The Home

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 50, 14 December 1905, Page 29

The Home

By • Maureen '

Mincemeat. Chop 2 ft suet very finely. Stone and chop 2-Jlb raisins, clean Uft currants, peel and finely chop '2ft apples and 4ib lemon peel. Put all these ingredients into a basin, add four cloves, £oz mace or mixed spice, the rind and juice of 3 lemons, and l£oz chopped almonds. Mix all well together, « pour over " -quarter of a pint brandy and quarter of a pint port or home-made wine, and tieclosely down in jars till required. Rich Plum Cake. Well line a cake-tin with buttered paper. Cream together 41b butter and £lt> castor sugar. Well whisk 5 eggs and add them gradually to the sugar and butter. Sieve together fib flour, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder and £ teaspoonful salt. Add to the butter and eggs. Now; stir in \ ft sultanas, 41b glace cherries, -jib finely chopped almonds, the grated rind of 2 lemons, \oz powdered cloves, spice, and cinnamon mixed, and either 1 gill of brandy or a gill of milk. Put into the tin. Place the tin on a baking-sheet on a layer of sand, and bake for two and a half hours in a moderate oven. Christmas Pudding. Chop lib suet very finely, mixing with it £ib flour Make £ft breadcrumbs. Clean lib currants and lib sultanas, stone and chop lib raisins, chop £lb lemon peel and 3oz sweet almonds and loz bitter. Skin them first' Put all these ingredients into a basin with lft brown sugar, add the grated raid of a lemon, one grated nutmeg, and a pinch of salt, and mix well. Well beat 8 eggs, add to them quarter of a pint'milk and quarter of a pint brandy or home-made wine, pour this into the flour, etc., and stir thoroughly. Put into well-greased basins or moulds, tie well-floured cloths securely over place in fast boiling water, and boil for not less than eight hours. After they are cold remove the cloths and tie down again with clean ones, and hang in a dry place till needed. The Proper Feeding of Babies. The wastage of infant life is one of the evils of our modern civilisation which calls for prevention and fhc question has been taken up with much earnestness in many iparts of England, especially at Huddersfield where the Mayor has taken practical steps to educate mothers as to the best methods of feeding babies But it is not in England alone that great infant mortality, arising mainly through ignorance and carelessness on the part of mothers, exists, for it is recognised by medical men that the lives of many infants are sacrificed e\ery year in this Colony owing to the ignorance of tbo.se responsible for their welfare. The question of the proper feeding of infants has been taken up in Dunedin by Dr. Truby King, Medical Superintendant of Seaclift Asylum, who is assisted in this humane crusade by. Dr. Alexander. It is intended to form classes for the better study of the subject, where mothers and others in charge of young children will be instructed as to the best foods for children and what to avoid. It may be mentioned that Dr. King lays special emphasis on the fact that nothing is as good for children and their mothers as the natural nursing of infants, and that any substitutes, however good, are only to be resorted to when mothers are unable to nurse their offspring. It is proposed to hold a public meeting shortly for ' the purpose of bringing the subject of the proper care of infants into general notice.