ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 41, 11 October 1890, Page 14

ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

‘ S. Andrew.' -I am glad to be able to give you a recipe from a Scotch cookery book for seed cake. Butter, |lb ; Hour, 11b : carraway seeds, |oz ; sugar, -|lb ; three eggs. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the carraway seeds and '<ugar, and mix well together, stirring in gradually a cupful of milk. Whisk the eggs, add them to the other ingredients, ami beat again for live minutes. Mix a teaspoonful of baking powder with the Hour, and add it by degrees, beating the cake well till all the other ingredients are well incorporated. Put in a tin lined with buttered paper, and bake for two hours in the oven. ‘ Fender.’—lron or steel may be prevented from rusting in several ways. Cast iron is best preserved by rubbing it with black lead. Polished work may be varnished with wax disolved in benzine ; or warm your iron or steel till you ‘Cannot bear the heat of it without burning your hands, then rub it with a cake of clean white wax. Warm it again and rub it over with a soft cloth. To remove spots of rust use benzine, and polish oft* with fine emery. Emery and oil is ■also useful, applied with a piece of soft leather.