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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Filet Mignon Is Dish Fit
SIMPLE
For Kings If Cooked Right CORNMEAL
Beefsteak is the one food that tablespoonful of butter into the is known the world-round, Say sauce pan, and carefully saute the English word and waiters in your alices of pineapple, with the China, Japan, Germany, France jufce drained off. Brown lightly and even Russia will know what on both sides. While this is being -you mean and bring you their idea done, of course, your steak should
of it.
he broiling.
Filet mignon is the de edition of this universal When you serve it at home, time out to make it a food a king!
RECIPES
Muffins And Corn. Cakes.
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The following dissertation cornmeal muffins, corn bread and johnny cake will revive memories for many.
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The secret of broiling steak just dish right is to have your oven piping take hot when you put the steak in. fit for Light the oven at least 15 minutes
Cornmeal pone is quite different before you want to cook your from cornmeal muffins or cornmeal One glamorous way of fixing steak.
This heat helps sear your bread. While it is true that any mignon is to serve It on
sauted steak quickly, which keeps the corn bread recipe can be baked in circles of pineapple, garnished Juices in and
makes it tender. mufin pans or a muffin rule 'with dices of sauted green pepSlow heat spoils the best steak! be baked in a sheet, corn pone. Is Have your butcher cut your filet) When all is ready, have your something distinctly different and
half Flatter piping hot, place the pine-in a class by itself.
Corn pone was made without Inches to two inches thick. If you apple circles carefully and top can't go de luxe on it, it is better each with a piece of steak. It is eggs or leavening and is the same mixture as the "asb bread" and to serve something else.
necessary to use a dash of cayenne Steak
"Pone" designates should be thick! It comes
In pepper over the steak, to add zest "hoe cake," slices, and when cut thick, one is to the combination that the steak the irregular oval shape the cakes took when they were shaped by the palm of the hand.
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mignon from one end S
enough for a serving.
Must Have Hot Oven. To prepare the setting for your steak, put one tablespoonful of butter in a sauce pan and slowly saute one large diced green pep-] per, or two small ones. Remove pepper dices, when they are saut- ed, to a brown paper and place in your warming oven, which should
be kept hot. Then put another
makes with the pineapple. Place the diced pepper around the pine- apple, as a garnish.
CARAMEL
CUSTARD
Cornmeal Muffins,
One cup cornmeal, 1⁄2 cup flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2 Įtablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt,
cup milk, 1 egg.
Delicious Snowflake Scones
Popular With Housewives
Scones made right form the foundation of a good meal. Here are recipes for two of the more] popular varieties of scones:
Up-To-Date Brown Scones
(or American biscuits)
1 Large breakfast cup of wa- ter 11⁄2 tablespoons Snowflake Milk Power.
2 Breakfast cups wheatmeal. 1 Breakfast cup plain flour. 3 Teaspoons Baking powder. 8 Tablespoons butter or lard.
MEATLESS MENU USES NUT LOAF
1⁄2 cup rice..
11⁄2 cups, boiling water.
3 tablespoons fat.
1 egg..
I small onion (optional).
1 cup bread crumbs.
1 cup chopped nut meats.
1 teaspoon chopped parsley,
teaspoon poultry seasoning.
2 Heaped desertspoons sugar, 2. Egga.
Salt to taste."
To make the milk:-Mix the water. and the milk powder ac- cording to directions given.
Sift and mix the baking pow der, wheatmeal, flour, and sugar together rub in butter (or lard). Beat eggs and milk together and make into stiff dough. Roll out and cut. Place on hot floured oven shelf and bake in quick loven.
Labour Saving In The Kitchen
Novel Kitchen Sink Device.
Whatever your ideas about the furnishing of that new home, do 1 teaspoon salt.
bear in mind that to ensure its Cook the rice in boiling water comfort the kitchen must be Mix and sift flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Add cornmeal until tender. Melt fat, add onion and mix well. Add milk gradual-chopped fine and cook until golden planned on labour-saving lines. ly, stirring to keep smooth; excooked rice, bread crumbs and heating system, and a refrigera- brown. Add egg well beaten, An efficient cooker, a good water. and melted butter. *A perfectly made caramel cus- well beaten
seasonings. Mix thoroughly, shape tor are all things the modern Lard is one of the most delicious Pour into hot oiled muffins
into a loaf and place in a baking Fa desserts in A cook's repertoire
Bake for one hour in house-wife has come to look upon; Isand in a season when eggs are
moderate (350 degrees) oven, bastas essentials. When furnishing a Serve new home one has the chance of ing frequently with stock, with brown sauce or tomato sauce. installing equipment with all the
latest improvements.
Whole Ham Economy When Planned For
Middle Slices May Be Broiled; Ends Put Together and Baked.
|cheap she surely is justified in
serving it often.
Using two cups milk, 3 eggs, cup sugar, 4 teaspoon salt, teaspoon vanilla.
until
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pans
and bake 25 to 30 minutes in dish,
moderate oven.
Spider Corn Cake. One and one-third cup cornmeal, 2 cups thick sour milk, 1 teaspoon 4 soda, 1 teaspoon salt,
2 eggs, 2 tablespoon's butter.
Mix cornmeal, soda and salt.
light milk. Add to dry ingredients, stir-
A CASSEROLE HINT
A novel type of kitchen sink was seen recently at an exhibition the pipes of which cannot get clogged.
When washing-up has to be
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Scald milk. Melt sugar in an Beat eggs until light, beating in iron frying pan brown syrup. Stir sugar constant ring to make smooth. Stir in 1 When a hot oven is required for ly while melting. Pour about half tablespoon melted butter and pour food that needs quick cooking and done a apecially made bowl with the caramel into the pudding mold, into an fron frying pan which has a casserole has to go in at the rubber plug is fitted into a rim turning mold rapidly to coat en been thoroughly greased on the same time, stand the casserole in round the top of the sink, and It is a decided economy to buy tire surfaco. Add scalded milk to bottom and sides with remaining a deep dish or tin containing beneath it is an aluminium per- a whole ham if you are sure you remaining caramel and cook and tablespoon butter. Bake on the water be that it is prevented from forated strainer, which collecta can use it all up. The choice mid-stir until melted. Remove at once middle grate of a hot oven for 25 cooking too quickly. The tin acts all the bits in the water as eit dle cute always are high when from are and add gradually to minutes.
In the same way as the lower con- passes through so that they do bought separately, but if the whole eggs, slightly beaten. Add salt and
tainer of a double pan and the not reach the sink at all. ham is purchased they are not con- vanilla and pour into prepared
JELLIED SALAD
contents of the casserole never
As the strainer stands on sidered. Butt-end, hock end and mold. Place in a pan of hot water
really reach boiling point.
small feet, the waste drains center are regarded as a whole and bake in a moderate oven. Be
Chilled Jellied salads
quite dry can be emptied as re- and priced at so much'a pound, sure that the water does not boil freshing for luncheons. A nieo
quired into the outdoor bin or There are numberless ways of during the baking. Test by insert-one can be made by using diced
behind the fire. cooking amoked ham, but the most ing the point of a silver knife in boiled beets, celery, green peppers meals can be served with the least the center of the custard. If the and pecans, Make a lemon jelly danger of the family becoming knife comes out clean the custard and just before it sets, add the tired of meat if both the ends are is done. It takes about fifty chopped ingredients. It always bolled and then worked up fnto minutes to bake a large custard, pays to use an attractive mold and Interesting dishes. The center can Individual custards will bake in to turn the salad out onto a bed be cut in slices for brolling. After thirty minutes.
lof lettuce for serving.
the middle slices are used, the ends are put together and security
tied and treated as a whole lam
Plan how the entire ham is to be used and then there will be 110 waste.
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Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
Orange Juice Ready Cooked Wheat Cereal Cream Fried Egge Graham Toast, Buttered Coffee
. Luncheon
Crackers
Soaking Is Good Hule. Although it is not absolutely necessary to soak all hams before boiling or baking, I have found it advisable to do so even though I am sure of my brand and the salt- Iness of the ham I've bought. An over-night bath In clear, fresh Cream of Corn Soup water cannot hurt any ham and
Fruit Cookies Rhubarb Sauce will restore the moisture lost through curing. If a ham has been over-aulted, soaking is im- perative to make it tender as well! Lamb Stew Mashed Potatoes as palatable.
There are two precautions to Head Lettuce Relish Dressing
raj Chocolate Pie Coffee
keep in mind when cooking' ham. Never cook a highly salted piece of meat rapidly and in the case of broiling or sauteing, do not depend on it to furnish its own fat en- tirely. Always begin to cook ham at a low temperature and increnas
heat gradually..
Start In Cold Water.
Tea
Dinner.
Bread Butter
Rhubarb Sauce
6 cups diced rhubarb
1⁄2 cup water.
11⁄2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Relish Dressing.
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon mustard.
1⁄4 teaspoons paprika
2 teaspoons sugar
4 tablespoons vinegar
1⁄2 cup salad oil
2 tablespoons horseradish
2 tablespoons catsup
2 tablespoons chili sauce
.8 tablespoons chopped stuffed
olives
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Mix and chill ingredients. Beat well and serve on lettuce or fresh vegetable salada.
VARIETY OF SANDWICHES MAKE LUNCH ATTRACTIVE
For mothers who are puzzling over the basket lunch for the school child, the following com [binations are suggested:
Mix rhubarb and water. Cover Lettuce and celery sandwiches,
and cook slowly until rhubarb is cup custard and jelly sandwiches.
Put ham on to bail in cold tender and soft. Remove lid and Hard-boiled eggs, baking powder water; bring slowly to the bolling add sugar. Boll quickly 4 min- biscuits, celery or raðlahca, - and point and simmer gently, until utes. Add lemon juice. Serve maple sugar sandwiches, tender. The time, will vary, but it warm or cold.
will take five or six hours for a twelve-pound ham. It can be boil-* ed in elder, or seasonings can be added to the water to give it ^x] piquant flavour. Bay leaves, whole cloves, papper-corns, onion and carrot are the seasonings general- ly liked.
Lamb Stew, Serving Slx. 11⁄2 pounds lamb shoulder 1/8 cup flour
6 tablespoons fat
1 cup diced carrota
1 cup cooked peas
1⁄2 cup chopped celery
cup chopped onions
2 tablespoons chopped green
pappers ***
11/2 teaspoons Balt
-1 teaspoon paprika.
3 cups(water:
If the ham is to be fised sliced cold, let it cool in the water” in which it was cooked. Then remove and trim asnocasaary, Plain bolled ham can be tundir. Innumerable made diskos, und” la Gut lamb excellent to have in the ice-box for Roll in flour and bro an emergency, where do which has been her When the whole joint is to be frying pan Add haked it should be bolled first and dients, Cover and then baked only long enough to for one hour Stir brown the outside and season it,during cooking.
Bottle of milk, thin corn bread and butter, dates, apple.
Relain or nut bread with cheeks, orange, maple sugar, baked bean and lettuce sandwiches,apple sauce and swett chocolate.
BREAD
KEEPING FISH AND MEAT
MARROWS FOR WINTER
Marrows can be kept for several months so that they provide extra changes in the winter menu it they are hung separately in bass Fish or ment that has to be kept baskets suspended from hooks in for a few days should never be put the ceiling of an airy cellar or straight on to ice as the damp will larder so that the air circulates make it flabby and rain its flavour. freely. Choose marrows that are Stand it on a plate or a dish and Arm and not over-ripe..
place this on the ice instead. ..
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