HESTER VALENTINE reports the Folk Cookery
Exhibition and gives you
Something you've probably
never tasted
Y
OU may have heard or call's heart and stuff it with the
following
DOROTHY ROUND'S
WEDDING DRESS
YOUR
FORTUNE
BY
CARDS
Did you read the article on cards ifcre's an eraniple, of yesterday?
an actual hand of cards, explaining a bit more fully how you can read fortunes from them.
EV
VEN with the table of definitions which we gave you it is not always easy to know how to interpret their meaning properly.
young
Supposing the person whose for-
fair complexioned tune you are about to tell is is rather stuffing: 2gzs.
bread-wild,
He will be represented bachelor. chopped dessertspoonful of salmagundy, bara crumbs,
by the Knave of Hearts, and you can let him into the sceret before brith, brücheen, fru- mixed herbs (parsley, thyme, mar-
joram
chervil), salt, pepper, one menty, Dublin barmbrack, are finely chopped lean ham, mix you start If you like. carrageen, love in disguise, ingredients well together and bind and Selkirk bamrock. But can you tell me what they all are?
with yolk of egg or a little milk.
Wrap the stuffed heart completely
round with rashers of very fat bacon
We will take the cards which con- an illustration. ceal the future as
ince most people are more inter-
what has or is happening. Bake
ested in what's going to happen than
ind then with greased paper. it for one hour in gratin dish in Remove the paper A short while ago you could have nethum oven. stumped me fairly easily. But you and bacon, brush the heart over with ege, and cover it with the won't find it so easy now, because i beaten
These consist of chopped have visited the exhibition of tradi- "prickles." tional and folk enokery at Lacort cooked vermicelli and cried Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, crumbs ferisp them in oven).
exhibit
This organised by the Replace the "disguised" heart in English Foll Cuakery Association, the oven to brown for a few minutes.
Syllabub
was a real revelation of the variety Serve with tomato sauce poured ell and merits of cookery in the British round. Isles and the Irish Free State. There were samples of every dish, demonstrations of how to make them, and lectures on the nutritive values of our national foods,
conceivable
Here are a few of the recipes. watched being made:-
Brucheen
Here they pre-Nine of Diamonds, of Spades, Elght of Diamonds, Queen Queen of Clubs (upside down), King Knave of fearts (upside down). of fiearts, Eight of Hearts (upside Queen of Hearts, King of Clubs, down), Ten of Hearts (upside down), Eight of Spades.
ters.
say
it
IRST of all you will notice hearts predominate. that
don't have to but you is used to be made by This indicates success in love mat- TE
If you think milking the cow straight anything about Into a bowl containing the other in-wouldn't be good for the young man.
for syllabub! As that is I gredients
not always possible, however, here is the more usual way.
Put into a bowl 14 tablespoons Julce, ditto Temon juice, 3 sherry, 1 tablespoon COOK required number of tablespoons
old potatoes in their skins. castor sugar, and 14 pint fresh cream. Remove skins and nosh roughly Whisk with an egg whisk till the with a fork. Add mashed potatoes mixture thickens (usually about five
containing hot milk minutes). sauerpan (about 4 pint to 2lbs, potatoes), stir well with wooden spoon and addi sume Anked cold cooked Ash from removed which you have carefully
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all skin and bones.
Coarse salt fish is best (peasants an west coast of Ireland who make brucheen use salt ling, but this is
And
You now read the cards in order, beginning with the Nine of Diamonds and ending with the Eight of Spades. rend Although each card may be
mirst zingly. neighbouring cards sometimes be read together to make sense and join up the narrative.
The Nine of Diamonds shows ob- What sort of stacles and worry.
Well, Worry?
at a look Just take Eigh!
which Diamonds, of
Who is the woman? Obviously a very dark female, possibly a widow, as shown by the Queen of Spartes. When you tell him this he'll proba bly let the cat out of the bast right hissing savagely. "It's Mrs. away by Smulethorpe! Why is she being so dificult?"
that
WHEN LINING speaks so clouently of love-making.
CUPBOARDS
not always procurable in England). WHEN you become tired of lining: such
23 salted cod. When the the drawers of your quest rooms
fish, and milk
are well with
the advent of paper betore together taste the mixture every visitor, why not make a per- add seasoning if necessary, manent lining of American cloth, Scoop it out into a gratin dish and stuck to the inside of the drawers" brown I in a hot oven or under the Same of the fabrics intended for Kriti.
use as bathroom curtains serve the This is bruchren in Its purest form, purpose equally well. but you can use your imagination All kinds of colours are ublain- little if you find it on the dull side.able, so the effect can be as interest- A garnish of fried tomatoes or ing as you please, and all these parsley would be a nice addition, or materials merely need wiping over you could sprinkle the mixture with with a damp cloth in order to keep
rated cheese and dot it with fleeks them fresh. of butter before putting it under the grill.
Castles On The Rhine the edges,
[INCE finely ib. left-over)
Another dainty way of thing strawers or cupboards is to cut out the correct shape in chintz, binding
and
then fixing the material to the wood with drawing for that it is removable washing purposes.
Mold veal, rabbit (when in Pins, so
season),
chicken. Addi 2018. while breaderumbs, seasoning, tea- spoon chopped mixed herbs, sprink- ling nutinck, tablespoonful stack, and a whole tablespoontui water,
raw egg.
Stir
the mixture well
together
and buttered casile pudding tins
with it. Lay the Uns upside down
iri
.
ATTRACTIVE MACS
[ACKINTOSHES
a aleamer, cover the open ends M
with buttered greaseproof
Well, you've got the answer in the (upside down). Kaave of Hearts which shows the young man, him- seif, as a bad lover-at least as for s Mrs. Snufflethorpe is concerned.
TH THE Queen of Clubs (upside
down) speaks of a dark who is very jenious about woman something. Why not about Mrs. S.? But walt a minute!
The King of Hearta introduces a man with a tair complexion. nice
(Ask your victim if he knows any nice men with fair complexions. He is clearly the man will.) This
the dark woman about whom jealous, especially as her love is not being returned (Eight of Hearts, up- side down).
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The Ten of Hearts (upside down). shows small reverses-probably to do with the Queen of Hearts, a fair good woman who would make a wife. These reverses should not be taken too seriously, but from the are certainly
look
the of things
fair woman more attractive than they used should. paper, put Ild on steamer and steam gently to be. Gossamer thin, white rubber
Finally, a good friend, the King of man but not for 1 hour. Turn the castles" out or proofed silk capes fold up in next into the middle of a large serving, to no space and when they have Clubs (he's a dark dish and, pour some white sauce over hoods as well, we may certainly go necessarily a negro) is about to have
clothes an illness-Elght of Spades. aut in our most attractive them.
affections of the fair If possible, make your sauce with, and never fear the treachery of the illness may be the result of his losing well-flavoured stock, but if none is summer weather.
that would be pure guess- available use milk and water in the There are, however, all sorts of who'd make such a good wife. ordinary way, but be sure to simmer fabrics, which are now waterproofed it well with a bouquet of herbs and and also treated by a new process, work. He may only get a touch of plenty of seasoning. Surround the so that they simply do not hold the hay-fever. "castles" with a border of hot vege- water at all. It literally drops off tabics, such as peas, beans, or young them at a shake, so that you will be carrots.
Love In Disguise
CONSISTS of a heart velled in "prickles." Well wash and remove all tubes from a sheep's
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Drawn
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ROBB
THE
HE dress which Miss Dorothy Round will wear for her
wedding to Dr. Douglas Little next month is formal
in design, elaborate in material. It was designed by Teddy Tinting, a young man who has recently become well known as a dress designer, and who is also assistant to the secretary of the All-England Tennis Club.
The dress, skelehed when a mannequin was wearing it, has an intricate pattern of tame roses topven on an oyster- coloured background, The front is quite plain, hangs full from the knees.
stiver
distinctive: It The back is buttons into loops all the was from neck to hem and un inte the traiu. The last few inches of the train are left unbuttoned, The plit piting
effect. sleeves too, long and tight, but- ton from elbow to wrist on the inside of the arm.
Miss Round will wear a elus- ter of stephanotis on her head and most probably will carry e Yards sheaf of ivory roses.
and
yards of ivory net make her floor-length veil.
堂堂
the
No, you see, it's not so dif-
Acull really. And person whose fortune is being told will probably supply you with all sorts of useful ints.
But you mustn't rush blindly into it. Take things slowly, and when you feel that you haven't hit the nall on the head try another angle.
To a clever fortune-teller there are always plenty of ongles.
to have found the way to
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