Woman's World.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 7

Woman's World.

MOCISfREAM. - Take IV,, cups sugar, 1% cups flour, & teasEjjonfuil safe -i eggs, -i cups scalded|iiiilk, 1 teaspoon lemon extract." Mix the dry- ingredients, odd eggs slightly beaten, and pour on gradually thc-scalded milk. Cook 15 minutes, .stirring constantly until thickened. Cool and flavour." This is a slightly different method, ■which is also more economical:— Beat 2 tablespoons icing sugar and 1 tablespoon butter to a cream. Make a btone mange with % pint milk and 1 tablespoon cornflour . Set aside to cool, and when cold add a teaspoonful ut a tiino to the creamed butter and sugar. Beat well, and add any favourite essence. ALMOND CUSTARD. Blanch and pound 'Joz ot' sweet almonds. Add half a pint of milk, ono teaspoonful of rose-water, and the yolk of two eggs. Stir together over a clear fire till fairly thick, then pour into custard cups and sprinkle a- little powdered almond on the top of each. RE-HEiffiCl CAULIFLOWER. Cut all 'that remains.—even if on!v tho stalks—into neat pieces, melt a little butter or clarified dripping, and brush each piece with it. Grate any stale cheese that has become too dry to send to table and lay it on th'o vegetable. (sprinkle browned breadcrumbs plentifully over all. Place the pieces of vegetables thus prepared on a baking-tin, and cook them in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. HINTS TO TRY. These kitchen lips have been found successful:— When stewing prunes add a pinch of carbonate of soda, and less sugar will be required. If too iinuck salt has been added to tho soup, slice a raw potato and place it to boil in the soup for a few minutes. It will absorb a great deal of the salt. ' . To clean decanters, mix half a gill of vinegar with a handful of salt. Put a littlo in each decanter, and shako well. Binso in clear water. Do not let wooden tube or pails stand out of doors to dry after using; put them away as soon as possible, with a littlo water in them to prevent leaking when nest required. Before boiling ti cracked egg rub moistened.salt over the shell. "This wijl prevent tho white from running out.

A drop of glycerine should be used to oil the working parts of a mincing machine. It will be found to work much more easily, and tho glycerine will not taste or smell. Put a piece of bread about the si;:e of un egg into a muslin, and put in with tno cabbages when cooking. The bread absorbs all the bitter juices, and the cabbages are digested quite easily. The bread also absorbs all the unpleasant smoUs while, cooking. TO CLEAN MARBLE. Alake a paste of prepared chalk tnd water- and leave it on the marble for several hours. Then wash or with warm soap and water. If* tho rlain does not yield to this treatmont it is indolible, and it is wa:4o of timo to try to remove it. FOR TARNISHED BRASS. ' Dissolve v, lump of alum about tho size of n walnut in 3 ,<j-cup boiling water. Apply the solution with a cloth, and tarnish etnins on brass will disappear like magic. TO DYE WOOL. Tho method of dyeing employed by tho Red Cross Society is" all done by boiling. Tho skin frfom brown onions makes a good dye, so aiso do beetroot juice and Condy'a crystals. The gumloaf dye, which is in general use, is as follows: — Take 4ll> gum leaves and twigs, simmer in 2 gallons water for. 10 hours, allow to cool, and strain carefully. Add £oz soap, and when this litis dissolved, again_ heating, add 1 tablespoon vinegar before putting wool into the dye. Place the skeins of wool into tho dye and boil for half an hour. The skeins 6hoi»ld be loosely tied at closo intervals to keep the strands in plnco. Dry the wool, shaking each -strand well to keep strands from sticking. After this tho wool must be washed in soapsuds and water, until all superfluous dye is washed out (add a handful of salt to the iirst rinsing water), caro being taken that there are soapsuds left in the last rinsing .water to keep the wool soft. Shake-skeins again after rinsing. % TO WASH GEORGETTE. Wash pink Georgette carefully in lux, stretching the- sleeves a littlo if necessary while the blouse is wet. Iron whilo dry. Georgette can aiso ■be washed ia petrol. ■ - ;;,TIPS V; 1 [;■':■■■ To detect wafer "in milk, dip a polished knitting needle into the vessel containing the itnilk. If it is pure, a drop of the milk jvill cling to the needle; if water is--present the needio will bo clean. Make your own and children's stocklast twice as long by attaching -the feet of stockings worn out in, the legs to the logs of those worn cut in the feet. If the scams arc sewn on tho sewing machine "and tho stockings are worn with high shoos the seam will never be noticed. . • »

The lifo of a curtain can be lengthened by making the lioiiih on both cuds the same width, so that either end of the curtain can bo put on the pole. Each time tho curtain is to be laundered ntork the ejul which was on the jifile, and. whoa a«aJi» Imaging it. put tkqlptbev end ea ton In this way tho curtain'will wear but evenly and so be oft use 'iky '■«'• longer';'time. K ■•-'■'. : ; .-.

jStefil ghould-'-'bp cleaned -'""vvith a. pasta m&de of b&tUbrick powder and paratiin. This should too well rubbed in with, an old flannel, and.tho final polish given •with a littlo'dry-powder .-sprjii'dod on a dry duster. If there is any -"rust on •the steel it can be taken uii Uy rubibing it with a,cork dipped in olive oil.

TO COVER A. DRESS BOX. Directions J!or covering a dross box with sateen or cretonne:— To cover tic box .begim on the lid, leaving a margin to turn over, cutting the turn-over in slits, so that the surface is quite smooth. ■:; Paint the box lid over with a thin coating of 'griptite,' and lay the material on, smoothing it from the centre outwards, so that thcroa.ro mo blisters left. The next process is to cover the outside of the lower part of the. box. in the sair.o manner as the top, only rnako a join, which should beat the back of the box. Make a <hingo of tape between the ha and the back of the box, after which the lining can be put into plf,ce. ■liiis must be stuck with seccotine, and a hnal lining fi xe a t0 t j, o ineide of tho box made of wlnto paper and stuck with ' grip tite.' HOW.TO CLEAN BAMBOO FURNITURE n Ju\ U /" U , UI handful of salt to a to l? ! B br r h ' Md « ive th ° article rw,.» u' ,ie - ! :i t rood scrubbing, then i use well with cold water, drv with -i clean cloth, and ,if po Jb ,ut n tho open air to dry thoroughly TJ en polish with furniture cream. £ method will keep it a good colour.