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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 11

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APPLES AND WAYS TO USE THEM VV7E are apt to take the apple more W or less for .granted. But though it may be one of our most common fruits it has many and varied uses in kitchen and dining-rooub and may be served in a number of interesting and uncommon ways. Ono of the most useful of the properties of the apple is to act as a teeth cleaner after meals. It leaves a fresh, clean taste in the mouth, and is very effective in preventing food fiom lodging in the teeth and so causing decay. The largest proportion of the food value of the apple lies just beneath the skin, so eat them with the skin .on if possible after careful cleaning. The most common use of the apple is in the dessert course, and every housewife probably has several favourite apple desert recipes in one corner of her recipe book. Apple pie with crisp flaky pastry, well seasoned with cloves, and baked apple dumplings are probably two of the fav.ourite cold weather desserts of the average man, and theso will never go out of date. For, contrary to some opinions, pastry is not harmful in the cold weather if not served too frequently. Here are two more simple puddings which the children will enjoy:— i APPLE .TELLY SNOW. Strawberry Jelly Powder .. 1 packet Lemon . ... * packet Cooked Apples .. • • 4 C "P Su£ar to taste. Dissolve the strawberry jelly crystals in 1 pint of boiling water. When cool pour into a glass dish and let set. Dissolve lemon jelly crystals in 4 pint of boiling water. When cool beat it to a consistency of whipped cream. Put apples through a sieve and add to lemon jelly. Pile on top of strawberry jelly and serve with cicam. APPLE PORCUPINE. Syrup —Sugar . • • • U cups Water .. .. 24 cups Peel and core the number of apples required and cook whole till tender in the above syrup. Drain and place in a baking dish. Add one tablespoon of butter and .} teaspoon of cinnam.on to the syrup .and boil till it becomes thick. Fill cores of apples and surrounding spaces with this syrup and then stick the apples with blanched almonds cut lengthwise. Place in a cool oven to brown tips of nuts. Serve hot or cold with -cream. FRIED APPLE RINGS. Apples do not belong exclusively to the sweet course, however. With Curry or as a breakfast dish with iiausSges and bacon you will find fried apple rings give just the requited’additional interest: — Select firm cooking apples, pare and remove cores. Cut into rings, dip in flour seasoned vvith salt and pepper. Fry in smoking fat' till golden brotvn and crigp. Eat at onCe. PORK AND APPLE HOT-POT. Here is a good dish for a e.old day:— Fresh lean pork .. • • 21bs. Potatoes 211)3. Onions 2 Large apples .. .. •• 2. Dripping l° z - Stock, Seasoning. Chop onion finely, and cut the prepared potatoes, apples and pork into small pieces. AVrnnge in casser.ole in layers; sprinkle with salt, pepper, sage. Finish w r ith p.otato layer. Pour in sufficient stock to come half way up the dish. Put small nobs of dripping on top, and cook in a moderate oven for 2 hours. The lid should bo removed for the last half-hour to allow the potat.oe.s to brown. A FEW THOUGHTS ON HOT WATER. It is claimed that a modern home runs on wheels; I would rather say that it runs easily on hot water. Whore, in the not far distant days, hot water was considered a luxury, today it is considered a necessity. Indeed, civilisation and hot water seem to have kept step very closely. Today we are using very much more hot water than" was used 100 years ago. Some refer to the connection between soap and civilisation, but your cake of soap would not be worth very much to you if you had no hot water. In his poem “Things That 1 Love/' Rupert Br.ooke includes the benison ot blessing of hot wkter. It is true that a man starts the day in a better temper if he can run his shaving water hot directly from the tap instead of journeying to the kitchen with his shaving mug and then perhaps finding that the kettle is not hot. A hot shower after an afternoon's sport or some hard sets of tennis is really a necessity, and is not it soothing t.o the nerves if a piping hot, steady flow of water is available instead of a tantalising tepid trickle? In the kitchen, hot water is absolutely invaluable. Dishes have to be washed one thousand and ninety ( - fivo times, or more, in the average household every year. If you can save two minutes every time by having a steady stream of really hot water ready at the turn of a tap, you save 3(>4 hours, or one and a-half full days, every year. How nice to bo able to spend these hours in overhauling the family stocking bag or some other inevitable task ! Yes, hot water and plenty of it, is my motto.