The Home

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 40, 7 December 1905, Page 29

The Home

By • Maureen *

Baked Lemon Pudding

Beat 3 eggs, add to them 41b of sifted sugar, 6oz of butter melted, then grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. Beat together, line a dish with puff paste, stir up the mixture, and put it into it. Bake at once in a hot oven.

Baking Potatoes on Range

Place an asbestos mat on the range, and on it lay the potatoes, previously washed clean and dried ; cover with a deep tin or pan. In one hour ,the potatoes will be bursting with mealiness.

Two Effective ways of Cleaning Silver

Put some borax into boiling water, and when dissolved soak the silver in it for a few minutes, then dry, with a towel and polish with a chamois leather. Another method is to soak the silver in sour milk, wash in hot water, dry, and polish with chamois leather.

Lemonette

Three pounds of loaf sugar put to a quart of water; boil gently for about 10 minutes ; pour into a basin, and stand till cold ; then add 2oz of citric acid and 10 drops of essence of lemon ; stir well, and pour into bottles. A little lemon peel boiled with the sugar and water improves it.

Castle Puddings

Take 3 eggs, the weight of 2 in butter, sifted loaf sugar, and fine flour. Beat the butter to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, next the sugar, and the flour last, beating all the time. Butter small cups, fill three parts full, bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Turn out ; serve with lemon or brandy sauce. Less sugar can be used if not liked so sweet. Half a teaspoonful of baking powder should be mixed in the flour.

Christmas Mince Meat

Ingredients— lib suet, nib raisins, Jib currants, lft apples, lib sugar, 2oz candied peel, 1£ lemons, loz almonds, io/. allspice, 2 glasses brandy, and a few cloves. Method — Chop suet finely, stone raisins and clean curlants, blanch almonds, peel and chop apples small, cut candied peel coarsely, mix well all dry ingredients and add lemon juice and brandy last. Tie down closely in jars. When required line patty pans with good pastry, put in the mince meat and cover with pastry. Strew with sugar when sending to table.

Gooseberry Fool

Ingredients— l quart gooseberries (green), moist sugar, 1 strip lemon peel, \ pint cream, h pint milk. Method—Top and tail the gooseberries, wash them, place m an enamelled stewpan over the fire with a few spoonfuls of water, the sugar and lemon peel ; stew gently till tender, rub through a sieve to remove the skins, when quite cold stir in the milk and cream ; the latter should be stiffly whipped. The yolks of 2 eggs may be substituted' for the cream, but will not be so nice. Serve the fool in a large glass dish, or in small custard glasses.

A Cement for Attaching Metal to Glass

Take 2oz of a thick solution of glue, and mix it with U)i of linseed oil varnish and half an ounce of pure turpentine ; the whole are then boiled together in a close vessel The two bodies should be clamped and held together for about two days after they are united, to allow the cement to become dry. The clamps may then be removed.