Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 28 September 1916, Page 57

Domestic

Cherry Bread Pudding. Butter slices of bread and place them in a pudding dish in layers with stewed cherries between. Bake for a half hour, and before taking from the oven put over the top beaten whites of two eggs. Brown slightly and serve. Let stand one half hour and serve with plain custard sauce. lodine Stains. Wash the stains thoroughly with alcohol. This may be done by sponging carefully and persistently with a piece of absorbent cotton wet with the alcohol. Then rinse and wash in suds made from pure white soap and hot water. Let the suds cool slightly before using. Hollandaise Sauce. Put one-fourth of a cupful of vinegar in a saucepan and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, a grating of nutmeg and a dash of white pepper; set in a dish of hot water to heat. Beat the yolks of four eggs, and add the hot vinegar to them and return to the fire, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens. Serve a rounding teaspoonful with each croquette. This quantity will serve eight people. "Useful Lemon. One of the most valuable assets of Hie modern toilet table is the much abused lemon. It is perhaps as effective a bleach as can be found. Cut the lemon in half and rub the pure juice directly upon the throat after bathing in warm water. Let the lemon juice dry on. If this treatment is too vigorous, then the following lotion may be found effective. Take two heaped teaspoonfuls of oatmeal, add to it one quart of cold water, let come to the boil, and boil ten minutes. Cool and strain through a piece of cheesecloth, and to the liquid add the juice of two lemons

and a tablespoonful of alcohol. Apply this with a cloth, not wiping it away. Summer Bread. Ever-Fresh Oatmeal Honey Bread (Belgian recipe).To a cup of rolled oats add three cups of hot water, half a cup of honey, a tablespoonful of butter, and some salt. When cooled to blood heat add a yeast cake dissolved. Stir in flour till a suitable dough for kneading has been made. Let it rise over night and make two loaves. Let rise again, and then before placing them in the oven to bake brush over the tops with one teaspoonful of honey and two of milk blended. This bread keeps fresh for an incredible length of time. Whole Wheat Muffins. Two cupfuls of entirewheat flour, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one-quarter cupful of sugar or molasses, one egg, beaten until light and added to one cupful of milk, one tablespoonful of melted butter. Mix in the order given, and bake for twenty minutes in a hot oven. Tea Rolls.—One pint of flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Sift together, mix with sweet milk, and roll half an inch thick. Spread with butter, sprinkle with sugar, roll as for jellycake, cut in small rolls and bake in moderate oven. Household Hints. If the hall is not well lighted, a white staircase is decidedly —white rail, white uprights, and white treads. More jelly is ruined from the use of too much sugar than from any other single miscalculation. Mustard plasters will not blister if the affected parts are first thoroughly rubbed with vaseline. Lavender bags may be made of bolting cloth, filled with fresh lavender flowers, and the edges bound with lavender ribbon. All fruits contain certain acids, which when j brought in contact with tin or iron in cooking develop i a poisonous compound. s.