This is the time
of the
it's
SO
+
year
when
useful to
know how to make
people comfort- able during con- valescence
YONVALESCENCE is often the most tiresome part of an illness. A little skill can make it less tiresome.
Choosing the right type of room is of the utmost importance. The ideal is a bright, cheer- ful room, gay with flowers, attractive, clean cur- tains at the windows arranged so as not to obstruct the view.
The furniture should be so placed that the bed and bedside table can be drawn close to the window during the day, and returned to their normal positions for the night.
The Mirror Trick
SH
CHOULD it be impossible to see out of the window from the bed, a mirror can be placed to reflect the view of either
garden or street.
All surplus furniture should be removed to give an air of spaciousness to the room, and those family ornaments which we are too weak willed to destroy should be taken away and replaced by the treasured passes- sions of the convales-
cent.
room
Pul A fre in the it you can, It looks (as well as feels) cosy.
2
A single bed with comfortable mattress, under blanket and tucked in
an
" securely
lower sheet is essential.
An Additional long narrow sheet, known as a draw-sheet, is useful. The top edge of this rests under the pillows
nus firmly lucked in
Bed in day
Bad Here at night
REJUVENATION
RECIPES FOR
WINTER
A
cooks are apt to com- plain about the dull old vegot- ables, that are always with us.
But there is no reason why we should be mournful about it. Evon old vegetables are full of possibilities. We must not des- pise them.`
the
This is the opportunity for cook to show her ingenuity, and her technique; with a lille Imagination, a small amount of trouble and n great deal of seasoning she can turn
the old vegetables into delicious dishes.
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But she must prepare them well. If the carrots, the turnips, the par- snips are large and tough, she must use only the best parts, sacrificing, for instance, the hard core of the parsnips, the thick skin of the turnips, the green inside of the car-
rots.
A few moments of parboiling will come to the rescue, and she has the vegetables, shaped, softened, ready for the finishing touch which will make some of them even good enough for a separate vegetable dish, as I hope, the following recipes will
show.
GETTING MUSHROOMS POTATOES EN
BETTER
at the sldes. After each meat i can be drawn through, thus remov- ing any crumbs and keeping the bed fresh and clean,
Pillow Support
head.
THE
HE pillows, four in num
ber, are arranged to sup- port the back, neck and
This way of arranging pillows,
makes for comfort.
The first les across the bed, the next two are arranged dlogonally from the centre of the first pillow towards the sides of the bed, and the fourth is placed behind the shoulders, neck, and head. The top bedclothes are warm, light, and water bottle, too, is a great com- secure, but not tucked in tightly fort. enough to restrict movement.
When the
bed is remade for the one or two This can be done by folding the night only the usual top corners of each blanket about plilows are needed.
12 inches towards the centre of the
- bed,--turning down-the-top-edge-of -
The bedside table should hold a
tea, or meat extracts should be the
ON YOUR MENU
GATEAU
some old potatoes. Toilet and cold; any kind
will do for this. Cut them across in slices.
.
Put in a hot frying pan a good slice
FEW years ago we of butter; when it is at the foaming stage, put in the potatoes; season should never have well with salt and pepper. thought that mush-
Cook on a moderate fire, shaking rooms could be so and stirring; it does not matter if tively and see that it is really hot easily obtained as they are to you break them in doing so, but they must be free in the pan, and stick or really cold. Nothing is so un-day, and now a considerable togethe rso as to form a whole. palatable as lukewarm food.
industry in producing them has grown up.
main diet items. Serve food attrac
ear
What to
We A
Add more butter if necessary. If the potatoes make a kind of rustling noise when the pan is shaken, it From the signs in the shop means that the cake is nicely brown- TRAY is exasperatingly windows, the new season's croped. dificult to balance on should be beginning, and now "Place a hot, dat serving dish on the knees, A bed-table is the time for a few recipes. the pan
Is very much better.
have
and turn them out. You cake made of slices of} Clothes depend entirely on the' To my mind there is no better polatoes well buttered, soft inside personal taste of the wearer. It is way of cooking mushrooms, either and at the same time crisp outside, advisable, however, to have a loose wild or artificially grown, than the itting, attractive pair of pyjumus or first give below. This is made POTATOES a nightgown, warm bed-jacket possible by the invention of glass with long sleeves, and gown at hand.
FA
a dressing-ovenware; for the glass does not give VILLAGEOISE
Visitors Choice
Clund makes a lot of dif-
of NOMPANY of the right
ference. One or
two.
the mushrooms any favour but their own delicate one, and cooked in thls}.. way, even forced ones may some-; times taste quite like those from our autumn felds,
pur
In
earthenware
cocotte one piece of car- rol, one small onion and a bouquet of thyme, bayleaf and parsley, which EEL the mushrooms you add after you have cooked the
the blanket about eight inches and Jug of fruit juice, a clean glass, a people who stay for not more than level with the gills.--Melt a very minutes...
syphon of soda water, a bowl of an hour at a time for preference.
the top sheet about 12 inches.
Put in then a pound of potatoes, The sides of the blanket can then strongly), a clean knife and plate, and the aggressively hearty types which must be of a size large cut in thin slices and seasoned with be tucked in firmly without causing a reading lamp, stationery, and should be prohibited from entering enough to contain all the mush-salt and pepper. Add water level the occupant to feel like a mummy pencil. It is so comfortable to have any sick or convalescent room.
fresh fruit (avoid any that smell The world's self-appointed martyrs little butter in a glass casserole,
In a case,
all these necessities within easy reach of the bed.
An elderdown is useful for pro viding extra warmth with a mini- mum of extra weight. A hot soups, steamed fish, chicken, beef-
TRY THESE AT THE
with the potatoes, bring to the boil rooms, so that ench is flat on the and let it simmer, with the ld on, bottom.
the
VEGETABLES
of
1 the potatoes are soft.
Remove the carrot, the onion and Arrange the mushrooms on Food: Milk, bread, butter, eggs, Why Be A Grouch?
bottom, peeled sides downwards, the bouquet, and serve in the cocotte. No matter how healthy a person sprinkle them very lightly with salt may be, there are times when he feels and a little pepper, and cook them RAGOUT OF grouchy and miserable. Usually this with the lid on in a slow oven until is attributable to something eaten they are done. It is a little dimeult this which has upset the stomach.
to say for just how long, for One of the surest ways of quickly depends on the size of the mush- cooked
THIS is made with the best getting rid of the source of the rooms; but when they are
parts of carrots -and-tur- trouble is to take a dose of Pinketten. (say, in twenty minutes to half an These tiny laxative puls aleanse the hour), they will still be a little firm, nips cut in small pieces, slices CHILDREN'S PARTY food tract of the offending substances their gills will still be separated and onion and a few potatoes, also in
and prevent the accumulation of net blackened and sadden as they so smail pieces. waste matter.
often are when fried.
Put all these in a casserole with a When they are nearly 'done, add In cases of constipation, liverish-
Arrange them then on buttered small piece of butter. Cook, tossing as them for a few minutes, then add ane slice of lean ham cut in smalls, biliousness, sick headaches, bad
breath, skin trouble such as sene, toast, or better stil, eat them
meat stock almost level and let the whole thing cook slowly, with the lid there is nothing more quickly If you do not want to thicken the on, for quite an hour. effective than Pinkettes. Chemists liquid that has come from them and everywhere sell this all-vegetable use it as a sauce with them, keep it Feel with ashurp knife if the carefully as it will be valuable it vegetables are really soft before you are making a stew or a mince, serving.
Sensitive Matches
MATCHES, like children, shun pepper. Serve at oured salt and pimples and bolls, and for the relief they are.
soap and are attracted to sugar. Try it.
CARROTS AT
Take a largish bowlful of LA CREME
water and on the surface arrange
about a dozen matches, star-
wise. Sharpen a piece of soap
HAV
FAVE some carrots, shaped
a
of
as described before, and to a point and dip it into the boll them in salted water. water at the centre of this "ect When they are soft and nearly piece."
glone, make a white rour with tablespoonful of flour and one The matches will disperse to the butter. Add a glass of hot milk, grated nutmeg, salt and pepper, side of the bowl.
bring to the. boil and let the sauce thicken awhile.
Now, having removed the soap, hold a piece of sugar in the water in the centre of the bowl. The matches will flock round it.
To-day's Unbender
Get any member of the party to
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Add your carrots (well drained), and a tablespoonful or two of cream, and cook a few minutes more,
PUREE OF TURNIPS
stand against the wall, both heels HAVING peeled the turnips
pressed against the skirting board.
as explained, boil them in
Put down a plece of paper on the salted water. When they are per- floor within easy reach of him and fectly soft, mash them well with a Dale him to see if he can bend over fork and pass them through a sieve. and pick it up without removing his Then add
about one-third of heels from the skirting board.
Bechamel sauce: whip well, and put
He'll say "That's easy!" but will in a good deal of pepper..
-find it impossible.
Balloon Gliding
Played by gently propelling an in-
Cook a tow minutes more and Anish by adding a good 'plece of butter (of the fire). This is parli cularly good with mutton."
flated balloon along a given space by LEEKS GRATINEES
topping it with a walking-stick. Its
final resting place is a waste-paper basket some distance away, Tho players are divided into two teams
TAKE the white part of some
lecks too large eut
of equal size, The team having the them in two lengthways and boil
lowest number of forfeits wins.
them in salted water till soft. Drati well.
Each player is allowed one minule to place the balloon in the basket. Put them in a buttered fireproof No player must touch the balloon diah, sprinkle with grated cheese, wifli his hand, and the balloon must dispose a tow. small pieces of bulter not touch the floor. A forfeit is here and there, and brown in the given for elinor of Piese offences, oven or under the grill.
laxative.
PINKETTES
KEEP YOU CHEERY AND WELL.
Make Your Figure ATTRACTIVE
It is unwanted wastes that maka you awkward and slow on your feat. Et in those wanton that make you tire anslly and look older than You are You can get rid of them the Bonkora way. BonKors helps you to health and trimnos by stimule. ing body aution, getting eld of un- wanted potioneus waste matter, Foal Start the BonKora treatment. Journalt getting more kutivo, Bea yourself becoming trim and atteno. ivo, and outting YBANA off your figürs.
BONKÓRA
Sold and recommended by All Druggists.
to give that mushroomy favour which is so good!
FRICASSEE
PARSNIPS SAUTEES.
MAKE round
10
oblong
-pieces out of best part of
smallish peeled mush-soft, and finish cooking them, well rooms in two ounces of butter drained, in butter in a pan. until they are done but not They should be nicely browned. browned, thicken with a table-Sprinkle with salt, and serve. spoonful of flour and season with FRICASSEE OF salt, pepper and touch of nutmeg
and a sprinkling of freshly chop-CARROTS ped parsley.
Break the yolk of an egg (or two)
In a basin and mix with it a gill
CUT
olive shaped pieces, more or less the same size;
or RO of cream or cream and milk out of the best parts of old carrots. Add a squeeze of lemon juice and a Boll them for n few minutes and tiny touch of cayenne pepper, add 10 drain well. the mushrooms and, being careful
Melt a piece of butter in a pan, not to let the fricassee boll but still keeping it very hot, stir well to-put in the carrots, and fry
fairly, slowly. gether until the sauce thickens.
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