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June 7, 1940..
SUMMER OUTLINES A little goes a long
The hat Blastrated above is youthful bonnet-loque of black grosgrain, with the front flange gay with an kisel of brilliantly coloured print.
The swirled-front turbin is in leltuce green "Glans cloth" offset with a paisley print In wond brown.
Quickly-Made Soups
VEGETABLES, are always good for!
Баур. But if you leave then out. try this way:
Make a thin white sauce, using 14 ez margarine und 4 oz flour to every pini milk or milk and water. I you have stock use that.
Stir into your pan of sauce very carefully_a_th:of spinach, stirring all the time. Season with pepper and salt, and serve with slppets of lost. Instead of spinachuse
4171- other day tomato puree, but add a teaspoonful of sugar to this to im- prove flavour.
Tinned consomme is also useful. It can be turned Into a more sub- stantial soup by adding tinned peas. tinned diced vegetables, asparagus tips cooked macaroni in short lengths, or even chopped or diced ham. The latter is specially tasty.
Pertups the cheapest soup of all that we can spake and it is light and nourishing is fish
soup.
————Buy – 1 – 1b --fishi-trimmings -Wash well, put on in lined pan with suf}}- sient cold water to cover. Add 1 onion and. 2 bay leaves. Bring to the bolt, and skim thoroughly, strain. Melt 2 ozs margarine in pan, add 2 oz flour. Mix well but do
not
brown. Pour in gradually 1 quart
stock.
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Bring to the boil. Add 1 table- spoonful chopped parsley, and teacupful milk. Seison and serve. If liked a dessertspoonful of curry powder can be mixed with the four.
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Rapid Rug Repairs THE
HE worst enemy of a handsome rug is frayed edges. Trim them nently, and then blanket-siltch them with some fine carpet twine, using t carpet needle for this purpose. A burnt hole in
a carpel is another problem, and the
"In the menfolk
family are ofien responsible for this! carpet plle should be matched
The
up with tough twisted
wool,
crewel wool is undoubtedly one
the best for this job.
and
of
Sewing from the back of your car-
pet, knot every luft you make, keep-
long way
BAKED in BATTER
HAT would they say if
Wing
you forgot
the baller
on roast beef day? I've heard many folk remark that it's the batter,
with rich, brown gravy poured ever, that makes this old English dinner so appetising.
As it's a general favourite, why not put it more often on the menu? Besides being a welcome change, batter is satisfying and will make a little meat, fal, or vegetable go a long way..
Any left-overs, such as sausage, kidney, cutlet, three or four prunes or figs can be baked in batter to make a sweet or savoury dish. Children love it plain with a spoon- ful of syrup,
Ware Lumps
First, a word on beating the batter. Some Inexperienced cooks have complained to me that the flour goes lumpy in the mixing. This is because the milk is added 100 quickly.
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The secret la to put your flour Into the basin, make a well in the middle, break in the egg with a very little milk, and beat carefully, drawing in the flour gradually from the sides.
As the mixture atiffens, add a Bittle more milk slowly, but on no account let the batter become thin and runny before all the flour liss bren absorbed then beat in tho rest of the milk with an over and over rhythm to let in the air.
To make sure that the pudding will full up nicely, let it stand, covered, for an hour before cooking, then give it a Anni beat.
Miko two oz, dripping very hot-in n
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baking tin shallow casserole, pour in the batter and bake in a hot oven, Regulo mark 7. for half an hour.
A good average size batter pudding for four or five people is.made with 4 02. flour. 1 egy, a pinch of salt, and i pint "of milk. An ounce of cornflour and 3 oz.
nour.
our, instead of 4 02, flour only, makos an excellent, light baller mixture.
Secrets
of
Success
In Suffolk the batter mixture is boiled in a scalded floured cloth and caten with gravy na n first course before the ment. You'll hava boiled batter pudding regu larly once you'ïa taaled it. Spread the cloth in a colander with the edges hanging over the aldes, pour over somo bolling water, shake over the flöür, then pour in the batter.
Tie up into a round football, leaY. ing room for the pudding to expand, then plunge into boiling water and cook for three-quarters of an hour,
Toad-in-the-Holt
One sausage for each person in a batter pudding goes na far as two plainly grilled and the meal has more variety and Davour.
To make the dish a success, lightly fry the sausages before adding them to the batter. They will then come to. table an appetising brown instead of with that half-baked pink look. Cook for 35 minutes in a hot oven. Fritter Batter
Fritters need a light, thin mixture. Apple and pineapple rings, bices of báðann, all taste delicious if dipped tu 4 batter made with 4oz, flour, two
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A wrap-around pinafore of entourfully striped natural cotton
is worn over a one-plece day sult in shirt-and-sboris style in palc yellow cotton. The wooden clogs have sandal straps of tape.
Stripes Used In New Play Suits
BY ELEANOR GUNN
ing your wool spaced like the carpet *slacks with shirt or coat are very much in demand by women plle, thus making an "invisible who take to the country for a spell. Contrasting slacks and shirts mend." After
the space you Alling can trim the wool to the same length lend while stripes, small prints and plaids get the vote with play suits. There's a rumour that black sports clothes are seriously Very often the carpet foundation considered, but it's just
of the pile, to match it.
Itsel
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2 rumour.
is badly burnt. A plece of All this can be set down in your style) Cozrɛc canvas or hessian, sewn firmly notebook on vacation wear. underneath, will provide you with a
wools.
Closely woven carpets, such Wilton
or Axminster, should be
Hand-crocheted mesh Jockets,
sound base on which to work your matching or contrasting with crepe dresses, are novel versions of the wool jacket matched to crepe, dress, FO popular at the resort season and blanket-stitched between every four carrying right on for summer in the tufts. Thick Indian rugs and car- original rabbit hair jerseys- pets should have the stitching car- ried well in from the edge.
Twin day and dinner dresses ore something worth thinking about.
A ragged rug fringe often given They are usually shirtwaist dresses your rups
stabby look. Try rewith one long and one short skirt. moving it with sharp scissors and Another thing to mull over is the binding the ends with wide braid. ide of having parnsal, bag and But you sitould remember never to other accessories fushioned of the bind a thick "ease" rug with braid; same fabric as the dress.
Stunning
town, many of them in pind sk
It inakes on unsollsfactory repair.
A clever way to completely trans-hat and handbag sets are all over
form your, rugs, and give them new or gingham, stripes, dols and even life, is to "mask" them with a length eyelet embroidery and pique,
of made-up fringe. Make this with
It's all very well to talk about
a double leading, then the rug is in the colour, Sleeping Beauty, bu serted and sandwiched in this. Next there's no getting away from the tack and sew. securely in.
A common fault with some rugs fact that it and other harsh blues are very trying, which, a for us
is turned-up corners. If there defy most women aru concerned, pula a all ordinary measures, try this neat curse on them. After all, why wear dodge-Fasten an "L" of thin wafer- harsh colours, If unbecoming, Just lend to each corner, covering the atrip will some material, but leaving new colours are exciting to talk about because they are new? · Some of the enough margin so that it can be sewn and to see at fashion shows, but are in close to the corner,
Joan Arnold prelly dimcult to get away with.
STOP PERSPIRATION
Odors are for flowers-not Underarms!
at all DRUG and DEPARTMENT STORES
FLOU
Liver toad-in-the-hole is tasty and satisfying.
eggs, 1 tablespoonfui elad
Ua teacupful of tepid waler, and, of course, a pinch of salt. Have the fat very hot (and plenty of BD) and watch' for the blue smoke to rise, then put in your conted fruit.
It is important to wipe the frult dry with a clean cloth before dipping it in- to the batter, or it will be soggy.
Small pieces of left-over herring or kipper and thinly sliced sausage make tasty fritters for a first course. Baked with Liver
As a change from aausage toad, alico up alb, liver, toss it lightly in hot fat to brown the outside, then arrango it in a baking tin containing the hot: dripping, pour over the batter and bake for half an hour.
Unwual Sweet
Fruit in batter makes an unusual, economical sweet. Nourishing, too. and satisfying.
Sift 3o. flour. 1oz comflour, and 1 dessertspoonful sugar into a basin,
Pedicure Puts Feet In Shape
By JACQUELINE HUNT
PAMPERING your feet for
health and comfort is not ́enough this season. In a few weeks if not already—your: toes will be coming out into the open. They'll peep from the cutout! toes of your dressy sandals with little more privacy than the sheer silk of your stockings affords and they will be without even, that flmy| covering in beach sandals later on.
There is nothing like a check-up to show, that pretty feet are far tessi common than pretty hands or pretty! faces, so begla your foot treatments: and regular pedicures now. If your Loes are straight, the skin smooth, soft-and-free-from-blemishes--|
The toenails as free from cuticle and neat as your fingernails, you will feel embarrassment when them at the beach.
You uncover
One complete pedicure weekly is probably sumelent. but do give a few minutes once or twice a week to inspecting the nails, smoothing nait edges, working back cuticles and extra attention to callouses. Jesides increasing pride in your appearance! (also self-assurance), you'll
save money on hose bills by eliminating stags and holes in the toes.
Soak Feet In Water
Begin the pedicure by soaking the feet for ten minutes in a basin of warm sonplads, · Scrub thoroughly with a null brush, particularly around
the
make a well in the centre, drop in the egg, and gradually add milk, besting thoroughly to make sinoolls and light. Leave to stand, covered, for as long as possible. · Prépare any reasonabin fruit, and place in a well-greased shal- low dish.
Pour over the batter and bake for about 40 minutes in a hot oven, mark ́7.. Berve with custard.
Sultana & Apple
Another good family pudding is mado by sprinkling a handful of sullanas into the dish, covering with thinly. sliced apple, and pouring over the balter mixture.
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Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.
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Bon Voyage Cherie.
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We must all stick together.
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Bako on wual, allowing a minules longer time in the oven to cook the sultanas through1.
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Try fig or date fritters. Mince the fruit with a tie lemon juice or some of the grated peel and a pinch of cinnamon, form the mixture into small balla the size of a walnut, cont with batter and fry in hot fat.
Orange and nutmeg flavours also combine well with figs in fritters.
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It's red and white plaid pity- ham that makes this junior miss dress with flaring skirt, double- breasted bodice and white plque dickey with bow detall,
Massaged With Cream
It you apply polish, Insert small heels and toes, where callouses rolls of cotton between the toes to are apt to form. Dry each foot thor keep them apart. If your nolls are oughly. Now with it fine steel file or small and nicely shaped, a rather, coarse-emery board, shape the-toe--bright shade of polish that-har- nalls fairly close in a shallow curve., monizes or matches that used on your If there are rough spots on the toes) Angernalis is good idea. Legs- or soins of the feet remove by rub- shapely ones will be more attractive bing gently with a pumice stone, ir
you use a more subdued shade or clear rose to give a gloss and just a hint of colour. Cover the entire polish. This gives on
Next wrap a bit of absorbent cotton around the end of an orange hall with
mover and work around the sides ness. Let the polish dry completely and base of the nails, pushing back before the concluding step of your dead cuticle that adhere to the nail. the cuticle and working off bils et pedicure. Soak thin strips of cotton
This is a massage with cream. er soft Use a soothing, coaling cream made flannel in warmed cuticle oil or any especially for feet, or use the end of light oil an wrap around each toe. your jar of tissue or softening cream. Remove and coal again for few Message firmly over the soles of the minutes. Serub and dry thoroughly. feet and arches, up the instep cords Give the feet a final inspection to see and around the anides. Use a arm. there is no moisture or loose, pressing stroke back and up from the that dend skin between the toes. Inspect base of the tees. Wipe off exceus nails and if there are stains, remove ereom and Anish by patting or spray- them
with peroxide,
Now
you are ing with some of your favourite cou ready for your favourite shade of nail de Cologne, If you expect to put on polish, or if your feet are not to be on shoes and stockings immediately, display, simply a good buffing to sprinkle the feet with powder, and smooth the nall surface and bring the see how grond and pampered they circulation to the toes.
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