WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5444, 5 July 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL. Miss E. E. Woolloxall has been appointed sole teacher at Miranda. COOKERY NOTES. Whipped Cream Substitute. Add a sliced banana to the white of an egg and beat until stiff. The bananas will entirely dissolve and you will have a delicious substitute for whipped cream. If bananas which are needed for salads, sandwiches or sweets, when skinned, are sprinkled with lemon juice they will not discolour. The lemon juicb will also improve the flavour. Soups. When preparing soup keep the skins of the onions. It will be found that these, if put into the soup when clearing, will give a good flavour and impart an excellent colour. Lemons. Don’t waste a particle of lemon : wash and grate off all the yellow zest and put into a small pot and cover with sugar. This will keep fresh for a week or more. If when making cakes grated lemon is used instead of essence,, it should be mixed with dry flour. If put into eggs before beaten the eggs will not rise. Note.—Eggs must not be whipped in a damp basin or with a damp whisk. Honey Tart. A honey tart is a nice change from treacle tart. Line a plate or tin with pastry, bake until it is just dry to the touch, then sprinkle breadcrumbs lemon juice or ginger may be added if liked. Bake until the pastry is golden brown. Banana Scones. Two'cups of self-raising flour, loz butter, half-cup milk, 2oz sugar, yolk of 1 egg, 5 bananas. (Use egg-white for glazing.) Sift flour, rub in the butter,, then add sugar. Mash the bananas to a pulp and mix with wellbeaten yolk of egg and the milk, pour into dry ingredients and mix all to a firm consistency. Put on floured board and roll out lightly. Cut into small scones and glaze with whfca sf egg. Bake in a fairly hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. LILIES FOR THE COMPLEXION. Few of us realise when buying a beribboned pot of face creani or a dainty flask of lotion what astonishing ingredients go to their making. They nearly all seem to have been inspired by the kitchen garden rather than the flower-bed, for the laboratory of a famous beauty doctor was full of cucumbers and parsley, and even an occasional onion. In huge copper pots water-lilies were floatii g. Lilies are supposed to be marvellous for the complexion, and are the basis of many cleansing creams. On shelves around the room were great quantities of white wax, cocoa butter, and buttermilk; about a hundred Lesli eggs, and a big- jar full of yeast. FASHION. Dresses are now being designed which can be worn in many differnt ways. One I saw recently, complicated though it was, with flaps to lift up and panels to let down, could be made into six quite different styles. For dance frocks lace, velvet, and tulle head the list, and all of these have new “faces” this year. It is a silvery “complexion” which lace look more fairly-like than ever. Velvet is more shimmery and lighter in the hand, and tulle looks really perfect. . A splash of colour in the form of embroidered motifs, placed to one side of the crown has a very unexpected and cheery effect on all black fur felt hats. Large flowers sometimes wander about all over the crown, but on the whole small patterns are most popular. Furriers have become great artists these last few years. They put insets of one sort of fur on another They insert gadgets and arrange tiers with all the ease that the dressmakers work with satin. Fur coats are not the heavy clumsy things they used to be. They are light and soft, and hang in beautiful folds. The huge collars and the wide, deep-cut armholes in this season’s models will make a fur coat a very comforting possession in cold weather. EXPERIENCE. Deborah danced, when she was two, As buttercups and daffodils do ; Spirited, frail, naively bold, her hair a ruffled crest of gold, And whenever she spoke her voice went singing Like water up from a fountain springing. ‘ But now her step is quiet and slow ; She walks the way primroses go ; Her hair is yellow instead of gilt, Her voice is losing its lovely lilt, And in place of her wild, delightful ways A quaint precision rules her days. For Deborah now is three, and oh, She knows so much that she did not know. —Aline Kilmer, : n “Selected Poems.”