Well-Kept Saucepans
WELL-KEPT Housewife.
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The first lesson in the art of well- kept anucepans is the choosing. Few realise that short, bread saucepans are more economical than the tall, narrow kind. The reason for this is that the former trap more hent than the latter, and thus use less gna.
With all Bougepona, 120 tht the ild is well, though not so tightly that it is a struggle to take it off. Pay careful attention to the handles, which should be round and grooved, for round handles that are not grooved slip too easily when gripped,
Assure yourself that the sauce- ยก balances well; Somo light alumiulum saucepans tip over, the steel handle being heavier than the non itself. If the saucepan is very Jurge, there should be a sinell handlo opposite to the mam one to assist in lifting when the pan is full.
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Aluminium saucepans are easy to choose, for they must be made of a metal of standard purity. They should be fairly heavy and stoutly built. Enamelled saucepans inust have a thick, smooth layer of enamel, without blisters or emcks, and the surface must be bright and glossy. Cust-Iron saucepan, should be tested like the wheels of a train, to sea that there is a good "ring."
Once you have bought the saucepan see that it is kept properly. A stout wooden shelf should be made where the saucepans can be kept out of the way and free from knocks when not in use. Remember, also, to make provision for the saucepan Hats, Cleaning Methods
All housewives realise that the greatest enemy of a salteępia la un encrustation of soot, and regularly cican their saucepans. Another shortening of the saucepan's life is Burning This is very easy to do, housewives consteler that if they the saucepan with goda and water and allow it to boil, the burn will be removed. This is not Al- though the burn will apparently come off, the next time the saucepau
used a contents will burn again. The only way to deal with thin situation is to fill the burnt saucepan with fairly strong wait and water and leave standing all night. Then bring the contents slowly to the boll and you will find the burnt particles can be rubbed mway.
Make a rule of always washing the It is all warm. This while saucepan halves the difficulties of cleaning,
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To make certain that her fes will be ready for partles, this young lady gives them a refreshing rub with chilled bath "friction" after their warm soapy bath. Legs as well as feet and ankles come in for their share of the treatment.
FOOT BATHS AND
CREAM MASSAGE
By JACQUELINE HUNT
YOU may have danced through the festive season, but do those tors of yours always feel like dancing now? Winter is the time for real foot ills unless the feet receive extra care. Shoes are heavier unless perfectly fitted tend to cause corns and callouses. Feet get less air and perspiration softens the tissues, leaving them more susceptible to blisters and infection.
Remember this
when you walk over hurd pavements, stund for hours
All saucepans are best cleaned by behind a counter shifting your weight rubbing them with a very fine grade wearily from one foot to another, or of steel wool,
clown on your Soda should not be used to clean hurry upstairs and aluminium saucepans unless they see numeras errands. There is so much rinsed immediately.
you can do to have more comfortable feet. Two or three times a week, or
Margaret Fosier,
Chocolate And Coconut Cakes
any time when your feet are fleet and burning, give then this treat- ment:
Fish Dishes
THIS way of cooking makes fish go twice as farand is very de- #lelous to cat. Have t Alleted tall
end of cod or 2-3 small haddocks (filleted).
Make a stuming from four table- Souk in tepid salt water for five spoons breadcrumbs, one tablespoon The heat draws chopped suet, one teaspoon chopped
minutes or more.
Bind togeher with a little Rolid shape
out the aches and wearless wittle the parsley, salt, pepper, and a pinch of THESE cakes have the advmitage of salt solution has a hardening effect cayenne
looking and tasting quite rich and on skin and tissues. Now In fresh milk, and form into expensive, whereas actually they are water, scrub the feel vigorously with with the hand, economical and ration-sparing. Sifta brush and soupsuds. Any together-half-a-pound of four, two brush.isith not-too-stiff brists will level tablespoonfuls of cocoa, and a do. Get between the toes and scrub teaspoonful of baking powder. Add gently over any calloused areas. two tablespoonfuls of dessicated cuco-
nut.
Hot and Cold Water
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Place this inside cod-for divide amongst the nets of haddock-roll them up, and place on greased dish. Bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. or place fish on a greased plate, cover with greased paper, put on pan lid. In a mixing bowl creon! four
The next step is the surprise. and cook on top of boiling water. of margarine with the same ounty
Run water as hot as you can then It will take three-quarters of an hour of soft brown sugar and
cold alternately over your feet. This to an hour to cook thus. Serve with work in the dry ingredients with a beaten egg and a little milic or water forces out stuggish blood and brings a good parsley sauce. ns required. Turn into greased patty in a fresh supply, relieving the con-Yorkshire Herring Ple
gestion t causes swelling und
tins ar puper eases, and bake in a hot ching. Finish with cold water, or
oven for ten minutes.
If preferred, a large cake can be
whle made with the mixture, in case it should be baked in a moderate
oven for an hour and a.baff.
A button-down- tho - front abiriwaist dress in bine ground percale will red and white stripa and print has dashing pocket flaps, collar and quite of white pique.
und to be extra
dry your feet off kind to them, end with a spraying or rub of eau de Cologne. The latter is mildly astringent. soothing and re- freshing.
Season with salt
This is easy to make and very Take three frosh herrings (leted.) Lay them to soak in a tasty. little salted water whilst you peel two sour upples and four potatoes. Cut the apples and potatoes into thin Drying the feet is something also slices. Grease a pie-dish, and put in that should be done with even more layer of potatoes, then place half epre. Always dry thoroughly be the herring on top. tween the toes, and use the rough and pepper. surface of your Turkish towel to rub
Cover with a layer of apples. Fill nway softened collouses and remove dend cuticle from the nail surface," again with another layer of Now you can dance half the night or potatoes, herring, and apple. Then he off to bed, thoroughly refreshed. cover top with a thin layer of potato. Before slipping on your hose in the Bake in a moderate oven (Reg. 5) for morning dust deodorant powder be- three-quarters of an hour, tween your toes.
Mock Soufite
At least once a week, perhaps at the time when you give yourself Tats makes a good lunch, high tea, your regular pedicure, treat your feet or supper dish. Grease a fireproof to a thorough massage with a rien dish, and fill in a good inyer of flaked lubrienting cream. Special foot Annan haddock (or other fish.) creams are soothing and refreshing.
Sprinkle generously with sieved but any good cream will do.
cheddar cheese, then pour over with the toes, massaging
enel one souffle mixture made as follows:- and working from the separately
tips Cook one and a half ounce each of ankle. Use both hands, up
the over
flour and margarine in a pan with- the thumbs on top, fingers curled around the sides and under the foot, out browning, stir in half pint milk Give special attention to the sole of or fish stock, and stir till boiling.
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the foot. Stroke the feet gently up- Take off the fire, best in two egg ward, ending this part of the treat-yolks, one at a time, quickly, and ment with a rotary massage move-season with pepper and salt. ment in the hollows on either side of
the heel.
Beat up the egg whites stify and fold in lightly. Pour the mixture Remember your feet do not end over the fish, and bake in rather a with your ankles. Continue the mas-hot oven for about 20 minutes (Re- suge over the calf of the leg, twisting gulo Mork 7.) Garnish with pars-
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and kneading the big muscle and ley,
stroking firmly upward with both
hands encircling the leg, A favourite trick of Ginger Rogers is to finish her foot and leg massage with an leg rub. She covers the piece of leo with n square of gauze and Messages thoroughly until the skin tingles. She says This is firming and slimming to her famous duneing·lega.". It's ́ a refreshing trick for any girl to try.
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Oatmeal On The Menu
LIVE porridge a trial, either for
G breast be supper, and soon it
will become one of the household's favourite dishes, Here is a good recipe:--
Take 1
1 pint water and 2 ozs, coarse or medium oatmeal, according to taste, good pinch salt,
Draw the water fresh, pour into pan, and bring quickly to the boil, When bolling, sprinkle in the mea- sured meal with the left hand, and keep stirring all the time with the right. When it begins to thicken, draw the pan to the side of the fire and
nd add salt.
Simmer slowly, 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally, or inake it in a double saucepan, keeping the water
in the under part boiling all the time.
Cooked in this way, it
requires little or no attention, and there is no fear of burning. The thickness of the porridge is very much a matter of inst More or less ontmeal can
cream.
1 medium oatmeal,
4 lb flour,
teaspoon salt,
1 teaspoon sugar,
1 teaspoon baking powder,
oz. margaring or lard, cold winter.
Mix dry Ingredients, rub in fat, and add enough water to make a stift dough. Knend lightly, and roll out to -inch in thickness.
Cut in shapes, placo on greased tin, and bake in a moderate oven 20 minutes. When cold, pack in air- tight tin.
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Ideal
be used if desired--though the above A BOILED tongue is proportions are the general favourite. | ♫ "stand-by" to have in the inrder. Serve with milk, or sugar, syrup, or 3 can be eaten hot or cold, and the "scraps" will make delicious sand- Note: For an invalid, it is perhaps wiches, better to soak the oatmeal overnight, as it makes it more digestible; but this alters the taste a little, is not always so popular with people with healthy appetites,
Oatmeal Gruci
This is the season for colds, and a good, plemant cure is a bowl of hot gruel, supped, after you are safely tucked up in bed.
To make it, put 1 tablespoon oal- meal (fine) into a basin, and soak in pint cold water 30-40 minutes, stirring ocensionally.
Then strain off the liquid into a small lined saucepan, and press the oatmeal as dry as possible.
Stir til boiling. Boll 5-7 minutes. Sweeten, and add a good pat of mar garine. Serve in hot bowl at once.
Thick Oatenices
One day, when you have Bome Jeisure, make a big tin boxful of these outcakes. They are delicious, and easy to make, Take:→→
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Or Tongue
Tongues are sold either pickled or fresh. Choose a plump looking one with a smooth skin. Wash thorough- ly, and sonk 1-2 hours. If pickled, Foak 3-4 hours. Put into n
deep pon of tepld water, bring slowly to the boil and skim. Then add a few blocks carrot, turnip, onion, and a bunch of herbs.
Cook gently for about 4 hours, or according to weight, allowing 30 minutes to each 1b, and 30 minutes over. Remove from pan, place in cold water for a second. Skin, be- ginning under the Up. If the tongue is to be used hot, reheat in the liquor for a few minules. It can be served with tomato or brown sauce, chestnut puree, or vegetable,
To Serve Cold
To serve cold set on a board, silek a fork or two skewers into board in front of tip, and a skewer into rool; this is to get it into an arched shape. When quite cold, trim the roat end, take out skewers, and brush over with a little glaze. Fix a frill round the root end.
Some of us and a tongue easier to carve If served in a round. To do this, after skinning tongue, place it in a round us, rinsed in cold water. It should at in
Add a little tightly, gelatine to a little of the quld in which the tongue has been bolled. Pour over the tongue. Place a plate on top of tin, with weights or a flat irom, to keep plate down. Set aside Lill cold and set. Turn on to a round ashel, and decorate with parsley and tomatoes.
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Worry is responsible for many headaclies that are assigned to other: causes,
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