Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 15, 19 April 1923, Page 49

Domestic

By Maureen

HOME-MADE. SWEETS. Butter Scotch (by request).Dissolve 21b sugar in 2 pints of water; boil and add 2 tablespoonsful of butter, and sufficient flavoring extract to suit. v Burnt Almonds. —Put a cupful of brown sugar into a saucepan with a very little water. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let it boil a minute, then throw in half-cupful of almonds and stir over the fire until the sugar granulates and is a little brown. When the nuts are well coated and before they get into one mass, turn them out and separate any that have stuck together. Chocolate Caramels. —Put into an enamelled saucepan a teacupful of golden syrup, brown sugar, and milk, and los' biitter. Boil up, stirr.ng briskly, then add a dessertspoonful of glycerine and boil again fur a few minutes. Take the pan from the fire and stir in a teacupful of powdered chocolate. Boil again until a little dropped in cold watei will form a hard ball. Pour into a weil-greased fat tin and when cold cut into squares. Almond Crescents. —Mix l|lb of castor sugar with Jib of ground rice and fib of ground almonds. Break three eggs into this mixture, and make into dough. Poll into sheets about Jin thick, and cut out to size required. Put on baking-sheets and bake to a delicate color. Then ice over with various-colored icing. Barley Sugar Sticks.lib of loaf sugar, lid gills of water, lemon juice. Boil sugar and water till large bubbles form on it as it boils, and it begins to whiten; add the lemon juice and stir for a minute or until a. spoonful dropped'into water breaks off short. Pour into a greased tin, and as it cools cut into strips and twist. Turkish Delight.—Take loz of Nelson's gelatine. 21b of loaf sugar, and the juice of 2 lemons, or other flavoring. Soak the gelatine for two hours in a teacupful of water, boil the sugar and one teacupful of water for 10 minutes. Pour it over the gelatine, and add flavoring. Pour into well-buttered soup-plates. When cold, cut into squares. and roll in icing sugar. It is best made a week before required. Part of it can be colored with cochineal if liked. Cocoanut Macaroons. —Jib castor sugar. Jib desiccated cocoanut, the whites of 6 eggs, 10 drops of vanilla flavor. Beat the whites of eggs to a firm froth, add to them the vanilla. Then beat in the sugar and cocoanut. Line a baking tin with greased paper and drop the mixture on to it in rounds. Bake for about 20 minutes in a warm oven.

Color some of the macaroons with cochineal if you like to do so. , Peppermint Creams.— the white of an egg into a basin with a tablespoonful of water and four drops of concentrated essence of peppermint. Stir into these, with a wooden spoon, about a pound of sieved icing sugar to form a soft, creamy but not sticky paste. Dust a pastry-board with icing sugar, turn the paste on to it, and knead till quite smooth, roll out to half an inch thick, and cut the paste into rounds with a small cutter. Lay on a sieve to dry in a cool place. The Usefulness of Borax. The utility of borax for medicinal and antiseptic purposes is invaluable in every household, and no housewife who takes the proper amount of pride which is due to her home would neglect to possess a good quantity of it in her store cupboard to use on* all occasions and for manifold purposes. Borax is particularly useful in the larder when the freshest meat, fish, and other viands are difficult to keep for any length of time. A little'of the dry powder sprinkled over the provisions will arrest putrefaction, or if already slightly tainted, that unpleasantness may be removed by soaking the food in a solution of borax and water. Water is rendered softer for drinking, cooking, washing, etc., by having a small quantity of borax dissolved in it. For washing animals, borax should bo mixed in the water, as it will destroy any parasites in the skin, besides rendering the animals' coats silky and glossy. Its medicinal qualities are proved by its ability, to relieve soreness of the throat, and for curing thrush, the common complaint from which little children suffer