A GOOD SANDWICH FILLING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20099, 4 May 1935, Page 14

A GOOD SANDWICH FILLING

It is not generally known that green peas make a delicious sandwich filling. Boil some fresh peas with a little mint, as usual. When cooked put them through a fine wire sieve. Mix a little mayonnaise, pepper and salt to taste. Spread between thin slices of brown bread and butter. HINTS ON DYEING If you are a novice at dyeing clothes, you may like to know that light blues will take dark blue, peacock blue, tobacco or dark brown and deep green. Light blue will become lavender if dipped in pink dye, or violet with a purple dye. Dark blue turns purple by using a geranium red tint. Reds can be made into beautiful shades of plum and beetroot by using a saxe blue dye. Navy blue dye makes red maroon, purple changes red into a delightful wine shade. A blue dye turns yellow green, or a rich deep shade of yellow can be obtained by dipping it into golden or deep brown dye. Be sure to test the dye with a piece of old material before plunging in the whole garment, and always follow exactly the directions given with the dye. THE NEW HOUSES Perhaps the greatest change from the old housing to the new is the intitution of the living-room and the bed-sitting-room, together with the garage which is responsible for both, states a London writer. In England the best parlour was not only the institution of the well-to-do. There was always an extra room which was kept more or less as a shrine, according to the household to whom it belonged. The garage did away with the drawing-room in the smaller house and the living-room came into being. Another room which might easily go in a good many houses is the diningroom. This has become in many cases a dreary room, consisting of table and chairs and no more, and with the heating usually at a discount. In some cases the problem of the dining-room is solved by the dedication of a comer of the living-room to eating, and a table is fitted in with padded benches on either side, rather as were it all a railway carriage. This is economical,

but not very comfortable. Efforts are made also in the direction of convenience by putting the dining-room next to the kitchen with a hatchway between. This happens often in houses where there is no servant, and it is the housewife herself who hands the dishes through to the other side.

For some unknown reason there seems to be a prejudice against the kitchen-dining-room. While kitchens are like laboratories there is some sense in this, but a kitchen can be the pleasantest place in the house if it is properly treated. The necessary equipment is clean and economical nowadays and pleasant to look upon. The kitchen is warm —warmer than elsewhere in English houses. The dishes could be handled straight from the stove to the table with the greatest ease. Given well-chosen colouring and gaiety and kitchen, besides being clean and labour-saving, could, from its very nature, be the pleasantest room in the house, and as a diningroom would render unnecessary the chilly, small, uninviting dining-room and the kitchen that is too much like a dispensary.