Hints for the Cook

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 10

Hints for the Cook

' I . ’ j TT i? possible to freshen stale cakes and biscuits. -You put the stale cakes'on iv baking tin, cover them with, a pudding basin; dr 1 another tin, and put .themviti si •moderate oven. The covering* keeps in the steam, ho that they (U'o .'freshened ’without; becoming hard and dry. 1 Biscuits must not be covered because this would take away their crispness. Storing Summer Herbs. A good supply of summer herbs enables you to make a herb omelette, veal stuffing or forcemeat whenever you want to. It is important to pick the herbs on a dry day. Also, although you should wait until the dew is off them, you should not allow them to have become overheated by the noonday sun. Look them over carefully, pick off any decayed leaves, and spread them out on sheets of paper or hang them up in small bunches. They may ho dried in a cool oven with the do,or open, if necessary, and their color lasts better if they are dried fairly quickly. •■When the herbs arc quite dry, strip the leaves from the stalks and nib them through a coarse sieve. Put them into perfectly dry bottles or jars and cork them tightly. In this way they will keep better and be cleaner than if you merely hung them in bunches. ’ x