TO-DAY’S RECIPF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 2

TO-DAY’S RECIPF

GERMAN CHUTNEY. Make it with any fruit you have, stone fruit especially, or cucumber or marrow. It is a sweet-sour, delicious accompaniment to meat, hot or cold. To lib. of plums or other fruit make a syrup of 6oz. of loaf sugar, a table spoonful of tarragon vinegar, and one of ground ginger; lot it boil, skimming it until it is clear; add the fruit, cut in pieces, and let it cook very slowly till it, is tender but whole. When it is cold put in jars.

| Cats and' White Butterflies. There have been several cases lately iof cats being poisoned, apparent!'’ from eating while butterflies, so a veterinary surgeon told a reporter of the Evening Post. This he said, was rather curious, if true, since cats, as is well knoxvn. often consume moths xvith impunity to their digestion. A diet of flies is popularly supposed to make cats and kittens thin, but does not kill them. hat there was in a white butterfly’s composition that caused deaths amongst cats be did not know, but he advised owners of cats to discourage their pets from doing their daily good turn in assisting to rid the | Dominion of the white butterfly pe<’.