Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 27, 12 July 1923, Page 49

Domestic

By Maureen

r - • Cake Without Eggs. , The following is an excellent recipe for a fruit cake without eggs:lib flour, Jib butter, -Mb sugar, lb currants, 3oz candied peel, i pint of milk, 1 teaspoonful ammonia "> v or carbonate of soda. Put the flour into a basin with the )h sugar, currants and sliced candied peel; beat the butter to ,•• • a cream, and beat these ingredients together with the milk. *-w Stir the ammonia (or soda) into 2 tablespoonsful of milk, s add it to the dough, and beat the whole well until everything is thoroughly mixed. Put the dough into a buttered tin, and bake the cake from Ti to 2 hours. Honey Pudding. 4oz of honey, 6oz of soft breadcrumbs, 1 small lemon, 2 eggs, i a teaspoonful of ground ginger, loz of butter, 1 gill of milk, loz of flour. Stir the honey and breadcrumbs in a basin, cook the flour in the milk, and add to the above. When well mixed add the grated rind of half the lemon, the ginger, and the yolks of 2 eggs. Beat up the mixture for some minutes, butter a plain pudding mould, and add the remainder of the butter to the above mixture, whisk the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, and mix all together gently. Three parts fill the mould with the mixture and , steam from li to 1:1 hours. This makes a delicious pudding, served hot with a suitable sauce or syrup. Household Hints. A safety-pin makes a good bodkin if you have lost yours. Simply clip it through the end of a piece of tape or ribbon. Take an ordinary table knife and cut the blade with the sci'ssons as if you were 1 cutting out material. This sharpens the scissors very quickly. Ordinary linen buttons can be made quite ornamental for a blouse if you dye them with a dye to match or contrast with the material. When pressing the seams of a thick skirt rub a little soap down the seams, using it dry, and then iron. This keeps the seams beautifully flat. jL When sewing buttons on a home-knitted jersey, put a. large button in front and a small pearl button at the back. This saves the woollen coat from getting torn when there is a drag on the buttons. To clean bottles, cut a raw potato into small pieces, and then put them into the bottle with a teaspoonful of salt and two tablespoonsful of water. Shake well together until every mark is removed.

■ Take Care of Your Eyes. A poet once declared that the eyes were the windows of the soul. Whether in these materialistic days people own to having souls or not is the question. No one, however, will deny that beautiful eyes are envied any woman, who is lucky enough to be thus gifted by Nature, yet it is extraordinary how few people take care of their eyes. Although shape and color are unalterable, much is possible to add brightness to the eyes, and their expression can be controlled to a great degree. Very few people take the trouble to give the eyes a bath each day, yet this simple practice will do much to keep them clean and bright and rest them after they have been much used. Get an eye-bath from the chemist and use either tepid water or, better still, a weak solution of boracic acid. Half a teaspoonful to a pint of boiling water is the correct proportion. Dark circles round the eyes are not pretty, although •some women persist in making them with kohl or some such substance, thinking it enhances their orbs; as'a matter of fact, it ages the person by years, and also in time makes the eyelids red. . People who have dark circles usually want to get rid of them, and first of all the cause should lie discovered. It may be eye-strain; if so, visit an oculist. Possibly it is over-fatigue ; that being the case, rest is the only cure. Should they come from digestive disorders, look to your diet. If they don't disappear, consult a doctor.