DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 22 January 1920, Page 41

DOMESTIC

(B? Maubeen.)

Jellied Sheep's Tongues. : , Take three or four, and soak them in salt and water for two hours. Then put them in a saucepan, cover with cold water, and bring to the boil. Drain and wash them in cold water, and return to the cleansed saucepan. Add four cloves, six black peppercorns, three allspice, a small bouquet of herbs, such as thyme, parsley, and bayleaf, and a teaspoonful of salt. Cover the tongues with cold water, bring quickly to the boil, then cook gently till they are tender. When they are cooked, plunge them into cold water for a minute, and remove the skins. Arrange the tongues in a round tin, and pour a little stock over them, in which two or three leaves of leaf gelatine have been dissolved. Put a plate with a weight on it on the tin, and leave in a cold place. When set, dip the mould in warm water, pass a cloth over it, and turn out the tongues on a cold dish. Garnish it with sprigs of parsley. Lemon Marmalade. Taie 31b lemons, sugar, seven breakfastcups water. Pare the skin very thinly from the lemons, after carefully wiping them, and cut this up into very slender chips. Put the chips on to boil in a little pan, with two breakfastcups of water, for half an hour; now take all the white part from the lemons, and cut all the pulp roughly, and put it into the preserving-pan with the remainder of the water to boil for one hour (this is counted after it begins to boil). Stir it frequently, then strain it through a jellybag, without pressure. Put the skins and the liquid with them along with this. Now measure this liquid, and for each breakfastcupful put lib sugar. Put in the preserving-pan, and boil for half an hour. I'm into jars, and cover for use. Gooseberry Jam. Weigh fruit, take necessary sugar and substitute, and to each pound of fruit barely half a gill of water. Pick and top-and-tail fruit. Put sugar, water, and substitute in pan. Stir frequently over gentle heat till sugar is dissolved. Heat till boiling. Put in fruit, cook quickly till same jellies on plate. Skim frequently. Put into jars. and tio down.

• : Apple, Plum, or Pear Syrup (No Sugar). i; Collect any _ "windfalls" or bruised apples, .plums, or pears, and boil them whole in a very little water until soft." Then press out all the juice possible. - Strain and boil it quickly in an uncovered pan until it becomes thick like a syrup. Pour into bottles and cork down. v ;? •■'•■" ■'*»■->?; ■-■'-:"■■' .'■ .V _,_ ' -Veal Ifeoaf. ' - ' '■ :}'i i Into a bowl put' 31b chopped raw veal, four tablespoons dripping, three well-beaten eggs, three tablespoons', milk, four rolled biscuits, one teaspoon white pepper, and one tablespoon each of salt - and powdered sage. Mix all together, form in a loaf, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour and a^half. ; - , ■■■'"—■ Vegetable'Marrow Ginger. ;~ Take 61b marrow, 61b sugar, three lemons, Jib candied peel, «oz chillies, and £oz ground ginger. Cut the marrow in slices £in thick and lin long, put into a pan, sugar on the top. Squeeze and cut the lemons in pieces over these, and let them lie for 24 hours; put into a preservingpan, tie "chillies'in a bag, and boil until marrow is quite tender. Household Hints. Aluminium pans must never be cleaned out with soda. Soapy water with a little silver sand will -remove any discoloration quite well, and if the outside has got blackened clean it with a piece of flannel moistened with kerosene and dipped in ashes. Rinse the pan in water, and dry it thoroughly both inside and out. If you have the misfortune to spill grease upon your kitchen floor, let it cool, scrape up all you can, and then pour a few drops of alcohol on the spot, wipe it off, and add a few more drops, enough to cover spot. Let this remain a short time, and again wipe the spot with a clean cloth. The grease spot will have disappeared. Fruit is an excellent blood purifier. The best time to eat fresh fruit is before breakfast or at the beginning of breakfast. Dried figs, dates, and prunes are also uncommonly valuable, and stewed or in puddings are best eaten at the midday meal, be it dinner or lunch. To give windows a brilliant polish it will be found a good plan to add a couple of tablespoonfuls of paraffin oil to a bucket of cold water; mix well, and wash the windows over with a sponge which has been squeezed out of the water. Dry them, and polish with a soft cloth.