, dry cloth, and cut into joint#. Just greaso the bottom of a stew pan with butter, imt iu tho rabbit, add milk enough to cover, three or four onions cut up small, a blade of mace, and white popper; and stow very gently lor an hour. Then remove rabbit on to a hot dish, and thicken tho milk with a tablespoonful of Hour. Stir till boiled, salt to taste, thou pour over the rabbit, and send to table with some toasted bacon as a garnish. llis do Venn au Royal.—After scalding two sweetbreads, cut into slices of con- I vonient uixe. Next crop three or four j Spanish onions coarsely and fry in but- ] tor till they are a good brown colour. ] Before they are cooked through add loz of bacon in dice, stir nil, and fry together. Dredge in a doarfcrtspoonful of Hour, stir a few minutes, ami then add half a pint of rather highly flavoured stock, and, lastly, a tablcspoout'ul of good brown gravy or meat iuico. Flavour to taste, odd a dash of lemon juice, and (drain through a sieve into a shallow stowpan. In this lay prepared pieces oi sweetbread, bring all steadily to the boil, and then simmer very slowly for over an hour, stirring at intervals. Have a square of thick fried broad on the entree dish; on it arrange the sweetbreads, and pour over tho sauce, and garnish with little rolls of grilled baconCorned Beef and Salad.—Cut in bits lib of corned lx-of, grate a small piece of horse radish over it. add water crew, a shalot chopped finely, and servo with simple dressing. This is a nice way of | using up cold corned beef. Stwod Beet Kidney.—lib of kidney, i 2nz of butter, 1 dessertspoonful of flour, 1 pepper, salt, a cnpful of boiling water, j 1 tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup, j lemon juice or vinegar. Trim and cut f the kidney into slices, season with salt i and pepper, and dredge well with flour; ! fry on both sides, and when the pieces are done through lift them out,, empty : the pan. and make a gravy with ;he ' butter, flour, peppeb. salt, a pinch of : mixed herbs, and water. Shake them i round '. simmer for one minute, add lb- I mushroom ketchup, lemon jnico or vine- I gar. pour over the kidney, am! serve with ; sippets of toast round the dish. i Oyster Pudding.— Beard n score of | oysters, strain the liquor into" a small i pan over them, and heat all ve; v ; a. i unity. Mix in a bowl three teaspoons- i fill "nf breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, and a | li(>le nutmeg, with a pinch of cayenne. . Strain the oysters, and cut in halves! add them and tre liquor 1-:> the hmvt. | also two lablnqpoonsfnl of cream am 1 ’wo j ege*. Butter a small plain mould. ; t-prinkb- :t with brown breadcrumbs. pu; j Tin- mixture in. and steam for iinp. j quarters of an hour. Turn out to serve, and pour round a good white sauce, flavoured with herbs and a little tarragon vinegar. 1