HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Western Star, 29 November 1935, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

<2> CHRISTMAS CAKE (inexpensive). 1 lb flour i lb butter 4 eggs 1 Jij sugar 2 teaspouiiy baking powder i cup milk 1 wineglass brandy or rum i ll> mixed peel 1 lb raisins 1 lb sultanas 4 ozs cherries 1 grated nutmeg. 4 teaspoon salt 1 dessertspoon treacle. Cream butter and sugar and add wellbeaten eggs. Add dry ingredients, and -bake in a slow oven for two and a. half hours. LEMON SPICED BISCUITS. 8 ozs flour 4 ozs butter 3 ozs castor sugar i teaspoon cinnamon 1 egg / 1 teaspoon ginger (barely level) 1 teaspoon epic© (barely level) Rub the butter into the flour until it is as fine as breadcrumbs, then add the castor sugar and spices, mixing all well together. Add three quarters of the beaten egg and mix to a stiff dough. Roll out thinly and cut into rounds with a plain cutter and brush over with the remainder of th e egg. Bak e on a greased tin in a moderate oven for 20 minutes and when cold put two biscuits together with a little lemon curd. DELICIOUS LEMON DRINK. 3 lemons—juice and rind 1 packet tartaric acid, 5 packet citric acid 1 packet Epsom salts 2 i lbs sugar 4 breakfast cup s boiling water. Grate the rind off lemons before squeez iiig them. Mix all ingredients together and pour boiling water over fell. Stir well, leave till cold and bottle. This makes two quart bottles. Use as a cor. dial. STRAWBERRY CREAM WHIP. 1 packet strawberry jelly 4 pint boiling water 1 cup whipped cream. Strawberries Dissolve jelly crystal s in the boiling water and when cool and beginning to set whip to a cream. Fold in the whipped cream slightly sweetened. Pile into a salad bowl half filled with crushed sweetened strawberries. Put whipped cream over th© top and decorate with strawberries. ORANGE AND ONION SALAD. Cut juicy oranges in thin slice s crossways, and .slice onions in the same way. Place in alternate layers in a salad bowl, and po'ur over spiced vinegar, left from pickled onions, walnuts, etc., or half a eup of vinegar blended with salt -and pepper to taste, oho dessertspoon castor sugar and q little mixed spice. ARISTOCRATS. Line deep patty-pans with thin puff pastry, prick at the bottom and put in a little strawberry jam. Rub one dessertspoon butter into 4 tablespoons flour, add a small pinch of salt-, 1 tablespoon ground almonds, teaspoon baking powder and one dessertspoon castor sugar. Mix with one well-beaten egg, colour mixture with a few drops of cochineal and fill patty pans. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in moderate oven and, when co]d top with whipped cream POTATO PANCAKES. Mash the potatoes, add a little flour, pepper and sal t and mix with a wellbeaten egg. Make into small cakes and fry in baco n fat. Serve hot with bacon.

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS Old lace curtains cut into small pieces make soft- filling for cushions,. _ Iron grey flannel shirts on the wrong side. They will look like new and will wear much longer. Small blocks of camphor placed in rooms or cupboards will absorb all damp. j Before baking potatoes rub them lightiy with butter; thev will brown evenly and will b e delightfully crisp when baked. When buying an ox-tongu- select one with a smooth skin, as a rough s kin is a sign of age. 1 Use pineapple juice in place of lemon to whiten hands, clean them and make them soft. 4 * THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK The “virtuous woman” would set her. self to be a non-conductor of “stings mid arrows.” while she would pas* 0 u to us the pleasant things our friends sav which make us feel “on the sunnv side « tiie wall.” What was said of St Iheresa will be true of her—“lt came to h e understood that absent people, eio safe wh 0 r e she was.” ] t would be i-id to exaggerate the power for r, oo d which the confidence she had thu s won must have give,, her Her nobility felt the treachery which always l ies [ n detraction, the kind of advantage taken Se'LS ° f * he £