ELECTRIC DINNER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 14

ELECTRIC DINNER.

An "electric dinner party" is the latest solution of the problem of the young wife whose husband unexpectedly brings home a party of friends. The Exhibition of Electrical Cookery and Heating Appliances organised recent- | ly by the Borough Council at the Hamp- ! stead Town Hall proved that it is poa- ! sible to cook an excellent meal in twenty minutes. The cold mutton can be minced in two 1 minutes in an electrical mincer, while the ! i potatoes are boiling in an electrical sauce- ; ! pan. The kettle is ready in three minutes for tea or coffee, and a further surprise i awaits the unexpected visitors. A tasty sponge pudding can be baked in the electric, oven without active eiectricity. When the meat has been removed and the lights switched off, the pudding cooks in the : i warmth that remains. If the hostess has run short of bread she can bake tiny scones or rolls on an electric hot-plate in half a minute, and if she is anxious to tidy herself an electric heater will warm her curling tongs in a quarter of a minute, while a crushed ! blouse or skirt can be renovated by the aid of an electric iron, which not only gets hot in a couple of minutes, but remains so. Mrs. Godfrey Sutcliffe demonstrated how it was pO3rible to make a sachet cake in three-quarters of an hour. This elaborate cake, resembling a handkerchief sachet in shape, was made of sponge cake, filled with jam, iced with lilac-coloured icing, decorated with sprays of crystallised violets, and tied with satin ribbon.