ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 24, 14 June 1890, Page 14

ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

Rough Fuff Pastry.—You earn have rough puff pastry made in this way. Take half a pound of flour and six oanees of batter or lard. Cut the batter up in small pieces a&i mix it with the flour, and a verv little salt and a little lemon juice. then mix the flour and. butter into a stiff paste with cold water, and put it on a floured board. Roll the paste out and fold it into three, turn it round so that the edges are towards you, and roll the paste again, then fold it an*i repeat this twice more, when it will be ready to use. This is. I think, the land of pastry you mean. Croute* a LA Jubilee.—l don’t know a more simple, and at the same time a nicer dish, than eroutes a la jubilee. It is made of dried haddock and oysters. To begin with. -*,me nieely-fried round crouton* must be made, about the sire of the'top of a wineglass : spread on each a little raw dried haddock. which has been scraped and passed through a wire sieve, and moistened with a little warm batter, and -seasoned with a little cayenne pepper. Take some oysters, allowing one for each crouton : reani them and season them with a little lemon juice and cayenne : place one on each of the erout»-n*. and entirely cover it with the had*toek puree, using a warm wet knife to smooth the surface. The puree should be made into a conical shape. Place the croutons on a baking tin. with a battered paper over them, and cook them in the oven for about eight minutes. Before serving, sprinkle a very little lobster coral over the top of each, and *-.;C.l -■•:_• ■•:' in the I ata '.trite certain your husband will enjoy this little savoury, and I am. afraid I agree with him that cheese -avouries are sufficiently antique to be put on the shelf, and only brought down on verv rare -ns. Nevertheless. some of them are really very good dishes. Your rook fries the parsley in much too hot'grease, and that is why the colour is so hod. A e,xre*p»>n-ient kin ily sends the following : — How to Mexe> a W vterpr»»f Coat. — Answer to qvry by H.Jt. If the enol is *■'«** through nothing effectual ran be done to it. If •>nly L.«r* sew tear neatly and then on inside -tiek a -mall slum of tough material of a -uitaUe colour, using Hanrock * tndiarabber cement, whieh ean he got ar any good grindery -tore or ironmonger'a This will render the tear waterproof, and will effectually prevent the tear reopening. H.M. will tind the cement useful in a multitude of way*. If he eann-'t procure it. I shall be happy to give him a recite for making it. How to cct Tea Srihra it -f a Chisa Ccp.— Aneerer t, .aery by B. If the stain- are in crack- in the china I Lnow of nothing which will remove them. In any other ca.-e strong s.»ia water hot and a little r.ne san-1 or bath brick -b--uM remove the -tain* immediately.