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MAINLY FOR WOMEN

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WELSH TIT-BITS

FOR YOUR MENU

Cover with ordinary pie pastry, and bake threequarters of an hour.

for

Remove from oven. Whip three eggs in basin, lift pastry from pic, pour in the eggs and return to the oven for fifteen minutes to set. This recipe calls for 1lb. potatoes and alb, streaky bacon in ali.

Typical Welsh Dish

Is Your Child Self-Willed?

Asks Sophia Lauterbach

Most of us realise the importanceday at breakfast she didn't want her of a strong will, but many parents usual cereal which she has always do not know what to do with the liked. When I insisted she threw child who shows signs of obstinacy, her plate on the floor. I was very Is It good for children to have their angry. Surely she should de ns. own way? Are they happler with a tell her?"

and over them? Is it not use in later life to have learned to

obey?

These questions cannot be answer-.

Llanrwst Flan is another Welsh dish worth growth.

FOOD PROBLEMS

Prizewinning Recipes trple pie, this recipe will come as something new. her litle boy of two and a half, who finding herself in the wrong

getting of He refuses

SINCE Murch of last year we have been featur- puff paste. Bake in the oven for ten minutes, then and the answer is "No." He re- reasonably than to be always giving

ing, at regular intervals, recipes from the To-day I am different counties in England, publishing recipes from Wales.

Now here is recipe for barn brith (currant bread). The ingredients are: 3lb. flour, lb. lard, lb. brown sugar, 1b, sultanas, lib. cur- rants, 2oz. candied peel, 1oz. yeast, I teaspoonful salt, teaspoonful nutmeg, 3 eggs and warm) milk to mix,

Put flour into a basin and rub in the lard, then add all the dry ingredients. Put the yeast, a little sugar and a tablespoonful of warm milk in a small bowl and stand in a warm place for a few minutes to dissolve. Add to the dry in gredients together with the well-benten eggs and sufficient warm milk to make a soft dough.

Cover and put in a warm place to rise for about two hours. When risen aufliciently, put into two well-greased tins and let it rise for an- other half hour in a warm place. Bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes, then lower the heat and bake for two hours,

My Own Idea

I myself would make this bread in the usual

Line a battered cake tin with a thin layer of

remove. Add a layer of sliced apples and asay cheese mixture made of: 14lb. cream cheese, two beaten eggs, a little cream and two spoonfuls flour. Sprinkle the apples with a little sugar, pour on the cheese mixture and return to the oven for half an hour.

Ready for Pancake Day

By "HOUSEWIFE "

MASTER comes early this year and to-day Is Shrove Tuesday, To-day should see a multitude of pan- cakes tossed in the air.

It is a great pity to take a stand ed with a simple "Yes" or "No," so over food. for it provides such a good much depends on the age of the child, opportunity for the child to rebel, for self-will is often only a sign of Why not take the cereal away with- out comment or persuasion? Surely For instance, a mother writes about even a child may sometimes not feel like eating a customary dish without to obey even the simplest requests. With strong-willed child it is "Put on your coat. Robert," she will more important for mother to behave mulus stubborn even it put in the reasons for her demands. If you are child will only copy you, but, of corner. His mother says he seems 100 rock-like in your attitude the to enjoy this defiance.

When I think she is right. The light of course, to gain her own ends. battle in Robert's eyes is certainly us reasonable request is refused, a sign of pleasure. He has discovered calm, "Perlings you will do it in a that now he is bigger there are many few minutes," will usually win her things he can do imd, even

more round. exciting, some things he can refuse to But it is possible to give a child do, just like the grown ups around too much freedom of choice. If he is always having to decide for him- self on every little matter he is always having to decide for himself on every little matter he is weighed This sort of Uning usually happens down by more

responsibility than between the ages of two and four. he can bear.

him

ADVICE

A child may be just as experimental with his newly found will-power as with a new toy."-"

even

F

SELF-WILL

at

My advice? Don't pult hard on The signs are usually Irritability the bit. Say. "We're going out in and not knowing what he wans. He a few minutes, Robert. There's your is changeable, inclined to cry coat,"

the rest to him. He is nothing, has bouts of destructiveness more likely to do what you require if and naughtiness.

Decide what is necessary for his he feels he has a choice in the malter.

Не

and always tell should do useful things that health and safety satisfy his with for power, such as him clearly what he has to do in helping Daddy in the rden, making essential things. Do not hedge him with a hammer and nails, in with petty restrictions, but let

scrubbing.

know definitely what you ex- Find Hin

Self will is a step towards strength will learn give and take from

of will it rightly handled, A sub- those of his own age.

child

will hardly show Always know your own

mind missive

of character in later life. about the things white really - Asserting himself against the people ter. He will be quick to take ad- vantage if you waver. More dif- around him is one of the child's way cult is the child whose first impulse of learning independence and cour-

that anarchy means from the time she could talk was to age, but it is for you to make him refuse things. When asked to come realise to mother, take her food, pick up a happiness. toy, there was always a drawing back.

method for currant bread mixtures, namely, with lemon and sugar. But they are also tasty with that hens for him, if possible so pect of him.

after dissolving the yeast and sugar in warm milk, add a third of the flour and enough warm milk to make a loose batter (between 4 and 1 pint milk), beat it well and stund it in a

Warm

place for an hour to rise. Then I would add the melted (but cool) lard, mix it well in, then the remaining flour, kneading all lightly together, Add the fruit and, finally, the beaten eggs. have always found that this method makes a better-textured "yeast" cake.

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Most of you use the time-honoured recipe with flour, eggs and milk, I expect, and serve the pancakes delicious recipe where the jam, and I've found cooked panenkes are covered with whisked white of egg, sprinkled with nuts and baked in a cool oven.

FISH PANCAKES

REQUIRED: 1 large pair of kippers, 3 fresh eggs,

Beat the eggs with a little salt and pepper. Add tablespoonfuls of milk. Skin and bone kippers, cut in nice pieces and add to mixture. Put a little butter in a frying pan (let it get hot). Pour half of the mixture in the pan and bake. Sufficient for two pan- cakes.

POTATO AND RICE RISSOLES

Welsh gingerbread is delicious. I have made IX 3 breakfastcupfuls of cold mashed potatoes with it. I suggest you try it for yourselves. I used Mrenifastcupfuls of cold boiled rice and black treacle. You could omit the caraway seeds. heaped tablespoonfuls of finely grated cheese. The cake is excellent without them.

inlo flat rounds and coat with egg and breadcrumbs

Cost about Ad. and fry in lard till golden brown.

Put into a basin Goz. butter and lb. treacle, Warm thoroughly in the oven. In another basin put a large cupful of flour, one of fine oatmeal, a tablespoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful of mixed spice, tea spoonful bicarbonate of soda and a dessertspoon- ful of caraway seeds, Mix, add the warmed treacle and butter and enough warm make a stiff batter. Bake in a moderate oven in a shallow, well-greased tin,

HOT DISH FOR HIGH TEA

OCCUPATIONS

I have such a little girl in mind.

She will give in it coaxed, but is

STARCHING TEA CLOTHS

Tea cloths soon Roll very listless and uninterested. Thi

AKE a small slice of fish and a little macaroni (shell) TAK which have been previously bolled (fish boned and flaked). Put alternate layers of breaderumbs, fish, macaroni, tomatoes, cheese (grated), to fill up a greased ple-dish. Make a gill of egg sauce: 1 egg, cup of milk, milk to und pour over. Decorate with brown breadcrumbs and

bake in oven 4 of an hour.

BEEF AND BEANS

become

bad

is not self-will but she is a little colour unless they are given a little afraid of life and needs taking out of extra attention.

successful way An easy and

of

herself.

Mother should provide her with keeping them white is to wash them many occupations, bricks, modelling in the usual way, wring fairly dry, elay, beads, chalk and blackboard, a then fold in half, sprinkle with soup strip of garden, cake-making-give Blakes, and roll up for an hour and out before her all sorts of opportunities to ex-'then washing the soap

hanging up to dry. Dancing classes and dressing-up press herself.

of fluff upon glass may be com- games may also help. After some hity cloths which are opt to leave of this tendency if months of this she should go to a pletely "cured" Food

nursery school where the they are finally rinsed through a children arc busy, useful, and very thin solution of starch before being dried. They give an excellent bread and butter. Take four slices-of-hot-buffered toast-and-place on girls obstinacy-at-meallimes "Yester-in-this-manner. Cut up six large lecks in inch slices and cach a slice of corned beef. Cover with baked beans previously heated in a saucepan, to which a little milk wash in several waters to remove grit. Put in a can be added if desired. Serve hot. saucepan and boil in salted water for five minutes. Strain. Put a layer of leeks in a pie-dish, then a Juyer of sliced potatoes, then a layer of streaky ROIL 1 lb. lentis until tender, add 1 grated onion, 4 tablespoonfuls grated checse, same of tomato sauce, then unsmoked bacon (cut in small pieces),

tablespoonful chopped parsley and herbs, 1 oz. butter. further layers of leeks, potatoes and bacon with enyenne and salt. Mix well together, pour into greased pepper and salt to taste,

little water pic-dish and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.

Leek nie "sounds" good. I shall have it for TNGREDIENTS: 1. corned beef, in baked beans, sociable her complains of her little polish to gloss and china if treated

lunch one day-this-week. I fancy that it would

be equally good without the eggs.

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