TO-DAY'S DINNER. SOME HOMELY PUDDINGS. SISTERS OF'COMPASSION. THE ECONOMICAL WOMAN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

SOME HOMELY PUDDINGS.

SISTERS OF'COMPASSION.

THE ECONOMICAL WOMAN.

i' [Specially Written for Tns DOUISIOS.] PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN I M'KIIT. 1 FRIDAY. ■ - Pen Soup. : Stewed Flounders. Mashed Potatoes. Marmalade Pudding., Macaroni Cheese. STEWED FLOUNDERS. iPut into a very large fryingpan a pint of milk and an ounce 'of butter. Then put into this several flounders, some salt and pepper. ' Covor the whole of the fish with a large lid, • and let the flounders cook slowly for ten or more minutes until they are cooked. Serve them on a hot dish,' garnished with lemon and parsley. ; If liked, the milk they were cooked in can be thickened and served as a saucc. If this is done, bo quito sure to cook the thickening for five minutes, or it will spoil the delicate flavour of tho dish. ' • FORTO-JIORROAV. Pickled, tripe, potatoes, cabbage, lib. apples, 6 passion fruit. SUNDAY. ; Lamb, mint, peas, potatoes, pineapple, 6 eggs, sponge cake (stale), bananas. SUPPER. ' Rhubarb, short .pastry, galantine of veal or ox tongue. .

The following recipes for puddings are given in the'"Australasian" :— Murmalade Spongo Pudding.—Tako the weight of two > eggs in- butter, and of three eggs in flour. Cream two eggs with the butter, and add one large tablespqonful of sugar. Add the flour and mix well. After- • wards add.top large tablespoonfuls of mar- . malado. When all. is well mixed, take' one '.tablespoonful of inilk, add to it one level ' saltspoonful of' carbonate of soda. Stir "'well and add to the pudding mixture, and beat until it -is creamy-looking. Pour into a well-buttered mould and' steam fast' for oiie hour and three quarters. * Raspberry jam may be substituted for the marmalade. When done turn out and pour; round a sauce made of two tablespoonfuls of water and one of marmalade. Boil up, and in pouring round the pudding strain the sauce -to-keep back* tho peel if not liked. ' ■ .' Sultana'. Hall. —Make a crust with ten • ounces ■ of'flour: aud six ounces of finely--i chopped beef suet. Add a, pinch of salt ! aixd' lialf a .teaspoonful of baking powder. • Make into , a soft dough with water. Place on a paste-board, and roll out to the thick- . ness of half an-inch. Spread over one cupful /of washed,' picked, and dried sultana : raisins, half a cupful of finel.v-cut. candied .peel, and a good half cup of white .sugar, into which has been mixed half a teaspoonful . of allspico and a quarter of a teaspoonful ' of. ; cinnamon/ , Wet the edges of tho paste and roll up. Press the edges together and tie, , then roll up loosely, in a pudding cloth that..has been wrung out of boiling water. Plunge into .boiling water and boil for one hpur. ; and a_balf. Serve with sauce. Padding.: in A Hurry.—Lay some bananas on a dish and bake in a hot oven for. about fifteen minutes, peel them,' and send them . to table with cream and sugar. . . Apple Roll.—-Make a crust as for sultana roll, and spread with the following:—Tako one dozen passion fruit, open and rub through a hair sieve; peel and cut up six apples, add the juice of the passion fruit, also threo ounces of sugar, ;and stew gently until quite soft. „,8011. up and tie in a cloth,. and. boil for an'hour and a half. S?rve with , custard sauce made/with' half 'a pint of.milk, two egg yolks, a strip of lemon peel, • two teaspoonfuls of cornflour, . and sugar. . Bring' the milk and lemon peel to the boil; stir , the cornflour into a smooth pasto with a. little 'cold'water, pour into tho milk, and stir Until it boils. Tako the saucepan from tho 'fire, beat in sugar to ta.sto and'tho yolks of tho eggs, stand again oyer_tho fire' and bring to tho boil, stirring all the time; take out tho'peel,"ant it is . ready to serve.

\estcrday morning at eight o'clock a very interesting'..and impressive ceremony took place at tho Home of Compassion at Island Bay, when, in the presenco of many of their friends, four of the novices took tho veil and two,mado profession.. The Order of'tho Sisters of Compassion was founded by Mother Mary Aubert herself, and is purely a New Zealand order. Those desiring to enter s it serve first of,all as assistants. They wear the habit,_ but not the hood of-the order. After serving a probation they are permitted to take the white veil, and they take their vows for one year, at the end of which time they may renew them if they wish. At tho end of two years they take another vow, and receive the_ dark veil of the order, and for tho.noxt six .years their vows aro renewed annually. ■ After that, that is to say more than ? eight years after they have first entered tho home, they may take the vows for tho rest of their lives. During those - eight years, especially during the first two years, circumstances may ariso which make it necessary for tho sister to return to the world. The claims of her family might en- ' force her return, or she might prove unfitted for the work, which demands skilled workers, ■but it is felt that the novices who take the veil look forward to a life spent in the order. . Sometimes from this order they drift into others with a' different rule. -Mother Mary's work has been to a great extent among the Maoris, and the vow taken pledges the sisters to .tend the sick and afflicted "of both races." During the ser- . vice a Maori hymn, " How Good is tho Lord, how sweet is His Name,"-was, sung by the choir. This hymn was'first heard by Mother Mary fifty years ago, and she herself transposed the music for use at yesterday's service. His Grace Archbishop ltedwood conducted the service, and delivered the address to tho novices. The sisters who proworo Miss M'Ma'riaway (Sister Mary Francis) and Miss . Cregan (Sister Mary . Francis Xavier). The four novices who took tho veil! wero. Miss Kerrigan (Sister Mary Aloysius), Miss Forbes (Sister Mary Stanislaus), Miss Eller (Sister Mary Augustine), and Miss Vernon (Sister Mary Paula).

That women .aro more saving than men is a generally recognised fact (writes "Rex" in the "Australasian"), and-the reason assigned for this propensity, is. that they handle less money, with-often a greater need for outlay than do men. ' The woman who marries a poor man and accepts a minimum sum for household expenses, saving in a hundred ways even out of this, for her own private needs, is quite happy in the accomplishment of a delicate task, till sho finds -out accidentally that the saving is all on. her part, and that the pence she saves often change to shillings frittered away on unnecessary trifles in a Ban's pocket. Tliet, instead of talking it over reasonably, she may go to the opposite extreme, and run up bills, spend on luxuries, , and no longer make a pretence of saving. < Professor Lang has said "it is more natural for a woman to save than a man, yet few misers are found amongst women." "Women "save their locks, their strength, their opinions, their money," but- in every woman is found one extravagance, ho it sentiment or vanity, which balances the petty meannesses nhe may practise. "The theatre may bo likened to a huge slave market/' opined Mr. Gilbert Porteous, "wherein the manager is the merchant. Naturally, begets the best value for the smallest firi'ce, just like any other merchant. As ong as the theatrical profession exists at all,-So long will you lind this state of things prevail. Do not become an actress unless you have some very good reason indeed. That ,is. the bes: advice one can give to the aspirant."