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Wall-cut top coal in herringbone tweed with lamb
ALL SET.. For Winter
fur lining to the waist and quilted artificial silk bolow. The jarsoy velour frock features the fashionable high -corsage lino.
By Mary Grace
FAMILY LUNCH -and it's all cooked
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HESTER VALENTINE
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HIS recipe comes from French peasants who are
masters of the art of good, simple cookery.
Then there is plenty of good strong jelty stock. This must be strained and allowed to get cold. You can then scrape the fat off the top very carily. Park fuk peels off like thick skin and must be kept for dripping.
There are certain thick soups which ore extra good when made with pock stock. Split peas, for example, or
Celery Soup
WASH and chop one large ur two anal! heads of celery
Simmer
It requires very little trouble to prepare; just (omitting green tealy part),
the thing for mothers of big families.
I
Pork & Cabbage Stew
ing: two or three sliced onions, car
it, gether with two small chopped onions, in one ounce dripping (park fat from the stock will du beautifully) for fifteen minutes.
hour,
ENTO a large round stewing pot or saucepan three- Pour two pinta stock, bring to level tablespoonful quarters full of boiling water put two pounds salt boil, add two
rice, seasoning, And atreaky pork (advisable to order it three days beforehand from well washed
gently three-quarters of an butcher), two fresh pig's trotters, a large firm cabbage cut in bunch of herbs if avaliable, Simmer then rub the rice and vegetables quarters, and any or all of the follow-
Carefully-core required number of through a sieve, return soup to sauce- ruts, leeks, a stleed turnip, and a sour cooking apples. Stund each one pan with half a pint of milk, bring to stick of celery,
on a round (tousl thickness) of white boil (adding more seasoning it neces- Cover the pot closely and simmer bread in a buttered baking tin, Fill sary) and serve. gently for three and a half hours, up the holes where the core used to be Three-quarters of an hour before with Demerara sugar, a small piece serving add required amount peeled of batter and more sugar. Pui the whole potatoes. Half an hour be- tin in a slow to medium aver till the fore serving and half a pound of pork upplwes are tender tut not broken
(about an hour). sausages,
When they are done the bread will
To dish up, put the salt pork in
Pig's Feet in Jelly
IF efther of the trollers was not eaten at lunch you cun make a tasty supper dish for your husband from It. Sepurate, the ment
the middle of big ment din with be fried and crisp. Put a little black from the bones and boil the latter up the trotters and shissages raund it berry jully (any jelly or Jam will do in a little of the stocks for half an and the putatues and cabbage round but blackberry 15 best) in ench hole
and pour the butter out of the tn hour.
the outside edge.
Serve some of the stock, reparately over the apples,
for gravy, no thickening necessary. And there you have the most ex- cellent family lunch dish-and only one pat to clean out.
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Baked Apples
Left Overs
THE
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Strain and add to the stock the diced ment, with a teaspoonful nage, another of parsley and a pinch ench of salt, black pepper and ince. Is Simmer all together for afteen min- utes and pour into a small mould er busin, rinsed out in cold water,
THE "left-over" question
easily solved with pork and
The pork itself enubage stew.
so
good cold that next time you are THESE will follow very nicely ordering the ment for this recipe!
Turn out when cold. The stock
on pork. They can be rather expect you'll order an extra pound of will have sel nicely into jelly, dull and unpopular, but not if you shit pork so as to be sure there will prepare them like this:--
be some over to eat cold next day.
Hester Valentine
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■Ɔ be so warm that you are able to tough at the winter is an ideal state of affairs, Also to be able to wear a thin frock under your coat without catching cold is a real advantage.
The coat shown in the left-hang akeich has all these virtuck as nor only in it fur-lined to the waist, but the artificial silk from the waist down- Wards is warmly quilted.
Made from suportich British herring-
Tone tweed U2 Drin WCBNI, this coat is priced at 42s, for all stars, SSW, SW, W and W.X.
Ansl, for that it nmply ent with a generous wrap-over,
essential h cold weather. There are cur volous for your civiez-fawn, grey, blue or tomasti. By the way the cosy baby lamh fur lining a sewn in by hand and detachable.
Another dresa problem is: What calonta can be worn under a top coaty Cantrasts are the vote this rean, and on the first floor in the rame stare I found an attractive frock in Jenny veluar, which my art has sketched.
This uteriał, with .. mart self- patterning, Is warm and dress at the seine Line. It ki ne supple aš velvet, and with care will washi eccleane
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Priced at 10s. 9d., it is obtainable in an excellent range of colours, in- cluding rust, brown, green, lido, black, navy and wine. The sizes obtainable of this rock are hips 40, 12 and in..
Also sketched is an "Todlan" com- fort shuc, which caught my eye too.
The shoes are also beneficial to the health of your feet, as iodine is con- veyed to die foot through a perforated air-cooled cushion Inner sock.
Moderately priced, sizes and half- sizes, from 3 to 71, are, 0s. pair: size 8 eosts 78., and 83 to 9. 70. d..
Smart winler shoesinbrown leather or suede with Cuban hool and lacing under a fringe Tongue.
Persistent Headaches
LAUNDERING LINENS
THERE is probably no more wel-
come sight on a dreary winter afternoon than a dainty ten-table pulled near to a blazing fire.
But unless the linen is immaculate the table loses its charm.
If ten is spilt on coloured linen the mark will disappear immediately it treated with hot water while st wet. Supposing that is Impossible and the stain is allowed to dry, sok the affected part for some hours in glycerine-this dissolves the tannin- then wash.
Cream, milk, or butter sometimes leave ugly stains. Treat with Krease solvent or with benzine and then wash. Benzine should be ap- iplied to n dry surface, and, as it is highly inflammable should never be used near a fire or a naked light,
Fruit stains, when fresh, may be removed by repeated soakings in warm water, or water in which a 11 little borox has been dissolved. dry use warm solution of sodium perburute:
Dealing With a
Silk-Embroidered Cloth
If a silic-embroidered linen clot is to be Marched, gather the embroid- ery in one hand, and dip the plain part only into the storch, or the sk inreads will be chugged and the ap- petrace of the einbroidery spoiled.
A much better treatment for til type of article is to wash it in braa IN SUITAers necessary water. The imparted to the lines, the colour is brightened, and no damage is donz to the silk threads.
To prepare tron water, tie some bra mely in a machin bag, cover completely with water and stew for twenty minutes. For washing, dibite the Eqnor with an equal quantity of water, for rinsing and stiffening, the
full strengil.
Indian or Chinese white embroid- cry on linen-lawn may be stiffened with gum water, one tablespoonful to ane pint of water, A much clearer. and more pleasing effect will thus be obtained and the iron will glide freely over the wet surface.
Organdie does not require starch if ironed wel.
If a glossy surface is desired, iron on the right side, if a matt une, DA the wrong. French winen who are wonderful laundresses, rarely iron any material on the right, although it is advisable to do so in the care of dam- ask er fine linen,
All embroideries should be pressed over a pad of flannel.
A. K. H.
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Banana Novelties
BANANAS make excellent food for the winter months, because they contain a high proportion of natural sugar in an easily digested form, if the fruit is ripe. "Brown" bananas are not to be despised. For children particularly they are best in this stale as long as they have begun
nost
10 ferment. Mach them with a fork and
milk. serve them with custard, Teream. A litle honey can be added if liked. A delicious sandwich #1- ing is made from mashed bananas, honey, and chopped walnuts.
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Firmer bananos dipped in York- tried or Persistent headaches, which do not shire pudding batter, and
in n pic-dish. give way to ordinary headache treat-baked in the butter ment and which are not caused by make good hol sweets for cold days, defective vision, are usually signs of They ran be served with marmolato weakening nerves,
sure or honey heated in a pan with brought about by an impoverished a little lemon juice. condition of the blood.
condition D
Banana candies are just the thing Nervous derangement of all kinds, for a children's party. Half a banana including headaches, backaches, cut broadways is required for carn palus in limbs and insomnia, are best eantile. Fit the cut end into the hole eliminated by tonit treatment through in a pineapple slice and stick a point- the blood. Most digestive troublesed plece of blanched almond Into the also are traveable to nerve weakness ohter end. Finally, "light" the candle
blob of and thus form part of that group of by sticking a tiny allments which has anaemia im- cherry on to the almond. poverished blood) as the primary
cause. A
by treatment recommended thousands of people #11 over the its world, who have experienced merits, is a course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. This splendid blood- building nerve-strengthening tonle Is unique in that contains elements which are easily assimilable and which rapidly oxygenise the blood, thus enriching, purifying and In- creasing the supply-Sufferers from toss of vitality and vigour, headaches, backaches, puins in loins, dizziness and palpitation, pallor and loss of weight, nervousness, Insomnia, diges- tive trubles, all results of poor blood, will And speedy and permanent relief in Dr. Williams' Pinic Pills, the proved blood and nerve tonic. All chemists can supply you.
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SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS
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Paris Fashions
ELVET, ever glamorous, ever fiat- tering ad beloved by every woman, is with us ngais. Combined with silk or crepe, it is important.
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There are new silver Glen Urquhart checked plaids made up in tailored, smart afternoon and cocktail sults.
* Narrow directoire multi-coloure stripes generally shown in metal are made up in blouses and trimmings. Jewelled buckles match large motifs which fix the draped neckline of classic Or evening dresses. Golf, silver, and copper are sometimes see mixed in the sets used on the new dress models.
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This season little scarves netually sewn into the necklines of jackets that have no collars.
Uat is being made of long while ful to trim costs and for itle wraps. Beautiful, but not elaborate, fitile capes are shown for evening.
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favourite Male-grey velvet is colour for houses to be worn with n little cont in a contrasting colour, duck green for instance, and a skirt of the same colour.
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