TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN - EXPERT. ' (Specially Written foi- The Dominion.) .-, MONDAY, i SEPTEMBER 30. ' Potato Soup. Savoury Cutlets. ' Saute Potatoes. L'srks. Cold. Pork iiiul Salad. I'iikctl Apples. Savoury Cutli't3. Trim the outlets mid, make some broad crumbs. Mix together- a 'little flour, salt, arid'.pepper. Beat up an egg on a plate, adding chopped parsley, thymo, and lean ham. or bacon to it. Dip the cutlets in flour, then in the egg, and then coat them with the bread crumbs, lleat 3 or + tablespooufuls of dripping or butter in a pan. Fry the cutlets in this, slowly (it takes about . seven minutes for each side of the outlet), taking care not to stick a fork into the flesh of the cutlets and let tho gravy out of them. If there is time the cutlets .Trill look nicer dished in a row on a little inashed potato.. Cutlet frills may be bought or they can bp made at home. They aro made as if making ham frills, but in miniature. .Another way is to cover the bones by putting inashed potato through an icing pipe. Gravj. or a brown sauco greatly improves this dish. Saute Potatoes. Heat 3or 4 inches'of fat in a saucepan and put into it bolcks of raw potato about half the thickness of a Brazil nut. Pry these until soft inside and brown and crisp on the outside. Drain them on paper and serve them with tho cutlets.

FOB TO-MORROW. • Artichokes, roasting beef, horseradish, cauliflower, potatoes,' dripping ,or butter for pastry, jam, 2 eggs, 1 quart of milk.

When people hear, that Empire modes are in the ascendant they at once think that thoy must have their waist under their arms and appear as their great-grandmothers used to do in' tho early .part of the nineteenth century. But fashion does not oxactly interpr-t Empire modes on these lines. They generally mean that thp fulness at tho back of a skirt is brought up between tho shoulders, or. in a Princess dross, lines of velvot aro brought under the arms to'tho centre of 'the hack, whore they aro fastened to a buckle, and fall in-a couple of ends. Neither Empiro nor Princess gowns are the very newest things, but they aro tho modes that remain, and' thoy aro always good stylo. There are figures that never look so well in their lives as when .thoy wear, an Empire gown; but that needs d good dressmaker', and the Empire style is'in dis.tinctivo one, which has survived many changes. When we brought it back no one over believed it would become popular, partly owing to.the fact that the, first oxamplesiworo discouraging. Tho thin transparent'fabrics that wj wear in summer lend themselves, to this stylo;, thore aro so many trimmings that fall in- with them, and. tho Empiro mode of to-day fits tho figuvo' well at the back and side, and it- is onlv in tho centre of tho waist ,that it is drawn up high. Certainly the half-fitting Empiro style finds favour aliko for day and ovening >vear..

Three is by no means an unusual ago for children to commonco work, In families whore home work is iakeri, a child begins to work directly, it. is ,ta. make, the least towards' the h'ousa-. hold income; In the carding' of hooks and eyes, which,is the chief home industry in Birmingham, tho method employed is to set the older children to sew the hooks on to the card. Tho very small; children of three years of ago and upwards, have then to fix the eye into the hooky'. while the elder children complete the work by sowing the eyes firmly to the card.' There is not the slightest reason to believe that work of this kind is a sort of. kindergarten. 'Oil the .contrary, it occupies! all the hours timing which tH« children are not. at -/'school,-\tearins them no time whatever for recreation. The children havo often to be beaten by the mother to make them do the work. It is usually the widow with a'-largo-family of young children who takes ir. ' >.o. work, and she cannot afford .. -.<t her . babies havo any childboo„.