EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

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DAINTY SWEETS l'Olt THE HOLIDAY TABLE.

Orange Sponge—Required : Hall an ounce of gelatine, four oranges, one lemon, Cox sugar. Soak the gelatine in half a .pint of water lor three or four hours, then put in a stewpan with the 1 ; juice of the oranges and lemon, and the grated rind of half a lemon and one orange. Add. tho sugar, and stir over the fire till it lias well boiled up. Strain into a basin, and when cool beat with an egg whisk till quite white and still. Hour into a wot mould or heap in lumps on a glass dish. Swiss Cream—Take one pint of milk flavoured with one lemon rind, and half a stick of cinnamon. Take as much milk from the pint as will mix smoothly to a thin batter three teaspoons of cornflour, sweetened with nearly 31b of sugar. When the milk Boils, stir in the cornflour, allowing it to simmer four or live minutes. When nearly cold mix in by degrees the juice of one large lemon. Pour the above upon 2oz of crushed macaroons and one or two sponge cakes. Ornament with candied peel, sliced thinly. Make the day before it is required. Orange Jellies —Four oranges, one packet of orange jelly, 12 blanched almonds. Cut the oranges in half crosswise, and take out all the fruit, leaving the peels in a good shape; stand them on a dish \yith soft tissue paper between to keep them upright. Dissolve a packet of orange jolly, add to it the squeezed and strained juice oi' toe oranges. When nearly cold but 'not set fill the orange skins with the jelly. Serve when cold and set, garnished with small laurel leaves.

Lemon Cornflour Mould—Required : Four tablespoons of cornflour, the juice and rinds of thro* lemons,, four tablespoons sugar. Boil the rinds of the lemons and the sugar with a. quart of water and strain. Mix the cornflour into a paste with cold water, add the strained lemon water gradually, stirring all the time. Return to the saucepan, and stir till clear and perfectly smooth, add the lemon juice. Pour into a wet mould, and serve with custard or a little cream.

- CLEANING IVORY. The long ivory bead chains which are so charming an addition to almost any toilet unfortunately soon lose their freshness. This can be restored by washing and re-threading the beads. They should be washed in soap and warm water before they are taken off the old string, because washing rots any kind of silk or thread. As the beads are, as a. rule, carefully graduated, it is unwise to wash them after they have been restrung, for it is tiresome work to get them back into the correct graduated order for re-threading. Ink stains on ivory disappears like, magic if the mark is rubbed with the inside of a. squeezed lemon rind, and then washed immediately afterwards, to prevent the acid of the lemon removing the polish from the ivory surface.

WHAT CAN WE HAVE FOR BREAKFAST.

Does your family turn upon you a lack-lustre eye these mornings Avhcn the sun ,is up so much earlier Ilian they, even though the breakfast table is set daintily put on the verandah or in the cool shade of a spreading true ? Do the younger members look dissutislicd as their favourite cereal appears before them with sugar and hot milk in attendance Does your husband turn away from the coloured dishes and say plaintively: “Only a little toast this morning, thank you,” and sip his steaming collou without enjoyment ■?

If all or any of the tilings depress lie busy housewife during these Do•emher. days, let her vary the broakast menu with some of these items:

Grape fruit, halved and sprinkled with castor sugar and a very little crushed ice.

Slices of fresh pineapple or melon or peeled and quartered oranges served in the same way.

Cereals, ever which, hot fruit juice has been poured the night before, served off the ice.

Half a cold hard-boiled egg, put in the centre of a plate with cool green lettuce leaves raying out from it,

giving Lluj effect of a water lily in its bod. Let the toast be thin and just lightly, browned. Serve the butter in little pats and keep it cool. Have honey or the really bitter-sweet marmalade in the preserve dishes. For beverages, try the children on milk and soda water. It is a delicious and refreshing drink as well as a nourishing one. Cold. Russian tea often pleases the adult members of the ■ household. .Make the tea overnight. Strain it out of the pot, allowing only two minutes for brewing, add sugar according to taste, and let a slice of ’emori float upon the surface of each amber cupt’ui. With such a light but sound diet you will find the family appetite reviving, and when the cooler days come, as, alas, all too soon, they will bacon and kidneys, eggs (boiled, poached or fried), breakfast fish, piping hot from the oven, can reappear, and will get, a sure welcome from those who for a. little while have forsake'n them for less . heat-producing fare.

EGGS A LA SUZANNE This is a. dish devised in honour of Mademoiselle Lenglen, who has a ’partiality for potatoes and eggs. Thoroughly clean six even-sized unpceled potatoes# place in a, small roasting-pan, and cook in oven for thirty-five minutes.. Remove, clip a piece off the. surface of each; scoop out interior and press it through, a potato masher into a bowl Add half, a gill of hob milk, a tablespoonful of butter, lialf-teaspoonful of salt, three salfcspoonsful of pepper, and mix with, wooden spoon till smooth. Line the potato skins with the preparation, crack a fresh egg into each, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with a little -Parmesan cheese, and set in oven for six minutes.

CHRISTMAS WISDOM, The first Christmas pantomime was produced at Drury Lane 'I heat re in 1702. Santa Claus should he spelt Santa Klaws. The name is Dutch for St. Nicholas. A leal from Christmas decorations is preserved in Yorkshire as a. remedy against toothache.. At Hornchurch, Essex, a boar’s head was wrestled for on Christmas Day until a few years ago. Billiards is recommended by doctors as the best exercise after eating a Christmas dinner, .especially .for peopb unaccustomed to the heavy 'fare provided on the festive occasion.

JEWELLED HATPINS

Jewelled hatpins have made their appearance again to adorn the autumn hats. The novelty is ail arrowshaped pin which finishes in a bunch o: gold or platinum Dowers, inset with tiny jewels. Even more original are strange little animals marching across the crown. Two arc the correct number. For instance, a malachite tortoise, with diamond feet, hold up the brim in front, while another fastens it flat at the hack. Expensive jewelled ornaments are much in'demand oii simple dresses. A conventional desigii shows a buckle of crystal and jade placed in front or on cue side, hut a fad is to wear a. chain or large plaques across the shoulder. Hugo squares of crystal arc combined with any semi-precious stone, ana, of course, the whole band is flexible.

IS YOURS A NOISY HOUSE? HOW TO MAKE IT QUIET. Some houses arc noisy, not on account of the passing traffic, but because nothing is done to lessen, the sounds inside. The doors in your house may be so hung that it is the easiest thing in the world to let them bang instead of shutting them quietly. A thin rubber piping fixed to the frame work will work wonders in inducing them to close noiselessly.»

Many types of oil cloth and linoleum are noisy to the tread, especially if the floor boards beneath them are a. little insecure. AH floor boards should he firmly nailed down before any covering is laid upon them. If the covering itself is not noise proof an insulating material which is sold fo" the purpose should be laid between boards and carpet. A. layer of dried grass, or even ol bay, trodden down to perfect flatness, is useful in obviating the noise nuisance. Some windows will rattle on the slightest provocation. I'or them aie wedges ol rubber which I'ill make them noiseless. Some bells arc unduly noisy in the way they revcrbeiate through the house; for them are rubber rings that subdue the sound wonderfully. A > pair of rubber soles on the maid’s shoes will greatly reduce the noise she makes in walking to and fro. Table mats of rubber do away with the clatter of changing plates at meals; these are prettily coloured and decorative.