THE LADIES’ COLUMN.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 713, 10 March 1922, Page 2

THE LADIES’ COLUMN.

(By “Rn-rti.”) As eggs are beginning to be scarce now “Ru-ru” is giving some tried recipes for eggles.s puddings, which can be highly recommended: SWEDISH PUDDING. Ingredients: soz flour, soz • ground rice, soz finely chopped suet, i>oz moist sugar soz sultanas 1 teaspoonful carb soda dissolved in a cup of warm milk. Method: Mix all ingredients wel together then stir in the milk. Steam in basin for 4 hours. CAMERON PUDDING. Ingredients: Three tablespoonfuls of suet chopped finely five tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of goldne syrup, teaspoonful of carb soda, 1 salt spoonful salt. Mix to a paste with milk, then grease a basin and pour in the mixture. Cover and steam for 2, hours. TIPPERARY PUDDING. Ingredients: :2 tablespoonfuls of sago, /'•> pint milk, 1 cupful of bread crumbs, % cupful of sugar, U tablespoonful of melted butter, 1 tablespoonful of carb soda. 3 4 cupful of dates or raisins. Method: Soak sago in the milk overnight. Next day adds, the remainder of the ingredients and steam for 3 hours. OVERNIGHT PUDDING. Ingredients: 1| cups of flour, small cup of sugar, cup of hot water, large tablespoonful of butter, cup of cold water, cup of raisins, 1 teaspoonful carb soda, *4 of a nutmeg. Method: Put butter in hot water and dissolve the soda in cold water. Sift the flour and then add gradually and alternately the hot and cold water; add the raisins and nutmeg stir well together and leave overnight in a large basin to give it room to swell. Cover it with a tea-towel and in the morning pour it into a pudding cloth or basin and steam or boil for 3 or 4 hours. CLIFTON PUDDING. Into I14H) of flour rub }£lb finely shredded suet 1 teaspoonful of baking powder y 2 lb raisins cut across and stoned 1 tablespoonful of sugar, and enough water or skim milk to make the whole into a light dough; add previously y 2 teaspoonful salt. Place in basin and steam 3 hours. AN ECONOMICAL PUDDING. A delicious and cheap pudding can be made from the following recipe:%lb of flour, 3oz sugar, chopped suet. 6ozs dates stoned and chopped, y 2 teaspoonful of ground ginger, y 2 'teaspoonful of egg powder, and y 2 salt spoonful salt, enough milk to make into a thick batter. Beat well and turn into greased basin. Steam for 2*4 hours, and it will turn out a beautifully light pudding.

AMERICAN PUDDING. lib flour, suet, yib raisins, a small teacup of treacle, 1 small tea cup of milk. 1 teaspoonful of carb soda, and y 2 teaspoonful of salt. Mix all the dry ingredients except the soda, which must be dissolved in the milk and added last. Warm the syrup and stir in just before the milk. EDINBURGH PUDDING. 1 teaspoonful of carb soda, 4oz flour, 4oz ground rice, 4oz suet; mix aii together, then add 2 good tablespoonfuls of jam, 2 tablespoonfuls 'of golden syrup, and small teacupful of milk. Mix well, adding a little salt. Put into a well, buttered basin, and tie coth over and steam for four hours. Serve with any pudding sauce preferred. VINEGAR CAKE (No Eggs.) lib flour, loz sugar, 3oz butter and 3oz lard, 4oz currants, 4oz raisins, 2 oz lemon peel, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 small teaspoonful of carb soda, pinch of salt, 1 dessertspoonful of vinegar. Rub butter into flour, etc, put the soda and a salt spoonful of cream of tartar into basin, pour over one cup of boiling milk. Mix all together and add vinegar last, Cook in moderate oven.

TIME 'AND STRENGTH SAVERS. If the teapot or coffee pot is discoloured on the inside, boil it for a short time in a strong solution of borax, and all its brightness will return. The very best and proper method of shrinking cloth is to dampen a sheet thoroughly, spread it out and lay the cloth on it. fold cloth over and over, leaving it several hours. Then hang it across a straight bar (not a clothes line or anything that will sag) or iron it very smoothly, being careful not to stretch it. White lead is the most effective agent for mending broken crockery, as it is one of the few cements that resist both water and heat. Apply thinly at the edges of the broken pieces, press them together, and set aside to dry. A mixture of washing soda and ammonia is recommended as the best preparation for cleaning the nickel plating in the bath room, using a little thin whiting paste for polishing. It is very necessary when heating eggs to have a clean whisk, for any grease on it will, prevent the eggs from frothing. When washing silk bouses they will have just the stiffness and appearance of new silk if they are rinsed in water in which a little methylated spirits has been mixed. A quart of milk is as nourishing ns a pound of beef steak. Vinegar and water is an excellent application for bruises and sprains. GROW OLD GRACEFULLY. “One should learn to grow old gracefully,” said a woman of sixty, recently. “By this 1 do not advocate an undignified struggle after youth that has gone, but looking forward to the privilege old age gives of being in touch, with every period of life-—and finding sympathy for every phase. U repays an old woman vo keep her interest fresh, and to guard

against selfishness and the pitfall of allowing years to excuse carelessness concerning one's person, and one’s clothes. I try to make myself quite as attractive now as I did twenty years ago. r feel I owe it to those who help to make old age less lonely than it otherwise would be to look as nice as I possibly can.” The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,, something to love, and something to hope for. Because charity begins at home is no reason that it should be restricted to that limited sphere; of all thq. virtues she is the* one who needs to have the most constant exercise. WITHOUT A PRICE. True kindness is what a little child can give; but the greatest kings cannot buy it. It is but another name for the wisdom which cannot be gotten for gold; neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. You will not be wrong if you say that the whole purpose of all religion is to fe<w y° u true kindness to your fellow men, to,' ** is through the love of men that we lb ft I'll tn? ove 9 f c P° d ’ and by the love of men both sheep and goats will be judged ill the day.