GENERAL TOPICS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 17

GENERAL TOPICS.

TO-DAY’S RECIPE Quarter lb butter, Jib sugar, ono egg, J-teaspoon carbonate of soda, If cups flour, if cups dates, half cup chopped walnuts. * Method: Cream butter and sugar, add egg well-beaten, then soda and flour sifted together, and lastly, add the chopped fruit. Bake in small teaspoonsful on a shelf in hot oven. A DE LI CIO US~S AVOU R Y Here is an American recipe for a delicious and quicklv-made savoury which will prove very popular at a small luncheon or dinner party. You need two eggs, two tablespoonsFul of melted butter, a isal tspoonfu I of salt, a shake of reel pepper, a teaspoonful of flour, three tablespoons! ul of grated cheese (parmesan is the best) and a tablespoonful of cream. Beat the eggs to a cream; add butter, salt pepper and cheese, and work the whoie into a smooth paste. Now mix the flour well into the cream and stir into the mixture. Thoroughly beat together for one minute, spread the preparation evenly on buttered cracker biscuits and put on the top shelf of a hot oven to get slightly brown. SPLENDID SKIN-SOFTENER. Here is a- simple but infallible recipe for softening and whitening the skin : Squeeze three lemons and remove all pip.L To the resultant juice add the same quantity each of glycerine and of rose-water. Shake well before using, This home-made lotion gives quite wonderful results.