HOME INTERESTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 63

HOME INTERESTS.

NORWEGIAN BUTTERED EGGS

Tins is a delicious dish, and a very useful one, as it as suitable for either breakfast, on tutree, or high. tea,. Four ireah eges, 2oz of butter, a small onion, and chopped pars!ey. Beat the eggs well, and melt the butter in a soparatc basin, pour that and the eggs, tlio onion and parsley chopped, and a little salt and pepper into an enamelled saucepan. Keep stirring one way until the mixture is thick; but it must not boil, taerve hot, garnished with parsley.

. STUFFED SHOULDER OF LAMB. Remove the blade. Make a stuffing oi 4oz Bhreddetl suet. 4oz brea^crum^ _ofl§ »&«•.

spoonful oi chopped parsley, a pinch cf thyme, salt and pepper to taste, and bind together v.'Uh egg. Put the stufiing between the folds of meat, and fasten Tip with skewers. Roast s-!o-\];.\ Seive with peas aud mint sauce

VEGETABLE BALLS

These are a delicious addition to stews, and are prepared as follows. Mash jib each 01 i :oked carrots, turnips, lentils, hnncot bears, and potatoes, adding at the last a few green peas and gome vegetable marrow, if in season. Sea r on all with pepper, salt, and mired herbs. Bind together with beaten egg dipped uito Irving batter, and fry in doep fnt till a golden colour.

RASPBERRY PUDDING

Half a pound of flour, Jib of suet fin^'y chopped, one teaspooi.ful of bakuig po«vdoj, four tablespoonfuls of raspbeirv jani . mix all together with a gill of milk, and Loil 1:1 a basin for two hours.

ORIENTAL CaKE

On« pound of flour, VAi sug?r. "-ix egg^, ib butter, one teaspoonfu! o r biki*ij» powder, and J ] b each of cnnanti, presei»cd ginger, almoads, peel, dates, figs, and p:une=. Cream the butter and edd sugar, belt t'iciii , add one egg and beat, ar.d co on, until .ill arc in Then add baking powder with fioi.), ther the fiuit Bake in a moderate oven for i\. o hours.

- ORANGE DESSEIIT.

Cut r. stale sponge cake into cibes. din t'TPm in orxnge juice, arrange in a r1: c s dish, and cover with a sauce rntde as follows Br.nt; half cv pint c-f milk to boil, stir ir.to it the yolks of tar-ec eggs mixed with half ;i cupful of su^a.r , when cool, flavour with^anilla, and add the beaten whites of the egg?.

TO BOIL A HAM

Soak overnight: put it in cold wator.pnd let it simmer for six or ■eight hours, cccordirg to weight; a quarter of an hour for even pound l1"l 1 "- usual. Take off the elan careTul'v. ai.d s'.rew over the ham rrspn.gs. Fix ioiuid the knuckle a fringe of white paper.

LEMON ICE CREAM.

Rub the yellow rind of two large lemons upon Jib of loif sugar. Powder it, and strain over it the juice of one lemon. Add a quart; of cream, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and serve. Milk may be substituted for the cream. ai:d it must be enriched bj' the addition of four eggs, the yolks only being used. Stir the milk and eggs over the fire until boiling hot, and do not add the lemon juice until the liquor ba3 cooled.

CHICKEN SANDWICH.

Boil a chicken until very tender, and done have only water enough to prevent burning. Remove all bone, gnstle, and skin, chop fine. Season the meat with salt and pepper to taste, pour over this the liquor left m the pot, and put all in a square biead tin to cool. Slices cut from this mako a \ cry nice wmdwich filling. An addition of chopped celery or a, little celery salt is an improvement for some persons.

PIXG-POXG OKE.

Ingredients, Mb butter, 6nz ca-toi Fugar, four eggs, three-quarters of a gill cf milk, *ib glnee c'lernes, the giated mid ot two lemons, soz chopped peel, lib flour, oue tea3poonfu! of baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven oue horn aud a-halL The icing — lib icing sugar, juice ot oie lemon, the whites of three eggs. Trim the cake evenly, spread the icing carefully, and. let it get hard. Then decorate the cake. A little of the icing should be coloured to make I'ie lines round the cake to represent the net. Place glace themes round the cake, make two lacquets of almond paste, the strings across with icing; place in the centre with a cherry en each. For almond paste, mix to a fctiff paste 107. ground almonds, loz icing sugar, a htt!e lemon juice, and the white of one egg. Dip your hands m a little icing sugar, and shape the pa&te to represent the fiame of the racquets.

—In Sweden and Norway there are several homes for spinsters, (hie of these at least is as attractive as it 1*- unique. It i*> the monument to the memory of an exceedingly wealthy old man. who, dying more than 200 years ago, left the major part of his fortune to the old maids among his descendants A supcib homo was built, furnibhed, and managed by salaried trustees It flourished and has continued. Any unmarried woman who can piove blood lelationship to the founder of the institution is entitled to admission in the home. Sho is given a =uite of rooms, a servant, pm-ate meals, and is subject to no lules save such as ordinary good behaviour demands.