CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

RECIPES FROM READERS. FOR BUSY BEES' TEA PARTIES. (Conducted by TINKERBELL.) Dear Girls,— I know the activities of most of my Busy Bees are not confined to knitting and sewing alone, but extend also to the regions of the kitchen. I am, therefore, publishing for the benefit of those keen on cooking, a selection of very excellent recipes which from time to time have come to hand from readers. SPONGE SANDWICH. (Sent in by Elsie Lamb. Pukenui, North Auckland.) Ingredients: 3 eggs, 1 cupful flour, .1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, ljoz butter, 2 tablespoonfuls hot milk. Method: Beat sugar and eggs well; add flour and baking powder, and, lastly, butter and milk. Pour into a greased tin and bake in a medium oven. COOKIES. (Sent in by Pauline Harris, Huntly West.) Ingredients: 1 cupful flour, 2 cupful sugar, 1 teasposnful baking powder, £ teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, J cupful raisins, J cupful of sultanas, 1J tablespoonfuls butter, 1 dessertspoonful golden syrup, 1 tablespoonful milk, 1 pinch baking soda. » Method: Beat eggs and sugar for a quarter of an hour, then add flour and baking powder sifted. Mix with a little cold water, making sure that the mixture is not too wet. Add raisins and sultanas and mix well. In a small pot put your butter, golden syrup and milk, and melt on the fire. Pour this over the flour, sugar and eggs and mix. Make the mixture into little cakes, put in a tin and place in a hot oven. COCONUT BISCUITS. (Sent in by Jean Powley, 12, Euston Road, Sandringbam.) Ingredients: 1J cupfuls flour, Jib butter, h cupful sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. To make the meringue mixture for the tops of these cakes you will need 1 cupful coconut, 1 cupful sugar and 1 egg. Method: Rub butter in with flour, add sugar and egg. Put on cold tray, roll out thick. Spread on layer of jam, then coconut mixture. Bake half an. hour in moderate oven. SPONGE CAKE. (Sent in by Belle Ashurst, Startown, Huntly.) Ingredients: 1 cupful flour, 1 teacupful sugar, 3 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 3 tablespoonfuls milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Method: Beat well. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in moderate oven. f Ingredients necessary to make a delicious filling for this cake are as follow:—2 tablespoonfuls castor sugar, Z tablespoonfuls butter, 2 tablespoonfuls boiling water. Beat these together with an egg until the mixture resembles whipped cream. BELIEVE THIS. This is the story of a family of rattlesnakes. But it is not at all alarming, ana. you need not believe it unless you like! For the scientist who owned the snakes had all the fangs removed. The scientist wished to learn whether or not snakes can think like human beings, or like dogs and other animals who can just a little bit.

A family of rattlesnakes — father, mother, and-eight children—were taken to the home of the scientist. They had no fangs, you see, so there was no chance of any harm resulting. And gradually the reptiles grew to like their new home. They liked the fireside; they liked the music of the radio; they became attached to the members of the scientist's family, but would creep from the room on' the approach of a stranger (it is the nature of rattlesnakes to avoid human beings).

The snake's soon learned, too, where they were to go to receive food. They reported every month or six weeks— whenever they grew hungry, which wa6 not often—to the basement for their meals.

In short, the family of rattlers (especially the young ones) learned very quickly. And one morning the scientist wa« awakened by the mother rattler tugging at his sleeve as he lay in bed. Quickly the man of science turned on * the light, and the mother rattler started for th 6 door. Pausing in the middle of the floor, the snake turned and waited for the scientist to follow her. Wondering a good deal, the owner of the snake family :put on slippers and dressing gown and followed the snake downstairs, through the corridor, and into the dining room. There in the dining room a burglar was standing motionless before the cabinet where the silver, was kept. Before the burglar the big father rattier was coiled; his head Was moving back and forth, and his fourteen rattles were, shaking threateningly. The thief, of course, was frightened nearly to death, and dared not move an inch. All thoughts of trying to escape were scared out of his head. But this is not all. On the sill of the window through which the thief had entered, the eight Tittle snakes were posted. They, too. were twisting and coiling, and their little tails were rattling loudly for help!