FIRST FAVOURITES
POINTS WORTH
NOTING
Dressing
on gown cut
evening coat lines
Long siceves to night. dress
"Ermine, tails" embroi-
dered on lingerie
Rouleau edge to bed. jacket
Tailored satin trunks for
sports wear
NEW lace undies
(right) are ap.
pliqued with satin
flowers: trunks
satin
(below)
are tailored.
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CUT
MENU
Onion Soup
Codfish Pi
Apple Fool
NUT some onions in this slices and fry them in a very little butter until golden, Pour in enough water so that, when it is reduced by a third, the right amount of soup will remain. Cook until this is ac complished, season with salt and black pepper and serve grated cheese separately. Cook the cod, flake it coarsely, bind it with a good white sauce, add a few shrimps and cover with pastry instead of the uanal mashed potato. Bake until the pastry is done.
Whip a little red current, or black currant jelly into your apple fool.
in the
UNDIE WORLD
TWO aspects of tho
dressing - gowns question;above, mag- nificence in silver satin; right, soberness in quilted silk.
judge
Can you a silk stocking?
STRAND of raw silk is made by twisting together cocoon-threads spun by the silkworm. Usually four or Ave threads go to the strands. When two strands are "two-thread" twisted together and knitted we speak of a
A French stocking. For fineness, then, choose a "two-thread." firm bas now a process for making one-thread stockings. Wort, one supposes, at owner's risk.
But the silkworm is no morbine. Even he gets the "Mon- day morning" feeling sometimes. The thickness of the cocoon thread varies, and causes "shadow-marks."
The stocking people have alde-stepped that by an attach- drawn ment atted to the knitting machine. Threads are alternately from three cones (instead of from one), so that if a thread ruils more thickly for a while the course section will not appens all together in the stocking.
You will and on the foot of a new pair of stockings a stamp saying "45 gauge" or some other number.
Gauge numbers' are the classification of fashioned stock- Ings (icnitied fint and then seamed up the back). They denote the number of needles or stitches to each inch and a half.
The higher the gauge the greater (and ainer) the number of stitches per one and a half inches, and the finer the stock- ing.
a long The "seamless" locking, which is knitted in sausage and pressed Into shape afterwards, is classifed accord- ing to the number of needles used round it-300-needle, 400- noodle, and so on. The higher the number the finer the stock- ing.
And now for a good idea. Have you seen the "self-mend- ings Not such a miracle as it sounds, but still pretty good, The makers sow a strip of fabric, dyed with the stocking and woven to unravel easily, into the welt. As you rip, you All you have to do is to pull a' length off the "reserve" and darn the holo,
SOW.
NOR SOME reason
or other fashion is a bit
beremptory about lin- gerie this year and nightdresses aren't so much straight slips as like very simply made evening gowns; bed-jackets have as many fashion points as new afternoon frocks; and, at a pinch, some of the dressing-
CLAS
"THE nightdress
on the left, like the rest, of these Daphne Hughes. models, shows the new tendency to lavishness.
Shackelt
pink washing velvet, this dressing jacket has a rouleau edge and a blue satin neck- bow and belt.
Jawor fell
SAUCES and STUFFINGS
of the SEASON
FIRST-two unusual and par
ticularly delicious stuffings
for the Christmas turkey.
i
Walnut Stufing. Mix i pt. brend-
gowns can be worn as evening crumbs with 11⁄2 gilis melted butter, wraps.
THE NEW
long
sleeved nighties aren't
14 pt. chopped, stoned raisins, salt. pepper, a teaspoon chopped sage, and a gill chopped walnuts.
Use beaten egg to bind.
Chestnut and Sausage Stufing.—
a bad idea for those? who prefer sleeping in a cold Mix 11⁄2 lb. of sausage meat with 1 bedroom but, nevertheless, want b. shelied and bolled chestnuts, add tablespoon of something more than the usual a pinch of spice and a flimsy straps to protect their brandy. The chestnuts should be shoulders. It isn't necessary to kept whole;
go too far and have them of red: flannel, because real silk is really quite warm.
YOU
SEE sketched
Goose "Trimmings"
Apple Stuging-Chop the goose fiver and cook with a large chopped onion until tender, drain, add to
at the top centre of this 1h. chopped apple, 2 gills of breadcrumbs, n gill of chopped, seed- notion for a
page a
dressing-gown, a really lavished ratsins, seasonings and stock to
It is the sort of thing you molsten,
one.
should wear on a visit to rela- Potato Stuging-Mix a pint of hot tives it's guaranteed to im- mashed potato with 3 gills bread- press them. If, however, your crumbs, a tablespoon of butter, a rich aunt asks you to stay beaten egg, salt, pepper and chopped should suggest you take some sage 1 gill chopped salt fat park, a thing like the sensible-looking gill of minced onion. wrap in quilted silk shown on the left,
Brown Onion Sauce.-Fry 3 sliced onions in 2 tablespoons inclled butter, shake in 2 tablespoons four
and brown, Senson and add a cup
HE WILL probably also approve of the tailored salin trunks brown stock, Chak for ten min- (bound with contrasting matt ules more. crepe embroidered in "ermine For Chicken- tails") which you see on the ex-
treme left. That camisole 1, having a small family, you've (complete with brassiere) will devided that a chicken shall take the interest her too-she wore plure of the traditional turkey this something like it herself in her Christmas, you'll want accessories youth.
that will bring an entirely different flavour,
Victoria Chappelle. Celery
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD MOST people
who
Rive pray thanks after a fashion. But our thanksgiving is too often JL rather perfunctory acknowledgment in general terms, Instend of the tonle to our praying which ought to be, and would be, if we systemati- thanksgiving cally reviewed Philippians, lv, B
6.
prayers. noted the answers (nfirmative or otherwise) and thanked God In the light this exercise would bring us.
With
Watch the way of a sailor at a mooring-rope, when a strong current Ureatens to sweep his boat away from the quay. Merely to hold on with both hands might end bis being pulled overboard, He hauls in every inch he can, and as oppor- tunity offers takes a turn around a ballard.
We have to do something like that in our prayer life. Falth is our rope and thaltsgiving is our bollard.. Every prayer answered is so much gained, and if we throw it promptly around the bollard it becomes ever so much easier to hold on than if we only went on pulling, halt in fear of the next strain. Perhaps, if the fast- running tide should have made us let go, it is just because we fafled to take this precaution.
Stuffing-Mix I pint breadcrumbs with 14 gilla hot milk and soak for half an hour, drain and mix with 16 pint of chopped celery, 1 teaspoon celery salt, a gill of butter and salt and pepper.
White Grape Sauce.-Heat 11⁄2 pint stock with g!11 red, currant Jelly in a double boiler, thicken with a teaspoon of cornflour mixed with a little stock, and stir until It thickens, Strain, add 1⁄2 pint skinned and stoned white gropes, and reheat. Plum Pudding
Sauces
st
Flaming Sauce-Put a
cup sugar and a kill of water in a sauce- pan,-cook until the sugar Begina to darken, then take of the fre, add 2 teaspoons of lemon, Julee and a gill of brandy, and pour over the pud- ding at the last minute. Put a match to it just outside the dining
room door.
Brandy or Rum Butter-Grate nutmeg and mix with 8 Cz. Anc brown sugar, and about 2 good table- spoonfuls of brandy or rum. "Melt 4 oz. butter and pour on to the mix- ture, stirring all the time. Put Into to glass dish and leave until cool.
Party Savouries from Finland
THERE is nothing like enticing
little savouries for making
a menu really successful. Fish-
By
salted, dried, pickled, and fresh LEMPI OKSMAN -is not used much in England,
until just befors serving, when you "fold" them into the thick cream very carefully with two forks, and give the salad a final sprinkling of Coarse French pepper. This salad should be served in a deep earthen- ware pot.
but in Finland as in the whole of the Ashimonger's) two dessert apple Pickled Herring Canapes Scandinavia, we give a good deal of four cold potatoes, several small thought and ingenuity to what I sup- beetroots, 1 tablespoonfuls of finely You will need fresh, herrings, pose most English people would call chopped onion, 4 tablespoonfuls of boned and cut in half lengthwise. "hors d'oeuvres" and for which we wine vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of Roll them up neatly, arrange in a use fish in every possible variety. sugar, teaspoonful of white pepper,
und of a cup of good cream, lightly reproof dish, cover them with Anely shredded onlon, a few peppercorns, a Here are three party savouries whipped.
Httle salt, and enough vinegar and which I have never found In Eng-
Cut the herring in two and soak water (half and half) almost to land. They are extremely simple to make, delicious to eat, and charming in fresh water for 15 hours. Then cover them. Bake in a hot oven for dry St. fake it off the bones, skin and half an hour. When they are done, eut it into very small square pieces, lake the herrings out, drain them, Cut the beetroot and potatoes into and let them get quite cold. Then Salt Herring Salad
large, dice, the apples Into small dice, cut each roll neally in half from side to side, and serve on little rounds of Take one large salt herring (the and shred the onion very finely.
Keep the
separale crisp hot buttered toast. Ingredients kind you see In Uarrels of brine at
to look at:
Count the "TELEGRAPHS
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