WOMEN’S INTERESTS

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S INTERESTS

HINTS FOR THE HOME

[BY

“TOHEROA”]

In the Kitchen Cream Scones: To make cream scones, take 2 cups s.r. flour, 2oz buter, pinch of salt, A cup cream, A cup of milk (or an egg), 2 teaspoons sugar. Sieve flour and salt, rub in the butter, mix to a soft dough with the cream and milk. Turn on a floured board, pat out evenly to Jin. thickness, cut into small squares or rounds, and bake at 475-500 degrees, 10 to 12 minutes, top off, bottom medium, or on the hotplate, turning once. «•#*#*** Orange Scones: Orange Scones: 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 egg, 2 cups s.r. flour, rind and juice of an orange, pinclj of salt, milk. Cream butter and sugar, add egg, orange rind and juice then flour and enough milk to make a light dought. Cut with scone cutter and bake about 12 minutes. # # * zj: * * Raisin Scones: To make raisin scones, take 3 cups s.r. flour, 2oz butter, li cups milk, or milk and water for preference, 1 cup seeded raisins, pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons sugar. Sift flour and salt, rub in the butter lightly, stir in the raisins and make into a soft dough with the milk. Turn on a floured board, press out evenly and gently, and cut into shapes. Bake for about 12 minutes. ******* Salmon Pie: For salmon pie, take 11b tin of salmon, 1 cup boiled rice, 2 tomatoes, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs, pepper and salt, tomatoes, egg, seasoning. Mix all together sprinkle top with breadcrumbs dot with butter and bake about half an hour. Serve with parsley sauce. ******* Orange Buns: For orange buns, take Alb butter 1 cup sugar, pinch of salt, 1 egg, grated rind and juice of an orange, 2 cups s.r. flour, 1 tablespon orange jam or marmalade. Sift flour, salt and sugar and mix with orange rind, melt butter and mix ,in. Add beaten egg, orange juice and jam. Mix all well together and place in small balls on greased slide. Bake 20 minutes. Ice with orange icing made from icing sugar, orange juice and a tiny piece of butter.

A Tasty Steak: Two lbs steak (or less according to need), 1 dessertspoonful each of tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce and anchovy sauce, 1 teaspoon of sugar, salt, and pepper to taste. Mix all ingredients together and soak steak in this mixture for 2 hours, turning occasionally. Fry in a little butter or dripping; put 2 tablespoons of water in the sauce mixture, heat well, and pour over the meat. Serve very hot with mashed potatoes.

Apple Pie: This is a delicious variation on ordinary apple pie. Peel and chop a pound of sour cooking apples and sprinkle with 4oz of soft brown sugar, Add the grated rind and juice of a lemon, and 2oz each of chopped dates, raisins and sultanas, also 3oz of blanched and chopped almonds and walnuts. Mix all well together in a saucepan containing a small piece of butter, stirring well so that it does not burn. When cold spread on to a pie plate covered with pastry. Put strips of pastry criss-cross over the top and bake in a fairly hot. oven for about half an hour.

«•«•«*» Rolled Oats Pudding: Here is another way of serving porridge in order to tempt the palate. Soak a cupful of oats in milk for half an hour, adding two tablespoonsful of sugar and a pinch of. salt. Then .bring a good pint of milk (or milk and water) to boiling point and mix in. Bake in a fairly slow oven as for a rice pudding. It cooks more quickly than rice, is creamy and satisfying. The pudding could be warmed up tor breakfast by standing the dish in another 'dish of boiling water on the stove until heated through.

Banbury Tarts: For Banbury tarts, take cake pastry, 3 tablespoons cake or broad crumbs, t cup brown sugar, J cup chopped raisins, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon melted butter, rind and juice of 1 lemon, all mixed together. Roll out the cake pastry thinly and cut into large rounds, placing 1 tablespon of the filling mixture on each. Wet the edges and pinch together on top: Flatten out lightly, score across two or three times with a knife, brush over with egg white ana sugar and bake for 20-25 minutes. Fish Pie: To prepare fish pie: Line a wellbuttered piedish or casserole with well-mashed potatoes. Add fricasseed fish, cover with more mashed potatoes, sprinkle with grated cheese, dot with butter, and bake in a moderate oven from 20 to 30 minutes until brown. ******* Stuffed Pumpkin: Peel a small. pumpkin, leaving it whole, cut a hole where the stalk is, removing all seeds, etc., fill with either a veal stuffing or minced meat with, plenty of chopped parsley and a beaten egg. Bake for about 1 hour in a good oven, with a piece of buttered paper over it. * * * * * * * Pickled Eggs: Boil twelve eggs for twelve minutes; dip them into cold water and take off the shells; boil a quart of vinegar for a quarter of an hour, with ioz of black pepper and all-spice and . whole dried giner, also some slices of beetroot; put in the eggs to boil for eight or ten minutes. Then put them into a jar with a slice of beetroot laid on each, and cover them with the vingar and spices. They will be fit for use in four days. Place two or three in a dish, and put round them one or two cut in slices. Garnish with curled parsley. HOW TO CLEAN CURTAINS. Shake lace curtains free from dust and fold each one to about threequarters of a yard square. Keep them folded while washing, and the weight of the water will not break the fine strands when they are luted cut. Muslin curtains will retain their colour if rinsed in alum water. If they are very soiled, rinse them four

or five times in plain water, finishing with the alum solution. Hang tnem out to dry in the open air, keeping them quite straight, after which they may be replaced at the windows without being ironed. Two ounces of alum to a gallon of water is the right strength. Artificial silk curtains will last longer, and their, sheen will be improved if you allow at least three days to elapse between the completion of drying and the beginning of ironing.

Tapestry curtains brighten considerably under a salt and water treatment. Brush the fabric lay damp dusting sheet over it, and beat with a small cane. Wring out a duster in cold water in which a handful of salt has been dissolved, go over the material with this, and follow up by rubbing it lightly and evenly with a duster wrung out in warm soapy water. ‘ FEMINITY TO REIGN IN HOLLYWOOD. Leading Hollywood film stars are planning a “Back to Feminity’’ campaign, according to a report just received from Madeleine Carroll, Columbia star, who asserts that there has been a definite turn against sports fashions that are not feminine and alluring. “The stars of the cinema will not appear at the resorts and beaches this year in ‘slacks’ or brief bathing apparel,” said Miss Carroll. The stars particularly oppose lounging in the water in scant suits, and have wholeheartedly accep'ted the smart beach robes that so becomingly cover swim suits. Stars no longer believe in deep suntans, so there will be a prevalence of very large straw beach hats to complement the dressmaker sportswear. Very short casual frocks and culottes will replace slacks for general sportswear. The new little tennis frock with skirt just above the knee has been approved and generally accepted in Hollywood. It is so much more feminine than halters tucked into brief shorts. HERB GARDENS. The cult of the herb garden is one phase of present-day life that does not seem to be much affected by the sterner issues of science. Not only are women using herbs a great deal, both medicinally and for cosmetics, but they are learning to grow tne herbs themselves, and use them ror old recipes, odd corners of gardens being set aside for the sole purpose of growing herbs, just as they used to be in earlier centuries. Queen Elizabeth was fond of a complexion cream made from cowslips that is still being made to-day. Witch hazel and elderflowers and apples are all made up into creams that are soothing and beneficial to the skin while rosemary, sage, and wild thyme beautify the hair, and lime and roses and pine make delicious essences for the bath. Herbal tisanes are also finding more and more favour with the modern woman, who has discovered that they are not only pleasant to drink, but are very good for tired nerves and tired complexions as well.

Household Hints Glycerine and water remove tea stains of long standing. ******* To remove taints from pots and pans, put spent tea leaves in and fill with water. In a few minutes taints will be gone. * * * * * * * When raw meat has been wrapped up too long and smells stale, put in cold water’ to which some cold tea has been added and let stand a few minutes. ****** To disinfect a room, add some good lavender water. Live coals sprinkled with sugar are also good. ****** Brown paper burnt slowly is good for disinfecting a room, but do not let the paper blaze. ******* Rotten tomato juice is good for taking stains out of materials. ******* If a costume has been packed badly and is creased, do not press it, or the new look will vanish. Hang it up by a fire or radiator for an hour or two, and the creases will drop out of their own accord. ******* To give cauliflower a nice white appearance, add a spoonful of vinegar to the water in which it is boiled. Always cook cauliflower in an eriamet lined saucepan. ******* t Sour milk, even when quite thick, is most valuable for mixing pastry, cakes, and scones, making them very 1 light. ******* Brazil nuts and walnuts will come out of their shells whole quite easily if they are placed in a warm oven for a few minutes before being cracked. FASHION FADS AND FANCIES. Talcum-powder white is the newest shade for evening wear. Other new tonings enjoying popularity are light amber, ameythst, cyclamen, fuchaia, and amber. Gold lame and colorful metal brocades have had the limelight and will continue in the fore until the spring emerges with its gay florals.

If you wear a full tunic on either a dress or coat, it must be worn over a very tight skirt, allowing just enough room to walk. For all but the very slim figures, a shaped tunic is more becoming than a gathered one. Step into spring with a dressmakersuit—a colorful floral frock with a redingote coat to tone. Janet Gaynor, petite Fox star, includes-in her personal wardrobe one of the most novel of these suits. Pale blue flat crepe doted with navy-blue stars and half-moons fashions the frock, which is worn under a redingote of navy. Gilded birds, osnreys, hand-paint-ed feather butterflies—all are used to add decorativeness to the' coiffure. They are bound across the head on a narrow ribbon to keep them secure. Leather accessories for sports wear come in bracelets, hat bands and frock trimmings. Bracelets are hooked together with bronze metal; hat bands are slender and hooked together with a snorts motif; frock trimmings are buttons inscribed witlj initials or brooches to pin on lapels.