THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2732, 10 February 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

THE USEFUL TOMATO

Creamed tomatoes make a good luncheon or supper dish. Fry the tomatoes till they are soft, then take them out carefully and lay them in a hot dish- while adding a tablespoonful of hour to : the lat and liquor loft in the pan. Stir this until it bubbles, and then pour in a cupful of milk, to winch has been added a tiny pinch of baking soda. Stir until the sauce is smooth and thick, and put salt and pepper to taste and pour the sauce over the tomatoes.

Thou there are tomato fritters. To make them, take large, linn tomatoes, unpeeled, and cut them into fairly thick slices. Sorinlde them with a little salt and pepper before dipping them into the hatter, which mhy he made by mixing a cup each of warm water and sifted Hour—a tahlespoonful of butter being first melted in the water —a saltspoonful of salt, and the white of an egg, beaten stiff land whipped in, the last thing. Have the fat hot, and lay the hattercovered slices of tomato in it. They should be cooked to a delicate brown before they are taken out. Tomatoes are excellent with eggs as a breakfast or luncheon dish. To make scrambled tomatoes and eggs, peel and slice the tomatoes, cook them until tender in a little butter or dripping, and when they are done stir m the beaten eggs and cook these just till they set, no longer, or they will curdle. Fried tomatoes with poached or fried egg s will be liked by those who appreciate tomatoes.

Use the solid part of the tomato alter it is cooked, straining off the ■superilaous liquor and setting it aside for soup or sauce. ‘ Make the firm portion of the tomato smoking hot, spread it in tiie base of a dish, and on the surface Jay poached or fried eggs. Dust them with salt and pepper, then serve them. Tomatoes are excellent cooked with macaroni. The macaroni must be boiled soft and then it and the stowed tomatoes must ho put together. Cheese must be sifted over each layer, the dish should be sot in the oven, and covered for a quarter of an hour, and allowed to become heated through, in order that the mixed flavors may blend. A little onion juice with the tomato is an improvement to those who do not object to tlie taste of onion.

LEATHER BLOTTING PADS

For the writing-table a dainty blotter can he made easily, by the defttingered, composed of three or four leaves of blotting-paper out to lit a cover of thin leather on which a border design is burned, either the familiar Greek key design or any simple leal or scroll one. The shape should be oblong, and the leaves fastened together at one end with a dainty bow of ribbon. To accompany this blotter there might be a penwiper cut in the shape of a small book, the inner leaves being •of chamois leather, and the covers of leather .tied toegther with tiny bows of baby ribbon.

THE WORLD’S NEWS. The most remarkable feat in its way ever performed, by a woman .scientist is attributed to Mies Alice Eastwood, who is said to be the best systematic botanist in America. At the time of the groat earthquake she happened to be in San Francisco, ike stairs in the building occupied by the California Academy or Sciences fell down, leaving only that portion of them to which the 'banisters had been attached. Upon ‘this precarious remnant (being an r-.v----perienced mountain climber) siie actually made her way to the eighth floor •and brought down a collection of typo speciments of California plant*, of ■priceless value, which otherwise would have been lost. A young man who was with her offered to undertake the* job, hut she said: “No. You have a family Nobody depends upon me. I will go." And she did.

A new book by Mrs Meynell is always an event in the literary world, and once more draws attention to the personality of an authoress, which her own somewhat recluse disposition makes much less known than it deserves to be. Perhaps there is no woman living who shuns the glare of publicity so persistently as Mrs [Meynell, says “M.A.P.,” yet every gathering that she graces with her presence is sensibly affected by it. She is one of those women whose books, wonderful as they are, but faintly represent' the self of 'the writer, and those who have loved ‘Mrs Meynell’s poetry, and admired her prose as some of the most distinguished the age can show. find, on meeting the writer, that neither fully reveal the gifts of an exceptionally fascinating personality. Mrs Meynell is. by the tv ay, fond of choosing out-of-the-way subjects, .and her latest volume of essays, “Ceres’ Runaways,” is no.exception to her rule.