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HESTER VALENTINE
tells you how to make the most of green peas-and incidentally all the other vegetables YOUNG green peas fresh
from the gardens! They are just beginning, and for a whole month we shall have them at their best.
This, to me, is an intoxicating thought, because there is no- thing in all the vegetable king- dom so delicate and exquisite in flavour as English peas. For this reason I looked forward to. winter
than more
to any other season of the year.
English Peas
Now that they are young they are fairly fool-proof to cook: you throw them into fast boiling salted water with a sprig of mint. In ten to fifteen minutes they will be ten- der and ready for the duck.
But in two or three weeks' time, when they vary in size a bit, it is advisable to use this method: Get two basins, and when you are shel- ling the peas drop the larger ones into
one basin, the smaller ones
Into the other.
the little ones. In this way
you
friend
Throw the larger peas into the saucepan
Arst and cook them for
Wash the required amount of four or five minutes before adding though cold water to cover, bring
the bol with the ld on, add spinach to
(the younger the better) will avoid a dish of mixed hard and plenty of salt, and cook till tender, and coolt it ten-filleen minutes in When you have drained the water, a saucepan. It will cook perfectly mushy peas. Keep the lid off the
them through a little melted
the water left on it from are cooking pass
butter and chopped parsley. Or you washing; on no account add more. can cover them (but don't drown them) with a little thin white par- sicy sauce.
saucepan
them.
while you
French Peas
TOR poultry and veal there is nothing to equal our simple way of cooking peas. But, eaten as separate course, or as an accompaniment 10 well-trimmed grill lamb cutlets (if you haven't the facilities for grilling, do them
in a pan over a hot are with no fut
when
way.
Cooked
Cucumber
THIS is particularly delici- THIS
ous with hot bolled cod
in
a
the
COSY LITTLE SUPPER MENU:
Soused herring, potato salad, Beetroot,
Cold sweet-cured Suffolk ham, sweet pickled damsons. Celery and cheese tartlets.
Arranged by
FLORENCE WHITE
For the celery and checks tar tlets, lino some greased and floured pattypans with puff pag- try and all the hollow with beans or crusts of bread to keep centres hollow. Bake the pastry, but do not overbake. It us it has to be LEAN four rood fresh herbaked again when the filling has
rings, cutting off heads and been put In
talls, and lay them side by sidlo To make the Bling have a gill in a dial, the thick alternately of good white sauce and stir into with the thin, so that the layer it an equal quantity of celery that is even in the dish, cover with has been cooked in the milk of vinegar, put two bay leaves Into which the white sauce has been the vinegar, half a dozen black made, run the white sauce and peppercorns and a Hitle salt celery through a hair slove, 802- Put the lid on the dish or cover son it with cayenne pepper and it closely with another dish, and salt, slie in a little grated cheese. bake for half an hour in a quick Fill the pastry cases with this oven, take off the lid and if the mixture. Sprinkle grated cheese diah is suitable the herring can over und bake until the mixture- be taken when cold to the table is delicately brown on top. in it. Serve a good potato salad in a salad bowl, and serve a whole akinned beetroot In a small glass dich.
These little tartiets can be caten hot or cold, and make a snack for cocktail or bridge re- freshments
Is Your Child Afraid of Things?
A MOTHER was recently the period when parents consider that they need not be careful. I surprised to note, on have seen babies of two, and even taking her six-year-old son one, start with fear at something to see a film, that he showed at which an adult who was holding not the slightest fear or, in them had also started.
The incident may, of course, im- fact, any emotion when a mediately leave the child's mind, murder was committed on but, on the other hand, it is also the the screen.
possible that his mood and strength of the impression may be
as will cause
a permanent
Meanwhile, melt a little butter in
saucepan, stir in a level table-people! On spoonful of flour and a heaped tea- spoonful of finely chopped onion. Let the Bour brown very slightly, then add cold water, stirring all the time, till the sauce is like thinnish
It appears that on such occa- such sions as he had previously been effect. to the cinema, he had so far It should be a parent's aim, be- "I look forward to winter 1 always gone with a German fore the child is able to understand girl who acted as a companion words, and reasoning, to carry, for more than to any other
in the home. This girl was of sake of example, a serene and polsed season of the year-vege-
an exceptionally placid nature, mien In face of anything frighten- and it would have taken aning. Then, when the child is old to understand, he should tables are at their best."*
earthquake to shake her placidi- enough ty; recounted murder certainly be taught caution and not fear. #seer++++ | did not ruffle her. The result TEACHING "ROAD SENSE”
was that the child took his cue
An example for this at once from her and viewed with per- springs to mind. In teaching "road fect equanimity any horror films sense," most parents generally to which he was taken,
adopt a threatening and intimidat- Few things are so infectious as ing tone of "You'll get run over fear. Consider a publle ballding in if you don't look out," and the re- which fire has broken out. How sult is a flustered and nervous child. quickly the crowd can be driven One mother wisely says to her small frantic by one or two hysterical son, "Don't bump into people on the the other hand, they footpath and don't bump into cara can be calmed by the personal forco and things on the road.' But of someone who keeps his head. whether humour is brought into the And if adults can be 50 casily question or not, there should cer- swayed, how much more so a child? tainly be nothing ominous and mor
Other causes do sometimes enter bid about the Instructions, but just into the growth of a child's fear, a sensible and calm suggestion for but the major one is that of seeing avoiding too close communion with it displayed by others.
all things on wheels. Parents are very frequently puz- Children are sometimes frighten- led when they see a child in the ed by things which are new
One child was terrifed by grip of some unaccountable fear, them. They feel so convinced that they an adult joker who arrived at have always been careful not to Christmas party with a huge wolf's frighten him. But are they quite head on his own. The obvious. sure that they practised this prin- thing to do in such cases is, of ciple when he was a mere baby? course, to show the child the truth. It is not sufficiently realised to In no case should a child ever be what an extent the youngest of exhorted and, still worse, laughed bables are susceptible to all sorts at and told not to be frightened, of influences. As a general rule, because it's nothing," whatever conscientious parents begin to put the enuse of his fear may be, for to their psychologieni ideas into prace him it obviously is something. The is old enough to understand. tice only when they think the child reason for his fear should be dis- covered and should be painlessly removed that is, by gentle en- couragement and by actual proof. The seed of fear can, however, not merely words, that there be sown even when the child is yet nothing there to fear. in arms, but this, unfortunately, is
cream.
at all: they cook perfectly in their or salmon, and it also blends well Let it simmer very slowly while own Julce), the French method is a with white meats.
you strain the cooked spinach and delicious change.
Cut a cucumber into slices one chop it finely (please don't put it Keep the lid of the saucepan on Inch thick. Peel and have cach through your mincing mochine....... you are cooking them this slice. Shape the halves, as well as half the Julee will be left behind if you can, foto little ovals. Put them you do!). Now ndd half silce of in a saucepan
htt with enough cold white, crustless bread which Put a good lump of butter in a Байсерап (2-3oz.), melt it slowly water to cover, and a good pinch of been previously well soaked in wa
ter.-Mash. It thoroughly into the "and ̄ádd ̄two ̈pints" of shelled- peas,
spinach and add the mixture to six or eight button onions, the heart Bring to the boll with the lid on, of a cabbage lettuce cut into four, strain and return to saucepan with your sauce. Season generously and one tablespoonful sugar, sprinkling some melted butter and chopped stir over a hot fire,
_salt.
of salt and pepper and three table- parsley. Simmer til tender with spoonfuls of water.
the lid on. Stir round every now
Put the lid on and simmer, fairly and then as the cucumber is apt to fast, for thirty to forty minutes. By shrivel if it isn't kept buttery, the time the vegetables are tender Don't throw away the rind-it is
Let it simmer without a lid for they will have absorbed most of the such an excellent garnish (cut into twenty to thirty minutes. Give it molature and will be left lovely and thin strips, and blanched) for clear more hot water when it gets stodgy. a good stir occasionally and add buttery and ready for the cutlets. soups.
It should be like a thick fruit fool when. ready.
Boiled White
Radishes
Spinach
OOKED radishes are far Puree
more digestible than raw
ones and form another of my in-
vourite midsummer vegetable dishes.
You wash,
THIS is an economical way
doing
trent them just like carrots: without eggs or cream. It is also, scrape and trim them, put in my opinion, more tasty than any them into a saucepan with just other way.
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