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Put a quarter of a pound of spaghen into a saucepan with just enough" warm water to cover it and a little salt. Bring It to the bell and add two ounces of butter. Then simmer gently until tender, adding more boiling water if neces-
sary.
When the spaghetti is done (in about twenty minutes), boil the rest of the water dway, and add a gill of tomato puree, which you can make by rubing fresh or tinned -tomatoes-through-a-Ane_steve." Cook together a little longer, then add salt, pepper and nutmeg and about, three ources of grated cheese. Stir all together over the are,
and serve very hot.
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Sponge Cakes?
This mixture is very simple, and Here Is A Variety Of
is equally successful for cream ör tam sandwiches, rolls..
Hans or sandwich biscuits.
spoonfuls of cold water and 120x To make them, put 2 table- loaf. sugar into a saucepan and dissolve over gentle beat. this is being done grease the tins thoroughly with butter, 6 round tins, or 4 oblong tins for ròlis
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Break xix eggs into a bowl, and beat for a minute or so, adding a pinch of salt. When the sugar is dissolved, pour gently over the eggs, beating all the time, Con- tinue beating for at least 20 min-
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pale yellow and twice the volume. Remove from stove and add Gavouring. "Beat a little more. then add sleved warmed. four. Pour into cake tin and bake in
slow oven for one hour. Do not -open-oven_door_while_cake is ba-.
gradually to the creamed butter and flour. Mix thoroughly, and then stir in lightly the sifted bak- ung powder and extra tablespoon four. Put equal portions into two buttered sandwich pans, and bake mi a moderately hot oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Turn the cooked cakes on to a cake cooler, and when cold, cut each through into
ing cooked. Leave in tin, till coolo layers Add a tablespoon castor sugar and a few drops
before turning out.
This cake will remain fresh for a long time if kept in an airtight tin,
KEEPS WELL
Parpollutes. when the mixture should ane granulated sugar.
WITH ANCHOVIES Another Italian dish three-quarters of a pound" 'of spaghetti in alightly salted water. Then wash and bone, five an- chovies, chop them up finely, and put them into a saucepan with olive oil and a little pepper. Heat well through without boiling. and then add two ounces of butter and the puree from two tomatoes, or a teaspoonful
puree.
of tinned tomato
Use this sauce to pour over the spaghetti on serving.
For using up scraps of game or meat an excellent idea is to cook some spaghetti until tender; then mix with it your warmed meat cut in very small pieces, some sliced mushrooms and finely minced onion lightly tried in butter, a couple of spoonfuls of cream, and heat the whole thing well through over the fire. Finally, sprinkle it over (when once in the hot dish) with grated Parmesan cheese.
You can use fish instead of meat ff you like.
Stufted Cabbage
Take a nice close cabbage, re- move the outside leaves and trim of the stump and cook it whole in fast-boiling water for ten minutes. Take it out, drain it well “and dig out the centre. Fill this
With any kind of stuffing
you
like, sausage meat being very good. put the leaves back over it and tle it round with thread.
1.
Line a casserole or stewpan with rashers of bacon (or if you would rather be the rashers all round and over the cabbage) and braise it in enough good stock to come half-way up its sides, for about an hour to an hour and a half. Drain it when done and makeļ a thick sauce with the stock to pour -over. It.
have the consistency of thick cream. Now slit into it 8oz. flour. and fold it in very carefully.
Pour into tins and bake in a fairly hot oven for 20-25 minutes. If a sugary crust is preferred, the tins may be sugared and floured after greasing...
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LEMON JUICE ADDED Take 6 eggs, 9oz. sifted flour, 26. castor sugar, 1 lemon.
Beat eggs and sugar over hot. water, then remove and beat til stiff.
Add Juice of lemon. care
fully, and the four. Do not beat after adding dour. Bake in a large tin or in layers.
This cake can be iced. Required: 1lb. icing sugar, rind and juice of 2 oranges.. Put into saucepan. Warm, and pour over:
MIXED OVER HOT WATER Put 4 whole eggs in a stewpan. with the grated, peel of one lemon and 6 oz. of castor sugar.
Whip these together over hot. but not boiling, water; whip till cold and like thick cream.
Mix by degrees oz. of fine dour that has been passed through a slevě and just, warmed.
Put the mixture into a saute pan; bake in moderate oven.
WHEN TO STOP BEATING Ingredients: 6 eggs. their weight in castor sugar and half their weight in flour." Grated rind of half a lemon..
First prepare cake tin Grense well. Mix one tablespoonful castor sugar with same amount of cornflour, put into greased tin, and move round till tin is well coated. Empty out superfluous sugar and flour and leave tin to
warch.
vanilla essence to the cream; whisk lightly till it begins to thicken, Reserve about nine halves for decorating the top, and crush or chop the walnuts finely. Add to the partly whisked cream, reserving about a tablespoon for sprinking the top. Lightly whisk the walnut cream till thick, but do not whisk too much or the
11, 1937.
Artichoke Soup
Jerusalem artichokes which may be obtained in the market make a delicious soup, with a flavour some- what out of the ordinary. "When preparing them care must be taken to see that they do not go black Wash them before peeling, as far as possible under water, and throw the artichokes immediately into a basin of cold water containing a little vinegar. A pound of artichokes should be used to one large Bombay onlon and a quart of stock, Melt about an ounce of dripping in the saucepan, cut up the vegetable and toss them in it for a few minutes; then add the stock, pepper, salt, and spice and simmer slowly for two hours, when the artiches will be soft, Put the & steve and then soup through rehest it in the saucepan while it is getting hot blend a dessert- spoonful of cornflour smoothly with a quarter of a pint of milk,
Weight of 7 eggs in castor v
Weight of 4 eggs in flour. Put sugar in bowl. Break' eggs on to it, and whisk to- gether for twenty minutes. Then sift in flour and mix in lights. cream will curdle and separate, í add to the soup, which should then
Pour at once into tins previously greased and dusted with sugar. Do not fit tins. more than half fuil as mixtures rise well. Bake till it shrinks slightly, from sides of tin about 1 hour. "
This is a very old family recipe. It is easy to make and unfallingly successful. The above quantity gives 3 medium-sized cakes which
will keep in perfect condition for a fortnight or even longer,
WITH FRUIT FILLING I have always found this recipe very. satlafactory.
Take 3 eggs, 1 cupful four, cup- ful caster sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls cold water, vanilla essence.
Beat yolks, sugar and water till very thick and creamy. Add a
be boiled again for a further five minutes. A dessertspoonful of cream stirred into each plate of soup just before serving is a great
Spread each layer with one-third of the cream, and join the layers together. Mix about 4 table spoons sifted icing sugar, with a tablespoon melted butter, a few improvement. drops 'vanilla essence, and sui- clent bolling water to mix to a pouring consistency, and pour over
the cake top. Decorate with wal- SCOTCH SHORTBREAD
nut halves, a few chopped walnuts, and place on top of the spread layers. Leave the Icing. armiy set before cutting the
cake
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6 oz four.
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1 oz ground rice.
.4 oza butter.
If preferred. three 6-inch in place of two 74-inch sandwich pans may be used, the cooked layers split and spread with walnut cream. arranged as two cakes of three
2 oz. caster sugar. Blanched almonds for top.
Beat the butter and sugar to- gether till the mixture is light and creamy. Then add the flour and ground rice and knead into a
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Professor Defends Scots Medical Students
few drops of vanilla essence. Fold layers each, in place of one larger dough. Put into a greased sand- Only One Death Among 4724 Mothers
in the four gently and then the atimy beaten egg whites. Place in 2 greased sandwich tins and bake in moderate oven.
A filling of chopped tinned fruit and whipped cream is delicious, and guava jelly mixed with whip- ped cream add a piquant flavour.
The top of the sandwich should' be lightly dusted with castrol sugar before serving.
cake of four layers.
1.
WALNUT SLICES
wich tin and press down. Press it up well round the edges with the Ingredients: Four ounces brown | fingers, prick it all over and de- sugar, 3oz. butter, 1 egg. Á cup corate with the almonds. Bake flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, in a moderate oven for 35 to 40
Cup chopped minutes. pinch of salt, 1 stoned dates, 1 cup chopped wal- nuts, few drops vanilla essence.
A spirited - defence of Scottish tions for the furtherance of train- medical students was made recent- ing. Professor Graham Kerr's pro- ly by Professor Graham Kerr (U-posal approached the matter from Scottish Universities) in the Scot- an unfortunate angle. tish Grand Committee of the "If the clause were literally read House of Commons, which is con- and inexorably applied"it would sidering the Maternity-Service | lead, to something like an intoler- able evasion of the liberties, of private persons,” he added,
egg MINCEY FAIRY CAKES (Scotland) B
Method: Cream the butter and Add the beaten sugar. gradually and beat thoroughly. 'WALNUT CREAM CAKE
Stir in the vanilla essence, stoned, Ingredients: Four eggs. 1b, chopped dates, chopped walnuts castor sugar, b. butter. lb. and the gifted four, baking flour. 1 extra tablespoon flour, der. and salt. Mix thoroughly. teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, few drops vanilla essence, pint cream, 1 tablespoon castor sugar, 4oz. shelled walnuts, pale pink warm Icing,
Method: Cream the butter, and gradually add the sifted flour, mixing well. Add salt to the eggs; whisk lightly and add the sugar
and spread on a buttered: swiss roll pan (about 11 by 7 inches). Bake in a moderately hot oven for about 25 minutes. When cooked, cut the mixture into fingerlengths and leave on cake pan till cool. Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. I preferred, the same mixture may be cooked in Butter-
Beat eggs alone for a minute or two, then add caster sugar and place bowl over saucepan of¡ boll-' | gradually. Whisk till mixture is ed patty pans, or in paper patty
Beat till mixture. Is ing water.
thick and frothy and add it cases.
Dr. Barnes Warns Bishops "Of New Poison Gases.
Church Assembly And Christians'
To Defend Country Duty
4 embodied principles of permanent validity which were also Christian principles,
Pacifism and the duty of Christian to defend his country were debated by the Church As- sembly. at Central Hall, West-
-"But the cost of adhering to the ininster, recently The Archbishop Covenant of the League of Nations, of Canterbury. Dr. Lang, presided or to any similar instrument of The 'debate, which arose on a international order," he continued, resolution submitted by the Deans that the members who are the
of Winchester, Dr. E. G. Selwyn, constituent parts of It should be was marked by a striking speech from the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes.
When the Assembly adjourned. the debate on the resolution had not been concluded
to defend their own prepared sovereignty. and discharge their obligations to others."
Describing himself as "an ex-. treme paclist," the Bishop of Birmingham said:
"My conversion dates to the latter part of August, 1914. The war had broken out, men had flocked to the Colours, and a camp had been established in Cambridge, where I was then a Don
GERMAN-ITALIAN REPLIES
Rumanian Incident Closed
Bucharest, March 9.
a czs, self-raising flour. ----4-oza, butter..
4 ozs. granulated sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls milk.
3 tablespoonfuls mincemeat. 2 eggs.
Mr. Maxton said he was sorry that his use of the term "rapscallion".
A new clause moved by Professor Graham Kerr sought to provide, that the Department of Health should secure that adequate facili- | seemed to have hurt the repre ties are made available for the sentatives of the medical profession practical domiciliary instruction in in the Committee and medical midwifery" of "medical and mid- | students, outside." wifery students.
"I had not taken the trouble to Professor Graham Kerr said that look up the Oxford Dictionary be- at the last meeting of the Com- fore I used the term,” he said, "and mittee Mr. Maxton had used the ] I do not intend to indicate that term "rapscallion" medical stud- | students were fellows of bad char- acter but nokmal young men of
Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and beat altogether, Add the other, ingredients and make into Д
mixture. Sponge Grease some imali tins and fill i dents. with the mixture, Bake for ten to fifteen minutės in a moderate
oven
ESTATE OF SIR JOHN BLAND.SUTTON
Fortune From Chocolate
"I dare say," the Frofesor said, about 18 or 19. I gather that that I know the medical student since my time they have become as well as he does, because for 33 etherialised and spiritualised, and years I was in intimate touch with are now perfect specimens of hu- them.
manity. "I am glad to have that. THOROUGHLY WORTHY ·
assurance, but I don't think it "I can assure the hon. member alters my view of the clause." that he will find no more thor- Mr. Hardie (Labour Covan) oughly worthy and trustworthy asked whether it was proposed to class in the community than young ! try out any new methods in mid- persons who are-preparing for the wifery on poor people in the East profession of medicine,"
| End of Glasgow, and then to get If there was an occasional repa-big fees from persons in the West strained of in a most effective callion among them they would be End.
D.
Bir John Bland-Sutton," Hert- ford-street; W., surgeon, for 34 years connected with the, Middle-way, for they had to pass through Scotland-"One of the Arst experi
Mr. Elliot, Secretary of State for
of those men on a Sunday representations made by the sex Hospital, left £21,316 (net per- the slave of successive medical and ments tried in connection with
"I was asked to speak to some
The answers of the German and
the Italian Governments to the
morning I accepted without | Rumanian Government regarding|sonalty £17,407). hesitation, and then began to the write out my address.
I ventured an
Bame a
I wrote it once, then I went back to Christ's teaching and tore it up. I did the second and third time, and then address which seemed to me ludicrously inade- quate.
"I still have that address, but I have never since spoken in favour of war. I cannot see my self that war can be regarded as consonant with the
spirit of Christ"
Italian ministers' at the recent
other examinations.
In the year 1936 (Glasgow' presence of German and Mr. Richard Fry, Albert-court, Maternity Hospital services at runeral of the two members of the Kensington, a director of the Bri-tended 4724 mothers in their own banned fascist organisation "Tron tish Cocoa and Chocolate Com- homes, and there was only one
death Guards, were read in the Ru-pany, left £212,981 (net personalty manian Chamber and Benate to- £206,893). Estate Duty, £62,374 day by the Foreign Minister. M2 Antonescu.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Wig. The statements, which are iden- gin, late Queen's Own Worcester tical in text, declare that the shire Yeomanry, ministers had attended the fune
House, Birmingham,
rals in their personal capacity and
the
Forehill formerly
Mr. Maxton (ILF-Bridgeton) Would not the argument be that those figures show that If this of 19 or 50 this Bill is unnecessary? work can be done by young men
Professor Graham Kerr said he "wished to make it clear that the
had not the slightest intention of Chairman of Henry Wiggin and persons who went out to such cases
interfering in the internal affairs | Co., nickel
were not untrained. The student manufacturers, left was not qualified to do domiciliary of the country, and did not desire 180,568 (net personalty £151, work until he was within a year
of his final examination.
· HORROES OF LEWISITE Dr. Barnes referred to the
that the action, should be taken as
a political acti
031) Estate Duty, £36,456,
said:
"HONOURABLE SERVICE” "God knows that emphasis on the horror-of-war is justifiable....: DEFENCE OF LIBERTY · enough,” said Dr. Selwyn, "but to existence of new poison gases, and Į ME Antonescu declared that with The resolution deplored the press that as a reason for aban- general rearmament throughout doning duty is, surely to appeal to the world, called on all Christian fear, and through the motive of people to redouble their efforts to fear no great work for humanity promote international goodwill, can be done
"These
gases
the receipt of these statementa
not unanimous
HOMES OF THE POOR"" Mr. Westwood Lab-during and Falkirk) contended that the
opposed to the spirit and inten- tion of the Bill, which was to bring into the homes of the poorest peo- pie trained professional atten- dance.
that when they mix in proportion lament was
are both the incident was closed, but Par£5,114 For Loss Of Fingers proposed new clause was directly of one part in 20,000,000 of, air sharing this opinion. they will produce the utmost Transocean Ness Service: [ danger to lunga and, if they get on to clothing, to flesh."
and welcomed the declared polley "We have to defend an ideal of the Government to adhere to which is exceedingly, difficult to Looking round the Assembly, the Covenant of the League and defne-namely," the -to-use armed forces only for the defence of the country and in the interests of international security and peace. It also stated:
septic wounds was on Queen Vic- toria, and she lived a long time after the experiment."
Professor Graham Kert's pro- posed new clause was negatived
without a. division.
SINKING OF ARMS STEAMER
Spanish Sailor's Report
Paris, Mar.--9;^/
confusion and mystery is Bur
An extraordinary amount of
rounding the sinking of the "Mare Cantrabrico" in the Bay of Biscay on Monday.
The atmosphere was somewhat clarified by a Spanish sailor from the lost vessel, who was fished from the sea by a French fishing boat. This sailor declared that the Damages of £5,114 with coats.
confusion in the name came about were awarded by a common Jury In the King' Bench Division, to
because during the crossing from are Freedrick Herbert Victor Redding, provide living experiments for and named "Adda," the name plac
- "The proposed new clause would America the vessel was repainted Stevenage, Hertfordshire, for the those who have just entered oned in large letters on the bow and Bloss of the fingers of his left hand their studies." Mr Westwood said stern, This was the name of a while working at the Kentish "In no circumstances would I be British freighter of the same size Town-road factory of the defen prepared to allow these young which had also visited Spanish dants Ewart and Bon, Limited, rapscallions, as they have been ports. When ared upon, the vessel Euston-road, London.
called, to go into my home or the gave the name of "Adda" in the home of my daughters."
808 calls. The rescried sailor re- ported that the ship carried a Fren of 150 24 well as 17 passengers, Hi- cluding 5 Italians, & Mexicans and 2 Americans.--
'raniadean News Service.
ideal of Dr. Barnes said: "I imagine the Christians, but because they liberty. Do we think that our majority of those here to-day | humane." country's heritage of liberty is could not effectively use gas masks
The Bishop of Derby, Dr. worth while? That is the question against lewisite
7. Rawlinson, reminded the As- which I should like my friends Modern seroplane warfare is sembly that most of the members This Assembly recognises the who are extreme pacifists to face, simply and nakedly an eye for an were, like himself over 50 and right of the Government to the The Archdeacon of Coventry, eye, and a tooth for a tooth and would not be called upon to serve support of Christian citizens in the Ven. Richard Brook, said:
| you cannot get away from it.”........ in any Army which was likely to maintaining such forces as it "I am very anxious that this Dr. Barnes concluded his speech be in active service in any future deems necessary in the pur-House should approve this point by saying:
war, although at the same time suance of this policy."
"The younger educated people in they would probably be destroyed of view that service in the armed The Dean of Winchester, moving forces of the Crown is an honour- this country, in vast numbers are | by some of the unpleasant the resolution, said that the able and Christian form of public extreme pacifists, not often, I am methods which the Bishop of Covenant of the League of Nations service,"
sorry to say, because they are Birmingham had expounded.
Mr. Redding caught his hand in machine through, he alleged, The Lord Adwoate (Mr. T. N. the negligence of the defendants in Cooper) Intimated that he could allowing the machine to be un-not accept the proposed clause, as guarded.
ample security was given already This allegation was denied. in the Bill to the medical institu-