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UNDER the CRUST

OT for dinner, cold for supper. Aren't ples popu- lar-especially in winter? They're substantial, tasty, and full of good nourishment.

I serve so many different ples that there are probably soveral of these recipes of mine which you have not tried yet.

I get lots of practice at making this raised pio for my tolk.

Ingredients: 1. flour, Goz. lard,

I pint water, teaspoonful anit.

Put the tard and water into a sauce. pan and bring to the boil, then stir it into the flour and salt, and knend to a light dough. Place the dough on a floured board, allow it to stand for five minutes, then knead until a light dough is formed.

Blape the greater portion of the dough with the bands into a hollow ple. The pastry must be kept warm- or it will crack. When sufficiently rained, fill with acasone meat.

Wet the edges with cold water and cover with a lid made from the remain. ing plece at crust. Brush over with beaten egg, decorate with leaves and diamonde, and brush the decorations with beaten egg.

Mako a all in the pastry, fix in a funnel of parchment paper,

decorate round the paper with pastry decorations. Pince the pin in a hot oven for twenty minutes to half an hour, refuse the heat, cover with parchment paper sunked in cold water, and cook for óno and a half hours,

Pour in a lttle good, hol BRYOUTY stock with a little dissolved gelatine added. Leave to set in cold pince,

Squab (Mutton) Pie

This is how I make the popular disla of the West Country.

Ingredients: 14lb. neck of mutton, three medium-sized onious, ilu, apples, scasoning, a tie tomato or mushroom. ketchup. Buet crust paste.

Joint the mutton into cutlets and

Cushions From

Scraps

USHIONS are quite an important! part of our furnishings nowadays, for they and is rertain note of com-į fort and luxury which modern. de-. corators have made popular.

The

new cushions have very lulej trimming beynd the lovely fabrics of which they are composed.

As most of them are further of ractangular shape, they are quite easy to make once you have chosen the nicest materials for them which you can procure-from the shops, or maybe even from your fabric "pieces bag:

White chiniz, qulted in squares or diamonds in brightly coloured silk is Ideal for cushions in certain rooms. The stitching may be in scarlet, navy blue, emerald. or bright violet or purple according to the existing colour scheme

If you have an old sampler, or a piece of beautifully made needle- work, showing small stitches and an all-over design, then here is your chance to put it in good use by turning it into a cushion.

Pieces of needlework tapestry, intricate or simple In conception, can also be turned into cushion covers with little trouble.

Brighter Sports Shoes

shoes

are

alarmingly

PORTS

colourful nowadays. 11 stems but a short while ago that they simply had to be of classic cut, and made of good brown leather If they were to be "good style."

But now we have very attractive models in dark kld piped with a

vivid

Savoury Pies are

Popular..

arrange them in a buttered plo dish. sprinkle with pepper and salt, then cover with sliced onions and apples,

Dissolve a meat cube in a breakfast- cupful of hot water and pour into the dish. For the crunt, mix togeilter Cos. flour, 3oz. shredded suct, and half a teaspoonful each of salt and baking powiter.

Add sufficient cold water to form a anootti paste, then roll out on a floured board, and cover the ple dial with the crust. Bake in a moderato oven for 11 hours.

Gently pour away the fat from the sido of the diah by carefully lifting up the pastry, then add, if liked, the tomato ketchup.

Popular Pork Pic

Savoury and sustaining in cold weather it is, 100.

Mould the crust or line an oblong or round tin with pastry, then fill as follows: Cut up amall lib, pork, not 100 fat, season with pepper and salt and simmer bones to make stock, When the crust is suinciently raised, a fill it with the seasoned pork, add with the meat. n altced hard-boiled egg, then firup

for 20 minutes in a very hot oven, Cover with a lid of pastry and bake

Then in a very alow one for 1 hours. Add two teaspoonfula ef gelatine to the hot stock, and pour late the pie. Stand in a cold place until set,

Make a vent in the pastry, with a slit and paper funnel, ns in the raised ple.

Potato Paste

As a change. this pastry could be used for pies.

Ingredients: 11b, dry floury pota- toes, Ilb. flour, 2oz. dripping, 202. Spry, 1 egg, a little warm milk, a good pinch of salt, and one heaped teaspoonful baking powder.

Bake enough potatoes in their skins to yield 1lb. "Mash and rub through a aleve. Then rub the fat lightly into

Good Cooking

says Mrs.

the four, add the potato (rold), salt, and baking powder.

Stir in the egg and suffelent milk to form a smooth paste. Roll out to about I inch thickers and use for crusts for ples arul parties.

Savoury Fish Dish

· Are you planning a fish supper? Try this ple

Ingredients: 1 tin of salmon, I hard- bolled egg, a tle chopped parsley, pepper, salt and a pinch of cayenne, pint white sauce. Flaky pastry,

Remove the skin and bones from the salmon and finke, then place in a but tered pie dish. Arrange the sliced hard- boiled egg, then sprinkle with the chopped parsley, salt, pepper and cayenne. Pour over the white sauce, then cover with flaky pastry.

Brush over with beaten egg, and de- corate with pastry fishes.

Forcemeat Filling

Flavoursome and unusual pica. Line some small pie tins with this shorterust pastry. Mix a small pinch of salt with åtb, flour and i-teaspoonful baking powder, Rub in 40z, lard until

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BARDELL

Steak & Kidney

A FAMILY favourite in winter. Ingredi ents; box plain flour, 20%, cornflour, 60%. fal (Jos, margaring and Joz, lard), à teaspoonful salt, water, a squeeze of lemon juice.

Sieve the flour, corn- four and walk into a bowl and chop the fat into pieces the size of a - walnut. Mix to a fairly soft dough with cold water and lemon juice. then roll into a strip about three times as long as it is broad.

Fold in three, turn so that the folded edges are to the alde, and roll again. Fold in three, turn and roll. Allow the pastry to stand for an hour before using.

For the Alling use: id, steak, b. kidney, jos patent cornflour. Cut the meat into neat strips and the kidney into small pieces. Season the cornflour and with it coat each strip of steak. Put ou coch a piece of kidney and roll up. Arrange the meat rolls in a pic dish and sprinkic over the rest of the seasoned cornßour. Add water or stock and cover with pastry.

Brush over with a little milk, make a vent in the crust, bake about 1 to 11⁄2 hours, reducing the heat after the Arat 15 minutes so that pastry is not over-cooked.

the mixture is like breadcrumbs, then add enough water to form a stiff pante, Roll out and use.

Mix lb. chopped veal with b. chopped bacon, add two tablespoonfula of breadcrumbs, 2 teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley. -teaspoonful of mixed herbs, the grated rind of half a Jemon, salt and pepper to taste. Blad with a beaten egg, and add a little milk if required.

Half fit the pies, moisten the edges and place on the tops. Pinch the edica well together, then bake in a fairly hat oven for half an hour. •

Cheese Turnovers

Tasty hot supper wack. Ingredients: 4oz grated cheese, Goz. daky pastry, or pelato pastry. 1oz butter, salt, pepper, a beaten egg.

Melt the butter in a pun, nut the grated cheese and slir till melted, then add most of the beaten CER. Season to taste, and cook and stir over a gentle beat until the mixture thickens, then allow to cool.

Roll out the pastry, cut into rounds with a large cutter or saucer, place two teaspoonful of the mixture on each. wet the edges, fold over and press the edges together.

Hrush over with beaten egn. and bake for 16 to 20 minutes in a hot oven. Before serving sprinkle with inely chopped parsley.

By Ambrose Heath

Two Savoury Dishes

MANY phone nte de dess end or plans et a stew FANY thousands of Eng- ends. Cook them for four or places. Put them into a stew colour, and having a short, of pig's trotters, but many peppercorns, allspice, a large let them simmer until they are. wide lace in leather of the same more are suspicious of what is bouquet of parsley, thyme and tender, about three hours.

Flat-heeled black shoes look well really a very delicious form of bayleaf and, if you like it, two

green lacings and pipings, and foot-provided that your pork or three cloves of garlic. dark blue is finished with canary butcher is beyond suspicion and

colour to match.

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Then take them out, drain and lay them in a deep dish, you make certain that the When they are done let them season with salt and pepper, and trotters are perfectly clean be- get cool out of the liquor, un- pour over some boiling spiced fore being cooked.

wrap and brush them over with vinegar. Cover them while they They do deserve greater popu- olive oil, roll them in bread- get cold, and keep for 24 hours harity and in the hope of induc- crumbs and grill quickly, a before serving. ing some of my readers to share quarter of an hour being enough. | with two quite delicious Serve with tomato sauce,

dishes, here they are one hot

me

and one cold.

Cold Trotters

The spiced vinegar is made by boiling a pint of good vinegar for a few minutes with two bayleaves, three blades of mace, a dozen cloves and a whole red THIS is a Creole recipe,

and a very good one, pepper pod. (This is enough UT the prepared pig's too, for a supper dish.

for six trotters.) feet in half length- Soak the prepared feet in

Grilled Trotters

CUT

You can add a little cayenne

wise, wrap each half in a piece water for several hours, then pepper to the seasoning if you

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By Marion Morton

IF you count dancing among your major hobbies--or Indeed it you! ever dance at all, and most of us do that-then we have to remember ond fact especially when we are prae- tising our general beauty regime, however scanty it maybe.

Backs and shoulders are much in evidence. One is often forced to realfso that if only all women looked

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Shoulders

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"In

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A

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A line of dark curls around the head

may be broken here and there by tiny red velvet flowers or wee rosettes, placed at irregular in- tervals.

One may be fixed over the right ear, while three more are found at posite side. the top of the head towards the op-

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