Try something new.
for instance, is a
Here,
DANISH DINNER
ONE advantage about sugar, and make a caramel in a thick
all over.
Peas with Carrots
frypon.. Add butter the size of a Anna, our Danish cook, walnut, and toss the previously boll- is that even if you arrange ca potatoes in this till they are brown a perfectly ordinary meal like chops and tomatoes it will probably be preceded by something quite, surprising, like rum and rhubarb soup
Yes, mixed.
Latif
TAKE 11b. of each vegetable. Slice the carrots thinly and put them with the shelled peas into about an inch of cold water in a closely covered stewpan. Cook very
to add more water, necessary So life has quite a fillip, and slowly till tender; it should not be occasionally lo pro- we have given up trying to order shake the pan occ meals, but just take what Anna vent sticking. Then, in a separate melt a nut of butter, add gives us. For instance, this is sauceponful of flour and cook for the meal she provided when I a few moments. Add this very care Raid we wanted something in- fully to the vegetable liquid to teresting but simple.
Wine Soup
2
thicken it, being careful not to break the vegetables. It is simplest to pour the liquid on to the thickening. finished Bauce finally pouring the
chopped parsley, Add chopped in the serving
INTO one pint of boiling water dit. throw two tablespoonfuls of dish. taploca and 2oz. of seedless raisins, Cook for three-quarters of an hour, when it should be done. Take it off the fire, add the juice und gruted rind of one lemon, then mix well
-
Apple Cake
TEW your pound of cut-up apples in very little water together a tablespoonful of easter (just enough to prevent sticking). suger and the yolk of one egg, and half a vanilla pod, and sugar to taste.. (The CKB They should not be too sweet. Put stir this into the soup, must not be put in while the soup two ounces of butter in a frying pan, is boiling.) Just before serving add and when it is at the foaming stage
of sherry
or throw in 4 tablespoonfuls of bread- of table spoonful
and 2 tablespoonfulk crumbs madeira: in Denmark they put dol-
demerarn sugar. Fry to- lops of stiffly whipped egg while to brown
gether till crisp and golden. Now float on the soup.
beat the stowed apple to a smooth n buttered reproot puree. Have dish, and fill it with alternate
Parsley Chicken
FIRST rinse the chicken with of apple and buttered breadcrumbs,
cold water, then scald out being careful to begin and end with its inside with boiling water and dry the brenderumbs. Put in a moder- it very well both inside and out to ate oven and bake for half an hour. preserve the delicate flavour of this Serve hot or ice cold. If hat in the twopenny freproof dish: if cold, turned out, good recipe. Take a bunch of parsley, pick off the big masked with whipped cream, stalks, but do not chop, and put it decorated with a few cherries: inside the chicken, which is
then
floured, flavoured lightly with salt
and pepper and fried
on all sides
Then put
In bulter or good dripping till it
golden brown all over.
and
Rum Soup
HERE'S how you can
with dried apricots,
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into a cosserole or thick saucepan well as rhubarb. with the fat and a cupful of boiling
stock, Summer very slowly, adding slock
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that much
Take some cooked, rhubarb necessary. Towards the has been stewed in not too end of the cooking add a cup of water, and rub enough through a cream or thick creamy milk. Serve sieve to make a pint of rather thin Boll it up for a few minutes, the chicken if possible in its own purge.
and when it is off the boil add u eavered casserole.
tablespoonful of rum (or sherry) and the yolk of an egg well mixed Sweet Brown Potatoes
with a tablespoonful of caster sugar. HOOSE very small roundish Serve with small cubes
of rolled in brown sugar and fried in new potatoes. To lib.
loaf butter. them allow 2 tablespoonfuls
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Surprise Dish
CHEESE PUDDING
can't
They kick these
off
HERE'S HOW
TO MAKE
THEM
YOU
QU need 1 oz. ball of crochet wool, 1 bone crochet hook, No. 10; 2 round peart buttons,
Abbreviations: Cr-crochet, inc increase. st stitch, dec-decrease.
RIGHT SHOE
doing
one
Cr 9 chain. Return, tricot st in each chain. You will now have 9 sts on your hook. Con- tinue for 20 rows.
When you have finished the 20th Tew, add 6 chain and join the wool This forms
on to beginning of shee, of bread
ELT half an ounce of butler in a stewpan. Stir into it a table-
M spoonful of four, and when well mixed, add a little stille mad
three ounces of grated Parmesan cheese. Stir the mixture over a On no account let it boil. slow fire until it looks like thick cream.
Season it with cayenne pepper (or white, if you prefer it) and salt, keep it at a very moderate heat for ten minutes and stir it occasionally. Then let it get quite cold, still stirring it now and then.
Add the beaten wolks of three caps mixed with a little milk. Whip the whites of five eggs to a stif froth, and lightly mix this in with the rest. Pour the mixture into a souffle dish, filing it three-parts up, and put it in the oven at once.
Serve the pudding as soon as it has risen to the top of the dish and is nicely browned. And serve it quickly.
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a basis for the instep and you will now have 24 sis on which to work. | ++ Cr 3 rows (in tricot stitch) without dee.
Remember that the inside of shoe (the left-hand side) is quite straight and the "upper" is shaped by dee 1 st on the outside in every row (after the 3rd row).
Continue this until you have only
14 sts left on your book.
st
Proceed as follows:-Cr the first
singly. Then er two sts together
until you come to the last st, which is er singly. This line should be done very tightly.
You have now B sts on your hook. Return. Cr 2 sts together until you have only 4 sts on your hock, Re- turn. Tien ine to 8 sts.
You now make the sole, which is
Bits To Cut Out First Aid Tip
IF you are called upon to
tie up an injury, and you have no proper bandage available, pass a very hot iron over an old, of clean handkerchief or piece clean rag. This will sterilise completely.
Froshener
it
ПAKE your cut flowers out
TAKE
of water at night,
New Kind Of Jam
JSE Kittle. whole
USE
Areen
tomatoes for this in the proportion of one pound of toma toes to three-quarters of a pound of sugar, a gill of water, and four or Ave scented geranium leaves.
Dissolve the sugar in the water for over gentle heat and boll five minutes. Put in the toma-
with toes, previously wiped
the geranium damp cloth, and
leaves in a muslin bag. Boil briskly until the
preserve sets
lay
Boor (in
the
when tested. Remove the geran- ium leaves before potting up in the usuni way.
them on a stone
out of the perhaps) pantry, draughts, and cover them with a damp blanket.
In the morning they will be as much refreshed by a good night's rest as you are,
a delicate This preserve has and unusual gavour, and can be used either as jam or with cold ment. Try it on your next visitor. It will probably get her guess- ink.
The easiest way
is the best
WHEN YOU'RE COOKING BEANS
way
er in one piece with the "upper." R There is no earthly reason why they should be sent to table
UNNER BEANS, when young, should never be shredded.
Cr & rows with B sts.
Dec 1 st on outside for 2 following looking like a ball of green string. rows. You have now 6 sis in the row. Cr more rows, dec to 4 sts for the last row in order to round
off the heel. The sole is now com-
plete.
Turn the shoe inside out and sew the sole on to the upper like this:- See that the middle of the heel
All that is necessary is to remove any "string" from the beans (there should not be much of this when they are young), and to break them across into two or three pieces according to their size.
The simplest way of cooking
Is in the centre of the back of the them is to put them into a sauce- water and upper part of shoe. Carefully sew pan of boiling salted
the back half of sole on to the upper. to boil them, with the lid off, until
Time,
about tender. Sew it on, without fulness for about they arc
Drain them well half its length. Then fasten off and twenty minutes. begin at the "too" end. The fulness before sending them to table. in the upper part of the shoe should
be very carefully gathered into the Must be bone Dry
sole.
STRAP
When they are served "au beurre,"
Gay Bowls For Table Decorations
TOW that gardens are almost bure NOW
af blossom and flowers are be- coming more expensive, the task of providing the house with that spot of colour and fresh green which is the days so essenilal to its appearance, be-
Sprays of leaves and berries treat- To this end you put the cooked ed with glycerine, and dried ever- sew the strap on to back of "upper" and, drained beans into n hot, dry lasting flowers look enchanting in part of shoc
pass.
Cr 3 sts. Continue for 23 rows. extremely careful draining and dry-comes more dimeult as Make a loop of 3 or 4 chain and sewing is necessary. button on to opposite side. Then
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1.
'LEFT SHOE
For the left shoe, the inside edge (In this case the right-hand side) should be kept -straight and the upper shaped by dee on the left side, after 3rd row.
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pan, and shake them about in it tall vases, but, largely owing to their until they are as waterless as pos- size, prove unsuitable sible. Then add the butter, and toss decoration. the beans in it until it is melted. Season to taste.
Serve the beans as they are, or, if you like, sprinkle them with little finely chopped parsley,
Apart from their use with other cooked vegetables in the well-known
Russian salad, these beans make a very good salad on their own.
With a minimum of trouble, how- ever. gay bowls may be arranged, which are ideal for this purpose.
Few people think of using Ivy or autumn creeper inside the house, yet a few young shoots well washed and placed artistically in a gay blue bowl of water will form a dainty centre-
piece for the table, and should last
for weeks.
Grass seed sown on a bowl of damp Put them into the salad bowl, mould or earth will bring forth a sprinkle them with finely chopped crop of cool greenery in a few days, parsley and chives, and gently mix and little artificial flowers dotted in on ordinary dressing of olive oll here and there amongst the blades and vinegar or, if you prefer will complete at very little cost o mayonnaise. Here, again, the effect fresh little garden which will last Is completely spoiled If the beans from 1-10 weeks. are cut up small.
Laying up for Winter
down for
Any-glut of beans can to dealt with by salting them winter use. Prepare them as advis ed for cooking......
Put a layer of salt in the bottom of an earthenware far, and put on incl. layer of beans on top of this Cover the beans with a layer of salt. Repent this process, as far brons will go..
the
be
Bird seed, too, sown in earth or abre, will produce a summery bowl, as will mustard and creas. A littic later in the season, crocus bulbs may be planted in the soil of fibre and then seed sown on top, and the beauty of the bulbs will be enhanced by the greenness of their back ground,
Cut flowers will last for a very long time and look more natural it placed in a bowl of sell or moss!". The stalks should be freshly tim. med before insertion and the earth: or moss kept very damp. Tiny flowers such as violets look especially lovely If tied together in little bun chen and dotted here, and there over a bowl of wet mosa, and their cost,, even la winter, is not prohibitiva. The Anal loyer must be a good Fern, too, will stand for many weeks, ono of salt which completely covers and a specially good bowl may” bộ the beans ANH MAN
produced by Brranging a few turdy anemones amonget some feathsty sprigs of fornja
The contents of the jar can thus added to as more beans come along.
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