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Guide to This Week's Shopping
Menu Suggestions for
Easter Week-end
Good Friday Saturday
Luncheon
Salt cod
Lyonnaise Apple tart.
Dinner or
Suppor
Curried eggS,
Plum jelly, Cheese straws.
or
Sunday
Sausages and Horicol beans, Orange Jelly.
Roast lamb, Sprouting
broccoli, Prune routes,
Monday
Scotch eggs. Cheese turtlets.
Leek and potato Onion soup, Tomato soup,
soup. Sardine shcakes. Cold lamb (or Stuffed haddock, Rhubarb fool. Macaroni checse.
my
clone up), Anchovy croutes.
the
Dinner or Supper SOME people like to hand grated cheese with
is, of to try leek and potato soup, but some- course, delicious as it is. After stuff- them ing the fresh haddock, tie it round little with fat rashers of bacon and bake
LL these recipes will be more A
to less familiar readers; but Sarah and I have put our heads together and see if we can suggest thing for nearly all of which will make them a unsual.
Let us take them by days.
Good Friday
SOAKI
Luncheon
COAK, boil and take the salt
Fry
some #Bred
onlons in butler until lightly brown,
Ilke that. The bacon will add to the nutritious value of the dish, too.
A touch of French mustard in the macaroni cheese is a good thing.
Easter Sunday
Luncheon
DOAST Loint of Lambs com be I eaten with guava jelly in- i butter fry some sliced cooked pola- stead of mint sauce or red curran toes. Put back the onions, add the jelly, and excellent it is. flakes of cod and cook all together Try and cook the 1tle heads of for a few minutes, finishing with a the Sprouting broccoli whole, like few drops of vinegar and some asparagus, and serve them with freshly chopped parsley,
melted butter poured over them.
Make the apple fort with apple
For the sweel, cui some squares purce in a fan case, and when of state sponge or madeira enke and is cold, spread over the top some sprinkle them with sugar. Put them warmed apricot, peach or quinee in the oven to get crisp and then Jam. The last two can be had im- spread them with a purce of prunes, ported from South Africa, and very Let them get cold, and serve them
tood they are.
capped with whipped cream.
Dinner or Supper
¡ON'T forget to hand some
DON'T
chutney with the egas.
Dinner or Supper
HA
(AND graded cheese with the onion soup, mix the
and see that your rice is nicely dried pounded sardines with mashed and very hot when dished.
potato, bind with im egg and flour
The South African plums now in and fry them for egg-and-brend- the shops will make an excellent crumb them if you prefer it), and jelly, if you are careful not to cook flavour the
the skins too much, and the cheese currant jelly. straws will be improved by the
the
addition of a little paprika pepper
in the making. By the way, keep a little of this paste back for
savoury on Sunday night.
Saturday
Luncheon
rhuburb fool with red
Easter Monday
THE Scotcis eggs and the
tartlets can be taken out en a plenie if you ke. The slices of cold lamb might be coated with some of the sauce left over from Friday's curried eggs, then egg-and- breadcrumbed and fried, or warmed RILL the shusages and up in gravy and sauce and served arrange them against a gornished with thin strips of pickled eup of nicely dried haricot bean gherkin and hard-boiled whites of puree. If you like, you man sprinkle off-
The
savoury consists of little
the whole thing with grated cheese and brown It.very quickly at the rounds of the cheese pastry baked in Inst.
the oven, allowed to get cold and
The orange jelly will be improved then surmounted by a little heap of by a little sherry when you make whipped cream flavoured with on-
It,
chovy essence.
Final day of a 4-DAY SPRING-CLEANING DRIVE tells you how to brighten up your
Walls
and
Ceilings
AT
T this time of year, after months of rain, fog, and wind, you suddenly become aware that the ceiling has suffered a good deal, and that the paint, or whitewash, is covered with a film of dust.
A certain amount of this has stuck firmly to the ceiling, and after you have dusted over it with a long feather brush you find it looks no cleaner.
If this is the case, and your cell- ing is of ordinary white paint, try cleaning 11 with onton water this way. Boli several onions in a large saucepan of water until all the good- ness is bolled out of them. Then take them out and strain the water.
Pad the top of il soft broom and higher by painting it several tones cause I can assure you that they are cuver it with calico or some cution material, and dip it in the onlon lighter than the walls.
very much easier to keep clean. You converted buildings it are bound to notice every time any water. Squeeze it out a litle, and rub it over the celling and the dirt of your room to lower the ceiling. and it is easy to remove at once.
sometimes improves the proportions smudge or dirt gets on the walls, will disappear, leaving the point you can produce this effect by paint- white and glossy.
In old or
The smell, which is not unpleasant, Ing it considerably darker than the Fading-in Scheme
goes off at once, and if the windows
walls.
are open you will hardly notice it Another way of treating a celling during the actual process of clean-a modern room is to break it up with designs of lines, which will alter the shape of the room.
ing."
Starch will do It
AN N entirely new idea for
redecorating your room
is to paint your walls three different An extremely narrow room can be shades of one colour, all fading into broadened picking
by
out circles one another.
This is the way to set about it. within circles (leaving smaller
All you need are two pots of paint.
IN country cottages and the spaces in between towards the It is cheaper to buy a large quantity
One pound of paint covers
four
a room
few old houses that have middle) in a deeper, coloured paint at once if you think you will need no electric light, ceilings sometimes an
Or it
you want become blackened in pluces. Wash than the ceiling.
something more indefinite have the it. over these dirty patches with a fairly lines picked out by having them Im- thick paste of cold water and starch, printed in the plaster or paint before square yards of wall. To give you and leave till quite dry, then rub
a rough iden of quantity, it is dry. with a soft duster.
15ft. by 12ft. by 10ft, high will take In a room that is too square make 15lbs. of paint. If the walls have Mercifully for housewives, two lines along each side of the cell- not been elaborate mouldings round ceilings ing with concave corners. This will before you should use two coats.
painted the same colour are now out of date, and in most soften the room and help to decorate modern buildings they are plain, it.
and easy to clean. But if you have
ocnate ones a long feather brush is Points about Papers about the best way of cleaning them.
Give it a new Coat
HE ERE are a few ideas about wall to the other to make
wallpapers.
If you are going to distemper your walls, get two different shades of one colour and make a third shade by mixing them. Then stretch a piece of string from one end of the straight Jine. Do this again lower down the All kinds of new shades have wall, thus dividing the wall into been brought out for Coronation three pat
parts. re- year. Pale blue is going to be par-
painting the top one with this ticularly popular. It makes a bo the palest colour, the next division the coming background to your pletures paint a shade darker and the last
and furniture, and is inclined to one a shade darker still. But sometimes in a modern fat make a room look larger.
This way of treating walls is
ARE you thinking of A painting your celling year?
I advise you to have it same colour as your walls.
Start
you get the feeling that the celling Pale apple-green is also going to extremely good for a small, low- is going to descend upon you at be smart, but should your room face cellinged room, as the fact that the any moment. You can make it looks north or cast it is better to choose a brightest colour is nearest the ceiling. warm tone of pink of pale yellow. (which should be painted a very Ail pastel shades are fashionable. pale colour or even white), makos Do not think it is impracticable the room look inches higher, while to have light colours on account of the effect of the horizontal stripes their getting dirty more easily, be- makes your room look longer.
Cookery Lesson
for the Under- Twelves.
COOKING is fun and
It's never loo early to
by Harriet Hume
In about eight minutes drop a Ittle of the hot mixture into the cold water. It should set at once and
o on stirring and boiling till it does.
learn. The article is for under twelves, but if fifteens and over in the mixture against the side of become hurd and crisp. If it doesn't.
times to get u good
thick
read it I shan't mind much, The bowl. When smooth, stir in the Remember, though, while stopping coconut and mix all well together. to test, you must ask someone else to Begin as you mean to go on in It should be a stiff muss. Divide the stir the toffee over the fire, for it cooking. Very methodically, only fee in half. Colour one lot pink, burns very easily. When ready, dip taking out what you need, having pulting in only the tiniest drop of your apples into it while it is still bubbling. Let the toffee set on them everything handy before you begin, elettring. Pat out each lot of ice to for a few seconds, then dip a few putting things away when finished a long bar on the white poper, put more with, and, most important of all, re- ting the pink on top of the white coating. membering stickiness is very catch- Leave all night to dry. ing. If, for example, you are making toffee, have a damp rag handy to wipe your fingers, and be sure every- thing you use is quite clean before you put it away.
Coconut Ice
There are good awects that do not need the use of a fire. Coconut ice, for example. You want icing sugar, which has to be rolled and sleved before using be- cause it sticks together in lumps. Ingredients are:
11b, of icing sugar, 1⁄4lb. of desic- cated coconut, f white of ego, cochineal.
Utensils:
Bowl, cup, white paper, wooden spoon, prater, sievė, rolling-pin. Separating yolk and white of on
Toffee Apples
The toffee recipe I'm going to give you, can be used on its own and is very good. Ingredients are:
Several Arm, small apples and the same number of sticks, 11b. of brown sugar, 2oz. of butter, gill of water.
Utensils:
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A saucepan, a wooden spoon with a long handle, a cup of cold water. If the tofer is not for apples, a greased tin.
Wipe the apples, take off the stalks, and put a clean, long stick in instead. Put the sugar, butter, and water in a pan and stir over the fire." When boiling sugar it is very im- portant that it should all be dissolved before the actual boiling begins.
egg very carefully over a clean cup Otherwise the sweels turn back to
and the white or most of it-will sugar again, which is mysterious but run out at once. Gently change the true.
Potato Sconcs
Grown-ups are apt to think sweets are about all younger folk can make. That's not so,, and it's good practice to try scones and things like that.
Potato scones are grand. They are nice with jam in the ordinary way. and you can hot them up and fry bacon to eat with them,
Ingredients are:
3 bollod potatoes (large floury onca), ib. of flour, i, pill of milk, lb. of dripping, coa velk (left over from the coconut ice?), Iteaspoonful of baking powder, a pluck of salt.
Utensils;
A bowl, a wooden spoon, fork, a board with a little flour sprinkled on it. A baking-tin, greased and floured. Or a fruing-ban.
Mix the flour and baking powder and salt. Rub the dripping into this,
yolk from one half-eggshell to on- other, letting the remains of the You must tap the bottom of the Mash the potatoes with a fork and white run down into the cup. Put pan every now and then, and if there mix into the flour. Do this with the the yolk aside.
Ta' ngrity noise you'll know the spoon. Make a well in the centro sugar Isn't yet dissolved, When and put in the yolk and milk. Stir You then mix the white with the you don't hear the gritty noise it's all very well together. Pat out Into icing sugar. Stir round, and round safe to let it boil up. But go on round cakes an inch thick. Bake till with the wooden spoon, often press, stirring carefully.
brown on the tin.
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