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BETTER BATTERS

Starting from the hard- an extra something the knifed worked Yorkshire pudding, most ones never know-and there is of us explore the family tree safety on the kitchen table if by easy stages via fritters, your courage fails on the down walles and girdle pancakes, to drop. Continental "crepes" und beig- netu. Most people start with pancakes because they feel at home with them, and they cer- tainly have their moments.

WHY not branch out with

new flavours this time?

A little grated orange rind cook- ed in the batter, and marmalade sauce poured over as they go to The mixture improves with table. Or hot fruit puree, like standing, which is a lift for a gingered apple, or plain plum. busy housewife. She can mix or hot apricot jam, spread and and leave the flour to swell, rolled inside each one. picking up the job to her credit

at the frying stage.

If you go Continental you add

a tablespoon of brandy, rum, or To one egg use doz, house- liqueur to the batter. These hold flour, mixed with pancakes are often stuffed by a

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There is safety on the kitchen table if your courage fails on the down drop

August 16, 1939.

LEMON PANCAKES THE most important thing is to mix the batter a long time before it is wanted. Some prople even think the pancakes are lighter if the batter la mix- ed the day before. It is worth while making more batter that you need and serving Bulle Jam-Alled panenkes next day as a hot cake for tea.

Sift 40%. of flour into a bowl

with

CHI

a pinch of salt break an Into a well in the middle, and mix in the flour from the akles, adding pint milk slow-

Beat for at

ly.

least Ave minutes after the balter ia smooth, and then leave for at least two hours. Just before making the poncokes add pint more milk and beat until the top is covered with bubbles

Finnan Haddock Savouries

THERE is something very tasty about 21 fanan haddock, but have you ever served them in the! following ways? All three methods of preparing the 1sh are excellent:-

Aberdeen Finnuns

Have one or two boneless innans For each finnan allow 1 1able- spoonful oatmeal, 1 teaspoonful but- ter. teaspoonful chopped parsley. Pepper and salt.

Prepare the finanns in the usual way. Toust the oatmeal in a pan ti dry and just beginning to colour. Add the other ingredients, mix well, and spread over the innans, either whols or cut into llets.

Ps into shape, and bake in p well-buttered fireproof dish from 15) to 20 minutes. Done in this way the fish Is specially tasty served with ; tomato sauce.

Finnan and Cheese Savoury

Put ozs scraped finnan hadduck

a trace of cornflour for crisp, spreading of liqueur-flavoured ness, a pinch of salt and half- butter, or served flambee, with pint of milk. Using a wooden hot spirit poured over the dish spoon, make a well in the flour and set alight at the last mo and drop in the unbeaten egg, ment. Crepes Grand Marnier, gradually stirring with enough prepared in leafy garden set- milk to form a smooth cream, Ling, lured crowds of Exhibition After using two-thirds of the visitors in Paris last year, yet milk, work up a steady rhyth- there's nothing to stop us going mic beat with the back of the ahead on that right now. spoon for ten full minutes.

Then there JA Savoury Such devotion reapa the re- notions, 100-folded with ward of fine pin-point bubbles to sprinkling of grated cheese and raise your panenke standard seasoning afterwards with beyond description. In other coating of cheese sauce for the words, Madam-you will earn a final grilling or baking. Pan- dariole tins, you get 12-14 from pancake mixture, using half into a pan with 6 oz butter and 1 name for them, unless you have cakes envelop grilleri sausages, half a pint of mixture, Grease measure of milk, is useful for tablespoonful milk. Cook three to already seen to that, treamed fish or vegetables, or them and drop a speck of cook- timbale fritters.

Ave minutes. Add 2 025. grated Finally, add the rest of the milk any minced meats you care to ing fat in each, then set on a

You buy iron moulds with cheese, 1 beaten egg, salt and cayen

ne to taste. Sur over a slow heat gently and pour all into a jug think of, coming to table happily baking sheet in a hot oven until long handles in all shapes and till the mixture thickens. to await requirements,

with seasoned gravies or tomate the fat smokes. Pour in the sizes-shells, cups, hearts, dia-foast, garnish with sprig of parsley, Half the snag of cooking sauce. balter is a question of starting You add a pinch of herbs to thirds full, and bake briskly about half a crown.

batter to reach half to two- monds, fairy rings, etc., for and serve at once.

They areFinuan and Cheese Pus temperature. Baked or fried, the batter, with hearty season- the fat must be lively and hot ing to bring it into line, rolling (Regulo 9) for about 15-20 ideal for cold supper fillings of Have some scraps of rough puff

minutes, when frothy tops will creamed chicken or similar so the mixture sizzles when they each cake with filling as it is have blown up to show what patty mixtures, or as desserts Pastry. Roit out thinly and cut Into

a basin 2 rounds, Put into Have lard, or whatever cooked.

they can do. Reduce the heat with fruit and cream inside, und(secraped innan and pour over it 2 the fry-pan or use in

Relays of panenkes keep hot slightly (turn to Regulo 7) until can be made in advance.

teaspoonfuls melted butter, Ad 2 baking tin, really smoking to and crisp if they remain un- they are crisp all through-an Beating the egg into the and sufficient beaten egg to moisten. 25, grater cheese, salt and enyenne, start cooking and get a prompt covered, while smaller trying other ten minutes or 80-and creamy flour mixture is a basic Brush edges of pastry with remainder rise. As usual-little items pans of 5 to 6 in. in diameter, serve very promptly with hot secret of light batter

Some-of cg, put a spoonful of finnan mix- make or mar big moments. make them sizeably.attractive.

You know the tip for running Baker batters, on the con-

"lemonised" golden syrup sauce, times we use frothed white of ture on the centre of each, fold over, Again try these with the egg, but the thrifty Scottish and ze with egg. Sprinkle with

erushed vermicelli in pancake batter with a twist trary, need wide enough tins to breakfast coffee one morning, cook occasionally goes one bet-and bake in hot oven fifteen minutes. of the pan to cover the bottom ensure they are evenly cooked, when spring sunshine tempis ter and misses egg altogether. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.

100 for un curly start. You make As a mystified ten-year-old, I

meet.

you

use

thinly. With a mere film of fat so which you do not to great it, you get a succulent small a pan crepey cake that responds to sogginess, the toss; lissom and feather The American Popover is ours light. Of course, you do toss by adoption, as it cooks the your pancakes?

to make central the batter overnight this time. remember a certain Old Betsy making delectable snow pan- EEP fat coating batters cakes one "frozen north" winter are a story to them- near Inverness. She used two They take on erispest way. Using small selves, but moderately thick tablespoons of very clean un-

DEEP

The after Is

You'll be in the swim with a bathing suit like the outfit shown above. white with blue stripes and the shorts are navy blue. A blue polka dot bandanna keeps, this girl's hair in place,

content with

touched snow to replace one egg

by aerating quality. Mixing] with half measure of milk and beating smooth as before, the! snow is folded in lightly just before you want to fry your enkes.

SHORT CUTS

Bich cakes remain freshi longest. A practical 1101190- keeper, therefore, plans to use up first cakes which do not con- tain the most shortening.

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Mixed Vegetable .Stew

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HOOSE 4 or 5 vegetables in sea- son, such as cauliflowers, carrots, peas, and cabbages, and cut or shred them into small pieces.

Melt 2 ozs, of Sutter in a stewpan and add the prepared vegetables and 2 tablespoonfuls of water to it. Put the lick un the pan and stew gently for three-quarters of an hour.

These vegetables may be served with the meat course at lunch, or they may be piled on slices of hol buttered toast and served' ulane.

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