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"THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Delicious Summer Salads
Careful Washing Of Greens.
SIMPLE RECIPES
You may serve only one salad &
day during the hot weather, or a
salad at lunch and a salad at din-
ner, as you feel inclined.
to
or you could substitute a sliced onion.
2
1
. I
·1
Torbay Salad.
cups flaked cooked whitefish cup diced cucumber
tablespoon lemon juice
tablespoon salad oil Mayonnaise to moisten.
Celery Salt
Lemon juice and oil should bej
KEEP SINK Various
Various Kinds Of Cake
DRAIN OPEN
Rubber Cap Fastened To Handle.
Walnut Mocha Cake.
sifted with 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Cream 1⁄2 cup butter, add teaspoon cloves; add gradually. gradually 1 cup sugar stirring cup cold water. Beat the whites constantly. Sift together 14 cups of 3 eggs until stiff, add to first flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder mixture alternately with 1 cup Every kitchen should contais a and 4 teaspoon salt. Add to first flour sifted with 3 teaspoons bak- aid for keeping the sink' from clog-mixture alternately with 1⁄2 cup ing powder. Add teaspoon ging.
strong black coffee; add 1 cup of vanilla essence, bake in small but-
in
Soft Splee Cake.
A rubber cap, stiff and firm, walnut meats broken in pleces. tered muffin tins 15 to 20 minutes. mixed together. Pour over fish. fastened to a handle, will create Mix thoroughly and fold the Spread with confectioner's frost- When making salads, remember Stand at least 30 minutes. Stir in the suction necessary to force the whites of 3 eggs beaten until stiff. ing. the following points: Wash green cucumber, seasoned with celery passage of the liquids that are im-Turn mixture into a battered shal salads carefully in cold water
salt, moistened with mayonnaise. peding the progress of the drain. low pan and bake 36 minutes in in moderate oven. Spread with which a little Condy's fluid has
Serve in scallop shells, lined with:
mocha frosting. lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with been added, to remove any dirt minced parsley. You can use seer and insects. Trim off and throw or one of the cheaper kinds of fish away ADY unsound portions. For this,
Fruit Salad Dressing.
Triangular Trays For Bridge
2 eggs, 5 oz. sugar, level table- spoon ground cardamon, 1 level teaspoon ground ginger, 6 oz. sour milk, 3 oz. melted butter, level Mock Angel Cake.
teaspoon soda, 10 oz. flour, 1 tea- Sift together 1 cup sugar, 14 spoon grated orange peel. jcups flour, 3 teaspoons baking pow- Beat the eggs and sugar until
der, and 1⁄4 teaspoon salt. Pour they are creamy.
Gradually add mixture while stirring constantly, Stir in the melted butter and the 234 cups boiling milk slowly on the four sifted with the spices. Cut and fold in beaten whites of sour milk, and lastly the soda mix- 3 egge and 4 teaspoon lemon ed in a spoonful of the milk. Turn For serving guests while seated essence; give a final beating and the mixture into a buttered tin and at the card tables, there are trian-turn into an unbuttered angel cake bake in a moderate oven. moderate gular trays, four of which fit to-in To dress saludk to eat with
Heat all the fruit juices together to make a
that lautes. Remove from tin and birds, toss greens gently in a bowl gether in the top of a double boil-covers the entire surface of the spread with boiled frosting.
Drain well, if possible, in a salad basket or a colander, от wire sieve. Wrap loosely in a kitchen cloth and shake lightly, then put into refrigerator if you have one, to. chill and crisp.
1
cup orange juice
1
tablespoon grapefruit juice
1⁄4 cup sugar
cup cream
cup pineapple juice
2
fablespoons lemon juice
2
eggs
Novel Card Party Idea For Serving Guests.
Then the guests.
square
containing a little French dress-jer. Beat eggs with sugar till table. ing. Sometimes I use lottuce, light. Then stir into hot fruit The trays may be prepared in sometimes cress, sometimes cab-juice. Cook till mixture coats the the kitchen and placed in front of bage or watercress, simply coated spoon like boiled custard. with French dressing, with birds. stand on top of double boiler in a Again. I vary the dressing by the basin of cold water and beat mix- addition of one
Cool, fold in or two chopped ture till smooth. olives, pickles or capers, a table-whipped cream. Serve very cold spoon of minced celery, onions or with any fresh or tinned fruit! pimento, or a little tomato catsup, salad., Here is the dressing I usually use
as a foundation,
Simple French Dressing
1 cup salad oil
teaspoon sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon mustard
2 tablespoons vinegar
teaspoon castor sugar
Dash paprika and celery salt Mix seasonings. Stir in oil, then vinegar. Beat till thick and smooth, Can be made in a larger quantity, bottled, and used as re-
quired. Sometimes I make enough
a
35 to 40 oven
Cocoa Sponge Cake. Cream cup butter, add 1⁄4 cup powdered cocoa, yolks of 3 eggs beaten thick and light, 1 cup sugar
Signora Cake.
· Cream cup butter, add 1 cup sugar gradually, beating constant- ly add yolks. of 2 eggs and beat thoroughly; sift together 14 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and tea-
salt. spoon
Add 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla, continue beating, then cut. and fold in the whites of 2 egga beaten stiff. Bake in 2 buttered layer cake pans 15 minutes in hot The Menu. Chicken and Mushroom Soup to butter and flour mixture. Can-oven. Remove from pans, spread 1 cake with raspberry jam, cover Salted Wafers
Olives ned chicken soup or bouillon ear
and Horseradish Sauce be used in place of chicken stock,jam with remaining cake
sprinkle top with powdered sugar, or spread with frosting as desired.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
SCALLOPED POTATOES IN TOMATO SAUCE CHEAP
Beef Roast
Rolls
Browned Potatoes Buttered Asparagus
Currant Jelly
·Horseradish Sauce.
3
tablespoons butter
3
tablespoons flour
Coffee
3
rest
serve hot.
1 quarts sliced potatoes
2
to 3 onions sliced
About 2 cups strained tomato
1
cup diced mushrooms
11⁄2 teaspoons salt
1
1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
I
2
tablespoons four
peppers
2
tablespoons butter or bacon
1⁄2 teaspoon chopped onions
•
fat
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Peel and slice the potatoes.
Put
4 teaspoon paprika.
1
cup water
Add the onion and
2
cups chicken stock
1
cup whipped cream
4
tablespoons butter
6
3
tablespoons flour cups milk
3
tablespoons sugar
1
Dot Mix mushrooms, seasonings and
Add
Mix and
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on Saturday to last me all the week. You can vary this dressing
Scalloped potatoes in tomato
sauce make an inexpensive com-Sponge Cake Dessert bination. Ingredients, include:--
as you please; by adding any of a layer of potatoes in a greased
to
Chicken and Mushroom Soup,
Serving Six.
tablespoon chopped parsley tablespoon chopped
1⁄2 cup milk
2/3 cup meat drippings
tablespoons horseradish
teaspoon salt
1⁄4 teaspoon paprika
Melt butter and add flour, Mix
green well and add milk and drippings. Cook slowly four minutes.
of ingredients.
Sponge Cake Dessert.
6 alices sponge cake
2/3 cup diced marshmallows
teaspoon vanilla
baking dish. the additions given
green a sprinkle of salt, pepper, and salads, or a little chopped chives,; parsley, or both, or a few drops of our; repeat for each yer. Add the tomatoes until they can be Worcester sauce, or a teaspoon een through the top layer. of crushed herbs. But I prefer to with butter or bacon fat, cover the water. Cover and cook slowly 20 make a simple salad dressing, and dish, and bake for 11⁄2 hours
or minutes. Melt butter and add add other ingredients as the fancy
flour. When blended add rest of Mix and chil} cream, marsh-
until done.
1⁄2 cup candied cherries
1⁄2 cup drained chopped pine.
apple
Reizes me. Unless know that This recipe with whole wheat ingredients, including mushroom mallows, sugar, vanilla, cherries guzeals don't like garlic, I always bread and butter; cabbage salad, mixture, cook three minutes. Stir and pineapple. Serve од cake. rub my salad bowl with little cut brown sugar pudding, and milk for frequently. If desired, mushroom This cream mixture is delicious if garlic before mixing the dressing the children is described as a mixture can be pressed through frozen in tray in mechanical re-
SPINACH
RAMEKINS
RECIPE
well balanced, adequate meal.
coarse strainer before it is added frigerator.
Canton Cheeries Are Delicious APPLE
Ideal For Bottling And Jams.
PEACOCK
BEER
BRAND
PILSENER
CUAL
P U
R
CRISP
6
medium size apples (4 cups).
T
1⁄4 cup water
Y
34 cup brown sugar
I
1⁄2 cup pastry flour
4
tablespoons butter,
T
A WELL BALANCED DIET.
Y
Red cherries from Canton, al- though exceedingly small, go to: wards making nice pies, tarts, jams and preserves, although, for Ripe red cherries are surprising canning purposes, it is advisable to
Ingredients:-1 lb. spinach: salt: ly tasty this season and as a mat- wait until a better quality is avall,
I onion; juice of lemon; 6 ozs.ter of fact far superior to lastable. grated cheese; a little butter; 2 year's crop in flavour even though eggs; toasted breadcrumbs.
they seem small in size. As they Put the prepared spinach into a will disappear from the market saucepan with the water that within a few days, do take ad-
teaspoon cinnamon
Pare the apples and slice very thin. Blend the sugar, flour and butter, keeping the Ingredients
elings to it, add salt, cover the vantage of their presence now for The importance of a well-balanc pan, and cook gently till the the making of cobblers, pies and ed diet, including all the vitamins, cold so that the resulting mixture
Mix in
J
spinach is quite, tender, stirring tarts.
without which good health is im-
will be crumbly. Butter CHA occasionally.
It is also an excellent idea ta possible, has often been stressed!
serole, or baking dish lay the Drain and rab through a sieve. make several pounds of them up in these notes.
A well-balanced diet is one apples in it and sprinkle them the grated onion, the into preserves and jam for nothing
with the cinnamon. Add the strained lemon juice, about two tastes quite so good for afternoon which contains foodstuffs in the thirds of the grated cheese, and tea or for breakfast as hot bis-following proportions two-thirds water, and then spread over them the crumbly mixture. Bake an cuits and cherry preserves. Com-starch and sugar, one-sixth fats, covered in a moderately hot oven Separate the yolks from the licious conserve can be made.
bined with fresh rhubarb, a de-one-sixth proteins and a portion of
for about 40 minutes. Serve with whites of the eggs.
mineral salta, which, are present inj Whip the whites stiffly and fold them light-
some of these foods. In addition, or without cream.
some melted butter.
ly into the spinach.
Turn this
mixture into greased individua}) dishes.
EGGS A LA TRIPE.
It should be engured when arrang- ing the daily menu that such ar ticles of diet contains as much) vitamin as possible.
Vitamin C is an important vita-
LEMON AND TOMATOES ·· Mix the rest of the cheese with the egg yolks, sprinkle over the Hard-boil some eggs. Now try
Whole tomatoes filled with lemon ramekins, add some toasted bread-in butter, without browning them, min which is not included în suffi-{ crumbs, and bake for about fifteen some sliced oulons, and add clent quantity in the average diet gelatine to which has been added enough flour, and then milk, to hence the blotchy and scurvy, a little vinegar, chopped raw car- make a nice thick sauce. Season shine from which, many people rota, cabbage and onion make an with salt, plenty of pepper, and a suffer. Its richest sources are attractive and appetizing salað. Hittle nutmeg, cut the eggs Into oranges, lemons, grape fruit. to. Scoop the insides from the slices, halves, or quarters, warm matoes and raw green vegetables, tomatoes and fill them with the them through in this heavenly].
mínutes.
COMBINATION URGED OF BAKING POWDERS
Did you know that there are satice, and serve quickly.
three types of baking powder-- combination, phosphate, tartrate
and that food experts have dis covered that for best resúlta: these
SPICY TOUCH,
SARDINE CIGARETTES.
Make some pastry and roll H Jout very thin. Bone and mash up
gelatine mixture just as it is be ginning to congeal. Serve on u bed of lettuce—one to a person.
FISH DISH
When serving honeydew melon, some sardines and put a little of different types should be used in put a shaker of ground ginger on this paste on the pastry, rolling it different amounts? Total con- the table and little slions of fresh so that little "cigarettes” are, form- sumption of the combination type lime. If your guests have never ed. Cayenne pepper should be Very appetizing is fish when, is nearly twice that of either the eaten melon with ginger and lime, added to the ardine The served with each individual piece phosphate or tartrate types, and is you can count on their exclamations “cigarettes are then fried golden, topped with a slice of eggplant, and almost half of the total used. of surprise and' delight,
and served as hot as possibl
a big grilled mushroomt.
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