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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
These Dishes Will Keep Palatable SPINACH THE DOCTOR Hot Sandwiches Offer
No Matter How Late Dinner RECOMMENDS IT
May Be Casserole of freak salmon and
potatoes makes a good two-in-one
Casserole Of Salmon.
Many home-makers are confront-main dish.
Available All The Year Round.
ed with the problem of keeping Two pounds fresh salmon, 1 ELABORATE EUROPEAN RECIPES
meals hot and palatable for the members of the family who like to lemon, 1 teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon
Suggestion For Appetizing Luncheon Dishes
A modern development in hot four rounds. Fut two fish rolle og make every minute of daylight count, pepper. 2 cups diced celery, 2 cups Few vegetables qwe more to the for gardening or sports. The din-potato marbles, 1 tablespoon butter, mysteries of the cook's craft than sandwiches uses hot rolls or biscuits each round of dough and bake in a cuits are done. When the bacon boiling water.
these "sandwiches" with the result cook the other side. When
a hot tomato sauce
the
ner hour becomes quite indefinite tablespoon minced parsley, 1 cup spinach. Its rich dark-green hue as well as toast for the foundation. moderately hot oven until the bis attracts the ere, its flavour is pleas-j A sauce also often accompanies crisps on one alde turn in order to and foods which need not be served
Choose a middle cut of salmoning and distinctive, and the medi immediately after cooking must be
and remove the skin. Squeeze lemon cal world recommends it. chosen.
Season with salt In England it long Bourished in that a most appetizing main dish biscuits are done serve at once with You will find that casserole juice over fish.
and pepper and put in a buttered its plain boiled form, but most for the noon meal is served. cooked foods and oven dishes of
Try dah rolls for breakfast or various sorts as well as chilled and casserole. Surround with celery European countries had their own molded foods are especially adapt and potatoes. Dot vegetables with ways, more or less elaborate, of luncheon. They are inexpensive and able for meals that must wait. Hot bits of butter and sprinkle potatoes serving it in conjunction with other quite unusual. soups can be kept in good condition, with parsky. Add water and cover foods. in the double-boiler, while a cold casserole. Bake for one hour in a jellied soup can be kept perfectly moderate oven or until potatoes are age and without inconvenience in the fee tender and the fish leaves the bones. Set casserole in a pan of hot water box. Molded salads and desserts,
until wanted to In fact any dishes prepared in the in a slow oven refrigerator, are easy to serve at a minute's notice and keep almost in- definitely.
Some Relála Flavour Well,
and cooked in various ways without danger of losing their
flavour
serve.
HONEY THAT IS
Fish Rolls.
Tomato and Pineapple Sauce. These sandwiches are distinctly novel and very good. You will need two good sized frying pans to make One cup flaked salt codfish, 2 cups them. The Italians, for instance, encour
the addition of Bechamel diced potatoes, 1 egg, teaspoon Eight slices of bread cut one-half sauce, grated cheese and oil or but-pepper, 8 thin slices bacon, 1 cup inch thick, 2 eggs, 1⁄2 cup milk, 4 ter. The French cooks finish flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, thick slices tomato, & alices pine spinach with cream, Germans with 2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons apple, 1 teaspoon pearl onions.
Beat eggs slightir with milk and meat stock, gravy and fried onions, shortening, milk or water.
Soak fish for one hour before season lightly with salt and pepper. while eggs in some form are used
{fiaking. Cook potatoes and fish Dip bread into this mixture and almost universally.
Soups, croquettes, savoury pan-until very tender, drain and mash saute in butter in a hot frying pan.
well beaten and Peel tomatoes and cut in slices Certain vegetables can be baked GRANULATED MAY BE cakes, timbales, even tartlettes, are well. Add egg
Sprinkle with salt, dip (included in the range of spinach pepper. Make into small rolls about inch thick. RESTORED EASILY cookery, and to-day when the veget-three inches long and wrap each roll in four or fine cracker crumbs and able is cheap and supplies so easily in a alice of bacon. Be sure the saute in hot fat. Dip pineapple on long standing. Scalloped Irish potatoes, sugared or twice baked Do not throw away honey which available practically all the year bacon le sliced very thin. Mix and slices in flour and saute also. To sweet potatoes, baked spinach, but has become granulated or "sugary," round, our cooks are making more sift flour, salt and baking powder make the sandwiches put a slice of of this and rub in shortening. Cut in milk pineapple on a slice of prepared tered beets and carrots are some thinking that it has become useless. and more and vegetable dishes that do not suffer Any grade of honey. will granulate Popular product of the kitches or water to make a soft dough and bread, cover with another slice of turn onto a floured molding board. prepared bread and on this put a if kept hot.
Band- if it is kept long enough or is left garden.
Top each Take 1 lb. of spinach and
two Knead lightly for about ten seconds. slice of tomato. In order to preserve all the uncovered, even for a short length
Pat and roll into a sheet three wich with four or five pearl onions moisture and heat without over of time. The granulation in no way hard-boiled eggs...
Cook the liver in boiling water fourths of an inch thick and cut into and serve at once. cooking and drying, bake all cas jeffects the flavour and the honey serole combinations in a slow oven can so easily be liquefied by placing for 10 minutes and put through a and then keep them hot in a larger it in a pin of hot water (160 de- meatgrinder. Cook spinach for 10 pan of hot water. Part of the dish grecs). The honey should stand in minutes in only the amount may be served whenever wanted the
water until it has entirely water which clings to leaves after and the remainder returned to the liquefied.
washing. Chop finely. Season the hot water bath without harm.. The lighter coloured. honey is liver to taste and place in a slightly usually delicate in flavour, while buttered casserole with the hard- the darker grades have a spicy and boiled eggs, chopped. Cover with often havy flavour. The lighter spinach slightly salted, and dot honey such AK orange blossom, with butter or strips of bacon, a If you can't find a preserve with clover or age are generally better preferred. Bake for 10 or 15 min. & flavour sharp enough to suit jad-for home use, but the darker honey utes. This may be made of calf's ed apeptites there is a combina-adds great zest to gingerbread, fruit liver, but ox or lamb liver is less
NEW PRESERVE HINT
tion of green tomatoes and limes cakes or fruit' or nut cookies.
that offers possibilities. You will
six limes,
need
cups toes and
Are
per,
with
and six
of sugar. The toma- the limes two · of groupd in a meat then
placed
chop
Special Noodle Dish Delicious.
better use
of
expensive, and tastes as good in this dish.
Spinach Savouries.
This makes an excellent dinner savoury, and is easily prepared.f
Rub cooked spinach through a sieve
to taste. Line some
One good dish is a combination and season the of noodles and butter and shredd-small pate cases
in 岿 kettle the juice . from
with puff pastry
other four times and the sugar. ed chipped beef that has been heat-and at the bottom of each put a The bolling process requires about ed in butter. A mushroom sauce layer of cream cheese. Put a large 10-minutes. Pour the mixture in be poured over this combination. tablespoonful of spinach puree on glass jars and seal.
It is very good.
teach.
For decoration place a small ring of puff pastry on each savoury and fill the centre with finely chopped
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow hard-boiled egg. Cook in a moder
Baked Ham
The Menu
Spiced Raisin Sauco Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Asparagus
Bread Butter
Vegetable Salad Strawberry Charlotte
Yellow Cake Caramel Frosting
Coffee
Spiced Raisin Sauce
1⁄2 cup raisins
1⁄2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
.11⁄2 cups water
1⁄4 teaspoon cloves
1/3 teaspoon cinnamon
1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/3 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 cup vinegar
Blend raisins, sugar
and four.
Add rest of ingredients and cook slowly 10 minutes. Serve cold or
warm.
Vegetable Salad
1 cup diced cucumbers
1 cup green beans
1⁄2 cup chopped celery
cup chopped green peppers.
2 tablespoons chopped onions
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Mix and chill ingredienta. Serve
on lettuce and top with French
dressings
Strawberry Charlotte
4 cups strawberries
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups whipped cream
Mir ingredients. Chill and serve
In glass cups,
Yellow Cake
1⁄2 cup butter
11⁄2 cups sugar -
1 cup milk
Begga
1 teaspoon vanilká
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
3 cups pastry flour
3 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter and sugar. Add rest of ingredients and beat 3 minutes. Pour into 2 layer cake which have been lined with pans waxed paper. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven.
Caramel Frosting
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
ate oven till the pastry is done and. serve at once.
TEA-TOWELS
Sometimes tea-towels Are put away damp in a hurry, with the re sult that mildew is caused. When once the mildew, has, become firmly established it is difficult to remove, and in some cases Impossible. The stain should be treated as soon ja it is discovered with buttermilk Apply liberally,, if possible leaving butter. the affected part to soak in the Boil gently, stirring, frequently, buttermilk overnight. Finally re- until soft ball. forms when portion move and wash. If the stain is is tested in cup of cold water. Sét not of long standing this treatment aside 15 minutes. Add vanilla and will usually prove successful in beat until creamy. Frost cake. Iremoving the stain.
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix sugars, water and
TRY it with
fish-you'll be delighted with
the flavour.
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