HOME INTERESTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 47

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Ai'ple Jam (by request). — Weigh equal quantities of sugar and good sour apples ; pare, core, and chop the apples flno ; make a syrup of the sugar, then add the apples, the grated peel of two or three lemons, and a few pieces of white ginger. Boil till the apples are clear and yellow. The ginger is essential to its peculiar exceileuce, and ifc will keep for years.

Atu>lk Jelly (by request).— Take 71b good ripe boiling apples, and without; peeling or extracting the cores, takiDg out the stalks and eyes only, cut them into pieces, and boil in two quarts of water until the whole is reduced to a pulp. Pour the pulp into a jelly bag and allow time for it to run through. Add to each pint of the juice Boz sugar with the strained juice of a lemon, then boil the whole 35 minutes without stirriDg after it has come to the boil. Pour into moulds, and after it has set properly cover with linen or calico, using maizena to adhere the covers, and shaking a little sugar on top of the jelly.

Breakfast Dish.— lngredients : Remains of any cold fish, loz butter, equal proportions of rice and fish, one gill cream, cayenne, four eggs, salt, one teaspoonful of curry powder. Mode : Pull the fish from the bones into flakes with two forks, boil the rice as directed for curry, then when it is dry place it into a saucepan with a small piece of butter ; add the pieces of fish, the curry powder, and season with cayenne, salt, and pepper ; make very hot, beat up an egg well and add, also a tablespoonful or two of thick cream, garnish with hard-boiled eggs, cut into rings and slices. Serve very hot.

Custard Pudding (by request). — Two eggs, yolks and whites beaten up together, add a little sugar, a little grated nutmeg, and a quarter of a pint of milk ; bake for a quarter of an hour. Lettuce Salad (by request). — Cut up the lettuce, add together three tablespoonfuls of oil, a tablespoonful of vinegar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and half a saltspoonf ul of pepper. Mix thoroughly and pour over the lettuce, turning the latter about in it until all is well covered. The salad is then ready for use. Lemon Syrup (by request). —Place 71b white sugar in a saucepan, add a quart of cold water, set it on the coals and let it boil once. Remove from the fire, and if necessary clarify with white of egg. Strain the syrup into a crockeryware basin, stir in 2oz tartarjc or citric acid, and when quite cold a dessertspoonful of essence of lemon. Bottle for use. Baked Tomatoes. — Slice the tomatoes, take out the seeds, and put into a deep dish, season with salt and pepper, put breadcrumbs over them and little bits of butter, and bake i,u the oven. A Rich Currant Cake. — Flour, l^lb ; sugar and butter, of each lib ; baking powder, half a teaspoonful ; essence of lemon, two tea»poonfuls; candied oraDge and lemon pesl, lib ; eggs, one dozen ; 2lb currants ; bra,ndy, one wineglasßful. Bake three hours. Be*?!? Stewed With Onions. — Cut some tender beef in small pieces and season it with pepper and salt, slice some onions and add to it, with, water enough in the stewpan to make a gravy ; let it stew slowly until the beef is thoroughly done, th,en add some pieces of butter rolled in flour to make a rich gravy. Cold bpef may be done in the same way, only the onions must be stewed first and the meat added. If the wat^r should stew away boo much put in a little more.