... f (Quick ^Xrwft 1 TN winter it is useful to know a recipe 1 for a good and quickly made, soup, s Simplest of all, if some good stock is ready, is to add this to a tinned soup instead of water, together with a few left-over vegetables such as diced s carrots, tinned beans, diced celery, s etc. When preserving tomatoes fill several s jars with tomato puree then, with one s of these, a good ...

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... Hot IVeather Appetite Tempting hot weather food is not always easy to plan. Cold dishes naturally leap to mind. But though these have a place in the summer menus, there is also a need for something light and easy to eat, but hot. Eggs can be introduced up to a point during the summer and the lighter fish dishes make tempting fare. We have also the delicious flavours of varied fruits and ...

... Round The Clock Mth Pancakes PANCAKES are one of those convenient foods which adapt themselves to any meal; to any hour of the day. They are light but nourishing; quickly prepared and provided they are served very hot, delicious to eat. What more can we ask? They can even, if necessary, be made without an egg by using one of the batter mixtures to be bought in packets. If you can spare an egg, ...

... 'Dish Of c The ^Month f TTARE is at its best this month if you should be (ft Jtr -Mucky enough to get one. You can make a delicious £y meal of it either jugged, roasted or jointed and put in a casserole. The bones make excellent soup. Its accompaniments of forcemeat balls and red currant jelly increase its delicacy, or, as in the following recipe, serve with a wine sauce. Only really young ...

... Ittfi VfS&A By Harriet Muir Oranges are versatile fruits, making tempting lunch and dinner sweets and savouries, cakes, sauces and salads. In spring, their valuable vita mins help to build up vitality and fill in many gaps when other fresh fruit and vegetables are limited CHAUDFROID CROQUETTES (with orange salads) Ingredients About I lb. of cooked duck, rabbit or game minced 3 oz. breadcrumbs ...

... COD, being considered the least delect able of fishes, was allowed for Lent and fasting; yet the monks of old who were masterly cooks would have produced more palatable fish even for Lent than the wet, insipid cod we are all familiar with. Even if cod is to be served unadorned one can steam, not boil, it, and keep the flesh firm and dry and accompany it with well- seasoned white sauce with ...

... LITTLE pastries, sweet and savoury make a very good nucleus for a party spread or buffet. They have the great virtue that they can be prepared ahead and warmed up on the day and filled and trimmed in so many ways that great variety is obtained, without great trouble. It is preferable of course to have more than one kind of pastry on these occasions and I suggest preparing three or four kinds; ...

... (cckia and mM (ah? THE tea table is always more tempting if variety can be achieved in the foods served. This is done most easily by making a number of small eatables rather than one cake. It need not mean much trouble and it is not so hard on the rations. One egg will produce about two dozen little fluffy cakes in paper cases, where a good-sized sponge reallv needs two eggs. There are also ...

... (p COME in for coffee is an established form of current hospitality. Coffee and cake at any hour of the day makes a pleasant background for conversa tion, better still if the coffee is good. There are many claims about methods of making coffee, but despite all arguments the secret lies less in the actual making of the brew than in the quality and freshness of the coffee and the quantities ...

... A cake for St. Valentine 2 oz. caster sugar 2 oz. margarine oun n,ce 2 oz. flour 7 f ound °'nds 1 teaspoon baking powder Smh/nl' J Cream sugar and fat. add the egg yolk and beat well. Add the whole egg and beat again 'stir n ground almonds, sift the flour, ground rice and baking powder together stir li/hdl ,HH I little milk to soften. Add essence last. Grease and flour a heart shaneH tfn t ...

... HMHHHMMMBHMBMBHBHBflHBBHHBBBHNHHHRBflEHEHBBflHHHHBHMSHMHflHBBHMHHHHHBHMHHBBIi Celebrity Special V Chez Cleo THERE is a superstition among hoteliers that no restaurant catering for fashionable clientele can prosper situated west of the Ritz. Mr. Alec Taylor has shattered this long-lived fable with the astonishing success of his French-style restaurant Chez Cleo which is a stone's throw from ...