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THE
CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1933,
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Potting Meats For Picnics Recipe Given For Making CREAMED
Some Simple Recipes.
mace.
Four Cakes.
HEALTH
Fried With Bacon For Those Needing Iron
LIVER FOR
Heat thoroughly and serve on hot toast, ganishing with crisp broiled bacon.
Baked Beef Liver,
Two pounds beef liver, 6 thin slices bacon, 1 medium size onion,
Mix four tablespoonfuls of flour Cheddar or Cheshire, and pound it very well with a quarter of a pound with one cup of milk till smooth. of butter, seasoning with salt and Add three well beaten eggs, one one-half It should be moistened with half teaspoon of salt, This sounds rather like ringing a little Port or sherry, closed down tablespoon of olive oil Beat hard two minutes. Have a shallow up the grocer and saying, "Can't In the little pots, and covered as for
frying pan very hot, brush with
Since liver is considered one of 2 cups canned tomatoes, 2 table- you think of anything more inter-before with the clarified butter.
If a cheese such as Stilton or olive oil, pour in enough cake mix-the best foods in the world for spoons sugar, 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper, beef or turkey-and-
sour butter-1 cating than tongue? What about Game, or Wensleydale is used, then Port must ture to cover bottom of of the pan, building up the blood, many mothers 12 stewed prunes.
moistening shake pan, then turn cake. Cook are interested in methods of cooking! Let liver stand in Pheasant, or Wild Duck, or Stras- be employed for the
hours. When ready to cook remove agent instead of sherry. This is a fill nicely browned. Double or roll it other than frying it with bacon milk'over night or for aix or eight -bourg Meats?"
makes four cakes.
Calves' liver has soared in price from buttermilk and wipe dry. Lay particularly attractive dish for an cake. Serve with jelly. This amount or smothering it with onions.
since it has gained its widespread bacon over surface and fasten with unusual picnic.
reputation, but beef liver and pig wooden toothpick.
Cut peeled onion in thin slices and liver are still cheap and quite as
the expensive calves' place in a well buttered baking dish. Put liver on bed of onions, add tomatoes, sugar, pepper and stewed prunes with one-half cup of urune juice:
Can't we take a leaf out of our grandmothers' books? How luscious the home-made potted meats of old; and how easy they were to make! Why should our latter-day laziness
deprive us of so subtle a pleasure? Menu Suggestions For To-morrower tre st
Witness the following.
Potted shrimps are Fish first. one of the most delicious dishes that can be had. (And yet George saya that he can only get them at his Club()
Pick some shrimps (this may be the reason why he can only get them' at his Club. But never mind; let us surprise him). For every pínti of large shelled shrimps, melt four ounces of butter in a stewpan. Put in the shrimps, a pounded blade of mace, and as much cayenne pepper as your palate will bear in comfort.
Delicious
Stir them all together without boiling, adding a little grated nut-
Beef Relish Sandwiches Pickler Date Nut Bread Sandwiches
Potato Salad Vanilla Ice Cream Chocolate Cookies Coffee
Beef Relish Filling for 12
Sandwiches
2/3 cup chopped cooked beef 1/3 cup chopped celery
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3
2
6
tablespoon chopped onion tablespoons chopped pickles tablespoons chopped green peppers
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
tablespoons salad dressing
Mix Ingredients. Spread on but
Add
meg if you wish, and pour them into tered slices of white bread. your little pols which are ready bits of shredded lettuce and cover
for them. When they are cold, cover with other buttered bread slices. each with a little melted butter.
Too delicious for words.
Then the various meats. First of these (still from our grandmothers recipes) tongue or beef. Cut the meat up very small (it must, of course, be cooked first); pound it well with some melted butter, and season it with salt, pepper, pounded cloves, mace and nutmeg to your laste. Press it down into pots, and cover with melted butter.
Potted Cheese
:
Veal is potted in the same way, except that salt, mace, and white pepper are used for the seasoning.
Potted cheese is a novel diversion nowadays. Take a pound of cheese,
FOR ICING CAKES.
Icing cakes is made much easier
by the use of a revolving tin plate,] which is among the newest and chenpeet cookery gadgets on the market. The cake is just placed on the plate and turned round an the icing proceeds, making it un-1 necessary to touch with the fingers ́any part already iced.
LIGHTER COLOURS—“LARGER” ROOM
Date Nut Bread
2/3 cup sugar
2
cups graham flour
2
teaspoons soda
1
teaspoon salt
1
cup chopped dates
2/3 cup nuts
cups sour milk
1 egg
2
2 tablespoons fat, melted Mix. ingredients and pour into 2 which have been lined loaf pans with waxed papers. Let rise 16 minutes. Bake one hour in slow oven. 'The bread should be hours' old before making it sandwiches..
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Potato Salad, Serving Siz
Chocolate Cookies (With sour cream)
2/3 cup fat
2 cups sugar
I
3 squares chocolate, melted
Cgga
1/3 cup sour cream
1
teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
4
cups flour
1
teaspoon soda
Mix fat and sugar.
liver.
They are not as delicately flavour- ed, to be sure, but the food value is there just the same.
Creamed liver and bacon is a bet ter diab for small children than the ordinary fried liver and served in many households,
Creamed Liver.
bacon
Three-fourths pound liver, 4 thin slices bacon, 2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour, 11⁄2 cups milk,
4 teaspoon pepper.
Add eggs Dice liver and roll in four season- salt and pepper. Broil and cream and beat well. Added with
use drippings to saute rest of ingredients, mixing lightly. bacon and Drop portions from end of spoon liver. Shake liver over a low fire into greased baking sheets. Flat until tender. ten well with back of spoom. Bake 12 minutes in moderate oven.
The cookies can be covered with white or chocolate frosting,
Meanwhile melt butter, stir in flour and slowly add milk stirring to the boiling constantly. Bring paint and pour over prepared liver.
Make Croquettes For A Change
The secret of making cro-
Fish Croquettes.
Cover baking dish and bake one and one-half hours in a moderate oven. Serve from baking dish.
Horseradish
Gives Tang
Hot Or Cold
Seasoning Adds Much To Meat Dishes However
They Are Served.
One of the seasonings which the clever cook uses to advantage la horseradish. Its bitey tang has a tonie effect quite stimulating to the appetite and making it of de- finite value in meal planning.
Roast beef with its horseradish
tion, but there are many other foods that gain much by a sug- gestion of this pungent root.
quettes is to prepare the mixture and serve in a dish on a lace sauce is a time-honoured combina.. a long time before it is required paper,dayley. for the table. First free the meat from bone, fat or gristle and mince finely.
Stir thoroughly when all in- and make six gredients are used,
mixture moist and yet dry en- {ough to retain shape when form- usually ed. Croquettes are made in the shape of a cylinder,
into
cups diced cooked potatoes
2 hard cooked eggs, ced
1⁄2 cup diced cucumbers
1⁄2 cup diced celery
a pear, or round.
.2 cups hot, mashed potato
1 tablespoon butter 1.egk
teaspoon pepper
2 cups cold boiled fish
1⁄2 hot milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
. Boiled or broiled fish, veal, pork and ham are vastly improved if served with a horseradish sauce or some variety.
The sauce may be hot or cold as preferred. And while horseradish itself has little fuel value, the
Pick fish over carefully to re-sauce to which it is added increases Mince the food worth of the meal by The first are move skin and bone.
according to its
the best, as they do not get so fine. Combine all the ingre-many calories -
Mix thoroughly and let ingredients. With a meat or fish dry as the others in the cooking. dients.
You can make croquettes with cool. When cold, form into balls. lacking in fat, horseradish and a
Roll in bread-rich sauce is suitable. When blended with crums. Fry in hot fat. Drain Jother necessary ingredients, al-on brown paper.
2 tablespoons chopped pimien- any left-over fish, game, meat, into beaten egg.
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1
teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
2/3 cup salad dressing
lor poultry.
low a tablespoon of mixture to each croquette, take each table-
Mix half the dressing with rest spoon in floured hands, and shape of ingredients.
Chicken Croquettes.
I cup cold, cooked chicken
1⁄4 cup mushroom liquor
Many vegetables and salads gain interest by the addition of bit of grated horseradish. Just as the discreet use of garlic on a crumb of bread in French dressing adds
largelan indescribable flavour, so Chill. Pour into into a croquette-cork or round,
a bowl lined with lettuce leaves handling as carefully as possible.. and top, with remaining dressing. Then roll croquettes gently in Cover and, take to picnic.
WASHING RAG RUGS
sifted breadcrumbs, remember-
tin' mushrooms or 6
oysters
1⁄4 cup cream
11⁄2 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
3 tablespoons flour
1⁄2 cup chicken stock
1 teaspoon lemon juice
ing that the least pressure will break them. When all are made, roll in one eaten egg mixed with and dip There are a few points to remem-
a tablespoon of water ber when you start to do painting
into breadcrumbs, and fry in about the house. Painting the wood-
Bag rugs will be washed easily deep, smoking hot fat until rooms fine.
Drain on paper, work the same shades as the walls makes the room look larger. Light if you put them in the washing golden brown. coloured paint is better for small machine. It is safer to dry them rooms or for those which are not in the shade than in the sun, for well lighted by windows, Formal colours that will resist water can't rooms should be painted in darker sometimes withstand light that is
too penetrating. colours.
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little horseradish is needed to give zest in numerous instances. Mild flavoured vegetables such as spin- ach and green beans become fav- our-some and savory when season- led lightly with horseradish.
Four tablespoonfuls of prepared Chop the chicken and mush horseradish added to two cups, of Melt the butter. rich cream sance makes a deli- Add the flour, mixed with sea- cious accompaniment for boiled sonings, and add slowly the stock fish.
Horseradish cream and and mushroom liquor. Cook until smooth, and add the cream. radish, butter are acceptable with Mix with meat and mushrooms. roast beef,- raast veal, broiled fish.
Fry and baked ham. Cool, shape, and crumb. Theatrical gauze embroidered in in deep fat, and drain on brown minute designs makes ideal new paper.
for informal spring curtains TOOMS,
Gauze Curtains.
It is easy to wash end, in pastel colours, has a cheering effect on sun porches, children's rooms and breakfast alcores:
FIRST AID FOR SHOES
-It you fasten a shoe bag on your wardrobe door, and keep your slip pers in it, you will discover that they retain their looks much longer than when they are strewn around a crowded shelf.
Bathing Plants.
Lamb Croquettes,
2 cup chopped, cold lamb
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 cup white sauce-
Few grains of cayenne
1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
horse-
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SPONGE PASTRY.
Two oz butter, 4oz. four, two egga, one teaspoonful baking pow
der, grated rind of 1⁄2 lemon.
Beat the gutter to a cream. Add eugar and eggs, then the flour.
Cut into small
First mix the meat with the Beat all well Pour into a dripping seasonings, then add the white tin and bake. sauce. Cool,,shape, crumb, squares while họt.
Drain on and dry in deep fet. brwon paper...
Cheese Croquettes, 1 cup fine breadcrumbs" Salt and cayennet
2 cups grated cheese
SAVING THE BATHROOM
Children sent to the bathroom to wash up for meal time offen stay to play and splash the water about. Mix ingredients well together. Sometimes this can be avoided by Molsten with an egg. Form, into sending in only one child at a time During the dry season your house small balls. Dép beaten egg and by providing each with some- thing interesting to do the moment plants need baths. For plants get and fine breadcrumbs. Fry
boiling, fat, Serve with any he is through washing. moisture through their, leaves as well as through their roots. Place green salads.: them in your tub every few days, turn your shower on gently and let them have the refreshing experi ence of a real bath..
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SYSTEM AT THE SINK.
Because raw food is prepared
Combination
Dish
chiefly at the sink the house Hard cooked eggs can be com wife should keep near the sink bined with a vegetable in cream such Implements. as brushes, sauce to make a good combination knives, colander, strainers and dish. A layer of sliced eggs and garbage can, Small stores of a layer of regetables in sauce are should be bolling and the lens perishable fruits and used alternately in a buttered, bak- poodles, vegetables may be kept in a bining dish and the whole is baked ghetti are added lunder one of the drainboards.until very
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