HOME INTERESTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 181, 6 August 1886, Page 33

HOME INTERESTS.

Gjnger Snaps. — One pint of molasses one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of all-spice, and five cups of flour.

Fried Bread.— Take bread dough, roll out about half an inch thick, cut into small squares, and drop into the boiling lard. When they are a light brown, take out, drain on a sieve, and serve hot.

Fricasseed Potatoes. — Take cold boiled potatoes, slice them thin. Boil together half a pint of milk, a teaspoonful of butter, one egg well beaten, and thicken slightly with flour ; add a little salt. When boiled add the potatoes, and serve at once.

Milk Toast. — Another favourite dish. Take half a pint of milk, two teaspoonfuls of butter, and a little salt. Put to heat over

the fire; toast slice of bread; lay each slice, as soon as toasted, in a deep dish, and pour the heated milk over it, placing the next slice upon it, with more of the milk. When the dish is filled pour over the remainder of the milk, cover it, and serve hot. Thickened Milk.— This is a very popular breakfast dish in New England households. Take a quart of milk, a small teacupf ul of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, and five lumps of white sugar. Take one teacupful of milk to mix the flour, place the rest on the fire. When boiling add the mixed flour, saltjand sugar. Boil five minutes. To be eaten with cream, sugar, and spice. Stewed Kidneys. — Skin and parboil some sheep's kidneys, cut them in slices, and fry them in butter for a few minutes, with pepper and salt to taste Mix a tablespoonful of flour with a piece of butter in a saucepan, stir it till it begins to colour, then add a teacupful of good stock and the same quantity of sherry. Let this boil five minutes, then add it to the kidneys, with a small quantity of parsley finely minced. Make the whole very hot (but do, not let them boil), and serve.

Ckbam Pie. — For the crust make a cheap sponge cake with three eggs, one and half cup of sugar, two of flour, half a cup of cold water, and one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder sifted through the flour. Beat the eggs and sugar together, add the water, then the flour. Flavour with lemon, and bake in two deep pans. When cool, split in two with a sharp knife, and fill with cream. For this, put a pint of milk in a vessel and set it in another of hot water. Beat together two eggs, one scant cup of sugar, half a small cup of flour, and a little salt, until light and smooth. When the milk boils, stir it in and cook twenty minutes, stirring often. Flavour to suit.

A Woollen Rag Remedy for Wounds. — The smoke from burning woollen rags is said to have cured — among others — two cases of extremely dangerous wound ; one made by a sewing machine needle, which broke in a woman's finger after penetrating it. The machine had to be taken to pieces before the needle could be extracted, and one of the needle fragments was found to have been bent almost double against the bone. Another case was from the bite of an angry cat, which tore the flesh from wrist to elbow. The danger of lockjaw and the pain, which in both these cases was extreme, were entirely removed by holding the injured finger and arm of the smoke of woollens burned over the coals. The voucher for this cure says : " Let woollen rags be held sacred and always at hand. Perhaps it might become as favorite a remedy lor dogbite as caustic is. The wound does not heal immediately, but the pain is said to disappear at once, and not to return, Philadelphia Ledger.