ALMOND SANDWICHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 920, 13 March 1930, Page 4

ALMOND SANDWICHES

Ingredients; Half pound ground almonds; 3 tablespoonsful sugar; juice of 1 lemon; 1 white of egg; 2ozs ice wafers; crystallised cherries as required. Put the ground almonds into a bowl and pound them smooth. Add the sugar, and mix well; add the lemou juice and mix again. Whisk the white of egg to a very stiff froth, turn into the other ingredients, and beat all to a smooth paste. Spread a layer of this mixture over cue wafer. Make a hole in the centre of another wafer and press it down on the almond paste layer. Stick a crystallised cherry in the hole. Continue till all paste is used up. Place the sandwiches on a tin and bake in a cool oven for about half-an-liour. Store in a dry place so that they ■will remain crisp. NARROW BINDINGS Very narrow binds make the most exquisite finish to the frills ol a frock of voile, silk organdie, or like fabric. Paris keeps these binds to an eighthinch width, and this is how she does it. The method is so simple '.hat you can copy It quite easily-. Cut your binding material into halfinch strips exactly on the cross. Join them into the length you want, pressing the tiny- seams out quite flat. Now double the strip lengthways, and with a warm iron press the fold < arefully. Because binds need to be well stretched if they are to set" without wrinkling, pull your strip taut as you press. Tack the doubled length to the right side of the material you’re binding, the three raw edges exactly level Stitch them together an eighth-inch from these, keeping your sewing very straight. When you turn the bind to the inside, the folded edge is easy to fell down, and no tiresome turning-in to do. BACK FROM HOLIDAY One girl came back from a holiday that had taken her far afield. She had seen mountains, lakes, great rivers, famous cities. When she was asked how she had enjoyed herself she yawned. Another girl returned from a fortnight in a seaside boarding-honse simply bursting with all the jolly things she had done, the interesting places she had been to, the charming or amusing people she had met. To the one nothing that happened to her seemed worth recalling because she had a dull mind. The other found a thrill in everything because her imagination was active, her synn»thies j quick and unive-sal. her sense of I humour keen. j It we take with us a fresh heart and an eager curiosity, it does not ; matter very much where we go. The j world is full c£ interest for us wherever we are.