WOMAN AND HER HOME

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 February 1928, Page 14

WOMAN AND HER HOME

Dainty Dinner Sweet. Mix one heaped tablespoonful flour smoothly with one beaten egg, three tablespoonfuls sugar, aud one gill milk. Boil one gill milk and half-pint strong coffee, and pour into egg gradually While stirring. Pour into double saucepati, and stir till custard thickens. Stir till cold (to avoid skin forming on top) ; pour into six custard glasses. Garnish with one gill cream, whipped, sweetened. Put half a glace cherry on each, and shake a teaspoonful of blanched, chopped, browned almonds cover. Serve with "‘Casino"’ finger biscuits. A Bacon Secret. To prevent rashers of bacon from shrinking during the process of frying dip them in flour. This prevents the fat from running. -> 6 2 64 Po -E, /, ~~ 4. gw 2) we

The Vogue of the Candle. _A dining-room table is more attractive, a dinner party more enjoyable lit by those tall, slim ‘‘Venetian’’ candles, now being manufactured in imitation of a form in use iwo centuries ago. ‘The tall lights are well above the level of the eyes, and ihey shine withont any unpleasant glitter. If you enploy lace mats, which leaye the best part of a highly-polished table bare, you will observe the flame thrown back in waves of luminous shadow from the bright sua face. Colour Scheme Enhanced. ‘ Or, again, take a room in the Jaco‘bean style, furnished and panelled in vak relieved by richly coloured silks or velyet, and with heavy cases of books round, the walls. Suitable ‘"‘period" candles, with the appropriate candlesticks, will then provide a setting entirely in harmony with the scheme of decoration. Tn choosing your candles, you must bear in mind the prevailing colourscheme. If there is much china, remember that its beauty will be enhanced by a candle that repeats the prevailing colour. Brass sticks require something bright-blue or red-while silver will take something of a more treutral tint-brown or violet-and pewter will often lool best with a very bright scarlet or blue candle. A New Vogue. But the number and variety which can be obtainet are almost without limit. Candles are made to suit all tastes, and almost any fancy can be satisfied. That the Queen appreciates the candle was suown on her recent visit to the Arts and Wandicrafts Exhibition at the Central Alail, Westminster. Her Majesty then purchased a _ flat candlestick, hand-decorated by Miss @, ", nae

Ruth Bannister, and a Venetian candle, A new vogue has sprung up in Christmas gifts-a box ot candles. Inexpensive, very pleasing, really useful. A Cleaning Ball. A cleaning ball which may easily be made at home and will be fnund most useful for cleaning cloth and renovating clothes in general is made as follows: Mix together loz. powdered French chalk and 50z. powdered pipeclay, and add to it 20z. spirits of wine. Form this into a paste and leave it to get hard. When required for use, moisten the article with warm water and rub it well with the ball. Lapin a la Bourgeoise. Put the rabbit (whole), with three large onions, into a baking dish half full of boiling water. Let it simmer for 20 minutes. Then: remove rabbit and onions, pour off the liquor, wipe the tin, and put it into the oven with some good dripping. Whilst this is heating, make slits in the rabbit’s back and insert small pieces of bacon. Replace it, with the onions, in the tin, and cook for 20 minutes in hot oven, basting frequently. Serve liquor, browned and thickened, separately as sauce. ‘Lhis makes a tasty and digest ible dish, Bead Flowers. Modern, distinctive, and decidedly or« namental are the newest bead flowers. Fite pliable flower wire and flat-sided satin beads are necessary if the flower is to have a professional look. ‘The actual method of making is just the same as the one our grandmothers employed, but the effect is far prettier, Raffia, tinfoil or silk go to cover the wire stems,