DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 7 March 1918, Page 41

DOMESTIC

By Maubeen.,

Fried Mushrooms. ~" Select fine large mushroom caps, remove the stems, and prepare as for broiling. Roll them in well pulverised biscuit crumbs, dip each in beaten egg, roll again in crumbs, place in a wire basket, and fryin deep fat. Serve on thin slices of well-o uttered toast. Garnish with a slice of lemon, or, if you prefer, pour over the mushrooms a sauce made of a little melted butter seasoned with lemon juice, salt, and r<*d pepper. Sour Milk Cookies. '--. Cream together a scant half-cupful of any preferred shortening (clarified beef dripping is excellent, or chicken fat), with two small cupfuls of 6ugar; add two lightly beaten eggs, half a cupful of sour milk in which has been dissolved three-quarters of a teaspoonful of baking soda, half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and sufficient sifted pastry flour to form a dough. Roll out very thin, cut into scalloped cookies and bake in a rather quick oven. These cookies are rather soft when first taken from the oven, but they become crisp. Apple Custard. A dainty and inexpensive sweet is made from the following recipe:—rare and quarter six large apples, core and place them on a slow fire in a pan, with three tablespoonfuls of water or rather more, and let them remain until softened. To half a pound of sugar, add the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one. Add yolks of four eggs; mix well and beat in the apples". Put the mixture in individual custard cups (tin ones) and bake until nicely set. Serve with a garnish of whipped cream on the top of each custard and a dried cherry in the centre. Plain White Scones. Half a pound flour, loz butter, half teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 1 gill milk, 1 tea-

spoonful sugar, 1 egg. Rub all dry ingredients through a sieve into a basin. Add the butter, and rub together with the tips of the fingers until free from lumps; Then make a well in the centre, and stir in enough fresh milk to make a light dough. Turn out on a floured board, and work very lightly with the hands until free from cracks. Roll out to i inch in thickness with a,floured rolling pin, cut into shapes, place on a greased and floured baking tin, and bake in a good oven until firm to the touch and of a nice brown color. Time to bake 10 to 15 minutes. Household Hints. An onion poultice beats all others for easing neuralgic or rheumatic pains, sore throats, etc. When making coffee sprinkle a little salt on it before pouring on the boiling water. The flavor will be wonderfully improved. Equal parts of paraffin and vinegar make a good polish for the case of a piano, and the keys can be cleaned by wiping them with milk. After washing linoleum, wipe it over with wafer to which a little thin glue has been added. This gives it a polish without, making it slippery. When mixing whitewash, add a handful of common salt. This makes the whitewash adhere, to the walls and prevents it from rubbing off. Add a little cornflour to salt when filling saltcellars. This prevents the salt hardening. Only half a teaspoonful of cornflour to two tablespoonfuls of salt is needed. When ironing handkerchiefs the middle should be ironed first. To iron the edges first causes the middle to swell out like a balloon and makes it difficult to iron satisfactorily. When watering window plants add about a teaspoonful of sal volatile to every two pints of water. It sometimes revives plants that have apparently no life left in them.