THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2505, 19 May 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

GOOD RECIPES

Puree of Mushrooms. —This is to bo served with roast or boiled turkey instead of celery or-bread sauce. C.ean and chop one pound or more of mushrooms, add the juice of half a lemon, freed from pips, and place in a clean enamelled saucepan, with an ounce and a half of butter. Mix well, and stir rapidly over a slow fire for five minutes, ,>fthen add one gill of white sauce # and f ' half a pint of cream. Stir for "five minutes longer, then strain, return to the saucepan, make hot again, and serve immediately. Blackberry Roly-Poly.—Take half a pound of flour, add to it a teaspoonful of baking powder, a teaspoonful of castor sugar, and a pinch of salt. Rubinto this three ounces <. of finely chopped suet or dripping and add sufficient milk to make a stiff- dough. Roll out the dough and cover it thickly with blackberries, leaving a margin of the dough an inch wide all round. Roll up carefully and moisten the edges to prevent the juice escaping. It is an improvement to scatter a little chopped apple amongst the blackberries. Tie the rollin a cloth wrung out in boiling water and dredged with flour. Plum Mould.—Required: One pound of ripe plums, about six ounces of loaf sugar, half an ounce of leaf gelatine, one lemon, half a pint of water, a few drops of cochineal. Wash arid dry the plums. Put them in a pan with the water, sugar, and thinly-pared rind of the lemon. Boil until the fruit is soft, then remove the stones, and rub them, through a hair or fine wire sieve. Melt the gelatine in three tablespoonfuls of hot water, then strain it into the pulp. Mix all well, and color the mixture prettily with a few drops of cochineal. Rinse out a mould with cold water, pour in the mixture, and leave it until set. Passion-Fruit Cream.—Two doz. pas-sion-fruit, 6ozs. sugar, 1 pint cream, loz. gelatine. Cut open the passion fruit and take out the pulp with a spoon; mix in the sugar, and rub through a hair-sieve; whip the cream till stiff, and mix carefully with the fruit juice. Dissolve the gelatine in about a tablespoonful of water and strain it slowly and carefully in; rinse some moulds in coM water, fill with the cream, and stand away till firm; turn ft . carefully out and serve. /A Madonna Pudding.—Chop £lb suet '■Z*' very finely, mix it with sozs. of breadcrumbs, and lib of sugar. Mix this with the grated rind of one small lemon and a dessertspoonful of brandy. Beat an egg and add to the mixture. Stir and beat all these ingredients together for ten minutes. Place the pudding in a mould and boil for to 2 hours. Serve with sweet sauce.

THE CAUSE OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS. The injunction "Don’t meddle” deserves to be written in glowing letters and blazoned from the housetops. For in every community is found a meddling female who is responsible for two-thirds of the misunderstandings that make life so burdensome. The broken friendships that no amount of bridging-over can entirely cement again, and the domestic tragedies that bring so much misery and remorse in their wake, are her doing. And, after all, what is the reward of the meddler? Satisfaction, perhaps, for a season; but it is short-lived. Sooner or later the of her interference is exacted, and she becomes the target for both of the injured parties, and wakens, too late, to the tantalising realisation that, in trying to gain the confidence of one, she lias won for herself the contempt of both. WORDS ABOUT WIVES. A buxom widow must ho either married, or shut up in a convent. Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged. A good wife and health are a man s best wealth. Choose a wife rather by your ear than vour eye. For whom does the blind man’s wife " adorn herself?. . He that tells his wife news is but lately married. Next to no wife a good wife is best. A man must ask liis wife’s leave to thrive. A prudent wife is from the Lord. A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. A truth-telling woman lias few friends. Beware of a bad woman, and put not your trust in a good one. Every woman who is a shrewd in domestic "life is now become a scold in politics. • Every woman would rather be handsome than good. We never know what a woman doesn’t mean until she has spoken. Woman is an evil, but a necessary evil.