CHARLOTTE RUSSE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1914, Page 8

CHARLOTTE RUSSE.

Cream, gelatine, flavouring, spong*V., cakes, ice sugar. Sweeten one quS*fcJjs^ of cream, flavour vanilla or lemon, ■ and whip till all is frothy ; scak half a packet of gelatine in as little cold water as possible, then set on a stove to melt. ''When it became cold, put. in the cream, and pour into a dish lined with sponge cakes or ladies' fingers. Set on ice till wanted. Eggs are a meal in themselves. Every element necessary to the support .of man is contained within the limits of an egg-shell and in the most palatable form. Eggs are, however, not only food ; they are medicine also. The white is the most efficacious of remedies lor burns, and the oil extractable from the yoke is regarded by the Russians as an almost miraculous salve for cuts, bruises, and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually detach a fish-bone fastened in the throat. Eggs strengthen the consumptive, invigorate the feeble, and render the most susceptible all but proof against jaundice in its most malignant phase. In France alone the wine califiers use more than eighty million a year, a?id the Alsatians consume fully thirty eight millions in calico printing, and for dressing leather used in making the finest of French kid gloves. :