Women's Realm

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11661, 11 June 1932, Page 11

Women's Realm

By “ Marie ”

PUMPKIN RECIPES. Pumpkin Jam.—Take’ Sib of pumpkin and a Per parting and cutting into '.cubes place in n. deep .dish and squeeze over it jfclio ju’ico of 4 large lemons, pare the rind thinly, cut into fme strips and add to contents of dis]i. (Spread 81b sugar over whole; slice 407 green ginger and mix in 'it.. .Stand a]l in a. warm place for 24 hours; turn into preserving pan, simmer" gently for 1}- hours; wiien cooked, bbth pumpkins Sind lemon should be clear. Pot whilst hot, and when cold cover carefully.

Pickled Ironbark.—Cut 41b jironbark into small squares, sprinkle with salt; Jet stand all night, and next day strain, adding Ub finely chopped onion. Boil together IJoz mustard, loz turmeric, 2f) cloves, 2 bottles vinegar, 1-Joz ground ginger, Ub sugar and G chillies for 10 minutes; then put in pumpkin and onions and boil slowly till tender. Bottle when c-okl. Pumpkin An G rati n.—Boil sufficient quantity of pumpkin, arrange the pieces (in a. pie-dish previously butter ed and rubbed with igarlic. Sprinkle with grated cheese, season with salt and pepper, and a. little nutmeg. Add several pieces of butter,, durst with tine breadcrumbs, top off with small lumps of butter and hake. 20 minutes. Servo very hot. Pumpkin Patties.—lnto a bowl put Ilb cooked pumpkin, add A cupful of golden syrup, ’ teaspoonful of salt, 2 tabtespoonful bread or cake crumbs, ’ teaspoonful melted butter, 1 teaspoon, ful orange juice. Line- some patty tins with short pastry, fill with mixture, bake in'hot oven for 20 minutes; decorate with sweetened whipped cream.

.PERFECT PANCAKE

MAKING PROPEP BATTER

LEMON SAUCE RECIPE

Tim proper proportions for pancake batter are Ub °1 flour to 1 pint of liquid. This means that if you use two eggs you must take out of the pint, of milk about that much before adding the eggs.

Begin by making a paste with the Hour and half the mill: mixed with the yolks -of the eggs. Beat for at least ten minnles with the back of a wooden spoon. Stand for at. .least, two hours in a really cool spot. When ready to cook the pancake add the rest of the. liquid and beat well, whip the salt and fold (hem into the hatter.

Use a perfectly clean and polished pan just the size you want the pancakes to be. Molt, a .piece of butter just large enough to make the pan Iho roughly greasy, shake it round the sides <iikl pour in only just enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan—the thinner the pancake the better. As soon, as it sets slip a knife all round the edge and turn up the pancake to see if it is browning. Turn carefully as soon as it is and give it just about, 30 seconds on the other side before slipping on a very hot plate.

Most people like to add tlieir own sugar and lemon, so have these on the table. A lemon sauce may also be. served. To make this put Fie juice of two large lemons in a saucepan with a cup pf water and two ounces of sugar. Take the very thin peel of one lemon, sirred it into the liquid and simmer until tender. Then add the juice of a third lemon, and a tablespoonful of marmalade, using the lemon juice to make a. paste of a teaspoon of cornflour. Bring to a hod. The marmalade may bp omitted.

This :is the perfect pancake. Yon can make .up for lotting the batter stand bv beating much harder and a little longer, adding the .second instalment of liquid at the end of the time and immediately folding in the whites 'of the eggs.

BRIDE DEFIES SUPERSTITION.

THIRTEEN ATTENDANTS AND 13-WEEKS’ HONEYMOON.

PEACOCK-BLUE DRESS ES

Lady Audrey. Talbot, the nuburnliaired sister of the young Earl of Shrewsbury, defied half-a-dozen bridal superstitions when, she was married to Lord Stanley of Alcle.rley.

She. wore her. wedding veil thrown hack from lior faeo as s]ro came, a laughing, happy bride, into the por'eh of Southwark, Cathedral, S.E. There was no hint of orange blossom in cither the coronal on her hair or the decoration of her gorVn.

Her attendants numbered 33—12 girls and one. tiny boy, and they were dressed in tho unluckiest color in the world—peacock blue.

NOTES, NEWS and HINTS

DIET POP. FLAWLFSS COMPLEXION

After a Mv days at Aldet-ley Park, the bridegroom’s homo in Cheshire, the young couple intended to have u 13-woeks’ honeymoon abroad.

The largo and fashionable congregation which witnessed the wedding— Lady Patricia Ramsay was among the guests—were charmed by its picturerqno touches.

PRETTY TABLEAUX. The ciurnc-cl tableau was particularly lovely. The bride ,in her simple white velvet wedding go'wn, a flurry of lace and a. froth of tulle sweeping behind .her, stood out like a faery figure in. the setting of grey pillars and arches. As Lord .Shrewsbury—who had been granted special leave from Eton—relinquished her to the bridegroom, bridesmaids both, tall and’petite .gathered about her, their long frocks of sill: net in the richest ,of peacock blues blending isto ’the magnificent background of gold and crimson which the draperies of the High Altar provide. A small page and little maid of honor stood gravely hand in hand behind the bride and bridegroom until the ceremony was over. Then, to the amusement of the ‘congregation, they began in high-pitched tones a conversation which could be heard all over the cathedral.

A RECIPE IN RHYME. ETC- PUDDING. Of luscious figs 111 at southern suns have dried, Take half a pound into squares divide; Of bread-crumbs, suet, sugar you shall weigh Six ounces each, and then shn !! make essay Two japples, with a critic’s eye to choose, Of flavour rich and free from spook and, bruise. These also cut in squares; of ciiron green Two ounces slice; and then with knife full keen A lemon’s rind chop into fragments cun all t J.nstlv four well-heat eggs will leaven all. But. slay, era o'er the fii’o the whole you trust To boil for hours, throw in (he merest dust Of grated nutmeg. When the pudding’s cooked A simple sauce should nor be (*-' looked

A dull, lifeless skin, with a tendency to oiliness and blotches, is a frequent cause for complaint in winter. ']'hi= is often due to long hours spent in hot stuffy rooms, insufficient outdoor exercise, with heavy, stodgy meals. Eat and heat-giving foods are certainly necessary in moderation, but green vegetables, sala-ls and fruit should figure ill every day s menu. Celery, turnip tops, spinach, and Brussels sprouts, invaluable lot the iron they contain, are all fairly cheap and abundant just now. If you .want to have a -lair and ilawless complexion, glowing with colour, cat plenty of carrots. Have a raw carrot grated in your green salad, eat them boiled and mashed wiih butter for .supper; They are delicious. Persevere with the carrot? for a few weeks, discarding pastries and /chocolates, and the result will surprise you. Then there is the homely onion, which Ims a. remarkable effect upon ihe blood on account of the sulphur it- contains.

Fruit also is important in a beauty diet- Instead °f being tempted by a, creafn bun or a toasted tea-cake soaked in butter eat an apple instead. Your complexion will benefit by it. and so, incidentally, will your figure. If your skin is dry, however, bird inclined to pool, feed it with a good skin food at night, and take plenty of butter and cream.

HONEY GINGERY UTS. One cup honey, 1. cup sugar, V rrvp melted butter, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 tablespoons ginger. 2 cups flour, 1. cup chopped nuts. Mix honey, sugar melted far and beaten egg. Sift baking powder and ginger with flour. Add nuts to flour after sifting. Stir in other ingredients, drop by spoonful on to a greased pan and bake in moderate oven for 2d minutes.

German policemen may shortly bo empowered to tabs blood, tests of motorists after street accidents i* drunkenness is suspected. By <♦ metlicd introduced by Dr. V\ idmoreir, a Swedish scientist, a single drop ot blood, extracted by a policeman from a motorist alter a smash, would, it is claimed, establish' definitely who* the’r anv alcohol liad lv-'cu consumed in the previous I'd hours. Temperance bodies support the proposal, but motorists are hostile to it