DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 30 October 1919, Page 41

DOMESTIC

(By Maukeen.)

Light Sponge Pudding. Mix a tablespoonful of flour with a little cold water until quite smooth. Add a well-beaten egg, a pinch of salt, ; and a cupful of milk. Beat the mixture well, turn into a ; baking-dish, which has been well buttered, cover with a greased paper, and cook gently for half an hour. I urn out and serve . with jam' or jelly. The quantities given are enough for three people. -'■ -.",.'' Gem Scones. ' ; . One and a-half breakfastcupfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, one saltspoonful salt, one round tablespoonful butter, milk to mix. Sift the flour, soda, cream of tartar, and salt together into a basin. Rub in the butter thoroughly. Mix with the milk to a very soft dough. Put in dessertspoonfuls into the greased gem tins, and bake for ■ about 10 minutes. ? t Fairy Buttons. | Use Jib of flour, -lib of moist sugar, £lb of treacle, one egg, 3oz of butter, 1£ teaspoonfuls of ground ginger, half a teaspoonful each of carbonate of soda and powdered • cinnamon. Warm Die butter until it is a liquid, mix it with the egg and treacle, pour it on the flour, sugar, etc., previously mixed together, and make into stiff paste. Turn on to the pasteboard, roll out, and cut with small round .cutter. (Mace on a baking-tin a little distance apart, and bake 'in' a. 'moderate oven till brown—about 15 minutes. Beef Roll. • Use lib beef (cold or fresh), lib bacon or sausage-meat, slb breadcrumbs, pepper and salt to taste, 2oz butter, one teaspoonful chopped parsley, one teaspoonful chopped onion, one large egg, and a little good stock to moisten the mixture. "Put the meat through a mincer or chop very tine, add the bacon or sausage-meat, add breadcrumbs, seasoning, egg, and stock ('don't make too moist), make into a roll, pot it in a floured pudding-cloth, and boil for three hours; when cold cover it with glaze, well colored. : v : -:/■ - Lemon Sponge Pie. Cream together three tablespoonfuls of butter and 1-J cups of. sugar. When very light, add 'the yolks of three

eggs beaten until lemon colored and the grated yellow rind of one lemon ~ with .the strained juice. Blend together three rounding tablespoonfuls of ~ flour, "a; quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, and 'half J a cupful of milk; then mix with the first ingredients, add an additional cup of milk, and the stiffly-whipped egg whites. Turn quickly into a large pie-plate that has-been lined .with pastry and bake as custard pie. Serve cold. ■■■'■-, ■;."■%.■ : : . ; 'x' r '"'| 3 Raisin Bread. , | Cream two tablespoonfuls of sugar with butter the size of a walnut, add one beaten egg, one cupful of milk, one .teaspoonful-. of salt, and about three, cupfuls of flour in "i which has been mixed one rounded teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of soda. Lastly add half a cupful of raisins. Let it rise in a warm place about 20 minutes, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. - % Treating a Sprain. • i In the treatment of a sprain we deal with the injury in two stages—first stage, rest; second stage, movement and massage.. Unless this proper procedure is followed, recovery will be delayed. Walking on a sprained ankle before the inflammation has died down delays recovery. Give Nature a chance; three days' • absolute rest, and then start walking 'about. The other mistake may be made of prolonging tho first stage of. rest beyond the proper limits. If you keep a sprained wrist in a sling too long, it will grow stiff, and give no end of trouble. Ease tho stiff joint a little every day when-once you start, and do not allow the stiffness to grow worse. Household Hints. It is a good plan to dip tooth brushes occasionally into boiling water, to disinfect them, and they will last much longe.-. ....,,. .--'?.• If are allowed to dry thoroughly before being starched, they will keep clean longer. iv : A few shreds of candied peel give a delicious flavor to baked bread pudding. If relied clothes become wet with rain on the line, do not, take them down, but allow them to remain until the sun dries them, and they will have lost none of the stiffness. ' ' If your family drinks sugar in the tea, put a lump in the teapot when making tho tea, and you can dispense with one, teaspoonful of tea in measuring. s.£s