English Cooking Gives Americans "Food for
for Thought
"I'm very partial gingerbread,"
to
said Miss Baker, of
Portland,
Oregon.
The Recipe 17:
11b, four.
1lb. treacle.
Klb. butter.
14lb. sugar.
oz. ground ginger.
1⁄2 teaspoonful
of soda,
1 cup.
Prel
202+
bicarbonate
chopped mixed candled
2oz. auttanas.
Steve the Nour and mix all the dry ingredients fo- the treacle, Kether. Put
sugar, and butter inlo # Kaucepan and hent gently until all are melted. Stir Into the flour, etc. together with
the beaten egg, and beat all well together.
Pul into shallow tin lined with greased paper and bake In a modernte oven for about an hour, or until firm to the touch.
Here's the recipe for the variety called
PARKIN
416. fine oatmeal.
19th, plain flour.
141b, golden syrup,
1 teaspoonful
of soda.
30% butter.
bicarbonate
40% brown sugar. Level
teaspoonful pround
ginger.
1 egg and a little milk.
Rub the butter into the flour and stir in the oatmeal. Add the other dry ingredients (not the soda) and then the spruj slightly warmed.
*Worm Lire htt dissolve the soda
ft and stir into the mixture. Now add the beaten egg. Grease a tin. pour in the mixture and bake in a moderate oven for about one thour.
Stuffed Tomato
Salad
SIX luge
tomatoes;
the
TH
says
Anna
West
MERICA is a country "I'm looking around here for some which doesn't boast good aid English recipes-recipes of many traditions in the kit- things that are proverbial in the States-but somehow a lot of your chen-except in the south, traditional dishes don't look so good where, as we all know, coal when you actually, meet them fuce to black mammies sing like face." birds and make pumpkin pies and cookies all day--and because of her heterogeneous population America ins produced a diet which different froin ours as a Czech's is from a Corsican's.
Banbury Cakes
is
Nevertheless. most Americans.
Cookery Notes
"I know," I said, I felt I ought to apologise.
"I've got "and I want
notebook," she said,
to write down some good old-fashioned recipes to take back to the folks at home.
from
with an undying regard for the olde "I want some that your housewives worlde, like to think ours the parent cook in their own homes, ones of Cookerie Booke, and come armed which the recipes have probably been to with receptive minds and handed down
mother willing tuminies.
daughter-typically English dishes. But what do they find? A lot of your English food seems to Hardly ever the traditional be trying to be. Continental if you dishes they give us credit know what I mean?"
KEEP THE
IN
YOUR
for.
"I'm afraid we're getting very
1 inet Mish Caroline snobbish about food," I said. "Other Baker, of Portland, Oregon, countries are content not to gild their U.S.A., surveying without culinary filles, but we're apt to think enthusiasm a plateful of un- it's smart to add a dash of French, attractive and spotty pieces German, Italian, or what-have-you our food. Despite of pastry.
she
asked
atmosphere to
"Are these your Banbury that, however, I can still give you takes I've heard so much a few tried and trusted recipes that won't shame the old country back about?"
me
in Portland, Oregon. They are Old the doubtfully.
this
but English,
not Olde Englishc. way they should look?"
Cooking is an art which, like other "No," said firmly. "It's arts, should not be arty." not."
(And this, I thought, goes for us
"You see," she went on, too.)
LIGHT EYES
care of them,
them
OLD ENGLISH RECIPES
Can You Cook These?
confused
(which with
RICE FLUMMERY PHERE was incen girl who had an on your lids und round your eyes to Take
infallible prescrption for bright help smooth out those fired lines-
also to
the little prevent
br HEVET cup and shining eyes. She kept falling and
"trumenty"). chopped celery; one cup red in love. That, of course, is all right wrinkles which will suddenly make Says KATE CARR, and should
3oz. pround rice, 1 pint new milk, don't overwork dressing. salt, so far as it goes. The trouble is that their appearance overnight if you salmon; mayonaise
haven't been careful.
a slice of lemon peel, teaspoonful It can easily go too for and pepper,
Then make some pads from cotton
cinnamon, teaspoonful essence of Place the tomatoes in a saucepanį It is safer-and, in the long run.
light in your wool, dip them in eye lotion, and at eyes a chance by bandaging them almonds, a nut of butter. with balling water, cover, and stand easier to keep the
them over your eyes. Give yourself lightly with a dork handkerchief. Mix the rice with a little cold for five minutes, after which the eyes by looking after them.
and cinnamon skin will be easy to remove. Ped!
We work our eyes more, and look five minutes rest at least, changing
then almost any the pads once or twice, and your DON'T waste your power of "see milk. Boil the pint of milk, favour
Ing." You do this when you with the lemon
desired). Stir the tomatoes, cut a slice off the stem after them less,
read in a poor light, and when you and
sugar
the boiling milk, and remove enough of the pulp to other part of our bodies, so it is not tiredness will disappear.
the leave
and
almond ndd butter hollow cup. Season the in- surprising that they show signs of you will and this little citual fall into a "brown study" and stare motricie side down on a plate. Chill until wear before they should.
good pick-me-up during the day without aceing.
Doctors say that this staring habit flavouring. Now ball gently until it ready to serve. Chop the celery Even on a holiday our unfortunate
dissipates IDental power thickens and leaves the sides of the pat the cream away from your eyes actually
Pour into a mould and hearts Anely, add the flaked salmon, eyes, which have been subjected all too, but in this case after your rest
the ability to con- saucepan.
leave till cold. Turn out and serve bind with a little mayonaise, and the year to many kinds of treatment with cotton wool dipped in astringent and decreases
they're not prepared for, never get loilon.
The trouble is that we are forcing with: cream, fruit, or Jam. look in.
The condition of your nerves and And when we feel tired out it is your general health may depend on our eyes nowadays to do something YORKSHIRE PUDDING
intended for-con- weren't of strain to which you they
4 tablespoonfuls flour, 1⁄2 pirit mille, just as well to remember that of the amount eyes have borne a good share of the subject your eyes, so get into the timally to observe objects at a short 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful water, and a
this is little salt. strain--and show it first.
habit of closing them whenever you distance. The antidote to
to look, as long and as often as we
Mix the flour and salt in a busin Never omit a regular bathe with have a minute to yourself. an eye-bath and a good lotion every See that your bedroom is curtained can, far into the distance. morning and, if you are on holiday well at sight too, to exclude all light. Look at the sky, but not the sun: some time before you want to cook the puckling. Then mix in a little observe the clouds. The best sky of of
the tomatoes.
Mix the tomato pulp with some salmon and mayonaise and serve.
LEMON ICE
Fo
NOUR cups
H
centrate.
water: juice of four or are going out to many parties, it is not enough to close your eyes to study in a starry one, for this! the milk, break in the eggs whole. lemmons; 24 cups sugar: Juice every night as well. At night add they must be protected as well. is a rest for the nerves as well as
of one orange; grated rind of one lemon.
Boll water and sugar far len minutes, orange juices into the sugar syrup and add the grated rind. Cool.
Strain The Jemon
at extra bit of routine.
After bathing pat some eye cream
Turn into freezer and freeze, using For
one part rolk salt to live parts Anely cracked ice. Turn freezer constantly until mixture stifiens.
Remove dasher from freezer and repack, using one part salt to three parts ice.
JELLIED SOUP
TAKE 14 tins tomato julce; four table-spoons granulated geintine; one tea-spconful white vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste.
The
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Pepper, tomato sauce, and chopped watercress to taste.
Boll the rlee in boiling salted water. Chop the fish, removing all skin and bone,
and the hard-boiled eggs. Melt the butter in a pan, toss the strained rice into it, and add pepper and salt.
Now add the fish and the chopped white
of the eggs. Stir in about a dessertspoonful of tomato sauce. Stir well until it is piping hot, and serve quickly in a hot dish, with the chapped yolks of the hard-bolled eggs scattered on top.
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