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All About Cakes
I have just been sent a most ar cellent little book on cake-making, which I should like, to recommend
to iny renders. It la "Concerning Cake Making." by Helen Jerome (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 39. od. net).
and stir fur about Ave áinutes in til the curd is somewhat cooled. Pour into clean dry warm jace, and cover down as for jam. The mixture must not boil,
PARIS BUNS
Crumble into 1 lb of flour, 29. of butter, then add 2 oz. of sugar, a small half teaspoonful
Citizens
Future
IT scenis fitting and natural at the
beginning of another year that' we should think of the future and whas it may bring. We citizens of to-day have the future, of the citi zens of to-morrow in our keeping. How are we meeting our charge With indifference and discontent, or with courage and hope 1
It is more apparent than ever to-day that a man must be fitted for his job if he is to keep his place. the sans, of course, applies to a
The revival in cooking in general will, I hope; also lead to a greater interest in making cakes at home. and, although the housewife now- adays 1s sadly tempted by the of baking soda with the lumps woman, and only. those who fit) array which every confectioner pressed out, sud three quarters of flaunts before her eyes, she will cream of tartar Add 1 oz. of discover, if she makes her cakes at chopped peel, and a tablespoonful of either cleaned currants or salta hotue, a new delight which she can share with her friends.
Miss Jerome's book is just the thing for her. The recipes, which have all been tested, range from large cakes, iced or plain, small cakes, plain or fancy, biscuits, and petits fours, patiseries, and pas try cakes to the various breads, buns, and teacakes which are so much in demand in winter-time.
Notes on fillings, icings, and other essentials complete a volume which should be in the hands of every enterprising hostess, especial ly the newly-married ones,
Lemco Gurd.
nas.
Beat well one egg, add half a teacupful of milk to it, then mix with the other things. Put in spoonfuls on a greased oven shelf, brush with egg, and sprinkle with a little castor sugar. Bake in o hot oven for ten minutes." The Tea Table
QUEEN CAKES
Beat to a creain à lb. of butter with 6 oza.. of fine sugar. Then drain in the yolks of two eggs, beating each yolk thoroughly out of sight, and mix in two large table- spoonfuls of milk.,
themselves for their posts to the utmost of their ability can hope to succeed
and
Simple Dialing
important positions man PARENTHOOD is one of the most woman can hold, yet many are con- tent to drift into it without pre- paration. Is it a wonder, then, that wakeful nights and harassing days ensue, with poor health and con- tinual expense that can ill be afford. ed, and with devastating results i
"natur- Though parenthood is al," nature has her own laws, and. if they are not known and under stood trouble will follow. Success ful parenthood is the foundation stone on which successful baby care stands. If wo wait till baby is here to learn his needs, success cannot bo wholly ours.
Evidence is accumulating to show that a simple vegetarian diet, in- cluding plenty of fruit and other the unaooked food, during the waiting
time is good.
A correspondent has asked me for a recipe for Lemon Curd, and here is Miss Jerome's: Scrub four Mix 6 oz, of flour with a small lomons and wipe them quite dry teaspoonful of baking powder and Rub half a pound of loaf sugar a pinch of salt, and work these over the rind to extract the into the ingredients. flavour. Beat up six eggs (leaving whites of the two eggs to a stiff out the whites of two), and oil a fruth and fold these in, also ad-
To keep meat wary low, gradual- quarter of a pound of fresh butding a few drops of lemon essence, ly cutting it out altogether, and ur, if preferred, a grate of lemon dairy produco very high, coupled
ter.
Put all the ingredients, includ-nd. ing the lemon juice, into an earth- enware far, standing in a sauce nan of hot water. Stir gently un- til the sugar, has completely dissolv od, and then until the eggs have thickened. When the curd is creamily thick, reinove the jug,
Beat
with a daily abundance of oranges, Hara in readiness a dozen of
raw and cooked fruit, and vege- Iow greased patty pana, with a cleaned currants arranged at the tables and nuts, makes for a foot of each pan. Divide the mix- healthily developed baby and a ture amongst them, and bake the healthy mother. cakes in a quick oven for from ten tainutes to a quarter of an hour.
THE FASHION OF THE DISH-No. II.
exceptions.
A la Normande
Sauce normande, which plays a principal part in the egg and most of the fish dishes, is made by add ing to a velouté made from fish stuck, some mushroom essence, and oyster liquor. The sauce is then bound with yolk of egg beaten in cream, reduced, and finished with butter and more creat.
Fresh Air
A DIET on these lines tends to
prevent the baby being unduly large, and, as already explained often in this page, small babies grow into sturdier, healthier child, on thin large, fat babies, so the benefit is shared by mother and child,
Many doctors who do not enforce vogetarian principles at any other timé do very definitely advise their patients to be vegetarian THE designation, à la normande, guinea fowl sair be served, à la nor during expectant motherhood. Orie iu most cases denotes the pre-made, if they are first browned in doctor prefers not to undertake & sence either of oysters, mussels, butter, then put into a cocotte on a
case unless this line is adopted, mushrooms and shrimps, or of bed of chopped dessert apples tossed and there is a nursing home whose apples, though there are our or two in batter and with more apple over maternal and infant mortality is hil theme anorated with two or three tablespoonfuls of cream and cooked over period of twelve years Ly
following these lines. in the oven with the lid on: a most Wrong feeding during the waiting delicious fashion, easy, and yet time puts a strain on the body's fairly uncommon.
organs which are already doing Chicken cut up for a saate is double work. Fresh nir and Pun treated in the same way. A whole light must be coupled with right chicken à la normande, however, is food, and exercise and rest come a poached in the oven, coated with a close second A doctor and dentist supreme sauce, and garnished with should be visited, so that tests con boiled carrots,, turnips, potatoes, be made and any decayed teeth re- and leeks.
mvel Bad teeth poison the blood Carrots, potatoes, and leeks are stresto, so are a danger to mother also used in Soupe à la normandle, and babe cooked in white stock, with fresh Finally, get as much theoretica! geolet beans added later, the knowledge of parenthood as you can whole enriched with gream and a frosa a reliable source, and, if pos sible, combine it with practient knowledge, attending mothercraft classes.
This sauce is used as a mask for scrambled eggs à la normande, in which some pouched oysters have been incorporated.
little butter.
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It can also be employed with other eggs, poached, mollets, or moulded; in an omelette to bind the contents of poached oysters; and with eggs sur le plat, which are
Potatoos à la normande are finely broken on to a bed of thick cream, & little fish stock, oyster liquor, and chopped, mixed with chopped onion raw oysters, then cooked and surand the white part of leeks tossed in butter, moistened with milk after rounded with the sauce.
Soles and other fish which are being sonsoned, and browned in the treated like them, are simply poach- oven. ed in the oven and then sauced and garnished in the Normandy fashion referred to; but in, the cel matelote ala narniande, the apple first ap, pears,
A Bavarois à la normande is made in the usual way with apple purse and dice of the same fruit, and crunter of the same name with quarters of apple, and apple jam flavoured with kirsch.
The slices of cel are cooked with herbs and cider, instead of the Apples themselves à lo vormande, usual red wine, the liquor is reare cored, but not peeled, set on a duted and thickened with butter buttered proof dish sprinkled and flour, and the matelote is ao with browned breadcrumbs, their companied by glazed onions, mush-centres filled and replenished dur rooms, and poached oysters,
ing cooking with fresh butter.
Delicious Tet Easy
The use of apples and cream is «cofined to game and weste chicken, Pheasant, partridge, quail, and
When You Choose Linens
When they are baked, half a tes spoonful of Calvados should be poured into each centre, and some powdered sugar and a spoonful of red currant jelly added at the lust.
better flax of greater strength- which means your sheet will be stronger and last longer.
SOMETHING NEW FOR BREAKFAST-
"Give us something different for breakfast" is a cry that goes up daily from hundreds of homes. To the confusion of the decriers of the English breakfast those mum
lers of rolls and coffee-let me as- sembio a few unusual breakfast dishes,
Hominy is a memory of my childhood, for my father was di
nye very fond of it. Six ounces should be measured overnight, and a quart of water poured over it. In the morning more water should be added if necessary, to make it the consistence of porridge, and it should be boiled for half an hour or so until it is tender. A nica piece of butter must be stirred in before serving, and you will have a dish for four or five people.
:
Equally as important is close in-
Here are two dishes which next, spection by holding the sheet Olives, and Potato Cakes.
would go well together, Bacan against the light looking faults
is the technical term-whereby you
The first are made by rolling up can discern the better cloth is in some thin rashers a mixture of DO housewives sonorally know of woven closer, that is, with more minced cooked meat, breadcrumbs, chopped parsley and onion, and a the opportunitice that are offer threads to the inch.
pinch of dried herbs, seasoned The cheaper sheet has more open with salt and pepper, and bound od of bargains in linens nowadays: To-day kingly linen term meshes between the threads; and a with a beaten egg. Tis them, or often met with in old posuis, is olono, tight, weave predicates a skewer them, and bake them in an quoted at figures less than those much stronger sheet. Furthermore, oven for a quarter of an hour. asked for by its half-sister, cotton, inspection by light reveals irregular, a couple of years ago.
rough" patches and knots in some
It may puzzlo you why linen cloths, because of uneven spinning sheets of the same size and seem-and careless weaving. Belect al ingly about the same quality should ways the sheet with amooth and their natural beat various prices. Hence a few oven threads, devoid of roughish paired by hints on choosing the best value spots, wh
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