The Home

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 16 November 1905, Page 29

The Home

By ■ Maureen '

Quick Pudding. Take 1 tablespoonful flour, teaspoonful baking powder, 2 tablespoonfuls milk, 1 tablespoonful sugar, and 1 egg. Mix sugar, flour, and baking powder, beat up egg and mix with milk, and then add to the dry ingredients. Grease a flat tin, pour in the pudding, and bake for five minutes. Spread with jam, roll ujp, sprinkle with sugar, and then serve. Rhubarb Wine. Take 50 lb of rhubarb, and bruise it in a tub with a tap in. Add fifteen gallons of water. Allow it to stand for four days, then draw off, and put in a pitcher barrel. To every gallon allow 3ft of loaf sugar. Stir up every day for a fortnight, add ±* oz. of isinglass dissolved in a bottle- of the wine, then fasten down for twelve months. Bottle, and keep in a cool, dry place. Ginger Wine. Boil ten gallons of water and 15 'lb of loaf sugar with the whites of six eggs well beaten and strained; mix well before boiling. When the liquor boils, skim it well, and put in i lb of bruised white ginger, and boil twenty minutes. When the liquor is lukewarm, put it into a cask, and add sufficient yeast to work it. Take a gallon of the liquor, and pour it boiling hot over the rinds, very thinly pared, of six lemons, allow it to stand for a day or so, then put it into the barrel (strain first), with \ oz. of isinglass shavings dissolved in it. Stop the cask up in a day or two, and bottle off in three weeks. The wine will be fit for use in three months. Nutriment in Food. Mutton is about equal in nutritive vafue to beef. Lamb is also about the same. Smoked ham is one of the most wholesome forms of -meat. Ham is more digestible when boiled and served sliced thin and cold. Veal is less nutritive, and possesses more waste and less fat than beef. In Germany it is considered as excellent as beef, and is prescribed for invalids ; but in England and America it is thought harmful for persons with weak digestion. Beef is the most nutritive of all animal foods, and can be eaten longer continuously than any other kind of meat, resembling rice and bread in this respect. Fresh beef is almost completely digested— more completely than milk is— by an adult. On Dressing the Hair. -• : In dressing the hair women should study their own style. The trouble with most women is that they take up a style of hairdressing because it is new, and not because it is individually becoming. The handsomest woman often disguises her loveliness with an unbecoming head-drtss. Ihe classic knot, low on the nape of the neck, may be vastly becoming to some women, and yet thoroughly ugly for others. Tall women look bad with a high coiffure, while a mignon beauty will gain dignity and inches by having her hair dressed on the top of her head. A skilful hairdresser knows how to take off years from the face of his patron by the manner in which he puts up her hair. Buying Shoes. Here is a little useful advice in regard to buying shoes. Don't buy shoes that do not allow the great toe to he in a straight line, or that pinch at the heels. A shoe that is too large at the heel is equally as bad, for it does not keep the foot in place. Shoes that have a' depression in the sole allow the joint to drop below the level plane. Do not- buy shoes with the soles turned up much at the,- toes, as they cause the cords on the upper part of the feet to contract. Soak kid shoes in milk if you wish the leather to become softer and handsomer and to L last longer. Brush every part of your shoes carefully with a small, soft brush, and rub any scratches gently with a little vaseline, then polish all over with a piece of flannelette.

As a result of his appeal in the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Very Rev. Father O'Sullivan, of the African Missions, has been enabled to forward a sum of £835 to his Superiors in Cairo.