Official Water Diviner

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 19

Official Water Diviner

Miss Evelyn Penrose, an American girl, holds an unique position for a woman—that of official water diviner (states a correspondent). She is descended from a family who had the gift of water divination, and who practised it in Cornwall. She uses a twisted wire rod, which acts like the needle of a magnet when water is near. Once when Miss Penrose visited a certain well —in which the waters are strongly-mineral—she collapsed and did not recover until fortified by.many hours' sleep. It is said that the lady water diviner -.■ has proved a greater success at her task than any man who formerly held the position.

MISS UNA CARTER SAYS THAT SALMON SOUFFLE IS DELICIOUS. Make a sauce with 1 tablepsoonful butter, 1 level tablepsoon flour, and 1 a cup of milk. Stir until it thickens. Add 1 teaspoon anchovy sauce, 1 teaspoon Lea & Perrins' sauce. Let cool and add the raw yolk of 1 egg ana salt and pepper. Put about 2 ounces of tinned salmon through a sieve, season well with salt and cayenne, add it to the other ingredients; lastly stir in lightly the stiffly beaten white of an egg. Grease a fireproof dish, half 111 with the mixture, and bake ten to fifteen minutes in a quick oven. "The addition of the Lea &■ Perrins is important," says Miss Carter, Cookery Expert and Gold Medallist, "if the perfect result is to be obtained as this sauce alone possesses the unique properties of both adding to and drawing out the flavours of the various ingredients. Lea A Perrins is a blend of rare spices, and most economical in use."—Advt.