Ladies' Column.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 8

Ladies' Column.

COCOANDT CAKES

Two eggs, 4 tablespoons butter, 12 tablespoons flour, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 4 tablespoons sugar, 12 tablespoons cocoanut, 1 teaspoon baking soda.

NICE GINGER CAKE

Alb. sugar, A[t). butter, Aib. syrup. Put in basin by fire to warm, then beat up 2 eggs and mix alternately Alb. flour, 1 teaspoonful ginger, and 1 teaspoonful spice; then mix

in 1 teaspoonful baker dissolved in a little warm milk. A little preserved ginger and a few cut-up walnuts may be added. Bake threequarters of an hour.

A GOOD PLAIN CAKE

One cup of sugar, j? cup butter, 2 eggs, f cup of milk, 1£ cups flour, and 3 level teaspoofituls,, of powder, with a tea|poohfuL- of flavouring extract. '^ucti "* batter should be soft enough to spread out evenly when poureci in the cake tin, without being pushed into place with a knife or spoon. It 4b a very common mistake to make the batter too stiff. When eggs are scarce and only one can be spared for the cake, then omit the butter until last, and add it melted. This gives a soft mosit texture and makes the cake seem richer than it really is. It i 8 a good plan, too, when using only one egg to beat yolk and white separately, both very light, and add them last. , ' Egg whites should always be beaten on a plate with a large fork or wire beater, for the open surface allows a greater amount of air to be entangled in the egg albumen.

RUSSIAN TOFFEE

lib. brown sugar, loz. butter, J teacup cream, wliite of one egg, 2 teaspoonfuls cocoa, 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla flavouring. Put the butter, sugar, and cream in a pan, let them boil fast for one hour, add the cocoa mixed smooth with milk. When cooked add the whipped white of egg and vanilla. Pour into » greased tin.

CHEESE PANCAKES

Make your batter in the usual way, allowing one egg to a tablespoonful of flour, a good pinch of salt, and sufficient milk to make it the sitetency of a thick .cream. When thoroughly mixed, allow to stand for two hours. Just before. frying the pancakes stir in two teaspoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese. Melt some lard in a clean frying pan, and fry the pancakes very thin. When done strew slightly with grated cheese, roll up quickly, and serve hot.

TEA CAKES

One tablespoonful butter, 3oz. sugar beaten to a cream. Add 1 egg (or 2), 2 cups 'flour, with 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 1 cup milk. Bake in dessertspoonfuls.

CREAM PUFFS

Put half cup of butter into one cup of hot- water ; set on stove to boil. While boiling, stir in one oup of flour. When cool, stir in three eggs, one after the other, without beating. Drop the batter on hot tins in spoonfuls, and bake twenty to thirty minutes. Fill with* whipped cream, flavoured with vanilla, and dust with icing sugar.

CHAPPED SKIN

Sufferers from chapped skin do wisely in preparing for a winter campaign. They need nothing costly. All coarse household work should be done in gloves. One should don gloves before retiring to rest, and they should be large. Camphorated oil and all strong ointments should lie avoided. A cream may be made by melting some lanoline and beating up with an equal weight of olive oil. Thte is to be freely rubbed in at night before putting on the gloves. Undiluted glycerine should not be used, for it makes the skin very red and irri' table. Glycerine diluted with five times uts quantity of water is sooth, ing and heeling. It is greatly improved by the addition of precipitated chalk. Half an ounce of a little more of chalk will suffice for a six-ounce bottle of the mixture. When this lotion has been shaken up it may be applied to the skin three or four times daily. It also improves appearance. Always dry the hands thoroughly after washing. Always remove traces of soap by rinsing in clear water. if these simi'h? rules are thoroughly carried out the campaign against these disagreeable "chaps," will be a success.

DRY CLEANING

Spread a sheet on the table, and , upon it make a layer of flour about two inches thick. Upon this place your garment, and cover with another layer. Turn the rest of the sheet over and leave for 36 honre ; then brush well. 1 If you 3uffer much from cold fw-fc you may obtain relief by wearing a sole of chamois-skin inside' your shoe. Do not attempt to wear a low shoe, but confine yourself to those that will protect your f«set thoroughly. The "shine" that shows a serge skirt or coat to be no longer new can be removed by sponging the garment with blueing water wacJl as i* used in the laundry ' \v*ji, ■till damn, press the goods uadrr „. . thin doth, but do not n»b <•*.«, iron backwards and fr>r~, ai tf g than necessary. T«wr*