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Like all classic·

works of

of art

A good salad is simple

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EARN to make a salad from a let-

tuce and you have

the whole art at your finger- tips.

Add, if you like, cucumber, tomato, onion, and radishes, but don't over-de it.

Much preferably make each salad from one main vegetable only. That is the classic way.

Above all.

salad is not a device For freshening up nuribuni veje. tables,

Therefore, whatever you buy for It must be absolutely fresh in the first place, and used as quickly an possible afterwards.

To

It is a waste of sympathy help a timp letture over a stile, but if circumstances compel you to keep your nice fresh

one for some time before using it, keep it in the dark, and give it a sawerr of water,

The crisp tender leaves which form the heart of a lettuce are also the heart of n salad, so choose your lettuce with this fact in mind.

A

void limpness.

cucumber should be

a dark, even green, with a smooth rind and a stiff backbong. If there Is any sign of Impness about the thing, drop it.

Tomatoes should also be of an even colour and firm. In a salid they are all the better for being a trifle under-ripe.

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You do not want the juice to

he oozing from them, nor do you want them to collapse when eat.

eeds

ow come to the ingres dients for mixing the dressing.

uiter leaves. Banish them from it.

Tasty Sweets To Follow Cold. Joints.

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ERE are a few sweets which would be suit able for cold supper on hot days during Hong- kong's summer.

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DATE MARSHMALLOWS One box of datre, lb, ichite marshmalloits, fun"

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TOFFEE MERINGUES

All you want 'are znull merin- arr fin LANCA, ercom, and toffee brittle.

You can buy the brittle, but if you want to make it you put one breakfastcupful of sugar, 11⁄41⁄21⁄2 cup golden syrup, 1⁄2 cup of water, in a

Break the remainder with your aucepan and stir until the mixture' Angers; never cut them.

is very brittle when fried in cold water.

"Make each salad from one main vegetable only-that is the classic way.

The word sand implies the use sacred thing. I have tasted some

Mix your anlad at table, the moment before you are goingt to eat it. And use a large bowl. It makes things easier.

ethod.

ix a pinch each of salt and pepper with a tablespoonful of vinegar. Sprinkle this over the leaves and turn them lightly till each one has its share, Then do the same

of salt, so we will have a little of absolutely revolting samples of it. tablespoonfuls af of).'

I have also tasted malt vinegar you like, ..

That.

Also sonte pepper, which should which has been smooth, defiente he freshly ground; and, of course, and mellow. some alive oil and vinegar.

The oil which you use must be

pure alive oil, and the best obtain- able at that.

Priggish

We will leave it at that, and to your own chalce.

Touch gently

J

with two Or more, if

Add mustard or sugar, or both, to the vinegar, according to taste. Vinegar will neither mix with nor stick to oil. Ponder this pro- found truth before trying to apply the dressing in any other way.

he less washing a let- tuce needs the better, but all the- cople will say that the leaves which pass through water Garnish your salad with any only possible vinegar for a salad must be gently shaken dry in a chopped herbs which you fancy, is a wine vinegar. I have said so elath or wire basket,

I know the ones which myself. Frankly, this is being a Don't squeeze them in the cloth, usually so helpfully suggested for trifle priggish,

for this bruises them.

the purpose. They are almost un- Wine vinegar is spoken of in It is false economy to spojl a obtainable in this country; so why some eireles as though it were a salad for the sake of a few course worry?

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IF you run out of candied peel, use marmalade when making cakes. It has

the merit, tou, of keeping the enkes maister,

If you have not enough ereum to go round, bent up, the white of an egg till snowy and frothy and gently fold into the cream,

When eggs are short or scarce, use a dessertspoonful of cornflour in your custards, whether baked or boiled. One egg will then go as far as two

A tablespoonful of vinegar in a large fruit cake will mean that you ean do with fewer eggs.

If short of cheese for welsh rarebit, use a few breadcrumbs and a little milk, and half the usual quantity of cheese, but season well.

Save eggs by dipping, your fish for frying in the finest oatmeal, or dip in milk before bread-crumbing them. The flavour is considered by many- to be superior do egg.

If short of butter at an awkward time, soften (don't melt) sonie margarine and bent in a little new milk. This is good for hot cakes, too, but do see the milk amalgamates properly.

Mix cocon to a paste with condensed, milk when short of fresh milk or cream. Then add boiling water and put it into a saucepan and just bring to the boll.

If you cook too many potatoes, try making a potato crust for eausage rolls or minced meat. It is a nice change from pastry.

A quick paste substitute for sandwiches can be made by blending hard- boiled egg volk with anchovy sauce, adding any other flavouring you like. Mix with a little melted butter.

SALESMAN SAM

I'M STILL HUNGRYIMEBBE THAT FARMER KIN HELP ME OUT!

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Add butter and 1⁄4 teaspoonful leman essence and pour into large shallow buttered tin.

The brittle should be very thin, an tise two or three tins if you have not a large one.

When the brittle has set break into tiny pieces, whip cream very stilly, ndx brittle into it, and use between meringues,

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MUSHROOMS IN A FIELD

. One pucket of grecupape jelly,,| four bananas, eight round spouffe enkes, erram and angelica,

Make the jelly and pour into a large shallow dini. Cut bananas in half, and cut a round hole in the centre of the little sponge enkers so that the bananas will fit in like stalks.

When the jelly is beginning to set stand the "mushrooms" in it, whip up the cream and spread | evenly over the top of tach sponge coke.

Cut the angelicn `futo thin -stripe-mid-stick in the felly16

ermomble grass, and scatter d fer crystallised violetà about for flowers.

Your

Hands

DON'T forget

that your

hande need R special treatment of their own after yesterday's week-end swim. You'll need n good null file. nippers, orange atlek, emery board, cuticle cream, pero- xke, varnish and varnish-

reninver.

The nowest shades of nail varnish are tomato and tile.

An excellent hand lotion can be made up with equal parts of glycerine, rosewater, and a few drops of lemon- Juice. Use it after washing your hands. It softens and whitens at the same time.

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1 Come down to brass tacks, now

(hyphen, 7, 4).

9 Made sharp by the knowledge

that a letter is inside.

Grain--not oak grain-for the painter.

11. You may think of it as this while someone else considers it Lo be a debt.

13 Discount this.

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It would indeed be u freak to કા Mediterranean island part- ly embedded in ice.

16 Those on the step are both in dozen arrived from Basra, though on Moulay a

I noticed (hidden).

17 A noisy Jolitication in pain be-

evines truly calamitous,

19 The forepart of a binnacle.

20 A sage who took no rest.

21 Always better when kept.

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A hundred birds taken criminals.

27 Asiatic sea.

28 About to let go free.

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lay

Doesn't hold water as a rule,, nowadays.

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afraid.

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35 He's in France to set free by ar

rangement.

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3 In India he is employed in some

capacity; mostly he builds simple erection of bricks. Frequently.described as mother, Taken for a constable at time (hyphen, 6, 9).

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7 In the Straits Settlements.

8 This sounds a very select Rail-

way Line (two words, 5, 0).

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dark men can be so green.

14 Sealed over 700 years ago and

still important to you n (two words, 5, 6)..

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