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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, JANUARY
1934.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
GINGERBREAD
UPSIDEDOWN.
CAKE IS GOOD]
Canned Fruits Add
Dessert Flavour.
Just a little bit different, and oh, so good, is this gingerbread upside- down cake. You can make it with either canned pineapple or apricots and when it is topped with whip- ped cream-what a dessert.
For the upsidedown part you will
need:
1
11⁄2 tablespoons butter
Blackberry
Cornstarch
Pudding
2 cups canned blackberry juice
BEET GREENS WITH Rich and Creamy HOW TO COOK
LEMON.
Simple Method Of
Giving Flavour.
1⁄2 cup sugar (if juice is unsweet-cook greens.
ehed)
tablespoons cornstarch
14 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter
Fudge Frosting
Caken with fudge frosting are quite different and very delicioun. to: 2a aqs. chocolate
„2 cups sugar cup milk
This is a very simple way
The bacon fat and lemon give the green an excellent flavour without the bother of mak1⁄4 ing a tart sauce.
Two pounds beet greens, 4 table- spoons bacon fat, 1-2 lemon, 14
cup dark corn syrup 1 tap. vanili
2 tbspa. butter
-Cut chocolate and combine with
DRIED FRUITS
Twenty-Four Hours Soaking Needed.
SHORT SIMMERING ONLY.
Many wholesome fruit confec tions can be made from raisins and other dried fruits. When chopped or minced, and moistened with a little honey or evaporated milk, til it forms a soft ball In water raisins make a healthful and tooth- (284 degrees F.) Remove from fire, some sandwich filling.. set pan in cold water, add butter It should be remembered that and let stand until mixture thie-dried fruit must be cooked care tried with spoon. Add flavouring bo well washed because.... It has ens enough to stock to pan when fully and properly. The fruit must and beat until thick enough to often been exposed. It is therefore spread on cake.
But blackberry juice in top of cup boiling water, I teaspoon sugar, milk and syrup, and cook un double boiler and heat thoroughly. gar, 1-2 teaspoon ginger, few grains Then add sugar with cornstarch white pepper, 1-4 teaspoon salt. and salt. Stir well while heating Wash and chop greens and put for the next 15 minutes. When into a sauce pan. Mix and gift can sliced pineapple for apri. you take it from the fire add lemon sugar, salt, ginger and pepper and
juice and butter. Beat well and pour into serving dish to chill. Creamor a lemon sauce should be served with this.
cup dark molasses
cota)
1⁄4 cup broken nut meats 1⁄4 cup raisins
Melt butter in heavy iron skillet add molasses and bring to boil. Take from fire. Arrange fruit, that has been drained of all juice, in bottom of skillet. Fill in spaces with nut meats and raisins. skillet stand in warm place while you mix this batter:
14 cups flour
1
1
1⁄2 teaspoon soda
Let
teaspoon combination baking powder
teaspoon ginger
teaspoon cinnamon
1⁄4 teaspoon cloves
teaspoon nutmeg
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
3
tablespoons shortening
1⁄2 cup sugar
1
egg
1⁄2 cup dark molasses
cup boiling water
PARSNIP PATTY CAKES.
New Way With Old Vegetables.
sprinkle over green. Cut lemon in two or three slices and add with fat and water.
Cover and cook hard for 20 min- utes, stirring frequently to prevent sticking. Let stand over a low fire for 15 minutes. Remove slices of lemon and serve.
Macaroni And Egg Salad.
DELICIOUS ROLLS WITH SARDINES,
For Serving With
Beverages.
GOOD COFFEE NEEDS CARE.
necessary to separate the pieces, before soaking, so that they will re main shapely while regaining their original moisture. It takes time to put back into the dried fruit the large amount of water lost by evaporaton.
Therefore the dry fruit þeeds a long soaking-twenty-four hours is not too much. It should be clear
Cut white bread into thin slices, that this soaking in to be done in spread with butter and then cover water after the fruit has been with sardines, mashed and season-washed. That is, the soaking water Six paranips, 1-2 teaspoon salt, One cup cooked macaroni, 2 harded with chopped pickles, olives and should be also the cooking water, for it is a great mistake to soak 1-8 teaspoon white pepper, 1 tea- cooked eggs, 1-2 cup diced celery, salad dressing. ·
Roll up the bread and hold indrid fruft and then throw the mosk- spoon sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons sliced stuffed olives, cracker crumbs, 1 egg.
salad dressing, shredded leaf let-place with toothpicks and.brown in fng water away.
la moderate oven. Serve at once.
Next, as to the manner of cook- Boil parsnips in slightly salted tuce, boiling water. When tender drain You can use broken stick maca-Those little rolls are delicious sering. Since the pieces are really only delicate pulp they must be cooked Sliproni, elbow, shell, bow-knot or, any ved with hot or cold beverages. and plunge into cold water.
very slowly and always over a low skins. Mash and season with salt, shape you may choose. pepper, sugar and butter. Make Chop eggs and combine with ma-
re. If cooked rapidly, or over a jhot fire they are bound to break in into small flat cakes and roll in caroni, celery and olives. A salad
shape, and to become an unpleasant cracker crumbs. Dip in egg alight-dressing to make moist and serve
mass. The word "simmer" exactly
ture of cooking all dried fruit.
In many cases, almost no cooking is required, if the sovking has been Recipes that are taken for grant- sufficiently long. For example, ed are likely to trip up many an seedless raising are delicious as a experienced cook. Making good breakfast fruit if they have been coffee is such a recipe. Facts to treated to a long soaking which will remember in preparing it are expand them and soften them. these:
Even prunes require. but ·Ĺ Use fresh coffee, and one full cup very short simmering long cook of cold water to each cup of coffee ing makes the skins leathery, required. A heaping tablespoona Roll a pound of icing sugar, and of coffee for each cup and an ex- SANDWICH add to it not quite half a pound of tra tablespoon for the percolator Every fine desiccated coconut. Mix are the proper meastires.
Sift all dry ingredients. Cream ly beaten with 1 tablespoon cold on a bed of shredded leaf lettuce Proper Measures After expresses the manner and tempera
rol again is crumbs. Garnish with halves of stuffed shortening and sugar. Stir beaten water and egg and molasses. Add dry ingre- Saute in butter and bacon fat until olives. Use dients and milk, blend well. Finally a delicato brown.
add boiling water. Beat again and
pour over slices of fruit skillet. HINTS TO FRESHEN BISCUITS Bake 35 minutes in 350 degree oven.
Test before taking from oven BA To warm over biscuits, or rolls, fruit bottom may require a little sprinkle lightly with water, then longer baking. Turn out on ser-place pan containing them in a ving plate with fruit side up. Serve large pan of hot water, Put in warm, with whipped cream-1f de oven for a few minutes to freshen
• aired.
before serving.
י -
pimentoes.
olives stuffed with
CANDIES FOR THE KIDDIES.
Quick Way To Make Coconut Ice..
Neglected.
Men Sunggestions For To-morrow well in a fairly large basin, Have late six minutes,
TIFFIN
Puree de Lentils Baked Polents With Cheese Shrimp Salad
Stewed Chestnuts With Apples DINNER
tho
For A Plain Fruit Salad.
Perco-
A dressing which transforms 4
ready some bolling milk, make a strain the endive and add, stir hole in the middle of the coconut wall, cover and leave to cook for mixture, pour in a little milk, and 20 minutes. Before serving add mix with a fork to a stiff paste. tablespoonful sour cream and Take out half of the mixture and tablespoonful of chopped parsley. shape it into a block. Colour the Macaroni Aux Tomatoes a la Suisse other half pink with cochineal, or plain fruit, salad, perhaps com Break about 1⁄2 ib. macaroni into brown with cocoa, and shape this posed of apple, banana, or pears, is
Imade by mixing together: short pieces, put them in a sauce (also into a block. Brush the white pan containing plenty of fast boil ice with a little milk, and put the,
4 tablespoons salad oil 1 tablespoon orange juice Spinach a la Bechamel ing water (salted). Boil for 20 coloured ice on it. Place a place 2 tablespoons lemon juice Macaroni aux Tomatoes a in Suisse minutes until the macaroni is quite of greaseproof paper on the top, tablespoon salt Apricot Charlotte, Whipped Cream soft, then drain them well and cool stand & weight on this, and leave
Puree de Lentils
Malt an ounce of butter in a staw to dry. lb. red lentils, I onion, 1 stick pan, add the macaroni, also a gil) season to taste of calery, 2 oz. butter, pepper and of tomato sauce,
Cream of Brussels Sprouta Devilled Cod Fish Braised Endive
smit to taste, 3 pints of vegetable with salt and pepper, boll a little stock, 1 carrot, 1 turnip. Melt the longer, then add 2 oz. of grated bulter in a saucepan, wash and cheese, and 8 shall peeled tomatoes drain the lentils, put them in the cut into shreds, cook slowly for saucepan with the pested and sliced another 10 minutes. Dish up next- vegetable, stir for 8 minutes, takingly and serve hot. care that they do not brown, then add the stock and a little salt. Let:
Spinach a la Bechamel Pick and wash about.3 lb.
1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
Cut the fruit in pieces and let atand in the dressing for 10 minutes.
USE FOR LEFT-OVER Serve with a little of the dressins
CAULIFLOWER.
Quick Dish Is Tasty.
poured over.
ADD HORSERADISH
A teaspoon of freshly grated If you have left-over cauliflower. horseradish added to cooked, but- Bifce a half dozen or more small on-tered beets will give a pleasant pinions and team them 19 minutes, flavour. This is especially sug- this come to the boil, skim and ach boll it in salted water, rinse then place one layer of the caull-gested when roast beef in served. simmer gently until the lentils are and cool in cold water, drain and flower alternating with one layer
soft. Pass the soup through press well, then pass it through of the onions in a battered baking TEMPTING DRESSING| wire sieve. Roheat, season to taste wire sieve or chop it very fine, dish
Melt in a saucepan 2 oz. butter, add, with pepper and salt.
Polenta with Cheeza.
• Grate cheese over the top, add a 1 oz. flour stir well for a few min quarter cup of tor milk, several dabs of butter and hest in the oven until the cheese melts and browns.
1 cup cream meal, 4 cups belling utes, add the spinach, also I gill water, 5 tablespoons grated cheese, fresh cream and a small ladleful 1⁄2 onion, 1 tablespoon chopped of Béchamel sauce, season with onion, a drop of garlic, juice, nut-grated nutmeg, stir until thorough- meg, Pour one cup of boiling hot, stand in deep dish of ball- water over the corn meal and leaving water until require.
fried bread..
Garnish
FRENCH DRESSING.
ROASTING HAM
FOR SIX.
With Roast Or Fowl
· Add 2 tablespoons of chili sauce. 1 tablespoon of catsup and 2 rips
olives, chopped to 4 cup of mayon
SUGGESTION.
Use. For Cucumber: Pickle.
Have you any, cucumber pickle in your larder? If so here is a six sandwich suggestion. To tablespoonfuls of chopped hard
boiled eggs allow a teaspoonful of chopped capers and a tablespoon- ful of chopped cucumber pickle. Spread with mayonnaise.
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REDUCTION IN PRICES
We are pleased to announce the following reductions effective as from to-day 25th instant.
AUSTRALIAN CHEDDER CHEESE
CANADIAN SALMON
before putting on the cover. By on lettuce or tomato salads for six FRESH HERRINGS
this process of baking, the julces persons. This · is especially good are retained,'
with chops, roasts or fowl.
When roasting a ham in a double naise or French dressing and you it to swell. Add the rest of the with francifully cut croutions of roaster, sear it first on both sides have a tempting dreas ng to serve water, stir well and boil for 5 minutes. Simmer ia. * double saucepan for. 2 hours. Cool, cut into dica and mix with the grated cheese, chopped onion, garlic and nutmeg. Put into a buttered pin dish, cover the top with flakes of butter and bake in the oven for bour.
I teaspoon salt-
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon sugar #3_tesspoon vinegar
Stewed Chestnuts With Applen1⁄2 cup salad oll
RICKSHAW BRAND
CELEBRATED
1 lb. chestnuts, 4 lb. apples, Mix ingredients. Beat 2 minutes EYFONE
shell the chestnuts then simmer in Chill. Mix well and serv
Thess
boiling water for 10 minutes, drain ingredients can be pours and remove the inner skin. Cut bottle, corked and stored in les box the apples into cubes, put in a until ready for serving..
casserole with a little butter, add
the chestnu
ver and almmer
STUFFING FOR DUCK
One cupfu
TEA
ALL DORES
Further extensive reductions
80 CTS. PER LB.
68
44
will become
effective from 1st February Revised price lists
will be ready 29th, instant.
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