Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes

Cut a steak into thin slices, sprinkle with parsley, mushroom, and onion ; season with pepper and salt, rubbing in the seasoning well on both sides ; roll up each slice of beef, put into a saucepan on a layer of bacon, and put in sufficient water to cover the rolls. Simmer gently with the lid on till tender; put into a pie-dish with a layer of hard-boiled eggs, cover with a good crust. Bake in a quick oven for one hour and a half PIE (VEAL KIDNEY). Mince a couple of veal kidneys with the fat ; season with nicely chopped herbs, cloves, nutmeg, pepper, and salt ; a little chopped celery may be added ; four or five hard-boiled eggs, half a cup of fine bread-crumbs, a wineglass of white wine, and a little stock. Mix all well together, cover with crust. Bake for two hours. PIES. — N.B. — All meat pies with pastry crust should have a hole left in the top of the crust, or it should be pricked over with a fork, to let the steam escape during the baking, otherwise it is unwholesome. It is with the object of hiding the hole that a pastry ornament is usual at the top of a pie. «69 P] PIGGIE, OR SUCKING-PIG-POLISH. PIGGIE, OR SUCKING-PIG. (A very favourite Cape Dish.) When the piggie has been well cleaned and washed, make a stuffing of bread-crumbs, suet, some dried sage leaves, pepper, salt, lemon-peel. If eggs are plentiful, then moisten with an egg and some water. Stuff the pig, sew up with strong thread j truss it as a hare is trussed, with its fore-legs skewered back and its hind-legs forward. Lay it on a trivet, in a dripping-pan, with a pint of water in the pan. Rub the piggie all over with butter (or sheeptail fat), and set it in a hot oven. Will take two hours. I have heard that rubbing the piggie all over with the white of egg, before roasting, makes it nice and crisp. "POFFERTJES"—See Note at end of P, p. 196. POLISH FOR FLOORS. (Home Recipe.) If your floors are white, scrub and scour well with strong soda ; stain with oak staining or vandyke brown, which can be ground in water and mixed with a little size. Go over the boards twice ; let the floor get quite dry, then polish with beeswax and turpentine. Scrape the beeswax and any remains of sperm candles in a round basin. Cover the wax with spirits of turpentine ; leave all night. The next day the wax will be dissolved, and the mixture have a creamy appearance. Rub well into the boards with a piece of flannel, and polish by friction. A soft linen cloth gives a better polish than flannel. When done three times, an ordinary deal floor will have a beautiful polished surface; POLISH (FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING COVERS AND TINS). Shred half a pound of blue mottled soap in a jug ; add half a cup of finely powdered whiting, pour in sufficient water to make it the consistency of thick cream. Rub well over the covers, and polish with & clean leather and powdered whiting. [70 POLISH (TO RESTORE FRENCH)— PORRIDGE. [P POLISH (TO RESTORE FRENCH POLISH). Ingredients. I pint Linseed Oil. i oz. Hartshorn. 4 oz. Spirits of Wine, 3 oz. Gum Arabic. 6 oz . Vinegar. Whites of 8 Eggs. The two last ingredients to be rubbed together in a mortar, and the whole well mixed. POLISH (FOR FURNITURE AND FLOORS). (Mrs. G. Bateson.) Ingredients. 3 oz, common Beeswax. i oz. Curd Soap or Castile Soap. I oz. White Wax. i pint Turpentine. I pint Boiled Water.