LADIES' COLUMN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13596, 16 May 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

A FAMOUS WOMAN TRAVELLER. The '■Daily Mail" reviewing a n«vrlypublislkd life of Isabella Bird (Mr* Bishop), the most famous of women travellers, give* the following brief sketch of her Twkd career. From the earliest of year* Isabella Bird interested herself in public questions, and she was only sijsti.-en when in 1848. she wrote a little allegory in which i+he championed Protection against Km- Trade. Later, on account of Hl-bealtb. *be vbit'd America, and thereafter she spent much tinw in journeys, becoming tn.> of tin; moat fatuous of women- traveller!*. She trove tied through Persia. China. Korea. and Japan, not so much in search oE adventure ua with the hope of lightening the darknta* of heathen racua. And probably no incident in her travels' was quite so startling aw. an adventure which befell her in London m 1852. This is Mbt. Stoddart's account of if: — She had taken a tab from the railway station, and whtkr driving out of the gate received a small .parcel of advertisement, which, ai* wui* usual .then, wast thrown in

at the window. Putting it un tb» seat in front of her, she noticed another parcel lying, evidently left by a former "fare." , She opened it and found papers inside * giving, details, of a plot to assassinate a member of the Cabinet at the approaching funeral of the- Duke of Wellington. She had scereeiy put them in her pocket when she- heard a voice stopping the cab. and a dark foreign-looking man addressed her at the window. He asked if a parcel had been found in the- cab. At once e»be handed him tlie- little bundle of advertbenwntii, and after a minute's progress bade the driver hasten to the Home Ufh"ce r where she insisted upun seeing the Minister, in whose hands »he placed the papers*. So serious ditt the* matter appear to the Home Office that, while she remained in London, a detective waw posted there to guard her against vengeance of thxee whos? plans she had frustrated. Mies Bird certainly showed great cuurage and promptness of action in this mutter, but throughout her life she was a capable woman. In the interval's between her travels she organised much philanthropic work at Home, and in the Western Highlands of Scotland her name and that of her sister. Henrietta, will always be remembered with affection, on account of the help given to the crofters and hsherfoUk.

Miss Bird wa« a busy writer, and published accounts! of most of her journeyis. In middle age sfw married Dr. Bishop, and she died in 1904 aftsr a long and active life.

HOMEMADE WHOLEMEAL BREAD

Cream together well 2or of German yeast and a good teaspoonfn! of castor sugar. In another basin sift together 41b. of finely ground wheatmeal and a dessert spoonful of salt; make a "bay" in the centre of this, and pour into h one and ahalf'pints of tepid water and the yeaet; draw a> little of the Hour down from the sides on to this, strew a little more over the tiny pond thus formed, cover the bauin with a double cloth, and let rise for forty minute» in front ef the tire; now work taw all op into a dough, and let it rise for two hours, when it must be re kneaded Mid divided up into i»»v«w: buke for about an hour, placing the bread in the hottest part of a very hot oven first. then draw it down to the cooler end. If preferred, a. pint and a half of milk, in which lux. of butter has teen dissolved msv- be uweit in precisely the uanie way, when tepid, to mis the dough with. Another way it* »»> follows:—Mix tcgetlier 4lb of fine wheat flour. 2oar of sugar, and a little salt; make a '"bay" in the centre, and pour in 2tr& of German yeuist, previously creumed with a teaspoonfol ef sugar, n pint of tepid water, and half a pint of milk; add to this two or three well-beaten eggs, work it all to a dough. then cover, and let it tine before- the tire far two- hours, keeping the pun well-cover-ed; now divide tfr into two. and tmkr in two tine for an hour. Sir Henry Thompson's recipe- for wholemeal, breird is crt follows j—Mix or sift to-gether 2lb of coatee - ly ground wholemeal and jjlb,of tine Hour (or better, the same weight vl tineScotch oatmeal); to this- mid lok of baking powder and two saltepoonfuls of Hsalt. then work in 2oc ef butter, and work it to a dough quickly with skim milk, or half milfe hall water. Have ready somebuttered rings on a buttered baking tin. put the dough, which rihotild hi soft enough almost to pear, into the rings, and bake at once in a quack oven to start with, lowering the temperature a little, a& it cooks. If preferred, yeast may be rased instead of baking powder, but then the moistening liquid must be used warm, and the dough set near the fire or in a warm place to rise for an hour, and when put into tinsr should again be set to r?i-:e for fifteen to> twenty minutes before baking in a moderate oven. Medium oatmeat ■may be' used instead of fine floor or oatmeal when this bread is made with yeast. It should be remembered that this dough can only be made ha rings «jr s» bannock?, for wholemeal » a bad heat conductor. and if made- np into the ordinary loavt-? the outside wonld be hard and overcooked long before the inside was more than a pudding or istodgv mass.—"The Queen." WHEN EGGS ABE DEAR. An English magazine gives the following recipes'- for m*e when eggi* are dear:— Bfcwn Betty Pudding.—Peel. core, and slice six cooking applitr, and arrange in layer* with fine crumbs in a pie-dish. Finish with a layer of crumb.*- Mix one gill of water, one gill of golden u>yrap. two tablespoonfuls- cf brown sugar, and the juice of half a lemon. Pour tha* over and bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes.

Compote of Figs and Prune**.—Stew the tigs and prunes carefully and separately. and when cool remove the prone stonsss and just open each fig with the -end of atenwpoon. Put it blanched almond into each prune, and islip a prune- into each fig; arrange in a circle and poor tb>* syrup over. Serve cold. Compote of Dates and Otangrs.—.l** et and remove the white pith of the orange*, slice them, and remove the pips. Stew the dates, and stone them. Arrange in the- centre •>£ the dish. ;*nd th*> >Hced oranges- round. Poor the syrup over, and eeafcter with HneEy-chopfwd altnomS-.. Batter Padding.--Une tabtespor;jjfut of fiour. one pint of milk, one tabtti»poonfat of castor sugar, one pinch of salt. Mix th*» tf'.«r and -sugar quite smoothly with the milk and sate. Pour into- a wet!-bat-tered pte-dMi. .Leave in qntte a slow oven until cooked. Serve with brown sugar and butter. In addition to there are suggtisted «t--t puddingi* and milk puddings, frott salad. tart.*, and boiled fruit paddings- Now that bottted frnit* may Ik* bought so" cheap!?, these three latter, as* well as> frnit !»hapfi-i. are not extravagant awret.*. But if. i.* not only in the making of sweet* that th" housekeeper dreads she consttniption of eggs- Kggtk*.* savoury d'udw* an* ali,» wmewhat rare, and the nicer kind of vegetable cannot be ifced insttad. for thev do not grow out of doors at thin tine' - f -t the year, and when bought art', of course. expensive.

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