DOMESTIC

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1920, Page 41

DOMESTIC

(By Maureen.)

- Potato Scones. One large cup freshly boiled mashed potato, two small cups sifted flour, with one rounding teaspoon of baking powder, one-tablespoonful of lard or other shortening, one egg well beaten, pinch salt, one large teaspoonful sugar. Mix well together with sweet milk. 1 urn on a floured board, roll and cut into triangles. Bake in cpiick oven until nice brown. Split and butter. Serve hot with jelly or jam. Savory Tapioca Cream. One and a-half pints white stock, one pint milk, three eggs, two ounces crushed tapioca, and salt to taste. Put the stock into a saucepan, and when it is hot sprinkle in some very finely-crushed tapioca; let it boil, stirring all the time, until the tapioca is quite clear ; beat the yolks of the eggs in a basin, add the milk, and strain this into the soup ; stir until it comes to the boiling point to cook the eggs, but do not let it boil. When it thickens it is ready. This is served instead of soup. Macaroni with Oysters. The following makes a delicious dish : Make some white sauce. The quantity of sauce required will depend on the number of oysters used. Cut up the oysters and drop into the hot sauce. Don’t allow them to cook. When well heated pour over boiled macaroni. Sprinkle chopped parsley over the whole before taking to table. & Preserved Ginger Pudding. Ingredients:—Quarter pound of butter, two ounces sugar; one egg (optional); one teaspoonful ground ginger; quarter-pound preserved ginger; halfpound flour (self-raising) ; pinch mixed spice. Method —Mix flour, ground ginger and spice together. Cream the butter and sugar, and add the treacle and milk and yolk of egg and the white beaten to a stiff froth. Stir all the ingredients together. Place in a wellgreased mould, and steam for two and a-half hours. serve with sauce. If the preserved ginger in svrup is used, omit the golden syrup and use instead the syrup from the jar in which the ginger is preserved. Lip Salve. An excellent lip salve for ordinary use is the “oldfashioned” camphor ice. In aggravated cases of chapped bps, after applying the camphor ice for two or

three nights,?;the treatment may be. changed to ;the use of vaseline, and then, having reclaimed the lips so that they have assumed their original smoothness and firmness, they may be kept in -good condition by drying them properly. ri ; Hair Wash. . A simple hair wash is made by mixing 1 together one ounce each of borax and powdered camphor and dissolving them in a pint of boiling water, then add this to cold water in a bowl. The camphor . will form into lumps, but a sufficient amount will dissolve. This wash will strengthen the hair and help to keep -it healthy and crisp. v . Household Hints. 1 he lightness of batter puddings will be improved if two teaspoonfuls of ground rice are added to the flour before mixing. Sandpaper the soles of children’s new shoes before they are worn. This prevents them from slipping on polished floors. Strains are caused by stretching the muscles or tendons in severe exertion. Apply hot fomentations as scon as possible. Absolute rest is necessary if a speedy cure is desired. Those who have to use brown sugar in place of white hi ay need to know one thing that was a commonplace to our grandmothers; that it should be stored where it is damp rather than dry. Granulated white^ sugar cakes when it gets too moist - brown sugar cakes when it gets too dry. If your brown sugar becomes lumpy, put it into the cellar for a few days, or into an earthenware jar. " ’