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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Recipe Solves Problem Of Proper Way
Nuptial Meal
Chicken Eugenie Makes Ideal Dish To Serve For Wedding Breakfast,
To Prepare
Vegetables
Several New Recipe
Try Putting Vegetables In Jelly
For Different Hot Weather Salads
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Whether the added material be Jellied salads are particularly
vegetable or fruit, the appealing during these warm days meat, when appetites are inclined to be foundation jelly should be ples- santly tart Even the dessert as fickle as the weather.
More than this, a jellied salad is salad with a whipped cream dress-
often
means towarding must be piquant rather than is the ingredient very Imagination with which substantial vegetable economy, making good use of left-sweet. Lemon jelly is suitable for over fruits and vegetables. The fruit and a dash of vinegar will be dishes should be mixed. BUOYANT, HUNGRY GUESTS NEED SUBSTANTIAL FOOD
No matter how well green or jelly acts as an extender and in found to be a vast improvement in Pineapple and carrot salad is a Warm the butter, in a medium starchy vegetables are cooked, they many instances makes it possible meat and vegetable salads. What to serve for a wedding!
refreshing combination that is breakfast has stumped many asize sauce pan; put the mushrooms cannot replace meat in food value to use incredibly small amounts
and Virginia ham in, cooking the any more than meat can replace that might otherwise be wasted..
There are
innumerable varia-healthful and economical and sea- good hostess.
ham well on both sides. Remove them. They are totally different-
Pineapple and Carrot Salad It should be something delicate, the ham, keep hot and after sea-feach equally valuable in its place. tions to the jellied salad, Indivi-sonal
One and one-half tablespoons yet substantial enough so your soning the breast of chicken, put Meat contains a large percentage dual moulds, ring moulds to be filled it to cook with the mushrooms of protein and fat; vegetables con- with other salad materials, large away
tain vitamins and minerals that moulds to be garnished and served granulated gelatin, 4 tablespoons wedding guests won't go
until all are tender.
By the hostese, the salad dressing cold water, 1-2 cup boiling water, hungry. Even if the bride. is too
Remove and set the mushrooma are not in meat.
But when they are combined added to the jellied mixture, the cup orange juice, 4 tablespoons excited to eat and the mother. so and chicken aside with the ham tired feels she'll never enjoy in- and add the flour to the juice re-with a reasonable of protein as jellied mixture used to fill small lemon juice, salt and sugar, 1 cup Stir milk cheese, nuts, meat or one of tomatoes all these ways make it grated carrot, 1 cup diced fresh other meal, you must remember maining in the saucepan.
pineapple. muscle vitingly. that the guests are buoyant and constantly and cook for a minute; the legumes, they become main possible to vary jellied salads in-pineapple or 1 cup crushed canned
Soften gelatin in cold add the cream and cook for about dishes, and supply the hungry, like as not..
for five minutes. Add boiling Everything is served from two minutes, stirring constantly. making material needed to balance,
a meal.
water and stir until dissolved. It would be impossible to give
When cool add fruit juices and scrambled eggs and sausage to Add the cooking wine and season
af the possible vegetable combina- chicken patties. But most women to taste.
salt. When jelly begins to stiffen Now arrange the ham in the tions; there are too many. A unusual to would like something
little thought, experiment and ex- put before the merry party. dish that rates high with exclu- will be served. Place the chicken perience will enable any housewife sive wedding breakfasts is called on top of the ham and then put to prepare delicious, nourishing top of the vegetable dishes from what she Breast of Chicken, Eugenie. This the mushroom
Pour over part of the has on hand.
A bottom of the dish from which it
chicken.
A
New Lettuce
water
Discovered add grated carrot and pineapple.
Much Better Than Present Varieties.
a. new
Turn into a mould and let stand on ice until thoroughly, chilled and Arm. Unmould on a bed of cress or. lettuce and garnish, with tiny balls of cream or cottage cheese. Shredded Chinese cabbage" com- bined with tart apples and sliced, stuffed olives in delicious in a lime
is how a good chef makes it?
1 sauce. Place the dish under the Two cups of left-over pumpkin For each portion you need
British scientists have discovered breast of a roasting chicken: broiler for a few seconds and or aquash, for example, are poten-
lettuce. If present pro nice alice of raw Virginia ham; 11serve, very, very hot on a piping tially as valuable as a quart.
con- cup of cooked peas contain just as mises are fulfilled, British large mushroom head. For every hot plate.
Garnish with parsley and serve much food value in proportion assumers will be able to obtain jelly.
If you are using left-over, veget. six servinga you need: 1 teaspoon
and coffee a point,
adequate supplies in the early part of flour; 1 cup of cream; 3 ounces with hot finger rolls
pepper or pimento for colour as of butter and 1 tablespoon of cook-Fancily molded ice cream, as wed- ding bells, slippers or flowers are
dent on imports. ing wine.
The discovery, important alike to well as flavour. A few tablespoons all you need to finish the meal.
The Cake.
11⁄2 cups very dry cottage cheese.growers and consumers, has been of minced sweet pickles also such 1/3 cup grated Parmesian or made at the Government Experimens green beans. A sprinkling of American cheese.
tal Station at Chesbunt, Herts. How Pearl onions through the salad is
an improvement. the "Cheshunt Early Giant" came 3 egg yolks, medium size. Combine the ingredients in the to be discovered is told by Dr. W. F.
over has shown that the present order given and seasor as needed Bewley, director of the station.
"In the extensive glasshouse varieties do not give a heart unless with salt and pepper. The spinach
Italian Spinach Dumplings. of the year instead of being depen-ables, and a few threads of green
MASHED POTATOES BEST WITH FOWL.
3 cups chopped steamed spinach. 1/4 cup butter.
Of course the nicest thing for the bride's table centerpiece is the wedding cake. Each place, how- Mashed potatoes offer the per-ever, should have its little indivi- of any dual favours that guests can take fect compliment to fowl
of this country," he said, there are ten hours of daylight a description. They are particularly home as momentoes.
There are diminutive bride and should be very well drained, re-areas delicious when egg is added. Put
to go at serving the liquor for soup, if any. "like the Les Valley, where 1,200 day, and twelve bours are required The in- 4 large potatoes through a ricer, groom dolls, the brides add 1⁄2 pound of butter, half a cup the gentlemen's places, the bride-Chill, make into small round balls, acres of tomato are cultivated, the for a really good heart.
roll in four, drop into boiling glasshouses are empty from Novem-vestigators at Cheshunt have tried of thick milk and the yolks of two grooms at the women's.
And there are innumerable little water or soup stock, vegetarian orber to February. This led me to for several years to raise
as look for a suitable crop seven years type of lettuce which will mature eggs. Beat constantly as gach ad-
Lettuce Was the obvious in time for a February market, and dition is made, then whip thor-candies, nut dishes, beribboned made with meat) and remove
at last the efforts have met with butter over them and choice. oughly so the potatoes will be light favours, all made in designs and soon as they come to the top. Pour age.
"Scientific investigation the world success. and fluffy. Reheat a few moments shapes especially fitting for wed-melted
sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese. just before serving.
dings, that dress up your table.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN
Potato Bridies Haricot Mutton
Baked French Beans Potato Chips Summer Pudding DINNER
Strained Chicken Okra Frappe
Jellied Salmon
Beetroot Salad
fresh okra in butter, then add to- matoes and chicken broth and let the mixture boil for an hour and a half. Strain the contents into stone jar and let ft jelly.
cold.
Creamed Tongue,
迎
Serve
SAVOURY BEEF MOULD.
Ideal For Picnics.
Use half a pound of cold cook-
ed beef with as little fat as pos-
sible, and any scraps of cold ham or bacon there may be. Cut the
1⁄2 lb. Cold tongue; 1% oz. but-meat into small dice, and put a ter; 1 oz. flour; 4 pint milk; 1layer in a mould which has been teaspoon onion juice; 1 level des- rinsed in cold water and lined with a little pounded hard-boiled chopped parsley;
Melt the egg mixed with chopped parsley. green peas; seasoning.
On the meat layer sprinkle salt butter in a saucepan, add the flour
Creamed Tongue and Green Peassertspoonful
Peaches and Banana Trifie Potato Bridles.
4 oz. Scraps cooked meat chopped and when well blended, stir in the and pepper, then add a layer of finely; salt and pepper; gill milk and bring to the ball. Boil the hard-boiled egg alices, season, and stock or gravy; 1 level teaspoonful sauce gently for a few minutes sprinkle with chopped parsley. flour. Mix the flour, seasoning and then add the onion juice and sea. Continue the layers until meat is add the meat. Reheat the mixture soning to taste. Cut the tongue used-up, not pressing them down Make a into small dices and add to the at all.
Dissolve half-ounce sheet geia- and turn it out to cool. potato paste in the following pro-sauce. Make it hot and stir in portions by kneading one level the parsley. Serve the creamed tine in half-pint thin warm stock, a little tongue in a dish surrounded with and strain this over the contents tablespoon of flour with salt into each heaped tablespoon ofja border of hot green psa. Suf- of the mould. Set aside in a cold finely mashed potato and when ficient for 4 persons.
smooth roll it out thinly. Cut the parle Into rounds the size of a
breakfast cup. Put a little of the
SPINACH PANCAKES.
meat mixture into each, damp the Prepare an ordinary batter and edges, fold over the paste and fix pour a small quantity into a fry- the edges securely together. Frying pan. Brown a thin pancake, them in deep fat.
Haricot Mutton.
place until quite set.
When re- quired, turn out and serve in dish, surrounded by salad.
A MILK HINT
It milk slightly catches on the and on to the middle of this put pan in bolling, pour it into a jug and place the júg in,'a of spinach.at' ance a dessert-spoonful
8. Mutton cutlets;: 1 plat stock or Fold over; the spinach must frat basin of cold water. Leave until gravy; 1 carrot; 1 turnip; 1 onion; be passed through a sieve and mix-it becomes quite cold and usually 3 sticks celery: 1 oz. flour; peppered with a little cream of seasoned there will be no unpleasant and salt; 2 oz. dripping. Fry the to taste. Serve very hot
cutlets to a good brown in drip-
ping. Mix the flour smoothly with the stock and boil it for 2 or 3 minutes. Then put in the cutlets and the vegetables cut ingement places. Stew gently for hour, Dish the cutlets in a circle with the vegetables round them, and strain the gravy ovER.NE
Summer Padding
8 oz. Bread without eruit cut in thin allces; 14 lb, fresh stewed fruit; 4 to 6 ot, sugar; a little water. Pour in the hot fruit, All- ing the basin quite fall. Cover the top with ons round or alices of bread. Put a weighted plate on top. Turn our carefully when cold: Can be served with custard, b Strained Chicken: Okra Frappe. Chopped onions, celery; okra; tomatoes: chicken broth. Braiss some chopped onions, celery and
flavour.
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