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Parsnips In Variety

DARSNIPS, which are of consider-

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oble food value, often are for- gotlen, but if properly cooked they are very tasty.

The simplest method of cooking is bolling, but they can be fried and baked or used with other ingredients. For bolling peel thinly, cut length- ways, and place them In salted waler, cooking quickly, ocensionally skimming the water. Test them with a fork to discover If tender.

To make them gyen nicer, cook la Half milk and half water thicken with four and add a pat of butter after they are done. Serve in their own sauce.

Fried parsnips make the perfect addition to road multon. Boli them whole frst, then cut into strips, dip cach batter or in egg and brend- crumbs, and fry in hot fat. They can be served alone. To do so, fry the strips, without batter, In butter over and serve, or

leave to

sprinkle get cold and add to a salad. Creamed parsnips have an attrae- tion all their own. Boil the parsnips, cut into slices, and after spreading each slice with butter lay in vego- table dish and pour over them while -sauce. Serve very hot, Another method is to mash the slices, and then ndd four tablespoonfuls of crean and one of buller. Boll up 'ngala

and serve at once,

Parsnip Fricassee

Fricassee of pursnips is very tasty. Cut the parsnips lengthwise into pieces about three inches long. Boll in milk till tender. Lay the parsnips in pan containing half a gill of cream ad a blade of mince, and sim- inc for flve minutes. Place some toasted bread on dish, lay the parsnips on, and pour the sauce over. For baked pursnips boil some of the vegetables in as little water possible. with a few thick slices of pickled pork. When tender slice, and put the parsnips and pork in fuyers in n dish, pouring the liquid over. Bake til brown, season, and serve wth white sauce. Tasty Soup

Parsnip soup is very warning for winter. Dissolve 2 ozs, of butter in the saucepan, then add three good parsnips, two potatoes, and a large onion, til sliced. Pour in a quart of water, a teaspoonful suit, a dozen peppercorns, and boll for 1 hour. Then add two leapoonfuls of sago, stir until the soup thickens rub through a sieve into a tureen, and serve hot.

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DIRNDL waist

nd scalloped edge mark the coat of a fa- shionable Spring two- piece. Note how the bodice of the frock is becomingly gathered.

Working Hints

Tofun whion in water and use no clean white paint effectively,

the liquid white warm without soap. Sponge off with cold water and dry with a smooth cloth, when the, sur- face will be good as new.

To make parsnip balls boll two nursnips, rash Anely.

two ndd Lablespoonfuls of melted butter, a teaspoonful of salt, 1⁄21⁄2 teaspoonful of pepper, two tablespoonfuls of milk. alix together, and add a beaten egg. To remove the odour from bolties Form into balls and dip in egg and that have contained pungent ilquids, breadcrumbs, then fry in boiling half fill them with cold water and

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add to each a tablespoonful of dry

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For curried parsnips boll the mustard. Allow to stand for un

Tear hour or two before rinsing out vegetables whole till tender. into shreds with forks, sprinkle with clear water. cloves and dust sugar. Pour over

To neutralise acid from a wireless some curry sauce, warm up, and accumulator spill on a carpet or serve with bolled rice in a separate, tablecloth, cover the affected part dah.

immediately with milk.

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Custard Recipes CUSTARDS are pleasant to eat but

tricky to make. Too much heat is fatal, When baking a custard it

A plece of cotton wool dipped In enu de Cologne and gently rubbed on light-coloured kid gloves that are solled will soon clean them.

Odd lengths of wool left over after knitting can be made into pads to place beneath the stair carpet in- stead of felt ones. Really thick

is a good plan to set the pie-dish in pads will result by using the wool

double, or even treble, and knitting

a pan with some cold water in in garter stitch on fairly small say a roasting tin for example."

This helps to keep it rom cook-needles.

By gluing a tape measure along

ing too quickly. Custards do not the front of the sewing machine and ret quickly and adding eggs other Inun the, given quantity is really no stitching a thick pad over the bar of

the machine to serve

pin help at all.

cushion, much time will be saved Baked Custard Pudding

when dressmaking.

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If blankets are hard and felted One pint of milk 4 eggs; 4 oz infter washing, shake them vigorous- sugar; a piece of lemon rind; and ay before hanging on n line, when pinch of salt. Put the milk in they should be gently beaten with a saucepas, add a plece of very thin clean carpet beater. The original lemon rind, a pinch of salt, and Auffiness will then returnı. bring to the boil.

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Beat the eggs with the sugar for

a little while, then, benting steadily, pour the bolling milk over the enge. Grease a ple-dish, and cook slowly for one hour.

Pourling Custard.

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May 10, 1939.

If You Like

LIKE the look of tailored clothes," a reader writes, "but I feel at my best in a pretty dress, and as I am going to a wedding soon, could you find me something suitable to wear for the occasion which will be useful afterwards?"

"Of course -1 can," I wrote, "there's no job I like better." And I thought perhaps other readers might be interested in my finds.

First, we must have a touch of fashion about it, and the most popular style to-day is the dirndl waistline with a fullish skirt,

Both dress and coat are in the same material-a fancy back crêpe. The "Not-So-Slims"

The coat has the high shoulder line and rows of gathering acrosa to match the walk The cinstio, a threaded through to give the neat loss t desirable; a small zip holda the two fronts securely in place.

The dress la alim, graceful-looking with an inverted pleat in the skirt and loops of two shades of cord give an interesting finish to the neckline..

An up-to-the-minute outfit alto- gether, which should suit all young and average figures,

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As more natronly figures would find the tuil dirndt line a little try ing. I had another two-plece sketched, cut on rather straight lines, which give height to the not-og-alims.

Both coat and dress are in heavy quality artificial alik, which hangs long-sleeved dress has a golf belt and Wall The cost is lined and the a V neckline.

Broderie Anglaise

The front of the dress and the coat are relieved by handsome broderio anglaise in self colour. This embroid- ery is most fashionable now and a belge vestes on the dress shows it off to good advantaga.

SHINING WAYS

SAN JOSE, Cal. The San Jose fire department is One pint milk; two eggs; two ozs. sugar; Unvouring, and pinch of salt. again enjoying the consciousness of Bring the milk to the boil. Flavour the full stature of dignity. For it. Beat the eggs and the sugar, years past, J. N. Hedberg has main-l then pour the boiling milk over tained a private fire department and then, beating vigorously the while. at times has competed with the local TARNISHED: silver may be made Strain into a bowl or jug. Set the department. Recently the official

bright again by steeping it in jug in a pan of boiling water, and fire department got a call from Hed-hot water and ammonia--a table- stir the custard until it coals the berg, fire having broken out in one spoonful to a quart of water. Dry of his most expensive pleces of ap- thoroughly and polish in the usunt I paratus.

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Real old pewter should never be polished like silver. A safe and efficient cleanser can be made by moistening equal parts of whitening: and cigar ash with linseed oil or ammonia. Apply with a flannel kept molst with a mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine. Wash the article afterwards in soapy water: dry thoroughly and polish with a chamois lentlier.

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Tarnished brass can be restored to Ita former brightness by applying a little methylated spirit on a soft cloth,

Rusty curtain rings and hooks Immersed in a bath of hot vinegar, before being polished in the usual way, will look like new again.

A cut lemon dipped in salt will clean copper, and lemon juice rubbed} with a soft cloth on aluminium pans which have become dull will make them clean once more. Finish by rinsing the pans in warm water,

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E three designs of the now Lasuo of stamps for the Seychelles, the British colony in the Indian Ocean, are noteworthy for several reasofia.

They are the colony's first plo tortal stampe, they are beautifully printed by "photogravure" (the method by which our British stamps are now printed), and there

frame-ines around pictures. Absence of borders gives

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Other values deplet one of the giant tor- toises living in the Aldabra Ixianda which, though several hundred miles distant, are à do pendency of the Baychiolles. Tor toiseshell and coconut products arn important exports.

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