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THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Strawberries Make Queen Of BUTTERMILK Sauces On Market Offer Quick,
All Cakes
Old-Fashioned Recipe Still Prized By Cooks
Everywhere.
which has been rolled to fit low- er section. Put into a moderate
oven-350 degrees F.-and gra- dually increase heat to 400 de-
IN THIS SHERBET
Two cups buttermilk One-half cup - sugar
Easy Way For Housewife To
Vary Food
sauces on the market. As a means altered by the addition of spices. toward variety at small cost these Instead of blending a sauce from Bauces are almost indispensable.
at the cost of both time and labour,
tomato sauce available in several good brands. This sauce really is a Although buttermilk sherbet is an grees F. Bake 25 minutes. When old favourite, most peculiar is the
The clever cook knows and makes concentrated puree, containing all the substance of fresh ripe ready to serve, split section fact that the sherbet does not have apart. Spread lower section with a "our" flavour. Here is the re-use of the many excellent prepared tomatoes. The fresh flavour is not Do you remember the descrip- butter and cover with a thick lay-clpe: tion of the high-tea in the "Le-ler of berries and juice. Put on gend of Sleepy Hollow?" Such top section of biscuit and add
One cup fresh pineapple, ground While they may be used with sub-strained, canned or fresh, tomatoes stantial foods as a relish, they are: juse a commercial sauce for the sake an array of good things to cat more berries. This may be top-
But ped with slightly sweetened whip- One egg white unbeaten would bewilder us to-day..
also an important ingredient in the of its convenience and impeccable. One teaspoon vanilla. I'm sure that of the "sweet cakes ped cream and garnished with
Combine the buttermilk, sugar preparation of many types of dishes. flavour. The canned sauce may, of Prepared mustard has many more course, have seasonings added as and short cakes, ginger cakes perfect whole berries which have and honey cakes, and the whole been saved for the purpose. Serve and fresh pineapple. Place in the
tray of the mechanical refrigerator interesting possibilities than its wanted and a thinner sauce can be family of cakes," most of us with rich plain cream. would yield to the shortcake, Instead of making one large and freeze to a mush. Remove from ordinary use as an scompaniment to made by diluting it with stock or
Canned Soup. even as Ichabod Crane did more shortcake the dough can be cut in tray to a bowl add egg white and ham and frankfurters. The next water."
rounds to make individual cakes. vanilla and beat until light and time you make a white sauce for a
Canned tomato soup in commercial than 100 years ago.
pared mustard and see if it doesn't form is another product that makes Cut fruit in small pieces, cover These are split and served like fluffy. Return to the tray and con- vegetable or meat, add a little pre-
pep up the combination. Use it with a superior Bause for mixtures that with sugar and let stand in a the large one.
cheese. Include it in the seasonings are liked highly seasoned. It is warm place for 20 or 30 minutes.
for meat loaves and croquettes. And ready to reheat and use just as it This extracts some of the juice
to all scalloped dishes. Spread it comes from the car. Other con- and the fruit itself is thorough-
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
lightly on meat and fish before cook; centrated soups, too, such ly sweetened.
bag and store in ice box until ready ing. Use it sparingly of course in chicken, vegetable and meat and to serve. Arrange cress on salad most instances, but don't hesitate vegetable combinations can be used
with equal satisfaction.. plates. Sprinkle with salt and add to try it.
Shortent in Cooking
You will find many of the table: dressing.
Old-fashioned shortcake makes
a very substantial dessert and is
Eggs suitable to serve after a light meal. In fact, a good-sized wedge of strawberry shortcake served with lots of rich cream is almost a full meal in itself-and
a well balanced one, too.
The following rule will serve four persons generously.
Old-Fashioned Strawberry
Shortcake,
One quart of strawberries, 3-4 cup granulated sugar, 1 1-2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 3 ten- spoons baking powder, 1-2 tea- spoons salt, 4 tablespoons butter or other shortening and butter mixed, 1-2 cup milk or water (about).
Wash and hull' berries and cut in quarters. Sprinkle with su-
The Menu
and Mushrooms, Escalloped
Buttered Beets
Plum Jelly Watercress Salad Queen Pudding
Biscuita
Coffee
Eggs And Mushrooms, Escalloped (Serving three)
3 hard cooked eggs, sliced.
4 tablespoons butter,
4 tablespoons flour.
21⁄2 cups milk,
1/3 teaspoon salt.
1/4 teaspoon paprika.
1/4 teaspoon celery salt.
1 teaspoon chopped parsley.
1 teaspoon chopped pimiento.
1⁄2 cup browned mushrooms.
1⁄2 cup crumbs.
2 tablespone butter, melted
tinue freezing until firm.
Queen Pudding.
(A glorified bread pudding)
1 cup bread crumba.
2 egg yolks.
1/3 cup sugar.
I teaspoon vanilla.
11⁄2 cups milk.
1⁄2 cup peaches.
1⁄2 cup dates.
1/4 teaspoon lemon extract.
2 tablespoons butter, melted.
2 egg whites, beaten.
3 tablespoons confectioner's
gar.
2 tablespoons fam.
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If you are looking for shortcuts, sauces very much worth while in in cooking, you will find one in the the kitchen, too. A few drops only
Freshen Coconut In Lukewarm Milk.
If you have a partially used box
are needed to give a subtle flavour to gravies and sauces, steaks and roasts, salad dressings, vegetable juice cocktails, asples, croquette! mixtures and made dishes of all kinds.
There is another preparation
of coconut which has dried out, soak that, while it is quite mild in flavour: it for ten minutes in lukewarm and of comparatively little value as milk, then drain and it will have the a seasoning, is a decided boon to su-texture and flavour of freshly busy cooks. Pallid gravies and
Mix bread, sugar, yolks, vanilla, milk, peaches, dates, lemon extract
Cream 4 tablespoons butter and land butter. Pour into buttered
grated coconut.
REMEMBER CASSEROLES ·
weak looking second-stock soupa acquire richness of colour by the addition of a teaspoonful-more or less as needed-of this sauce which is made of a very dark caramel If you must keep meals waiting foundation. gar and let stand in a warm place add four. Add milk and cook un-making dish Set in pan of hot
The secret of the richness of while mixing and baking short-til creamy sauce forms. Add seawater and bake 50 minutes in slow frequently, form the habit of pre-
Remove from oven. Spread paring a casserole dish. Standing favour which distinguishes dishes cake. Mix and sift flour, 1 table-sonings, eggs and mushrooms. oven. spoon sugar, salt and baking Pour into buttered, shallow baking top with jam and egg whites which will not injure its flavor and in made by the professional cook often powder, Work in shortening dish. Cover with crumbs which have been beaten and mixed with some cases the food is better when lies in the use of stock rather than Bake 12 it is not served immediately. Cream milk or water. Canned consomme with pastry blender or rub in with have been mixed with melted but confectioner's sugar. tips of fingers. Cut in liquid to ter. Bake 25 minutes in moderate minutes in slow oven. Cool and chill ed dishes are easily reheated, alsa, or bouillon are excellent in place of make a soft dough. Divide oven. Serve in dish in which bak- dough in halves and roll Jightly ed. on a floured molding board to t baking pan. Place in pan which has been oiled and floured. Spread generously with softened butter and cover with remaining dough
Hygenic Butter Pats
Cold Water Must Be Used.
Water-creas Salad.
1 cup water-cress.
4
4 teaspoon salt.
INEXPENSIVE LAMB
tablespoons French dressing. PROVE GOOD]
Carefully wash cress. Place in
Salad Bowl, Old French Custom, Is Still In Use
The salad bowl should never lose As soon as butter pals have been its place on the menu. In France used they should be immersed in a the head of the family mixes the jug of cold water and left to soak salad at the table and it is indeed They may then be washed with
{considered a rite. Balt. Scrub the pats in cold water!
wash them in hot water.
Breast And Shoulder May Be Used In Tempting Dishes.
home-made, stock and; are always on hand when wanted. Bouillon cubes
CUTS and meat extracts also provide é de icious well flavoured stock when
flour and when bubbling slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Bring to the boiling point and add peas. Pour over lamb and parsnips and serve. Roast Shoulder of Lamb One shoulder of lamb, 1 quart can tomatoes, 1 pound bunch
young
If you are in the habit of using onions, 1 sweet green pepper, 1 cup only lamb chops and leg of lamb hot water, 2 bouillon cubes, 2 cups you are missing some economical elbow macaroni, 1⁄2 cup grated and delicious meals featuring such cheese, salt, paprika. inexpensive cuts as the breast and shoulder' of lamb.
Breast, of Lamb
Put meat on pack of roaster and roast in a hot oven for 20 minutes.) Then reduce heat and pour over to- Two and one-half pounds breast matoes which have been rubbed of lamb, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 small through a sieve and combined with onion, 4 medium sized parsnips, 11⁄2 onions cut in alices, pepper seeded cups cooked peas, 2 cups milk. 2 and shredded and bouillon cubes
with plenty of salt and afterwards An iced bowl which has been tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons dissolved in hot water. Season with
rubbed around the inner edges withi flour.
2 teaspoons salt and 1⁄2 teaspoon) Greasy butter pats should never a cut toe of garlic should be brought
Separate lamb into pieces for pepper and baste the lamb
fre- be washed straight away in hot to the table. Place the chopped
casserole quently with tomato sauce while water or they will be difficult to salad greens, diced celery, sliced serving and put into a
with boiling water to cover. Sea- roasting two hours. In the mean- get clean, and, additionally, will be vegetables in the bowl and pour son with salt and onion, peeled but time cook macaroni in boiling salted
a goodly supply not nearly so bygenic. Hang the over the mixture butter pats out of doors to dry. of French dressing. Toss together not cut. Cover and cook in a mod-water until tender. Drain. Place for 45 minutes. Add meat on a hot platter and pour overj lightly and serve on salad plates. erate even If you desire to do this in the real paranips which have been scraped tomato sauce. Surround with cook- French manner, you will bring to and cook 45 minutes longer. Drained macaroni sprinkled with grated Put under broiler flame the table a bottle of olive oil, a from broth and arrange in a hot cheese.
Simple Tea Service
Solves the Problem
cruet of vinegar and salt and pepper platter, putting meat in the center long enough to melt cheese. Add
The women without a maid finds in small bowls with a bone or glass and making a border of parsnipa a dash of paprika over the macaron!
the afternoon tea most practical for spoon for each of the spices, entertaining friends, successfully.
If there are to be only three or four, } IMPROVING HAM
the service may be on a tea table)
and the foods served are very thin When boiling a ham, the flavour sandwiches or thin slices of butter-is improved by the addition to the
ed toast, dainty cakes and tea-hot water of a cup of vinegar, a cup or in an iced beverage.
of brown sugar and a few cloves.
A
This Dessert Is Well Suited To End Heavy Meal|
Four tablespoons sugar.
Dash of salt.
Juice of one lemon and maras.
: Many of us have experienced that chino cherry juice to make one-half uncomfortable feeling after having cup. Dissolve the orange flavoured feasted too well. The dinner has gelatin in the boiling prune juice. been a hearty one. The hostess Add the sugar, salt and other fruit has unwisely chosen too rich a juices. Turn into one large mold or dessert to finish the meal.
individual molds and chill until
Be sure to choose a dessert that few, Unmold and "gernish with will balance the meal. For the con-whipped cream and maraschino clusion of a hearty meal try this cherries. If chilled in a large mold almple and attractive dessert. the center may be filled with orange
sections.
"Amber Dessert.
One package orange flavoured gelatin,
This dessert is excellent for the children. It 14" u means of incor
One and one-half caps bottled]porating prune juice in the child's
prune juice.
diet.
Melt butter in sauce pan, stir in for colour and serve,
A
good start to the day a "pick-me-up
of
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dissolved in boiling water.
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