HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1474, 14 February 1880, Page 22

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To mend china take a piece of flint glasa, beat to a fine powder, and grind it extremely fine on a painter's stone with the white of an egg, and it joins chioa without riveting so that no art cau break it in the same place. Tbis may b8 done in a mortar, i£ a suitable stono is not to ba had.

Common shoe blacking mixed with castor oil, also the best black ink mixed with the white of an egg, will give ladies' fina shoes colour, and shino them without rubbing off on their dresses.

It is B^id that the painful sore finger known as the feloa may ba effectually cured m three hours with a poultice of the siza of a small baan, raa'le of quiok-lime slaked with soap, bound on the spot, and renewed every halfhour.

Bleeding from a wound on man or bsast, may be stopped by n mixture of wheat flour and common salt, in equal parts, bound on with a cloth. If the bleeding ba profuso, use a large quantity, say from one to thres pints. It may ba leffc on four hours, or oven days if necessary.

Roll Jelly Cake. — One cup of sugar, four eggs, one cup of flour, lightly heaped. Beat egg 3 well and add sufijar, then flour, tb^n a half-leaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, or two spoonfuls of baking powder. Flavour with lemon,

OaocoLiTE Pudding.— One quart of sweet milk, three ounces of grated chocolate ; scald the milk and chocolate together, and when cool add the yolks of five egga and one cup of sugar ; bake about twenty-five minutes, beat the whites for the top, brown in the oven, eat cold.

Putting an egg in a bottle.— To accomplish this seemingly incredible act requires the following preparation : — You must take an egg and soak it in vinegar, and in process of time its shell will become quite Boft, so that it may be extended lengthwise without breaking ; then insert; it into the neck of a small bottle, and on pouring cold water upon it, it will assume its former figure and hardneßs. This is really a curiosicy, and baffles those who are not in the secret to find out how it is accomplished.

Apple Custard Pie — Scald the milk and let it cool ; grate some sweet apples ; to each cupful of apples have two-thirda of a oupful of powdered sugar, four well-beaten eggs, one oupful of milk, one-fonrbh of a nutmeg ; line an earthen pie-disk with a rich crust, and let it bake ; thon fill with custard and let it bake for half-an-hour. To be eaten cold.

Salad a la TComatne, — Freshen two heads of lettuce in plenty of cold water ; when about to serve mix in a bowl three tablespoon fuls of olive oil, one of lemon juice, one-third, of a small onion grated, a pinch of cayenne pspper and salt to taste, a small cream-spoonful of powdered sugar. Break the lettuce into a salad bowl, mix and garnish with hard boiled egga. Scotch Bttns. — Take five pounds of washed and pioked currants, or two pounds of stoned raisins and three pounds of currant.?, twelve ounces of butter, one pound of blanched almonds, and one pound of candied peel. Mix thtse well together with two pounds and a quarter of plain bun dough, ,or the sime quantity of bread dough, and four ounces of moist sugar ; add a litfcle ground ginger, all* opice, and cinnamon, to make the whole a rioh flavour. Make up the dough along with the butter, roll it out into a cake, put the fruit in the middle to the thicknesa of nearly an inch, fold the dough round it, flatten the top, then dock it. and bake in a moderate oven, having just previously washed over the top with white jf egg and milk.