WOMAN'S PAGE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 164, 20 July 1935, Page 6

WOMAN'S PAGE

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SAVOURY DISHES

BRAIN SCALLOPS Wash an ox or sheep’s brain and well skin in salt water. Boil until tender in a little milk (that is, for about a quarter of an hour). Strain and beat up with salt, pepper and, if liked, a little sweet herbs. Add a little cream or butter, and fili scallop shells or small dishes. Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top, and bake in a quick oven for ten minutes. Shrimps With Eggs Shell about three dozen shrimps, dust them lightly with cayenne peprper, and put in the oven to get warmed through. Meanwhile put loz butter in a stewpan, break into it three eggs, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir for two minutes, then add the warmed shrimps and stir all together until it begins to set, then draw the pan to the si,de of the fire so that it may not cook too quickly. When the eggs have thickened, lay the mixture on squares of hot buttered toast and serve. Indian Eggs Cut a small slice from each end of some hard boiled eggs and cut them in halves the round way. Take out the yolks and pound them, and mix them well with a mixture made as follows: A heaped up teaspoon of curry powder, 2oz butter, and a dessertspoonful of essence of anchovy well blended and cooked in a istewpan. Fill the egg with this mixture, dish them up, garnish them with parsley or watercress, and serve with rolled bread and butter. Toasted Bacon Take some cold boiled bacon and cut it into slices a quarter of an inch thick, then grate some crusts of bread well over both sides. Lay these in a cheese toaster and they will be done on one side in about three minutes, turn, and do the other side. These are a delicious accompaniment to poached eggs. The bacon having been boiled first is mellow and tender. Lobster Tartlets Cut .some thick slices of bread, stamp in rounds and fry a golden brown. Cut a hollow in the centres and fill with the meat from, a lobster, nicely broken up and mixed with seasoning. Mash with thick horseradish sauce. RIVAL ROYAL GARDENERS The Queen and the Duchess of York have become rivak gardeners. There is a most attractive plot of land attached to Royal Lodge, Windsor, and here, during last autumn, the Duchess helped to plan, on the lawn side of a long rustic pergola, drifts of tulips to form a border. Although they will not be at their best for a week or two the cup-shaped buds ,are beginning to burst, and the Duchess’ colour scheme promises more than to justify itself. Instead of long lines of red or pink, this Royal gardener, who has wonderful gardening traditions behind her, arranged her bulbs in irregular groups of pastel shades so that deep mauve merges into primrose yellow, yellow into deep rose-red, rose-red into a vivid pink, and vivid pink into a delicate pinky mauve, and so back to deep mauve again. The effect will bo beautiful during May, and will rival the magnificent groups of daffodils, of which the Queen* is always so proud at Windsor Castle.

MRS BALDWIN’S TRICOLOUR

Red, white and blue buttonholes, and little knots of tricolour ribbon have peeped forth from the most unexpected lapels this week. The jubilee spirit seemed to have spread to every type of man and woman, and sedate society women wore their discreet bows with as great an air 'Of pride as did the work-girls in the East End of London show off their boldly patterned tricolour scarves. At all the functions which she has attended during the last week or so Mrs Stanley Baldwin has carried her jubilee colours in her toilette. He frock has been of navy blue, with a clever touch of white on each sleeves, and her hat has been trimmed with red. Not everybody noticed her patriotic colour scheme—those who did were quick to congratulate her.

FASHION DETAILS

NOTES AND HINTS The aim of linens is to look as “tweedy’’ as possible. Paris has some interesting woollen and linen tweeds for suits in fancy weaves, making faint stripes and checks, and also many weaves plain and patterned for frocks. Colours this season are rich and glowing, with tremendous emphasis on t rainbow and shot effects, and on all purples. Taffetas, in one or other of its new forms, is easily one of the most fashionable spring materials, and Paris shows it for afternoon as well as evening gowns. So many men go hatless nowadays when the warm weather comes, that it is surprising some enterprising hatter does not turn out something novel and irresistible in hat styles for men, before the hatless vogue ruins the trade. Physical culture doesn’t forget the face. Most important. You can indulge in face twisters at odd moments of the day. Rolling the eyes, fit appears, is especially beneficial. To most women the gesture come naturally. Corduroy things are extremely Smart. Corduroy coat linings, corduroy suits, and corduroy gloves, hats and scarves and even capes. It is said that a furnishing firm and achocolate manufacturer, each anxious to contribute to the futuristic hoardings of Paris, have offered the painter a handsome amount to sell his copyright, if it is (a) a cinema star «■ her boudoir, or (b) a box of candies. Checks Everywhere

Checks are everywhere, both for day and evening. They are of every type —checkered, pied-de-poule, scattered squares distinct or obscure, printed, or woven—but they will be small. Sometimes they are used for entire costumes, or for dresses under plain coloured coats, skirts with plain jackets, jackets with plain skirts, or dresses. In silks they are used for blouses and day dresses and ensembles; and, newest' and most striking of all, in brown and white for dinner ensembles and evening dresses. Black and white checks will be extremely popular for day wear; more distinctive will be checks in brown and white, brown and beige, black and beige, navy and white, or black and white, with a decided. overcast of grey. Some red and wfiite checked silks will be seen for blouses and dresses for spring wear. Vertical stripes have had an important revival, woven stripes they are, and with widely spaced ribs, or with contrasting woven stripes and ribs. This for tailor suits. Cottons, with coloured threads and woven stripes are seen for suits and dresses. Heavy silks with woven stripes appear in day ensembles and evening dresses. Thin silks with pin lines will be made up into blouses.

ROYAL HORSEWOMAN

Princess Elizabeth’s riding has improved so much that neither her parents nor the King and Queen have any hesitation about allowing her to ride in Windsor Great Park, when she is staying either at the Castle or at tho Duke of York’s country place, Royal Lodge, Windsor. She is quite fearless on horseback, and a very businesslike little horsewoman. So much so that her uncles are only too glad to have her company on a canter through the Park, never being afraid that she will fuss, or that anything will, -put her off paying the proper attention to her mount. The Princess resembles her aunt, the Princess Royal, when she is riding, except that she is allowed to wear much more informal clothing than the specially-cut habit and riding boots, to say nothing of a hard bowler hat, without which it was not considered correct to essay even a friendly canter when the Princess Royal was a little girl.