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IT'S FANCY DRESS!
If you like original costumos copy Miss Superstition, Sho is
sure to creato a stir
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of intorast of fancy dress party. "
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SUPPER
SWEETS
/HETHER you're having a
W party or just a few friends
in for a quiet evening, these easy-to-eat sweets will be much appreciated,
Chocolate mould, for instance, is a sure favourite, especially if each guest has a null one made in an individizal fancy abope.
It is made with 1 pint milk, 2 table- spoonfuls cornflour, 202.' sigur, joz. chocolate powder, or o grated penny bar, a few drops of vanilla ersenice,
Mix the cornflour and chocolate with a little of the cold milk to formu a amooth paste, boll the remainder of the milk with the sugar, add the cornflour mixture, and continue to boil and Kir for two minutes.
Stir in the vanšia essence, pour Into wet mould, and leave to set, Tum out and sprinkle with desiccated coconut or chopped almonds.
RECIPES
FOR YOUR
NOTEBOOK
BEEF LOAF
11b, minced beef, lb. fat bacon (minced), lb. breadcrumbs, 2 tomatoes, I cop.
MIX the meat and breadcrumbs well, skin and cut the tomatoes, and add them to the mixture,i moisten with the egg.
Put the mixture into a stone jar and steam for about two hours. Serve cold with salad.
CHEESE AND PARSNIP SAVOURY
216. parsnips, ib. grated cheese, loz. buster or margarine, 2 epa. 1 teaspoonful mixed mustard.
PREPARE the parsion, cut into
small pieces and boll in salied water un tender. Drain and mash with n cheese and butter or mar. Karine,
Lastly, add the eggs, well beaten, Bake in a butlored ple dish in a brisk oven until nicely browned.
This makes a torty hot dish. If preferred, It can be eaten cold with salad.
One-Minute Hint
PIPECLAY and water made into
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Brother and sister go as Safely First and the Messenger of Ponco. Two popular and topical figures,
These Should Win
a Prize
Says MARY GRACE
A young lady from Wales in hor national dross will cause hoads to turn.
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Honey Fillings
NUMBER of delicious Slings for sandwiches, spongecakes, and tarts can be made with honey as 2
busis. For example, it can be used
with mashed unuana, proportions as desired.
Honey and walnut sandwiches are treat, particularly matted bread ls used.
Spread the honey on first, chop the walnuts finely, and sprinkle them over.
Honey mixed with ground almonds makes another good filling.
In
Ginger honey in particularly tasty tarts and ' Victoria sandwiches, Add ten drops of essence of ginger and two ounces of chopped crystal- lised ginger to one pound of thick honey.
Those who find huney too aworl
a paste will remove stains often like it better it a few drops of from wallpaper. Leave on for 24 Irinon juice are added, hours and then brush off lightly.
W. B.
Improving The
Colour Of Food
C
the syrup sweeter and richer THE colour of rhubarb la Improved
if a few cubes of red jelly are added with the sugar.
A teaspoonful of lemon juice added to the cooking water improves the colour of boiled rice,
To make bolled white fish whiter, rub it over before cooking with a cut lemon.
To improve the colour of cakes of the Madeira variety, add a dessert- spoonful of golden syrup to the creamed butter and sugar,
Add the same quantity of black treacle to Dundee and plum cake.
mixtures.
W. D.
M
*December 21, 1938.
FOODS
MEN
PREFER
BSERVERS were asked recently to note what business men in restaurants chouse for their midday meal. The favourite dishes turned out to be roast beef and 'two vege- tables, fried fish and chips, and suet pudding.
OTHERS
driven BTC Nearly distracted at this time of year by, on one Housewives, probably, will not be side, a small son who an-
surprised at this result. Years of nounces: "Mother I have to be a
experience in "feeding the brute" cowboy in the school play," and on
have shown them that he distrusts the other by ten-year-old Anu's
Innovations. Give a man something pleading tones: "I want to go as
line the Fairy Queen to Joan's party." "dashing" in the vegetarian
Patterned for you to-day are four instead of the roast joint he is ex- fancy dresses that you can make up peeling and he will demand. "What- nt home. Let's take the Belisha ever is this?" Then he will either Deacon first.
leave it or cal it with
air of
an
The suit is composed of alternate martyrdom, according to how badly, stripes of black and white Bateen or
been brought colton fabric with orange headdrem, or how well, he has The boy could carry a short thin up! pole bound with red, green and am-
ber fabric to represent truffle lights.
A red
Where some men are concerned it to produce
necessary triangle, the thirty-miles is not even un-hour sign, as well as that indicat-something completely out of the Ing a a school, could be utilised,
ordinary to exelte suspicion and dis-
A
volle dress could be used for the | approval. Messenger of Peace. Cut the bodice
magyar shape and thread silver rib- One has only to cook a famillar bon down the front, crossing over to food a new way. For example, a Ife at back.
Wings are made from thin silver wife who took a lot of trouble to more tasly tissue from the alxpenny store, and make a piece of steak
wired at the edge. A coronet or than usuni by adding a new sort of silver leaves mounted on cardboard forcement was asked by an ungrate- for the hair and the word Peace em ful husband, "Why on earth can't we broidered in silver thread down the have honest meat?"
front.
Now to describe the two grown-up Women Like a Change costumes. "Superstitions," is an ex-|
cellent choice,
Women, on the whole, take more
You requiren dress of green suteen kindly to changes of diet. Forsaking with various superstitions cut out of the habits of our grandmothers, we silver or coloured paper.
For instance, it is supposed to be have grape fruit, oranges, or bananas unlucky to see the new moon through at breakfast time, and turn a dis- twigs or through glass; crossed dainful eye on the man of the house knives, indders, cracked mirrors, consuining rashers bf bacon and egɛ. "unlucky 13," black cats, horseshoes,
are some of the more comtrion, For lunch or dinner we welcome Wear a close-fitting cup or bandeau French dishes of the omelette and with a reversed horseshoe or eres- soufle kind though we may not care cent moon in front.
to to to the trouble of preparing
For the Welsh costume. An old them when we eat at home, and shoulder shawl can be brought out generally we prefer light sweets. fur this dress.
The froek is of dark woollen At a women's college the caterers fabric with
full sleeves of white found that, even in winter, stewed organdic or muslin, A large check- fruit, fruit larts, jellies, and similar cd ginghom apron is worn over it dishes were more popular thats Over the frilled white mob cap is steamed puddings of the suct variety. the usual high-crowned black hat.
Care With LIPSTICK
Steamed and baked sponge puddings, rice, and tapioca were moderately popular. Puddings, of, the bread variety nearly always "hung fire.”
Tastes Agree
Here It seems the tastes of the sexes for once agree. At one of the men's colleges at an English Univer- ally recently a one-night strike was PPLY your lipstick with care and held as a gesture of protest against precision. One application of the too-frequent appearance of the Indelible varlety should be queen's pudding sometimes
called sufficient for a whole day provided itqueen of puddings." Among pud- is put on currectly in the first place.dings of its kind it surely deserven Pay as much as you can for your the title, if only on account of its lipstick and give yourself an extra puffy gold-brown-and-white. "roof." minute or two for its application But it appeals more to the eye, it when you are getting ready for your seems, than to the modern pulate, daily round.
Try a new
STUFFING for
for the
A
LTHOUGH sausage meat stuffing is the most popular
one for turkey, there are many
other
tasty stuffings which
W. B.
TURKEY
make a pleasant change and are littic grated lemon rind, season with neither difficult to prepare nor pepper, and bind with 1 or 2 engs. lexpensive.
Chestnut Stuffing
Bread Stuffing
sauce.
Use 4 or 5 good handfuls of soft bread, or more, according to the size This is somewhat different-from of the bird. Soak in milit for a few the usual one. Chop and mince lb. minutes, then break up the bread. of tean veal and 4lb. of lean pork, put in a saucepan and, over a stow with the turkey liver, and brown ftre, mix in a little white tightly in butter, with chopped mixed Then add About Baz. of chopped herbs, a pinch of nutmeg, salt and cooked ham, 2 or 3 chopped cooked or 2 whole mushrooms pepper. Bind with 1
(when available), 1 eggs, mix thoroughly and remove small chopped cooked onton, 3 teo- from the fire. Then add about 2 spoonfuls of parsley, and teason dozen roasted chestnuts, peeled and with salt and pepper. Stir and skinned. A good sauce to serve simmer for about 10 minutes, with a turkey stuffed in this manner
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Chestnut Sauce
Liver Stuffing
This is much better made with Put 16. of chesnuts in a sauce- b. of chicken livers, but, as these pan, cover with cold water, and bring are not always obtainable, 1lb. of liver can be used instead. to the boll. Let them boll for 1 calves
| minute. Then peel and skin them, Chop or mince the liver and brown of put them in a saucepan with a small in butler, adding 3 or 4 handfuls stick of shredded celety, 1 lung of brend previously soaked in milk or stock or water and well squeezed. Add 1 sugar, and cover with
Bring to the boil and sim. tablespoonful of chopped onion, a water. mer ill the chestnuts are tender. little parsley, and season highly with
aleve, put salt and pepper. Then rub them through them back in a saucepan, and thin this puree with a little boiling stock. Just before serving, add 1 oz. of butter, divided in small pieces.
Chestnut-Bacon Stuffing”
Stuffing a l'Espagnolo
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