HOME COOKERY

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3481, 19 June 1934, Page 3

HOME COOKERY

l;;.-li|; j JUGGED RABBIT. * v n ]: Rabbit, onions, salt,, pepper, flour. joints, dredge with jfaoujrypuf of cut-up onion ■intio a %e r • and season. Just Jjcoy|r .the ■meat .jWl'tji 'stock or water, ]!cb4sr the dish and; cock gently in the jloveii for about 11 hours. Serve with

BALLS.

1 Six tablespoons stale breadcrumbs, '# -teaslpoons'-'Wopped parsley, 1 egg, salt and peppefr, 3oz. chopped suet. Mix,dry ingredients together and stir in the egg? with enough milk to bind. Perm into small balls and either stea4nt^bake, : or stew with meat.

RABBIT MOULD,

.-,, One rabbit, lib bacon, 1 egg, salt, pepper, gelatine. Boil the bacon and cut into small pieces. Cut the rabbit into joints and Cook slowly, just covering it with water, until the bones can be easily removed. Cut the meat into small pieces and season. Hardboil the egg and cut into slices. Arrange the rabbit, bacon, and egg slices in a mould, and pour over enough of the rabbit Istock to just cover, after dissolving in it gelatine oft ; .stock. Cover with a • the surface flat, weight it, and allow to set overnight. Turn out and decorate with parsley. The very simple flavouring may be altered to suit more sophisticated palates by the addition of a pinch of sage

MINT JELLY.

Mint Jelly is a nice accompaniment for the joint.' Soak Joz of gelatine in the. juice of a lemon or a gill of light .vinegar for 20 minutes. Put a

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gill of mint leaves in a bowl, cover with boiling water, mash them down and stand.; Strain through muslin and squeeze. Add to gelatine and le-mon juice, and stir over gentle heat, adding twfo tablespconfuls of sugar and half a teaspooni'ul of salt. Stir well. If liked, set in egg-cups—one for each person—and after masking with the jelly, add a little finely chopped mint. Fill up with jelly and ■more chopped mint. It can be made in the same way using peas, spinach, or any other vegetable.

GOOD. SHORT CRUST PASTRY.

Half-pound flour, I teaspoon baking powder, J teaspoon salt, 1 yolk of egg, slightly beaten with 2 tablespoons water and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 6oz butter, or lard and butter mixed. Rub shortening into flour with finger-tips. Mix with liquid to a dry paste. Knead very little till a round lump on slightly floured board. Roll out and line greased tart tin. Line this with greased paper and load with rice. Bake 10 minutes, then remove paper and finish cooking. Lift case from tin. Add filling.

BROKEN MERINGUE SHELLS

If meringue shells get broken, crulsh them into small pieces and mix with them a tin of fruit. Loganberries and raspberries and crushed pineapple are particularly good for this purpose. Whipped cream is a pleasant addition.

ORANGE SALAD

Peel the oranges thickly so that the white pith is removed with -the peel. Then with a sharp knife run along the dividing skin, take out each section, removing any pips there may be. Arrange on fresh young lettuce leaves and serve with a dressing made by

mixing a little made mustard with some powdered sugar, a little salt and pepper, a dessertspoonful of salad cream, and olive oil added slowly to make a thick syrupy dressing, rather like honey to look at. Thin down with a little vinegar if liked.

DATE PIE

Threequarters. pound rough puff pastry, datets, little- lemon juice. Roll pastry and cover tart tin. Spread dates, spjrinkle with juice. Cover with paste, glaze, and bake 35 to 40 minutes.

COCONUT KISSES

Half a pound of coconut, six ounces caston sugar, whites of three eggs. Whisk the whites of eggs to a stiff fi-oth, (stir in the sugar and coconut. Divide the mixture into half, colour one half pink or cochineal. Line a flat tin with well-buttqred paper. Place the mixture in small pyramids upon it with a fork. Bake for 25 minutes in a moderate oven until they arc tinted like a biscuit.

SNOWBALL CAKES.

Cream together a quarter lb each of butter) and sugar, and add the beaten yJolks of two eggs and the white of one; sift six ounces of ground rice into the same quantity of flour, with one teaspoon baking-powder and rhix the whole - into a mixture; form lightly into balls about the size of an egg, dab a hole in the muddle of each and fill it with raspberry jam, closing the dough up again. Roll the balls in the beaten white of the second egg, then in sugar, and bake in a hot oven about ten minutes.

DATE CREAMS

Two cups icing sugar, 1-3 cup milk, butter, size of walnut. Flavour and colour to taste. Stone dates. Mix icing well with knife, and fill dates, then roll in desiccated cotionut.

RADIO AND GRAMOPHONE NOTES

(By L.W.S.)

Headphones: While the loudspeaker has ousted the headphones from general use they are still used for tuning in weak stations and; by people with two and three-valve sets, and also crystal sets. The first point in their care is that they must be carefully handled. Severe knocks have a detrimentatl effect on the magnets, causing them to become weak. The strengthening of weakened magnets is not a job folri the amateur and is best left to an expert.

A very important part of the earpiece is the diaphragm as upon it the tone and sensitivity largely depend. If it is too thick, it will not respond to the weak signals and many capable of bejing heard will be inaudible. When the phones have been in use for sojme time, the diaphragm* will probably be found to be bulging in slightly toward the pole pieces. When this is the case it should be removed and put on in the reverse direction, always remembering to slide the diaphragm 'off and not to pull it off.

Tfhe effect of one or more bad valves in a battery (operated set is to man the performance of the receiver and will also adversely affect the good valves. In a battery set the volume control, is obtained largely by means of the filament rheostat. When sufficient volume is not obtained, owing to one or imore poor vtalves the rheostat is turned up higher; this' pilocedure increases the voltage on the good valves and shortens their period of life. A. magnetic cone speaker may be used as a microphone for home broadcasting, on a receiver that is equipped With phono- pick-up, by''merely connecting it in. place of the latter.

MOTOR HINTS

Most gramophone owners pay due attention to their motors in the matter of oiling at regular intervals, but there are nevertheless, one or two directions in which many a motor is badly treated. First of all it is always best to discover how many records a motor will play at one wind-

ing\ and having- done so, to allow the motor to play these records without winding it up before each] record. This practice ensures that the entire spring is evenly and regularly used, whereas if the motor is wound up at each record, only the first half of the spring is used. Do not help the turn-table to get up speed after releasing - the brake by giving it a flick with the fingers. An act of this nature throws undue strain upon the governor springs. A weak gramophone motor may act all right in the softer parts of a record, but directly the needle encounters the heavier sound waves the extra resistance slows up the turn-

table and "flatting" is the result. Little can be done to improve a weak motor, but occasionally the lack of power is due to stiffness of the bearings, etc., from dirt or'dryness, or to the congealed state of the oil. The cure is obvious. .'.,-.

This defect may also arise partly fiiom an excessively heavy sound-box and tonearmi, and in this case relief of some of the pnesteure fronv the needle point will greatly improve matters.

Irregularity is another fault generally distinct from weakness. As a rule it arises from bad governing, or bad design in some other part. The defect may also be due, as in the case

of weakness, to dirt or dryness, etc. ' A broken governor- spring or ball, or* any injury to- ±his:part\of.jthe ma-' chine, will cause irregulai"; .running and can be remedied fairly .easily.

I strongly advocate motors with *-> heaVy turn-tables. These act as fly-rt : wheels, steadying 1 the running of the ;, moto,r and helping toward that regu- ' larity of action which is essential to.;j good reproduction. . £

Always regard the motor as one of'"' the toost vital parts of your gramo- £ phone. It can make or mar the re- « suits in a way scarcely credible except»by those who have had first-hand perience in the matter.