WOMEN AND HER HOME

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 45, 25 May 1928, Page 6

WOMEN AND HER HOME

Plain Scones, Half pound flour, 2 teaspoons sugar, loz. butter or lard, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 4 teaspoon sult, 4 teaspoon carbonate of soda, about 1 teaeup milk or buttermilk. Mix all dry ingredients; rub in the fet; add the milk by degrees to make a light dough; turn out on to a well-floured ‘board; roll out half an inch thick; cut in rounds, and place them on a cold greased tin Bake in a very quick oven ten minutes. ‘To make rock scones, prepare the mixture as above; break the pastry off in knobs about the size of a walnut, and bake in a quick oven for ten minutes. Sultana scones may be made in the same way as plain scones by adding 2oz. ,sultanas after the butter is rubbed in.

Macaroni and Fish. lib. cold fish, 4 tablespoons white or parsley sauce, {lb. macaroni, pepper and salt. Method: Wash the macaroni and boil in salt and water for twenty minutes, Break the fish into flakes, removing all skin and bone. Butter a piedish, put the chopped macaroni and fish into the dish in layers, season with a little salt, cayenne pepper, and ordinary pepper, pour over the sauce, and cook for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Cream Puffs Made with Wheat Meal. 8oz. butter, 1 breakfastcup of hot water, 4 eggs, 5oz. wheat meal, salt. Boil water, butter, end salt, stir in meal mixed to a paste, boil briskly, Stirring all the time till mixture leaves the sides of the pan; put on one side, and when cold beat in the eggs, one at a time, and beat well; put in tablespoonfuls on a cold slide, and bake in a moderate oven about twenty min--utes till nice and brown; when cold break at the side and fill with whipped and sweetened cream.

Dainty Dress Accessories, The close-fitting cap, which, when made in felt, is familiar as the complement of many outdoor toilettes today, has been adopted by woman for evening also. The Parisienne who wishes to vary the monotony of shingled locks, sometimes dons a dainty cap mode from some fabric suitable for evening wear, usually fashioned on the lines of the popular felt model. A cap for the theatre or restaurant is made from fine net closely covered with gold paillettes, edged with cloth of gold. For Evening. Evening bags, too, are an interesting study at the moment. A shell-shaped bag in gold metal cloth, hand-embroid-ered with small Chinese flower designs, has for its clasp a slide fastening of amber banded with gold. A similar bag in white moire shot with silyer has a crystal and platinum slide top. Iivening shoes and handbag are sometimes chosen to match. Tor instance, with a pair of satin shoes, hand-em-broidered in multi-coloured silks on a jade green ground, a pouch bag made from the same material is carried. It has a narrow mounting of chased silver, and a long centre plate of carved jade.

Home-made Fig Syrup. Take 1 pound of cooking figs, loz. of senna leaves, pour on 1 quart of water, aud cook gently in the oven wntil one pint only is left. Strain, then add a jlb. of sugar; put back in oven until melted, then bottle for use. One dessertspoonful for a child of twelye (other ages in due proportion). ‘bis is an easily made, economical and effective preparation. Mock Strawberry: A Supper Svcet. Mash one ripe banaua, sprinkle with castor sugar; add two heaped tablespoons of crisp ‘Force,’ and mix with milk or creani (quantity to taste). To be eaten while crisp. This sweet. has the taste of strawberries and cream}; it is particularly delicious as a dish for a late meal-after a theatre, concert, or meeting, and is light and Shampsoing the Hair. On the next occasion you wish your hair to look its best and have not the necessary time to wash it, give it a dry shampoo with hot bran. Heat three or four handfuls of bran in the oven and rub it well into the hair. Shake out as much of the bran as possible, anu remove the remainder by brushing vigorously with a clean hairbrush. Hot bran cleanses the hair and frees it from grease without destroying its lustre; and is much more easily remoyed than the usual finely powdered dry shampoos. A Delicions Winter Jam. This will always justify a place in the jam cupboard. Ingredients: Six cooking apples, peeled, cored, and cut up; 6 bananas, peeled and cut in slices half an inch thick; 4 lemons, sliced very thinly; 4 sweet oranges, peeled and cut up (pulp only). Put all in a pan with six pints of cold water, for two hours. Add #lb. sugar to each pound of fruit, and boil until it jellies-about three "hours altogether. This is a pretty jam. Doll in a Crinoline. A beautifully dressed doll, representing Queen Alexandra when she was a girl, has been sent by the Queen to the London Museum. The doll, which is 15 inches high, was made in 1863 and is dressed according to the fashion of the day, including the crinoline skirt. The dress is made of silk, in the Queen’s favourite mauve shade, .A little panne velvet jacket is worn over the dress. It is lined with white silk and trimmed with white silk braid. ‘the pink underskirt, which is worked out in crochet, is wired to make the dress stand out.