Woman's Own April 4 1959 Page 71

Lovely things every day...

Wonderful fruity-flavoured blancmanges! Try this delicious Banana Blancmange De Luxe. Take the contents of the Banana envelope in a 5-flavour packet of Brown & Polson Flavoured Cornflour and make a blancmange in the usual way, but using , 3/4 pint milk and 1 tablespoonful sugar. When cooked, stir in an egg yolk. Beat the egg white with 1 tablespoonful sugar till stiff and fold into the blancmange. Pour into a wetted mould. When set, turn out and decorate with tinned or glace cherries. 

Brown & Polson Flavoured Cornflour 

Make the most of apples! Pink Apple Pudding looks exciting! And it's delicious eaten hot or cold: Stew some apples with sugar to taste and very little water. Put into a pudding dish and keep hot. Now take the contents of the Raspberry envelope in the 3 or 5-flavour packet of 'Brown & Polson Flavoured Cornflour and make a hot pudding as directed. Pour on top of the stewed apples. Sprinkle with desiccated coconut and, if desired, brown under the grill. 

5 Flavours in one packet 1/21/2d (about 17 cents)? 3 - Flavour packet 9d (about 11 cents)?  

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The average price of a new home then was $12400 about 2.48 times the yearly average wage of $5010. Which was about 2.28 times the price of a new car $2200. Today?