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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, JUNE 10,
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS A
Tips On Table Customs And SIMPLE COLD Jellied
Usages Given
with the fork and the remainder with the fingers.
SAVOURY
Club sandwiches are eaten with a Six good-sized
оле tomatoes,
How To Use Finger-fork, being first cut through with cauliflower, brown bread,
Bowls Is Outlined In Review Of Etiquette.
a knife.
mayonnaise sauce,
butter,
Salads Make Excellent Summer Dish
Cause Of Economy Also pineapple or 1 cup crushed canned
Served By Including
Recommended Mixtures.
SUM
pineapple.
ice
parsley, alt In your own or in some one else's pepper. home it is unflattering to wipe the Cook the cauliflower till tender in
Soften gelatin in cold water. silver with a napkin before using salted water, drain, and allow to
for five minutes. Add boiling wa-| Here are a few tips on table it.
cool. Break the flower into a basin,
ter and stir until dissolved. When etiquette and customs that may Bits and small bones are convey-season to taste, and mix in some
cool add fruit juices and salt. freshen up your memory on these ed unobtrusively to the plate with good thick mayonnaise sauce and a
Jellied salads
When jelly begins to stiffen add are particularly; points:
the fingers.
teaspoonful chopped parsley.
grated carrot, and pineapple. Turn Fowl is not taken up in the fingers Feel the tomatoes and scoop out appealing during the warm in public..
the centres. Cut some alices of her days when appetities are in-into a mold and let stand on
until thoroughly chilled and firm. brown bread and butter, and shape (clined to be as fickle as the weUnmold on a bed of cress or let-
ther. salad is very often a means toward tuce and garnish with tiny balle of FINGER BOWLS: The finger napkin is left unfolded, slightly Arrange the bread in an entree economy, making good use of left-cream or cottage cheese.
Shredded Chinese cabbage com- bowl, when properly used, is brought jcrushed beside the plate. If in one's dish on a lace mat, place the tomato over fruits and vegetables. The
and in bined with tart apples and sliced on the dessert plate, a doily own home, and the napkin is to be cases on top, and fill them with the Jelly acts as an extender beneath it. When this is set before used again, It is to be folded. cauliflower and mayonnaise mix-many instances makes it possible stuffed olives is delicious in a lime one the bowl and doily are Bfted Keep gloves, purae, books, etc., off ture.
Dessert Silver, DESSERT: The silver to be used for dessert is brought in with it so there is practically no opportunity to select the wrong piece.
In
Don't take large mouthfuls. Don't talk with food in the mouth. them into rounds with a fluted cut- When the meal is finished the ter.
and the seasoned tomato pulp.
off the plate and set to the left. the table. Ask the waiter to pro- Decorate with sprigs of parsley The dessert is placed on the re-vide a chair for them. maining plate and the bowl left untouched until the conclusion of the meal When the bowl is brought in after the dessert or used after the dessert the fingers dipped into it lightly and quickly and unobtrusively napkin.
are
dried on the
BEVERAGES are not taken wholly with the spoon, but are drunk directly from the cup. The spoon is used only for tasting and stirring and stirring should al- ways be brief and noiseless. The
spoon is never left in the cup.
Other details of table etiquette: Always raise the napkin to the lips before a drink is taken; a smudged glass is unsightly.
Finger and Fork Foods. Finger foods: Bread, bonbons, candies, celery, apples, grapes, oranges, nuts, olives, radishes, arti- chokes, plums, and cherries.
Fork foods: Layer cake, frozen pudding, pies, omelets scrambled or fried eggs, fish, sliced fruits water-
melon, salad, peas, potatoes, and all
other vegetable except corn on the cob. Asparagus is best eaten with
a fork, but if it is firm may be eaten¦ ̧
Canned Soups
Are As Savory
As Home Made
arrived.
More than this, a jellied
jelly.
to use incredible small amounts
If you are using left-over veg- that might otherwise be wasted.
There
are innumerable varia-etables, add a few threads of green tions to the jellied salad. Indivi- pepper or pimento for colour as dual molds, ring molds to be filled well as flavor. A few tablespoons i with other salad materials, large of minced sweet pickles also give
Bread Crumbs Save Flour In molds to be garnished and served tone" te bland vegetables such as
Muffin Recipe
Corn Bread, Muffins Satisfy When Baked With "Crumb Flour.”
by the hostess, the salad dressing green beans. A sprinkling of pearl added to the jellied mixture,
the onions through the alad is an im-
Sift flour once, measure, add bak-jellied mixture used to fill small provement. ng powder and salt and sift again. tomatoes all these ways make it Cut in shortening. Combine egg possible to vary jellied salads in- and milk. Add to flour gradually vitingly. until soft dough is formed. 1-3 inch thick on slightly doured meat, vegetable or fruit, the four- board, dot with additional butter, dallon jelly should be pleasantly
Roll
Whether the added material be
211⁄2 teaspoons double action bak-aprinkle with sugar, clanamon, al- tart. Even the dessert salad with
ing powder
2
cups cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
5.teaspoons butter or
shortening
1 egg slightly beaten
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon sugar
2-3 cup milk (about).
other
cup blanched almonds, shredd-
ed Candied
rings
cheeries,. cut in
A PRETTY SWEET
coachineal:
Ingredients:-/2 lb. finger biz- monds and cherries.. Roll length-a whipped cream dressing must be wise and place in a circic on greased piquant rather than sweet. Lem cults; Juice of stewed
or tinned baking sheet. With scissoras cut on jelly is suitable for fruit and fruit; lemon juice to taste; jam; 1⁄2 -inch slices, almost through, a dash of vinegar will be found to capful cream; 1 white of egg: 2 Turn each slice partly on its side, be a vast improvement in meat and tablespoonsful sugar; pointing way from centre. Place a whole cheery in every other one. Bake in hot oven 25 minutes or until done.
PEAS PANCAKES
vegetable salada.
Pineapple and carrot salad is refreshing combination that healthful and economical.
fa
coffee essence; candied peel.
Mix lemon juice and frult juice, sosk the biscuits in this then ar- range three or four of them on each little Individual plate. Spread a Pineapple And Carrot Salad One and one-half tablespoons
jam on the biscuits.
Whip the cream. Whip the egg- granulated gelatin, 4 tablespoons white to a stiff froth, add sugar,
Buil about one pint or rather cold water, 1-2 cup boiling water, then mix with the cream. TIPS ON OVEN TEMPERATURE. more of green peas, when tender cup orange juice, 4 tablespoons
Divide the mixture into three,
leave the third plain.
קס
Crisp cookies should be baked in mash them through a coarse sieve lemon juice, salt and sugar, 1 cup parts. Colour one with 'cochineal, and mix with two oz, butter and grated carrot, 1 cup diced fresh another with coffee essence, and hot oven. Molasses cookies,|| which burn easily, require s
(season with salt and pepper. Set cool
cold. oven of not more than 350 degrees. this mixture aside to
Whisk two eggs and mix with one Baking powder biscuits should be put into a moderate oven and the breakfast cup full of flour. Lastly heat should not be increased until add one tablespoon of baking pow.
they are almost done.
get
Pastry re- [der. Beat all, amooth, stir this
baking to make it flaky and diges-ed frying pan or on the griddle.
a hot oven and thorough into the peas and cook in a greas-same size, put them into
Įtible.
Reduce the best of the oven
when the pastry itself is cooked and
you are ready to bake the filling.
GOOD CASSEROLE
The era of the can opener has All egg mixtures, custard, aouffles Left-over fish or roast lamb cua Canned soups became as and puddings, should be baked with re-appear in most appetizing form good and savory as any that came the oven at a low temperature. If if you fix them in casserole just as out of the home soup kettle. And, the heat rises above 850 degrees you you would chicken a la king. As in addition, they provided more will not have good luck with any a matter of fact, it is hard to tell variations. To-day cream soups, concoction containing eggs.
chowders, bouillons of meat, or
clam, or chicken, thick soups and
clear soups have got themselves
UNIQUE FOOTSTOOL
into cans and offer a tempting Do you know that you can make
unique footstools out of the single
the difference between fish or lamb
and chicken.
CUSTARD PUDDINGS
neces-
lineup on the grocer's shelves.
There are many delicious pud. Now, a last minute yearning for spring seats of an old automobile dings which have a custard base. tomato-beef bouillon floating with Cover the old seat with upholstery Bo it behooves the homemaker to crunchy toast croutons takes five and attach castors at the four cor know the basic principles minutes to make a fact-with the ners. This will give you a com-ary to make a good, clear, water help of a can opener and a good fortable footstool.
less, fine grained custard. brisk fire. Or a soup-and-salad luach or supper can now be whizzed
onto the table in the time it takes to heat the can.
Sometimes, naturally, wel'll still
be making our own soups-the quick,
ones that call for simple cream
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
(Serving Two).
Bread
Plum Jam
A Dinner Menu sauces and added foods. But for Ham Imperial Buttered Turnipa most modern meal getters, a well stocked soup shelf has become as Vegetable Salad Salad Dressing; much of a boon and a necessity as Deep Dish Rhubarb Pudding her rows of canned vegetables, fish, and the rest.
BIRDS AND GOLDFISH THRIVE
ON FLY DIET
.
Coffee
Ham Imperial,
3 tablespoons butter
3
tablespoons four
11⁄2 cups milk-
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1⁄4 teaspoon paprika
London.
1⁄4 teaspoon celery salt
Britain is buying Alles. Deau obes all nicely crushed and
horoughly dried in the sun,
1
cap leed, cooked ham
1
cup boiled rice
Not content with her own varie-
Melt butter and add flour. Mix
1⁄2 teaspoon chopped onions
tles she is importing from South well and add milk and cook untill
America.
creamy cause forms. Stir con-
They are used to feed captive (stantly. Add rest of ingredients birds and goldfish.
[and: pour· Into battered baking;
For nine months in the year dish. Bake 20 minutes in moder- hundreds of dusky men and women ate oven.
descend on the rivers and swamps
of Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico to net the insecta.
Deep Dish Rhubarb Pudding. **131⁄2 cupe flour
Here 2 teaspoons baking powder
in London a dozen importers deal with them. ̈ ́
An American vessel discharged
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons lard
1⁄2 cup milk
When soft dough forms, pat it out
and fit over rhubarb mixture.
A
Rhubarb Mixture.
3 cups diced peeled rhubarb
tablespoon four
1
2/3 cup sugar
2/8 cup water..
1 tablespoon butter
1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg.
Blend rhubarb, four and sugar. Add rest of ingredients..
POTATOES AND TOMATOES AU GRATIN
Peel some small potatoes of the a fire- proof dish which they will half- fill, cover with stock, season, add a few pieces of butter and cook them in the oven till they are half- done. Now take the dish out and All it up with smallish whole to matoes, which you have peeled and cored. Sprinkle with grated cheese and a few drops of olive oil, and season with more pepper.
Put it back into the oven so that it is browned and the finished.
potatoes
KITCHEN COMFORT.
A comfortable corner should be the homemaker can drop down for arranged in every kitchen where
a rest while keeping an eye on the cooking food, It should Include a comfortable chair; a small table or shelf and the mending basket.
DUTCH EDAM CHEESE
NEWLY ARRIVED
Pour Finest Quality, in balls
into buttered shallow pan. Cover with crust and make 4 holes In top. Bake 25 minutes in moderato oven. Serve warm or cold.
Roquefort Cheese Dressing,
1⁄2 cup Roquefort cheess
teaspoon salt-
1 teaspoon paprika
teaspoon dry mustard
1⁄4 teaspoon celery salt
teaspoon sugar
1⁄2 cup salad oll
4 tablespoons lemon juice
EYE CARE
With good looking lamps as: 11- expensive as they are to-day, you should have enough lamps in every room to allow everybody sitting
the latest shipment of these dried Mix four, baking powder and thers perfect illumination for read- flas-two tone of them1 Some salt. Cut in the lard with knife. ing or sowing. A good home motto of the specimens were four inches. Mixing with knife, slowly add milk. is “a lamp by every chair
of about 21⁄2 lbs.
per ball. ULK.$2.50
per 1 lb. H.K.$1.25
per: 16. H.K. $0.82
Extra Fine Quality, in
balls of 32 lbs.
per ball H.K per lb........... HK$140 per 1⁄4 lb. H.K.$0.40
HABADE, LTD.
Heap a little of each colour each pile of biscuits, using a forcing Įbag if available, and garnish with
shredded candled peel.
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