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Try something new. Here, for instance, is a

DANISH DINNER

all over,

Poss with Carrots

ONE advantage about sugar, and make a caramel in a thick frypan. Add butter the size of a Anna, our Danish cook, walnut, and toss the previously boll- is that even if you arrange cd potatoes in this till they are brown a perfectly ordinary meal like chops and tomatoes it will probably be preceded by something quite surprising, like rum and rhubarb soup.

Yes, mixed.

TAKE lb. of each vegetable. Slice the carrots thinly and put them with the shelled peas into about an inch of cold water in a closely covered stewpan. Coole very So life has quite a filip, and slowly til tender; it should not be necessary to add more water, but we have given up trying to order shake the pan occasionally to pre- meals, but just take what Anna vent silcking. Then, in a separate gives us. For instance, this is saucepan, melt a nut of butter, add few moments. Add this very care- the meal she provided when I tablespoonful of floor and cook for said we wanted something in- fully to the vegetable liquid to thicken it, being careful not to break It is simplest to teresting but simple.

the loud

on to the thickening. pour the

finished sauce inally pouring the

Wing Soup

INTO one pint of boiling water over a crebles in the serving

throw two tablespoonfuls of dish, Add chopped parsley.

tapioca and 2oz. of seedless raisins.

Cook for three-quartern of an hour,

when it should be done. Take it

off the fire, add the juice and grated

rind of one lemon, then mix well

Apple Cake

STEW your pound of cut-up apples in very little water prevent sticking),

together tablespoonful of caster (just enough to

sugar and the yolk of one egg, and half a vanilla pod, and sugar to inste (The cg They should not be too sweet. Put stir this into the soup. must not be put in while the soup two ounces of butter in a frying pan, Just before serving add and when it is at the foaming stage is boiling.)

table spoonful

a

of to

of sherry or throw in 4 tablespoonfuls of bread- mudelra: in Denmark they put dal- crumbs lops of stiffly whipped egg white to brown fost on the soup.

Parsloy Chicken

und 2 tablespoonfuls demerara sugar. Fry gether til crisp and golden. Now beat the stewed apple to a smooth buttered fireproof puree. Have a dishs, and fill it with alternate layers

FIRST rinse the chicken with of apple and buttered breadcrumbs,

cold water, then seald out being careful to begin and end with

Put in a moder Its inside with boiling water and dry the breadcrumbs.

it very well both inside and out to ate oven and bake for half an hour. preserve the delicate flavour of this Serve hot or ice cold. If hot in the twopenny fireproof dish: if cold, turned out, recipe. Take

#goodd bunch of parsley, pick off the big masked with whipped cream, stalks, but do not chop, and put it decorated with a few cherries. Inside the chleken

which Is then

floured, flavoured lightly with salt

and pepper and fried on all sides

in butter or good dripping till it is

golden brown all over. Then put it

Rum Soup

HERE'S how you can

It with dried apricots,

into a casserole or thick saucepan well as rhubarb.

with the fat and a cupful of boiling

stock. Simuner very slowly, adding

and

make

as

Take some cooked rhubarb that

much

stock as necessary. Towards the has been stewed in not too end of the cooking add a cup of water, and rub enough through o cream or thick creamy milk. Serve sieve to make a pint of rather thin the chicken if possible in Its own puree. covered casserole.

Sweet Brown Potatoes

Bail it up for a few minutes, and when it is off the boil add " tablespoonful of rum (or sherry) and the yolk of an egg well mixed with a tablespoonful of caster sugar. of bread

Serve with small cubes

of rolled in brown sugar and fried in

CHOOSE very small roundial new potatoes. To 11b. them allow 2 tablespoonfuls out butter.

ME

Surprise Dish

CHEESE PUDDING

Stir into it a table-. ELT half an ounce of butter in a stewpan.

spoonful of flour, and when well mixed, add a little milk and three ounces of grated Parmesan cheese. Stir the mixture over a alow fire until it tooks like thick-cream. On no account let it boil. Season it with cayenne pepper for white, if you prefer it) and salt, keep it at a very moderate heat for ten minutes and stir it occasionally. Then let it get quite cold, still stirring it now and then.

Add the beaten yolks of three coos mixed with a little milk. Whip the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth, and lightly mix this in with the rest. Pour the mixture into a souffle dish, filling it three-parts up, and put it in the oven at once,

Serve the pudding as soon as it has risen to the top of the dish and is nicely browned. And serve it quickly,

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HERE'S HOW

TO MAKE THEM

You need 1 oz. ball of crochet wool, 1 bone crochet hook, No. 10; 2 round pearl buttons.

Abbreviations: Cr-crochet, Inc increase, st-stitch, dec-decrease.

RIGHT SHOE

one

Cr chain. Return, doing tricot st in each chain. You will now have 9 sis on your hook. Con- tinue for 20 rows.

When you have finished the 20th row, add 6 chain and join the wool on to beginning of shoe. This forms a basis for the Instep and you will now have 24 sts on which to work. Cr 3 rowe (in tricot stitch) without

dec',

Remember that the inside of shoe (the left-hand side) is quite straight and the "upper" is shaped by dec 1 si on the outside In every row (after the 3rd row).

Continue this until you have only 14 sts left on your hook.

Proceed

us follows:-Cr the first st singly. Then er two sts together until

to the last st, which should be

you come to

is er singly. This line

done very tightly.

You have now 8 sis on your hook. Return. Cr 2 sts together until you have only 4 sts on your hook. turn,

Then inc to 8 sts.

Re-

You now make the sole, which is er in one piece with the "upper."

Cr rows with 8 sts.

Dee 1 st on outside for 2 following

rows. You have now 6 sis in the row. Cr, more rows, der to 4 sts

Bits To Cut Out

First Aid Tip

you are called upon to tle up an Injury, and you have no proper bandage available, pass a very hot iron over an old. clean handkerchief or piece of clean rag. This will sterilise it' completely.

Freshener

TAKE your cut flowers out water at night, lay

(In them on a stone floor the out of the pantry, perhaps) draughts, and cover them with a damp blanket.

In the morning they will be as much refreshed by a good night's rest as you are.

The

New Kind Of Jam

whole green

USE Hitle

tomatoes for this in the proportion of one pound of toma- toes to three-quarters of a pound of sugar, a gill of water, and four or five scented geranium leaves.

Dissolve the sugar in the water boll for over gentle heat and

ve minutes. Put in the toma- with 3 toes, previously wired damp cloth, and leaves in

Q

the geranium muslin bag. Doll preserve sets briskly until the when tented. Remove the geran- fum leaves before potting up in the usual way.

a delicate This preserve has and unusual flavour, and can be used either as Jam or with cold meat. Try it on your next visitor. It will probably gel her guess- ing.

easiest way

is the best way

WHEN YOU'RE

COOKING BEANS

UNNER BEANS, when young, should never be shredded, There is no earthly reason why they should be sent to table

looking like a ball of green string.

All that is necessary is to remove any "string" from the

for the last row in order to round beans (there should not be much of this when they are young),

off the heel. The sole is now com- and to break them across into two or three pieces according to

plete.

Turn the shoe inside out and sew their size.

the sole on to the upper like this:-

See that the middle of the heel

way

of

The simplest

cooking is in the centre of the back of the them is to put them into a sauce, water and upper part of shoe. Carefully sew pan of boiling salted

are

the back half of sole on to the upper, to boll them, with the lid off, until Sew it on without fulness for about they

tender.

about Time, half its length. Then fasten off and twenty minutes. Drain them well begin at the "too" end. The fulness before sending them to table, in the upper part of the shoe should

sole.

Service

be very carefully gathered into the Must be bone Dry

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Cr 3 sis. Continue for 23 rows, extremely careful draining and dry-comes more difficult as Make a loop of 3 or 4 chain and sewing is necessary. button on to opposite side. Then sew the strap on to back of "upper" part of shoe,

LEFT SHOE

To this end you put the cooked and drained beans into a hot, dry pan, and shake them about in it until they are as waterless as pos- sible. Then add the butter, and toss melted. For the left shoe, the Inside edge the beans in it until it is (in this case the right-hand side) | Season to taste.

the should be kept straight and upper shaped by dec on the left side, after 3rd row.

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A widowed mother has to Sho support. her children,

Serve the beans as they are, or, if you like, sprinkle them with a little finely chopped parsley,

Apart from their use with other cooked vegetables in the well-known Russian enled, these beans make a very good salad on their own.

of blossom and flowers are be NOW that gardens are almost bare coming more expensive, the task of providing the house with that spot of colour and fresh green which is BO essential to its appearance, be- the days

Sprays of leaves and berrica trent- ed with glycerine, and dried ever- lasting flowers look enchanting in tall vases, but, largely owing to their size, prove unsultable as decoration.

With a minimum of trouble, how- ever, gay bowls may be arranged, which

ich are ideal for this purpose.. Few people think of using ivy or autumn creeper inside the house, yet a few young shoots well washed and placed artistically in a gay blue bowl of water will form a dainty centre- piece for the, table, and should last for weeks.

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Grass seed sown on a bowl of damp Put them into the salad bowl, mould or carth will bring forth a sprinkle them with finely chopped crop of cool greenery in a few days, Dowers dotted parsley and chives, and gently mix and little artificial

In an ordinary dressing of olivo ell here and there amongst the blades and vinegar or, if you prefer It will complete at very little cost a mayonnaise. Here, again, the effect fresh lle garden which will get is completely spoiled it the beans from 8-10 weeks.

are cut up signil.

Laying up for Winter

Any glut of beans, can be dealt for with by eating them down winter use. Prepare them as advis ed for cooking.

Put a layer of salt in the bottom. of an earthenware jar, and put an inch layer of beans on top of this,

Bird seed, too, sown in earth or Abre, will produce a summery bowl, as will mustard and eTESS. A little. later in the season, crocus bulbs may be planted in the soil of nure and then seed sown on top, and the nuty of the bulbs will be enhanced by greenness of their back- ground...

Cut flowers will last forɛa very: long time and look more natural f pinced in a bowl of soil ur mom,

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