DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1917, Page 41

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Canadian War Cake. 1 */ Two cups brown sugar, two cups hot water, two | tablespoons lard, two cups seeded raisins, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon.. Set on to boil five minutes. When cold add one teaspoon soda sifted in with three cups flour. Bake in a moderate oven. This is a good substitute, for the richer fruit cake now, when eggs and butter • are so high. Fairy Gingerbread. Two tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one tablespoonful of milk, one teaspoonful of ginger, one half teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to make a stiff cake batter. Spread thin on iron sheets or inverted pans, bake in a slow oven, and cut into squares while hot. Stale-Bread Muffins. These bread muffins will be found delicious and can be made the means of using up any stale bread that may be in the bread box. Cover one pint of stale bread-crumbs with a pint of milk and soak for half an hour. Mash, add two well-beaten eggs and one and a-half cupfuls of sifted flour, mixed with two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Beat the batter hard, add two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and bake in a quick oven for thirty minutes. These are very good reheated. v Household Hints. , When boiling,greasy soups, have the heat at one side of the saucepan. The greasy scum will then be thrown to one side and can be easily removed. When, through putting the hands into hot soda water, the skin becomes shrunken, rub it with a little ordinary salt, and it will gradually become smooth again. •, The irritating smell of oil lamps can be mitigated in a great degree by rubbing the reservoir every day

with a rag moistened with turpentine; followed by a brisk polishing with a soft dry cloth. ■ ' ■ v|? ' After first removing the cork of a bottle from glue do not use it again,' but in its place insert the stump of an old candle. It will never exasperate you by sticking, and the glue cannot possibly spill. •p' For a disinfectant for a sink, pour down a gallon of boiling water mixed with two tablespoonfuls of soda and a teaspoonful of ammonia. - This will dissolve all greasy, matter in both sink and pipe. A If ink is spilt on the table-cloth, .'immediately melt a candle taking some of. the tallow, spread it oyer the ink patch, and leave it to dry.. Afterwards wdsh the table-cloth, and all traces.of ink will disappear, p There are many ways of cleaning knives, but few of them remove every stain from the blades. If you sprinkle a little bicarbonate of soda on a cork and rub briskly over the steel, all the" stains will disappear. Another successful plan is to rub, the stain with a slice of freshly-cut potato, and then jiolish in the usual way. r " ' v: . y “ ... lo clean the inside of a •water-bottle or any glass that is too small to insert the hand, put into the bottle a small quantity of tea-leaves, pour in about one-third of a teacupful of vinegar, shake well, empty, and rinse with cold water. A perfectly clear glass will result. %'