... JOINTS IN JU We used to consider June a difficult month for butcher's meat, as most people do not enjoy large joints-- of beef, say-- on a really hot day. Yet you cannot go through the month on small things and poultry, partly because of the expense and partly because you should always aim at variety. Nowadays the problem has been removed by the supplies of that delicious New Zealand lamb, ...

... By ELIZABETH HUGHES HALLETT T The only way to arrive at an average for the housekeeping purse is to keep accounts over a definite period and, by checking up on them, you will find not only what you have spent, but also what you must spend. Certain items in a budget are more or less static, like rent, rates, heat, tele phone. So what you have to watch most closely is food bills. Remember too, ...

... The efficient kitchen is the focal point of a happy home. More kitchens would be more efficient if more housewives knew about current ideas in kitchencraft. Inevitably our knowledge of kitchencraft is wider than that which the average woman can acquire within the radius of her own home. We have special advantages and like sharing them. But since all we know on the subject would fill a book, we ...

... JULIJIU fWtTL J^a/na (t/isjJMld Better Cooking By A. H. Adair AS you travel through a country, the food changes as much as the landscape. Journeying in a leisurely manner from northern to southern France, you keep getting the impression that you have crossed another border. I travelled slowly through France recently on my way to Italy and had another chance of enjoying the changing scenes and ...

... NICE COOE 91U5NKS FOR I NICE HOT HATS Perfect drinks deserve a worthy décor. If taking them in the house or garden, arrange an impromptu bar. Any table the right size will do covered with a gay cloth chosen to blend with your glasses and jugs. Arrange these as you would a dinner table. Don't forget flowers. The glasses should be tidily set out in groups, with a special tray on which you put ...

... Alohe AMD UKt U Too many people who live alone get slack about cooking. They think any food will do. They think it is not worth making an effort to cook for themselves, less worth making an effort to cook for other people. It is easy enough to get into this state of mind which leads to the sausage-on-a-tray-each-night meal which, admirable as it is occasionally, is really rather monotonous. ...

... Vies, P astry and Sweets Some delightful additions to the hou\ewije^ s recipe book which are unusual but not unduly difficult By A. H. Adair TO give advice about pastry-making to English housewives seems little short of presumption, for surely nowhere in the world does one eat better ordinary pastry than at the average English dinner-table. But even if there is not much room for improvement, ...

... Rummer IP1-1 lVfenus: By A. H. Adair BY the time we reach the end of spring, when the early sum mer is upon us and when we are sometimes feeling restless and irrit able, we often wonder why our appetites are sluggish and why we complain so persistently about our food. The fact is that while we are leading, probably, a much more active life in the summer, our vitality is lowered through eating ...

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... New and Inexpensive K itch en Equipment LET me introduce the Wonder Shredder, an Empire product from Canada which has already made many friends over here. ■A Although singular in name, it is actually a set, compris ing a fine, a medium, and a coarse shredder, for which a thousand and one uses will be found in every kitchen. They are made of a double copper steel base, and double plated, ...