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WHEREVER there are children in

the home there should be a bun tin in the pantry. When all is sai and done, the youngsters, from tod dier to teens, prefer the homely. wholesome buns that mother makes to oversweet sickly pastries.

I And that the surest way to a schoolboy's heart is to pack him off to school or play with a couple of rock enkes that he can get a satisfy ing blte from in his pocket.

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An emply biscuit in is cellent place to keep your family bans in. for you can minke a large butch, say, three or four dozen. in one baking, and they'll keep moist and fresh if the lid is fixed on tightly.

Now

for

easy to make favourites which will go down well with the family.

Spicy Miztre

some

Rock cakes with spicy favour ure much appreciated.

Ingredients: 1 heaped breakfast- cupful flour, 1 egg and breakfast- cupful brown sugar, 1 heaped des- sertap, picked suitanas, pineli salt and grated nutmeg. 14 teasp. baking pow- der, 1 tablesp. butter, 1 dessertsp. chopped candled peel, 1 heaped des-

Cabbage Novelties

THIS

THIS good dish to serve on meatless days.Take a medium- sized cnbbage, 1 tablespoon margarine or dripping I anion, 2 teacups water,

1 teacup rice, pepper and salt.

Heat the fat in casserale, add the linely chopped onton, and cook gently for a few minutes. Have the cab barte soaked, washed, and shredded. Add it to the ensserole with a teacup of water and the seasonings. Put on the lid, and simmer over gentle heat

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Now add the washed rice and mix 段 well, then to the rest of the

water. Continue slimmering from 20-

30 minutes, il rice soft, and cabbage tender.

Cabbage Rolls

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This is on excellent way to use up "left-overs," so that they come table in appetising gulse. Take 3 teacups mixed cooked meal. 1 teacup cooked rice, salt and pepper, cabbage leaves, 1⁄2 pint tomato sauce,

Mix the mine and rice together and season well. Senldl the cabbage leaves in boiling water, leave them far 2-3 minutes, then drain well. Put 2 tablespoons of the mixture on each lenf and fold over in half,

Pince in a well greased casserole, pour the tomato suvee round, and balce with the Ild on for about 1 hour

in n moderate oven. Serve with: baked or mashed potatoes.

The rolls con he baked entirely in u little margarine, or if preferred, a little water and meat extract can be inixed and used instead of the tomuto sauce.

Isobel

HOME HINTS

Too much flour makes a dry, bready cake. Pastry four makes a more tender cake than does bread flour.

Did you know that sweet potatoes

Tuesday,

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Varying the Flavour

of Family- Favourites

sertap, pleked currants, i sulisp, each ground oil-spice, ginger and mace.

Sift flour, baking powder, sult, und splees Into à basin. Rub in butter or margarine. Stir in sugar, chopped peel, washed and dried curvants, and sultanas, Mix to a soft dough with beaten egg, and milk as required. ed tins and bake in a quick oven fill Fork out in rough heaps on butter- flan and brown. Tina on to a cake rack to cool.

can be used as a vegetable, as a filing] for plc, or fried like a dessert slmliar to fried bananas?

String beans will cook in about half the time if cut lengthwise In- stead of being broken in two.

Before fish is placed in the refrigerator, it should always be wrapped in waxed paper to pre- vent tainting other foods,

Vanilla Drops

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way seeds are stirred into the mix- ture before it is formed into rolls, and the raspberry jam is, of course, omitted. Date Dainties

Good to eat and very nourishing Ingredients: 14 cupfuts Belt-rnis- flour (add 2 teasp, baking powder if plain flour is used), 1 cupful sugar,

lug

with a skewer into the top of each. drop in a little raspberry jam, close- over again to keep the Jum, in, and bake In a quick oven for 15 to 20 minules.

Rice is Nice

wholesome

for

Satisfying and schoolchildren are rice bun.

Ingredients: 30%, self-raising flour, 20%, ground rice, 2oz. butter or mar- garine, few drops of vanilla essence, 2 eggs. 3oz. caster sugar.

Cream butter and sugar together, add the eggs gradually for one cig and 1 tablesp. of vinegar) with a htle of the sieved flour and beat well.

Add the rest of the fixed with the ground rice, stir in the vandika essence, then put the mixture into greased bun tins, an“ bake in quick oven for ten, 16 Bitesh minutes. Fruit and Nut

They all ke these mixed fruit buns, especially if a spoonful, of chopped nuls are stirred in as a sure prise.

Ingredients: doz. butter, 4oz, sugar, ful of vinegar) a tablesp, each of 2 cent for one egg and a tablespoon-

washed and dried currants, picked sullanas and shredded lemon candled

peel, a few chopped nuts, 6oz. four,

pinch of salt, 1 tensp.

of baking

powder, a little milk If required.

Cream the butter and sugar, add

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2 eggs, 1 cupful clipped dates, the eggs gradually with a little of the teasp grated nutmeg. 1-3rd. eupful sieved four. Mix the prepared fruits butter, teasp, ground ginger,

and chopped nuts with the rest of the cupful anilk, tessp. ground eloves. Hour, etc., and add to the mixture. Cream butter and sugar. Sift flour. A little milk may be added if neces-. Quickly made and borish baking powder if used, stinger, nut- fluvour.

meg, and cloves into a basin. Beat y Ingredients: 10oz. flour, Vilb. sugar. As well. Add tour and enes at-

butter and sugar. ternately to

1 2 tablesp. milk, 1 temp. inking pow.

Stir in milk and dates ond mix der, few drops vanilla. alb. butter, 2 rites (or one egg and extra milk) Well Three-quarter ll greased bun)

thus with mixture. Cream butter and sugir, beat eggs

Bake in well. Sift flour and baking powder

moderate oven about

Cool On together. Then add flour and egg twenty minutes.

a cuke H++++#####++++ with Bloned dates, it and milk alternately to butter and rack. Top

liked.

Cheese may be cut into very thin sugar, Flavour with a few drops of

allcea without the cheese sticking to vanilla.

Raspberry Favourite

the knife by holding a piece of waxed, Economical, but considered a treat paper over the knife while cutting

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Drop temp. of dough, well apart, on a buttered baking tin. Sprinkle with dripping, but you can use other with caster sugar. Bake ten minutes

To fix candlesticks firmly in place, heat the candle socket thoroughly with hot water and firmly press in the enndle. This is better than filling the socket with melted wax,

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Out-Fashioned Carrategy

fats if liked.

Rub 2oz. fal into lb. self-raising) flour, add 2oz, sugar with a pinch of salt, and milk to make a suffish mix-{ ture.

Divide into buns and place on a

These le buns are made in the some way as the raspberry buns given on this page, but oz, carra, grevased baking sheet. Make a hole

SHORT CUTS.

Instead of taking the time to shell peas, a busy cook may throw pods and alt into bolling water. When cooked, the pods will rise to the surface while the peas will slay at the bottom of the ketile.

'What's new in sulis Is shown here by the Hylton alstera, pop ular - trio of sangsters.

Kate,

left, wears a collarless, form-fiting green sult, while Evelyn, centre, favours a lumber jacket style. Marzo's is in royal blue with fitted jacket All wear tucked-in scarves over their beads.

WRIGHT'S Coal Tar Soup

Gler you and your ehtidress day the freshness. It keeps the body immu iately eteen and free from all danger of infectious skin diseases.

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The wide cornelet girdle of the yellow-belge woolen Jersey dress shown is bright red, and there is a narrow brown belt Wern over 1. Mie te felt bumpersuff turban is also of belge, with red ribbon bows,

Cheese Dusties

IT is a curious sildelight on modern trends that, now when the neces- sity arises, we are rediscovering the virtues of foods that have sustained our forefathers for centuries i

Cheese is a food our forefathers ate 6 great deal of, and wisely too, for it is a concentrated food and the good- ness and flavour that can be brought out of it by simple preparation is amazing.

Here are a few dishes suitable for lunch or a sustantial supper:--- Cheese Pudding

Take six to eight slices bread and butter, one pint milk, three OZS grated cheese, a little made mustard, pinch all-spice, and one egg.

Cut the slices of bread Infoʻsquares. Arrange them a buttered pie-dish with sprinklings of cheese in between, leaving a little of cheese for top. Beat the egg, add the salt, pepper. and all-spice custard over the milk, pour this savoury custard over the bread, sprinkle tile cheese on top. Bake in a very moderate oven t the custard is very lightly set and the top brown.

An Economical Rarebit

Melt one oz margarine i pan, add four ozs rated cheese, and allow to dissolve slowly. Blend half an flour with four tablespoons vinegar. then stir into cheese mixture. Cook | two-to-three-minutes,-string-cons- tantly, then add one tablespoon mashed potato. Heat well, then pour on to squares of buttered toast, and brown for-a few seconds under a hot will.

Cheese and Tomate Pe

cut

This is very tasty with cold meat or sausages, or makes an excellent accompaniment to baked cod.

Choose Arm tomatoes, and three-quarters of a 1b Into slices. Butler a pie-dish and prepare slx tablespoons brendcrumbs, and grate x ozs cheese. Sprinkle a layer of breadcrumbs and cheese in bottom of dish, then a layer of sliced tomatoes. Sprinkle with a little pepper and all- spice, then add another layer bread- crumbs and cheese.

Continue til dish is full, arranging to have a good sprinkling of cheese ost top. Cook in a moderale oven for about 30 minutes. If serving this dish atone, decorate with sippets of

Cheese and Potato Casserole

toast.

Peel and silce one lb potatues and two onions. Partly cook (about 10 minules) in boiling water, then strain

off liquid. Grate three as cheese,

Butter a pie-dish, put in layers of partly cooked potatoes and onions. Springle with powdered mice, pepper, and grated cheese.

Arrange for the top layer to be of potatoes, and sprinkle over # little cheese. Cover with one pint mille or half milk and some of the liquid vegetables were bolled in. Put a lid on dish or make a "cap" of greased paper, and bake slowly for one hour, Just before serving, take off lid and

brown the top,

Isabel

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LONDON FINN'S

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WIFE IN FINLAND

ONE of the 30 Finns left in London, Mr. Laurin Zilliacus, has set out from his home in Albany Street, N. W., carrying a sealed box full of confidential papers.

He will try to reach the Finnish Foreign Office in Helsingfors, acting as courier for the Finnish Legation in London.

On the eve of his adventure Mr. | M. Gripenberg received callers and. Zillirens, who is 44, and former head-sympathisers, and waited anxiously master of a famous Helsinki school, for news of the Russian invasion. told a reporter:

Mme. Gripenborg has lost no time

"I do not know how or when I in giving assistance to the sick and shall reach the capital. From Stock-wounded of her adopted country hoim I may have to make the 30-hour Sho sent an aeroplane to Finland train journey to the North of Sweden loaded with anti-tetanus serum, mór- and then catch a Finnish train to phio, evigan, pneumonía serum and Helsinki,

other drugs. It arrived safely.

Wanted To Fight

"It may be a dangerous trip-but I shall get there. My wife and two chlidren are in Helsinki, and I must find them."*

Mr. Zilmeus resigned his head- mastership early in September to try

The British Red Cross acted as buyers and conveyors on Her behalf,

TIENTSIN AMERICANS

to join the British Army because he Herman Young New Head. wanted to fight the Nazis. He reach- Of Chamber of Commerce ed England-four hours before war was declared on Germany.

"Now I want to fight the Bolshies," he Bald

Tientsin, Jan, 15. At the annual general nieeting held, during the week-end, the American Chamber of Commerce unanimously their re-elected Mr. Herman Young as Pro-

aldent for a third term, ko

Several other Finns left London

to serve by air-recently country. Before we went to war there were 300 Finns in England. Most of the 30 left are connected with the Finnish Legation staff.

Scrum By Air

it was a busy day at the Legation for M. Gripenberg, the Finnish Minis ter in London, and his Engilsh-borrs wife,

Other officers elected were Me, W. P. Caltman, first. Vice-President, Mr. A. G. Muldoon, second Vice-Pre- sident, Mr. E.-W. Torrey, Treasurer, M. J. D. Hayes, Seerolary; and Mess, R. T. Evans, D. D. Mackay, W. A. Gherrd and H. A. Lucker. Hedes as members of the Executive Committes-United Prass,