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By George MacManus
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Dinner For Four Jimmy's Kitchen
And Only An Hour To Cook It
Supposing your in-laws were to fore serving put in the butter and with castor sugar and ground rice, pay you a surprise visit one day toss gently.
mixed together. Bake in a mo-
INEXPENSIVE
SATISFYING
and there was little time to plan a I planned to cook the veal, ma-derate oven on a flat greased tin, WHY BE DOWNHEARTED ?
good meal for four. What would caroni and carrots and leave them about twenty minutes. you do? This is how one young in the oven. with the heat very Whip the cream until it is real- house-wife solved the problem. low, so that when we had finished ly stiff, adding a little sugar and It isn't easy to plan a little dinner our prawn cocktails, I could go vanilla if you prefer flavoured party that is worthy the name and and get my second course.
cream. Cut the halves of peaches
yet takes only one hour to pre- The sweet could be easily pre-in half again, and lay portions of
FOR THE BEST OF GOOD CHEER
COME TO THE CHANTECLER
pare. Here is my menu. Do you pared before the meal, and I ac- fruit like the petals of a mar- and enjoy Good food; Good wine and Good music.
like it?
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Menu
Prawn Cocktail
Escalopes de Veau with Savoury Macaroni and Buttered Carrots
Peach Marguerites
Olive Toasts
Coffet
Cheese
Prawn Cocktail
1⁄2 pint prawns (or one small
bottle prawns).
tablespoons tomato sauce. tablespoon lemon juice.
A few small lettuce leaves. Salt and pepper.
Line four cocktail glasses with lettuce leaves. Mix the tomato sauce and lemon juice together, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper. Shell-prawns, cut into small pieces, mix with sauce and pile on the lettuce. Top each cocktail with a particularly shape- Jy whole prawn.
tually made the shortbread which guerite on the short-bread cakes.
is the "foundation" of peach mar-In between the peach sections, guerites the day before.
pipe rosettes of cream.
Peach Marguerites
6 ozs. self-raising flour.
2 ozs. ground rice.
3 ozs. castor sugar.
lb, butter.
Small tin halved peaches. Cream.
Olive Toasts
2 hard-boiled eggs, Curry paste.
4 strips of toast.
Butter.
Anchovy paste.
Salt.
Olives.
of
Mustard and cress.
+
Pound the yolks of eggs
with
Put aside
a teaspoon each butter, sugar and ground rice for dusting the shortbread.
cnough butter to make a smooth Beat the butter and sugar to a paste, adding curry paste and salt cream, mix in the flour and ground to taste. Spread the paste on the rice sifted together. Knead with toast quite thickly, remove the the hands into a smooth dough stones from the olives and fill the roll out and cut into rounds about cavity with anchovy paste. Stick three to four inches in diameter. an olive into the centre of each Brush with melted butter, dust toast and garnish with cress.
Figure Control
front
In the old days you could harm] There is an entirely new notion The main course was, of course, yourself seriously if you wore for giving you a comfortable up- The idea-is-that my chief difficulty, since the time corsets, nowadays-you-will-harm lift-brassiere, factor was so important. But yourself much more if you don't! instead of having a rigid finally I decided on veal escalopes The old-fashioned corsets forced across the diaphragm there are with macaroni, which only take you into a certain unnatural shape, two cross-over pieces attached to about twenty-five minutes
to crushing the tissues and cramping elastic which expand and cook.
the muscles. The modern foun- tract with the muscles. dation is designed by experts with the brassiere
Escalopes De Veau
11⁄2 lbs. fillet of veal,
lb. button mushrooms,
11⁄2 lb. tomatoes.
Salt and pepper.
1 teacup melted butter sauce,
2 ozs. butter or dripping. Squeeze of lemon juice.
To make melted butter sauce,
melt a tablespoon of butter, stir in a tablespoon of flour, simmer for a minute or two then gradually stir in a teacup of hot milk and salt and pepper to taste,
con-
at very moderate prices.
Special monthly rates for Breakfasts, Tiffins and Dinners. Fish and Chips 80 cents at Snack Bar.
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So that 855314DI "breathes" and a very thorough knowledge of an-moves with you, adjusting itself jatomy to encourage your figure to to every movement, but never retain its own natural lovely shape slackening its firm uplift control. and poise.
Also there is a wonderfully dainty little brassiere that looks! Certain feminine muscles are
so simple, yet there's a wealth of naturally weak-the ones that
skill and cunning in the cut that support your bust, for instance, gives it the most perfect uplift and the tummy muscles, These moulding. Light and fragile to ¦are inadequate for their work
look at, it's a mere wisp of silk) and definitely need the support that moulds your bust in delicate, and encouragement of a good moulding garment.
The modern téndency
high, firm lines. For all its dain- tiness it washes and wears end-
is to-lessly. Splendid for a bust that's wards less and less boning. There rather flat or low, after having a Cut the meat into ncat pieces, are still plenty of garments made baby, and for all small or medium- oval if possible. Melt the fat in with suficient boning to control large figures, though not for the a sauce-pan, put in the meat, peel- the very heavy figure, but the very heavy bust.
few short tulle.
BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS
FISH and FOWLY Specials
CANADIAN
Herring
ed mushrooms and halved toma-control is achieved far more by the Again there is a corselette made Salmon toes, and cook slowly but do not cut and "stretch" of the garment. from an exquisite material that let it brown. Add sauce, lemon I have seen a really slight-look-really looks like a rather strong juice and seasoning to taste. Stiring belt with only for two or three minutes, pour bones, perfectly controlling a hip Actually the material is an elas-
tic net which gives you a marvel- Cod into a flat dish, border with say-measurement of 44 ins.! oury macaroni,
Although the fabrics that are lously firm control. This corselette used look, so delicate, they are is for a fairly average figure woven with special threads which which feels the need of some firm make them as strong as the old-moulding and streamlining, with fashioned stays and they all wash a little extra firmness for the tum- perfectly.
my (there's a double panel of net down the front).
Short Corselette
Savoury Macaroni
6 ozs. macaroni. *
1 oz. butter.
2 ozs. grated cheese.
Salt:
salted water until tender (about|
Cook the macaroni in boiling
*
Two Pairs
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Geese
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Turkeys 1.30 lb.
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twenty minutes). See that the Secondly, always have two Lastly there's a short corse- water is boiling before putting in foundations, you will get so much lette to wonderfully veigro Royal Jellies and Puddings 25 cts. per pkt. the macaroni.. Drain and add the better value out of both if you although it is so narrow it gives butter, toss well and a few min- wear them alternately and they'll perfect abdominal support-splen- utes before serving add the cheese, keep their shape twice as long did for anyone whose tummy is
Buttered Carrots
2 lbs, carrots.
1 oz, butter. Salt,
Thirdly, buy the very best you growing away from the straight can afford. Foundation garments and narrow path! It has two 3 are the least sensible things to ins, wide straps of elastic in front economise on.
which control and uplift the ab- As with other things, you should domen. visit three or four good shops bo- It is fastened with hooks. It is Wash and scrape the tarrots and fore deciding upon the garment made in a cellular fabric that's slice them lengthwise. Just cov-you will buy. Go into the fitting especially healthy because it al- er with salted water and simmer room and try on the garment belows the air to circulate freely to
until tender. Drain and just be-fore purchasing.
the body,
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