Easy-to-make EVERYBODY
BISCUITS
RUB Alb. of butter into yib.
offlour. Add
1/2
teaz
poonful of baking powder and 41b, of sugar, 2 small eggs and 2 teaspoons of treacle.
Roll out to in, thick. Cut
rounds and
20 bake into minuice in a moderate oven.
VARIATIONS: Flavour with (1) lemon essence, or (2) half a teaspoonful of mixed spice. of Of (3) half a teaspoonful nutmeg, Or (4) half a tea spoon of cinnamon. Or (5) Zoza, of desiccated coconut.
Or (6) 20zs. of ground al- monds. Or (7) 2018, of cur- Or (8) 2azs. Tante 'or. sultanas.
of chopped nuts. Or (3) half a teaspoonful of ground ginger
Using Pastry Scraps
ALL housewives who go in for
pastry-making know how difficult it is sometimes to find a use for the scraps and trim- mings of pastry that remain after a ple or tart has been covered. The following recipes offer suggestions for the solu- tion of the problem.
Rissoles in Pastry
EATS
-but how many know what to eat?
ONSIDERING the
important purpose of food, the proportion of our time given to its study, preparation and con- sumption is not at all out of
reason.
years During the lust 30
certain 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 the ordinary household,
Variety That
By GRACE WILSON
Fals pre also fuel foods and Care present in green vegetables. valuable in moderation, though Wholemeal bread, the pulses, yeast high a proportion of fat in the diet. cress, potato, leek and parsnips have the digestion may be upset by too extruct, oatmeal, whole barley, water-
A day's meals, well-planned, should be balanced in the proportion of two-thirds carbohydrate to one- #ixth fat and one-sixih protein, dry weight.
been
found io contain Vitamin B. To serve plenty of potatoes, Bome wholemeal bread, and #4 household Hie fruit in every
dally is desirable. Öffer children an orange occasionally instead. of awverla
Children's Main Meal
Egg and Potato Casserole. Sieved
Spinach. Fresh Fruit in Jelly.) Muk.
Sausage Hot-Pot
itb. beef ribs or stewing steak, 2 sausager, 2 carrots, 1 turulp, 1 onion, 1 or 2 lecks, 116. potatoes, dripping, stock.
קט
A certain amount of water should
golden be drunk daily, and while most Lese white starchy food and sugar TRY the cut up meat
brown. Cover with a little stock, foodstuffs contain water, a consump- could be eaten in the majority of and add vegetables cut into pieces. lion of from four to six pints, in- homes with advantage, and terms for
some season and simmer alowly for an clusive of other liquids, will benefit greenstuff or tomato should come hour. Then add sausages. cut Lhe system and help
counteract times be provided at tea-time in and rolled in flour, and the potatoes poisona by washing Away waste place of jum.
cut in halves, and cook for another material,
hour or so all ready. Beef Loaf
Ensures Fitness
Provided there is enough variety
in the total foodstuffs eaten, the ade-
ACTUALLY, an easy understanding quote amount of mineral salts winST as a simple example of
of the components of a complete diet is simple to attain.
And, applied habitually, it will not only ensure fllness in- stead of debility, but will also - suggest a pleasant variety in the
dally fare.
Remember that the essential body- building foods or proteins are to be found in lean meat, fish, eggs, cheese
and milk.
The pulse Vegetables-dried peas, beans and lentils also contain proteins, though of slightly less nutritive valué than their animal equivalent,
FUEL FOODS
For these, besides the scraps of pastry, you will require some cooked
"ARBOHYDRATES, or mince, or fish, sausage meat.
spoonful of thiek sauce, bound with a
Roll out the scraps of pastry us thin as a sixpence, and cut Into rounds. Brush the rounds over with beaten egg, and put a teaspoonful of the meat mixture in the centre of
pastry each. Fok the
over, and press the edges together.
Brush all over with beaten erg. toss th vermicelli, and fry to a golden brown in smoking hot fat. Serve on dish paper, garnished with parsley. Banana Cream Pie
Ingredients:-Scraps of pastry;
Two bananas;
Two eggs;
Grated rind of one lemon;
Half-plat milk;
11⁄2 ounce flour:
2 ounce caster sugar;
Juice of haif a lemon.
in which category come starches und sugars. Is the term which stands for fuck foods, which afford heat und energy while never becoming part of the ving tissues, being burni up in the body.
Carbohydrates are turned to sugar during digestion, so are therefore of
qual nutritive value.
Mainly composed of carbohydrates are: four of wheat, oatmeal, sugar, treacle, honey, jum, custard powders, breakfast cereals, certain fruits and vegetables.
be supplied in them:
The Vitamins You
Eat in Fruit
П
"complete" meal in every respect we need look no further than for wholemeal bread spread with a good margarine, meat and green salud.
In each of these menus below dishes have been selected to appeal to taste as well as for their nutritive and content.
MEN there are fresh fruits
vegetables, the supreme impor- tance of which as valuable adjuncts
Breakfast
to the diet can scarcely be sufficiently Cereal with sliced orange. Potao and stressed.
con-
1th, beef, Ismall onion, doz. raw ham or bacon, 1 pickled wabut. 1 cau. 4 teaspoonful made mustard, 'doz, breadcrumbs, teaspoonful chopped parsley, a littic grated allspice and nutmeg, a little meat glaze. MINCE meat, chop onion, and put |
other basin with the
in- gredients the walnut cut up..
Bind with
mixture.
tre intoan Put the mixture
oblong cake or bread fin, well greased, and cook in a moderate oven for two
Fish Cakes (freshly made). Iloney a fairly stire, the beaten egg to form
Wholemeal Toast.
Toa Timo
As a source of the various stituents in lesser or greater degree they are hardly less vital than us suppliers also of those chemical substances essential to Ilfe Watercress and tomato sandwiches,
Main Meal
vitamins:
30
are,
Though it would be impossible here to list all the foodstuffs in which vitamins are found, and there incidentally, diet cards obtainable on which the complete table has been drawn up, it might be useful to instance one or two.
Liver, cod and other fish olls, fish roe, some brands of margarine, and egg yolk, are rich in Vitamins A, and D.
hours. After removing from oven, press with a weight for several hours till lont is cold. Remove and brush over with mcat glaze.
Sausage Hot Pot. Sprouts, Baked Fruit Milk Pudding
Apples (Alling of chopped raisins
and a pinch of cinnamon). Baked SPRINKLE 14oz. seed pearl taploca Custard.
Broakfast
into a pint of boiling milk. Sim- mer till transparent and cooked. Add 1oz. nugar and the yolk of an egg Herring Roes on Toast.
Put the fruit content and half the Fresh Fruit.
tin juice from a of strawberries, Crispbread or Toast. Marmalade. raspberries, loganberries, or
black
Main Meal
currants
on to the bottom of a ple dish. Pottr over tapioca mixture. Vitamin C is supplied largely in
Whip up the egg white, fold in a oranges, lemons, grape fruit, swedes Beef Lonf. Horseradish Sauce. Pars- tablespoonful of sugar, and arrange and carrots, tomatoes, blackberries, nip and Carrot Purce. Potatoes in on top. Finish in a moderate Oven pineapple, raspberries. Vitamins A Jackets. Fruit Milk Pudding. for twenty minutes.
Are Clever Women Dull?
ESPITE the frankness and friend- liness of a modern world, there are still men who are scared of n clever woman. They
doubtless imagine that she takes Me too seriously, and that half an hour's conversation with her will ensure them an attack of the "blues."
answers
10 told
Noll out scraps of pastry to make a "rim" round a pint pie-dish. De- corate rim with small rounds of pastry, and brush over with milk. Break Bour to u smooth paste with milk. Bring the remainder of milk
That their fear of crossing con- to bolling point, and add flour, stir- add ring till smooth. Cool slightly; versational swords with her is in it- self an Indictment they are willing the yolks of eggs and sugar, and cook gently for few minues-Add--to forget. They feel themselves to bo on safer ground with the flirtatious bananas, (sliced), also lemon, and
30 blonde who knows all the answers Into dish. Cook gently pour
and none of the back minutes till mixture is firm; then pile
those tales which they have stimy-beaten whites on top and dredge
Allow with caster sugar,
with such monotonous regularity,
In 1750 there was a Blue-stocking meringue to sel for few minutes in
Society, so called because cool oven.
meetings evening dress was "optional" and the men might wear ordinary blue worsted stockings instead of the more conventional black silk. Liter- ary, or what we might call "High- brow," tolk was the order of these informal evenings, the ever-popular card-playing being considered the province of low-brows. The term "blue-stocking" Was subsequently applied to any man or woman with
tustes pretensions to literary learning.
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 cayenne. and roll out in a strip of about quar- ter-inch thick and three inches wide. Cut into straws, and bake in a moderate oven til a golden brown. Individual Ham and Egg Ple
Into a
Divide your left-overs in two, and
thin roll each half into a
round. With one round line a saucer, and
full fil about threequarter
with bacon cut in strips with scrap scissors. Now break an ex bowl, and whisk slightly. Pour over salt and bacon, and
with Белкоп pepper. Lay the other pastry round on top, brush over with beaten egz (a very little of whisked egg may be kept back for this purpose), and about bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes till lightly browned.
Sardine Rolls
Sardines;
Cayenne pepper;
Grated checsc;
Salt yolk of egg! Scraps of pastry. Drain sardines and roll in grated cheese.
Roll out poetry thinly-cut into muares. Lay anrdines in pas- try
Season, damp edges, squares. and fold over. Glaze with yolk of
hot 1 egg, and buke in minutes.
oven 15
Isobel.
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE-
Without Calamel--- And You'll Jump Ost al Bed Fall of Vim and Vigos. The liver should pour out two pints of fiquid bile into your bowele dally, if this blia Ja not flowing frosiy, yune food dosen't illgeel. In Junk doenja in the bowale, Qon blasts up your stomach. You get constijatest, Tour hola system le poisoned and you feel suur, sunk and the world looks punk,
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or
This disposition to regard a clever
family who insist on regarding her as "one apart," and possibly above the ordinary humanities. Either complex may well prove a brake on. the full use of her taients,
were
There was the case of the woman novelist who for years hid the shamed face of her serious writing behind a nom-de-plume. Her
family quite unaware of the extent of her activities, though most of her earnings were quietly slipped into the home to grease the educational wheels of young brothers and sisters.
Then she married, and while the mood of enchantment was strong
slic "knocked-DIT" upon her, romantic novel. It was published under. her own name, and lo her astonishment proved a mild best seller. Publishers and public sati back and asked for more.
A "Dark" Secret
With the demand for her novela very Increasing, slie naturally had little time for the study and research which
more serious work involved, Morcover, since her
her
husband knew her as the author of what library assistants call "come- thing light," she felt that she had better continue in the same vein and
woman as a Miss Sober-Sides pra- keep him in ignorance of her other
bably dates from those days when a 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 and wattractive dies hard.
Divided Types
t
It is our misfortune that even
Hir this late date those who
the thrilling stuft of mankind labelled und segregated, still divide women into two main types; the frivolous and the serious-minded.
Some men ask for neither beauty nor brains, but just an ability to cook well or arrange the flowers nicely, I should linte to discourage them, but it seems to me that they, like many other bachelors, may have been Judging us by our all-too-deceptive appearances. Even good cooks (if they also contrive to be clever and attractive women) seldom wear their soudlo scerels on their sleeves.
There 18, after all, no onc Го boring
the woman whu 18 preoccupied with so-called feminine things, whose first thought is devoted to all the frills and flounces of D i trivial world. The really clever wo
in their man puis these interexis proper, unobtrusive pinces.,
Cleverness, like good cooking, can- not stand alone, however, and the blue-stocking without general intelli- rence and A senso of humour Inevitably Incks charm, especially if she makes a parmde of her particular form of cleverness. But the same may be said of man.
Encouraging a "Complex"
sclt.
Her secret was
only discovered, when she was ill and her husband at- tended her correspondence for An urgent letter from her Arst her. publishers showed that people were haking for more of her serious wrllings, but the interesting thing was that her husband had been rending 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 dimcult 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 lime.
1
Irene Styles.
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