MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1932, Page 7

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

ITEMS OF INTEREST

( Notes by

Marjorie )

CHOCOLATE RECIPES.

MAIDS OF HONOUR.

Ingredients:—Sib flaky pastry (use as required), 2 teaspoonfuls Bournvillo Cocoa, 2|oz castor sugar, 1 egg. Its weight in ground rice and margarine, almond or vanilla flavouring, jam, chocolate icing, 3 or 4 pistachio nuts (for decoration). Roll out the pastry rather thinly, cut into rounds, and line about twelve patty-pans. Put a very small quantity of jam in the bottom, of each. Mix the ground rice and cocoa together. Beat the sugar and fat to a creams Separate the yolk from the white of egg. Whisk the white to a very stiff froth. Stir the yolk into the creamed fat and sugar and beat well for a few minutes.

Add the ground rice, cocoa, and flavouring to taste, and mix together. Add the whisked white and fold in lightly. Put a small quantity of the mixture into each tin and cover the jam. Stand them on a baking-sheet and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. When cold, make some chocolate icing and ice the tops of them. Decorate the centres with a slice of blanched pistachio nut. TEA BUNS. Ingredients: —lOoz flour, 2oz cocoa, soz margarine, Goz castor' sugar, § tea. spoonful baking powder, 1 egg, milk, jam. Rub the margarine into the flour. Add the sugar, cocoa, and bakingpowder and mix all'together. Beat up the egg and add to the dry ingredients, with a little milk as required, and mix all to rather a stiff paste. Turn on to a pastry-board, and roll out one-eighth of an inch thick, and cut into rounds about three inches in diameter. Turn them on to the other side, and put a little jam in the centre of each. Damp the edge, draw to the middle and squeeze together, making a round shape. Turn over, and mark two lines on each bun, forming a cross—do this with the back of a knife. Place on a baking-sheet, leaving a space between each, brush over with milk, and bake in a hot oven for about 10 to 15 minutes. COTTAGE PUDDING. Ingredients:— IJoz cocoa, 41oz flour, 3oz margarine, 3oz sugar, milk to mix. vanilla flavouring, X teaspoonful baking powder. Mix the flour and cocoa together Rub in the margarine. Add the sugar and baking-powder and mix well. Add a few drops of vanilla, and sufficient milk to mix all to about the consistency of a cake. Put into a small greased piedish and bake for about 30 minutes in a moderately hot oven. SAGO MOULD. Ingredients: —2 dessertspoonfuls cocoa, 3oz sago, 1} pints milk, 3 or 1 dessertspoonfuls sugar, vanilla flavouring.

Put the milk into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Sprinkle in the sago and simmer very gently until the grains are transparent, stirring it occasionally. Add the cocoa and sugar and boil all together for ten minutes, stirring all the time. The mixture should be quite thick when finished. Add a few drops of vanilla, then pour into a wet mould, and, when set, turn on to a dish. DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS. Mothers are having so exceptionally worrying a time with their growing children nowadays that ( I feel something ought to be don© about it, states a writer in a London paper. There has never before been a generation of boys and girls which has assumed such freedom. And this makes life very difficult for a. mother. Let. her ask the nearly grown-fip daughter, ever so gently to take a duster, she holds it as if it were a snake, and finishes the job with such recklessness that weary mother thinks how much easier it would have been to have done the dusting herself. Won’t some good friend tell her that her daughter will soon change? Aft-r all, in a very few hours —or so it.will seem —school days will be over, and the new life of womanhood be begun in earnest. The puzzled mother of growing daughters should realise that as soon as her daughter- falls in,love or thinks she is in love, she will become unaccountably domestic. She will want to learn to cook—could she ever be persuaded to do so seriously at school? She will want b) dust those rooms properly, to -see that the laundry is returned correctly, and to help with the housekeeping. With the prospect of running a home of her own, that girl will be at once all the things her mother feared so much would never be awakened in her. And it will be that very freedom .that was such a trial in earlier years, which will safeguard her when it comes to choosing a husband. For, whatever else may be said at this age, one thing is certain; young pen. pie get. to know each other as they really are.

So spare a kind thought sometimes for the harassed mother, and tell het not to b© afraid for her “modern” girls. The measure of her understanding just now will bo the measure of future happiness both for them and her.

TWO-PURPOSE ROOM.

USES IN MODERN HOME LIFE.

It may be only a passing phase, or it may be the foundation for an established custom, but present-day life is demonstrating a clear determination to embrace the “much-in-little” idea. Briefly, it means that women especially are realising that quantity itself is no criterion of comfort. How to make do with as little as possible has always been the objective of thrifty, economical people, but the importance of the aim and its relation to one’s life as a. whole have never before been so widely understood. The ensemble idea in dress affords a good example of this trend towards a certain simplicity in life. Woman used to think it necessary to wear a different skirt, with each different jumper; yet how eagerly they adopted the notion of the three-in-one suit and ensemble as soon as they understood all the advantages of its adaptability' From the department of dress it was only a step to the realm of the housing problem. The compact and the utilitarian became the principal essential in house hunting, and it was not long before the popularity of the flat supenjeded that of the cottage. Amongst the many things that are pleasant and agreeable, yet—for the average person—unessential, must bo numbered the large dwelling with its various rooms each set apart for a specific purpose. A certain amount of accommodation is “standard,” but beyond actual living and sleeping rooms the ordinary business house hold finds that it can dispense with libraries, drawing rooms, music rooms, and sundry other portions of a house considered Necessary in the “parlour” age. With so many bachelor girls and men living their individual Hyes so much in the business world, the de mand for simplified households requiring the minimum of care and attention is steadily increasing. Some excellent examples of the room designed'for more than one purpose were described by a recent visi tor to the ideal homes exhibition at Olympia. Mrs Darcy Braddell was responsible for the designing of an attractive two-purpose room—a bedroom and sitting room combined which was just as suitable for a woman, such as the grown-up daughter of a house With the addition of a bathroom, to be used as a dressing room, and a tiny kitchenette it would have made an ideal flat.

In the bed-sitting room there were two deep recesses along one wall. One of these formed a fireside recess; tli<> other accommodated a divan bed which could be hidden by curtains. The recess by the fireside was lined with shelves for books, and had two fireside seats -filling the sides of the recess; two further shelves were let into the panelling above the head <•■! the bed fol* more books. The walls were panelled in oak, and there was a large built-in cupboard, a. writing table, and a comfortable armchair. The colour scheme was a warm brown and deep crimson.

Dainty Oclclments of Dress. A lace evening cape set on to a neck-band of the frock material. .A. new sleeve for a. coloured dress with a white silk '‘Duff" at the wrist. . Bag and scarf set in beige and green crepe de chine. Ready-to-put-on hat-band in white and red corded ribbon. Spotted silk scarf to thread through slots in a light, coloured dress.

MRS LYONS. If a woman is elected to the Senate at an early election she may be Mrs Lyons (wife of the Federal. Prime Minister), comments a writer in the Melbourne Argus. She has gifts that fit her for political life. These gifts are not common to women in New South. Wales. There are able women who in terest themselves in various activities, political, charitable,' and philosophical, but none, seems to have the capacity of Mrs Lyons. It, is not merely that her experience equips her for public life. She has inherent qualities -which her varied experiences have ripened. So runs the comment. She is nothing if not frank. She said she married before she was aged IS, and that, she is now 35, and Hint she had borne 11 children. Such a. record, it is said, no other public woman can match. Mrs Lyons gave some good political and senoral advice to the gatherings of women who entertained her, which v>as the most comprehensive social demom I ration yet made by women ia SvdiK-y.