HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 8

HITHER AND THITHER

Silk Stockings. A New Zealand woman writes to an exchange as follows: —How many of us must have stared at a report that a movement is on foot to import silk stockings from Japan. It would indeed be bitter knowledge to our heroic sisters in Britain that women of their own race should be so callous and petty as to demand luxuries at a time when they themselves are in hourly peril, when at any moment their world, their homes and loved ones may be swept away before their eyes. They go about their daily lives in the presence of these terrors with quiet heroism that is the admiration of the civilised world. We are to be invited to wear silk stockings made in a country which is in close fellowship with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Instructive Gas Cooking Demonstration.

It is probably quite safe to assert that in most kitchens where gas fuel is used, the actual range is fitted with a regulating device for controlling the heat in the oven, and everyone who uses these ovens knows exactly how much time and trouble is saved. Whenever there is baking to be done, the modern cook knows that she can be relieved of the anxiety of timing. But there is another side of oven cookery which is still very much neglected, and that is the use of the oven for preserving and bottling of fruit. Yesterday’s gas cooking demonstration showed the advantages of the gas oven for this section of autumn cooking. Combined with other dishes in the oven it demonstrated that cooking in this way means economy. Shining bottles containing plums, peaches, apricots, pears and tomatoes were on view after the demonstration. Some of the fruit was preserved with sugar syrup and some with the hot water method. Among the .dishes cooked during the afternoon were tomatoes stuffed with grated cheese, onions and breadcrumbs, put in a casserole and covered with komies; faggots, tarts, wholemeal gems, sponge and tarts. A tasty dish was cheese padding for which the recipe was given as follows: —4oz. cheese, 4 to 6oz. of breadcrumbs, little salt and pepper, two eggs with the whites and yokes beaten separately, three-quarter cup of milk; mix all together and bake in a fairly quick oven. New cookers, made in New Zealand, were used for the demonstration.