Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 23, 24 June 1925, Page 59

Domestic

By Maureen

\ Mutton Broth. if 3 1 pounds of lean mutton,*! 2 tlirnips, ijn carrot, 2 onions, 1 bunch parsley, 1 cupful milk, , 1 tablespoonful ... cornflour, 3 quarts water. Boil. meat in strips, and vegetables, sliced iin the water, 2£ hours. The water should be; reduced to one-third. Strain, taking out the meat, and rubbing the vegetables to a pulp through the colander. Cool, skim, season, and return to the fire. Heat, stir in the cornflour, add water, and pour into the tureen. Add the milk, boiling hot, stir well, and serve. ~ Orange Cream Cake. Beat .J.cupful butter to a cream; gradually beat in 1 cupful sugar. Beat 4 eggs, without "separating whites and yolks; beat in another'cupful sugar,' and then beat the whole into"the butter mixture; add the juice and grated rind of 1 orange, 1 cupful milk, and 3 cupsful and one-half of sifted flour, sifted again with six level tea spoonsful of baking powder. Bake in 3 layers; put the layers together with orange filling, and cover the top with the sections taken from 2 oranges and mixed with powdered sugar. Orange Filling.—Beat 1 egg; add 1 cupful of sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, the juice and grated rind of 1 orange and 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice; stir and cook over boiling water until the mixture begins to thicken. Dried Apricot Jam. f lib 7 dried apricots, 3 pints water, 1 meidiumsized pineapple, sugar according to • when weighed, ljlb . sugar to every lb of fruit and water. Put the apricots into a vessel large enough to allow the \ fruit to jf be well covered with water, sprinkle over i 1 large teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, and cover with boiling water (it must be boiling). Stir occasionally for 10 minutes, then wash well and drain. Cover with 3 pints of cold water and allow to stand for 24 hours. Cut up the pineapple and sprinkle a little sugar on it. Weigh by machine the apricots and pineapple, and allow to every lib of fruit and water l£lb sugar. Bring to the boil and boil for five minutes I before putting in the sugar, which should be well heated in the oven, then boil hard ; for 3 of an hour. Don't skim at all, when taken off stir in the scum, and stir occasionally until half cold, before bottling. If ginger is liked add Jib preserved ginger cut up t finely. No extra sugar would be needed. Milk a Perfect Food. There is nothing "just as good as" milk, advises the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor. ' > I Milk supplies some of all the material ne- . ,A I V ** *• . p f ■ f \ cessary for growth and; also furnishes energy; forwork, .play, and VarmtnS4*it*is'aii indispemteble part of the diet of mothers who 5-, are nursing babies, and of ■„ young children. l§yA pint and a half a day is a safe allowance •of milk for an average child, while for nursling mothers, infants, and many children need '<spa-i quart of milk a,day. (a . quart of milk a day. the protein the body Milk can furnish all the protein the body I needs.!W-'X~quart of milk supplies as much

protein as seven ounces of sirloin steak or four large eggs. Milk supplies minerals. If the growing child does not have an abundance of minerals in his diet this deficiency may show-in stunted growth, weak bones, or poor teeth. Special care must be taken to select foods rich in lime, phosphorus and iron. Our bones and teeth are made' largely of lime, which is a form of calcium. One quart of milk will furnish as much calcium as ten large oranges, 32 eggs or 2011) of beef. Milk is also a valuable source of phosphorus and supplies some iron. The body must also he provided with certain essential substances called vitamins if health and normal 'development are to be assured. All known vitamins are found in fresh milk, but one, or possibly two, of the vitamins may be lacking in poor, stale, or heated milk. Milk needs supplementing to supply certain minerals and vitamins in sufficient quantity and, after the early months of life, for energy and roughage. ICvory baby, particularly those not breast-fed, should receive daily the juice of some acid fruit, such as orange or tomato. In winter, when it is impossible to be outdoors in the direct sunlight for long periods, nil infants whether nursed or artificially fed, should he given cod liver oil. Older children need, in addition to milk, fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, or eggs, bread, cereal, and potato. Household Hints. A fish bone may often lie removed from the throat by swallowing a piece of crust or an unbeaten egg. A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from mirrors and window-panes. Add two or three small pieces of white soap to the water in which flowers are placed and they will last must longer. Camphorated oil applied on a soft cloth will remove marks on a polished table caused by hot dishes and plates.