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TIME-SAVING

TIPS

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JAVE two or three dish handy when Immediately

cloths

washing-up.

one is damp, take a dry one. You will find that the plates and dishes are much more quickly and thoroughly dried in this way.

Picture wire used instead of of string as loops for household articles which have to be hung up will save time and temper. The wire does not twist or cling together when wet and does not casily break,

A quick way to rid a choked up sink of waste is to use the palm of the right hand to cover the suction. Place the palm of the right hand flat over the hole and cover the fing ers with the palm of the left hand. Work the right hand palm- sharply up and down, and the stoppage will cease In most cases. As soon us it has worked clear pour down some hot Rada

coffee. water or grounds.

A quick way to make breadcrumbs is to put the bread l n muslin bax 11:0 rub with the fingers. This savco a lot of tibie and leaves no scattered crumbs.

A wash-leather wrung out lukewarm water and use like an ordinary duster will do the work more effectively in less than half the time, and the dust not fly about, as it clings to the wash-leather.

When you have to scrape potatoes, you can save yourself a lot of time und trouble if you soak the potatoes for about two hours in water con-i taining a little common soda. They will then scrape casily and will not soil the hands.

IN VELVET

& BROCADE

Deep wine valvot is

used for the smartly cut jacket with wide revers. Thecollarlessporly cool in silvor lame is cul from the same pattern. Brocaded velvet makes the charming design with full sloovos and deep pointed collar. Toons and Twenties will like the short boloro jacket with its preity scalloped edge.

W

E have adopted the housa coat habit, and a com- fortable and becoming fashion it is, especially on cold, raw days.

Velvet, brocade and taffeta are lovely materials for these coats.

But a famous Paris designer showed many evening dresses and coats this season made in flannel

smooth-faced and

cloths-and very smart they look, too!

My artist has dressed up the coats sketched rather grandly, but I have kept the styles simple so that they can be made quickly in any materia).

There's something very "comly " about a jacket that can be slipped on when the day's tasks are over. It smartens up that inst year's frock, which is still quite good enough for sitting around in the

house.

Pudding basins and take tins are more quickly greased if they are

led for a few minutes with boil-I ing water, dried and rubbed over ++ with the paper off butter.

To mix custard powder in record' time, add half the total quantity of sugar required to the dry powder. The grains separate the powder and make it combine more readily with the milk. The remainder of the sugar is added to the hot milk in the usual way.

When eggs and bacon are being

HINTS FOR THE COOK

of the cake.

You

Little Coats for Leisure Hours

These make

good

eating for cold days

VOU probably find that these cold days make you feel really hungry. If you ent the right sort of food it will keep you warm as well as satisfy you.

Here are a few suggestions for winter dishes, particularly good if you are underweight, or always catching colds,

Serve porridge three times a week for breakfast, but make

it nicely. It cooks delightfully smooth when mixed with cold

RICE RECIPES

ICE is too valuable a

RIC

food to be condemned to be eternally served in the form of rice pudding-it must be confessed often very mushy and unappetis- ing.

It can be used occasionally as a vegetable, instead of potatoes; it is delicious with fish, and savoury dishes made with eggs! or cheese; and it is excellent with minced lamb.

However rice is cooked cach grain should be tender, clear, and separate from the others. This is merely a matter of care- ful cooking, and a teasponful of lemon juice put into the water in which rice is boiled will help to keep it white and the grains separate.

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This is the proper way to boil rice. First wash it thoroughly with plenty of cold water. Put into boiling wa- 15 min- ter, and boll fast for about utca. Try

the grain between thumb and finger, und fit rubs oway easily the rice is done. Put Into a colander, and keep the wo- ler for stock. Pour a cup of cald water over the rice, replace in the saucepan and keep covered near the fre. The rice is then ready,

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The subject of rice dishes is al- most inexhaustible, there many excellent ones. For instance, delicious rissoles can be made with cooked rice pounded with fish tinned salmon, freed from skin and bone. Dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry, illi a nice golden brown.

POLISH AND ITALIAN DISHES

Here is savoury rice, cooked Polish fashion. Slice some onlons, thinly, and fry in butter. Put into the pan about 0 ozs of cold cooked rice, two tablespoonfuls of cold shredded ham, and one of grated cheese, and sprin- kle with a dust only of red pepper. Toss together lightly in the pan with a fork. until thoroughly heated. Pile on a dish and serve.

This is Italian risolto:-Boil 0 ozs

of rice in salted water, and then run cold water over it as described. Turn on to a plate, and dry quickly before the fire, tossing with a fork so that all the grains are dried.

Fry two sliced onions in butter, 15 n the above recipe, add four aliced tomatoes, toss these in the

butter, and dried rice and a small bunch of herbs. Toss all together In the butter for a few seconds, re- the herbs, turn on to a hot mave dish, sprinkle thickly with grated cheese, and serve at once.

RICE WITH CABBAGE

Rice goes well with cabbage. Cut up a tender cabbage and steam for half an hour, with a couple of slices of thick bacon, cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper, and some small chopped parsley, and moisten with pint of white stock, and 1 lb of rice. Cook for not more than minutes and serve sprinkled with; cheese.

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Instead of the ordinary rice pud- ding try this:-Cook a tencupful of rice in a pint of milk, with a Bttle! salt and sugar added to lasic. When, besten tender leave to cool, add egg and pour into a reproof dish, buttered, and lined with spongel cake, Sprinkle a layer of biscuit crumbs on the top and bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes.

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ounces of grated

Whip the cream lightly, add grated cheese, seasoning, and cold liquid #sple Jelly. Stir occasionally until the mixture is on the point of set- ting, then All email wet moulds and kave until Arm. Turn out and garnish with water-cress,

water, not forgetting the pinch of salt. Porridge should be firmŋo make cheese creams you and chewable (in a hot plate), surrounded by creamy top milk.quire four Try it with a dab of butter and a sprinkling of salt if you don't cheese, quarter of a pint of esple +++++++*+ like the usual way with sugar or syrup.

Oats need fat and elly, half a pint of cream, pepper.

salt, made mustard. HEN measuring flour for cake, salt:

reinove one tablespoonful of Soak breakfast prunes for twenty-four hours and cook (pre- cornflour, and note the liner texture

ferably in the oven in a fire-proof dish) with a slip of lemon peel Instead of filling the core of bak-land one tablespoonful of black treacle and no sugar to them. a change, as they are rich in cooked for several people the quicking apples with sugar, all with rai-Serve dried apricots and figs for

sing that have soaked for a

the fillets carefully on to fingers of toast, and you'll be asked for more. ITERRINGS, bloaters and HER on to the rashers when they will prevent the whites of eggs from

kippers are sound and are nearly ready and turn out the falling when beaten. gas.

When leing small cakes, invert tasty breakfast foods. It is worth Inside ten minutes both eggs and the sake in icing which has been while boning them overnight so that rashers are perfectly cooked, and the placed in a small mixing bowl or a they are all ready cleaned for grii-

cup. Then dip In cocon-nut ling, frying in oatmeal, or doing in not dish can then be taken straight to ground nuts. This will save time the oven for breakfast. the table.

few iron.

est way is to arrange the rashers in hours. This reduces sugar consump-

a white glazed fireproof dish and|tion.

put this into a hot oven. Brenk the A pinch of cream of tartar added

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Herring roes are best steamed be-

Spread slices of lean ham and ton- A beaten and strained egg or two, fore they are grilled qulekly on toast, or slevod hard-boiled egg may en- #ue with this mixture, roll up tight- In this way they don't dry up. When rich o soup instead of grated cheese ly, and secure with cocktail sticks- ariling the herring in any form, do or milk, but when the rools and this enables them to be eaten with- m the skin side first, and then it won't vegetables are cooked in their own out using a knife and fork.

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have goodness to give. as you lever it up with the right.

Now with scissors snip off the Here are few other ideas for soup: little Ana and cut the fish in two, Cauliflower and caraway, leek and then in four, and divide the strips potato, red cabbage and ham, carrot two or three according to the and swede, pumpkin and celery size of the fish,

with green peas and onion; celery,

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Steam on a buttered plate, silver onion, vegetable marrow and pota- side uppermost (covered with a lid to; tomato and lentil.

Noll some short pastry into an oblong slipë, about an eighth of on Inch thick.

Spread half of It with picked shrimps or prawns, seasoned and moistened with a little moyonnaise, salad dressing, or ketchup,

Fold the pastry over, press down the edges, and cut into neat fingers. Bake in n hot oven unti nicely

·Edith Rhodes

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