WOMEN’S NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 January 1927, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES

Sir Francis Bell and his daughter, Mise Bell, left England for New Zealand on December 3. They are travelling by the Corinthic.

By the southbound Napier express this afternoon, a party of Palmerston North Girl Citizens —Misses Phyllis Hastings, Jean Edwards, Ruby Rising, Mavis Remington, Una Clapham, Edmeo Wilson and Renee Elston—leaves for Christchurch to attend the annual conference of the movement which takes place at St* Andrew’s College this week. Mi6s Jones, secretary of the Palmerston North Y.W.C.A., is in charge of the party.

THE MODERN GIRL. OPINION OF LADY PRINCIPAL. 1 LONDON, Jan. 1. “I think you will find girls to-day invariably skip the book 3 which' were favourites of their grandmothers. Either they must have the most modern books or genuine antiques,” said Miss Faithfull, principal of the Ladies’ College, Cheltenham, at a headmistresses’ conference. Miss Faithfull added, “The girl of to-day is much more philosophic and rational than the girl of twenty years ago, but she is far too well satisfied with her own crude raw opinions and needs discussion with older people. Girls to-day are brutally frank. We can be brutally frank with them. There are things we can and must discuss with them—things which no one discussed twenty years ago.”—A. and N.Z. cable. USEFUL RECIPES. ICE CREAM. This is a simple recipe. Take one quart milk, yolks 8 eggs, Jib of sugar,' flavouring to taste. Bring the milk to a boil. If you like vanilla ice cream get some vanilla beans from the chemist and stand a couple in the milk while on the fire. You can use these beans over and over again. When milk comes to a boil take off fire and beat in the yolks of the eggs and sugar just enough to thoroughly mix them. Then stand aside to cool. It is a good thing to make up the day before requiring; it then cools overnight. Freeze in an ice cream freezer next day. . BANANA JAM. Take ripe bananas, and break with a fork. Add on© passion fruit to each banana, and to each pound of the mixture add Jib 6Ugar. Put the mixture into an earthenware basin, add the sugar, and let stand all night. Grease preserving pan with buttered paper and cook briskly for half. an hour, stirring all the time, or the jam will stick to the pan and burn. Another variety of banana jam is made with |lb of ginger to 21b bananas. FIG JAM. Take 201 b figs, 151 b sugar, 4oz ginger, a few drops of essence of lemon; pare and cut up figs finely, place in pan and when nearly boiling add 6ugar and ginger. When nearly done add essence. Cook the jam about three hours. NUT LOAF. Take two cups self-raising flour, i cup sugar, J cup chopped nuts (or sul-

tanas), 1 teaspoon butter, • pinch _ of salt. Make into a dough. Put into two greased tins; let 6tand half an hour, then bake half an hour in a moderate oven. PEANUT BUTTER. Put the shelled peanuts in a pan into a slow oven, leaving the door slightly ajar. Allow to stay until dry, then the hulls will rub off easily, but in no case allow to brown in the least. When sufficiently dry, put .into a bag, tie up closely, and knead < ; r roll on a table with the hands until the husks are well loosened. Separate the husks from the nuts by turning from one pan into another in the wind. Grind and cook for several hours i ; i a double boiler without water added to the nuts. Put away to use as occasion requires.