Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 18 June 1914, Page 57

Domestic

By Madbein.

Haricot Mutton. 4 Out the better end of the neck of mutton into chops, put them into a frying pan with some fat, and try to a pale brown; cut two onions, two carrots, and a turnip into dice; fry them in ■ mutton fat, but do not let them brown. Put the vegetables and meat into a stew pa u with just enough water to cover them ; simmer for two hours, skim off all the fat, add a little ketchup and some seasoning; serve very hot. This dish is better if prepared, the day before, as then all the fat may be removed while cold, and it will simply require to be thoroughly heated.

Countess Pudding

Line a small buttered dish with puff pastry. Put one heaping tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan, add one cupful of milk, pour when warm over three tablespoonfuls of chopped cocoanut, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Allow to remain for half an hour, then add three yolks of eggs well beaten and half a teaspoonful of almond extract, pour into the dish, bake till firm in a moderate oven. Heat up the whites of eggs till stiff, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of vanilla, and beat a few minutes longer; pile on the pudding and sprinkle with chopped cocoanut. Brown it in a slow oven and serve hot or cold.

Value of Salad Oil.

Few persons realise the wonderful properties of salad oil. It is a most useful kitchen physic. In that most distressing and sudden malady, croup, a teaspoonful of salad oil mixed with another of vinegar works wonders. It may be administered freely, as often as wished. Oil lubricates the laboring throat, while the acid of vinegar cuts away phlegm. As a laxative salad oil is very useful. A spoonful of it, instead of castor oil, is a favorite aperient for very young children.

Adults may take it regularly with benefit, and -without nausea, if it bo kept in a thoroughly liquid state. Most of us would do wisely if we more frequently followed the example set us by Eskimos and other Indians, who rub their children regularly with oil to keep out the cold and to keep off the sun ! In severe weatherespecially in easterly winds it is very well to rub a delicate child's chest with salad oil every morning. It certainly acts as a breastplate and keeps off chills.

How to Rest.

To understand how to rest is of more importance than to know how to work. The latter can easily bo learned. The former it takes years to learn, and some people never succeed in learning the art of resting. It is simply a change of scenes and activities. Sleeping is not always resting. Sitting down for days with nothing to do is not restful. A change is needed to bring into play a different set of faculties and to turn the life into a new channel. The man who works hard finds his best rest in playing hard. The man burdened with care finds relief in something that is active, yet free from responsibility. Learn to rest like a child, with perfect relaxation : and, when working, cultivate a reposeful activity bv avoiding all unnecessary strain, by using only that portion of the body required to perform the special work at hand. When through with your day's work forget it, and let go of each muscle, allowing no tension in the- body, and resting with your whole soul. ' open to the beauty of nature as well as to tho unity of all life.'