HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 23

HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS.

Yeast. — Six quarts of water, a handful of hops, a little salt. Boil for half an hour, strain and let it cool. After cooling add half a pound of sugar, a handful of flour, nine potatoes, and a bottle o£ old yeast to start it with ; then bottle. ThJs quantity of yeast will make nine loavss of eight pounds each.

Lemon Pudding. — soz of bread, 3~>z of batter, the rind of 1J lemons, juice cf one if approved of, three eggs and fivo gills of milk.

Jelly Rolls — A cup white sugar, four eggs, one cup flour, one-half te»spoonful soda. Beat the yolks and sugar together, beat the whites to a stiff froth ; mix, and spead one quarter of an inch thick in a square tin, bake in a quick oven, turn with bottom side up, spread with jelly and roll.

Plain Hick Pudding. — Three pints of milk, three ounces rice, six ounces pulverized sugar, one ounce butter, a desert spoonful vanilla essence, and a light teaßpoonful of Bait : wash the rica carefully in three waters, put it in a pan or dish, with the salt and half the milk ; put it back on the stove where it will simmer slowly for two hours, (stirring occasionally to prevent the rice settling ; in hal? an hour begin to add the rest of the milk slowly, so as not to stop tho simmering ; just; before taking it from the efcove add the butter, sugar, and vanilla ; serve in the pan in which it is cooked ; ten minutes in a moderate oven will brown it nicely • it can bo served either hot or cold. It i« sufficent for six persons, and coats twenty cents. Corn Starch Oakb. — Whites of eggs, beaten to a stiff froth ; add one teacupful of corn starch and two teacupfuls of pulverized white sugar ; then one teacupful of butter, beaten to a croiun ; next, half teaoup sweet milk, with two teaspoonfula of oream cf tarlar dissolved in it ; one teaspoonful of soda should now be added ; sift two cups of flour, and add gradually. Flavour with eighb drops of lemon oil, and not lemon extract. Bake in n slow oven, as a hot file is likely to scorch this delicate white cake.

A new metal has been discovered by Dr Telleff Dahll in a (sample of Norwegian copper nickel, r.nd named accordingly, "Nor* vreghiui." When Tjcli3ued ib hah a perfectly metallic lnEtre,?but oxidises slowly ia the air. It is so far malleable that it can be flattoned in an agate mortar, and is about the same hardness as copper,