1H Ib. neck of mutton 2']b. potatoes 4 onions 1 pint stock or cold water pepper 1 tablespoon chopped parsley Cut the meat into small slices, peel and slice the potatoes and onions, season well with pepper and salt Put all into a pan with the stock or water and bring gently to the boil.
Remove the scum, then continue to simmer gently for 114 hours, skimming as required. Just before erying, add a few dr of Worcester sauce.
Serve on a hot dish and sprinkle with freshly-chopped parsley. If ed, the stew can be cooked in a oven for three Lancashire Hot Pot 2 Ib, neck of mutton 2 sheep's kidneys Ib. potatoes 2 Spanish onions Salt and pepper 2 oz, margarine i" pint stock Divide the meat into cutlets, trim off the skin and most of the fat.
Place the short rib bones and the lean trimmings with the onions in a stewpan, cover with cold water and boil down for gravy At the wedding of Lady Patricia Douglas and Count John de Bendern at Brompton Oratory the other day Lady Stavordale wore a Turkish fez with a very long tarse ind Mrs, Geoffrey Brocklebank had chosen the in strap style, Put a layer of sliced potato into a greased fireproof dish and arrange the cutlets on the top, slightly overlapping each other, and place a piece of kidney on each piece of meat. Season well, arrange a layer of small potatoes, cut in halves. Pour down the side of the dish % pint hot stock, seasoned with salt and much as some big landed people, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Salisbury, etc, have turned themselves into limited liability companies to lessen the weight of taxation and escape death duties, At the end of 1936, for petitors come from all over the world, including Palestine, Their technique is as carefully weighed by experts as the punch of a prize fighter or the points of a Pi ud we used to call th reasons not yet published—divorce proceedings have been started—Mrs, Cunningham-Reid left her husband. She then wished to cancel the deeds mentioned and to compel him to T; need hardly be the lady competitors get all the limelight: Fräulein Britzi; from Austria, last year's finalist and this year's favourite, with her rapier thrusts to get under return the money he had drawn under them. He wished for a legal an opponent's guard: a bevy of innocent looking but decision that the deed could not be instructed," from Americ: revoked and so brought action, and, most dazzling of all, Maroucha, There was a vast array of legal the belle of Basque land, for whom talent on each side—Sir Stafford I cannot do better than quote from Cripps for the husband, Sir Patrick the "Daily Express,"
Hastings for the wife, and several a tiny nose she has long, lesser but still brilliant lights. ies that flick on to her Altogether it is calculated that the cheek at the slight cuse, she has what's the use? She has everything. costs will run into £20,000, and if a She romps around in a pair of long private settlement had not, been grey slacks and a heavy top coat. Her hair is bundled behind her ears with reached after the third day—much to the carelessness that only a really the public's disappointment—it would lovely woman can cultivate. have cost a lot more, After that, what more can Miss The pièce de resistance was Captain Maroucha want, even if she doesn't (Cunningham-Reid's—cross-examina-win the cup? But it just shows you tion by Sir Patrick Hastings who that the Albert Hall is well worth brought every one of his formidable visiting this week, guns into action, His questions went to show that all Mrs, Cunningham-Reid's relations had done their Royal Memoirs utmost to prevent her marrying him, and that when they failed, her Prince Christopher Greece, father made her a ward of Chancery uncle of the Duchess of Kent, has so that she might not marry without just published a book of memoirs a judge's consent, Sir Patrick also Which will give much amusement, produced love letters written by Some of his recollections are quite Captain Cunningham-Reid to his wife scandalous, as when Queen Alexandra after she had left him, of which he made him dress up in the dress worn had carefully kept copies, the adroit by Queen Victoria at the opening of suggestion being that he anticipated the Great Exhibition of 1851, "an the law suit and deliberately wrote alarming creation of tartan taffetas" the letters in order to suggest to and a feathered bonnet, and so judge and jury that he was much leading him along the corridors of more anxious to get back his wife Buckingham Palace, where the ser-than to collar his share of her vants were horrified, introduced him fortune. to her sister, the Dowager Empress From this brief outline you may of Russia, as "Her Majesty Queen imagine the innuendoes made, the Victoria." The Dowager Empress mud stirred up, and through this who had been ill laughed so much murky atmosphere glittering allusthat she had a relapse. ions to a wedding and honeymoon There is much about the courtship that cost £9,000, fitted dressing-of Prince George and Princess Marina, cases at £1,200, a diamond ring for which reaMy was a courtship not a £14,000, and nearly £20,000 spent on conventional royal betrothal, and in furnishing a house in Brook Street, which they met casually, then met Altogether a toothsome case, more and more, went for long motor All things are relative of course. drives together, and both furiously The clerk on £2 a week imagines denied that there was "anything in £500 a year as luxury. The £1,500 it" Came an evening (as the old a year man cannot imagine what it movies used to say) in Princess would be like to have £15,000. Ihave, Nicholass villa in Yugoslavia, xcd Pepper. Pour a little melted mar-gonne over the top layer of potatoes, cover with a piece of greased paper, and bake in a moderate oven for 2% hours, Before sending to table, pour in the gravy and serve piping hot straight from the pot.
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