Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 33

Domestic

By * Maureen '

How to Use Up Cold Potatoes., In every 'household there is an accumulation! of cold potatoes more or- less every day, and yet how seldomone sees tiHis favorite vegetable warmed up nicely for breakfast. It is a dish rarely pasjaod by when -some economical cook- vouchsafes it a place in her list 'of quickly prepared dishes, and for the winter months it would m a ke a pleasant variety. -Potatoes are good for children, making them fat and strong, .and constitute a ■•much more wholesome meal than the bread and tea on which so nuany of them are allowed to breakfast. Where the breakfast hoar is early, the following recipes for potatoes can ,be prepared the day previously with ad-vantage :— Potato Rissoles. Some cold potatoes, half the quantity of cold manced meat, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one small onion, two eggs, pepper, salt, and breadcrumbs. Mash tine remains of any co-Id potatoes, mix them with half their weight in cold meat minced finely;*pepper and scclt ; mince .the onion and parsley, and add to potatoes. Beat up an egg and add to the mixture Mako into - rissoles. Beat *up the other egg, dip the nssoles into it, roll in the breadcrumbs a-nd fry a golden brown, / c ' Curried Potatoes. One onion, one tablespoonful curry powder, one apple, one lump of sugar, one ounce of butter, salt, and cold potatoes. Slice onion and apple, and fry in the butter gently till bath are thoroughly cooked, then. a>dM the curry powder and the supar and salt ; .fry for 'five minutes, next pour in a breakfast cupful of stock, and let simmer half an hour. Thicken with a heaped teaspoonful of flour, put in the cold potatoes, and allow them time to get tshoroughdy hot through. Fried Potatoes. Cold potatoes, pepper and salt, lard, '-and chopped parsley. Melt the land in a frying pan, put- in the potatoes thoroughly mashed, add pepper and a r.ti parsley, and fry till nicely browned. These "are very nice served with bacon or sausages. -• Potato Mountain. Onions, pepper and salt, cold' potatoes. Boil tw o onions till tender, then chop' them nicely, and add cold potatoes mashed . fine, pepper and salt. Butter- a basin press the mixture into it, and set the basin in the stove f o r five minutes. Then turn- the mould carefully gut into a small dish, .arid set in the oven' to brown berve in the dish in which it was browned. • » Hoarseness. ' Hoarseness 'when speaking is what a great many people suffer from all- through the winter months, and this without -their having any cold or anything the matterwith; their throats, it is sin extremely disagreeable thing to have, anti very uncomfortable, as there is constantly the desire to keep clearing the throat This hoarseness can be very much relieved by lemon juice The lemon must be baked like an apple, and then, while hot, the juice should be squeezed over a lump of sufcar which should be sucked slowly. Another simple remedy is to take a fresh e/rg, heat it, and thicken with s C o a on%is U fp a p rr € ar ™ 7 ° f * c hh ° aiSencSS For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is Gd and 2s 6d....