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STAPLES
TO-DAY'S RECIPES
APPLE CHEESECAKES
Ingredients: į ib. apples; 1 egg;
1 oz. castor sugar; 1 oz. butter! nearly 1 oz. stale cakecrumbs; lemon; cloves; cinnamon Pastry: puff or flaky.
Cut the apples. unpeeled and unċored, into small pieces and stew them to a pulp with the sugar. lemonrind, cloves, a small piece -of stick, cinnamon, and a little water. Rub through a hair sleve and put back into the, saucepan, where you must add the butter in little pieces. Heat up again, stir- ring, then of the fire and cool, put in the crumbs and the egg well beaten.
Scald
CUSTARD SAUCE
24
cup cups milk. Beat
3
2
ez yolks slightly, add tablespoons sugar
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SURPRISES
teaspoon salt, and add the hot milk. Return to double boller and stir and cook until it coats the spoon. Add
1 teaspoon vanilla. Strain. Serve
cold.
RAISIN-NUT SURPRISE
Combine
*
cups cooked wheat cereal
2
1
cup chopped nuta
your
cup raisins
cup sugar
cups mlik
Make some patties with pastry, All them three-parts full with the cold mixture and bake them in a hot even for a quarter of an hour or a minute or two longer. Dredge with castor sugar when done. These cakes may be eaten hot as a sweet.
COOKIES
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Ingredients: 6 oz, flour; 40%. butler; 4 oz, custor sugar; 2 eggs; a teaspoonful vanilla essence.
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Cream the butter, then add the | 1 sugar and cream again: Beat in 2 - the eg (well, whisked by `de- grees and flavour with the essence, and add the flour. Take 'tea- spoonfuls of the mixture and arop them on a greased baking tin two inches apart. Spread them, out: thinly with a palette knife dipped in cold water." Decorate with almond, sultana and candled peel and bake in a moderate oven for about a quarter of an hour,
CHARLOTTE'S CHOCOLATE
+
2
1
PUDDING
Mix together
cup uncooked wheat cereal
1 cup sugar
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4 teaspoon salt. Add this to
cups of hot milk in which squares of chocolate have been melted. Cook in double boiler 30 minutes. Cool, add teaspoon vanilla, 'Then inte mold.
egg, slightly beaten teaspoon cinnamon
Bake in buttered covered caa- serole, or custard cups in mod- erate oven (350° F). Serve with cream or pudding sauce.
JACK-AND-JILL
Add
cup whest cereal
tetspoon sul to
DESSERT
cups boiling water. Boll Ave
sugar
minutes or until thick. Place a layer of cooked cereal in a baking dish. cover with pared. liced apples, sprinkle lightly with
and cinnamon, continue until dish is full. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake in a moderately hot Oven (400 F.), until apples are thoroughly done. Serve with cream:
"SUPPER PIE
Here's savoury supper dish made with rammips for vegetarians and others.
Boil and mash the turnips sea- son with pepper and salt, pinch of pour mixed herbs, and add
small
Chill until firm. Serves eight. FREDDIE'S FRUIT MOLD
To
2
cups of treshly cooked wheat cereal add
cup peaches, cut la small pieces
i cup sugar, Uxing well. Put into alx individual molds di custard cups and chill until firme Unmold and serve with mulk or creani. (Sliced bana
chopped onion,
Grease a pledish, put in the mashed turnip mixture, then a layer of mashed potatoes. Sprin- kle with breadcrumbs and grated cheese.
butter. then bake in moderate oven, mark
Dot with
4. for twenty minutes.
Darnish with chopped parsley and serve with melted butter.
nas, crushed pineapple, orange A THIRST QUENCHER
sections or other fruits may be used this way).
Mix
PRUNE PUDDING
cups cooked wheat cereal
1 cup mashed cooked prunes
tablespoon sugar
1
1
tablespoon lemon juice
I
tablespoon vanilla
1
teaspoon cinnainon
T
sired). Fold in
3
stify beaten egg whites.
A
delicious thirst-quenching drink can be made from lernon, orange and gripe-fruit. Cut lemon, an orange, and a grape- fruit into halves. Squeeze the Julce out of one set of halves and allt of the other take the pulp. leaving the white pith behind. Put de-❘ four ounces of sugar and a quart of water into a saucepn, boll for Put three minutes, then pour over the fruit. Put in some of the peel each fruit, being careful to scrape off the white pith.... Cover, and leave to stand for some hours." Strain, and serve with a dash or aerated water.
in buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven (350* Fahrenheit) for half an hour, Serve with soft custard. (Other dried fruita may be used in- stead of prunes).
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CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
Cream 1⁄4 cup shortening) add 13 cups sugar slowly, beating in well. Add 3 unbestan eggs separately, beating well after each egg is added. Sift together 2 tupe flour, 21⁄2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder and 4 teaspoon salt and add alter nately with cup milk to first mixture. Bake in gressed. layer, cake pana about 25 mina in moderate ovan. Put layers) together with Old-Fashioned Chocolate Filling and cover top- and aidon with Old-Fashioned Chocolate Icing. (See Royal ((Cook Book)
Aristocrat Of The Lunch
Menu
Perhaps the most appetising and rained of all cold dishes for luncheon menu or buffet supper, is food "set in aspic." It is not in the least difficult to make "now that aspie Jelly may be had in jars or packets. All one has to do is "fol- low the directions"; In the case of ❘ quat or fowl recipes it is a good idea to use meat stock with the Jelly instead of plain water as this is less insipi
VEAL AND HAM
Veal and hand in aspic, Jelly is Easy to prepare. Cut up equal quantities of veal and lean ham inta dice and put in a casserole
with just enough water to cover. Season with pepper and salt and in a small bag put a few pepper- corns, a bay leaf, and a few slices of onionTM Cook in a slow oven until tender, then reinove the
on a
Cook slowly not the meat is Just ready to leave the bones, then remove all skin and bones. Add a little extra seasoning to the meat if necessary, cut it into pieces, anu put it in a mouta in layers of white and dark meat. Rim some uspic Jelly.over, then cover with a board and weight, so that it will set firm- 1. Turn out when set.
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FISH
Fish is particularly suited to serving with aspic jelly. Left-over portions of salmon or seer, for in-
stance. can be flaked, and set in the aspic with thinly sliced cucum- ber, green peas, and hard-boiled egg. Smaller fish can be soused in vinegar and water, then boned, and jellied in aspic flavoured with lemon Juice or vinega..
Fillets sole or plaice can be bak- ed or steamed, then sprinkled with chopped parsley and rolled up with a strip of anchovy in each. Ar- a ent-glass dish range nicely in and set with ssple jelly. Leave a ittle of the jelly to set in a separ- ate dish, then turn it out on to a wet board or marble slab and chop
up with a wet knife. Use th to decorate the dish. See that the jelly for this is well flavoured.
Another good method with white Ash is to set the fillets with the
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¦ meat and mince it:
Covera well-oiled mould with stees of hard-boiled egg and sour little aspic jelly. Use the strained gravy from the meat, for this, with sufficient water to make up the required quantity. Then put on a layer of minced meat.. more jelly, a layer of tinned or boiled peas, more jelly, and a dnal layer or meat. Pour on the rest of" the jelly and leave to, set. Then turn out carefully on to a dish and garnish with slices of skinned to-jelly, in a border mould, then turn mato and sprigs of watercress. Served with potato salad
out and All the centre with a green. A. Spender makes on the pasi this salad, mixed with mayonnaise. makes a complete light meal, "
tion of the Sovereign as head of the Empire in his book, "great Soon or fate the officials of the Britain, Empire and Common- Corporation will collect"your dust- wealth," published recently. (Cas- ¦ Jin, and the dustman will take your dustbin's contents to a place whence no contents return.
First there will be search of your household reject
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CHICKEN MOULD
Chicken mould makes a delight- ru dish for luncheon or supper 1 parties. Have the chicken cut in- to joints and arrange them in a casserole in as little space as pos- sible. Add stock of water almost to cover, season well, and Cover with aliced onion, carrot,
pars- ley, and a sprinkling of herbs,
SWEET MILK SCONES
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Here is a simple recipe for quickly-made scones.
Ingredients-1 lb. four, 2 tea- spoonfuls of cream of tartar, 2 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 whole egg, a pinch of salt, 4 oz. butter, pint of fresh milk (or less as needed to moisten), 2 oz. of sulutanas if desired.
Add the cream of tartar, car-
of soda and salt to C bonale flour and work in the butter: add the sultanas, then the beaten egg and the milk. Bake quickly for
ten minutes.
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Prawns.
Üsh, crab. cray
or lobster are also attractive served with aspic Make the jelly and pour some at the bottom of wet in- dividual moulds Add the lobster, cut sinall. alternately with thin” slices of hard-boiled ess and layers or jelly.
When set. turn out on
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The book is a survey of our bis- tory from 1886 to 1935. In the chapter dealing with the British
hund
HE INVENTED PARADE OF WOODEN SOLDIERS
His Engaging Smile: That Terrible English
Nikita Balleff, founder of the Chauve Souris and "the par- ade of the wooden soldiers,” died in New York recently at the age of 59 He had been ill six weeks with an internal complaint.
Nobody who ever saw him w forget this huge pan with his sly. smile, little black eyes, half-dozen chins. and fantastically broken English announcements.
to a bed of lettuce which has been Commonwealth, Mr. Spender dis- Probably they will include tins duter, with exquisite taste, was an
tossed in oil and vinegar and sea- soned with pepper and salt.
HOW TO MAKE FRENCH ROLLS
Small light crescents and rolls can easily be made at home. They are best eaten the day they are made. Sift half a pound of dry. warm flour into a warm towi with
cusses the effect of the Statute of Westminster which in 1931 put the Mother Country and the Dominions on an entirely new constitutional basis.
The effect, Mr. Spender says, is to
Place the British Sovereign in a unique position; and
Enhance his importance. pre- stige, and abilities.
Under the Statute of Westmins- ter the British Commonwealth bas
a pinch of salt. Cream together become a "League of Nations with- a quarter of an ounce of compress-out Sanctions," and it is "inherent ed yeast and a teaspoonful of in its constitution that no mem- caster sugar. Beat a small egg ber shall coerce another.”
with a teacupful of warm milk
ACT ON HIS OWN and pour on the yeast. Mix to a dough with the flour and leave Allegiance to the Crown IE- covered in a warm place for an
mains the once acknowledged ob- hour. Then knead thoroughly ligation of the whole family of and roll out on a slightly floured nations. But the Statute of West- board: Cut balf an ounce of buninster broke with the principle which is the essence of constitu- ter into tiny pieces and spread ou
tional monarchy that the King should not act except with the
the dough. Fold over in the same way as flasky pastry is done and roll out again. Do this twice wibre, ❘ advice of his Ministers." making three times in ail,' then
a pound of ap-form into crescents and rolls Put
For Balleff, though a great pro-
even greater compere. For two rex- songnls announcements were ne- cessary to give time for the changing or scenes, and to explains to non-Russian 3
This cash return. will be credit-
ed to the finances of the Corpora- tion: Nevertheless, you, AS ratepayer, will benefit
Should you happen tu be rate payer of Sheffield you will. according to the just published accounts. of the Corporation Cleansing Department, henent vxceedingly.
audiences the i
story of the coming item.
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Ballet bad. the brains and personality to make these nouncements one of the "prin- cipal attractions of his theatre, so that he can almost be said to have created the art of the com—. рете.
He started the Chauve Souris in a Moscow cellar in 1908 a3 A
· cabaret' show.
"WOODEN SOLDIERS" BIG HAULS
It won such success that it ex- During the last financial year panded itself into a complete thea- income from dustbin contents ip
We which flourished until 1921. the Shefeld area acounted
to
when Balleff's unwillingness to, in- $12.531, Salvaged products involve himself in official Bolgherist ciuded 32 tons of fat, 31 tons of propaganda, along with all the up, and 68 tons of rugs, carpets, other Russian theatres, proved the and the like. Cinders, coke, dust,
end of his Russian career.
He found a far wider public. In France, Americe, and, above all, is brought him here in 1921, and Ba- England. Mr. C. B. Cochran first
so worth realised £5,391. "Bince," proceeds Mr. Spender, Scrap, baled tins and kindred pro- "there was now no Imperial Gov-brought in £3,081. An increase "ducts" amounting: to 2,432 tons
of £1,251 in this source of in-left and his troupe came here come was due to increased refuse again in 1924, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1932, collection of 8,780 tons.
and 1933 alama
ernment and all other Governm
APPLE MERINGUE.
Peel and core ples, simmer them in half a gill of water, with two ounces of brown. sugar and a couple of cloves, until tender. Pass through a sieve. Add the rolks of two eggs to the pures and pour into a buttered diag Whip the egg whites to a stir | ples, and bake for about a minute pute between two of its members-
on a greased tin, leave in a warm place for twenty minutes, thenments were of equal stature, there brush over with beaten egg, and bake in a very bot gen brown.
until
fronth with castor sugar, arrange | ix. 2 hot Oven-the meringue the meringue on top of the ap- I should be light brown.
You must have good
ingredients to make
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was no Government to advise him in his capacity of head of the Com- monwealth.
"But you must remember, that Sheffield Corporation have "If he were appealed to in a dis-elaborate, plant," official of the
In 1834 Balleff appeared with- out his company as compere of a variety bill at the Victoria Palace,
or his productions, "Wooden say Great Britain and another Manchester, Corporation told me,
a touch of envy in his volca. Soldiers achieved a popularity asked to disallow legislation or acts of policy, or appointments. Here we have an income from that really amazed him, and the by the one to which the other took refuse amounting to about 10-music of it got completely on bis objection, he could not take the 000 a year. It used to be thore. nervax. advice of either of their Govern-308. a ton from tins. Now, we do At one, time we recovered about
ments to the prejudice of the other. He would have to act on his own responsiblity."
has resulted.
not get much more from tins, Paper matting and ropes al- Mr. Spender Ands something of together. There's a slump in the a paradox in the position which market," he added,
Birmingham's refuse range was slightly smaller. Bones, offais. The democratic States of the and manure make up the main- Commonwealth had asserted their stay of the market. But the freedom, but at the same time city of London Ings behind them they affirmed their allegiance to
all. the monarchy, for which, if their theory meant anything, they had walyed one of the leading” de- mocratic principles:
*KATINKA“ *..
Good as this item was, it was certainly no better than "Katinka. the Musical Snuff-box”
or The
King Orders the Drums to Sound," or The Needy Knife-Grinder,"
Best of all, perhaps, was the lovely series of Rumian gipsy songs played and rung in the item called, “A Night at the
Yard Inn."
Of Ballet's announcements one "You will be surprised to hear remembers his stentorian procla that we clear, $8,000 to 60,000 tons | mation of “In-ter-valll.” “One Tes of refuse a year." sald 'an official calls his invariable. ""This is the of the City Corporation. But we happiest evening, of my Ute,” apo ""This enhanced the importance make very little out of it We rellen with a disarming grin ‘of con- and prestige, but also the liabili- only the very best paper and tins.scious insincerity. ties of the British Sovereign.
The yield varies, from""month" to
And, of course, there was his "The whole fabric of the Com- month, the average being about confession": "I learnt English from
a Spanish-book.".. nonwealth seemed to rest on the £50." continuance and permanence of In Westminister, I was assured, his house for it was extremely im-they have no more soul than to probable that the other free na treat refuse as rubbish, writes a tions would accept a President correspondent, elected by the British people dr be able without great dimculty to discover a form of election ac- ceptable to them all,
NO WEAKENING THE “MONARCHY
of
IT WAS LIKE THAT Balief's English was so elabor ately and Ingeniously bad that the :public believed that he spoke our Flanguage perfectly off the stage.
He didn't, he spoke it as minably as he did in front" the cartuin
or diminished its prestige would have reactions throughout the whole Empire: those who talked. He was, of course, & naturaz 'dealing with Buckingham actor, and used his hands as only Falace were reminded that they first-rate comedian dan. For “Britled politicians' were warned would have an account to settle || 25 years he never missed a single that any strain in their own poll-not only with the British people | performance of the cntertainmens Hles which weakened the monarchy but with all the Dominions.
he invented,