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UR grandmothers, bless their hearts, knew a thing or two about "what can be done with wild flowers and berrica from field and hedgerow,

Some of them carefully wrote down recipes for the tonics, pre- Gerves and wines they made in their country kitchens, hoping that their children would take advan- tago of the knowledge they had gained by years of hedgerow cook- ing.

So here are some old-fashioned country recipes for you in which the first yellow cowsilps, dande- lions, coltsfoot, and oak leaves are used,

Tonic Tea

First. Cowslips or Paigles as they are called in Suffolk. I have heard it aald by old-country folk that if you drink a cup of palgin les, four morn- ings a week, for four weeks, you will riever have rheumatism

To make it, well warm a chlrin ten » pot. put in the small yellow blossoma.

PRESSING POINTS

WHEN roning auy garment that has a crepe urface, use a coarse folded Turkish towel for a pod. as this will help to restore the crinkled

see to the material. surfnee

Georgette and crepe de chine will look much better when finished

1f

Grandma knew a thing

or two

Allowing

person

three teaspoons to each

Pour on the freshly dolling water, cover in pot with a cosy, and sland the tea in a warm place before drink. ing. Serve with milk and sugar. or honey, and a thin slice of lemon.

Old Cordial

Cuwslip cordtal coughn and Hurf

for

14 excellent thronts und our grandi:hers had great faith in l. So try it if you have a cough, or it can be bottled for future use.

Pick twn pounds of cowallp flowers, on a dry, sunny morning, and pluck off the petals. Pour over two pints of boll. ing woter, cover with a thick cloth, and leave for 40 hours.

Pann through a hair Aleve, and measure, and add an equal quantity of preserving sugar. Then buil, and stir until the liquid thickons, pour into trottirs, cork, and seal with sealing WAX.

This mixture improves with keeping. II to be kept long, add a teaspoonful of brandy to each half-pint

smoothed out with a hot iron on the Cowslip Wine

right

side while still damp. Embroidery should be luid face downwards

on thick towelling or blanket to make it stand out 50 Work from the back, using cloth

wrung out of cold water.

In

12

Silk stockings should not be ironed, but allowed to dry slowly, otherwise they are likely to ladder.

After

and

with wrong

washing woollen

swenters children's knitted frocks, press n moderately hot iron on the side under dump cloth. Give special attention to the seams, for then the woollens will appear like new.

For Woollens

Always use cloth for pressing woollens and work from the wrong side. A wooden rod padded firmly with flannel is a great help for iron- ing the seams. Place it under the turning so that the iron does not rest on the outside edge,

be used for slipping can also between pleats to prevent creases..

Shiny patches can usually banished if pressed with a really bot iron on a dry and then a wet cloth, both of which must be thick,

It

be

The best way to press a garment la to do all the small parts, such as tops and trimmings first, then hems and bands, treating Arst the wrong side and then the Fight. See that each part is quite dry before begin- ning the next, and Anish with the main part of the garment.

When pressing shirts, do the collar Ther banda, yoke, and cuffs first.

A wholesome wine with an orginal Davour is made with cowslip prints. To one gallon of water allow 4 quarts of cowslip pelals, lemons, 1 large orange. Ab, seedless raisins, 216, sugar, Mix the cowslips with chopped in halves.

the rains,

Bo the water with the sugar, and pour it over the petals, bring to the boll again, and remove all the scam A it risca Pour the liquid into a pan. mud add a piece of tonst, spread with Joz. brewer's yeast.

The lemon rinds and juice, and the orange rinds and Julee must be added. Cover with a thick cloth and stand in warm pluce for 48 hours. Skla:

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carefully, and pour into a ensk or bottles.

Stand for three weeks, loosely bunged or loosely corked unti fermentation quite ceases, then butig or cork tightly, and store in a moderate temperature for alx months.

If the wine is not sweet enough, add a lump of sugar and a few seedless

aising to ergency Pen Fe.

Cork lightly

...about filling her

larder with good

things from the country hedgerows

and store for cne motith. A Hello white wine added to each bottle will improve the favour,

Nettle Tonic

A pleasant drink and a good spring blood tonic Nettie Beer.

Ingredients: 4 plats wished nettle leaves, young ones with green shoots ut the tip. Dry the leaves by shaking them well through a colunder,

Put them into a pan, add a tundfu! of dandellan petals, and the same of coltsfuat, foz, dried hops, and a plece at bruised ginger.

Pour over one gallon of water, and bull steadily for it an hour. Strain on to lb. Demerara stigar, nda De sarsaparilla and a tablespoonful of brewer's yeast,

Allow to work for 40 hours, then akim and pour into bottles and cork Joosely until fermentation has ceased. Then cork tightly and store in a mader- ate temperature. It will be ready for drinking in three days,

Medicinal Dandelion

1 you prefer o uitter flavoured win you will like Dandelton Whe. It han medicinal properties which rezuler L specially suitable for liverish persons

Dandelion wine should be made

TEMPT their

lay the garment on the ironing board1 Floating Island

with the side scams one on top of the

other. Iron the half back, and then

turn the shirt over and iron the other 2 Orange Baskets

half of the back.

Finally, lay it back to the board. 3 Pineapple Butterflies

and iron the whale of the front free

from ercases, which usually appear

if the shirt is treated in any other 4 Junket Flowers

way.

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from. field and hedgerow como the wild flowers usodinthiswook's cookery recipes.

Says Mrs. Bardell

Milady Nicotine For Milady

I FEEL that I can write

perhaps in a helpful way about tobacco because I am what is called a moder- ate smoker. Two, perhaps three, cigarettes a day form my average allowance, Which provides enjoyment and companionship without, in my opinion, any deleteri- ous effect. There is plea- sure in smoking for women as well as men; and excess sugar, and the rinds and juice of two is equally bad for both.

only from flowers picked on a dry, sunny day, preferably about mid-day, for the dow his then had time to dry.

To a gallon of water, allow six whole heads are used, the wine is usually bitter and rank.

quarts of datidėlion "petala." If th&

Put the petals into a pan, pour over the boiling water, cover and stand in a cald place for ten days, stirring daily. Strain the liquor on to 41b. preserving

lemons, then add 2 pieces of bruised ginger.

Boll for one hour, allow to cool, then,

Add a piece of toast spread with

brewer's yeast. Cover with a thick cloth and leave for four days.

Skim, pour into an earthenwaro tar

or battles with screw taps, and cork tightly as soon as fermentation ceases, then store and drink after three months.

Wholesome Coltsfoot

Colisfoot, which looks like a sme? dandelion on long stalks, in yoga mon in the carly spring a

It makes a cheap kés

Gather elb. of

aprend them out to dry.

l warm oven, turning

several times.

When quite dry, mix them with .

Nicotine is a drug, a valu- able, pleasant, satisfying drug which has advantages and disadvantages.

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FIRST, what of its history ?

why

of raisins. Boll one gallon of water Ters

Where did

with the rinds of two lemons and 24lb. clouds of sm Demerara sugar, pour the liquid over the flowers and raisins, then stir and squeeze well,

When tuke warm. add a plece of

toast spread with a tablespoonful of brewer's yeast, leave covered in a warn place for ten to fourteen days, stirring Twite dally.

Strain through musiin, and pour intu a cask or bottles, add the Juice of a lemon, and bung lightly or cork leusely. When fermentation bung or cork tightly. Bottle after four

montra

Oak Leaves

CERCA.

This is an old country recipe worth trying.

Ingredients; i gallon of young cak leaves, 1 gailon of cold water, the rinds and juice of four temono and two oranges, Jaz, each of ground cinnamon and cloves, three bay leaves, 31b. of

Demerara sugar, joz, brewer's yeast.

Method.Gather very

young onk leaves on a line day. Discard any lenven that are decayed or eaten, and put the others into a pan. Cover with cold water, bring to the boil, add the orange and lemon rind, the cinnamION

nhd cloves, and oil gently for two hours, adding more water if necessary.

Strain through a hair sieve onto the sugar, add the orange and lemon juice, and stir until the sugar has dissolved. When cool. add the yeast, cover and leave for 48 hours. Sithin and pour into bottica, and cork lightly until fermenta. tion ceasca, usually from 10 to 14 days, then cork tightly, lie the corks down or scal Ready to drink after six months.

PALATES

with these easy-to-make

across the top of the "baskets" with thin strips of angellen.

Pineapple Butterflies

Sweets

Make small, flat, individual to form the petals.

thin slices of tinned peach all round blancmanges, and turn these out on to small plates. Place

Strawberry Delight on top two sections of placapple to

Strain the syrup from a tin form wings, put half a stoned date of strawberries. Make a pint down the centre to form the body, packet strawberry jelly, first and make feelers with very thin dissolving it in. the heated straw- strips of angellen. Make wing de berry corations

syrup, and then making up with small sections cut to the required quantity with hot from glace cherries.

mulk.

Leave until just beginning to set,

Floating Island

Make a quart chocolate mould with a packet mixture and a quart of hot milk. Turn into a large, flat mould, and leave to set. The chocolate flavour is improved It this is made the day before it is re- quired. Shortly before serving, turn Put

Junket Flowers Make junket in the usual way. Half all

mouths and nosen monk who accompain explorer on his next voy wrote that the natives breathed smoke from burning tobacco through forked tubes, becoming intoxicated as a result.

It is true that nicotine has a narcotic effect. The physician to King Philip II of Spain de- clared that "it encourages sleep, banishes Inssitude. relieves pain."

tobacco

After its discovery seeds were sent all over the world, and to-day you and I can buy a shilling packet and grow

in our gardens. Not nicotine that we want to make infusions from the leaves or sniff or chew or inhale the plants-we simply like the pale colour and pungent, soothing scent of tobacco plants in the garden.

Then, in the middle of the sixteenth century, Jean Nicot, French Ambassador at the Portuguese Court, who was an enthusiastic gardener, noticed tobacco plants in flower in the royal gardens, and in due season planted them in his own garden. He used the leaves medicinally with success in cases of ulcers, for example, and as a French- naturally into man, it France that he first introduced tobacco as a curative agent. La- ter the people used the powdered leaves as snuff; later still the nicotine plant was smoked and inhaled.

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WHAT of the dangers of this won- Wderful drug? The toxic mature

of tobacco was recognised centuries ngo, and tobaccoeures" were as- sociated with deaths from overdoses of the drug. Early in the nineteenth century nicotine was from then onwards

it analysed

and

passed out of use us a medicinal

agent, be coming eventually purely a pleasur able indulgence, Within the last 30 years, Its use has become more and universal. In 1900 few girls and women smoked; during the war the habit became established, and now women should IL is quite taken for granted that smoke as much as and when they please. Why not? There is no reason against smoking In moderation, I agree.

It is, however, only right to speak

of

expectant

and

nursing

then add the silly whipped whites out when smoking addlels consume of 2 eggs, beating all welt together. 30 or 40 cigareltes a day. In the

case a border mould with the mothers, excessive smoking ought a little apple jelly in the mixture, the rest of the jelly. Tum almost to be a criminal offence.

put in the strawberries, the mould out on to a large dish. bottom of individual glasses, out, and fill the centre with plain

then, add Mush, half a dozen ripe bananas to pour junket over, and leave until chopped lemon Jelly, decorating with poisoning in infants who have ab a pulp with

two tablespoonfuls of set. Just before serving moke frult a few more whole strawberries. on top by placing half a caster sugar and a good squeeze of cherry in the centre and arranging

lemon juice. Put this round the edge

of the mould, and on the outer edge of the banana mixture make a nar- row piping of stiffly whipped fresh |cream.

Cut glace chores in halves, and into the cut side of enchi stick two pieces of skinned split almonds, so that they look like tiny sailing-boats. Place a number of these on the bana- ina puree.

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Orange Baskets

Cut the required number of oranges in hall, and carefully remove the fruit and pitch so that the skins remain unbroken: Half-All the cases with orange milk Jelly which has been left until it is Just beginning to set. Squeeze the Julce from the removed pulp, and make it into clear jelly,

Put a cooling of this on top. De- cornio with n touple of crystallised orange sections, and make hunillos,

flowers

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