BY
No bones about bananas
ANN MARVEL FOR all-round
vitamin
value and pocket nourish- ment there are few foods to rival the bañana. British housewives think so, for thirty millions pass through the markets every week and forty millions in summer, and they know a good buy when they see it.
Bananas are rich in natural and digestible sugars and show
Are You A Poor Sleeper?
these savoury toasts can be
They Cut some peeled bananas 2
in half lengthwise; then cut oach half in two. Uso firm just-ripe fruit
SURPRISING number of people | are Inemcient sleepers.
la how
to ΠΟ have forgotten
No matter how early or how sleep. late they retire, they invariably lle awake for one, two, or three hours, The really efficient sleeper is sound naleep five minutes after his head touches the plow,
bad Lying awake at night is habit. Like all bad habits, it can be erased by practice and patience. Most people accept this partial is- somala as a piece of the unalterable scheme of Wings. Their efforts to combat. It are apamodic and un- sustained.
The habit of lying awake can. however, be conquered. The only requirements are a little intelligence and a
a lot of persistence.
First of all, the poor sleeper must learn to relax. This is not a mere matter of lying down and closing the eyes. Every muscle must be re- laxed, and this is by no means easy.
Any physical culture expert will confirm that it is much easier to contract a muscle than it is to relax it. Sport champions often owe their superiority to their ability to relax a particular set right moment.
of muscles at the
The poor sleeper ties wide awake in the firm belief that he is complete- ly relaxed when his body may be the home of a dozen different ten- slons. It is essential that he should bo able to recognise a tension: This can be done by deliberately tensing all the muscles and noting the effect. au The time to do this is between sun- rise and sunset; definitely
not at
night
The favourite tensions of the poor sleeper are wrinkled forehead, tensed bleeps, beat toes, and strained neck (pillow too hight) Another com- mon form of tension is in the eyes.
It is vitally important to remember that every change of position neces- altates a fresh check of tensions, Numerous musclea are contracted in making the movements, und some will almost certainly slay in a state of partial tension.
Obviously, changes of position should be eliminated as far as pos-! sible. Actually most changes of position are unconscious attempts to relleve a particularly strong tension. The individual feels uncomfortabic, over. The nel may and he turn relieve the tension In question, but it often creates another. Hence the tossing and turning no frequently experienced by poor sleepers. Mental Relaxation
Physical relaxation is only the first step towards the acquisition of good sleep habits. Mental relaxa- tion is, perhaps, even more import- ant. The man or woman who takes worries to bed can expect Jonit periods of wakefulness. Physical relaxation and mental relaxation are to some extent interdependent. The Individual whose mind is fully occupied with other matters cannot, pay attention to muscular contrac- tions.
Thought cannot be turned on and off like an electric light, but the Shuman mind docs, nevertheless, pos-
KCSS a "thought-switch."
Unfor
tunately few people know how to operate it. The technique can only be learned by a very gradual reduc- tion of the intensity of thought and emotion. The process is never very clear-cut.
the
person
Mental relaxation has to be learn- ed step by step over a period of months, sometimes years, and for nearly every
the modus operandi is different. Some people can turn off the flow of thought almost at will; it is a natural gift with them, Others have to
to learn trick
by patient endeavour. There are strong indications that dreaming is a sign of mental tense- When the mind has been very active just prior to sleep, a night- mare often results. In dreams the imagination is
There is active. evidence that imagination diminishes as relaxation progressES.
Dreamless or relatively dreamless sleep is the more restful type, al- though considerable recuperation is secured by people who dream almost continuously. The Individual who leepa dreamlessly, however, often obtain full recuperation In hours or less, whereas the dreamer may need
ted eight or nine hours and midday rest is wo
well.
can
of
If sleeplessness is caused by or
conditions, no amount roarrangement will completo cure insomnia. But after the Franic cause has been medically surgically removed, careful atten- on needs to be paid to relaxation, therwise the bad habits engendered Pthe organic calise may persist ng after the cause itself has been;
moved.
D. C. J.
quick calorie return, as well na a full alphabet of vitamins, 80 you get your meal in the handiest way, weatherproofed till you need it. They offer food as well as fuel, so they
carn their place on our shop- ping list.
The habit starts early, as baby happily accepts fully ripened banana in lieu of other fruit juice he may tire of. Lightly broken with a fork and taken with a little milk, it is grand for young children. For a change you can bake the fruit in their skins, like a apple, for the nursery.
baked
CHILDREN go for a banana crumb pud- dling, too. First simmer half a pint of milk with a strip of lemon rind for a minute or two, then remove the lemon peel and pour it over 2oz. fine bread- crumbs and allow them to soak till cool. A beaten egg can then be added with a little sugar. From two to three ripe bananas mashed with a fork and spread at the bottom of a buttered pie dish form the hid- den delight for the poured on breadcrumb custard. Bake the pudding for about half an hour in a moderate oven till set, and lirm.
Chocolate banana fool, made with chocolate blancmange pow- der of custard consistency, and pareed bananas, simple notion.
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THERE
are
another
endless for ways
serving bananas in adult menus. Have you tried curried bunanas?
Season with lemon juice, 3 salt, popper; fry goldon in hot butter, turning frequent-
ly: drain well.
They balance well with the characteristic sweet-sourness of curry sauce.
In India curry powder is freshly made every day from newly-ground spices, but it does not store well over here. See that you buy yours fresh for use, and give it brief toasting on a saucer in the oven just as you want to use it, and the aroma is extra yielding to the
sauce.
Use firm just-ripe fruit, and make the sauce well ahead of time, as this is the secret of well-blended flavour and a good dark colour. For - pint of white stock or -coconut-milk, use I rounded teaspoonful of curry powder, 1 teaspoonful of curry paste, 1 tablespoonfuls of grated or desiccated coconut (to simmer in the stock prior to use) and 1 teaspoonful of mango chutney. Start by melt- ing 1oz. butter in a casserole or saucepan, then saute one chop- ped green apple and 1 minced onion for 5-8 minutes.
A dessertspoonful of rice flour and the measure of curry pow- der la next added and the whole fried with occasional stirrings from a wooden spoon. Add the curry stock, stirring until it renches the boil. Allow to sim- mer very slowly on an asbestos mat, or in the oven, for 114-2 hours, when seasonings, the juice of half a lemon, and a tablespoonful of red currant jelly can be added.
cut Peel, split, and
the bananas into suitable portions, and heat through in the sauce
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Meanwhile prepare fingers 4 of buttered toast, sonsoned with cayenne and just a
suspicion of chutney,
Put banana fillots on toast fingers; top each with strip of Parmesan cheese cream sossoned to taste.
for a few minutes, then serve on a hot dish with cut lemon garnish. A surround of half- moon slices of hard-boiled egg is an improvement, as well as the usual border of boiled clear- dried rice, dusted horo and there with corallino pepper. A few sultanas cooked in the sauce makes a change.
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By A DRESSMAKER You stand and look at the shop with their tempting of materials. Frequently, drapery stores have sales of remains, and appetisers evolve and you wish you knew how to from banana basis, and I can utilise these bargain pieces without recommend Banana Ridge, des-stamping your finished effort with n cribed in the illustration, for home-made look!
piquant quality. You know that: It is possible to nelieve distinct bit about cheese cream? Just success in your dressmaking if you add loz. of finely whisked and no about it the right way.
cost Because the material has only duly seasoned grated Parmesau
" few shillings, many beginners
-cheap- to cach gill of cream, and pipe make the mistake of buying - or coax it into a long coating pattern. Duy a good pattern, then strip.
give
yourself up to the instructions. It is almost an asset to be completely ignorant when One day, see what a couple of
tarting with patterns. At least you bacon
rashers do to an inno-eld-fashioned methods to unlearn. cent banana-it's devastating Do not be over-awed by the num- and speedy too. If the oven is ber of graphs and instructions. The going, peel and bake them to-suleswoman will give you your cor- rect size, and show you the graph gether, under greased paper
applicable to the width of your protection, otherwise frying material. meets the bill for both.
FOR the cold sweet
course, you would like ginger bananas-that is, if you
these
have
no
Each pattern ia in itself a complete lesson in dressmuking, down to the smallest detail. Every stitch and finish a ilustrated and explained.
like ginger. Prepare some "just A Fascinating Business
Do not look
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Cooking
Hints
IF only a small amount of cake is required al a lime, cut the desired allee from the centre of the cake. Then push the halves to gether, and the cake will keep fresh and moist for several days.
Always add hot milk when mash- ing potatoes-not cold-and with a
To get full value of the lesson and pattern, try to repeat it, using une of the alternative styles. It is the con- timully of practice that tells; to let months elapse before your second
effort is a great mistake,
You will be delighted with your
attempt if you follow rigidly the
instructions given.
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Fold up corner C of a cotton square. Fold corner A over it. Tie knot in good lump of butter the favour of temperature falls It's all-important to rebuild your wasted nerve and muscle tissues. peak D. Roll up the open edge to connect fold and form shallow skull-good plan to put a straw through the stomach is too weak to digest
cap.
Fold square to a triangle. Fold down peak B of triangle. Fold peak A across. Divide double peak C and roll up to hold lap-over and form brim.
the dish will be greatly Improved.
When cooking a fruit tort it is a
hole in the top of the pastry. This will prevent the fruit bolling over,
It short of milk for coffee, whip up the white of an egg, and adil à litle to each cup, with a small quantity of milk. This will make the milk go twice na fare:
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In these difficult times of anxiety The water round the ple-dish pre-and doing work which must be done and worry, the task of carrying on vents the custard curdling and in duces a fine consistency.
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