Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes

Butter a plain mould ; chop up any kind of cold meat you may have ; add some stock, warmed, with about three ounces of gelatine, flavoured with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and lemon juice. Have some hard-boiled eggs cut in quarters, garnish the mould with them, pour the mixture into the mould. Turn out when cold. SHORTBREAD— SILK (TO RENOVATE BLACK), [S SHORTBREAD. (Mrs. Cloete.) Ingredients. a lb. Flour. 1a oz. Sugar, finely powdered. 4 Eggs. I lb. Butter. Rub the flour and sugar well into the butter, make into a stiff paste with four eggs, roll to double the thickness of a penny. Bake in a warm oven for twenty minutes. SHORTBREAD {ANOTHER). Ingredients. 1 lb. Flour. 1 lb. Butter. 1 lb. Sugar. A large handful of Ground Rice. Season with Nutmeg. Mix ingredients with flour, rub in the butter until it becomes a dough ; roll out and cut into shape. Bake in a moderate oven. SHORTBREAD {SCOTCH). (Emily's Recipe.) Ingredients. I lb. Flour, 9 oz. Butter, Rub well together ; roll out and cut. Put pieces of candied peel across each cake. Bake twenty minutes. SILK {TO RENOVATE BLACK). Take about two ounces of black tea, boil it well in a saucepan, add to it a few grains of washing soda or carbonate of soda and a little dissolved gum arable. Strain, and sponge the silk thoroughly with this mixture Apply. Hang the pieces of silk on a horse to drain, roll up smoothly, and iron whilst damp. Coffee is very good too, cleansing the silk, and removing every stain or grease-spot. The coffee must be hot and well strained. S] SILK (FOR CLEANING)— SNOW EGGS. SILK {FOR CLEANING). Dissolve an ounce of ammonia in a quart of hot water, and, with a piece of sponge or black serge, rub till stains are removed. This also does for cloth. SILK {FOR CLEANING RIBBON, SILKS, ETC.). Ingredients, I tablespoonful Gin. i tablespoonful Honejr. I tablespoonful Soft Soap. The White of an Egg. Mix all well together. Dip the ribbon, or any silk you want to clean, in water, then lay on a board and scrub with the mixture, using a soft brush. Rinse in cold water, fold in a cloth, and iron half- dry. // will look like new. SILK {TO CLEAN AN OLD SILK DRESS). Unpick and brush and wipe. Then grate two large potatoes into a quart of water ; let it stand to settle, then strain. Sponge the dress well with it, hang out, and iron with tissue paper over the silk. Black silk can also be cleaned by sponging with gin. Paint spots to be removed by spirits of turpentine. SILK {TO TAKE STAINS OR GREASE SPOTS OUT OF). Scrape some French chalk and lay it on the spot, put some blotting-paper over, and leave it for a day or two ; all the grease will be extracted. SILK OR CLOTH {TO TAKE OUT WAX CANDLE OR SPOTS OF SPERM). Lay a piece of blotting-paper on the spot, put a live coal of fire in a kitchen spoon, hold it on the spot all the grease will be absorbed in the blotting-paper. SNOW EGGS.— Set Eggs. SOUFFLfi (CHEESE— EGG). [S SOUFFL& {CHEESEi. Ingredients. \ oz. Butter. Breakfast-cup of Grated Cheeses I tablespoonful Flour. Yolk of 3 Eggs, Whites beaten i pint Milk. separately into a froth. A little Salt and Pepper — Cayenne.