Ladies' Column.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1914, Page 8

Ladies' Column.

! LEMON PIES. Line two soup plate* with n*ee pastry ; mix one cup of water with cup of sugar, juice and rind of om lemon, tablespoon of cornflour. Three eggs, well beaten ; keep ou< the white of one, beat it with v. cup of sugar. When the pies an1 cooked put icing roughly on, "and return to the oven. Cook till the icing is a nice brown. Nice eaten hot or cold. BOSTON TEA CAKES. Two cups of flour, teaspoonful sugar, butter (melted), two cream of ' tartar, and one of soda. Drop I spoonful on a greased shelf. Cook seven minutes. ROYAL ICING. Boil cup of sugar and teaspoonful of water ten minutes. Beat the white of egg to a stiff froth; pour the sugar on the egg ; beat both together till cold. BUFFALO CAKE. 1£ breakfastcups of flour, £lb. butter, 2 eggs, f breakfastcup sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of good baking powder, enough milk to make thin. I Cream, butter and sugar, add eggs beaten, mix floor and baking poWder. Cook tn sponge sandwich CHELSEA BUNS. Two breakfastcups of flour, 2 heaped teaspoons of baking powder, 2 tableepoonfuls of sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 1 egg, spice and milk to mix. Rub all dry ingredients together, mix with milk to desired paste, roll out, cover with spice, then sugar and bake as usual. TREACLE SPONGE PUDDING. Half pound of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, \\b. suet finely chopped, 1 cup treacle, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 egg, 2 large teaspoonfuls of ground ginger. Boil two hours. ————— < -, MILK ROLLS. Two breakfastcups flour, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 breakfastcup milk, 2 heaped teaspoons good baking powder. Mode—Mix into a stiff dough, roll into oblong shape; cut into pieces. Bake 20 minutes. TENDER FEET. JHiring the holidays many holiday makers take long tramps, and not infrequently, get sore feet. A nurse at one of the hospitals recommended an acquaintance of mine to nib paraffin oil well into the soles of the feet night and morning, the stockings to be changed once, if not twice, m the day. If the feet are extremely tender, and it be possible, the double change is advised. When the weather is very hot, and the feet bum much, as they sometimes do, the suggested treatment will re- ! lieve the sensation. The odour of paraffin certainly is not agreeable, but when it is a choice of evils the lesser may be chosen.

A powder consisting of the following ingredients is recommended for giving ease to tender feet. French chalk, five ounces ; oxide of zinc, three-quarters of an ounce; eucalyptus oil, thirty drops. Sift the powder and dust the inside of the socks or stockings with it. A homely means to prevent galling of the feet is to cut pieces of brown paper to the shape of the sole of the foot, and then drop hot tallow on them from a lighted candle. The paper should not be glazed, and must be well saturated with grease. Tt is then to be put between the foot and the stocking, and with this protection very long walks may be taken with ease and comfort