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Something simple for Summer

UCCESSFUL summer caterers arrange for simple dishes which save the goodness and flavour of garden foods.

Here is a week's daily dinner : menu, in case your pencil staris wavering on this menu business. Featuring the foods we have nt the moment, there is no strict relationship day to day, though you'll find an underlying streak of economy,

Sunday brings a roast, but with lamb we look for mint and jelly is a change from time-honoured sauce. Perhaps you made some last year when apples were plentiful? Any- way, it is simple enough:

If you've not tried green peas a la Francaise, there pre lots of reasons why you should. Just spear na onion with two cloves, tin វា morsel of muslin to enclose parsley. thyme, and half n bay leaf, and have a pound or more of ready shelled peas. Mell one ounce of butter In

pan, soute and partly cook the onion, they add the peas and toss In butter for a moment. Add the herb bouquet, and pour in about a gl of stock, simmering gently with the Hd on t the peas Rre tender. Remove the onion und herbs, sprinkle half teaspoon of sugar, and you will, find a mere dressing of stock remains, but the

pear will glinten with butter. Hurry thein to pare the potatoes while they are good and hol

On potatoes-remember that new ones taken tessfag in paprika it you tire of chopped parsley for them.

MONDAY'S meal grows from

Sunday's left-over if you remember to set some slices of

next

decorative dish overnight or

morning. It sple sounds remote to you, there's always the preket variety or perhaps

SOME

selatine

stiffening for rich-favoured stock.

Sunday Monday

Tuesday C. 63530

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Wednesday....

Thursday.. Friday

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Summer salads need to elabora- haked a delicate crisp brown

in

Diced evoked ham or bacon

Menu

How To Cater For The Week During The Hot Days

Here are

some suggestions for each day of the week

Sunday

n of corn soup. Shoulder of lamb, mint jelly, new Creaves, Green Peas-the French way Cherry tartlets, glazed with conserve,

potat

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Monday

Tomato and rice soup, or tomato bouillon. Sliced lamb

In naple. Summer salad; glazed und gingered carrots, Coffee apricot meringue (using leftover sponge or cake).;

Tuesday

Spinach puree. Creamed eggs and asparagus, with Krilled con rolls. Strawberry panniers (led cake "Baskets").

Wednesday

Summer soup. Fowl or chicken fricassee. Gooseberry shape, with mock cream.decoration,

Thursday

Chicken jelly squares. Rice, ham und whole tomato salad (the baby English ones). New potatoes. Hot rhubarb platetart (mode with flaky pastry, and ginger flavouring). Cheese and biscuits.

Friday

Chicken broth with mushrooms. Cold salmon, Cucum- ber Jelly (moulded ring or individual jellies stuffed with mayonnaised salad). Petatoes, Lemon chiffon pie, with cornflake pastry.

Saturday

Orange and mint appetiser. Veal cutlets, spaghetti milanese, new potatoes. Souffle amelette; banaa tiling.

Coffee. Cheese strawa.

cooled

and.

with

at cake mixture into duriole tins for of forced whipped cream or rustard 2 added tablespoons of vinegar, and tion, but a few glazed carrots pep quite the lowest pace. (Hottom shelf a batch of cup cakes, These scoop coating.

a teaspoon of onlon juice, with satt, things up a bit, especially if you of Regulo 5 If you have other things out to make pannier baskets for the remember a dash of Kinzer with "doing" in the oven.)

In case you have not tried a corn- pepper and a trace of green colour- bercles. Small strawberries sleed, four mock e. Here is the way they go.

cream, here 14 the . A oz, of gelatine is sufficient reasoned with Jemon juice and formula. One gill of milk thickened to set these ingredients. Cook some split and quartered THIEN the time arrives for it stirred lightly into sweetened and with a dessertspout

edrnflour, medium-sized

meatless meal, so try cream- whipped cream, pile into these cases and allowed to cool while a dessert-

If you have a soft spot for Lemon carrots

boiling ed eggs and asparagus. Bacon rolls and make mas salted water. When tender, drain

delectable eating spoon of caster sugar is creamed Chillon Ple you'll fall for it more and dress in equal parts melled or ham enter for another occasion. For dress occasions you could make with an ounce of butter till white ever in a cornflake pastry case. butter and demerara sugar with

Simply hard boil two eggs for each angelica leaves and handles, and set and loose. The

Take an in, square cake in, or a Kenerous shake of ground rinter person and quarter them, adding a the dessert of little tee plates with sauce is then added, spoon at a time, in it. Mix 6 gills of crushed and

cornflour

large pie plate, und meit 2oz. butter Heat through at simmering rate till well-flavoured bechamel or white green lent doileys,

Find whisked 11!! creamy they take a glossy tan, then speed sauce.

smooth. A pinch of salt

sieved cornflakes mixed with 2oz, them on their way.

and prepared or canned asparagus WEDNESDAY'S choice is a vanila flavouring is an improve cinnamon, then stir them into the caster sugar and half a teaspoon of Coffee or maple meringue rescues

are the other items.

fowl or chicken, with goose- ment, and it it is used at once butter, pressing till evenly absorbed. week-end cake misfits the kind-

Individual portions

berry shape as outlet for the "surplus substitute forces through a cream Hest way.

bread" Strong coffee or weak tot

problem. 1 a variation pipe most convincingly.

Reserve suillelent for dressing the maple syrup, thickened with corn- make a good impression, but the of the well-worn summer pudding,

of the ple, then coat the sides enriched with yolk, whole could be turned into a fire- 50 choose a deep melon or blanc- CALMON and cucumber is and bottom of the tin and proceed Cashrouds the lived and nyeri pronf dish, circled with toast sippets moderately thick allees of crustless cumber is a pleasant change. You

mould and line il with

traditional. but jellied the ple some three hours before you enke. Arranged in a chinn soutie orting bacon rolls and asparagus bread. Layers of hot syrup-stewed either set it in a ring mould, or make plan to serve it. dish, with spreadings of chopped lips. nuta and honey or apricot mana-

gooseberries are sandwiched and little castles and stuff the centres. Strawberries or raspberries need topped with the bread, then weighted Creamed shrimp is fine for a change. Inde, it forms o succulent base for the simplest serving of all Next down and left overnight. the meringued top, which

It then is then time you bake at home furn sonte turns out for decoration with lines bers take half a gill of water with For two good sized grated cucum-

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aquare

cracker

served on biscuita

For

BOYS

and GIRLS

Lighting-up time for glow-worms--a warning to snails.

OT everyone finds the glow- worm'a soft, greenish-gold lamp" either pleasing or beautiful. For analis ought to shine a warning red. Because the glow-worm is greatly partial to a small feast.

it

She creeps, ghostlike, upon Snaily, alling pretty inside his brittle shell. She doesn't knock nt his door, but, with most unindylike ferocity, gnawa through his nimy entrance. and Anally cala him out of hearth and home-out of existence!

Midsummer is the Blow-worm's "lighting-up" time. Hero and there. about moors, chalky downs, country innes and dells, you may discover either one

A dozen together.

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mounted upon grassy blades, and beaming upon the stars.

Beetle Family

Luckily for their owner, this remark able" lamp" gives out no warmth, but is cold as stone. For if it emitted hent in proportion to Ita alúning power, like, hay. a candle flame, the glow-worm would be scorelied to death.

Among our native glow-worms, the female always has the finest lamp:" A queer creature. She has neither wings nor wing covers, and, will her Lapering, fatty body divided into nine or ten segments, looks more like a cater- piler than a beetle, her true genus.

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However, the malc Insect, whose power of radiation is feeble indeed, wears dark wing sileida, goes forging by air, and is a beetle of most gentle manners, judging by his lack of stag- liko jaws and other Ella beelie "armaments"

When her tali cells are properly aglow, one "worm" gives sufficient light, when placed eight inches away, for you to read your watch on a pitch dark night. Thomas Hardy, the grent Wessex novelist, describes a scene whereby two men threw their dice in darkness upon an open heath. They caught and put glow-worms upon a stone to serve na their lanterns.

Glow-worm eggs, too, are slightly

DANGER LIGHT for SNAILS

luminous. Perhaps their glow, hinting ot the mysterious, ucis as a keep-oll sign to huquisitive bird. And, a shade more prominently, the glow-worm's Jarvee or grubs give off the nine un- canny radiance.

These crceplug lamps" also spell ruin to snalis. While for devouring stuga, another popular item on their menu, baby glow-worms are gifted with bristly back feet (these resemble a set of brushes in miniature) so that, with- out any bather, they can clamber up a alug'a siippery back and settle down to the business of eating.

All A-Glowing

Thanks to these habits, we may put glow-warns In our gardens and treat them us pets. For as alles in the un- ending warfare ngainst slugs and analla, they pay their rent not in cash but in enemies slain, several times weekly. That's the sort of tenant gardeners like.

Then their soft beauty, so lovely. serene and mysterious, must surely rouse fuiries from their beds and bring troupes of ellin dancers on to the lawn to revel by glow-worm light and to grasshopper musicl

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day-dream?

TOPE may "spring eternal gommonest plea of all-nobody ever

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in the human breast," but helps them. What help can be given its encouragement to remain when a mind, is prone to fantastic.

orgles of Its own is difficult to there should be decided by its imagine. nature,

There is the quite legitimate hope fact that unchecked day-dreaming Perhaps, most serious of all, is the that some particular undertaking reads to mental deterioration. enterprise may

The prove successful: brain becomes so focused on the

this to be coupled by an effort to impossible that It loses its capacity bring such hope to fuintment. On to judge the true value of mundane the other hand, there is the hope things rationally, which comes from the land

with

the

in

of

of

It

All is distorted never-never and resulty the and subservient to the never-never practice of day-dreaming-a habit reliable both in social and business land, and the dreamer becomes un- which grows apace and saps slowly life and in domestic relations. and insidiously the vital energy of the dreamer.

FOR those who indulge in These

hope-dreams vary in

this dangerous form accordance

partieular recreation the best advice is to give temperament which encourages it up-come back to earth and leave them. With one they may take the the realms of fancy to pocis, pain- form of vast possessions, and here ters and those who make word pic- the life lived in fancy's realm will tures for profit and livelihood. be of regal pretensions. With may be dificult to stage a world of another social mueerss colours the realism, after a long sojourn of hope brain horizon, while yet a third will in the never-never, but it is more be invested with some marvellous than worth while. lalent that will ensure

world-wide In the case of children, who revel popularity and excite the envy of all in the land of make-belleve, wise and sundry folk around.

direction is necessary to ensure that the habit does not ALL very silly this never- proportions by and by.

assume undue A never land of the impos- fairies Is a childhood's idyll, but the Faith in sible, but at the same time all very child who fascinating to those people who in- something

wants to pretend it is habit its realm.

else all the time is It often happens that those who nowhere.

stepping out on to a road that leads Indulge in day-dreaming have been

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disappointed and disillusioned in the since one day they will be grown- Playing at grown-ups is harmless, they actually lead and resort to up, and this game affords opportu creating a world of their own in nitles to point a moral and adorn compensation for the loss of that a tale without in any way impair- siale of Hfe in which they would ing its attractions or diverting its wish to find themselves. In short, charm. But pretending to be grand they are the discontented members people, and possessing such things of the community, yet make no as only exceeding money can supply. effer! to help themselves or belter should never be encouraged. Smali ther conditions of life and 30 in folks brains are quick and recep-

measure achieve the hopes tive and the cult of the impossible: they foster so futilely.

a very real lure to hope in the never-. to the exclusion of other and more

Day-dreaming often fills the mind never.

For young and older profitable tunities that

considerations.

folk alike Oppor hope is a spur that must never, be come are overlooked overlooked, but it must be hope, And lost.

Is it any wonder that success in whatever form it may take.

The any direction passes these day- desire to win through and achieve dreamers by? Yet from their own an ultimate end makes the requisite point of view blame is never attach- striving worth while, and simulates ing to themselves-they arc born the brain to greater effort, even if unlucky-fate is against them, and, all is not plain sailing by the way.

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