DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 41

DOMESTIC

By Maureen.

Stewed Steak. Dumplings made as above directed may be eaten by themselves, with or without gravy, and with a vegetable of one sort or another, or may be served with steak cooked as follows—Peel and slice a large onion and brown it in hot dripping. Cut up lib of steak into squares, and brown these also ; sprinkle steak and onion with flour, pour in half a pint of stock and boil it up, skimming well. Make a dozen small dumplings from the recipe already given, and when the meal lias stewed about two hours nut it on to a hot dish and surround it with the dumplings. Savory Dumplings. Substantial savory dumplings that help very much to eke out other food can be made as follows: -Mix two ounces each of flour, breadcrumbs, and oatmeal : rub in three ounces of clarified fat and add a saltspoonful of salt and nearly as much pepper ; then mix in half a teaspoonful of baking powder, and also of mixed sweet herbs, with a little ground mace or nutmeg. Beat up an egg and mix it in with sufficient milk to make a paste that can be formed into dumplings. These may be boiled or steamed. Melon Chut Take 21b melon, one onion, three pints vinegar, Aoz ground ginger, 2oz loaf sugar, iloz turmeric, loz chopped chillies, -loz .--toned and chopped raisins. Cut up melon and onion, sprinkle with salt, and lei it lie all night: then dry with a cloth. Let vinegar boil, then put in marrow and other ingredients. Boil til! soft. Apple Chutney. Ingredients: four pounds of apples, lib of onions, lib of sugar, lib of raisins, jib of mustard. Jib of salt. 2 quarts of vinegar, !oz of cavenne. loz of ground

ginger. Method Peel apples and onions, cut them up and mix with all other ingredients. Place in a dish and put in a slow oven to simmer for four hours. Steamed Prune' Pudding. Two heaping cups of sifted flour, H cupfuls of chopped stewed prunes, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder; milk enough to stir as thick as biscuit dough, pinch of salt. Steam three hours and serve with the following sauce: Yolks of two eggs well beaten, 1 cupful of sugar beaten in gradually. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth : add yolks and sugar and 2 teaspoonfuls of hot milk. Flavor with vanilla. . Household Hints. To remove rain spots from light material hold over a basin of hot water and rub with a piece of tho same material. Lemon juice and salt will remove rust, ink, and fruit stains from white goods. Chocolate stains can generally be removed quite easily from table linen or handkerchiefs if washed at once with soap and warm water. The sooner stains are removed the better. When a small amount of fat is to be clarified add to the cold fat to be treated some boiling water, stir vigorously and set the water, etc., aside to cool. The fat will form a cake on the top, and this can be easily removed. On the .bottom of the cake will be found a sediment that should be scraped off. When washing the stains out of cotton material never rub soap directly on the stain, as it leaves a mar;;. First wet the cloth and partly wash it out in clear water. Cse molasses and alcohol to take out grass stains, and lemon juice with salt for mildew patches. An old black sock or stocking is as good as anything to use when one is sponging a garment of dark woollen material with any cleansing fluid. There is no lint from it, and it is absorbent and soft at the same