WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S NOTES.

COOKING. (By Aliss Mary Tallis.) Small Fancy Cakes. —Quite a number of small fancy cakes can be made from a good foundation recipe. Here is one that has been approved generally : To lib self-raising flour allow Jib butter, lib castor sugar, 8 eggs and 12 dessertspoonsful of milk. Have a bowl warmed a.nd in this cream together the butter and sugar, then add flour and beaten eggs alternately, well mixing until all is used and alternately adding a dessertspoonful of milk until 12 dessertspoonsful have been put in. This mixture can be varied in a dozen ways. It is quite wholesome and will make the foundation for jam sandwiches if you wish, or if baked in a round sandwich tin can be split open, spread with chocolate butter, jam, lemon-curd, or jelly, and then iced and decorated to your fancy. If you bake the mixture in small tins or shaped moulds, see that they are well greased beforehand. Raspberry Buns: 6oz, flour; 6oz ground rice; Jib butter, Jib castor sugar; the yolk of 1 egg; a little milk, and 1 level teaspoonful of baking powder. Alix flour and ground rice and rub in the butter with the fingers, then add the sugar. Mix to a stiff paste with the beaten yolk of egg and milk and roll in the hands to’the size of large walnuts. Alake a hole in the middle a.nd put in a small teaspoonful of raspberry jam and close up. Place the buns on a floured baking tin and bake in a 6low oven. LAUNDRY.

Laundry Notes. —To remove mildew from linen, moisten the affected parts and sprinkle liberally with salt. Leave in the sun, renewing the treatment as the cloth dries. If possible, leave the cloth overnight in the frost. If lace is required in a hurry and you do not want to make starch, dip in a little milk. After it is ironed it will be just the right stiffness. Instead of using the ordinary clothes-brush, brush serge with a small rubber sponge. Ramspots on clothes can be removed by placing a clean damp cloth on the. material and pressing it with a hot iron. A satisfactory method of removing grass-stains- from clothes is to rub on plenty of treacle, and then wash the garment in tepid water. AA’hen marking linen, write the name first in pencil and then with marking ink, thus preventing the ink from running oi smudging. After washing fine muslin, silk or crepe-de-cliine, rinse the articles in a strong solution of salt and they will bo slightly stiff when ironed. Before washing flannel trousers, run a white thread (tacking) up the seams. This sa.ves time and trouble when pressing, as the thread marks the exact position, of the creases. To preserve the silkv appearance of crepe-de-chine, use borax instead of soap when washing it. Always soak new stockings for a tew hours in cold w.ster to which a little salt has been added. Rinse in cold water. AVhen pressing men s trousers use rdightlv dampened brown paper. This keeps the creases much better. HOUSEKEEPING. To clean water-bottles quickly and thoroughly, drop in small pieces o newspaper with a little water and shake vigorously. AVhen washing silver plates or dishes which have been used for fish add 1 te.aspoonful of vinegar to the water, and all traces ol the fishy smell will disappear. To clear a blocked sink, get some chloride of lime from the chemist. Stuff it into the pipe as tightlv as possible. Pour in boiling uatei slowlv at first. The lime will burn away the obstructing rubbish, and the pipe will be cleared. To tie jam-pots quickly and securely, use wet string shrinks when dry and so holds. Make a loop neatly at one end of the string, slip the other end through and take round the pot again. A bassinet not m u,=e makes a good clothes-horse. Aakc the canvas off and ime the frame It is easily moved and will close up. A\ hen delicate china is being washed there is always the fear of breakage. To prevent this, cover the sides and bottom of the washing bowl with a clean, thick Turkish towel. Then pour in the water and wash the pieces one at a time. Jo remove grease stains from tables, rub lemon juice well in. All stains will dissppear. It is almost impossible to avoid touching the wallpaper when washing the paintwork of windows and skirting hoards in the ordinary but « you hold a sheet of thick cardboard, or a piece of zinc, against the wallpaper at the spot where you are working, it won’t matter if the d.nnp cloth does go over the edge of the paintwork accidentally.