Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1914, Page 57

Domestic

By Maureen.

SOME TASTY BREAKFAST DISHES.

. • i Bacon and Potatoes. —Jib of bacon, 11b of cold cooked potatoes. Trim the bacon and cut into convenient pieces. Heat the frying-pan, fry the bacon, place on a hot dish. Add half a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper to the-potatoes; mix well. Put the potatoes into the pan containing the hot bacon fat. Mash them with a fork over the fire until they are quite hot, then press • them tightly towards one end of the pan with a knife. Leave them to brown until they form a crust. Place on a hot dish, the brown crust uppermost ; arrange the bacon nicely on the top. -

' Fish Cakes. —l,lb of cooked fish, fib of cooked* potatoes, 1 egg, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, clarified fat. Remove all bones and skin from the fish. Put the fish and potatoes into a basin, well mix; add half the egg, well beaten, season to taste; work to a smooth paste. Make the mixture into balls of • onf tablespoonful in each, flatten into cakes. Brush them over with the , other half of the egg. Cover them with breadcrumbs. Put the clarified fat into a frying-pan ; when the fat is boiling fry the fish cakes a golden brown. Drain on paper. Serve on a paper mat on a hot dish.

Fried Sausage and Potato Chips. —Jib of sausages, 11b of potatoes, oz of clarified fat, salt and pepper. Wash and peel the potatoes, cutting them into slices an eighth of an inch thick ; cut into strips the size of a match. Melt the fat, prick the sausages, and cook them slowly for about eight minutes. lake the sausages from the pan, heat the fat until a blue smoke is rising, put the potatoes into the boiling fat, and fry them a flight brown. Drain on paper. Place the fried sausages on a hot dish, and arrange the fried potatoes nicely round them. Serve quickly. ,

' .Sore Feet. • . Each night give the feet a bath in warm water, after which rub them with alcohol. If there is profuse perspiration, bathe them in water to which a solution of boric acid has-been added. Dust the feet, with talcum powder after this. .Profuse perspiration of the feet tends to soften the flesh between the toes, and brings soft corns as another trouble. If this continues, dust a trying powder between the toes. Get lycopodium in small quantities. This will help wonderfully. Ingrowing nails are caused by wearing shoes too short or of the wrong shape. Another cause is the improper cutting of the nails. If the nail is cut too short and there is pressure on the top it will press into the flesh. " The skin on the toe will be-forced to grow over the nail and trouble will result. Cut the nail so that it will project over the end of the toe if possible. Push back the flesh, and at the centre of the edge of the nail make a V-shaped incision.. A saturated solution of boric acid will be safe to wash the nail and toe in after dressing. Never Entirely Cover Vegetables, Vegetables should be cooked well ventilated, and never entirely covered. The volatile matter—all kinds of food gases, known to be developed in cooking, and those liberated by the heat must be allowed to pass off in the steam, and not retained in the food. The strong flavor and odor so objectionable to most people, and the cause of indigestion and much distress, are due to ignorance of the fact that practically all food materials, except starchy vegetables, when cooked, will liberate carbonic acid gas and sulphurated hydrogen, or like volatile sulphur compounds’. By leaving the vegetables uncovered or well ventilated, these gases escape.