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FISH AND..

LAN a "Fish Day week and

your

onca a

family

ahould welcome the change, But perhaps your folk havo

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become all too familiar with your usual recipes? Then try some of these savoury fish dishes.

Cod, we all know, can be dull, yet it shouldn't be. This is how I make it more appetising.

Ced with Onions

Tasty, and a satisfying meal. Wash and dry the cod aleaks, place in a greased baking iin, aqueeze over

fow drops of lemon juice, Wien - bako in a modemte oven for twenty minutes.

Mennwlillo, alice two large anjons and Try in dripping until golden brown. Diah the fish and surround with a border of fried onions.

Uncooked tomatoes, skinned, can be uzed instead of onions. In this case anchovy sauce or melted butter is Kerved with the flat as well.

Savoury Cakes

Economy diah, dellelously favoured. Any cooked witte fah is suitable.for fah cakes Flake the fish, mix it with half the quantly of mashed potatoes, adu pepper, salt and a little anchovy

esschee.

shape into cakes, antcar with beaten rgg, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and fry is lot Int. Drain. nnd serve with mashed or chipped potatoes.

Fists and Chips

Famous British fare.

making it ensures success.

This way of

Wash and dry the fish well before you cook it. Dip it in batter, egg aud breadcrumbs, or reasoned flour.

Use plenty of fat and be sure it is bolling (when a blue mnoke risest be. fore the fish goes in, Otherwise It will be solden. Fry unti П nice

golden brown colour, then drain on roll paper,

Dish on a hot dish, garnish withs parnley and serve with these chipa.

Peel six polatoes very evenly, cut them into this altres, parbolt and dry them in a cloth. Make some oil or

Touch of Embroidery

K

·NITTEDS as well as 1000! frocks are

100th trimmed embroidery this autumn, Quite elaborato Noral designs are carried out in lazy daisy stitch..

A fashionable model had the smart Florentine quilting that is appearing on many day and afternoon dretscz. The scroll work on the front of the dress was attained by means of wide rauleduz.

Modifed Jorma of the faslitan for embroidery are casily adapted to everyday clother.

A single bloom on a long stalk is an attractive trimming to a plainly cut dress, and a posy of flowners churaid- ered at the waist makes a smart Anish fer a dark office frock of princess cut. It has the added advantage of not pet- fing spolled easily or crushed, as in the case of artifelal flowers..

THE new ginger suede handbags look for all the teorid like odd-shaped pinger cakes. A soft blue or naiste preg ure the colours to toear with this rather difcall "shade,

Then there are the new tong-handica bags that can be stung satchet wisc over your shoulder, so that you can never lose your bag.

Choosing A Child's

Companions

Mr. G.

THE necessity of watching over

their children's choice of com-

panions is an important duly which

FLOUR

FISH

By.

Mrs. BARDELL

Good Companions

Cloves and pastry fishes decorate a savoury fish pla.

dripping hot in a saucepan.or frying pati, put in the potatoes, and fry to

nice brown calour.

When they are crisp and done, take them up and drain on paper. These chips must he served very lok

Anchovy Toast

Baroury dish for supper.

Lay a small dried haddock in a tin with a very little water. Bake for 10 minutes, then remove the skin and bones and separate the fish into large flakes

Melt a nut of margarine in a slow- pan, try a finely chopped small onion, add three mileed tomatoes and cook until soft. Add the fish and 3 ten- spoonful of parsley, acason to taste, and stir gently until the fish is hot.

Arrange en tuttered toast lightly sprend with anchovy paste.

Cooked In Pastry

Another flavoursome snack dish, Ingredients: jib, Raky pastry, zib. cooked fish, 1 hard-boiled egg. I ten- spoonful of parsley finely chopped, white sauce and seasoning.

Roll out the pastry into a square and cut off a narrow strip. Mix the ingredients with the white sauce to n soft mixture and spread in the centre of the pastry.

Damp the edges of the pastry, and fold the corners to the centre.

Close the edges firnily, and decorate the pastry with pieces of pastry cut into the shapes of Isht Hrush over

-Smoked

with egg, and bake for 30 minuten in a hot oven. Regulo mark 7.

Farmhouse Pic

Substantial fish dish suitable for dinner.

Ingredients: ijlb, cooked white fish, tb, rough puff pastry, i pint auchovy Auce. salt, pepper, and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley.

Remove any bone and skin from the Rah, and fake. Mix the fals with the nauce and sensoning, and place in a greased ple dish,

Cover with pastry, decorate the edges, make a slit in the top of the crust,

MIDGE: Office Hours

"I want to speak to Daddy, please."

or Fresh

brush over with egg, then bake in a hot oven for 60 minutes. Mark 7

Herring Puffs

When you have guests serve these Bavoury snacks.

Remove the skin from some cooked herring, then pass the Dah through a slove. Add a little margarine, salt and pepper to tanto.

Roll out some puff pastry to quarter of an inch thick and cut into oblong pieces four inches by five and a hall inches. Spread the herring paste over one hat and place the other halt over. Finch the ends together, brush over with egg, and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes.

Regula mark 7. kavoury,

Serve hot as a

Halibut an Gratin-

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This fish la more expensive than cod, buat it has a fine Havour of its own. Try it with cheese.

Skin and bone llb. of bolled ball- bul. lake, then arrange the fish its a greused dish. Add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley to plat of white sauce, season with salt and pepper, then pour this over the cooked Asli ja3 the pie-dialt.

Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, dot with butter or margarine, then brown in a moderate oven. Serve with cucumber and melted butter.

With Potato Crist

Children will enjoy' this nourishing Ach dial.

Ingredients: 1b. cooked fish. lib. mashed potatoes; i pint parsley mure, 30%. margarlice, pepper and sall. browned crumbs.

Arrange to flaked fish free from bone and skin in a greased dish. Season, cover with the potatoes, nná dot with margarinë.

Sprinkle with browned crumbs. and bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven. Mark 0.

Haddock Fillets

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French way of cooking a haddeck. Wash and dry a fresh 'haddock, cut down the back, separate the flesh from the bone, and cut into filicts. Brush over with cur, cover lightly with bread- crumbs, and fry until golden brown in hot Int.

Garnish with fried parsley.

Roc Tartlets

These are tasty snacks.

Wash the roes, put them into a pan and cover with milk; cook gently for 20 minutes Then strain off the liquor, mash the roo with a little butter and seasoning, and proceed as for herriar puffs. See recipe above.)

Do Women Pay

ARE

Their

women honest or dishonest about money? Do they pay their bills? Are they better, or worse, than men in this respect?

I didn't know, so I asked four representative people

can easily, and unwittingly, be over- to give me their opinions,

looked by mothers,

It is essential, however, that a First I tackled a landlord. mother should help and teach her Ho'a a landlord on a big scale-

children to choose friends wisely and

Debts?

By LAVINIA

WELL, well. So far we women have shown up in a good light. But listen to what a court dressmaker thinks of us.

"Women" It was not 50 wuch an exclamation as

Cooking Magic

WHEN

WHEN making Custard dans you find that after the dellefous liquid is poured into the case it sinks before the pastry hus time to harden, and the pastry be- comes sodden.

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Americans have found a way to overcome this which acts like magic, All you have to do is keep back little of one of the egg whites, whisk it lightly and then brush li over the surface of the pastry-case. Thle forms a film which will defy all efforts to penetrate it if you let itsland a few seconds to harden be- tore pouring in the custard.

that Make sure

the pastry is pressed well against the tin in which

This expels the it is to be cooked,

ale from between the pastry and tin. Should you' omit to do this, the pas try will often force is way through and form a crust on top of the cus- tard.

Very often there are complainis that the under surface of your flan looks white.

If you want to ensure that it is nicely browned, stand your in or ginss ovenware dish on a browning shell In the oven while cooking.

Observe these three precautions, and you will produce a delightful, faultless flan.

If you have trouble with fruit juice boiling out of your ples there is n remedy which acts like magic. Sprinkle a little cornflour over your frult before putting on the top crust. The juice will not boll out, and the flavour is Improved.

Should you find that you have used too much sugar in your forns or stewed fruit, squeeze In a little le- mon julee.

Not only does it neutralise some of Lar sweetness, but in a way that seems almost magical, it will help to set your jams.

J. R.

DON'T TELL THEM TOO

MUCH

THOUGHT perhaps you ought to know that. Elizabeth cried About her geography homework yes Lerday evening. She said she found

t so difficult.

Quite sensible for Elizabeth's mother to tell the child's teacher of the incident, but quite a mistake to tell her when Elizabeth was present, for Elizabeth stood there with an expression of "Am I not interesting?" on her chubby Ince. And next time the feels hored or does not like what she is doing, she will remember what lears did for her on a former occa- sion, and probably try the experi- ment again.

According to some critles, one of the faults of modern life is reticence as regards chlidren. For instance, they know all about the family finances; an improvement in some respects on former custom, but apt to overload the youthful mind and lead to em- barrassing incidents.

Bobby at ten years old cannot really understand why his mother is so worried about bills and it is far Belter to conceal the worry than to risk Bobby's confiding in Mrs. Brown, "Mummy's very worried about bills this morning

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This is not good for the family re- putation, and not particularly bene- Acial for Bobby.

Jean bears so much about her mother's headaches that she is bo- glaning to suffer from them her- self.

This modern world is nut going to be easy for children when they are older.

so surely it is better to let them remain children untouched by

grown-up troubles and worries as long as possible.

Also, no modern child will derive any harm from being kept a little farther in the background.

C. II.

splutter or rage. "I think "Women are all alike-hypno-

FARINGTON they're the limit! Clothes are tised by the newest skirt length

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the last thing they pay for.or the latest thing in cocktail Exactly the same as men-no suits. If they can get things on better, no worse. Men always credit they will. It's terrible! "The other woman did the keep their tailors waiting. Wo-The most respectable women do

well. right from the time they I mean as regards his property same, but she was encouraged men do the same with their it, too." develop the instinct for "makingowns all kinds of houses and by her husband. I felt sorry dressmakera. friends." Association with the right flats, furnished and unfurnished, for her," he added apologetical- companions develops qualities, which

are of inestimable value when

the

"Women," he said, stroking ly. "Had a lot of trouble one

"If

gering. Or perhaps it was

& woman has a dreas THESE revelations were stag- children are grown up and embark- his chin thoughtfully, are good way and another had to keep allowance of fifty pounds a year just conscience beginning to

upon their

careers, social and about rent on the whole, better her husband, then lost her job, sho'll spend 12 hundred, or commercial, in the outside world.

inf

If possible, a child should have than men, I should say, because and, well, they just fitted. I rather, to be more precise, will prick.

"Anyway. I hurried off, hop-

friends in

all sections of the com-they're not so hard-boiled. They didn't bother to take proceed order clothes to that amount munity, for mixing with many types have a wholesome fear of the inga."

a month's rent;

of humanity makes a child more un-landlord-can't sleep at nights selfish, prevents conceit and knob if they owe bery, and, most important of all, develops a broad outlook on life, A Free Chilco

too

have

visions of being thrown A

FTER

much where the making of friends is concerned.. As far as pos-had longer and wider experience

by a "bad" companion that parents should interfere.

In later years the child will, in all

women.

It he or she has led

O

bill.

handa of a doctor.

and let the poor dressmakering to get a restorative at the whistle for the difference.

"If asked for the money she's mortally offended or

the landlord, the either

"But-but-" I protested

"I'm afraid women are bad about paying doctors," he be

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out into the street if they're the grocer. This particular one pleads poverty. In either case gan, destroying my last illusion. is the branch manager of ashe transfers her custom elge-"In fact, they're just as bad as It is not wire to shelter children alightest bit in arrears,

Doctors are always kept "Men, possibly because they've large firm of multiple stórca. where. So we are in a cleftmen. "Women on the whole, are stick.

waiting. I can't think why, ex- sible they should be given a trec of landlords, don't take us so good about paying grocery Women," she concluded cept that a tradition has grown choice, and it is only when a child seriously."

bills," he said. "In nine cases forcefully, "hre quito without up. People just don't think it shows signs of becoming influenced

"Then," I naked, "women out of ten the husband is at moral scruples when it comes to matters, quite forgetting that don't

rule indulge in fault when a woman runs up a paying or not paying for clothes. doctors have to live, like the rest moonlight flits'?"

What often happens is Women will have clothes at any of humanity." probability, come into contact with "No, very rarely," he and this suddenly, without any cost-whether they can afford

drifted away...to sum up all sorts and conditions of men and "In all my experience I can re- warning, the husband cuts down them or not."

housekeeping allowanco

what I'd heard. sheltered existence from childhood, call only two Instances. One the

We women pay the rent. Wo such a man or woman is not com- petent to all the good from the bad was a platinum blonde-an im- while expecting, exactly the nervously, "you must have had

Home unfortunato experience. pay our grocery bills. Both of enjoying the society of the former, pudent hussy, if ever there was same quantity and quality-of

Surely you cannot mean that all which are necessities. When It able to mix with the latter one, as bold as brass-who knew food stuff". being

is a mere question of health we "In order to avoid friction at women are like this?" without it having any bad influence all the tricks of the trade. on their own character.

Hero-worship is quite often looked Waited till night because she home the wife starts getting "I certainly do!" The res- are not quite so anxious to part

"All with money.

In the matter of clothes, how- upon with disfavour, yet, provided knery the court would be closed groceries on credit, then can't ponse was triumphant. the "hero" is worth worshipping, this and a distraining order couldn't pay. And, of course, the friction women who can afford to have

their clothes made are lax about ever, it would appear that wo is generally it state of mind which be procured before it opened is far worse in the end.

"Naturally, there are excep- payment.

are bordering on crooks. Could

normal tld. Having a

"Those who can only afford that really be the case? I-de- "She got a van from some- tions, and the grocer soon learns schoolboy to look up to where, popped in the furniture, to recognise the type who run ready-mades naturally pay cash,manded of myself. Or was it develops, a chlid's character, and and hey presto! away she went, up bills without any intention of but it's" my private opinion just the old Eve coming out?!!

But they're. the that thoy only do so because I decided to drop the matter." inspires him or her to make the most I never saw her again, or the paying.

minority."

It was getting too personal.

yel

be encouraged, for it has a next day.

shofully good influence on the]

or schoolgirl ideal

of life and its opportunities.

Margaret Avon

overdue rent, either!

they have to,

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