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Surprise Dish

SEFTON CUTLETS CHOP some small mushrooms,

a little parsley and shallot, season with cayenne pepper, and, Tealt. Let this simmer gently in a

little butter, but do not allow lef to get brown. Then add a little Igood brown sauce; mix alto-f +gether, and let it get cold,

Trim the cutlets rather thinly, Tand split each one through to the bone. Put in a layer of the mix- ture and press the cutlets flat. Egg and breadcrumb them in the +usual way, and fry them in clari- Ined butter.

Serve with this sauce: Scrape a‡ Fatick of horseradish, alice ant Tonion, and the up a small buncht of herbs. Let there simmer in Thalf a pint of good stock until re-

duced one-third, Strain into Tatewpan, and add the same quan--

tity of tomato sauce.

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Cakes

WASH and scrape 1 lb celery and put it into a pan of cold water. Bring to the boil and strain. Then fry the celery and 1 chopped onion incz butter for a few minutes.

Now add 1 pint. water and cook till the celery Is tender, about hours.

Rub a through a sieve, return the purce to the pan, and add 1⁄2 oz corn- Bour broken down with gill milk. Then cook for 10 minutes longer, season to taste, and odd gill eresin before serving,

B. M.

JODAZHAN

DAPPY

COOKERY

Omelettes and Souffles

by

Mr. Cooper amuses his son with a game called-

"Heads, bodies and legs"

OR the first time in his six years of life my son Jonathan spent a day in bed yesterday.

He woke up and complained of headaches, stomach aches, and another ache which appeared from time to time in his left leg, ear, back, and wrist.

And as for the last week or two he has been off his food. and a little pale and languid in comparison with his usual rather ftorid, vulgar health, my wife took it seriously and sent for the doctor,

LESSON

Countess Morphy

For cheese souffle, use a 1⁄4lb, of finely grated cheese, and season with sult and a dash of cayenne,

THE making of an omelette is one of the simplest things in Sweet omelettes are made in ex- once. Soufles cannot be kept wait-

cookery--and one of the most difficult. The fundamental actly the same manner, amitting the ing recipes are extremely simple, but there is a knack in the making salt and pepper, and adding a little of a successful omelette which is almost a "sleight of hand." Some people are born omelette-makers, just, as some are born conjurers.

mixture

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sugar instead.

Souffles

LTHOUGH there are alight

of

For chocolate souffle, add a 4lb. of finely grated chocolate and two or three tablespoonfuls of sugar.

I appears there's nothing to worry about. He's slightly lacking in something chemical; it's not whooping cough, measles, or scar- let fever. all of which I had con- aldered as possibles.

And he's to eat a lot of sugar, bar- Jona- ley sugar, and boiled sweets. than was delighted.

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NYWAY, as it is difficult to and get him to eat meal vegetables, we are to cram him with nuis, cream cheese, fruit, and honey, which sounds very advanced-thoughi and Bloomsbury, but I suppose it's all right.

And, of course, glucose-that seems very important, which I must say surprised me rather.

I can remember when I used to buy pots of strawberry jam at school they nearly always said on the label "Guaranteed to contain no glucose."

Afternoon Tea Nowadays I suppose you buy pota

Celery Soup

of glucose guaranteed to contain no strawberry jam.

The famous chef, Escoffier, described an omelette as "nothing A variations in the recipes for more than a special kind of scrambled eggs, encased in a thin various souffles, the following is a simple and general one, which can coating of sightly solidifled eggs." And that Is exactly what a good omelette is about to be made. Put be used as the foundation of most amelette should be-creamy and the butter in the pan, on a brisk souffles. "runny" inside, and the outside only fire. When it is

and very hot

For four people: melt one heaped just sufficiently set to allow, of fold- begins to sizzle, pour in the ome-

NO he stayed in bed, which was Salt right as long as the ing.

lette mixture. Stir the eggs with tablespoonful of butter in a sauce-

novelty of the thing didn't wear off, The choice of a pan is important, a fork as quickly as possible, lift- pan, add one tablespoonful of flour, It should be thick. Omelettes cook ing and displacing the slightly and stir to a smooth paste with a

wooden spoon over a very slow Bre. TIERE are one or two delicious and which it did, of course, about mid- the situation was The pan solidified part of the 100 quickly in a thin pan. should be sufficiently large for the that it will not catch, and so that Add very gradually, and still stirring, easy-to-make lle cakes which day. Luckily egg mixture to be spread out thinly, the remaining and liquid pari will a pint of hot mlik. Remove from you might like to "try-out" at your saved by having lunch in bed.

After lunch, when he had upset A heavy and lumpy omelette is often replace it and the whole will be the fire and stir in the yolks of next tea-party.

This orange cake is specially light: the result of using too small a pan, everly cooked. Stop stirring for 2 four eggs, well beaten. Replace on

Ash, Cream four ounces of butter (or his glass of water and his bed was An omelette pan should never be or 3 seconds only so that the ome- the arc, and in the case

browned, chicken, game or vegetable souffles margarine) and four ounces of caster full of rice pudding, he got very used for anything else. It should leite

Het slightly

any of these ingre- sugar, and then stir in two eggs, one bored. never be washed. As soon as it has then fold quickly while still in the add a Valb.

dients, previously cooked and finely at a time. to a hot dish or been used. It should be wiped with pan, and slip on

Sleve together Ave ounces of flour An ome- minced or preferably rubbed through a dry, clean cloth. It is thus kept plate and serve at once.

and half a teaspoonful of baking slightly oily and perfectly smooth.. lette made with 3 eggs should not a sieve.

IT'S not easy to keep a child be cooked for more than 2 minutes, Stir over a slow fire till the mix- powder, and mix these in slowly.

amused in bed; he'd read Omelettes

unless a more solid omelette is pre- ture begins to thickens, seasoning with stirring carefully. Stir in the grated all his books, and he asked me to Terred.

selt-and-pepper. Remove from the

Juled

blank For plain omelette, the in-

Well grense a sandwich tim, pour gredients are 4oz of butler omeletle mixture, it should be in the Then add the whites of egg beaten to to every 3 cas, a good pinch of salt proportion of 2 teaspoonfuls to each very firm snow. Pour the mixture in the mixture and bake in a moder- and a dash of pepper.

egg Unbailed milk or thin cream in a well-buttered fireproot souffle ate oven, Split when cold, and klish, filling it only three-quarters spread with orange marmalade be- Break the eggs in a basin, mix should be used. them with n fork so that the yolks Any ingredients which are added fult. Put in a fairly brisk oven at fore making a sandwich with and whites are well blended, but to omelettes can either be stirred in first. Then continue cooking in a halves. do not beat to a froth on any to the egg mixture in the pan or moderate oven for 20 to 25 minutes, account. Do not break the eggs added just before the omelette is fill the souffle has risen, and the Queen of Hearts Biscuits beforclund,

top is lightly coloured. Serve when but only

may

I went up to amuse him.

If milk or cream is added to the fire and let stand til nearly co-find of an orange and its strained tell him o atory; my mind went quite

the folded.

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he said, "tell me about the little boy

I said what kind of story? "Well,"

who went down to the grocer's to

the

get a bng of rice and when he was a coming back he got kidnapped by gentleman in a car, so he made a hole in the bag and the rice fell out and Cream four ounces of caster sugar his mother just followed the trail and half a pound of butter (or of rice and when she got there she margarine) and add two well-beaten sald give me back my boy you dirty eggs, fourteen ounces of four, and beast, or I'll tell the police about a few drops of almond essence. Roll."

out the mixture to a quarter of an

inch in thickness, and shape with a

SAID I thought he seemed to know the story rather better

I'd tell him again. He said yes, so

| heart-shaped cutter. Bake in a than 1 did, but if he wanted me to

moderate oven for ten minutes,

When the biscuits' are cool, Ice one biscult and place another on top with

I repeated it almost word for word, and he sat enthralled.

a dab of icing, a glace cherry, and Then we played dominoes, made

a strip of angelicu

To make the king, mix together a paper darts dessert-spoonful

of water,

and gilders, played four noughts and crosses, ludo, at which ounces of icing sugar, and few he clieated. drops of almond essence.

Eastern Cakes

a

THE real success was an absurd game called heads, bodies,

and legs it's played in much the Cut half a pound of dates very same manner as consequences, that small. Mix together and sift well is with a strip of paper on which two cups of sifted flour, four tea- one person draws a head, then it gets spoonfuls of baking powder and half passed on to the next one, who draws

a body, and so on. In teaspoonful of salt.

Cream a quarter of a cup of butter with the same amount of sugar. Beat in an egg. Then mix in the prepared flour and a quarter of a cup of milk. Lastly, fold in the dates; turn into small greased tins and bake for about twenty-five minutes in n quick oven. :

Lemon cakes are also delicious: Cream quarter of a pound of butter with half a pound of sifted sugar- bent well until really creamy. Add

That kept him, and me for that matter, amused for hours.

SON

NOME of them had dogs' heads, dressmaker-stand bodies, and Chippendale chair legs.

really

I felt as if I had done hard day's work by the time he was asleep.

I think I'll stay in bed to-morrow,

a teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, four as long as Jonathan doesn't come in

(the yokes only previously to keep me amused. Chas beaten) and the grated rind of a

Jemon.

My wife, who seems to have gone Mix together five ounces of flour into the question of glucose, tells me and a quarter of a teaspoonful ench that it contains carbohydrates essen of salt and soda. Add this to the fat for Jonathan's digcation. Highly sometimes suffer other mixture and fold in four well-strung children beaten egg whites. Turn into but-from a bad or sluggish digestivo spr- tered tins and bake for an hour inter, cannot get energy from food. Glucose digests food, frees energy--- a moderate oven,

Ann Rutledge`

| simple.

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