Reliable Recipes.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue VIII, 24 August 1901, Page 379

Reliable Recipes.

BROWN VEGETABLE SOUP. Ingredients: Four potatoes (large ones), three onions, two carrots, one turnip, loz of dripping, one teaspoonful of sugar, three pints of stock, seasoning. Method: Clean and cut up vegetables, melt dripping in a pan, add sugar. When hot fry the vegetables a nice brown, pour on the hot stock, and simmer until all the vegetables are tender. Rub through a sieve, stir over the fire till it gets hot. Add seasoning, and serve at once. Time: One hour. Cost: Fourpence. LEMON SYRUP. Ingredients: 12 lemons. 11b loaf sugar. J-pint water. Method: Rub the sugar on to the rind of six only of the lemons. Put it in a saucepan with half a pint of water, and stir over the fire until sugar is dissolved and the syrup is quite clear. Add the strained juice of all the twelve lemons, and simmer gently for two or three minutes, but do not let it boil after the juice has been added. Bottle at once, and when cold cork closely. Time: One hour to prepare. Cost: 1/6 (about). BLACK CAP PUDDING. Ingredients: soz flour, two eggs, 1pint milk. IJoz sugar, i teaspoonful salt, few currants. Method: Beat the eggs and add milk to them. Stir this smoothly into flour. Add salt and sugar, and let all stand for half an hour. Well butter a basin, sprinkle currants on the bottom of it. Pour batter into it. Cover

with greased paper, and steam either in a steamer or in a saucepan with water half-way up the basin. In the latter case have a kettleful of boiling water from which to replace the water that escapes from the saucepan in the form of steam. When set turn out and serve. 'rime: 1J —1J hour. Cost: 4d. COCOANUT BUNS. Ingredients: Jib Hour, 3oz lard or butter, Boz sugar, 2oz grated cocoanut, one tablespoonful baking powder. one egg, salt, milk. Method: Rub lard or butter into the flour. Add sugar, baking powder, salt, and three-quarters of the cocoanut. Beat egg well, and add it. Lastly add sufficient milk to mix to a decidedly stiff paste. Place in small pieces on a greased tin, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Brush over with white of egg, and sprinkle at once with the remainder of the cocoanut. Time: Twenty minutes. Cost: 3d. WHAT TO DO WITH RICE. Rice Croquettes With Jelly: Wash one-half cupful of rice in several waters; add it to one-half cupful of boiling water and one-half teaspoonful of salt: cover and steam until the rice has absorbed all the water; then add one cupful of scalding hot milk; stir lightly with a fork; cover and steam until the rice has absorbed the milk or is tender; remove from the fire; add the yolks of two eggs and teaspoonful of butter; spread on a platter; when cold form into balls, roll in crumbs, and make hollow in the centre by pressing with the thumb; dip in beaten egg, then in crumbs again; fry in deep fat to a

golden brown; put a cake of jelly in each croquette; arrange on a folded napkin. Bice. Caramel Pudding: Wash one scant cup of rice thoroughly and soak it in told water for one hour: drain off all the water, put the rice into a double boiler with a generous quart of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, and one stick of cinnamon, and cook until tender, then add two well-beat-en eggs. Put two-thirds of a cup of sugar into a frying pan. and stir constantly until it browns ami becomes liquid; pour at once into a pudding mould, turning it rapidly in order to thoroughly coat it; pack in the rice, and stand the mould in a pan of hot water and bake for one-half hour. Serve with caramel sauce. The mould should be so placed in the pan that the hot water can run freely beneath it. Frozen Rice Pudding: Boil one quart of milk, to which two tablespoonfuls of rice have been added, in a double boiler, for two or three hours, or until it is reduced to a thick cream. If the flavour of raisins is liked, a few stone ones may be boiled with the rice. Sweeten and flavour to taste, then cool and freeze. When perfectly frozen add a pint of sweet cream, either plain or whipped. Lady Alington Wins Fame in the Farming World. The Countess of Warwick is not the only titled lady who takes a keen interest in agriculture. Lady Alington has established a dual reputation in the farming world—the one for her lovely White Farm, which is the pride of Dorsetshire, the other for her success in rearing bantams, which have become so famous that no poultry show seems to be complete without them.

The Wonders of the Human Body. iwo sides of a face are never alike. The eyes are out of line in two eases out of five, and one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten. The right ear is, also, as a rule, higher than the left.

Only one person in fifteen has per feet eyes, the large percentage of defectiveness prevailing among fair-haired people. Short sight is more common in town than among country folk, and of all the people the Germans have a larger proportion of short-sighted persons.

The crystalline lens of the eye is the one portion of the human body which continues t«» increase in size throughout life, and does not cease with the attainment maturity.

The smallest interval of sound can be belter distinguished with one ear than with both. The nails of two fingers never grow with the same rapidity. that of the middle finger growing the fastest, that of the thumb slowest.

In fifty-four eases out* of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. The bones of an average human male skeleton weigh twenty

pounds; those of a woman six pounds lighter. That unruly member, the tongue of a woman, is also smaller than that of a man. given a man and woman of equal size and weight. Tt may lx l appalling to reflect, but it is true, that the muscles of the human jaw exert a forct of over five hundred poll nds. Clarice's B 41 Pills are warranted to cure Gravel. Pains in the back, and all kindred complaints. Free from Mercury. Established upwards of 30 years. In boxes 4s6d each, of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the World. Proprietors. The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company. Lincolr England