Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper

Daily duties, 24 Dairy, 9 farms, 31 Date pudding, 1 54 salad, 156 use for, in Arabia, 155 December, 231 Dish, for picnics, 236 Dishes, notes on, 109 Domestic subjects, library of, 90 Donkeys fed on dates, 155 “ Dorthesia,” 161 Dried flowers, 245 Drink for hay and harvest field, 233 Drop cakes, 247 Duck, apple sauce for, 152 stuffing for, 169 Ducks, to kill, 277 Dutch herring salad, 196 Earth closets, 290 Egg-drink for invalids, 286 Egg-flip, 8 Eggs and kidneys, 106 collection and sale of, 1 1 5 Penguin, 196 Elft fish, 192 Eye irritation, 281 Face-ache, fomentation for, 289 Fairy cream, 182 Farms, loi February, 57 Ferns, watered with tea, 204 Figs, green fig preserve, 64, 231 Fillets de Romano, beef, 215 Fire, to light in the open, 238 Firewood, 30 Fish as marinade, 106 au gratin, 143 “ cabeljon,” 106 Cray, 66-7 curry, Penang, 66 Elft, 192 flavouring sauce for, 15 1 galjeon, 163 “geelbek,”or Cape salmon, 65 Government trawlers, 46 “Hottentot,” 192 ■ in season. See each Month in white sauce, 85 “marinade,” 106 names of Cape, 261 pie, 207 Quin’s sauce for, 134 “Roman,” 163 ■ salad, cold, 142 sambal, 106 sardines, devilled, 215 scallop, 205 “ silver,” 47 “smoorfish,” 65 “snoek,” 105 “ steenbrass,” 192 stockfish,” 192 to do up cold, 142, 192, 207 ■ white sauce for, 85 Zambal, 106 Flower-holder, wire, 183 Flowers, dried, 245 sweet-scented, 189 wild, 189-9I5 240 “Flummery,” 133 Fool, blackberry or mulberry, 248 Fourre polonais, 149 Fowl, how to cook an old hen, 163. See Chicken Fowls, to kill, 277 Fritters, pineapple, 176 Fruit growing, 31 in season. See each Month packing, 1 1 1 pudding, 196 salad, 126 tarts and crust separate, 49 tinned, 94 to store for winter, 81 Game, gravy for, 197 Gardening, in South Africa, Gowie, 38 Gargle, 283 Geelbek, or Cape salmon, 65 Geese, to kill, 277 Geneva pastry, 148 Geranium, wijd scarlet, 242 German tart, 179 crust for, 179 Gherkin preserve, 252 Ginger-beer, two recipes for, 232-3 Gingerbread, fruit, 73 honeycomb, 88 “ parkyn,” 72, 225 “ Talke o’ the Hill,” 73 with brown flour, 72 Ginger pudding, 246 Girdle, or griddle. See Scones Glaze, 133 Glove cleaning, 290 Good Daughter’s Pudding, 209 Gooseberry, Cape, 162 jam, 162 Goose, stuffing for, 169 Gouna, 7 Grape jam, 7, 59 Grapes, 20 brandied, 59 preserved, 42 Gravy, a nice, 197 for game, 197 to keep in, 93 Green beans, 44 carnations, 45 Green fig preserve, 64, 231 grenadilla preserve, 1 76 mealies, 58 roses, 46 Grenadilla preserve, 176 Groote Poste. See “My Old Home,” 1-24 Grouse, 94 Guava, 125, 142, 161 jelly, 125 mould, 126 Haarders, or Cape herrings, au gratin, Dutch herring salad, 196 Ham, cold, to do up, 193 potted, 193 Hampers, 236-7 Hare, “blind,” 197 cream, 76 hashed. 74 roast, German, 75 Plarvest, 22 field, drink for, 233 Hasty pudding, 150 Hayfield, 233 Hazel jars, 40 Hen jelly, 74 to cook an old, 163 Herring salad, 196 Herrings, sauce for, 152 High tea, a dish for, 21 1 Ploarseness, 282 Home, My Old, 1-24 remedies, 279-83 Ploneycomb gingerbread, 88 Hopkos, 234 Horses, knee-haltering, 230, 243 “ Hottentot” fish, 192 House-rent, 30 Plouses, colonial, 31 Hydrangeas, 14 1 Ice-cream water-melon preserve, 62 Icing, chocolate, 247 coffee, 169 for cake, 244 Vanilla, 88 Incubating chickens, 116 Indian corn salad, 58