Take % cupful of rice, wash well and boil until half-cooked. Pour water off and add 1 teacupful of milk with 1 teaspoonful of butter. Cook slowly until ready, then put off to cool. In the meantime stir the yolk of an egg with 1 teacupful of sugar, and add to rice with 14 teacupful of currants.
Lastly, add stiff whipped white of the egg, turn together lightly, turn into well-buttered dish and bake in the middle of the oven for % or 3i of an hour with the "Regula" at Mark 7. If the top browns too quickly, cover with greased paper. Serve hot with custard and enjoy a Russian dish which is rightly popular.
Shoes for the Season The Pump Pat shoes this season are to do with the insteep strap and return to that most elegant of all shoes the pump. The only opening in the shoe is perhaps to be that for the toe, or occasionally at the side of the instep. Beige kid is to be the material for many pumps. Square heels that protrade beyond the sole all round are to be fashionable, and the angles may be variously arranged. The new Jodhpur shoes cover the ankle and are made of a brick-brown suède. These are snug and close. Amusing slippers have comfortable square heels and the vamp is drawn up with a cord. They may be made of Bordeaux red kid. (Evening shoes show a strong silk with a thick sole covered with gold kid. Gold continues to be used freely in shoes, but chiefly as an accessory rather than the main part. There are many square toes, but with a rounded ip. This leave louty of room for the toes and is in the direction of comfort.
For men day shoes are to be higher, but with the same number of eyelets. Brown almost takes precedence over black, but sometimes it is mixed. There is brown crocodile, but there is also a brown calf with a black calf vamp, both with square heels. Square "els have paved the way for many reforms. They allow plenty of room above and they invite attention to what is really the foundation of the shoe.
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