EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE AND TESTED RECIPES. GUT THEM OUT.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 5, 26 June 1930, Page 2

EXCELLENT, SEASONABLE AND TESTED RECIPES. GUT THEM OUT.

t Using Articliokes. Scolloped Artichokes.—rScruib the art? chokes, peel them carefully; and place in cold water containing a little lemon juieo or vinegar. Put into boiling water with lemon-juice and salt, boil until tender, drain and place in fire-proof dish. Cover with good white sauce seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper; add a layer of bread crumbs. Dot over with small pieces of butter, plate under grill or iri hot oven until .pale brown.' Mock Oysters. Take us maiiy arti&hokes as "Will fill a dish, boil in' milk and water till lender, drain and mash them. Then take two or three sardines wiped free of oil, pulverise them and mix with the artichokes in a dish. .Sprinkle bread cruniibs on top wibh a few dots of .butter and brown in oven. " Artichoke Soup. Take four artichokes, 1 turnip, 1 onion and slice all small; boil together in one pint stock, then rub through sieve. Return the. mixture to saucepan, boil up and thicken with a little flour, adding pepper and salt to taste-. Just before serving stir in one gill of cream or milk and servo wit& sippets of toast. A Billy for Steaming Puddings. An ordinary billy is a splendid thing ! for steaming a pudding in. No lid , is requred; grease a piece of note-paper, cut a slit in each side of it and" place it ovct the top of the biWy—the handle entering the slits will prevent the paper from slipping off. When tie pudding is cooked, the billy may.easily be lifted out of the sausepan by the handle. '. THE QUEEN'S BLUE: 'Queen's Blue" bhat particularly charming, shade of palest turquoise which the Queen introduces into all her ensembles, is again becomnig widely popular, It is included in the shade charts; of West End of London skops and is in great demand for evening wear. Some stops call it "Moonlight blue," others ."Madonna," and ''Summer sky," but whatever its name it is undoubtedly the" sha-de which the Que.cn Si as aiways favoured. " - It is .«.n easy colour to wear, flattering to mature women anil softly, becom-

ing to the debutante. At a dinner party tho other night threfe womea of widely different ages and colouring ■wore gowns in this blue. The. effect in each case '-was most pleasing. f •*■ *