DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 28 March 1918, Page 41

DOMESTIC

By Maukeen.

Apple Custard Pie. "\.-"\ ~ Three cups of milk • four eggs; one cup of sugar; two cups of thick stewed, apples strained through a colander. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs lightly, and mix the yolks well with the apples, flavoring with nutmeg. Then beat into this the milk, and lastly the whites. Let the crust partly bake before turning in this filling. Bake with only one crust, like all custard pies.Tomato Sauce Without Vinegar. • Wipe, clean, and cut up 251 b tomatoes, 41b onions, and 4oz garlic. Put into a preserving pan and boil for two hours, then strain through a colander. Return the pulp to the preserving pan and add lib sugar/ fib salt, 2oz ground ginger, U drams cayenne. Boil for two hours, then add h dram of oil of cloves, loz spirits of wine, soz acetic acid. Stir well together, and remove from the fire at once. White Sauce. Two tablespoonfuls flour, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 cup milk, J, teaspoonful salt, J teaspoonful white pepper. Mix flour and butter together until no flour can bo seen. Acid milk slowly and stir over moderate fire until it thickens. Remove from the fire and add salt and pepper. .; - English Pancakes. Two eggs, two ounces granulated sugar, half a pint of milk, two ounces of butter, and two ounces of flour. Beat the butter to a cream, then add the well-beaten eggs, stir in sugar and flour. When these are well mixed add milk, stirring and beating the mixture for five minutes.- Put in buttered saucers, bake in a moderate oven fifteen minutes and serve hot with any jam or marmalade between.

;ri;V..:'. ,-.',.-•■- •■••;••", Raisin Buna. >^-- : :A; - r -~ ??<& ; -'. :^/ Sift one quart of flour with four level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, one-half -teaspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, rub in two tablespoonfuls of shortening and mix with sweet milk to a dough to roll. Roll out thin, sprinkle with sugar and chopped seeded raisins, roll up like a jelly roll cake, and with a very, sharp knife slice across into inch pieces, lay these on a buttered tin and bake in a quick oven until brown. 'V Household Hints. Vinegar and salt are excellent for cleaning brass. Allow two tablespoonfuls of salt to half a pint or vinegar. Place an ordinary pie-chimney in the saucepan when boiling milk, and it will not boil over on the stove, even if left boiling for several minutes. A little methylated spirits used to moisten the polishing-paste intended for brass and copper goods will keep them from tarnishing for quite a long time. A very high . polish that will not finger-mark can be given to furniture before the polish is put on—it is wiped over with a cloth wrung out of hot water. - When steaming potatoes put a cloth over them before putting the lid on. They will take much less time to cook and be much more mealy than when done in tho ordinary way. if windows are cleaned with vinegar and water they will be brighter and last clean longer than if done with water alone. Polish in the usual way with a soft linen cloth or leather. Freshly-mixed mustard will remove ink-stains from the most delicate fabric without injury. Simply apply to the stained part, let it remain on an hour or so, then rinse with clean water. When pouring hot fat into a basin, add to it an equal quantity of boiling water. This causes any pieces of meat in the fat to sink to the bottom, and dripping treated in this way will be found white and clean. " ' : >-