DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 7 November 1918, Page 41

DOMESTIC

By Maubeen..

Roast Shoulder of Mutton. Have the butcher bone and roll the meat. Dust well with flour, and then place in a hot oven and let brown well for one-half hour, reducing the heat; then baste every ten minutes with one pint of boiling water. Cook the meat for twenty minutes for every pound net weight, allowing one-half hour for the meat to heat, through. For example : A shoulder of meat weighing about six and three-fourths pounds weighed after boning five and one-fourth pounds. This meat should be cooked for two and one-fourth hours in a moderate oven. Ilice Mould and Prunes. Required : One pint of milk, two ounces of rice, one ounce of castor sugar, vanilla to taste. Put the milk in a pan on the fire to boil. Well wash the rice sprinkle it into the boiling water. Put the lid on the pan, and simmer very gently until rice is tender and has absorbed the milk. You should be just able to pour them into the mould. Before doing so add sugar and vanilla. Rinse out a border mould, if possible, with cold water: pour in the rice and leave until cold : then loosen, round the edge, shake gently, and turn it on to a dish. Arrange some nicely-stewed prunes in the centre and pour the syrup round. Mixed Pickles. Required: 21b of cucumber (unpeeled), Jib of small onions, 2 red chillies, 1 large cauliflower, .',lb of French beans, 1 quart of vinegar, 1 teacupful of salt, 2 blades of mace, loz of peppercorns, hoz each of ginger and allspice. Slice the cucumber, peel the onions with a silver knife, pull the cauliflower to pieces in sprigs. Make a brine with a teacupful of salt to a gallon of cold water. Soak all the vegetabes in this brine overnight, and in the morning heat them in the brine, but

do not let them" boil. Drain j 1 off the brine, dry the vegetables on a sieve, then arrange them tastefully in pickle bottles. ; :.. * jf| Of •.."; M . Rice Meringue. - Required : One ounce of rice, half a pint of milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of scraped and chopped beef suet, one tablespoonful of castor sugar, vanilla. Wash the rice. Tie the finely-scraped suet up in a piece of muslin. Boil the milk; add the suet, rice, and sugar. Simmer all these very gently until the rice is quite thick. Keep it well stirred, and the lid on the pan. When cooked take out the suet; squeeze the muslin well; add vanilla to taste to the. rice and the beaten yolk of egg. Pour the mixture into a piedish. Whip the white of egg to a very stiff froth ; add to it a tablespoonful of castor sugar, and put on top of rice in a cool oven until the meringue is lightly browned. Then serve it at once. Banana Custard. Put one quart of milk on stove to heat. Mix four tablespoonfuls cornflour, one-half cupful of sugar with enough milk to make a batter. Stir into the hot milk and cook until thick ; remove from fire and stir two bananas into it; flavor with lemon or vanilla. This makes a nice, inexpensive dessert, and is improved by serving with cream. Household Hints. If you need ink in a hurry and find your ink bottle empty try using washing blue. It makes an effective substitute. A little carbonate of soda sprinkled over fruit when stewing will prevent the juice boiling over. It will also reduce the quantity of sugar required. if you have, the fine linens or laces not in use and wish to keep them perfectly white take a pillowcase and blue, it thoroughly, then wrap your linens in it. They will keep nice and white for an indefinite length of time. When storing knives not in use keep them in powdered French chalk, and they will never get rusty; the chalk, being of a greasy nature, preserves them.

FIRE-SWEPT PARISH, OHAKUNE Our people, feeling the need of Catholic education for their children, determined to provide them with a Catholic school. This year a large and commodious school (where more than 80 Catholic children are now taught) was erected at a cost of XI6OO, and a convent was purchased at a cost of £l4O0 —that is, a total of £3OOO. Our people have subscribed generously, but they are not rich in this world's goods, and they could only reduce the debt by £BOO. £2200 still remains as a debt. Since the erection of school and convent the terrible bush fires of last March swept over the district, inflicting heavy loss on some, of our people. Moreover, we have no church and no presbytery yet. We are badly off. Hence we appeal to the benevolent throughout the Dominion to help us to keep the Faith { in this back blocks and fire-swept parish. We are running a bazaar on November 20 to relieve our debt. Donations in kind or money will be gratefully received and personally acknowledged. Address— Father inane, Ohakune.

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ALIEN RELIGIOUS. The recent agitation against persons in England of enemy origin, and the passing of a new act to deal with these cases, brings up again the question of priests and religious who come into this classification. Both Catholics and Protestants arc concerned. Many of the Catholics are members of religious Orders. The government seems inclined to leave the matter to a very large extent in the hands of the Cardinal Archbishop, who in one instance appointed a British superior, who is responsible for every member of the religious household. The whole question of priests and religious of enemy origin is to come before the House of Commons Committee shortly. Under the Hague Convention there are only two courses open—they can be repatriated, or exempt from internment or repatriated. But they cannot be interned unless they break the laws or are of bad moral character, and it is practically certain that the charitable works they are performing will cause them to be exempt from any proceedings under the next Act, which is aimed against persons who are working in the interests of the enemy, and not to restrict religious persons in the carrying out of their duties.

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