Topics for Women

Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 20, 21 February 1940, Page 6

Topics for Women

SUMMER TEA a colourful djsii This is quite the most colourful salad I've met for ages, so 1 have no hesitation in putting it forward as worthy to grace the supper table at holiday lime. The various ingredients should he arranged separately in little moulds. They consist of: Thinly sliced cucumber, tomato sliced, beetroot sliced, cooked peas, hard boiled egg cut in fourths, stuffed olives • thinly steed. Serve each of these on a lettuce leaf and hand salad dressing separately. Lamb and Tongue Mould This is a dish which uses up cold lamb and tongue very appetisingly. According to the size of your mould, cut up lamb and tongue very thin. J.'srd boil an egg and cut it into feirths. Place two pieces of the egg and some chopped parsley at the bottom of the mould, then put in the meat well seasoned. Piace the rest of the egg on top. Dissolve a quarter of an ounce of gelatine, pour it over the meat and set aside in a cold place to gel firm.

Corned Beef Salad Cut the beef into strips a quarter of mi inch wide and one inch long; pul them into a salad bowl, grate an inch piece of horse radish over it; slice one boiled potato and one beetroot and n lit lie celery, add to the bowl. Serve with a plain oil and vinegar dressing, and garnish with watercress. Karel boiled eggs may also be sliced find added, or pickled eggs. Spinach and Tongue Salad Some cooked spinach, slices of tongue, a hard boiled egg, sauce taria re. Chop tlie cooked spinach finely, season with salt and a little melted butter, then press firmly into moulds buttered and filled with a i»il of.buttered paper at the bottom of the mould. Set aside to chill. AY hen ready io serve, unmould on to slices of cold longue and put a spoonful of sauce tartare on each mould. Garnish with quarters of hard boiled egg. An Oil-Less Salad Dressing

Three tablespoons of milk, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of made mustard, -A 0/ butler, -i teaspoon of sail. Beat the eggs, add all Ihe oilier ingredients and heal in a double saucepan on a slow fire. Stir all Am lime until as Illicit as required. Leave to cool. Other Salad Combinations Vegetable 1. Shredded cabbage, carrots and dropped nuts. 2. Cabbage, apple or pineapple, and celery. 3. Cabbage, celery, onion, green pepper. ■i. Cabbage, carrot, cheese. “>. Cabbage with shredded spinach

and onion. (i. Tomato willi cucumber and radishes. 7. Tomatoes with onions. 8. Turnips, carrots and beets. 9. Potato, green peppers, cucumber, radishes. 10. Polaiu. lull'd cooked egg, celery green pepper, tomato. Fruit 1. Apple, carrot, raisin and nuts. 2. Peach or pear and cottage cheese. 3. Bananas and peanuts. 4. Prune and collage cheese. 5. Pineapple and cheese. 0. Pineapple, banana, grapefruit; and nuts.

7. Peach, pear and nuts. 8. Cooked apple with centre filled with cheese mixed with nuts. 9. Oranges, bananas, cherries. Meat, Cheese and Egg.

1. Chopped meat with celery and cucumbers. 2. Stuffed eggs with green pepper. 3. Cottage cheese with tomato or

gi een pepper. 4. Fish such as salmon, etc., and c-c-iery or cabbage, hard boiled eggs, pickle or stuffed olives.

USEFUL IDEAS DO YOU KNOW THAT—.If dates for sandwiches are stoned, left to soak in hot water for a few minutes, the water then poured off, they can be mashed with a fork and spread like jam? If a blind becomes ragged at the end, and will no longer hold stitches, that if can be made quite neat by binding with a length of passe-partoul until opportunity offers for a new or.o to he purchased? Much lifting can be avoided in I lie wash-house where there is only one Ia | if a piece of rubber piping is shpped on to the lap? The water is then conveyed anywhere one likes to guide the pipe.

Tea Stains If there was milk in the lea. use ci.ld water and soap; if clear tea. use ho! water only. Brass Yon e,lli keep brass bright much longer if you rub it over once a week v,;lh methylated spirit. It should not. in ibis case, lie necessary to use brass polish every time.

Burns The best remedy for a burn is a paste made of baking soda and vaseline. Spread thickly over the sore place immediately. A “Pop Over” for the linvalid No! by pop-over I don’t mean one of those American scone like affairs. 1 mean a delightful garment for invalids In wear in bed when they are expecting visitors. Choose a pretty colour in soft washing silk or double chiffon, or soft velvet or velveteen, if you want something on the warm side, and cut it in a square.

Make a round hole in Ihe centre of Ihe material large enough to put the head through, sew round Ibis opening and round the edge of the square with narrow lace; or you could bind ail tire edges with another colour. Now pop the garment over the invalid's head, and there she is—“all dressed up for Ihe parly!” It will fal! like a pretty flared cape around her shoulders. A Space Saver

Unless one is lucky enough to have a lumber room or a cubby hole under il e stairs, it is always a problem to find a palce for ‘stowing away suitcases and I ranks. Here is a novel and practical suggestion. Stack the cases compactly in a corner of the dining room and have a cover of Ilu ce ply wood made to fit over them. Paint Ihe cover, or paper il to match the walls, and lo further the illusion that it is built in, have it made with a skirting hoard similar to that of the room. This camouflaged contrivance has practical value, too. for it makes an ideal modern sideboard.

THOSE LITTLE HABITS CURE YOURSELF “I feel 1 could scream, when Jim hums lo himself all the time he's doing a little job.” It is a cruel thought that so small a lliing can spoil a friendship, and e\en destroy the harmony of marriage. But il Is a true one. Most of us find that, at some time or another, our friend, our husband, or our wife drives us to screaming in iin I by saying things in the way they always say it, twisting a ring round their finger, unnecessarily tweaking al a lock of hair, drumming their hands on a table. But it occurs to very few of us that we, too, have irritating mannerisms. Yes. most of us have, v My own introduction to this fact was a result of my extreme irri1a lion with a friend who paused between every sentence to say ‘and er.” i am very fond of this friend. She is charming, intelligent and very pleasant company. Yet for the sake of “and er”- I found that I was quite definitely avoiding her. The little trick exasperated me to such an extent that all her real qualities were obscured for me.

“That’s True”

1 was mentioning Ibis lo my husband. when he rather astonishingly re plied. "Well I wonder if she says ‘end er‘ as much as you say ‘that’s true.' Do you realise that- you say it once everv ten minutes at least?”

I thought for a moment, and. then 1 admitled. “Yes, that's I rue.” And this immediale. mechanical use of the expression, even after il had been mentioned, made me realise how constantly and how irritatingly l must have been in Ihe habit of using it.

1 determined to review my mannerisms. and found that I was the slave of several expressions and gestures of which i had nol been a! all nwa 'R.

I have managed to cure myself of them. No doubt I am accumulating other gestures and mannerisms, but in a few months’ time there will bo another review and these, also, will be done away with. And the very fact that I was trying to cure my mannerisms made it easy for me to 101 l my husband about his. Do try this method yourself.

WAS IT YOU? Seine one started the whole day wrong, Was it, you ? Some one robbed the day of its song, Was it you ? Early this morning some one frowned, Some one sulked until other scowled, Ard soon hard words were passed around, Was it you? Some one started the day aright. Was it you? Some one made it happy and bright, Early this morning, we are told. Some one smiled, and all through the day This smile encouraged young and old. Was il you? —Stewart 1. Long.