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Parsnips In Variety
DARSNIPS, which are of consider-
able' food value, often are for- gotten, but I properly cooked they are very tasty
The simplest method of cooking is 'boiling, but they can be, fried and inked or used with other ingredients. For falling, peel thinly, cut length- ways, and pluer them, in salted - Water, cooking quickly, occasionally skimming the water. Test them with a fork to discover if tender.
To make them even nicer, cook in half milk and half water, thicken with four and adil a pat of butler after they are done. Serve in their own rutee.
Fried parsnips make the perfect. addition to roast mution. Boil then whole first, then cut Inte strips, dip cach in batter or in egg and, bread- crumbs, and fry in hot fat. They can be served alone. To do so, fry the strips, without batter, in butter sprinkle parsley ever and serve, or leave to get cold and add to a salad. Creanted parsalps have an attrae- tion all their own. Boll the parsnips, eut into slices, and after spreading each slice with butter lay in
vega- table dish and pour over them white
hot. sauce. Serve very
Another method is to mash the slices, and then add four tablespoonfuis of cream and one of butter. Boll up bgnin and serve at once. Parsnip Fricassee
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Fricassee of parsnips is very tasty. Cut the parsnips lengthwise into pleces about three inches long. Boll In inte till tender. Lay the parsnips in a pan containing half a gill of cream ad blade of mace, and sim- mer for five minutes. Place some toasted bread
dish, lay the parsnips on, and pour the sauce over. For baked parmips Unit some of the vegetables in as lite water as possible, with few thick slices of pickled pork. When tender slice, and scalloped and put the parship and pork in edge mark the layers in a dish, poun..g the liquid coat of a fa- over. Bake til brown, season, and serve with white sauce.
Tasty Soup
Parsnip soup, is very warming for winter. Dissolve 2 ozs. of butter in the saucepan, then add three good parsnips, two potatoes, and a large onion, all sliced. Pour in a quart of water, a teaspoonful of sult, a dozen peppercorns, and boll for 1 hour. Then add two tenpoonfuls of sago, stle until the soup thickens rub through a sieve into a tureen, and serve hot.
DIRNDL waist
shionable Spring two- piece. Note how the bodice of the frock becomingly
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gathered.
Working Hints
To clean white paint effectively, To To make pursnip balls boil two boil an onion in water and use porships,
mash finely, add two the liquid while warm without soap. fablespoonfuls of meiled butter, a Sponge off with cold water and dry teaspoonful of salt, 1 teaspoonful of with a smooth cloth, when the sur- pepper, two tablespoonfuls of milk. face will be as good as new. Mix together, and add a beaten egg. Form into balls and dip in egg and breadcrumbs, then fry in bolling
fat.
For curried parsnips bell the vegetables whole till tender. Tear Into shreds with forits, sprinkle with cloves and dust sugar. Pour over some curry
sauce, warm up, and serve with boiled rice in a separate sish.
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Custard Recipes
To remove the odour from bottles that have contained pungent liquids, half fit them with cold water and add to each a tablespoonful of dry mustard. Allow to stand for
un In hour or two before rinsing out clear water.
To neutralise acid from a wireless accumulator spilt on a carpet or tablecloth, cover the affected part immediately with milk.
A plece of cotton wool dipped in enu de Cologne and gently rubbed on light-coloured kid gloves that are solied will soon clean them.
Odd lengths of wool left over after CUSTARDS are pleasant to eat but knitting can be made into pads to
tricky to make.
beneath the stair carpet in- place Too much heat stead of felt unes. Really thick is fatal. When baking custard it
pads will resuit by using the woul is a good plan to set the ple-dish in apan with some cold water in it, double, or even treble, and knitting in garter stitch 011 fairly small needles.
say a roasting tin for example,
This helps to keep it from cook-
Ing-too-quickly, - Custards-do-not- By gluing tape measure along set quickly and adding eggs other the front of the sewing machine and toun the given quantity is really no stitching a thick pad over the bar of help at all.
the machine to serve as a pin cushion, much time will be saved when dressmaking.
Baked Custard Pudding
If blankets are hard and felted One pint of milk 4 cgs: 4 ozs.after washing, shake them vigorous- sugar; a plece of lemon rind: und a
ly before hanging on a line, when pinch of salt. Put the milic in they should be gently beaten with a saucepan, add a piece of very thin clean carpet benter. The original lemon rind, a plách of salt, andЛlumness will then return. bring to the boll.
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Beat the eggs with the sugar for. ttle while, then, beating steadily, pour the bolling milk over the eggs. Greuse ple-dish, and cook slowly for one hour.
Pouring Custard.
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If You Like
LIKE the look of tailored clothes," a reader writes, "but I feel at my best in a pretty dress, and as I am going to a wedding soon, could you find me something suitable to wear for the occasion which will be useful afterwards?"
"O ecurse I can," I wrote, "there's no job I like Getter." And I thought perhaps other readers might be interested in my finds.
First, we must have a touch of fashion about it, and the most popular style to-day is the deadl waistline with a fullish skirt.
Both dress and coat are in the same material-a fancy back crêpe. The "Not-So-Slims "
The coat has the high shoulder lino and rows of gathering across to mate: the waist. The elastic is threaded through to giro the neat close fit desirable; a small zip hold," the two fronts securely in place.
The dress la alim, graceful-looking with an inverted pleat in tho skirt and loops of two shades of `cord ġlje an interesting finish to the neckline,
An up-to-the-minute ouiût allo gether. which should suit all young ́and average figures:"
As more maironly figures would And the full dirndl fine a little try- ing, I had another two-plece sketched, cut on rather straight lines, which give height to the not-so-allma
Both coat and dress are in heavy quality artificial allk, which hangs well The coat is unlined and the long-sleeved dress has a self belt and n V neckline.
Broderic Anglaise
The front of the dress and the coat are relieved by handsome broderio anglaise in self colour. This embroid- ery is most fashionable now and a belgo vestre on the dress shows it off to good advantage.
SHINING WAYS
One pint milk; two eggs; two ozs. The San Jose fire department is sugar; ilavouring, and pinch of salt. again enjoying the consciousness of
Bring the milk to the boil. Flavour the full stature of dignity. it. Beat the eggs und the sugar, years past, J. N. Hedberg has main- then pour the boiling milk over Lained a private fire department and them, beating vigorously the while at tlines has competed with the local TARNISHED silver may be made Strain into a bowl or jug. Set the department, Recently the oficial bright again by steeping it in jug in a pan of boiling water, and are department got a call from Hed-hot water and ammonia-table- stir the custard until it conts the berg, fire having broken out in one spoonful to a quart of water. Dry of his most expensive pieces of up-thoroughly and polls in the usual J. M. paratus.
spoon,
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Real old pewter should never be polished ke sliver. A safe and! eficient cleanser enn be made by moistening equal parts of whitening and cigar sh with linseed oil or ammonia. Apply with a flannel kept molst with a mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine. Wash the article afterwords in var soapy water; dry thoroughly and polish with a chamols leather.
Tarnished brass can be restored to Its former brightness by applying a little methylated spirit on a soft cloth,
Rusty curtain rings and hooks Immersed in a bath of hot vinegar, before being pollshed in the usual | way, will look like new again.
A cut lemon dipped in salt will clear copper, and lemon juice rubbed with a soft cloth on aluminium pans which have become dull will make them clean once more. Finish by rinsing the pans in warm water. .")
Add a little paraffin to the water when washing point or linoleum if a glossy surface is wanted.
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They are the colony's first plc- torial stamps, they are beautifully printed by "photogravure" (the method by which our British stamps are now printed), and there are no frame-lines around the pictures Absence of borders gives
BRODERIE An- glaise adds a smart tinishing touch to an outfit for the fuller figure. Both dress and coat are design- ed on slimming lines.
*For Juniors
“GIANTS" ON STAMPS
na attractive spaciousness to the designs on these stamps.
From the Aldabra is tands come these plant fortoises.
Two "giania” are illustrated. One is the double coconut known as the "coco-de-mer." This huge tree bears nuts two or three times the size of normal coconuts, and is found only in these islanda.
Other values depict one of the giant tor- Aldabra tolaes living in ho Islands which, though several bundrod -miles distant, are a de- pendency of the Seychelles. Tor- toiseshell and coconut products are important exports.
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The third flustration is of n flahing pirogue, a Iong manned by three natives, which is used for fishing expeditions.
All the designs include a por trait of the King. A. I. M.
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