TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 265, 1 August 1908, Page 11

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

. (Specially Written for I'm Douikion.) , PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS AN EXPERT. - V . " ' SATURDAY. ■■ ■ . , Lentil 'Soap. ; Toad-in-a-hole. Cold Beef and Salad. ■. . i ' Potatoes. Cabbage. Rhulsarb and Rico. SUNDAY.' . Eoasti Veal.-Bacon; Cauliflower. Baked Potatoes. : y. ' . Pineapple Pudding.' Apple Tart. .1 _ SUPPER. Pigs' Celery. Beetroot. Fruit. Gingerbread. Cheese. , PINEAPPLE PUDDING. Mis together the jnice and ; grated- rihd of a lemon and a little juice from .the pineapplo, and then put layers of bread: cut as thin-as possible and sliced pineapplo.. in a piedish. Sprinkle' each layer ivith the lemon and some sugar. Mix'the yolks of;.*two eggs with a !cup of' milk; and pour these * over'the-.pudding. Bako'tke pudding until it is firm.; It"'irill'take about' an hpur. Just before serving it, whip > the whites of eggs to a stiff froth and pile them on;the pudding. Sprinkle sugar over them, aud then bake for five or ton minutes to set the meringue. I am told this .pudding is equally nice cold as hot; If cold see that the meringue is baked, very firm. ' FREE KINDERGARTEN UNION; 7 - . ANNUAL, MEETING. •. ; The annual meeting of the Wellington Fries Kindergarten . Union was held , yesterday afternoon- in the, Mayor's Room at tile Town Hall; •Mr."' Joyrit'presiding'.- • Miss Richmond, the President, read the report, which really covered. the work of the kindergarten since the . initiation of the campaign for the collection of funds three years ago, and tho balance-sheet covering the same period, both of' which were' carried. . . The Union-Chad,,'said'the report,, set out for "three", years' ' trial; to;.find .whether, there, was any real demand!iniWellington,for free kindergartens. They had started'with thirteen names on the books, and now there were one hundred and twenty, and an averago attendance during .the last month, which was a_bad one, of fifty-four ichildren. ■' Tho chief difficulty the Council has to contend with id, in the "Way -of training teachers. There is no training college for kindergarten teachers nearer'than Sydney.; - It had .been suggested that a Proebcl Union should bo formed for all New Zealand, and that it should start a college of its own, hut the. cost of such an enterprise would be very heavy, and it i would not bring the free kindergarten into line with the. State schools, which is to be desired. ''

Mr. Joynt commented on the remarkable success of the organisation, and Miss Craig, ...of-, the Monnt Cook Infant School, told how much moro advanced wore, the children who came to her from the kindergarten than the children who earned without any -such' ingIt, was finally resolved that the Council should see whether some arrangement could be;.made that would admit of tho student teachers receiving training' at the Training College. The matter will be mora fully discussed by. the Council. It was arranged that the annual meeting, should in future be hold in April, when the Council's year of actual work ends, instead of, as holding it-on the anniversary of the initiation of the scheme. . , , The 'statement of receipts' and payments from October 27,1905, to March,; 31, ; 1908. was as followsßeceipts: donations' and subscriptions, £553 ss. lOd. Payments: salaries, £353-13s. 4d.; rent, £13 Bs. 5d.; repairing drainage, etc., at school, £43; furniture, £11 7s. -Id.'; .working : and petty excises, £34 75.. Id.; secretary, £24; total, £484 15s. lid.