Notes For Women

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 March 1934, Page 3

Notes For Women

Fashions, Recipes and Hints.

MUSHROOM RECIPES. Grilled Mushrooms. Skin the mushrooms and remove the stems, and lay them flat on a shallow plate. Melt a good lump of butter and pour over them and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the plate in a baking tin and cook under the gas grill — first on one side and then on the other. Serve very hot on thin rounds of buttered toast. * * * •# Devilled Mushrooms. ingredients.—A few slices of lean ham, a little chutney, pinch of salt, a little chili vinegar, 4 teaspoon butter (melted), buttered toast. Method. —Mince the ham, flavour it with the chutney, chili vinegar, pinch of salt, and the oiled butter. Place some prepared mushrooms on the toast with the stalk side uppermost; put some of the mixture on each mushroom. Cover over about 15 minutes. Serve very hot. * * « * Baked Mushrooms in Shells. Ingredients.—Half pound mushrooms, loz. butter, 1 shallot, 3 tablespoons cream, breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon grated cheese, pepper and salt. Method. —Peel, wash and drain the mushrooms; chop the shallot and fry lightly in the butter. Add the mushrooms, cut into quarters. Cook and when done stir in the cream. Season with salt and pepper. Butter some scallop shells or small pyrex moulds; put some of the mushrooms in each; sprinkle some breadcrumbs and cheese on top. Place a few dots of butter on each and brown the top. Serve garnished with small sprigs of parsley. A HOUSEKEEPING HINT. Fasten a packet of paper serviettes with a drawing pin to the inside of the door of your kitchen cupboard. The number of uses they can be put to is surprising. Used to dry a small piece of fish, they save a dish cloth; they remove all fluff from glass and give it a splendid polish. Use them to remove remains of strongly smelling fish—like herrings or anchovies —from plates, pans, knives and forks. They are also useful for draining fried fish or potatoes. Indeed, they are so handy that the housewife will regard it as. a calamity if they are all used and she has forgotten to provide another packet. USES FOR CREAM CARTONS. Empty cream cartons should not be thrown away, for they may serve various useful purposes. Medium or large ones with screw-tops make excellent containers for dry soap powders, scouring powders, bath brick, and so on. A

few holes must be pricked in the top, so that the powder may be sprinkled easily. As they do not rust, cartons are better than tins for this purpose, and they save waste and look much neater than the paper or cardboard packets in which soap powders are bought. Small cartons, cut down to a suitable size, may be used instead of tins or paper cases for baking small cakes in. Cartons of any size may be used instead of plant pots to hold small seedlings, or for packing plants that have to be sent by post. "** * * , A Belt-Buckle Tip. Belt bueklcs for washing frocks will keep their new look much longer if you follow this suggestion: Instead of sewing the flap of the belt, which usually holds the buckle, sew on a press stud. Then it will only take a moment to slip out the buckle when the frock is washed. Also it will enable you to use the same buckle with different frocks. * * •* *

The Shirt Blouse. The shirt blouse of spun silk is definitely for the morning at home, or for any form of sport. A cardigan and hat to match —or to closely match —the skirt gives the ensemble outdoor value, and creates the most popular form of golf outfit. A tie of the same material as the shirt is a point of the moment. * * # # Lighting Bark Cupboards. If you have any cupboards in a dark corner, or any badly-lit cupboard (under the stairs ones are usually the worst offenders in this respect), tie an electric torch on the inside of the door, then you will always have a light handy. Because it is so difficult to see into some cupboards they are frequently not put to the use they might bo. * # * » New Clip Ear-rings. The newest clip ear-rings are an amusing variation of the screw type. Each week seems to see further variations in this type of ear-ring. A pointed pair, set with brilliants, is delightful for evening wear, and gold wire ones would be effective for either day or evening wear. They are comfortable and neat to wear—and in addition they are novel and amusing. * * * * The Bride’s Gown. Lace is used a good deal by designers of smart wedding outfits, not only for the brides’ gowns, but also for those of the attendants. An economical idea, this, because lace needs no trimming, and the bride and her maids can appear straightaway at a dance, if they like, wearing their wedding finery. Alterations, however skilfully carried out, are usually obvious, but lace gowns can be just what their owners want them to be, wedding, frocks or dance dresses, without another stitch being put in them.