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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, JULY 15,
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Have A Curried Dish For Lunch on ONIONS ARE One of these Depressingly Hot Days
HEALTHFUL IN
New And Interesting Ways To ANY SEASON Cook Everyday Vegetables Are
Given Here
Curries were originated in In-onion, fresh coconut 1 bana-Tender Green Vegetable dia and are intended to stimulate lemon, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
Good Source Of Vitamin A If Tops Are Used.
lagging appetites during depressing Cut meat in small squares. Melt
while addition to menus.
Mashed Eggplant,
salt and pepper as needed. Trans- fer to the baking disn, sprinkle with buttered crumbs, and bake till brown in a hot oven.
Eggplant on Toast.
weather. The highly seasoned, pun-butter in stew pan and, when it
Boil or bake eggplant, with their geat curry sauce with its distine-bubbles, add onion minced and
4 medium sized eggplants, 1 clove fork tive flavour does indeed tempt the curry powder. Stir with a "Eat onlons in May, and all the skins on: Drain, peel and mash. To appetite and will be found a worth and cook five minutes. Add meat year after the doctors may play each pint of pulp, add one table-garlic, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 ta- and brown quickly. Add bolling runs the old saw. And it's quite spoon of butter, a few grains sugar, blespoon anchovy paste, 1 minced one true that onions are a healthful salt, pepper and onion juice to taste. onion. Juice one lemon, I cup stew- A curry to invariably served with water to cover and simmer
Baked Eggplant. ⠀⠀
ed tomatoes, I tablespoon mixed rice and may or may not use meat hour adding water if necessary food in June as well. An a source
Wash three or four medium size herbes, Buttered toast. Peel, alice or fish in its make-up. Vegetable Add salt, lemon juice, banana cut of vitamins and of mineral salts. curries are excellent and help in inch slices and coconut infu- they rank with the best of the leafy eggplants, place in a pan contain and boil or steam or bake with their ing a little hot water and bake till skins on. Rub a saucepan with solve the luncheon or cupper prob- sion. Simmer until tender and vegetables.
New onions come under the head tender about 40 minutes or 80. a clove of garlic, put in the eggplant, Jem. The rice forma the borderi
serve with rice. and the other material in the cur
To make cocoanut infusion grate of succulent vegetables, for they Test with a fork. Peel and serve tomatoes, and seasoning, simmer 10 ry gives the piquant favour to the or scrape cocoanut and let stand are fresh. green vegetables which mashed seasoned with one tablespoon minutes and season to baste with Left-over meats can he re-in one cup boiling water for 20 have grown in the sun's rays above of butter to each pint of pulb, salt, salt and pepper. Serve on freshly heated in the curry sauce
and minutes. Strain through cheese- the soil. The "dry" onions differ pepper and a trace of sugar to made buttered toast. served in a border of rice. This cloth, squeezing cocoanut as dry as considerably in their food proper- taste or cut in pieces and serve with Auggests an attractive way to use possible.
ties although they are rich in min-melted butter, lemon juice and a little eral constituents and are a whole-parsley poured over. up left-overs.
some vegetable.
dish.
for
The following basic rule curry sauce has been modified to please Western palates. Even so, some tastes will prefer less curry, Curry Sauce
YORKSHIRE TEA CAKES
Baked:Eggplant Au Gratin.
Baked Creamed Spinach.
3 cups chopped cooked spinach, cup heavy cream, cup highly
In a buttered baking dish, put al-favored grated cheese. Fold the Keep in mind that the green
are an excellent ternate layers of mashed cooked cream, whipped stiff into the cooked tops of onions
the grated cheese. Transfer to 8 source of vitamin A and should eggplant, soft bread crumbs and chopped spinach with half a cup of a hot buttered baking dish or ramekins, be used rather than thrown away. granted-cheese. Brown in
dust with the remainder of the Eggplant with Eggs.
cheese, and bake till brown in a hot Quarter stone of flour, 1⁄2 lb. or Carefully washed, crisped, and oven and serve with chili sauce. One scant tablespoon curry pow-
Butter a baking dish. Prepareoven. der, 1
tablespoon flour, 2 table-less currants, a little sugar, 5oz. shredded, they can be combined
Cooked Green Peas. spoons butter, 2 cups tomato juice, lard, 2-oz. yeast, small handful with shredded leaf lettuce in a
plain green salad or they may be three cups mashed eggplant, add one
Wash and remove stems, but do I small onion, 1 tablespoon chut-salt, a little milk.
Rub the lard into the flour and used with other vegetables to give tablespoon butter, minced onion, ney sauce, 1 1-2 tablespoons lemon!
and
currants. an appetizing tang to the mixture, two hard cooked eggs, chopped, and not take pear from pods. Cook in
tops with cottage juice, 1 teaspoon sugar. 1-2 tea-salt Add sugar
Break up the yeast and put into a Minced onion spoon salt, 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper.
pour a little cheese is another popular combina- Melt butter and stir in curry, hole in the centre. powder and flour. Cook and stir milk and warm water over it and tion. until bubbly and slowly add toma set it to sponge. Stir in with more to juice, stirring constantly. When milk and water if necessary and smooth, add minced onion, chut knead. ney, lemon juice, sugar, salt and pepper. Simmer or 30
Cover with a clean cloth minutes. put in a warm place to rise
• Spring Onions Superior The tender green onions much easier to digest than the and strong-juiced dry ones and are an until excellent raw food for this reason,
are
If chutney sauce is not available it is about half as much again When cooked they are naturally less flavoursome than the dry ones chopped cucumber rings or mixed (about half an hour).
Roll into cakes the size of a and make a delicate and inviting sweet pickle can be used.
small teaplate about 1-in. Thick. vegetable.
New onions are unusually good Place on warm flat greased tin. Bake in a hot even for 10 minutes. served in a rich cream sauce
Tender, left-over veal, lamb, mutton, chicken, beef or fish
can
оп
be reheated in this sauce and servBrush over with a little lard or toast. Cook them with two or ed in a border of well cooked rice. butter and replace in oven for two Cheap cuts of meat can be cut in small pieces, seared quickly in hot or three minutes.
fat and simmered until tender in the sauce in the oven or on top of the stove. Walter can, of course, be used in place of tomato juise..
East Indian Curry
MACARONI REPLACES MILK. Macaroni or spaghetti stock can be used in preparing cream sauces, thus reducing the amount of milk For cach cup of milk required. 1use half as much stock..
One pound round steak or lean beef of any cut, 1 tablespoon curry powder, 2 tablespoons butter,
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cream sauce,
boiling water containing a teaspoon of salt to a quart of water, till ten- der, about half an hour. Season
Menu Suggestions with butter and pepper and serve.
For To-morrow Very tender pods of ordinary peas
may be used in this way.
TIFFIN
Savoury Spinach Pudding
Stewed Veal Lettuce Salad Spaghetti with Italian Dressing
Lecks and New Potato Soup Steamed Treacle Padding Custard Sauce DINNER
Leek and New Potato Soup French Fried Potatoes
Grilled Spring Chicken French Fried. Potatoes Baked Cacumbers Almond Souffle the Savoury Spinach Pudding
three inches of the green top re- maining above the white part in boiling salted water until tender. Then make a rich using some of the water in which the onions were cooked in
satisfactory main sauce. If topped with poached eggs! this makes a dish for luncheon or supper. Grat-crumbs: 4 b. potatoes; boiled and ed cheese added to the sauce in- mashed: 1-teacup milk; 1 egg; 1 oz. margarine salt and pepper: crease the protein content.
1 Ib. Spinach 4 lb. bread-
Escalloped Green Peas.
4 cups shell green peas, 2 cups dry bread crumbs, 1/3 cup grated milk, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup fine cheese, 1 teaspoon salt, .1/8 teaspoon pepper. Few grains sugar. Scald the milk, add the sugar, salt, pepper and butter to it. Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of fine dry bread crumbs or cracker crumbs, then one of peas. Repeat until all peas and three-fourths cup of crumbs have been used. Add milk to barely cover.
FUEL ECONOMY HINTS.
Making The Most Of The Oven.
fried bread or toast. Boil spinach, Onion and Orange Salad
slowly to prevent burning, without 20 This is a zestful dinner salad.
water, till tender, about 15 to
through å Bieve.
Fuel is costly, and control of it One cup ice water, 2 tablespoons minutes. Rub lemon juice, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 Soak breadcrumbs in milk for 4 should be exercised In every house- Add hold. The filled oven requires teaspoon salt,, 1 Bermuda onion, 2 hour. Mix with spinach.
beaten every little more fuel than the one large oranges, 4 tablespoons brok-potatoes, margarine and
yolk of egg. Whip white stiffly and partly filled. en nut meats-
stir in.. Add seasoning. Steam in greased basin for 11⁄2 hours. Serve with fried bread or toast.
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Use of the oven to its capacity Mix water, lemon juice, salt and Peel onion and cut in this
is generally advisable. When hav ing a baked dinner, such as meat slices. Put into water mixture and
Spaghetti with Italian Dressing leaf, escalloped potatoes and bak- let stand on ice for one hour. Chill
Bell half a pound of spaghetti ed squash, cook some foods to be 'oranges before peeling. Peel and
These can be cut in thin slices crosswise of fruit in the usual way. Fry 2 table- served later on.
loaf of date or nut Drain onions and arrange alter spoons of diced bacon and add one pudding, a
one bread. some fruit sauce, a baked nating slices of onion and orange quart of stewed tomatoes, on crisp lettuce leaves. Sprinkle clove of garlic chopped fine, one pudding or gingerbread.
When meat is to be broiled plan meats and serve with large onion chopped fine, tea-
spoon dry mustard, 21⁄2 teaspoons the menu so as to have other foods French dressing.
salt and a few grains of cayenne baking while the broiling is going Onion for Seasoning Onions speak for themselves. pepper. Chop a cup of cooked on. Yet let us füst add a word. What mushrooms, return to their liquor, add the tomato, sauce and cook all
QUEEN CAKES—AS IN THE would we do without them?
18TH CENTURY. Cooks who know tell us to use slowly until rich and thick. Spread the members of the onion family a large serving dish with grated Pour the
old The following recipe for an with discretion. However, there are cheese about 4 lb.-
favourite in cakes is quoted from. dishes in which the onlon plays a boiled spaghetti over it and then
Cookery Book kept by most important part. We may use the sauce and place in warm oven the MS,
with for a few minutes.
Mrs. Mary Moore in 1736. them casserole dishes
in
Baked Cucumber
Take 1 lb. of flour, dry it; 1⁄4 lb. of. grated cheese, boil or steam them.
Fare firm cucumbers, cut them in butter, ib, of sugar, 6 egge': (leave and perhaps add butter or cream sauce. Then, too, we have the halvea lengthwise, scoop out the out. 8 whites), 4 lb. of currants with (cleaned, washed, picked and dried). sweet little spring onion which we seed and Bll the cavities
by blending some Mix them thus: Work your but. mixture made like to eat raweste
Sometimes a sauce or a dressing cream cheese with a cup and a half ter to a cream, then put in 2 spoon- breadcrumbs, half a cup of fuls of rose water, then put in your calls for them. How flavourless of either would taste without them cream, a tablespoon of finely mine sugar. Beat your eggs very well and A bud of garlic rubbed on the ed parsley and salt and pepper to put them in by a spoonful at a time. salad bowl or allowed to stand in taste. This quantity will be enough Dredge in your flour by a little at the dressing gives that certain for three cucumbers. Place them a time, working it very well till it in a buttered dish and bake until be well mixed, put in your, currants something salads need.
tender. Serve with tomato or mus and mix them all well through it.......... tard sauce. One cucumber makes Put cakes in little heart-shaped
serving,
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onge fingers and pour over them them a quarter of an hour in a smart * cup of hot milk. Let stand for oven. half an hour and add a few drops of vanilla essence, the lightly be ten yolks of 8 eggs, a pinch of salt, one third of a cup of sugar" and half a cup of chopped blanched al-
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Fats are the most concentrated Three or dried grated cheese, monds. Lastly fold in the stify pint milk, two eggs, little salt and whipped egg whites and turn into body fuels. They contain more abuttered souffe diab, Set in a chergy than sweets and starchen. cayenne pepper,
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