TIME and MONEY
SAVERS
By Mrs. Bardell
CONOMY week in the kit-
chont Bo much extra has boon spent on puddings, Ridhomme cakes and mincemeat, both in time and money, for the festivo season that we must make up for it In other directions.
But not at the expense of the family health. There's no need for this when appetising and estistying dishes can be produced at a smaller cost, often with the help of left-overs in the Jarder.
Here are my time and money savers for this week's economy menua
Meat & Vegetable Roll
A littio cold meat and some cooked vegetables make this savotiry dlaň.
Mince the cold meat, add the cold cooked mashed potatoes and cabbage. or two chopped carrots, parsnips or turnips, previously, cooked.
Season the mixtura with a pinch of mixed herbs, pepper and salt, and ndu cupful of soaked and mashed bread, or cold, left-over porridge.
Add a chopped oniou and moisten with melted dripping or a little meat extract mixed with water.
Form
into a roll, tlo in n senlded and floured cloth, and tie both ends securely.
Boll for 1 hours. Turn out on to
a hot dish and serve with gravy.
Bacon & Bean Pie
Small pieces of cold boiled or fried bacon help to make this tasty and popular ple.
Cut the bacon into amall piecca and place in a greased dish. Add the con tents of a small tin of beans in tomato sauce and a cuplul of stock.
Cover with mashed potatoes, toughen the top, then baku in a moderate oven for half an hour,
Serve with thick brown gravy.
Cod & Macaroni
An Inexpensive family fish dish with
a different flavour.
Ingredienta: 3oz. macaroni, 2b. cod. 30%. breadcrumbs, ipt, mtik, egg, half a teaspoonful chopped paraley, salt, pepper, butter.
Break up the macaroni and cook in boiling, salted water for 10 minutes, then stral
Wash the cod and put it into a large greased casserole. Season with salt, pepper and the parsley. Arrange maca- roni and breadcrumbs in alternate layers on the fish.
Heat, but do not boll, the milk; add to the beaten egg and pour over the macaroni. Sprinkle with crumbs and dot with butter. Cover and bake for
Haddock Savoury
FOUR tablespoonfuls smoked had-j. Four
dock (cooked);
Two tablespoonfuls white sauce; Four rounds of buttered toast;
Ono tomato;
A little pickle; pepper. Flake the huddock with a fork, re moving skin and bone. Mix with
the sauce and season with pepper. File on the toast and lay a slice of tomato on each. Decorate with little chopped pickle and cook in a brisk oven for 10 minutes,
Time
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an hour. Regulo mark 5. Remove lif to brown top for last 10 minutes.
Onion & Lentil
These savoury cutlets are satisfying. To make them wash jib. lentili, pul into a pan and cover with cold water. Bimmer until soft, then maah.
Melt some frying fat in u pan, add 2 chopped onions, and fry until a golden brown.
Stir in the cooked lentils, a cupful of brendcrumbs, a little chopped bacon or ham, a tablesp. of sauce, seasoning. and a beaten egg, keeping back a little of the latter.
Mix well together, brush over with the rest of the beaten egg, cont with breadcrumbs or a thin layer of mashed potatoes, and fry in deep hot fat Drain and serve on fried bread.
Vegetable Pic
This is n health-giving dish.
Mix together some mashed potatoes, carrots, cauliflower or chopped cabbage. cooked peas or beans and cuplul of bolled rice. Pour into a greased dish, sprinkle with chopped onion, and cover with stock.
Cover with a top of rough pust pastry, and bake in a hot oven for Lwenty to thirty minutes.
Serve hot, witha gravy,
Apple Batter
Now for some sweets. Apple batter
Es quielly minde.
Make the batter with 4oz. flour, a pinch of salt, 2oz. sugur, ləz, shredded
The time-saving kettle for the average gas stove or ring or hob is made for rapid boiling. It in entirely of
copper, chromium- plated, and boils two quarts of water in threo and a half minutes.
It is a trifla "heavier than the ordinary kettle, but is not easily upact.
A gas heater which can be fitted to the wall heats water in three degrees-boiling (for tea-making in 40 acconda), hot, and warm, in different time-limits, varying of course with the quantity of water required at one time,
Until now, water so heated has never been entrusted to ten-making.
COPIES OF
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The odd rashors help to make a savoury pio.
IAMAS
Lenlit and vegetable cutlets are tasty.
Buct, one egg and a little milk, Beat the ingredients, mix and allow to stand for half an hour, then pour into a hot, greased tin. Sprinkle in the thinly sliced apples, with sugar to sweeten and a pinch of grated nut- ineg. Cook in a fairly hot oven for thirty minutes.
Fruit Drink
Don't waste the apple peels: they make this excellent fruity drink.
Wash the apples before pecting and dry with a clotl, then put the peelings and cores into a pán, add four cloves, and cover with cold water. Bring to
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Theac chromium jackets can be put away on the tea or coffice put. and so require no more space.
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the boll, then alimmer until the peels are soft. Strain and add honey to sweeten, then heat up again with the juice of a lemon.
Bread Pudding
With the end of a loaf and some fruit I make this.
Boak tho stalo pieces of bread in cold water for half an hour, then straina the water away and mash the bread with a fork.
Grease a pudding basin, and line with a layer of the soaked bread, then add some aliced apple or any other fruit liked-citier bottled or canned.
Add sugar to taste, and fill up with more soaked bread. Tis a cloth over the basin and boll for 24 hours Turn! out and serve with hot custari,
This pudding is often esten cold, sprinkled with caster sugar,
Left-Over Pudding
What remains of the suct pudding can always he served again; "and needn't be hard on the outside!
It
Put the pudding back into the basin, and fill with a little more cooked fruit, adding a little water and sugar to sweeten (or syrup, if it was a trencie pudding).
Pince an inverted saucer over the top, then stand the basin in a pan of boiling water. The water should come only half-way up to the brim.
Heat gently, then custard
DOTTO
with
INDIAN TOAST|
CUT up one allee of buttered toast into six even-sized fingers and spread a Httle curry paste on each
one.
MAKING MIRRORS GLEAM
UNLESS a mirror is well groomed and shining, it
is neither useful nor decora- tive.
The strategic position of your mirror is certainly im-. portant. Its practical capa- city demands that it has a really good light. Of next: importance is absolute clean- liness.
To keep the surface bright, dust thoroughly each day, and once a week go over the surface with a leather wrung out of topid water to which has been added just a little methylated spirits.
Newspapers crumpled until they are soft will give a masterly polish.
Grandmother's method to keep her mirrors bright was to polish with a piece of flannel dipped in powdered blue. This method still has polnis, as you will find a surface so treated remains bright for a long time.
During a spell of foggy weather mirrors often look cloudy and dull. Forestall them by this simple treat- ment. Wring a cloth out in warm water, sprinidle it with glycerine and then apply it gently to the surface of the mirror. The glycerine forms a fine film over the glass which keeps it unbelievably bright and clear. Cleaning the Corners
When cleaning a mirror, watch the corners. A sensible idea is to use a meat skewer. Wrap the point in a piece of cotton wool and poke out the dust from the comers.
Mirrors are temperamental, Be careful where you place them. They loathe damp, and suspended on dump wall for instance, they will most certainly spoil. But this dan ger can be averted by fixing a plece of cork to the bottom of the frame at the back, large enough to prevent the mirror actually touching the wall.
If you find that the mirror in your spare room has become stained and smeared through being allowed to lead its own carefree existence, treat It like this:-Make it a "face pack" of fine whitening and methylated spirits, apply with a soft rag and rub
well in. When it is quite dry, wipe it off with a duster, and polish brisk- ly.
Spirit of wine is also effective in dealing with very obstinate marka. Sponge the mirror with this and then Rprinkle the damp surface with | French chalk. Wipe off, and give a
result final polish. The
will be gratifying.
For the Frames
Mirzor frames must be treated
The paste is made in this way:- Put oz butter into a pan and aliaw to become smoking hot; then add 1⁄2 teaspoon curry powder and fry it lightly to revive the flavour; allow to cool slightly and then add very gently. A cut lemon is useful 1 well-beaten egg, 1 teaspoon chopp-gilt frame, Rub this over and then for cleaning a mirror which has a
sponge the frame with water to which a tablespoonful of baking soda has been added to each pint of water. Rub off gently with a soft cloth and polish with a chamols leather.
ed capers, 1 tablespoonful cream or milk, and a pinch of salt and pep- per; stir all well together over the heat, but do not allow it to become thick, just creamy. Put a little of the mixture on each finger and smooth it with a knife. Decorate with chopped parsley, and serve hot.
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Among other gadgets worth introducing into the home just nam an inhaling mask which is placed over the nose in cases of colds and catarrh, and can be attached to a protected hot bottle for steam iu- halation in the event of bronchilia.
The labour-saving of this is not obscure-aickners in the kouro brings pressure on those who climb the stairs.
Home-dressmaking-houra
con
be saved by using pinking shears instead of hand-rolling or French scaming the inside scams.
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White enamel frames should be washed-in-warm soapy water, only do not make them too wet. Rinse In warm water and dry carefully.
Lacquered frames which have lost their gloss will respond to a clean- Ing with warm water and a little lemon juice, and then good rub- bing with cican flannel. Dry In a warm place and finally polish with
a soft leather.
An ordinary wooden frame de- mands only furniture cream, and that used sparingly. A final brisk polish with a leather will restore it completely.
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