Women's Realm

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11955, 27 May 1933, Page 10

Women's Realm

By “ Marie ”

MAKING EGGS GO FURTHER. When eggs aro scarce and dear recipes using few or none awe sought after. These combinations aro excellent. Each recipe, though suitable for any occasion, uses the equivalent of, only 1A eggs.

Little Fruit Cakes.—Take Alb s.r. flour, 3ojs' sugar, 3ok sultanas, candied peel, 3 egg yolks, 40-z butter, q. little grated lemon rincL Beat huttor and sugar to a cream, add egg yolks, mix all together with, sufficient milk to make- a firm, batter, drop in small spoonfuls on a. greased erav and bake 7 to 10 minutes in quick oven. , Snow Cakes.—Take Alh arrowroot, \ ]l>. butter, Hii sugar, 3 egg whites, 1 level teaspoon baking powder, A teaspoon' vanilla, a little* milk. Cream butter arid sugar, add arrowroot, the, stiffly beaten egg whirl's and enough milk to make a soft light .mixture. Rake in patty pails in moderate oven 10 to to minutes,, ,

Orange Sponge.—Take 'lb flour, G nz sugar. .\lh butter, 3 egg yolks, juice of 2 oranges, grated rind of 1, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, mix al| dry ingredients. Divide and bake in two round sandwich tins about 20 minutes in good oven. Flavour some icing sugar with orange juice for filling- and icing top. Walnut- Macaroons.—Take Alb shelled walnuts, A cup flour. 3 egg whites, ■lib icing sugar. Mince the walnuts and mix with flour. Add icing sugar mix well. Then fold in stiffly boatr-n egg whites. Put in teaspoons on cool tray greased. Bake slowly in coo] oven

OFFICIA L Ar AT CITY f A KING. Help for Cupid by taking on the task of official matchmaking is being arranged by the municipality of Tokyo, Japan. According to the. plan, IS’OO applications of lovelorn men can bo dealt with in a year, and it is thought that from these 300 marriages. happy “or at least reasonably so” will result. But the municipality is not going to guarantee satisfaction. Nor will it undertake to patch up quarrels or compensate the. disillusioneel. The applicant will be required to furnish adequate personal information and to stale what kind of a husband or wife tis required. T-lur bureau will then investigate the. applicant's qualifications and if he or she appears to be fitted for marriage, an introduction to possible partners will follow.

first meeting at altar. A wedding on a scale practically unknown in Central Europe has just taken place- in the Transcarpathinan town of Ylukatchevu. Ihe iathcis of 'the bride and bridegroom, whose ages are now seventeen and eighteen, are famous and wealthy rabbis who decided eleven years ago that- thonr children should become engaged. After that, accordieug to orthodox Jewish custom, they were not ’allowed, to see each other till the wedding took place The bride Ims been guarded and kept- out-of sight by her -lather as zealously as any Moslem gud, great precautions • have been taken to prevent the bridegroom s seeing even her photograph- The wedding, for which elaborate preparations bad been going on for many months, was attended by guests from all over Centra Europe, and the presents are, valued at some- thousands of pounds. j- f OT’ ?E MIMES AY ER?I ON ? ONE- ” DETEST? - FYEE YTH.ING / ’ Fveau- housewife .has a pel* <ml si on among her duties. This hatcc, job varies with the indiv.dua . Such were conclusions of the members of t lt, o Women’s Institute P& Burton. Emdand. which has just complex a survey on housekeeping. The president. was positive about her aversion ft was getting up'm the motnino- Other dislikes,.F eve cleaning windows, spring olennmg, chopping wood, washing up, .washing ones haN darning, patching, enoking cleaning hoots and shoes and tidying grates. Three agreed Hat- skinning rabbits was the worst. I « others said it was , keeping meals waiting, and an old lady declarer that she “detested everything.

COTTON STOCKINGS ARE dEST CHAPERONS.

, Vrc silk Stockings dangerous feminine virtue H so women must beware, for silk is nd.oml today by tho “softer” sex, . r- , Thin caution comes iron) the Lai. of Gosford. who describes himself as a a Ncw York grocer,” although to father was gcntleman-bi-waiting to King Edward when he was Prince ol "Wales.

Asked what lie thought was uie best chaperon for the modern girl, Lord Gosford unhesitatingly t replied; “A pair of cotton stockings,” and declared: “Thereby bangs a tale.” It appears that Lord Gosford was associated officially with a women’s auxiliary corps during the war. “Whcii I found myself,” lie said, “with this army of young women, I said to myself, ‘How can T keep them out of mischief?” T thought I will put ’thorn info cotton stockings. “The woman formerly in command of the organisation kicked like a steer at the proposal. But 1 had nit way and succeeded in reducing crime (in the cc,rpsj to less than offo per cent, and incidentally proved the truth of the conundrum, .‘"What happens to a girl in cotton stockings? —Nothing!”

NOTES , NEWS and HINTS

WAY? WITH FIGS. Dried Figs.—Make a syrup of- 1 cup water, 3 cup's sugar, allow to boil for A hour, then drop 6 dozen figs in syrup and boil again for hour. Leave figs in syrup overnight then place figs on crockery dishes and leave drying in the -sun. for six days, turning figs daily. Then sprinkle with castor sugar, Ijeavo one day, and figs aro ready for use. Preserved Figs.—Peel and cut into small pieces Alb preserved ginger, 61b sugar, 2 pints water. Make into a syrup by boiling for about -if hour Then drop Gib Jigs'into the syrup. Boil gently for about 4 hours. Bottle while hot.

Fig Rock One cup sugar,; A cup water. Roil until amber colour. Add J- teaspoon cream of tartar, do not stir. Waslr figs and split them, put on a flat tin well hut torn! ; pour on toffee.

Fig Chutney. —31b figs peeled ami cut. up, twelve apples pooled and cutsmall, loz ginger, 4 or >5 chillies, 2 tablespoons salt, IA-lb sugar, 3 pints vYneg'nr, .1 tafijespoon »m-ustfj'd,l '4>> small onions, Alh treacle. Boil 1-J to 2 hours.

OR AY IF.? AND SAUCE?. Whether Thick or tii\i„ gravy should always ho- made in the hakiiio- tin in which the joint or bird was cooked.

Clear Gravy.—Slowly pour off all dripping. keep hac-k the savoury brown particles with the help of ;l basting spoon. Loosen and scrape with a spoon She particles dha-t clitig to Hie tin. then pour in hall a pint of boiling water, or more if a very large joint- has been cooked: add salt and; popper, and stir till it boils, and pass it lhrnngh a coarse strainer into a sauce boat.

Thick Brown Gravy.-—Four ihe dripping off slowly, leaving only 1 tablespoon in the tin. Re careful to retain all the brown particles from tffio joint: add i tablespoon of flour mix and stir well till a rich dark brown, then add gradually pint °f hot .water or stock, stirring carefully till it- boils; season, simmer for three minutes, and strain.

Egg sauce.—Jor, butter. loz flour. 1.1 gills stock. . A gill milk. 1 hardboiled egg. salt and popper, chop the ego- r-oarsly: melt i-die butter : mix in the. flour, then add stock and milk gradually : stir till it- boils ■ boil for three minutes; season to taste and mix in chopped egg.

Piqunnte Sauce.—l onion. 1 small carrot. 1 rasher of bacon, loz butter. to 7, flour. A gill vinegar. A- pintwater or stock. 1 tablespoon chopped caper or perkins, salt and popper-, chop the- carrot, onion, and bacon, and fry for five minutes in. the butifg* Stir 111 and cook ihe flour til, brown (four or five, minutes).: pour in Hie vinegar and stock, season.

and simtnep for 13 minutes-, strain, add the finely-chopped capers or gherkins, and make ile' sauce hot

again. Chaudfroid Sam-c. — A pint satu.-c. 3 sheets of gelatine or A packet of aspic jelly, cochineal or green colouring. Bring the sauce to a boil, and stir in the jelly crystals till dissolved; if sheet- gelatine is used, dissolve if first in A gill of hot water and strain it into the sane-'; if made with 'the aspic jelly, a tow drops of cochineal would improve the appearance, hut i I white ebaiidhrob. sauce, is desired, use shoot gelatine and omit colouring.

Apple Sauce.—l Alh cooking apples 2oz sugar, loss butter, A gill water; pee], core, and slice the apples, and cook them slowly with the sugar and water till , soft and pulpy • (about 20 minutes). Stir occasionally to prevent. them from burning; mash th'e fruit- with a wooden spoon, ami heat to a smooth paste.

Caper Sauce. —loz butter, F'z flour 11 gills wafer, 1 tablespoon chopped capers, salt and pepper to taste ; melt the butter and stir the flour in it; add the water gradually, keeping the pan off the gas while doing so; replace over gas ,j a. stir Oil B boils, add the tablespoon of vinegar and tho papers, season. ' and boil gently for five minutes.

MARRIED AFTER -50 YEARS. BRIDE’S VOW TO DYING MOTHER. LONDON, April L Fifty years ago n boy and a girl fell in ]ovc —a love ■ that with tho passing of the years developed into An abiding devotion.

Tho summers passed, these sweethearts remained sweethearts stillthen death took a hand. Tho woman at her dying mother’s bedside made a vow: “I will look after father.” With these words she allayed! the fears of that anxious mother, and for herself entered on tire path, of selfish duty. For years she tended her father with fond care and kindness;.for years this dutiful daughter remained true also to her lover. Recently her father died at the age of 01 and she and her sweetheart of .50 years ago were married It was fit Ldwcsoft that these lifelong lovers wore united at the altar. Tho bride, now nearly 70, wits Miss Elizabeth Brown, who lived at Duke’s Head street, Lowesoft. The bridegroom was Mr T. Smith, a local engineer.- •