WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5471, 6 September 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

By ANTOINETTE for the “ Hauraki Plains Gazette.” PERSONAL. Miss E. M. McDonald has been appointed sole teacher in charge of the Orongo school. Miss L. Baker, of Turua, has joined the office staff of the Hauraki Plains County Council, in place of Miss Gibson, resigned. WEDDING. DUFFIN—STUART. The carriage was solemnised at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Claudelands, on the evening of Wednesday, August 28, between Zilla, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Stuart, Galloway Street, Hamilton East, and Mr Rex Duffin, of Waitakaruru, Hauraki Plains. The bride, who entered the church with her brother, Mu Jim Stuart, was attended by her sister, Miss Lorna Stuart, as bridesmaid. Mr H. Emerson was best man. The bride’s gown was of ivory crepe de chine, cut with a full-flaired skirt and trimmed with white fur and silver lame. She carried a bouquet of white hyacinths, cyclamen, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaid’s frock was of briar rose crepe de chine, and she wore a crinoline straw of the same shade and carried a bouquet of pink flowers. The Rev. H. G. Gilbert performed the ceremony. SUCCESS IN SALADS. Salad making is one of the most amusing branches of the culinary art. There no end of its variety, and salads stand out as the most potent decorators of the dinner table. As cold menus will be popular again soon, a few recipes will be of value to every household. The recipe of a real Russian salad is invaluable in households where there are often scraps of fish, meat or chicken, and vegetables left over. It is easy to remember, because although you may include a variety of different vegetables, and use chicken ham, or tongue, you must include some fish as well. You may use anchovies, but you must see that all the ingredients are in equal proportions, and the dressing must be mayonnaise sauce. Carrots, turnips, and potatoes desired to appear in a salad of this order should be cut into rounds and cooked separately, the carrots with a little salt and sugar added to the water, the turnips and potatoes minus the sugar. Green peas, beans, cauliflower, beetroot, mushrooms, asparagus tips, hard-boiled eggs, olives, and gherkins are among the number of permissible ingredients. Fish and meat are cut into neat dice ; anchovies into slender strips ; sausages into the thinnest of slices, and olives into spirals. When all the ingredients are prepared you mix them thoroughly with mayonnaise sauce and turn the salad into a glass bowl. Green salad is more interesting when the leaves are sprinkled with chives or cropped parsley. Finely chopped onion adds a great deal of flavour to many salads. You can tuck it into thick slices of hollowed-out beetroot, or into tomatoes with some of the centre scooped out.. Rings of tomatoes, cucumber, and radish, a fine sprinkling of paprika or the sieved yolk of a hard-boiled egg are all useful decorators for salads, especially those covered with mayonnaise which are apt to be dull to look at. A cherry salad is delicious with roast duckling and peas. 'Qne pound of cherries and two lettuces. The lettuces washed, dried, and torn into small pieces; the cherries washed', dried, and stoned. The salad bowl rubbed with garlic, the lettuce put into it and mixed with French dressing. The cherries are added just before serving. Cooked asparagus is excellent in a salad which is to appear as a separate dish. It may be fresh or tinned asparagus. “ ACCESSORIAL Blue beads, yellowj red. and green beads ; oval ones, round, flat, square, and cube ; not two alike ; beads cut, engraved, enamelled ; in metal, crystal, wood, ivory, coral, ebony, or galalithe. Corals, but a little while ago the admitted adornment of applecheeked babies-in-anns, have risen in grade and dignity. Finely carved onyx, Chinese jades, and rock crystal, too, make pendants and necklaces of picturesque elegance. And fans ! But once more we shall lean back in the boxes of the opera playing nonchalantly with them. But of what are the new fans made ? Of sheerest chiffon in different layers and shades, matching or contrasting with the gown. Bags have hitherto been made of skins and hides of almost all animals, and now having exhausted the animal reign, fashion has had a stroke of genius and imagined tapestry bags. WHY REASONS FOR FAILURES. Why is macaroni soft and pasty when cooked ’—Because it has been over-boiled or soaked before cooking. Never soak it, and boil quickly till tender.