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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1933.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Parfait Is
Sweet Tooth
Favourite
Chilled Desserts Are Appropriate For All Extra-Special Events.
Old-fashioned
women
their instinctive feeling that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach.
Providing London's Finest Avoid Breakfast Monotony
DinnerTM
Lord Londale's Menu
To Win Bet.
London.
Filets de sole renaissance. Supreme, de Volaille alsacienne. Coeurs d'Artichauts Forestiers. Pommes Bercy.
Plan Meals With New Dishes,
NOURISHMENT IMPORTANCE.
Breakfast perhaps is the most difficult and the most important meal of the day.
ed to give energy to the brain or to the muscles that are exercised. If the breakfast dish has been hard to digest, the
stomach competes with brain or brawn for blood sup- ply and either one's work or one's health suffers.
persons,
Geant de Lauris Chantilly. La croute de Polre' Orientale. The wines were G. H. Mumm,
Morning lack of appetite makes trusted Few people are 'epicures newa-Cordon Rouge 121 and a rare bran
It's the most difficult to plan breakfast a difficult meal for many dy Bisquit, Duboche 1858.
because there seems to be less op may have several causes, daya. Few can afford to be,
While lack of appetite This is the menu of the dinner How much
more romantic, by portunity for variety. It usually weariness of the monotony of the sheer which Lord Lonsdale gave to the the way, all that sounds by being has to be prepared hurriedly and breakfast menu may be the answer Modern women may fool that Marquis of Carisbrooke and 34 in "Menu French." Who would is often eaten at top speed. In many instances. this is much too simple a formula other guests at the Royal Palace have believed that the best dinner dishes should be easy of digestion
Hotel,
Lord Lou-in London just consisted of Ca- and at the same time as nourishing Kensington. be relied upon exclusively. Į However, there is scarcely sdale had bet Lord Carisbrooke | vlare, clear or thick soup, sole, as possible. woman who hasn't realized that that he could provide the finest chicken with a brown cream sauce, The principle work of the day in, she usually can get somewhere by inner in London. This is how he artichokes, potatoes, asparagus and as a rule, done in the morning. la pear, ice-cream with chocolate | Whether this work is mental or catering to a man's sweet tooth lid it
Imanual, a súpply of blood in need.
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One particularly toothsome des. Caviare d'Astrakhan a la Russe. sauce?-Reuter.
is pineapple butterscotch
Bert.
parfait.
Pineapple Butterscotch Parfait.
One-half cup sugar, one-half cur
Bortech caucassion.
Veloute Royale.
light brown sugar, 1-2 cup water, Omlettes Are
2 tablespoons butter, 2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1-2, pint (1 cup) cream (whipped), 1 14 cups canned crushed pineapple (drained), 1 1-2 teaspoons granu lated gelatin, 1-4 cup cold water or pineapple juice (drained off the pineapple).
Boil the first four Ingredients together to 238 degrees F., or until syrup forms a soft baft ir cold water. Pour slowly over the beaten egg whites (beaten until stiff) and beat until mixture is cold. Add the vanilla, fold in the whipped cream and the pineapple.
Not Difficult
Useful Hints.
Plain Omelette.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
Tiffin
Rice Croquettes, Cheese Sauce Beefsteak Pie Straw Potatoes Saute Carrota Baked Bananas Custard Sauce Dinner
Mock Bisque Soup Shrimp Pattees
Pot Roast Pheasant Baked Tomatoes Mashed Spinach Devilled Tongue Salad Mince Pics
meg. Add 1 cup of shrimp meat. Again bring to the boiling point and add 1/3 cup of walnut meat broken in pieces. Serve in reheat- ed, pastry shells or hot toast.
Devilled Tongue Salad,
If breakfast menus were planned like the rest of the meals, several days or a week in advance, it would be much easier for the home-maker to get completely away from the hackneyed combinations. The meal should be planned so that a mini- mum of time is required in its pre-
paration but plenty of time should
be allowed for serving and eating. Eating "against time" is not an aid to digestion and may cause ser- lous trouble, particularly for child- ren..
The age, food habits and activi- ties of each person have much to do with the breakfast required Weather conditions also influence the menu.
$ cups diced cold tongue, 6 drops Tobasco, 1⁄2 tablespoon Worcester With the comlag of warm wes- sauce, 2 cup grated cheddarther, pancakes loss some of their. cheese, 1 cup diced firm tomato. 1 popularity. Heavy cereali and cup shredded lettuce. Devilled ma- hot muffins can be replaced by yonnaise, Lettuce leaves whole. lighted cereals and toast. Rice Combine the tongue with the sea- makes a satisfactory cereal for an sonings cheese and tomato, add 'ma [occasional breakfast.. Fresh fish Wash 11⁄2 cup rice, put in double yonnaise to blend. Chill, stir in are plentiful and are quickly cook
the shredded lettuce and serve ed. Smoked and salted fish always boller, add 1⁄2 cup boiling water, 4 heaped in a salad bowl lined with are available and are savory and teaspoon salt. Cook until rice has the lettuce leaves. Gerniab with appetizing. absorbed water then add 1/4 cup extra mayonnaise and quarters of milk, continue cooking until rice is fresh tomato if convenient. tender and quite dry. Add the
Rice Croquettes, Cheese Sauce
Many people think that an ome- ette is difficult to make, but if these hints are remembered, your omelettes will be a success.
Keep a special pan for them—a mall aluminium one can be bought very cheaply. Do not beat) the eggs separately, or too long. Add a dessertspoonful of water to Garnish With Whipped Cream.
each egg-milk is apt to make the Soften the gelatin in cold water omelette stick to the pan. Use or pintapple juice, dissolve over about oz. butter to each egg. boiling water and add the dis
Most households take fruit for granted on the breakfast solved gelatin to
menu Pour into a refrigerator tray of the egge in a basin, season
To make a plain omelette, break yolks of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon but
these days, so the home-maker us chill in a bowl of chipped ice for salt and pepper and beat well with parsley, s teaspoon paprika and I
with ter, teaspoon finely
chopped CUCUMBER BOATS INTERESTINGually serves it to please individual
tastes. two hours.
a folk. Heat a little butter in a tablespoon, tomato catsup. Mix
AS WELL AS TASTY.
The regular breakfast
can be Serve in a sherbet or parfatt
given interest by the introduction glassce, with a garnish of whippedying pan, and when hot pour in thoroughly and spread on a plate
Two teaspoons of lemon Juice of certain salad vegetables, Curly cream and maraschino cherries,
to cool. Shape in cork shaped cro- When it is creamy and a little quettes, roll in fine crumbs.
added to one, small can Fry
of tuns endive served with bacon, water- solid, let it form a crust on the to a golden brown in dees, hot fat, fish, blended with one-half cup of cress with cured or fresh fish, spin« bottom, shaking the pan to prevent Drain on brown paper and arrange Eround celery and two tablespoons ach with poached egg, sliced toma it from sticking. When it is cook on a hot plate. Pour over 11⁄2 cups of finely chopped pimento with toes with crisp toast and bacon For a real change in the dinnered fold the omelette over in half cheese sauce. Sprinkle all with mayonnaise to moisten will make a breakfast radishes, and carrot delicious Bliing for: cucumber straws are a few suggestions for paprika or finely hooped chilies,
Mock Bisque Soup.
boats. Cucumber boats are very serving vegetables for breakfast,
the
mixture.
CAULIFLOWER SAUCE.
eggs.
menu, try gerving cauliflower cook and serve at once.
for a simple meatless
Tasty With Cheese.
It makes a marvelous A cheese omelette is very tasty, Scald 1 cup milk with 2 slices simple to make and are most at-
and much appreciated by the menonton. Remove onion and thicken tractive as well. folk. While beating the egga, add milk with 4 tablespoons flour dilut Peel 'cucumber, scora lengthwise
ed whole and topped with a spag.
hetil sauce.
main meal
dish
BARK FOR WALLS.
A new wall "paper," which looks
as for a plain omelette.
a dessert-spoonful of grated cheese ed with sufficient cold milk to pour with a fork, cut in half and scoop for every two gegs, then continue our paste should be as smooth as out ared pod, allow one-half; cream). Cook 20 minutes stirring cucumber for each serving. Fill Small pieces of kidney added to constantly the first 10 minutes, with tuna fish mixture and allow like canvas, is made of honeysuckle the beaten egy give an omelette a afterwards occasionally. Heat to
two this celery stalks for each bark from Japan. It is used in the delicious flavour.
bolling point 2 cups of thick toma-side of the cucumber-thene re- to pulp, add 2 teaspoons sugar and present the oara for the boat. beaspoon soda. Combine with Top each boat with a generous fresh... mayonnelse. first mixture, strain into hot tureen portion of
natural buff colour, or dyed in other shades, and is best when only half a room is decorated with the bark.
SUGAR FOR FLAVOUR.
HARICOT BEANS.
Soak them for 12 hours, then over 5 tablespoons butter 1 teka-Lemon alices will serve as an að- cook them in the usual way on a poon salt 1% teaspoon pepper and
ditional garnish, they may De Flow heat. Half-way through 4 or 5 drops Tabasco sauce. Serve sprinkled with paprika. their cooking add some salt, two at once.
Shrimp Patteen.
Many housewives use a pinch of for three carrots cut in quarters, Boda to keep vegetables green in an onion stuck with cloves, and à Melt 11⁄2 tablespoons butter, adá the cooking, but super-housewives bunch, or muslin reg, of thyme, 1 tablespoons flour, stir until use a pinch of sugar instead of paraley and bayleaf, When they smooth, then pour on 4 cup cream soda which not only retains the are cooked and drained, mir them while surring constantly until the vegetables fresh colour but adds to with soma alleed onion, fried boiling point is reached, then add the favour. Keeping the Nd off golden, and serve them sprinkled teaspoon each of salt, celery while cooking is also a help, |with freshly-chopped parsley. Isalt, paprika and a pinch of nut-
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