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Surprise Dish

SEFTON CUTLETS

HOP como emali mushrooms, a little paraley and shallot, scason with cayenne pepper, and Tealt. Let this simmer gently in a- Inte butter, but do not allow it tio get brown. Then add a little) good brown sauce; mix alto- gether, and let it get cold.

Trim the cutleta rather thinly, and split each one through to the bone. Put in a layer of the mix-2 Tture and press the cutlets Bath Ego and breadcrumb them in the fusual way, and fry them in clari-T

fled butter.

Serve with this sauce: Scrape aặ stick of horseradish, alice ant Tonion, and tie up a small bunch; of herbs. Let these simmer in. Thalf a pint of good stock until re-‡ Educed one-third. Strain into

stewpan, 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 pon of cold water. Bring to the boil and strain. Then

fry the celery and 1 chopped onion in I oz butter for a few minutes.

Now dd 1 pint water and cook | til the celery is tender, about 2 hours.

Rub all through a sleve, return the purce to the pan, and add 1⁄2 oz corn- flour broken down with 1⁄2 gift milk. Then cook for 10 minutes longer, season to taste, and add 1⁄21⁄2 gill cream before 'serving.

IL M.

JONEZHAN

DAPPY

Mr. Cooper amusés his son with a game called-

"Heads, bodies and legs'

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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 florid, vulgar health, my wife took it seriously and sent for the doctor.

COOKERY LESSON

Omelettes and Souffles

by

Countess Morphy

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, omitting 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 "sieight of hand." gor Instead, Some people are born omelette-makers, just as some are born conjurers.

Souffles

The famous chef, Escoffier, described an omelette as "nothing ALTHOUGH there are slight variations in the recipes for more than a special kind of scrambled eggs, encased in a thin parious souffles, the following is a conting of slightly solidified eggs."

simple and general one, which can And that is exactly what a good omelette is about to be made. Put be used us the foundation of most omelette should be-creamy and the butter in the pún, on a brisk souffles. "runny" inside, and the outside only fre. When it is very hot and

irst.

OF

Omelettes

ferred,

#3

For cheese souffle, use a lb, of finely grated cheese, and season with salt and a dash of cayenne.

For chocolate souffle, add a l. of finely grated chocolate and two

or three tablespoonfuls of sugar.

Afternoon Tea Celery Soup

I appears there's nothing to

worry about. He's alightly lacking in something chemical; it's not whooping cough, meusles, or scar- let fever, all of which I had con- sidered as possibles.

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

ANYWAY, as it is difficult to and meat get him to eat vegetables, we are to cram him with nula, cream cheese, fruit, and honey. which sounds very advariced-thought und 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 cuntain no glucose." Nowadays I suppose you buy pols of glucose guaranteed to contain no strawberry jam.

AS

So he stayed in bed, which was

all right as long

the novelly of the thing didn't wear off, which it did, of course, about mid- the situation Was day. Luckily saved by having, lunch in bed. of next tea-party.

After lunch, when he had upset his glass of water and his bed was full of rice pudding, he got very bored.

blank.

Just sufficiently set to allow of fold begins to sizzle, pour in the ome- For four people: melt one heaped lette mixture. Stir the eggs with tablespoonful of butter in a sauce- 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 alightly and stir to a smooth paste with a

To wooden spoon over a very slow fire. TERE are one or two delicious and too quickly in a Din pan. The pon solidified part of the mixture should be suficiently large for the that it will not catch, and so that Add very gradually, and still stirring, easy-to-make little cakes which egg mixture to be spread out thinly. the remaining and liquid part will a pint of hot milk. Remove from you might like to try-out" at your A heavy and lumpy omelette is often replace it and the whole will be the fire and stir in the yolks

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

An omelette pan should never be or 3 seconds only so that the ome the fire, and in the case of Ash, Cream four ounces of butter (or used for anything else. It should lette may get slightly browned, chicken, game or vegetable souffles margarine) and four ounces of caster never be washed. As soon as it has then fold quickly while still in the add a 4lb. of any of these ingre sugar, and then stir in two eggs, one

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

I went up to amuse him. Sleve together five ounces of flour a dry, clean cloth. It is thus kept plate and serve ni once, An eme- minced or preferably rubbed through

and half a teaspoonful of baking

IT'S not easy to keep a child slightly oily and perfectly smooth. lette made with 3 eggs should not a sieve.

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 unless a more solid omelette is pre- ture begins to thicken, seasoning with stirring carefully. Stir in the grated all his books, and he asked me to salt and pepper. Remove from the rint of an orange and its strained tell him a story; my mind went quite For a plain omelette, the in- If milk or cream' is added to the fire and let stand til nearly cold, juice.

Well grease a sandwich tin, pour redients are 14oz. of butter omelette mixture, it should be in the Then add the whites of egg beaten to

I.said what kind of story? "Well," to every 3 eggs, a good pinch of salt proportion of 2 teaspoonfuls to cach a very firm snow-Pour the mixture-in-the-mixture and bake inn_moder-

oven. Split when cold, and he said, "tell me about the little boy and a dash of pepper.

e. Unboiled milk or thin cream in a well-buttered fireproof souffle ate Break the eggs in a basin, mix should be used.

dish, Alling it only three-quarters spread with orange marmalade be- who went down to the grocer's to with the get a bag of rice and when he was them with a fork so that the yolks Any ingredients which are added full. Put in a fairly brisk oven at fore making a sandwich

coming back he got kidnapped by u and whites are well blended, but to omeleties can either be stirred in Arst. Then continue cooking in u halves

gentleman in car, so he made a hole do not beul to .a froth on any to the egg mixture in the pan or moderate oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

is the bag and the rice fell out and account. Do not break the eggs added just before the omelette is till the soule has risen, and the Queen of Hearts Biscuits

ut coloured. Serve beforehand, but only

the folded.

top is lightly

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 flour, and beust, or I'll tell the police about a few drops of almond essence. Roll it." out the mixture to a quarter of an Inch in thickness, and shape with a heart-shaped cutter. Bake In a than I did, but if he wanted me to moderate oven for ten minutes. I'd tell him again. He said yes, so When the biscuits are cool, lee one I repeated it almost word for word, biscuit and place another on top with and he sat enthralled.

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a dab of icing, a glace cherry, and

a strip of angelica.

To make the icing, mix together a dessert-spoonful

SAID I thought he seemed to know the story rather better.

Then we played dominoes, made paper darts and gilders, played

of water, four noughts and crosses, ludo, at which

ounces of icing sugar, and n drops of almond essence,

Eastern Cakes

smali.

few

he cheated.

THE real success was an absurd

THE

game called heads, bodles,

and legs it's played in much the

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

a body, and so on.

a teaspoonful of sali.

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 o quarter of a cup of milk. Lastly, told in the dates; turn into small greased tins and bake for about twenty-five minutes in a quick oven,

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

COME of them had dogs' heads,"

S dressmaker-stand bodies, and Chippendale chair legs,

I felt as if I had done a really Lemon cakes are also delicious; hard day's work by the time he was Cream quarter of a pound of butter asleep. with half a pound of sifted sugar-

bent well until really creamy. Add I think I'll stay in bed to-morrow,

a teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, four as long as Jonathan doesn't come in eggs (the yokes only previously to keep me amused. 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 exsen- of salt and soda. Add this to the tial for Jonathan's digestion. Highly sometimes suffer other mixture and fold in four well-strung children beaten egg whites. Turn into but-from a bad or sluggish digestive sys- tered tins and bake for an hour Inter, cannot get energy from food. Glucose digests food, frees energy- a moderate oven.

Ann Natledro simple.

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