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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 17

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

A new cookery boqk—“ Cooking. Health, and Helpful Hints for Homemakers ” issued by the Invercargill branch of the Women’s Division. New Zealand Farmers’ Union, is to hand and can be highly recommended on account of its practical helpfulness and the clearness with which its facts are presented. Every recipe and hint in the book, is signed by the woman who baa tried it out and found it good, with the result that satisfaction is guaranteed for others who use the same hint or recipe. Besides recipes dealing with soun, fish and game, meats, vegetables, cheese dishes, eggs, puddings, cakes, sponges, pastry, loaves, icings, salad dressing, summer drinks, preserves, invalid dishes, and home and pickling mixtures, etc., there are descrintions of how to cut meat, hints on how to prepare and cook each food given, articles on “ Waste Not, Want Not.” “How to Cater for the Threshing'Mill,” and pages of hints on health, poisons and their treatment, ointments and liniments, soaps and laundry hints, various cleaners and polishes. The book is also supplemented with an index in alphabetical order which adds the last mark to its efficiency.