Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 46, 19 November 1924, Page 49

Domestic

By Maureen

Fried Apples With Meat. Fried apples make a good accompaniment to meat and are easily .prepared. Wash apples and'eut into quarters or eighths, according to size. Sprinkle sugar into the hot fat in frying pan and fry apples until nicely done. New Pay Pudding. ■| 2ozs suet, 2ozs breadcrumbs, 4ozs raisins, loz brown V sugar, 2ozs mixed peel, loz flour, 2 eggs, the rind of a lemon, 2ozs either currants or sultanas. Prepare and mix in the usual way, steam for four hours, serve' with orange sauce. Brandy Snaps. 4ozs butter, 4ozs castor-sugar. 4ozs treacle, 4ozs flour, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger, 1 dessertspoonful brandy. Melt butter, in a small bright pan, stir into it first the treacle, then the sugar, and finally the brandy. Stir the ginger into the flour and, when the treacle mixture is hot, take it from the fire, sift into it the flour and giniger and beat thoroughly till the batter thus formed is smooth. Grease a. baking-sheet, drop the baiter in large teaspoonsful upon the sheet, keeping the rounds well apart from each other. Bake for about four minutes in a hot oven. When they are of a bright golden brown remove from the oven, let them cool a little, and wind them, while still pliable, round the handle of a wooden spoon to curl them into the required shape. A Bread-and-Butter Pudding. Bread buttered, currants, pint of milk, 3 eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg. In an earthenware pudding-dish place a layer of thin slices of bread, buttered; over this sprinkle a layer of currants, over this more bread and butter, and again more currants; then have a layer of bread and butter for the top. Take a pint of milk, beat 2 eggs, and add \ . to it a half cupful of sugar. Pour part of the egg and y milk over the bread in the dish, and let it stand for about J half an hour. Then add the remainder of milk and egg, and sift cinnamon and nutmeg on ton. Place the dish in a pan of hot water, and bake in a moderately hot oven. Chinese Cake. All rich cakes are better made beforehand. The following is a good recipe if the directions are carefully observed: fib butter, fib brown sugar, J pint milk, lib sultanas, fib candied peel, * a. nutmeg grated, 2 tablespoonsful

treacle, 6 eggs, lib currants,.Jib chopped almonds, lib flour, 1 glass of brandy if liked. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the treacle, beaten eggs and milk, stir in the fruits, almonds, and peel; lastly, add the flour gradually, beating all the time. Bake in a lined tin for four hours, at least in a moderate oven. Suggestions for Hand Drawn Work. When trimming the linen frock with hand-drawn work, the threads that are drawn and cut at one end are used to hem that edge without detaching the last pulled thread at one end. The drawn thread will not last the entire length of the drawn work, but to use it as far as it will go will fasten it firmly and neatly. Then continue wrth another of the pulled threads. Household Hints. If the inside edge of a. saucepan is rubbed with margarine or lard, the contents will not boil over. To remove the odor of onions from the hands, rub them with salt, and then wash in cold water. Save lemon rinds, dry them in the oven, and store them m an air-tight tin. They make excellent flavorings for puddings and tarts. / * , A tablespoonful of gelatine added to a cake will equal three eggs. Dissolve the gelatine in cold water for a few minutes, then add enough boiling water to make a cupful" beat with an egg-beater, and add to the cake.

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