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Parsnips In Variety
PARSNIPS, which are of consider-
able food value, often are for- gotten, but it properly cooked they are very tasty,
The simplest method of cooking is bolting, but they can be fried and baked or used with other ingredients. For boiling peol thinly, cut length- ways, and place them in salted water, cooking quickly,, occasionally skimming the water Tert thism with fork to dlacover if tender,
To make them even nfcer, cook ́in half milk and half water.thlaken with four and add à paf (bf; butter - after they are done. Serye in their
'own nauce.
Fried pursnips make, the perfect addition to roast mution. Boil them whole first, then cut into strips, dip each in balter or in egg and bread- -crumbs, and fry in hot fal. They can be served alone. To do so, try the strips, without batter, in butter sprinkle parsley ever and serve, or leave to get cold and add to a salad. Creamed parsnips have an attrae- tion all their own." Boll the parsnips, cut into slices, and after sprending cach silce with butter lay is a veges ⚫table dish and pour over them white sauce. Serve very hot. Another -method is to mash the slices, and then add four tablespoonfuln of cream and one of butter. Boli up again and serve at once. Paranip Fricanice
Fricassee of parsnips la very tasty. Cut the parships lengthwise Into pieces about three inches long. Boll
in milk il tender, Lay the parsnips in a pan containing half a gli of cream ad blade of mace, and almTZ- mer for Ave minutes. Place some toasted bread on -dish, lay the parsnips on, and pour the sauce over.
For baked parsnips boll some of the vegetables In as little water as DIRNDL waist possible, with a few thick sllees of pickled pork. When tender allee, and put the parsnips and pork in layers in dish, pouring the liquid over. Bake til brown, season, and serve wth white tauce. Tasty Soup
and scalloped edge mark the coat of a fa- shionable Spring two- piece. Note how the bodice of
Parsnip soup is very worming for winter. Dissolve 2 ozs, of butter in the saucepan, then add three good parsnips, two potatoes, and a large is
the frock becomingly
onion, all sliced. Pour in a quart of gathered. water, a teaspoonful of salt, a dozen peppercorns, and boll for 11⁄2 hour.
Then add two tunpoonfuls of sago,
stir until the soup thickens rub through a sieve into a tureen, and -serve hat.
Working Hints
To make parsnip balls boll two To clean white paint effectively,
fat.
boll an onion in water and use parsnips, mash finely, ndd two the liquid whlie warm without soap. tablespoonfuls of melted butter, a Sponge off with cold water and dry teaspoonful of salt. tenspoonful 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, To remove the odour from bottles Form into balls and dip in egg and that have contained pungent liquids, breadcrumbs, then fry in boiling half all them with cold water and Indd to each a tablespoonful of dry For currled parsnips boil the mustard. Allow to stand for vegetables whole l tender. Tear hour or two before rinsing out Into shreds with forks, sprinkle with clear water. cloves and dust sugar. Pour over some curry sauce, warm up, and serve with boiled rice in a separate
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dash.
Custard Recipes CUSTARDS are pleasant to eat but make. Too much heat is fatal. When baking a custard it is a good plan to set the ple-dish in
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To neutralise ucid from a wireless accumulator spilt on a carpet or tablecloth, cover the affected part immediately with milk,
A piece of cotton wool dipped in cou de Cologne and gently rubbed on light-coloured kid gloves that are solled will soon clean them,
Odd lengths of wool left over after
knitting can be made into pads to place beneath the stair carpet In- lead of felt ones. Really thick pads, will result by using the wool
a pan with some cold water in double, or even treble, and knitting
say a roasting in for example.
in garter stitch on fairly small
This helps to keep it from cook-needles.
ing too quickly, Custards do not
By gluing a tape measure along
Fet quickly and adding eggs other the front of the sewing machine and than the given quantity is really no stitching a thick pad over the bar of help at all.
Baked Custard Pudding
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the machine to serve |eushion; -much-time-will-be-saved
when dressmaking.
If blankets are hard and felted
One pint of milk eggs; 4 ozs after washing, shake them vigorous- sugar; a piece of lemon rind; and aly before hanging on a line, when pinch of salt. Put the milk in they should be gently beaten with a saucepan, add a plece of very thin clean carpet beater. The original lemon rind, a pinch of salt, and numness will then return. bring to the boll.
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Beat the eggs with the sugar for
a little while, then, beating steadily, pour the boiling milk over the eggs. Grease a ple-dish, and cook slowly for one hour.
Pouring Custard.
One pint milk; two eggs; two ozs.. sugar; flavouring, and pinch of salt.
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LIKE the look of tailored clothes," a render 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?"
"Of course I can," I wrote, "there's no job I like better." 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 dirndi 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 line and rows of gathering across to match the waist. The elastic is threaded through to give the neat close at desirable; a small zip holda tha two fronts scourely in place.
The dress is slim, graceful-looking with an inverted pleat in the skirt and loops of two shades of cord give an interesting finish to the neckline.
Ап up-to-the-minute outat: alto- gether, which should suit all young and average figures.
As more matronly figures would And the full, curadi line a little try Ing. I had another two-piece sketched, cut on rather straight lines, which give height to the not-so-slims.
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Both coat and dress are in hoary quality artifelat alk, which hangs long-sleeved dress has a self belt and well The coat is unlined and the a V neckline.
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The front of the dress and the ocat are reloved by handsome broderis anglaise in self colour. This embroid- cry is most fashionable now and a belge vastea on the dress ahows it off to good advantage.
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SAN JOSE, Cal. The San Jose are department Is again enjoying the consciousness of Bring the milk to the boil. Flavour the full stature of dignity. For it. Beat the eggs and the sugar, years past, J. N. Hedberg has main- then pour the boiling milk over tained a private fire department and them, beating vigorously the while. at times has competed with the local Strain into a bowl or jug. Set the department. Jug in a pan of boiling water, and Are deportment got a call from Hed-hot water and ammonia-a table-
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E three designs of the new Lagua of stamps for the Beychelles, the British colony in the Indian Ocean, are noteworthy for several reasons.
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TWO "giants" are illustrated. One is the doublé coconut, known as the "coco-do-mer." This huge tree bearE puta two or three times tho aize of normal coconuts, and is found only in these falanda.
Other values deplet one of the giant tor- tolaes living in the Aldabra Islands which, though several hundred miles distant, are a de- pendency of the Seychelles. Tor- toiseshell and coconut products are important exports.
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