WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

[By Viva.]

in * n ' B c °l"mn answer *" reasonable questions relating to the home, tookery, domestic economy, and any topic of Interest to her sex. But each letter must bear the writer's bona fide name and address. «o notice whatever will bp taken of anonymous correspondents. Questions should ue eoncisely put, and tho writer's nom da plume be clearly written.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

_ " Mrs M."—Have you tried a few drops of liquid ammonia to the water in which you wash the silver? TheD polish with a clean, dry chamois. "Little Meg."—Send me addressed envelope. Will recommend someone who will advise you.

'' E.G.H."—A crust of bread dropped in tho water will remove the objectionablesnieil.

HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Baked Rhubarb Pudding.—Required: Half a pound of flour, four ounces of suet, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, a few grains of salt, rhubarb to fill the b;isin, one and a-half ounces of Demerara sugar, one and a-half ounces of butter. Mix the butter and sugar well together with a spoon in a basin, tbon spread it all over inside the pudding basin to be usod; it must he thickly coated. Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder; add to it the finelychopped suet. Mix these to a stiff paste with cold water. Cnt off and lay aside one third for tho lid. Roll out the" remainder, and line the pTepar.d basin. Fill in tltc pastry with rhubarb out in short lengths, sugar, and a little water for juice. Wcl the edges, and put on the lid of pastry, pressing the edges well together. Twist* a piece of greased paper over the top in place of the more usual pudding cloth, and hake the pudding for about an hour in a fairly quick oven. When cooked, take off the paper, and turn the pudding out on to a not dish. Tin- mixture of butter and sug'r ivill be a rich brown, ar.d form a kind ol sauce over and round the pudding. Herrings in Pastry.—ll quired : Half a pound'ot flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, quai ter of a pound of butter, hud or clarified fat, four or more herrings, according to size, two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of chopped onion, salt and pepper, about an ounce of butter. Sieve together the flour, baking powder, and salt, shred tho butter finely, then rub it lightly into the flour until it looks like -fine breadcrumbs. Make a hole in til. centre, pour in a little cold water; stir the flour in with a knife, continue .adding more water and mixing it in until the whole is in a soft, 6rnooth paste. Roll it out on a floured board, and cut it into pieces a little longer than tnc herrings, and wide enough to cover them. Garefulh wash, clean, and dry the herrings; place one on each piece of pastry. In the inside of each fish place a small piece ol butter and a sprinkling of salt, pepper, chopped parsley, and onion. Close the herrings up neatly in the pastry, brushing the edges with cold water, otherwise they will not stick. Put tho herrings on a greased baking tin, and bake t..em in a rhoderate oven for from twenty to thirty minutes. If liked, the pastry may be brushed over with a little beaten egg." Arrange them on a lace paper on a hot dish, and garnish them with a little parsley. Croutes a I'Orientalc.—Required: A small pot of caviare, one ounce of sweet almonds, three ounces of butter, two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, one teaspoonlul of anchovy essence, two or three slices of bread, cayenne or pepper. Put two ounces of the butter on a plate, add to it the anchovy essence and lemon juice, and work them well together with a knife. Make it into a small heap, and leavo it in a cool place until required. Cut the slices o; bread an eighth ol an inch thicu, the). stamp them into rounds about the size of a two-shilling piece. .Ueit the tli.iu ouiilo of butter in a frying pan, and fry tbu bread a golden brown. Drain them on pap.r, and leave them untij cod. Blanch and skin the almonds, cut tnem into shreds, and slightly brotvn these in the oven. Season the caviare with a dust of cay-

enne and a little lemon juice. Put a little heap in the centre of each crouton, and with a forcing bug and pipe force a pretty border of anchovy butter round, sticking the shreds of almonds here and there in it. Serve them on lace paper. Apple Drink.—Peel, core, and slice 6is apnles, place them, with two table&poonfuls of rice, in two quarts of boiling water; boil for an hour and paas through a colander; sweeten with Demerara, and flavor with lemon e&sence. Turkey Legs (a surprise).—Prepare a cut it into pieces the size of dice, cut some mushrooms (tinned onen will do) as nearly as possible the same shape; put into a stew-pan with grated bacon, narclcy, onions, and shallots minced finely; add tie yolks of two eggs; shake round in the pan and heat thoroughly; bone two raw turkey legs, and stuff theJn with the mixture, eew up, and put them in a cupful of broth, well seasoned ; cover with slices of bacon and stew j-entlv; when dono, thicken the liquid with vclk of egg, and squeezo over it a little lemon juice. Jelly Cake.—Scoop fine inside from a large round sponge cake; have readv a quart of stiff jelly; cut this into thin strips; pour over it a pint of cold custard ; let it soak for a few minutee, then lift it out carefully and fill the sponge cake with it; pour over the whole more custard and decorate with preseirved fruits and angelica.

Strawberry Cream.—Two teaspoonfuls r-f strawberry jam to every half-pint of r.ream; squeeze the jam through cheese doth; _ add the cream ; stir, and color pale pink with cochineal; whip the cream so that it will stand cone-shaped in small custard glasses. This is demo by giving the spoon a dexterous twirl, and requires a little practice. A Dutch Stew for Midwinter.—Cut up into Sin squares 21b of shin of beef, stew with one pint and a-half of stock and a larg© onion; when it boils add seasoning, and simmer gently for one hour and a-half; parboil some white-hearted cabbage, squeeze dry, and lay in the pom with beef: cook for another hour, and before serving add a little spice and a few pieces of lean bacon. A Spanish Dish of Artichokes.—Take off a few outer leaves, cut off the tons quite flat, cut up stalks into inch lengths, make a stuffing of fire bread crumbs, salt, pepper, minced garlic, and sweat herbs; fry in oil one or two cloves of garlic; when brown remove them, and arrange artichokes in pan ; cover with equal quantities of oil and water, boil till tender; serve with sauce. To Cook California Dried Fruit.—Place the fruit, picked and washed, in a dish over night; the next afternoon put in a saucepan (not tin), and pour over it the water in which it was soaked, without disturbing the sediment; cover closely and simmer for ten hours; add sugar sparingly fifteen minutes before serving. Curried Potatoes and Annies.—Peel and dice six cold potatoes and three sour ancles; erg the slices. of potatoes, crumb them with a (mixture of bread crumbs, chopped parsley, and curry powder, and frv • dust the apples with flour, ©eg and crumb them, and fry: dish in alternate slices : sprinkle with cuttv nowder and oile fried parsley in the centre. A Favorite Oerrpan Dish.—Wash a Envoy cabbage, take out the heart, Iccsen the leaves, but preserve the shape; mince finely equal quantities beef and veal, sav on© pound of each, add half a pound of bread crumbs soaked and squeezed drv. grated nutmeg and onion, pepper and salt; bind with two beaten eggs; pot the mixture between the leaves of the cabbage, tie un in a cloth, place in a pan of boiling water with nlate underneath, and boil three hours and a-half - serve brown gravy with it, and pour a little over the cabbage.

HINTS.

To Preserve tha Skin.—l can best advise tho application of a little ■ good lapoline cream or cucumber cream. The cream ehould be veil nibbed into the, skin at bedtime. For those whose skins are very tender, and easily roughened and inflamed in summer, it is a good plan to rub lanolin* cream gently into the skin. Let it remain on for a few minutes, then wa‘h off with tepid water and soap. A thin layer i)t cream is left on the skin, which protects it, and renders it soft and pliable. - To brighten a shabby carpet, put a tea-

cupful of vinegar into a pail of warm water, and wash over the entire carpet with the mixture. The carpet should be first thoroughly brushed, and care must be taken to merely damp it w»th the vinegar and vater. Allow it to dry thorougUiy belore being walked upon. For Thin Arms and Throat.—When massaging, u& cocoa-butter rather tiwn cold cream. It is excellent.

To make the luet appear small do pot wear eo.ored dippers. A, plain black satin or velvet slipper, which fits the foot snugly, uas a meaium high French heel, and is Unissued in front by a large black satin or velvet bow, Will apparently reduce the size. A warm sea baui at home is a good preparation for the lirst dip in the real sea next day.

The most fattening vegetables are carrots, turnips, potatoes, and ouas. The iormer are extremely good for sufferers from constipation.

Egg stains on either linen or china should be soaked in cold water.

Baked eggs are delicious. Butter a saucer, break an egg into it, sprinkle slightly with pepper and salt, and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes.

When making cocoa or chocolate add a tiny b:t of cinnamon to the milk while boiling. It gives a delicious flavor, but should bo carefudy removed before the cocoa Ls served.

I'or a \ellow Neck—First wash well in hot water and good .>oap, then massage whh cold cream. While the cream is Itili on the Bk:n rub with half a freshly-cut lemon, then message again. Afterwayds wipe with a soft rag Repeat the treatment night and morning for wme weeks, and you will bt surprised io find how much whiter your neck has become.

On cold or wet days do not let little children, bathe at all. To do so is quite likely to result in a venous chill

IHE QUEEN OF SPAIN’S ANCESTRY

‘l'll,** fi.. V *■* VAV JL . lie King of bpain is said to have transgressed the laws of the Bourbons in murrvmg isna, 1 nneess of Battenberg. Neither Jewish nor Moorish blood, according to the laws, shall fl nv in the veins of any Queen v bp '" m - , And i ; :n ' l (says the ‘Jewish voice is descended from one Isaac HaucUe an eighteenth ceuturv Jew—a fact which causes much shaking of heads among the Spanish grandees ” One of them recently reproached Alfonso,” continues the ‘Jewish Voice, pointing to the low origin of his -ride-to-he ” “Never mind,” said Alfonso, 1 U marry her u she has ten Jews among her ancestors. And, by the way, they sat that 1 look somewhat 'like Jew myself," i ho Jew ancestor of Kna is accounted foi as fol.-nvs I The gentleman in question was an official of the Landgiavine of Hesse, and attended her on her great Russian, journey. His name was Isaac Haucke, nut ho changed the Isaac when, ater on, he married (ho Landgravine’s ~ of honor and embraced the Protestant faith. Haucke s son became Secretary of ■Mate, and in 1829 was made a Polish mint Previous to that he hud married a paisnn's daughter named Schwepponhaucr ! ho children of Ccnnt Haucke used to plav with the *it r J e ones of the Crand Duke of Hesse, and one of the princes, Alexander, fell hi love with one of the girls and married her, the name of Prince of Battenberg. Ena is the granddaughter of Alexander and Countess Haucke.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Gackwar of Baroda and his wife have been attracting a. considerable -mount of attention in New York. The f _ormer, a polished man of the world, was fullv able t-j defend himself against the omnipresent reporter; but the Princess was hardly so fortunate. Waylaid in the hotel lift by tu interviewer, she turned to him ■'■ nd said . " America may be far ahead of India in civilisation, tut in India wo never make visitors .so unhappy by pursuing them as you do here. It may be the way of civilisation, but it is the first time in my experience that 1 have ever been pursued. I have travelled in Europe and England, and never have my slightest movements been followed by "a curious crowd."

A framed scrollwork, consisting of buttons sewn on a silk ground, has teen sold by auction in North London. It was the work of the wife of a counirv parson, who thus utilised buttons found" in offertory bags in her husband's church. The Dowager Duchess of Newcastle is one of the great Roman Catholic ladies who are devoting their lives to the poor. Phe duchess was told that of all the London districts Wffltechapel was in greatest disrepute, owing to the exploits of Jack the Hipper. ''Very well," she replied, "then I will go to Whitechapel." Since that time she has labored almost unceasingly among the poor in the East End, making her home for the most part of the year at St. Anthony's House, in Great Prescot street, in the heart of Whitechapel. It is interesting to note that when Miss Angela Burdett-Couttswas created a baroness bv Queen Victoria, thirty-five years ago, there was not a single peeress in her own right in the kingdom, though La J v Homers succeeded to her uncie*s "barony very shortly afterwards. There are now ti!> fewer than ten peeresses of the United Kingdom or of England, besides two Scottish baronesses—Lady Tunloss and Lady Gray. Baroness Clifton is the youngest, as Baroness Burdett-Coutts is the oldest, peeress in her own right. At Biarritz thero has iived for some years now a King's widow who was on:e Queen Natalia of Servia. Sine? the tragic occurrences at Belgrade very little has been lie.ird of King Alexander's mother. King Milan's widow had chosen Uia.viiz as her place of retreat, possibly because it was tlif.re &hi first moi her future husband, Milan, who was in those parts with his travelling tutor, in the mid-seventies, fell desperately in love with the Russian Colonel Kleachko's daughter, and the girl, romantic, ambitious, and impecunious, was ready enough to be a queen Flora Annie Steele, the clever authoress of so many fascinating Indian novels, claims never to have had a single quarrel with her husband. She was a bride of eighteen when she wrnt to India, and she used frequently to pass solitarv months with her husband out in the East. A quarrel then would, indeed, have been a serious affair, condemning the two partties concerned to silence and isolation. As a matter of fact, Mrs Steele made herself an invaluable companion to the hardworking Bengal civilian she had married : and once, when they were alone together in some remote place, and he had no one to play racquets with, she designed a special cc-stume for herself, learnt how to play, and in time became quite as good at the game as her husband.