Home Recipe Book

Ingredients

• a tablespoonful of jam left sticking all over the sides
• a tablespoonful of vinegar over it when put on to cook
• half lard

Directions

1. Well grease pie dishes in which milk puddings are baked. Much of the pudding is often wasted by its being allowed to stick to the dish. The pie dishes may also be stood in a shallow tin containing water; this will prevent sticking.

2. Frequently, where butter is mentioned, it may be mixed with half lard or dripping, with equally good results.

3. The flour-barrel should never be allowed to stand on the floor; it should be raised a few inches to prevent damp.

4. Jam jars are often washed out when there is quite a tablespoonful of jam left sticking all over the sides. They should first be rinsed out with a little hot water, which can then be used to add to sauces for puddings, or to stewed fruit.

5. If meat is tough, or if you have any doubt of its tenderness, put a tablespoonful of vinegar over it when put on to cook; you will find it very tender when done.

6. To cut new bread easily. — When cutting new bread, heat the knife in hot water, and the bread will then cut as smoothly as if it were stale.

7. If new tinware is rubbed over with fresh lard and then thoroughly heated in the oven before it is used, it will never rust afterwards.

8. If coke stoves are thoroughly black leaded they do not crack so easily.

9. Cups that arc discoloured by careless washing and tea stains may be speedily cleansed by rubbing with salt.

10. A lump of soda laid upon the sink-pipe down which waste water passes will prevent the clogging of the pipe with grease.

11. Chloride of lime is an infallible preventive of rats. It should be put down their holes and spread about wherever they are likely to appear.

12. If the cook has the misfortune to spill gi’ease on the kitchen table she may save herself a great deal of trouble by sprinkling the stain at once with coarse salt ; this prevents the grease from sink- ing into the wood ; or, if spilled on the floor, dash cold water over it, so as to harden it quickly, and prevent it sinking into the boards.

13. Dried’ orange peel will revive a low fire at once, placed among coals. Useful for sick-room — no noise and pleasant perfume.

14. Keep potato peelings, for, after being dried in the oven, they are very useful for lighting fires. They may be used instead of wood, and will make a fire burn up very quickly.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.