SWEETMAKING CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

SWEETMAKING CORNER

" BRAZIL NUT TOFFEE. Everybody likes Brazil toffee, so I will tell you how 1 it is made. Cut shelled Brazil nuts into pieces, making a cupful. Put one pound of sugar into a saucepan with half a tea-cupful-of boiling water, and when the sugar has dissolved boil' the mixture quickly for a quarter of an hour. Now stir in a piece of butter the size of a small. egg, and continue boiling till a little of the toffee tried in cold water hardens at once. Remove the saucepan from the. fire, stir the nuts quickly into the syrup, and turn ,on to a buttered tin to set.

SALT WATER TOFFEE. (Sent by Eileen Hamilton.) One large cup sugar, 1 tablespoon of water, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vinegar. Boil 15 minutes and pour on well-buttered plate, and cut while warm, and roll into balls. CHOOSING THE BEST BOYS. WORK FOR THE FIT. The system of applying scientific tests to boys and girls seeking employment is used increasingly, and shows how necessary it is for the young to fit themselves for the battle of life. Even applicants for humble jobs as van boys are in some cases put through tests. According to the president of the Institute of Labour Management (England) girls of 14 are more intelligent than boys of that age, and come through the tests more creditably. In the case of a biscuit firm the applicants are tested by experiments with dummy biscuits; special tests are devised to suit various occupations; also there are examinations in elementary education and general knowledge. The question naturally arises: what of those who' are rejected ? If we suppose the best firms to cream the labour market, the less gifted must be employed by somebody or drift into uselessness and pauperism. A difficult question truly, in an unorganised society. THE RAJAH AND THE WELL. STOKE ROW HAS NO DROUGHT. Many English villages have been suffering badly from water shortage, but there is one which is not likely to be troubled in this way. The inhabitants of Stoke Row in Oxfordshire ■ have to thank an Indian rajah for making sure that they have a water supply that never fails. The way in which '.this came about is interesting. Many years ago Mr. E. A. Reade was entrusted with the carrying out of some work in India for the rajah, and when the work was finished the rajah said he would like to make Mr. Reade a present. The engineer replied that he did not wish for anything personally, but he suggested to the rajah that a present of a well might be made to his native village of Stoke Row. The people in this place had no adequate water supply and suffered greatly in dry summers. The grateful rajah gave orders for the driving of an artesian well to a depth of 368 feet, and the well taps an inexhaustible supply of water which has never been known to fail. The water, which is exceptionally pule, is free to aIL