DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 21 August 1919, Page 41

DOMESTIC

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Croquettes of Potatoes. 'iy Boil and peel six large potatoes, pass through a wire sieve into a basin, add one egg or the yolks' of two, and season with black- pepper and salt. Mix well, and let it stand till nearly cold, then form into 12 or 14 balls, roll them in flour, then in beaten egg, and lastly in breadcrumbs. Fry them in boiling fat to a nice golden brown, then put them in the oven for a minute to drain, and serve neatly dished on a napkin. " Date Cake. Take 12oz of flour, 4oz of butter, loz of lard, 4oz of sugar, Mb of elates (weighed after stoning), one teaspoonful of baking powder, quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one egg, half a breakfastcupful of milk. Rub butter and lard into flour after mixing in the salt and baking powder. Add sugar and the dates, which should be cut into small pieces. Beat egg well, add the milk, and pour into the other ingredients. Mix, turn into a paper-lined cake-tin, and bake in a steady oven for about two hours. Essex Pudding. Put in a. bowl 3oz of butter and 4oz of sugar, and beat, them to a cream. Add gradually soz of flour, two eggs, and enough milk to make all into a smooth batter. The eggs should be dropped in from the shell, and the mixture beaten well for a few minutes after each egg is added. Enough milk should be added to make the batter of the consistency of very thick cream. Mix through it half a teaspoonful of baking powder and quarter of a teaspoonful of vanilla. Butter a mould or pudding basin, put. a good layer of thick jam in it, and pour the batter over it gently, so that it does not. mix with the jam. Cover with a piece of buttered paper, and steam for an hour and a-half.

A Sick-room Hint, _ . One of the most useful hints for sick-room attends ance is very seldom known outside of a hospital;- ward* and not even thereon many cases. The hint' tq| obtain a cold cloth without -the, use of bide. Everyone knows that- in fevers • a cold cloth. on the forehead or. face, or base of the brain, is one of the most comforts able things in the world/’; In the tropical hospitals,and where ice is scarce, all that is necessary is to web! a linen cloth, wave it to and fro in the air, fold it): and place it on the patient. Have another cloth readyp waving it -to and fro just before applying it. These; cloths have a more -grateful and lasting coldness than! those made so by the intense cold produced by ice. | Plain Rice, Broth. 3 -1 S Put in a pan Tib of boiling beef, and a quart and a-half of cold waters Let it come very slowly to the! boil, then skim it carefully. , When it. has simmered for an hour,* add 2oz of well-washed whole rice, and] boil it gently for two hours longer. Carefully-skim off the fat, add a tablespoonful of fine-chopped parsley,] and serve. If cabbage is liked,, shred down a small one, put it into a pan of boiling water, with a little salt and] sugar, and a small piece of soda, and boil it for 10 minutes. Strain it and add it to the soup, after the fat has been skimmed off, and let. all boil: for five minutes longer. f| Household Hints. ■£ Wash varnished paper with cold tea, and afterwards polish with a good.furniture paste. Put a little custard powder into any cake you may be making. It lightens the . flour and improves the flavor. ■-*' ’■ "rFlour must always bo kept in a perfectly v place, as, with the least suspicion of damp about], it makes heavy cakes and bread. , >. y!| If the oven is too hot, put a basin of cold water in it. This will reduce the temperature of the oven immediately, and steam from, the water will not injure anything that is being cooked except puff pastry.