RECIPES AND HINTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12823, 15 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

RECIPES AND HINTS.

Chicken Patties. —Ingredients: iib cold cooked chickeu, two tablespoonfuls cold ham or tongue, one-half tablespoonful breadcrumbs, quarter-piiii white, sauce (well seasoned), egg: and crumbs. Method: Mince the chicken and ham; add the. breadcrumbs and sauce". Form this mixture into corkshaped rissoles and egg and crumb each. Fry these until nicelv browned. Allow to drain well and l>aek when cold with a little parsley added. Egg-Flip Sandwiches. —Ingredients : Two hard-boiled eggs, one tablespooncream or butter, salt and pepper, luncheon rolls. Method: Prepare the rolls and chop the eggs finely and mix 'with the cream. Season well. Spread the rolls with the mixture and add mustard and cress.

/ Luncheon Rolls. —Ingredients: lib flour, -Joz yeast, loz butter, one-half tablespojiful sugar, one egg, half a pint milk. ■ Method: Place the flour in a bowl, add salt, and rub in the butter. Warm the milk and cream, the. yeast and sugar together. Add the warmer! milk to the yeast and also the yolk of egg. Stir these into the flour and mix ! well, beating it until the dough is light and elastic. Allow this to rise for one and a-half hours in a warm place. Form into finger lengths and allow these to rise 15 minutes.- Bake in a quick oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Before, they are quite cooked brush over with the white of the egg. Cheese Tartlets.—lngredients: 2oz grated cheese, two tablespoonfuls white crumbs, one egg, one-half teacupful jnilk, Jib/ pastry, salt and! cayenne. ' Method: Prepare the pastry, roll it out and line some pattay-pans. Mix together the cheese crumbs, salt and cayenne, and stir in the beaten egg and milk. Half-fill each patty-pan with this mixture. Bake in a moderate oven until nicely browned. Washing Colored Handkerchiefs.— Colored handkerchiefs should be soaked for a few hours in a solution of pipeclav and warm water ;then wash them, ancl boil 'in the usual way, and they will look as .good as new, however soiled they may have been. Washing Lamp Chimneys.—Here is a hint which will prove most useful when washing* lamp chimneys. Wash and rinse them in hot water and stand at the back of lie gas-stove on a wire dish-strainer to dry, and the glass will be bright, dry, and clean. Dainty Cushion Covers.—-Very pretty i cushions, mats., and; bedcovers =can be made from old lace'curtains. Cut out all the leaves and nice patterns from the curtains, then get some muslin or sateen (sizes required), and tack on the sprays a pretty pattern. Buttonhole all th esprays down with some crewel silk, and the result, will prove highly satisfactory.