... WEST COUNTRY SUPERSTITIONS A superstition still prevails in the West country that it is unlucky to eat either blackberries or mushrooms in October. In Devonshire the reason is given that the devil spits on them. Many old fears and fancies are still ...

... parts of a cupful of milk ' a cupful of blackberries. Cream the batter sad wager together, add the beaten egg sad milk, gradually add.tha Bear ani bukiag powder. Pour into a wellgreased basin, drop the blackberries late the batter, cover with a greased ...

... quantities of blackberries and a ppl es. &Tithe must be quite sound and under-ripe. Do not pisel or core them, bat cut them into pieces and put them into a preserving pee with just enough water to keep the fruit frets burning. Add the blackberries, and simmer ...

... greased bowl, ■nd boil for three hours. Serve with sweet sante. BI.A v Stew sufficient blackberries in water, and sugar to taste, to get • pint of juice—llk of blackberries and two medium-sired apples in sufficientthen strain and add to the juice los. of gelatine ...

... certainly matters what sort of foot you put forward: this year the look is taken from nature with its conkers, acorns, blackberries and cosy log fires. The result has come up with suede shoes in all the muted shades giving a smoky look, and emphasising ...

... water, in an earthenware jar in the oven. _ . PLawrwoL. Fortunately blackberries are very plentiful this year, and those who live in the country, near commons and woods where blackberries flourish, will be able to 1111 their baskets quickly and bring home ...

... S. APRICOT OR STRAW BERRY, is 3d per lb. 2s 5d per 2 lb. RASPBERRY. is 2d per lb. 2s 20 per 2 lb. BLACKCURRANT, DAMSON, BLACKBERRY, ETC., ETC, is id per lb. 2s id per 21b. CHIVER'S SPECIAL FRUIT STANDARD M ARMALADE, is Old per lb. ARRIVING SHORTLY - SOUTH ...

... Boil for ten minutes, then put into bottles. dividing the spices among the bottles ; cork well. - BLACKBERRY KETCHUP.—PIace one gallon ripe blackberries into a stone jar, Add a gallon of vinegar and allow to stand overnight. In the morning, drain off ...

... perfection. The last colour glory of the year is the splendour of the maple trees. We have a fine crimson effect in our English blackberry leaves, but they lie hidden in the wet autumn hedge.. In Japan the maples do sot hide. They seem everywhere alive in splendid ...

... still boiling into a sterilised bottle. eal and use p required. A A delicious drink can be made by crashing fully-ripe blackberries, adding sufficient sugar syrup to taste, and filling up with water. The syrup is obtained by dissolving sugar in boiling ...

... Uncle Tom’s Letter Hello Children The other evening when | was busy making blackberry and apple jam, I asked Mary to ‘phone our farmer friends, and tell them we would call at the week-end for more apples. Now there’s always somebody working in the farm-yard ...

... world's develop; ment. Similarly, if industrial humanity, leaving its cottage gardens, wayside orchards, and hedge-row blackberries, where its children, without thought, plucked and ate the season's fruit, had realised precisely what they were giving ...