Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 3, 18 January 1923, Page 49

Domestic

By Maureen

Strawberry Jam.

To make strawberry jam so that the fruit remains whole, put pound of sugar for pound of fruit, and just enough water to keep the sugar from catching, and boil for 1 hour. -

Tomato Savory

Half lb tomatoes, 2 eggs, loz grated cheese, pepper and 1 salt. Plunge the tomatoes in boiling water for a few minutes, then skin. Slice and place the slices in a greased pie-dish or casserole. Break the eggs carefully on, to them. Season and sprinkle with the grated cheese. Bake 5 minutes in a moderate oven.

A Cake Hint.

When making a cake, it is useful to know that sour milk makes a spongy light cake; sweet milk, one which cuts like pound-cake. With sour milk soda alone is used; with sweet milk, soda and cream of tartar. Never use fresh and sour milk for the same cake. Butter should be beaten to a cream, and the sugar added very gradually, next the yolks of eggs, then the flour, then the whites of the eggs, and finally the flavoring or spice.

Tasty Fritters.

Half lb cold meat (minced), -i-!b ‘mashed potatoes, 2 tablespoonsful flour, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 egg, \ teacupful hot water, 1 teaspoonful mixed herbs, pinch of salt. Mix the flour and salt with yolk of egg. Melt the butter in the hot water, and stir carefully into the flour mixture. , Cool down, then stir in the white of egg beaten to a froth. Mix the herbs with, the meat, and mashed potatoes. Take spoonsful of this mixture, cover with the batter, drop into boiling fat. Cook quickly till a nice brown. Serve at once.

Celery Scallops

One head celery, loz grated cheese, 1 tablespoonful flour, loz butter, 2 tablespoonsful brown breadcrumbs, H teacupsful milk, salt and pepper. The heart of the celery may be set aside to be eaten uncooked. Cut up the rest of the celery into small pieces, and cook in a teacupful of water slowly for half an hour. Mix the flour with the milk. Stir this into the celery with the butter and seasoning. Grease well some scallop shells or a pie-dish. Coat with some of the breadcrumbs. Pour in the celery mixture. Put a few crumbs on tpp, then the grated cheese. Bake in a quick oven about 10 minutes. This dish can be prepared the day before needed.

Alpine Eggs.

Two eggs, 3oz cheese, loz butter, finely chopped parsley, pepper and salt to taste. Grease , a fireproof baking dish thickly. Line it with thin slices of the greater part of the cheese. Break the eggs .over this, keeping the yolks whole. Grate the remainder of the cheese, and mix it with finely-minced parsley. Season the eggs liberally with salt and pepper! Sprinkle over them the remainder of the cheese, parsley, and add the butter broken into small pieces. Bake in a quick oven for 10 minutes and serve hot.

The Ely Best.

Several French, scientists have been engaged recently in making a series of tests of methods by which the fly may be most easily destroyed. Tests of a like character have been pursued in Victoria and the mixture decided on consists of a teaspoonful of formalin poured first into a cup, followed by j, cup of' water, and finally by £ cup of mixture of milk and sugar. This is to be sprinkled in drops over small sheets of cardboard or linoleum, and will attract flies in large numbers. The tendency in the past has been to mix too strong a solution of formalin, which the flies would not touch. The method of pouring the mixture into a saucer was not very successful, owing to the natural objection of the fly to drowning. A similar mixture with 10 per cent, of formalin and milk will be found effective for destroying the fly in stables. Both bakers and grocers will be glad to learn of this easy and cheap method. .