2
Easy-to-make EVERYBODY
BISCUITS.
Roffour. Add
QUB lb. of butter into 141b. 1/4 teas-
poonful of baking powder and Valb, of sugar, 2 small epos and
2 teaspoons of treacle.
Cut
20
Roll out, to in, thick.
rounds and bake into minutes in a moderate oven,
VARIATIONS: Flavour with (1) lemon essence, or (2) half & teaspoonful of mixed spice. Of (3) half a teaspoonful of nutmeg, Or (4) half a tea- Or (5) spoon of cinnamon. 20za, of desiccated coconut.
Or (4) 20s. of pround al- monds, Or (7) 2028, of cur- rants or sultanas, Or (8) 2018. of chopped nuts. Or (9) hatf a teaspoonful of ground ginger.
Using Pastry Scraps
ALL housewives who go in for
pastry-making know how difficult it is sometimes to find 14 use for the scraps and trim- mings of pastry that remain after
pie or tart has been covered. The following recipes offer suggestions for the solu- tion of the problem.
a
Rissoles in Pastry
For these, besides the scraps of pastry, you will require some cooked Bah. sausage meat, or mince, or bound with a spoonful of thick sauce.
Roll out the scraps of pastry as cut into thin as a sixpence, and rounds. Brush the rounds over with besten egg, and put a teaspoonful of the meat mixture in the centre of and each.
over, Fold the pastry press the edges together.
benten egg, foss in vermicelli, and fry to a golden brown in smoking hot Eat.
Brush all over with
Serve on dish paper, garnished with parsley.
Banana Cream Pie
Ingredients:-Scraps of pastry:
Two bananas;
Two eggs
Grated rind of one lemon;
Half-pint milk;
11⁄2 ounce flour:
24 ounce caster sugar;
Juice of half a lemon.
with
Roll out scraps of pastry to make a "rim" round a pint ple-dish. De- corate rim with small rounds of and brush over with milk. pastry. Drenk flour to
paste a smooth milk. Bring the remainder of milk to boiling point, and add flour, stir- ring till smooth. Cool slightly add ས༥་་ the of eggs and sugar,-and- cook
Add gently for few minues. bananas, (aliced). also lemon, and 30 pour into dish. Cook
gently minutes tilt mixture is firm; then pile and stily-benten whites on top dredge with caster sugar. Allow meringue to set for few minutes in cool oven.
Cheese Straws
The best pastry for this is a rich short crust. Knead into the "scraps" as much grated cheese as it will take up (Parmesan is best); add a little more salt, and a pinch of enyenne, and roll out in a strip of about quar- ter-inch thick and three inches wide.
and Cut into straws,
bake in moderate oven till a golden brown. Individual Ham and Egg Pie
11
Divide your left-overs in two, and
thin L
round. Toll each half into With one round ne a saucer, and Fill about threequarter full withi bacon cul In, strips with scrap scissors. Now break an exit into a bowl, and whisk slightly. Pour over with salt and bacon, and season pepper. Lay the other pastry round on top, brush over with beaten egg (a very little of whisked egg may be kept back for this purpose), and about bake in
moderate oven twenty minutes til lightly browned.
Sardine Rolls
Sardines;
Cayenne pepper:
Grated cheese;
Sait yolk of egg: Scraps of pastry.
Drain sardines and roll in grated cheese. Roll out pastry thinly-cut into squares. Lay sardines in pas- try squares. Season, damp edges, and fold over. Glaze with yolk of egg, and bake in a hot minutes,
Oven 15
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know what to eat?
many know
By GRACE WILSON
important purpose of food, the proportion of our time given to its study, preparation and con- sumption is not at all out of high a proportion of fat in the diet.
reason.
years
certain
During the last 30 conclusions regarding food substances have been arrived at by biochemists and physiologists.
There is nothing perplexing or complicated about the facts known, nothing that cannot be reduced to the simplest practicable terms for the ordinary household.
Variety That
A
Ensures Fitness
Fats are nisa fuct foods- and C are present in green vegetables, valuable in moderation, though Wholemeal bread, the pulses, yeast the digestion may be upset_by too extract, oatmeal, whole barley, water- creas, potato, Icelt and parsnips have been found to contain Vitamin D.
A clay's meals, well-planned, should be balanced in the proportion of two-thirds carbohydrate to one- sixth fat and one-sixth protein, dry weight.
A certain amount of water should be drunk dally, and while most foodstuffs contain water, a consuip-
A
To serve plenty of potatoes. Home wholemeal bread, and little frult in every household dally is desirable. Offer children Instead an orange occasionally of sweets.
tion of from four to six pints, in- fld be eaten in the majority
Children's Main Meal
Eon and Potato Casserole. Sleved,
Spinach. Fresh Fruit in Jelly. Milk.
Sausage Hot-Pot
1lb. beef ribs or stewing steak, aquages, 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 2 leeks, fb. I onton, I potatoes, dripping, stock.
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meat til golden Less white starchy food and sugar FRY the cut up
brown. Cover with a little stock, pieces, of and add vegetables cut into with advantage, and
some sensen and simmer slowly for clusive of other liquids, will beneßt greenstuff or tomato should some hour. Then add sausages, cut the system and help counteract ilmes be provided at poisons by washing awny waste place of jam. material.
Provided there in enough variety
in the total foodstuffs eaten, the ade-
tea-time
CTUALLY, on cusy understanding quale amount of mineral sults will as a simple example of
of the components of u complete diet is simple to attain,
And applied habitually, it will not only ensure fitness in- stead of debility, but will also suggest a pleasant variety in the daily fare.
Remember that the essential body- be building foods or proteins are to found in lean meat, fish, eggs, cheese and milk,
The pulse vegetables-dried peas, beans and lentils also contain proteins, though of slightly leas nutritive value than their animal equivalent,
FUEL FOODS
CARBOHYDRATES, in which
category come starches And sugars, is the term which stands for fuel foods, which afford heat and energy while never becoming; part of the living tissues, being burnt up in the body.
Carbohydrates are turned to sugar during digestion, so are therefore of cual nutritive value.
Afainly composed of carbohydrates are four of wheat, oatmeal, sugar, treacle, honey, Jam, custard powders, breakfast cereals, certain truits and vegetables.
be supplied in them.
The Vitamins You
Eat in Fruit
THER
and
HEN there are fresh fruits
vegetables, the supreme impor tance of which as valuable adjuncts to the diet can scarcely be sufficiently stressed.
con-
15
As a source of the various stituents in lesser or greater degree they are hardly less vital than suppliers also of those chemical substances 50 essential vitamins.
to
ILT!
up
in and rolled in flour, and the potatoes cut in halves, and cook for another hour or so it ready. Beef Loaf
"complete" meal in every respect . we need look no further than for wholemeal bread spread with n good margarine, meat and green salad.
In each of these menus below - dishes have been selected to appeal to taste as well as for their nutritive content.
Breakfast
Cereal with sliced orange. Potao and Fish Cakes (freshly made): Honey Wholemeal Toast.
Tea Time
life Watereress and tomato sandwiches.
Main Meal
Though It would be impossible here
Apples (filling of chopped raisins
1lb. beef, small onion, 40. raw ham or bacon, 1 pickled walnut, I cau, teaspoonful made mustard, doz, breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, a latie grated allspice and nutnteg. a little meat glaze.. MINCE
meat,
In-
chop onlan, and put in a basin with the other gredients--the walnut cut up.
Bind with the beaten egg to form
a fairly stiff mixture.
Put, the mixture into
an oblong
oven,
cake or bread tin, well greased, and cook
oven for two In a moderate hours. After removing from press with a weight for several hours it loaf is cold. Remove and brush over with meat glaze.
to list all the foodstuffs in which Sausage Hot Pot. Sprouts. Baked Fruit Milk Pudding vitamins are found, and there are, incidentally, diet cards obtainable om which the complete table has been drawn up. It might be useful to
instance one or two.
Liver, cod and other fish oils, Ash
and
roe, some brands of margarine, egg yolk, are rich in Vitamins A. and
D.
Vitamin C is supplied largely in
and a pinch of cinnamon). Baked PRINKLE 14oz. seed pearl tapioca Custard,
Breakfast
terring Rocs on Toast. Fresh Fruit. Crispbread or Toast. Marmalade.
Main Moal
into a pint of bolling milk. Sim- mer till transparent and cooked. Add 14oz. sugur and the yolk of an egg.
Put the fruit content and half the nice from a
tin of strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, or black currants On to the bottom of a ple dish. Pour over tapioca mixture. Whip up the egg white, fold in 11
oranges, lemons, grape fruit, swedes Beef Lonf. Horseradish Sauce. Pars- tablespoonful of sugar, and arrange
lp and Carrot Puree. Potatoes in on top. Jackets. Fruit Milk Pudding.
and carrots, tomatoes,, blackberries. pineapple, raspberries. Vitamins A
Are Clever Women Dull?
DESPITE the frankness and friend- family who insist on regarding her
are
liness of a modern world, there still men who are scared of a
ensure
con-
as "one apart," and possibly above the ordinary humunities. Either. complex may well prove a brake on the full use of her talents.
There was the case of the woman novelist who for years hid the shamed face of her serious writing behind a were nom-de-plume. Her family quile unaware of the extent of her
of
elever woman. They doubtless imagine that she takes fe to seriously, and that half an hour's
will conversation with her thum an attack of the "blues." That their fear of crossing versational swords with her is in it- self-an-indictment-they-aro-willing activities, though most of her earnings to forget. They feel themselves to be on safer ground with the flirtatious blonde who knows all the answers
answers and none of the back
have those tales which they with such monotonous regularity.
In 1750 there was a Blue-stocking at Its Society, so called because meetings evening dress was "optional" and the men might wear ordinary blue worsted stockings instead of the more conventional black silk. Liter- nry, or what we might call "high- brow," talk was the order of these
10 told
informal evenings, the ever-popular card-playing being considered the province low-brows. The term "blue-stocking” WAN subsequently applied to any man or woman with
To Rerary pretensious
tastes or learning.
This disposition to regard a clever woman as a Miss Sober-Sides pro- bably dates from those days when n recently and hardly won emancip- ation set the then modern girl think- ing of her new obligations. And from the beginning of the century right up to the present day it seems that every blue-stocking is required to prove herself the charming excep- tion to this rule of universal dull- ness. For the fallacy that clever woman must of necessity be dull a unattractive dies bard,
Divided Types
itt
It is our misfortune that even this late date those who like the thrilling stuff of mankind labelled and segregated, still divide women into two main types; the frivolous and the serious-minded.
£15
woman
is
Some men ask for neither beauty nor bras, but just an ability to cookt well or arrange the flowers nicely. I should hate to discourage them, but It seems to me that they. like many oler bachelors, may have been Judging us by our nil-too-deceptive Appearances. Even good cooks {if they also contrive to be clever and altrnelive women) seldom wear Delr souffle secrets on their sleeves,
There is, after all, no ORC RO boring.
the
who preoccupied with so-called feminine things, whose dret thought Is devoted: to all the frils and, flounces of u trivial world. The really clever wo man pula these interests in their proper, unobtrusive pinces.
Cloverness, like good cooking, con- not stand alone, however, blue-stocking without general intelll-
and A
humour sense of gence Inevitably lacks charm, especially if alio makes a parade of her particular
the form of cleverness, But may be aid of man.
Encouraging a "Complex"
Gre the
same
Many a clever woman in the past
were quietly slipped into the home to grease the educational wheels young brothers and sisters,
Then she married, and while the strong mood of enchantment was upon her, the "knocked-ofT" {1 romantic novel. It
published under her own name, and to her astonishment proved a mik! best seller. Publishers and public back and asked for more.
A "Dark" Secret
was
With the demand for her novels
very litle time for the study and research which her more serious work involved, Morcover, since her husband knew her as the author of "some- what library assistants call thing light," site felt that sho had better continue in the same vein and keep him in Ignorance of her other self.
increasing, she naturally had
Her secret was only discovered, when she was 1 and her husband at- ! tended to her correspondence for her. An urgent letter from her first publishers showed that people were asking for more of her serious writings, but the interesting thing
hod was that her husband
been reading and enjoying her non-fiction work for years, without ever suspect- ing the identity of the author.
Reputations are uneasy garments for everyday wear, and the reputation for being clever may be as difficult to live up to as a reputation for be-
ing beautiful or being funny. The plain truth is that it is tiresome to
have to be anything all of the time.
Trenn Styles.
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