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Well-Kept Saucepans

WELL-KEPT aucepans are

the

mark of a good housewife. The first lesson In the art of well- kept saucepans is the choosing. Fow realise that short, broad saucepans are more economical than the tall, narrow kind. The reason for this in that the former trop more heal than the latter, and thus use less gas..

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With ali suurepons, see that the lid fits well, though not so tightly that it is a struggle to take it off. Pay careful attention to the handles. which should be round and grooved, for round handles that are grooved slip too easily when gripped, Assure yourself that the sauce-

balances well;

light some pun aluminium saucepans tip over, the steel handle being heavier tum the pan itself. If the saucepan is very Jarge, there should be a sull handlo opposite to the main one to assist in lifting when the pan is full,

Aluminium saucepang ure easy to choose, for they must be made of a metal of standard purity. They should be fairly heavy and stoully bulli Enamelled Baticepans havo. thick, smooth layer of enamel,

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without bilsters or cracks, tund the surface must be bright and glossy, Cust-iron saucepuns should be tested like the wheels of a train, to seu that there is a good "ring."

Once you have bought the uucepan nee that it is kept properly. A stout wooden shelf should lie made where the saucepans can be kept out of the way and free from knocks when not

in use. Remember, also, to make provision for the saucepan lids, Cleaning Methods

the

All housewives realise that greatest enemy of a snicepan is an encrustation of soot, and regularly clenn tlicir saucepans. Another shortening of the saucepan's life, is burning. This is very easy

to do, housewives consider that if they Al the saucepan with soda and water and allow it to boil, the burn will be removed. This is not AJ- though the burn will apparently come off, the next time the saucepan is used its contents will burn again.

The only

way to deal with this situation is to Bli the burnt saucepan with fairly strong salt and water and leave it standing all night. Then bring the contents slowly to the boit and you will find the burnt particles

can be rubbed away.

Make a rule of always washing the saucepan while it is still warm. This cleaning. halves the difficulties of

best cleaned by All saucepans are rubbing; them with a very ine grade of steel wool.

Soda should not be used to clean aluminium saucepans unless they are rinsed immediately.

Margaret Foster.

Chocolate And Coconut Cakes

Tuesday,

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To make certain that her feet will be ready for parties, this a refreshing rub with chilled bath young lady gives them

Legs as well as feet and "friction" after their warm soapy bath. ankles come in for their share of the treatment.

FOOT BATHS AND

CREAM MASSAGE

By JACQUELINE HUNT

YOU may have danced through

the festive season, but do those tous of yours always feel like dancing now? Winter is Shoey the time for real foot ills unless the feet receive extra care. are heavier unless perfectly fitted tend to cause corns and callouses. Feet got less air and perspiration softens the tissues, leaving them more susceptible to blisters and infection.

Remember this when you walk over harri payements, stand for hours behind a counter shifting your weight wearily from one foot to another, or urry upstairs and down on your numerous errands. There is so much you can do to have more comfortable feet. Two or three times a week, or any the when your feet are tired and burning, give them this treat- ment:

Fish Dishes

THIS why of cooking mankes fish go THIS

twice as formand is very

de- Helous to eat. Have an Alleted tail end of cod or 2-3 small haddocks

(Alleted).

Make a stuffing from four table- Soak in tepid salt water for five spoons breadcrumbs, one tablespoon The heat draws chopped suet, one teaspoon chopped

minutes or mure.

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solid shope

out the athes and weariness while the parsley, suit, pepper, and a pinch of THESE cukes have the advantage of salt solution has a hardening effect cayenne. Bind togeher with a little

looking and tasting quite rich anden skin and tissues. Now in fresh milk, and form Into expensive, whereas actually they are water, scrub the feet vigorously with with the hand, economical-and-ration-sparing.-- Sitta- brush - and -roapruds, Any good.--Pinsee-this-Inside-cod-or-divide together half a pound of flour, two brush with not-too-stiff bristies will amongst the fillets of haddock-roll level tablespoonfuls of cocon, and ado. Get between the toes and scrub them up, and place on greased dish. teaspoonful of baking powder, Addgently over any calloused areas. Bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes, two tablespoonfuls of dessicated coco-

In a mixing bowl cream four ounces of margarine with the sune

Hot and Cold Water

or place fish on a greased plate, cover with greased paper, put on pan lid, The next step is the surprise, and cook on top of boiling water, quantity

of soft brown sugar and Run water as hot as you can thenIt will take three-quarters of an hour cold alternately over your feet. This to an hour to cook thus. Serve with work in the dry ingredients with al

a good parsley sauce. benten egg and a little milk or water forces out sluggish blood and brings

as required. Turn into greased patty in a fresh supply, relieving the con- Yorkshire Herring Pic

tins or paper easen, and bake in u hot oven for ten minutes.

If preferred, a large cake can be

which

made with the mixture, in case it should be baked in a moderate oven for an hour and a half.

bulion down itloTM- front shiriwaist dress, in, blog, ground percale with red and whillo attive and print has dashing pocket flaps, collar and cuffs of white pique.

gestion that causes swelling and

aching. Finish with cold water, or

This is easy to make and very

fresh herrings dry your feet off and to be extra tasty. Take three kind to them, end with spraying or (leted.) Lay them to sonk In rubs of ents de Cologne. The latter little sifted water whilst you peel is indly astringent, soothing and re-

two sour apples and four potatoes, freshing.

Cut the apples and potatoes into thin Drying the feet is something else slices. Grease a ple-dish, and put in that should be done with even more layer of potatoes, then place halt Always dry thoroughly be-the herring on top. Season with salt tween the toes, and use the rough and pepper. surface

your Turkish towel to rub

rare.

dend cuttele from the nail surface, p

Cover with a layer of apples. Fill

uway softened collouses and remove again with another layer of Now you can dance half the night or potatoes, herring, and apple. Then be off to bed, thoroughly refreshed. cover top with a thin layer of potato. Before stipping on your hose in the Bake in a moderate oven (Reg. S) for morning dual deodorant powder be-three-quarters of an hour. tween your toes.

At least once a week, perhaps at

the time when you give yourself

Block Soule

This makes a good lunch, high lea, your regular pedicure, treat your feet or supper dish. Grease a fireproof to a thorough massage with a rich dish, and fill in a good layer of naked

lubricating cream, Special foot Annan haddock (or other fish.) creams are soothing and refreshing. Sprinkle generously

but

with

steved

any good cream will do. Begin cheddar cheese, then pour over a with the toes, mussaging each one soume mixture made as followst separately and working from the tips Cook one and a half ounce each of up over the ankle. Use both hands, flour and margarine in a pan with- the thumba on top, the fingers curled around the sides and under the foot out browning, stir in half pint milk Give special attention to the sole of or fish stock, and stir til boiling.

the foot. Stroke the feet gently up- Take off the fire, beat in two edg ward, ending this part of the treat-yolks, one at a time, quickly, and ment with a rotary massage move season with pepper and salt. ment in the hollows on either side of

Beat up the egg whites stiffly and the heel.

fold in lightly. Pour the mixture Remember your feet do not end over the fish, and bake in rather a with your ankles. Continue the mus-hot oven for about 20 minutes (Re- auge over the enlf of the leg, twisting gulo Mark 7.)-Garnish with pars and kneading the big muncle and ley.

stroking. firmly upward with both

hands cnelveling the leg. A favourite

| trick of Qinger Rogers is to finish ber foot and leg massage with an ice rub, She covers the piece of ice with a square of gauzo and massages thoroughly until the skin tingles. She spys this is firming and slimming to her famous dancing legs. It's n refreshing trick for any girl to try.

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March 5, 1940.

Oatmeal On The Menu

LIVE porridge a trial, either. for breakfast or supper, and soon, it will become one of the household's favourite dishes, Here is a good recipe:

Tako 1 pint water and 2 oza, coarse. or medium oatmeal, according to taste, good pinch salt,

Draw the water fresh, pour into pan, and bring quieldy to the boll. When bolling, sprinkle in the mea- aured meal with the left hand, and keep stirring all the time with the right. When it begins to thicken, draw the pan to the side of the fire

add

and

Simmer slowly, 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally, or make it in i double saucepan, keeping the water In the under port volling all the time. Cooked in this way, it requires Bittle or no attention, and there is

no fear of burning. The thickness of the porridge is very much a matter

of taste. More or less oatmeal can be used if desired--though the above

1⁄4 lb medium oatmeal, V1 lb flour,

14 teaspoon salt,

teaspoon sugar,

teaspoon baking powder, ozs, margarine or lard, cold water.

Mix dry ingredients, rub in fat, and add enough water to make a stift dough, Knead lightly, and roll out to 4-inch in thickness,

Cut in shapes, pince on greased tin, and bake in a moderate oven 20 minutes. When cold, pack in air- tight tio.

Ways With Tongue

BOILED tongue is an ideal

proportions are the general favourite. A "stand-by" to have in the larder.

Serve with milk, or sugar, syrup, or It can be eaten hot or cold, and the "Acraps" will make delicious sand- wiches,

Note: For an invalid, It is perhaps better to soak the oatment overnight, as it makes it more digestible; but this alters the taste a little, so is not always so popular with people with healthy appetites.

Oatmeal Gruci

This is the season for colds, and a good, pleasant cure is a bowl of hot gruet, supped after you are safely fucked up in bed.

To make it, put 1 tablespoon bat- meal (fine) into a basin, and took in pint cold water 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then strain off the liquid into a small lined saucepan, and press the oatmeal as dry, as possible.

Stir til boiling. Boll 5-7 minutes Sweeton, and add a good pat of marTM garine. Serve in hot bowl at once,

Thick Oatcakes

One day, when you have some leisure, make a big in boxful of these oatcakes. They are delicious,

Take:- and easy to make.

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Ox Tongue

Tongues are sold elther plekled or fresh. Choose a plump looking one with a smooth skin. Wash thorough- ly, and soak 1-2 hours. If pickled, soak 3-4 hours. Put into a deep pan of tepid water, bring slowly to the boil and skin. Then add a few blocks carrot, turnip, onion, and a bunch of her

herbs.

Cook gently for about 4 hours, or according to, weight, allowing 30 minutes to each 1b. and 30 minutes

vi over, Remove from pan, place in cold water for a second. Skin, be- ginning under the tip. If the tongue is to be used hot, reheat in the liquor for a few minutes. It can be served with tomato or brown sauce, ehestnut puree, or vegetable,

To Serve Cold

To serve cold set on a board, stick a fork or two skewers into board in front of Up, and a skewer into root; this is to get it into an arched shape, When quite cold, trim the root end, take out skewers, and brush over with a little glaze. Fix a frill round the root end.

Some of us and a tongue easier to carve if served in a round. To do this, after skinning tongue, place it in a round tin, rinsed in cold water. It should it in tightly. Add a little gelatine to a little of the liquid in which the tongue has been boiled. Pour over the tongue. Place a plate on top of tin, with weights or a flot iron, to keep plate down. Set aside Ull cold and set. Turn on to

round ashet, and decorate with parsley and tomatoes.

Isobel.

How To Avoid Headaches

Chronic COUGHS Soon CURED

THAT Irritating cough makes

your throat sore and painful. It inflames the delicate afr tubos and often resulta in sarivus con50- quences. Therefore, be sure to take Pops antiseptic, breatheable tablets at the first sign of trouble. Dissolved in your mouth, a Pops relenacs rich, medicinál efsences, which mix with your breath and are carried deep into your lungs, Peps thus give your throat and air pussages an antiseptic, germ-

killing bath. They reilove ull · Topresores the concentrated essances which Peps contain, very tables is wrapped fa sliver paper, soreness and chest tight They are packed in sealed glass bottles, along Įnoss and stop the worst with tall direquices pilotad in Leading languages.

cough or cold,

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