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be a day old before cutting up into Take the weight of three eggs in small fancy shapes. Make just as butter, caster sugar," and flour before. spreading evenly over the half a teaspoontul baking powder. tin. and turn onto a folded cloth, and a few drops of vanilla essence, and then back on to a wire rack Cream the butter and sugar to to cool. I turned direct.. onto the gether thoroughly, unt!i very light. rack the top becomes marked with and almost white. Add the well- the crisscross of the wires, and un- whisked eggs a little at a time, less

the cakes are covered with besting thoroughly after each ad- leing this spoils their appearance. dition.

In turning out, and onto the rack, Sieve the flour and baking pow-care must be taken to prevent der together three times, and then breaking the cake, as it is thin and add this gradually to the rest of liable to break or crack across un the mixture: turning it in with ass done very carefully.

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light, folding movement, and using The cake may be covered with a wooden spoon.

boiled or glace Icing, and when this Have ready two sand-wich-cake is set it may be cut into fancy tins well greased and dusted out shapes-oblong... triangular. or with sloved flour. The uns 'should | diamond-shape-using 1 sharp be about 7in. In diameter and in. knife dipped frequently into bell- deep. Bake in a moderate oren, ing water and quickly dried. This. until a very delicate brown, spread- prevents cracking the layer of leing ing the mixture over the tins even on top. Or the shapes may first be ly, with a slight hollow in the mid-fcut, as desired, and then fancy die. so that when cooked they will icing piped on in various ways, and be of an even height.

decorated with chopped nuts, glace Turn out from the tins.onto twu cherries. angelica and so on. sheets of white papër, previously Small chocolate cakes may be well dusted with sleved castor sugar | madę, using the same mixture, and and placed on a wire rack.

adding 3 ozs. scraped chocolate. When cool the two cakes may be dissolved in about two tablespoon- sandwiched together with any kind fuls of water over a gentle heat of Jam, or home-made lemon curd.until almost boiling. Se constant and the top dusted over with castor ly while on the fire, and beat until sugar sprinkled from a dredger

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TO MAKË LEMON CURD

mes.

8 ozs. luat sugar.

cool before adding, which should be done just after the eggs have been beaten into the butter and sugar cream. These cakes should

Yolks of á eggs, and the whites be covered with chocolate butter or

of four.

.4

ozs. fresh butter,

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ogs, castor sugar,

40

glace Icing, and decorated with giace cherries or crystallised violets, Or they may be spread with the chocolate butter icing. and thickly covered with chopped walnuts or roasted almonds chopped Ans.

CHEESE AND TOMATO

A piquant filling is made as fol

Most a nut of butter on mar- garine in a pan, stir in a table- pint

Wash the limes, removing any brown specks on the outside with a brush if necessary. Dry them thoroughly, and then rub them all over with the loaf sugar to extract "the avour from the oil in the

skins. Beat the eggs thoroughly. lows. and melt the butter over a very gentle heat until oiled. Put all the Ingredients into an earthenware spoonful of four, then add jar. or a jug, and stand in a sauce- milk. Stir until the mixture boils pan of hot water, adding the and thickens. strained juice of the ilmes. Place on a very low fame, and stir all the time until the sugar a dissolved and' the mixture has thickened. When the whole is like a thick Stir the stiffly whisked white in- cream, remove the jar from the to the mixture, then put two tea- hot water, and stir gently until the spoonfuls into each patty case. mixture is fairly cool. Immediately Bake in a quick oven, for from 10 place in dry Jars, and cover down to 15 minutes. with parchment or waxed paper.

When cool, add 1oz. grated cheese." the yolk of an egg, salt, and pepper to taste, and a pinch of chopped parsley.

SARDINE AND EGG

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The greatest care must be taken to prevent the mixture coming to Mash the sardines with steved bolling point; and stirring must be hard-boiled egg, season with may- continued throughout the cooking onnaise and a few drops of lemon

Juice.

process.

Victoria sandwich mixture is ex- Hall All the patty cases, place cellent for maknig into small fancy a ring of hardboiled egg on the cakes. When required for this pur-top, and sprinkle with a very Uttle -pose, it should be baked in a Swiss- chopped parsley. Served cold, these rol tin, and made the day before tartlets are a good idea for a buffet the cakes are wanted, as it should supper.

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OLD DUTCH

RECIPES

SOUP

FOOD

Recipes For Hot-Days

TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL Jules from one large tin of tomatoes, 2 tablespoons sugar, juice

1 tablespoon semolina (tarina) and grated rind of a lemon. I

in

1

tablespoons catsup, pinch of salt. teaspoon butter until it was Strain tomatoes through sieve, add golden brown, pouring over the grated rind and juice of lemon, this

and finally the salt and sugar. 3 cups good stock, previously Stand on ice till required. Chil- heated to boiling point, stir-dren may be given a glass of the rina constantly and seasoning pure tomato juice without the with

catsup or davourings Salt and Pepper to taste. (The stock was made the day before from

good-sized carrot,

or 3 soup bones

1

1

medium onion.

1

small turnip.

3

peppercorns and

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1

5 cups water

After the soup serve

"GREEN BEANS AND BACON

RABBIT CUTLETS

Four cups diced cold roast rab- bit. 1 cup fresh mushrooms, 1 egg. 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespċous tour.onion juice, bread raspings, or crushed wheat cereal.

Saute the raushrooms in butter and a little onion juice. Make

blade of mace. These were thick sauce, dissolving butter and brought to the boll and sin-four, and adding a Uttle good mered gently for tour or five stock. Add seasoning to taste and hours in

let stand overnight. Add the finely diced rabbit, shape into cut- lets and dip in egg and raspings or crushed cereal, and try in hot butter. Serve with a thick creamy

DANISH APPLE CAKE French beans, which have One and 3 half pounds of up- been preserved in layers of ples, pint water, pinch of salt, salt, for half an hour or until4lb. butter. lb, sugar, † teaspoon the water is no longer salty), lemon julec, 9 ounces toast crumbs. Cover the beans with

Soak

3 cups dried French bears (kid") sauce. -"

ney beans), for wash 3 cups:

cups cold water, add

Cook apples with the salt, water and enough sugar to sweeten till place of fat pork, about 4 oy soft and thick. Melt butter and i 6 inches square, and 2 inches pound sugar together, and add deep, or a plece of fat bacon lemon juice, and toast crumbs and. the same size, and cook until stir til golden brown and finely done. Slice It thinly and ar- separated; take care not to burn, range the slices around the Cool and spread in alternating drained and seasoned beans layers in deep glass bowl, piled high on a dish,

Chill and top with thick whip-

With this the traditional and ped cream when ready to serve.

national potato dish.

ROSCHTI

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JELLIED TOMATO AND POTATO SALAD

Four cups tinned tomatoes; 2

3 medium-sized potatoes per

person, boiled in their skins peeled sliced medium onions. Alva till tender, drained, cooled diced, seeaca green pepper, 1 cüp and, when really cool, skinned. diced celery, 21 teaspoons salt, 3 Slice them thinly and fry in cloves, teaspoon pepper. 2 table- a mixture of

spoons granulated gelatin, cold 1 part lard

water, 3 cups diced cooked pota- toes. cup mayonnaise, 2 table- spoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons minced onion, lettuce, 2 cupa cooked peas, 1 cup French dressing. Comblue the tomatoes, aliced onions, half of the seeded green

1 part butter heated smoking hot in a frying-pan. Let the potatoes brown a little and serve very hot. A little. Chopped onion is excellent mixed

with this.

To end the meal choose favourite pepper, diced, cup of the celery, dessert..

Break

LEMON CREAM

3 eggy into a pan and beat them

with

1 cup sugar till lemon-coloured

and thick. Add

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938-PAGE 3

HOT WEATHER DISTRESSING HEADACHES

THE common beadache, excessive beat, humidity, fatigue, and lowered powers of bodily

Tresistance are everyday conditions you must watch during the summer months. »'ASPRO' won't remove the heat and humidity, but it will smash up most headaches in 5 to 10 minutes. Simply swallow two or three tablets with a drink of water and lie down for about 10 minutes, if you can. You don't run any risk of injurious after- effects when you take 'ASPRO' for headaches, because it does not contain narcotics or dangerous drugs.

"ASPRO is the ideal medicine for heat and summer complaints. It will check a cold almost immedi=" stely, and there is nothing better than 'ASPRO' to combat the dèraded Dengue Three tablets taken ar once will help to reduce the temperature and settle the nerves. The function of ASPRO' is to give "quick. safe service to men, women and children. It attacks the son of the trouble, dispels the cause. because after ingestion in the system it is a solvent of Uric Acid, a powerful germicide, is antiseptic-anti-pyretic, anti- periodic, and anti-fermentative,

ASPRO

RELIEVES INSTANTLY

BEEF LOAF

4 lb. pork

ibi veal

1 lb. beef

cup bread crumbs onion, finely minced

1 cup Carnation Milk

cup water

egg, slightly beaten

1 tsp. salt

Few grains pepper

4 thin slices of fat salt

pork or bacon.

Put meat through a food chop-

1 teaspoon of the salt, the claves, per, mix, and add Ingredients in "and pepper. Cook 15 minutes and order given. Shape in a loaf; put then press through sleve. In a pan and lay across the top of Sprinkle the gelatin on top of the the loaf the slices of salt pork or cold water, then add to the hot bacon. Place in a hot 、oven tomato mixture and stir until dis- (425°F). After 15 minutes reduce solved Cocl and chill until the the heat to 300°F- a slow oven. mixture begins to set. Meanwhile Bake 1 hours, basting frequently. cup water and continue combine the potatoes. 4 cup diced Gamish with parsley, Serves 6. whisking the mixture over a celery, the seeded green, pepper, medium heat till it begins to diced, the mayonnaise, vinegar, 1 PORK CHOPS AND POTATOES A thicken. Remove from the teaspoons salt, and the minced

LA CARNATION stove and allow to cool, beat-onloa.

cup lemon juice and

ing occasionally to prevent a Fold, into the tomato mixture skin forming. Serve very cold after it has begun to set, turn into in individual glasses.

one large ring mould or individual ring moulds that have been rinsed in cold water, and chill until firia. Unmould on lettuce and serve with the peas, marinated with the French dressing. In the centre. Serves six to eight,

THE PROGRESS OF TELEVISION GIRL AS CHURCH

The news that the televiston cable to Birmingham is now in working order and that the B.B.C. proposes soon to open a station there brings the new means of communication a step nearer to the millions

who live in the Midlands, says the Manchester Guardian.

The range of twenty-five miles claimed for the Alexandra Palace

limit.

able to do so to show the televised programme..

LARGE-SCREEN Apparatus for the showing of large-screen television is available. Mr. Ostrer states that his company could pro- ceed at once to present it and that picture-House audiences would welcome it.

MINISTER

By" unauimos vote the To- ronto conference of the United Church of Canada has received a Finnish girl as a minister. She is Miss Elma Silvia Hjelt, who had some years ago become an ordained minister of the Con- gregational Church" In Mlinois.

Several ministers spoke in sup-

1

6 potatoes tsp. salt

Few grains pepper

1 tbsp. butter

cup Carnation Mik

14 cups water

Bread crumbs

8

2 tbsp. four

pork shops egg

TRICK ENDS IN double

DEATH

A sleight-of-hand trick has led to the death of a 43-year- old Brisbane dentist namëd Mr. Vivian Hensley at Brisbane, Queensland.

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Huge Civil Air Guard Plan

WOMEN EXPECTED TO RESPOND

Thousands of women flying enthusiasts, willing and anxious to play their part in national defence, are expected to respond at once to the invitation Issued recently by Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, to join the new civil air guard.

The announcement has opened to women as well as to men throughout the country the opportunity of learning to fly at small cost and taking part in the multifarious activities of air defence.

"Cost of membership of the civil air guard section of a club is limited to 2s. 6d. # year,

Scald Carnation and water in a

Making his announcement, Bir boiler. Pare and slice

Kingsley Wood said that the civil potatoes in † Inch slices. Place layer in a buttered baking dish.out the country a body of men air guard would provide through- sprinkle with salt and pepper and women with a knowledge of dredge with flour, and dot overving to assist the RAF. in time with bits of butter. Repeat and of emergency.

add the scalded milk until it car

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clubs will now have their Goy- ernment subsidy increased to £50 for every member trained on standard planes and · 230 on light 'planes. Subaldy mit is £2,000 for each club. The scheme will meani that everybody can now learn to fly for as little as 28. 64: an hour.

People of normal ability will be

be seen through the top layer. Dip There are only two conditions, pork chops in egg and roll in bread One is that those already commit crumbs. Place on top of potatoes ind for Navy, Army, or regular or and bake in a moderate (350'F") reserve Air Force duties, are bar. able to become pilots as cheaply oven until the potatoes are "soft. | red. Serves 6.

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as they can become qualified car

The other is that members must drivers-£2 2a. 8d. is the estimat- understand that in emergency ed cost of a course to get an “A” their services would not be used pilot's licence.

1t may be doubted whether, projector in London has in fact when the novelty had worn off. been considerably exceeded under studio programmes televised would port of Miss Hjelt, declaring that

He was amusing his wife and favourable conditions, but it can-compete with those of normal pic- she had done good work in con-

son with a few tricks, includ- not be relied upon beyond that ture-bouses; but for witnessing inverting communists to Christianity

ing what he called his “sword-" swallowing" act. the picture-houses, of the country in missionary endeavour in North- A relay to Birmingham should the chief ceremonial and sporting ern Ontario.

While performing it. Mr. Hensley serve, "viewers" within a similar events of the day as they occur

accidentally swallowed rusty Rev. Salem Bland, Toronto, said:

| exclusively for piloting they Central administration of the radius of that city, and Manches- there will from the start be a "No people who come to us from

razor blade,

Without the anti-Japanese edu- might be employed in other useful scheme will be undertaken by a ter and Newcastle extensions are great and a growing public

Four days later he was dead.

cational policy pursued by the ways in connection with aircraft. Board of five honorary commis- being prepared.

After the accident Mrs. Hensley former regime, Peiping University Mr. Ostrer thinks its response Finns. The Finnish people are took her husband to the local doe-will reopen in September, one year tioned, the organisation is open to and stimulating the air guard sec- Bubject to the conditions. men-aloners, who will help in forming entertainment should now begin to be tested and wavering, between communism and tor, who fed him with cotton wool after 1 was closed at the start of

Europe give more promise than the

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world begins to look eagerly at has asked the B.B.C., 80 far with-christianity, and if they can be and sent him to the general hos- the hostilities. Four departments anyone irrespective of sex from 18tions of the clubs. One of the

Meanwhile the

television's attractions. Mr. Mark out success. for permission to show won for christ, they will be an im-pital by ambulance.

including physics, engineering, Ostrer, chairman of the Gaumont-television in his company's houses. portant factor among the foreign After an X-ray examination, an medicine and agriculture, will be British Picture Corporation. has Much remains to be done both on peoples in Canada."

operation was performed, but the opened under the new policy. New Just urged at the company's an- the technical side and in the ad-

blade in the meantime had shift-students are being invited. They nual meeting that the time is ripe justment of Copyright before

ed, and could not be found. He will be admitted after passing an To the Government to permit (large-screen picture-house televi-

died before another operation | entrance examination to be held those cinemas that are willing and sion will be generally possible.

could be performed.

on August 15 and 16.

Carnation

MILKS

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But Mr. Ostrer's urgency shows that it is coming before long.

Protect the health of your

of your family, use

family, use Carnation—it is

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to 50.

FLYING CLUBS Recruiting will be through recognised flytur clubs (of which there are some 70 In Britain with a membership of around 10,000 to 12,000). These

commissioners "will be a woman.

"I am glad to announce," "said Bir Kingaley, "that Lord London- derry has accepted office as chief. commissioner.

The agreement with the clubs for the civil air guard plans is for la period of four years,

sterilized and

pasteurized and it contains more than twice as much cream as ordinary milk.

CARNATION

"from contented cows

EVAPORATED

MILK

Cornction