Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1924, Page 49

Domestic

n By Maureen

Frying Fish, Etc. In frying fish, chops, or anything that spatters, if you keep a very low fire under the pan, and cook slowly, keeping a cover slightly askew on the pan, so as to let the steam escape, you will not have a greasy stove to clean afterwards, and the food is also very much better cooked, therefore better for you. Once turning is enough. You do not need egg or breadcrumbs for your chops or fish when done this way: just cover well with dry crumb, in which a little salt and a pinch of flour have been mixed. Bread and Cheese Pudding. Two ounces of grated cheese, 2oz of fine crumbs of bread, loz of butter, a saltspoonful of flour of mustard, a sprinkling of cayenne. Warm the butter till, it is like cream, then mix all the ingredients together; add one well-beaten egg and two tablespoonsful of milk. Beat the mixture, put it into a pie-dish and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Gingerbread Cocoanul. Mix well together lOoz of fine wheaten flour and Goz of flour of rice (or rice ground to powder), the grated rind of a lemon, and *oz of ginger. Pour nearly boiling upon these 11b of treacle, soz of fresh butter, and ooz of sugar, melted together in a saucepan. Beat the mixture, which will be almost a 'batter, with a wooden spoon, and when quite smooth leave it until it is perfectly cold; then add to it ooz of grated cocoanut, and when it is thoroughly blended with' the other ingredients lay the paste in small heaps upon a buttered tin and bake them in a very slow oven from half to three-quarters of an hour. Gingerbread Sponge, Half-pound golden syrup, 2oz butter, 1 egg, loz ground sugar, lOoz flour, 2oz sugar, 2 tablespoonsful milk, | teaspoonful soda. Put the flour, ginger, and sugar into a bowl. In a saucepan stir the milk, butter and syrup until dissolved, then stir in the ingredients. Dissolve the soda in a little milk, add this and the well-beaten egg to the mixture, pour into a tin lined with grease paper, and bake for thirty or forty minutes in a slow oven. Macaroni Cheese. Boil a breakfastcupful of macaroni in a pint and a quarter of milk for one hour, then strain through a colander; mix a teaspoonful each of salt and mustard, a little pepper, a small piece of butter, a dessertspoonful of corn-

flour, and a breakfastcupful of grated cheese with a little milk. Then add to it the milk that is strained from the macaroni, and stir over the fire till it thickens. .Place the macaroni on a dish, and pour the sauce over it, then place the dish in the even or before the fire to brown. Serve up very hot. Cheese Patties. Grate sufficient scraps of cheese to make 4oz; loz pf butter, loz of flour, £ pint of milk, 3 eggs, cayenne, salt, a little puff paste. Melt the butter in a stewpan, stir in the flour, add the milk, and boil three or four minutes, stirring meanwhile. Let the mixture cool slightly, stir in the yolks of the eggs, cook gently for two or three minutes, but do not allow it to boil. Add the cheese, season to taste, then stir in as lightly as possible the stiffly-whipped whites of eggs. Have some patty-pans ready lined with thinly rolled-out puff paste, fill with the mixture, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. W hat the Yolk of an Egg will Do. Most stains can be removed by the application of the yolk of an egg, if this is put on before the article is washed. This simple remedy is within the reach of all, and is not generally known. The yolk of an egg will in no way injure (he article that is being washed in removing the stains. If tar should be spilt on any article, place in a saucer the part (hat is spoilt and pour pure olive oil over it. Let it soak all night in this, and then wash in the usual way; the tar will have disappeared.