WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 284, 23 April 1913, Page 4

WOMEN'S WORLD

THE TASTY TOMATO. The taste for tomatoes lias grown of late years. Yet for all their popularity and the quantity sgen, very few people have many recipes for cooking them. But there are many ways besides the common method of frying them, and green tomatoes may also be used up. So now for a few tomato recipes. TOMATO SAUCE. This is delicious served with chops or cutlets. Take four tomatoes, cut them lip and put into a jar with a few peppercorns .or a dried capsicum and add a small cup of water. Cover the jar and let it stay in a hot over until the tomatoes are quite soft. ,Now run them through a sieve into a saucepan and add salt and pepper. Simmer slowly, and eerve hot. TOMATO PIE. This is a dish beloved of the vegetarian, Skin and slice some tomatoes and lay them in a pie-dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add a little white sugar, also a well-beaten egg and half a cup of milk or single cream. When the pie-dish is full put a rich layer of paste over and bake in a hot over. SCALLOPED TOMATOES. Cut the tomatoes in slices and place them in alternate layers with breadcrumbs, pepper and salt, and tinv pieces of butter. Make a top layer of breadcrumbs and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for 21) minutes in a quick oven and serve in the pie-dish. If .desired, boiled rice might be used in place of breadcrumbs, and a little carry powder might be used. too. TOMATOES STUFFED WITH RICE. Take a pint of boiled rice and mix with broth, salt and half a green peppercorn finely chopped. After cooking these ingredients for 15 minutes add two tablespoonfuls of butter. Simmer a little longer until the mixture is fairly stiff. Now take four large tomatoes, cut off a small slice at the tops and empty them of seeds and pulp, filling with the riee stuffing. Replace the top slices and cook them for 10 minutes in a quick oven, basting them with butter or oil.. When nicely browned serve on a hot dish. t • !<*•.■(:•« ' TOMATO SOUP. Take about eight large tomatoes and a tin of canned ones, l'ut in a quart of boiling water and stew for 15 minutes. Rub through a colander, add a pinch of carbonate of soda, and stir well. Place over the fire again, adding one quart of new milk, a little butter, and ' pepper and salt to taste. Do not let the soup boil after adding the milk, or it will curdle. If yon wish the soup to , be thick, rub a lump of butter into a tablespoonful of flour and pour a little of the soup into it, rubbing till smooth. GREEX TOMATO STEW.

Cut half-a-dozen green tomatoes in thin slices and place in a closely-covered saucepan without water. Let them stew for half an hour. Season with pepper and sjilt and stir in half a cup of fine breadcrumbs to which an egg has been added, finally adding a little butter. Green tomatoes fried with onions are very good and can be served as you would serve fried onions. TOMATO CATSUP.

lake half a bushel of ripe tomatoes,, ' pour on boiling' water until they can be peeled, and put them to stew gently until j they can be strained through a sieve. Skim them while stewing. Add a tablespoonful of ginger, two of ground cinna- ■ mon, one of cloves, half a teaspoonful of red pepper, a teaspoonful of mustard, three ounces of salt, a pint of vinegar, : and half-a-dozen onions. Simmer carefully for four hours. Put the catsup . away in corked bottles in a dry, cool ' place.

FEMININE FRILLS. To clean delicate slender vases partly fill them with water and uncooked rice and' shake well. ' The simple frocks of black, dark blue, or grey eharnreuse are charmingly relieved by cuffs and collars of Venetian and Bohemian hec.

Comlis of vivid green or rose colour or blue and gold an* being used for the hair. They depend for their success upon their rich or brilliant colour.

A' Grand Banids (Michigan) woman has just gr.iduatei? from the high seh"o' of that city at the age of 50. Sh" plans to study for a degree at the University of Chicago. Lust vear a TCrooklyn woman aged 77 attended one of the public schools, and at the close of the season received her diploma with the rest of the class.

. < remarkable case Ims treated :, i Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. A married woman, who was i patient there,-was operated upon, when no fewer than 73 ordinary pins, 11 hairpins, and (\ .small piece of steel were found embedded.in the bowel. The woman is unable. to amount for their presence there, .the only explanation being; that fir Ja considerable period she had. during sleep, extracted a pin from lie: nightdress, and swallowed it. She is st'atcj],,ta.be recovering. > ••.c*:ntexariax\s romance.

' f ,Tlif r 'j)undmlth birthday of Miss Rulh Roberts, of Folkestone, has been folIpNved,.by a romance. Owing to the publicity' given to the fact that she had reached 100. years." she has discovered that Mr. Ad lam Roberts, her brother, whom she believed had died many years ago, is still alive. Mr. Roberts, who celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday last week, is the youngest member of a family of 22, all of whom were given Bible names. He lives at Sittingbourne with his widowed daughter, and like his siste; 1 he. 1 had • 'believed that all the other mejfltb&'f* ,of the family were dead. "I svofihkiwaik every step of the wav to flftfbhfni/'dieideclared when lie learnt," that waS alive, but this will not lie necessary, for a Folkestone resident has arranged to Jetch him in his motor ear. Brother and sister are overjoyed at the prosjjpcjt of seeing one another after a separation of a <)uarter of a centurv. Miss Roberts retains all her faculties, and can walk comfortably with thtwi.isjLof a stick. She can see (dearly Without spectacles, and licr iieavY!g;iij.abnyst as good as that of the average' adnlt. Since she was 100 years old a month'B*s stc' has had the "most exeiMJ'Mfk'riWices of her life. First she Archbishop of Canterbur? 1 the Mayor of Folkestone. Then eame-thc wonderful news that her brother was alive. Next came a letter of congratulation from the. King, wishin<? her ueace and happiness to the end of her life. Miss Roberts was bom two i-ears before her father fought in the bat Ue af, Waterloo. She was in service with one family for 36 years, and during her ,Jop£f, life she was once engaged to ,be. jiurped, but the engagement was liroken' off. - "I do not intend to get married now," she states.