SWEETMAKING CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

SWEETMAKING CORNER

PERSIAN CREAMS. These are uncooked sweets, and most delicious. You will require half a pound of sherbet, and a quarter of a pound of icing sugar. - Roll the sugar to break up the lumps, then sieve it, 1 and mix it with the sherbet in the basin. Beat the white of one egg very lightly, just to break it up a little, mix it gradually with the sherbet, using a fork, till it forms a stiff cream. Turn the cream out on to a board sprinkled with icing sugar, roll it, fold it up, roll it again till it is quite smooth, then cut it into pretty little shapes and leave it to dry and harden on a plate sprinkled with sugar or sherbet. Heat or damp spoils these sweets, s° while they are setting they should be in a warm, dry atmosphere. JOKE. (Sent by Elsie Rookes.) Vera: What does transatlantic mean, mother ? Mother: Across the Atlantic. Vera: Does trans always mean across? Mother: I suppose it does. Vera: Well, then, I suppose transparent means a cross parent. A MIRACLE. BLIND. MAN SEES THE FLOWERS. \ From Kew Gardens a romantic little story has reached us which might never have been known if it had not been for a generous gift of money left for furthering the study of botany by Mr. A. E. Moxon, who- died three years ago, and his sister. Mr. Moxon and his sister, who were descendants of Sir Francis Drake, were great flower lovers, keenly interested in the wild plants of the Swiss mountains. Although blind for almost the first 30 years of his life Mr. Moxon learned to love these flowers through the descriptions of them he often heard from his mother and sister. One day a miracle happened. After a successful operation to his., eyes the blind man was suddenly able to see. ■ It must have been a moment of ecstasy for him when he first saw for himself the beauty of the Alpine flowers.* We 'are not told how many years of this new and wonderful life he lived to enjoy, but he was near his beloved Swiss mountains when he died. Some years ago, after the death of his sister, he presented to Kcw Gardens a collection of a thousand beautiful water-coloured drawings of Swiss Alpine plants.