DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1919, Page 41

DOMESTIC

(By MAuiiEErt.)

Rice Cakes. ' -Take'3o2 of self-raising flour, 3oz of ground rice, 3oz of sugar, 4oz of fat, one egg, a little milk, and a pinch of salt. . Mix dry ingredients well together, rub in fat, then add well-beaten egg and milk. Make into small cakes and bake in hot oven. Lemon Dumplings. : Chop very fine Mb of suet and mix it with -Mb of grated bread, 4oz of sugar, and the peel of one lemon, grated. Mix these ingredients well together with two well -beat en eggs, and make up the mixture into small balls to be bailed, or boil the whole in a basin . Raisin Pudding. Chop Mb of suet fine, and mix it. with lib of flour ; stono lOoz of raisins and stir them into the flour and suet with 2oz of brown sugar. Mix all well together, and pour in sufficient milk to make the mixture into a stiff' paste, tie it in a floured cloth, and put it into a saucepan of boiling water, and boil it. When done, serve it with white sugar sifted over the top. «*» Macaroons. Beat one egg with a fork until light and Huffy. add half a cupful of sugar, one small tablesy>oonful of butter (melted), one cupful of cocoanut, one cupful of oatmeal, and' a little salt; flavor with vanilla. Mix thoroughly, drop a teaspoonful at a time on to a buttered slide, and place a blanched almond on each one. Bake in a very slow oven for 20 minutes. Rhubarb Pie. # - ' Pour boiling water over two large cupfuls of chopped rhubarb, and let boil four or five minutes, then drain off the water. Mix with the rhubarb one cup of sugar, the yolk of an egg, and a piece of butter

and a tablespoonful of flour, moistening, the whole with : three tablespoonfuls of water. Bake,, with the lower . crust only, beat the twhite of an egg with; three table- . spoonfuls of sugar, and spread over top of the "^ pie, \ and return it to oven' to brown. ....- - -f. ■;■-}: f Cauliflower Soup. " J 3 Wash a small cauliflower well and remove the green leaves. "'Put it in a basin and cover it with boiling water, adding a small piece of washing soda if the water is hard. After it has stood for five minutes take it out and put it in a pan to boil, with a quart of milk. and water, or milk without water, until quite tender. Pass all through a sieve and season with one teaspoonful of salt and a little white pepper. Melt loz of butter in the saucepan, and add to it a dessertspoonful of cornflour, mixing till perfectly smooth. Add the soup gradually and stir till it boils. Let it boil for three minutes, then draw it aside and stir in two or three tablespoonfuls of cream. Do not allow it to boil again after adding the cream. Household Hints. If you want to bake potatoes and your time is short, try boiling them until nearly done and finish them, in the oven. For mashed potatoes, slice them thin, as for French fried, instead of leaving them whole or cut in half, and you will be surprised at the saving in time and fuel. " . To remove grease spots from floors, saturate l a clean white cloth with kerosene and rub hard on the spots. Then wash your floor, using plenty of soap on the spots. The oil will evaporate in 24 hours and-the spots will bo gone. Never put a particle of soap on silverware if you would have it retain its lustre. Wet a flannel cloth in kerosene and dip in dry whiting and rub the plated ware. Let it dry on, then polish with a chamois skin. A mixture of oil and ink is good to clean kid boots with. The first softens the kid, and the latter blackens them.