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FISH AND..
LAN a "Fish Day week and
once a family your should welcome the change.
But perhaps your folk have become, all too familiar with your usual recipes? Then try some of these savoury flah dishes.
Ood, we all know, can be duil, yet il shouldn't be. This is how I maka more appetising.
Cod with Onions
Thaty, and a satisfying meal.
Wash and dry the cod steaks, hince
in a greased baking in, aquecze over a few drops of Tomor Jutee. then bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.
Meanwhile, alice two large onions and try in dripping until a golden brow. Disa the fal and surround with a border of fried onions,
Uncooked tomatoes, skinned, can be used instead of onlona. In this caze anchovy sauce or melted butter in served with the nala nn well.
Savoury Cakes
Economy di, deliciously flavoured. Any cooked white fish in sullable for fish cakes. Flake the fish, mix it with half the quantity of mashed potatoes, add pepper, salt and a tile anchový
essence.
Bhape into cakes, amear with bênten cgg. sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and fry in hot fel. Drain, and serve with mashed or chipped potatoea.
Fish and Chips
Famous British fare.
making it ensures nurersa.
This way of
Wash and dry the fish well before you cork it. Dip it in batler, egg an breadcrumbs, or sensotied flour.
Uar plenty of fat and be sure it in boiling when a blue smoke rises be
Otherwire It fore the fal goes 1. will be solden. Try a nice golden brown colour, then grain o
soft paper,
Dish on a hot lati, garnlal with parsley and serve with these chips,
Peel atx palatoes very evenly, cut them into thin slices, partoll and dry them in a cloth.
Make some off or
Touch of Embroidery
NITTEDS as well as wool trimmed with frocks aro embroidery
this autumn. Qulle claborate floral destens are carried out in lazy daisy stitch,
Jualtionable model had the smart Florentine quilting that is appearing on maug day and afternoon dresses. The serull work on the front of the ctress was attained by means of wide rauleduz.
arc
Modified forms of the jasklon for embroidery
easily adopted to everyday clothes.
A single bloom on a long stall is attractive trimming to a painty cUL dre, and a posy of flowers embroid- rred at the teatat makes a smart finish for a dark offer frock of princess cut, It has the added udeantage of not get- ting spoiled casily or crushed, as in the case of artificial flowers.
THE new ginger suede kandbags look
-for-all-the-woontel-żike celd-shaped, aluer cakes. A soft blue or misly prep are the colours to tecar with this ruther dificult shade.
Then there are the new long-handica lys that can be slung satchel wise neer your shoulder, so that you can never lose pour buy.
Choosing A Child's Companions
Dr. G.
que necessity of watching over their children's choice of com-
FLOUR
AISH
By
Mrs. BARDELL
Good Companions
-Smoked
Cloves and pastry fishes decorate a savoury fish pio.
dripping hot in a saucepan or frying pan, mit in the potatoes, and fry lo are brown colour.
When they are crisp and done, take them up and drain on paper. There chips must be served very hol
Anchory. Toast
Bavoury dish for supper.
Lay a small dried laddock in a ti with a very little water. Bake fur 10 miles, then remove the skin and
fish into bones and separate the Inge lukes
Melt a nut of margurine in a stew pan, fry a finely chopped small onion, add three sliced tomatoes and cook until soft. Add the list and ten- spoonful of parsley, season to taste, and stir gently until the fish is hul.
Arrange on buttered toast lightly spread with anchovy paste.
Cooked In Pastry
Another flavoursome sunck dllah. Ingredients: lb. flaky pastry, cooked fish, hard-boiled egg. 1 ten- spoonful of parsley finely chopped, white sauce and sensorfing.
Roll out the pantry into a square it cut off a narrow strip. Mix the ingredients with the white sauce to o noit mixture and sucail in the centre of the pastry.
Damp the edges of the pastry, and fold the comers to the centre.
Close the edges firmly, and decorate the pastry with pleges of pastry cut Into the shapes of lish.
Brush over
with and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven, Regulo mark 7.
Farmhouse Pic
Substanila Esh dish suitable for
dinner.
Ingredients: 11lb. cooked while fish, b. rough puff pastry, a pint anchory sauce, salt, pepper, and a teaspoantil of chopped parsley.
Renaive any bone and in from the Ash, niset flake, Mix the fish with the sauce and seasoning, and place it a gressed plc dish.
Cover with pastry, decorate the edges. make a slit in the top of the erw
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"I want 10 spoak. 10 Daddy, please."
or Fresh
brush over with egg, then bake in a hot oven for 50 minutes. Mark 7.
Herring Puffs
When you have guests serve these savoury snacks.
Remove the skin from sante cocked herring, then pass the Bch through a Mieve. Add a little margarine, salt and pepper to taste.
fall out some pur pastry to quarter of an inch thick, and cut into oblong pleces four inches-by-five and a half inches Spread the herring paste over one half and place the other hatf over. Pinch the ends together, brush over with CES, and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes,
Regulo mark 7. Eerve hot as a savoury:
Halibut an Gratin
This fish is more expensive thau cod, but it has a fine flavour of its own. Try It with chrese.
Bkin and bone Ilb. of boiled hall. bill, flake, then arrange the fish in s Kreased dish. Add a Lablespoonful of chopped parsley to pint of white sauce, season with salt and pepper. then pour this over the cooked fish in the pie-dtak.
Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, dot with butter or murgarine, then brown in n moderate oven. Serve with cucumber and melted butter.
With Potato Crust
Children will enjoy this nourishing Ah ah.
Ingredients: 1lb. cooked fish, llb. mantied potatoes; 3 pint parsley sauce," 3ox. margarite, pepper nud Balt, browned cranba
Arrange the flaked fish free from Lone and skin In greased dish. Season, cover with the potatoes, and brow margarine. Sprinkle with browned crumbs, and bake for 20 minutes a hot oven. Mark 6.
Haddock Fillets
French way of cooking a haddock. Wash and dry a fresh haddock, cut down the back, separate the flesh from Brushi the bone, and cut into filleta over with egg. cover lightly with bread- crumbs, and try until golden brown in hot fat.
Garnish with fried parsley.
Roc Tartlets
These are tasty racks.
Wash the toes, put them into a pan and cover with mlik; cook gently for 20 minutes. Then strain of the liquor. mash the roe with a little butter and ticasoning, and proceed as for herring puffs. (See recipe above.)
Do Women Pay
Their
ARE women honest or dishonest about money? Do they pay their bills? Are they better, or worse, than men in this respect?
I didn't know, so I asked
minions is an important duty which four representative people
can easily, and unwittingly, be over to give me their opinions.
Inoked by mothers.
li is essential, however, that
Firat I tackled a landlord.
Debts
By
LAVINIA
¡Cooking
Magic
WHEN making custard flans you
sometimes find that after the delicious liquid is poured into the ence sinks before the pastry has time to harden, and the pastry be- comes sodden.
Americans have found a way to overcome this which acts like magle. All you have to do is keep back a little of one of the egg whites, whisk it lightly and then brush i over the surface of the pastry-case, This forms 1 flm which will defy all efforts to penetinte it you let it stand a few seconds to harden be tre pouring in the custard,
Make sure
thal the pastry is pressed well against the tin in which it is to be cooked. This expels the nir from between the pastry and tin. Should you omit to do this, the pas try will often force its way through and form a crust on top of the cus tard.
Very often there are complaints that the under surface of your flan looks white,
If you want to ensure that it is nicely browned, stand your tin or Has ovenware dish on a browning shelf In the oven while cooking.
Observe these three precautions, and you will produce a delghtful, faultless fan.
If you have trouble with fruit Juice tolling out of your pics there is a which acla like remedy
.mogle. Sprinkle a lttle cornflour over your fruit before pulling on the top crust. The fulce will not buif out, and the finyour is Improved
Should you Bad that you have used too much sugar in your jams or stewed. fruil, squeeze a le le- mon Juice.
the
Not only does it neutralise some of sweetness, but in a way that seems almost magleal. It will help to sel your Jums.
J. R.
DON'T TELL THEM TOO
MUCH
THOUGHT perhaps you ought to know that Elizabethi cried bout her geography homework yes- terday evening. She said she found It to difficult."
Elizabeth's Quite
sensible for nother to tell the child's teacher of he incident, but quite a mistake to tell her when Elizabeth was present, for Elizabeth stood there with un expression of "Am I not interesting?" on her chubby face. And next time she feels bored or does not like what she is doing, she will remember what tears did for her on a former occa- sion, and probably try the experi- ment again,
According to some critics, one of the faults of modern life is reticener as regards civieren. For instance, they know all about the family finances; an improvement In some respects on former custom, but apt to overlond the youthful mind and lead to em- barrassing incidents.
Bobby at ten years
old, cannot
really understand why his mother is so worried about bilis and it is fur better to conceal the worry than to Bobby's confiding-in-Atès. Brown. "Mummy's very worried about bills this morning."
This is not good for the family re- putation, and tot particularly bene- Acil for Bobby.
Jean hears so much
mother's
ginning selt.
abcut her
headaches that she is be- them her- to suffer froin
This modern world is not going to by easy for children when they are older. so surely it is better to let
worries 99
WELL, well. So far we women then remain childrer untouched by
have shown up in a good | ¡rown-up troubles and light. But Baten to what a court long as possible
Also, no modern child will derive dressmaker thinks of us,
Juny hart from being kept a little Marther in the background.
C. I
it
"Women are all alike-hypno-
"Women!" It was not so much 信息 exclamation splutter or rage. "I 'think! FARINGTON they're the limit! Clothes are tised by the newest skirt length the last thing they pay for or the latest thing in cocktail ~||~|-|-·|-·|-|-|-|-|-|-·|-|-|-++++++ Exactly the same, as men-no suits. If they can get things on better, no worse. Men always credit they will. It's terrible! "The other woman did the keep their tailors waiting. We The most respectable women do I mean as regards his property same, but she the time they
was encouraged men do the
their it, too." develop the instinct for "making-owns all kinds of houses and by her husband. I felt sorry uressmakers. friends" Association with the right flats, furnished and unfurnished. for her," he added apologetical- frictions develops
qualities, which
maller should help and teach her He's a landlord on a big scale-
clifldren to choose friends wisely and well, right from
are of inestimable value when the
same with
"Women," he said, stroking ly. "Had a lot of trouble one *If a woman has dress THESE revelations were stag-
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children are grown up and embark- his chin thoughtfully, are good way and another had to keep allowance of fifty pounds a year ing upon their careers, social and about rent on the whole, better her husband, then lost her job, she'll spend commercial, in the outside world. than men, I should say, because and, well, they just flitted. I rather, to be more precise, will prick.
If possible, a child should uve friends in all sections of the com-they're not so hard-boiled. They didn't bother to take proceed- order clothes to that amount munity; for mixing with many types have a wholesome fear of the ings."
of humanity makes a child more un-landlord-can't sleep at nights
selfish, prevents conceit and snow if they owe a month's rent;
and, most important of all, develops a broad outlook on life.
have visions of being thrown
A Free Choice
out into the street, if they're the
It is not wise to shelter children alightest bit in arrears.
(oo much where the making of
by "bad" companion that parents] should interfere.
com-
don't
gering. Or perhaps it was conscience beginning to just
"Anyway I hurried off, hop- and let the poor dressmakering to get a restorative at the
thands of a doctor. whistle for the difference.
"I'm afraid women are bad
or
I
-1
"If asked for the money she's about paying doctors." he be FTER the landlord, the
cither mortally offended grocer. This particular one pleads poverty. In either case gan, destroying my lust illusion. is the branch manager of a she transfers her custom else-"In fact, they're just as bad us Doctors are always kept "Men, possibly because they've large firm of multiple stores.
where. So we are in a cleftmen.
waiting. I can't think why, ex- itlends is concerned. As far as pos-had longer and wider experience "Women on the whole, are stick.
about paying grocery "Women," she concluded cept that a tradition has grown sible they should be given a free of landlords, don't take us so good choice, and it is only when a child seriously."
bills," he said. "In nine cases forcefully, "are quite without up. People just don't think it alows signs of becoming influenced!
"Then," I asked, "women out of ten the husband is at moral scruples when it comes to matters, quite forgetting that A rule indulge in fault when a woman runs up a paying or not paying for clothes, doctors have to live, like the rest
bill. What often happens is Women will have clothes at any of humanity.” In later years the child will, in all moonlight flits” ?” probability, come into contact with "No, very rarely," he said. this; suddenly, without any cost-whether they can afford
drifted away...to sum up all sorta and conditions of men and
can re- warning, the husband cuts down them or not.”
allowance
'what I'd heard. I he or she has led a "In all my experience women.
housekeeping
I "But-but-
protested sheltered existence from childhood, call only two. instances. One the
We women pay the rent. Wo petent to sift the good from the bat, was a platinum blonde-an im- while expecting exactly the nervously, "you must have had enjoying the socicly of the former, pudent hussy, if ever there was same quantity and quality-of some unfortunate experience, pay our grocery bills. Both of Surely you cannot mean that all which are necessities. When it is a mere question of health we yet being able to mix with the latter one, as bold na brass-who knew food stuffs.
"In order to avoid friction at women are like this?" without it having any bar influence all the tricks of the trade. on their own character.
"All with money, Hero-worship is quite often looked Waited till night because she home the wife starts getting" certainly do!" The res-are not quite so anxious to part
ponse was triumphant,
In the matter of clothes, how- upon with
with disfavour, yet, provided know the court would be closed groceries on credit, then can't the "hero" is worth worshipping, this add a distraining order couldn't pay. And, of course, the friction women who can afford to have
their clothes made are lax about ever, it would appear that we is generally
state of mind which be procured before it opened is far worse in the end.
"Naturally, there are excep- payment.
are bordering on crooks. Could should be encouraged, for it has a next day.
on the
Those who can only afford that really be the case? I do. wonderfully good Influence
schoolboy
"Sho got a van from some- tions, and the grocer soon learns
Or was it normal child. Having n or schoolgirl ideal to look up to where, popped in the furniture, to recognise. the type who run ready-mades naturally pay cash,manded of myself. devolops a child's character, and
But they're Inspirea lim or her to make the most and hey prestal away, she went. up bills without any intention of but it's my private opinion just the old Eve coming out?
the that they only do so because I decide to drop the matter. I never saw her again, or the paying.
they have to.
It was getting too personal.. Margaret Avon 'overdue rent, either!
ruchi man or woman is not
of life and its opportunities. i ...
-minority."
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