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pickles.
VERY
homemaker who makes preserves for her family leaves a good space on the shelf for a variety of
The young fulk ke choosing from the different shapen ninong the mixed vegetables, while Father and Mother are in favour of a fruity chutney.
The secret of that unusual plekle favour for which the Indians are so Jamous en just us mich in the mixing of fruit and vegetables us in the blend- lng of spicen.
Pop a nium or two into your mixed pickle. a slice of apple or lemon to impregnate the vegetables with their fruity flavour,
Apples combine with murrow to make a delicious chutney, too, and make a tomato chutney lante diferent. But here are some trusty favourites in the pickle world for you to try,
Always buy good quality malt vine- gr. Never use copper or metal pani, for the action of the vinegar on the Inetal causes small portious to dis solve in the liquid. An unrhipped. enamel-lined par la best.
Use a wooden spoon for stirring, and pot the pickles in wide-necked jars, ክነድ with patent stoppers or corks.
vinegar should completely cover the piekles, which should be stored in cool, dry place.
Spiced Vinegar
First, a recipe for spiced vinegar, often used for pickles and chutney!.
Ingredients: 4 pints vinegar, 3lb. sugar, 2 tablespoolifuls mustard seed, teaspoonfuls red chillies, one 3-inch cinnamon stick, a pinch of ground eloves, a tablespoonful grated horse- radish, 4 peppercorns.
Put the ingredients into a saucepan with a tight-fitting ld and bring to the boll. Keep cavered, remove from heat and infuse for 1) hours, then strum,
Sweet Pickle
The addition of fruit gives an un- unl finvour to this mixed pickle. Ingredients-{}b. cucumber. 1. narrow, 11b, tomatoes, ¡1b, sultanLS, jb, onions, 4oz. crystallised ginger, lb. Demerarn nugar, 14 pints vinegar, Joz. salt. joz. turmeric, joz, bruised ginger, a pinch of celery seed, ground mace and mixed spice.
Cut the tomatoes in halves and re- move the seedia, Chop the marrow. onion and cucumber inely, or put through a conme mincer. Add the vinegar, sultanas, cut up ginger, sugar, ralt, and the spices tied in a muslin 12.
Blir and boil for 2) houm until the mixture is dark and of a thick con. sistency. Pour into pots and make airtight when cold,
Marrow & Apple
Cold meat is eaten with more relish
if accompanied by this chutney.
Ingredients-216. apples, 3lb. pre-
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Tested Recipes for
Fruit and Vegetables
pared marrow, dib, onions, 1lb brown sugar, 40% sultanas, doz, crystallised ginger. jaz. whole peppercoms and whole ginger, 1 pints vinegar, Joz. mustard seed. 10%, salt.
Peel, alice ini dice the marrow, arrange on a large dish and sprinkle with salt. Leave avernight, then strain away the liquid.
Peel, alice and chop the oppies and enforis, put into the pan with the mar- row, sultanas, vinegar, salt and sugar. Tie the peppercornia, mustard seed and ginger in a muslin bag, then add. Bring slowly to the boil, then cook gently until the vegetables are tender and well blended. Remove the ginger and spices, pour into pois and scul
Popular Mixed
Almost any vegetables can be used for this mixed pickle, Most people pick out the cauliflower and onions, 20 1 ggest that you allow plenty of both in this popular recipe.
Cut the cauliflower into small pieces. skin some shallots, pect and alice 21b. areen tomatoes, cut a cucumber into small oblong pieces, silce a few run- Ber beans, and scrape and slice one or two carrots.
Put onlang and cucumber into brine made by dissolving 13. salt in
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a gallon of water. Leave for three days, then drain well, dabbing lightly with a dry cloths to free from moisture. Mix with the other vegetables and pack carefully into warm, dry jars..
Boil a quart of vinegar with one or two peppercorns and chillies, a table- spoonful of salt, juz ginger, jaz alt- spice, then cover the vegetables in the jara. Tie down when cold.
Pickled Shallots
This is a favourite pickle in many homea.
Skin 2lb. small onions or shallots, and pack them into glass jars, taking care not to break them. Doll 2 pints of vinegar with a tablespoonful of shit. loz, each of chilies and mustard seed, three pleces of bruised ginger and one or two clover
Continue bolling for twenty minutės, leave to cool slightly, then 1 each lar with the vinegar and make airtight.
Red Cabbage
Another deservedly popular pickle is red cnbbage.
Remove the outer leaves of a firm red cabbage, quarter it and cut out the centre stalk. Shred each quarter Onely, then spread a large dish.
Sprinklo thickly with salt, leave for 24 hours, then drain off the liquid well. Pack the cabbage into jars,
Bota quart of vinegar with joz peppercorns and the rame of allspice. When cool, pour over the cabbage, completely filling each far. Cover and the down. Ready for use in a week.
Piccalilli
For those who prefer a mustard pickle, here is a recipe for plecafill!.
Ingredients-lb. green tomatoes, 3 onions, quarter of a cabbage, I cauli- flower. 1 large cucumber, 11b, vege- table marrow, 11b. brown sugar, joz, mustard seed, ion celery seed, 1) pints vinegar, 1 teaspoonful turmeric, 107, mustard, 2 tablespoonfuls olive oil, salt, Chop the vegetables and pirée tu
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layers on a large dish with alternate Inyers of salt. Allow to stand for 21 hours, then drain away the liquid.
Heat together the vinegar, sugar, turmeric, and the seeds Eled in a mus lin tag, then pour over the vegetables, Leave to stand for two days, then drain of the liquor,
Mix the mustard with the alive oil
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TF the knobs of your kitchen table arc removed and a short towel rall substituted, it till prove very useful for kitchen cloths, besides deting as a drawer Thandle.
Should your gas stove become Cureasy, rub it with a paraju rag and allow it to dry. Then brush well with black teal to which a Tuttle turpentine has been added, when it will be restored to ita original condition.
Remember that the maximum heat from the rings of a gas stove is reached when the flames are level with the top of the alove.
Use soda water for scrubbing a rusty Areguard before gluing # to coat of aluminium paint. Not only will it look most attractive, but it will not rust any clothes that are put upon it.
if a tile from the hearth or wall becomes dislodged, mix
and vinegar, and pour over the veget-equal parts of salt and four into ables, Brat packing these into dry glass jara. Cover when cold.
Nasturtiums as Capers
The ared pods of nasturtiums can be used instead of capers. Gather them on a dry day, wash, then dry them with a cloth, and put them lato a warm oven to dry.
Pack into jars, cover with cold spiced vinegar, then cork and scal
Red Tomato Chutney
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Bugar. Loz,
a thick paste with water, and apply to the back of the tile when a firm fixture can be made. If the pattern, on linoleum is wearing off, paint it over with spectat inoicum one of the paints, for it will then lengthen its life cousiderably.
Place sheets of clean news- papers beneath coco-matting and They will catch all dirt that goes through, so saving much labour I washing floors.
Ingredients: 6lb. red tomatoes, 3 tea. Two or three pieces of lump spoonfuls allspice, lb, mustard seed, ifoz. salt, 1 pint white malt vinegar, half teaspoonful cayenne pepper.
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Plunge tomatoes in boiling water for two minutes, then into cold. Remove sklus Tie allspice and mustard seed in a muslin bag, add to the tomatoes
sugar beneath the cover of the Fcheese dish will keep the cheese fresh for a considerable period.
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with the cayenne, sugar and vinegar.flavour will be much improved.
Bring to the boil, simmer for 24 hours or until the chutney is of a thick consistency. Cool and pot,
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MILK-One quart suficient for tea for 25 persons. Three pints re- Lquired for cofee for 25 persons. MOCK CRAB-Mash together COFFEE—Allow 11b, for 25 per- 1ib. of skinned tomatoes, lb. of | SENA.
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TONGUE AND WALNUT.-Mi together minced tongue, chopped pickled walnuts, some pulp from fresh tomatoes, and seasoning to taste.
CHEESE AND NUT.Make a mix- ture of two parts cream cheese, one part chopped nuts, and one part chopped celery.
DEFORE putting away the silver VITAMIN FILLING, - Cream D teapot and best sliver spoons cheese, prateil row carrot, and chap-, and forks after the season's festivities ped, seedlcas raisins mixed well to- smear them with olive oil. This is gether,
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A cam-
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of one another with a different filling | A silver teapot put away damp is on each slice. Chopped celery, cream apt to go musly inside. The best cheme, lettuce, nuis, and raisins are way is to stuff a piece of absorbent delicious. When the preat, long material into it for an hour or two sandwich is completed, remove all after drying it as thoroughly as pos- crusts and cut into tail, thin strips. sible. Then put it away with a good- If made in advance, wrap in a damp sized lump of sugar inside. This will cloth, and cut into small piœces just absorb any moisture that still re- before serving.
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