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THE CHINA MAII.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.
X FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Honey Served
Served With Cornmeal MOULDED POTATO Remedy For
HINT WHEN COOKING VEGETABLES.
Waffles
Try utilising cornmeal in waffles. Cornmeal waffles are best when
Curdled Soup
SALAD
Tempting Dish For Lunch.
Butter And Flour "May Be Added.
tomato
RECIPE COMMENDED Eggs In Marinade Are
FOR SQUASH
Good For Broiled Steak
PIE SEASON
Eggs in Marinade are just the, Winter time is squash time, and thing to serve with broiled steak. here is a pie that is able to hold They must be prepared about two its head up even with company:weeks before they are used, and Richs Squash Ple`. left in a glass fruit jar covered
cup squash, steamed and with vinegar, ⠀ strained
3
1. cup heavy cream
1 cup sugar t
1
S eggs, slightly beaten
of
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Dissolve 1 package of lemon Shaking Preferrable To serve with honey. The honey flavored gelatin in 2 cups of hot
. A tomato, cream soup that shows Stirring.
should be warmed over hot water tomato juice. Add 1 teaspoon saltan inclination to curdle can be and two tablespoons of orange and 3 tablespoons vinegar. Set converted into a thick juice added:
aside and when this mixture be purea by adding butter and flour Cornmeal Walles
gins to thicken add 31⁄2 cups of rubbed together in the proportion 11⁄2 cups water
well seasoned potato salad made in of 1 tablespoon butter and your usual way. Turn into a loaf tablespoon flour to cach cup mold and chill until firm. Un- mold, slice and serve on crisp watercress with mayonnaise that has been whipped and thinned with with a little tomato juice.
An excellent habit of precaution for the new cook is that of shak Ing the sauce pan in which a veg- etable cooking. Often
IN
the smooth-cut, flat Aurface of A vegetable sticks and burns before the water is cooked.
Shaking prevents this without erushing the vegetable as stirring might do.
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Potatoes and sliced carrots are examples of vegetables that often scorch because of this flat surface.
Sunshine Sauce Is Tasty.
One cup granulated sugar, 1⁄2 cup butter, yolke 3 eggs, 1 cup whip ping cream. few drops vanilla.
Beat yolks of eggs until thick. Gradually beat in sugar. Cook
over hot water, beating constantly with a dover beater and gradually
adding butter.
Cook until mix.
1⁄2 cup white cornmeal 11⁄2 cups milk
3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
3 egg yolks
1-3 cup butter,melted
3 egg whites, beaten stiff
Boll water, stir in cornmeal. Cook 10 minutes. Remove from fire. Add milk, beat well. Sift four with baking powder, salt and: sugar. Add to Add egg yolks, add melted butter. beaten egg whites. waffle iron.
cooked mixture. beat again, then
Fold in stiffly Bake on hot
POTATOES ABSORB EXCESS SALT.
soup.
One tablespoonful of fine sifted soda cracker crumbs added to each cup of soup will correct the ten- dency to curdle, too.
CURE FOR SCORCHED Dress-Up For
VEGETABLES.
Not Tainted If Seen In Time.
Any vegetable that has just started to burn can be placed in its cooking pan-into a larger pan of cold water,
The vegetable then -should be shaken out of the burned pan into a fresh pan or bowl, leaving any
a metal spoon. Re-Remedy For Spoilt Soup.corched material in the pan.
ture costs move at once from fire. Chill thoroughly. When ready to servo fold in cream whipped until firm. Add canilla and chill.
MANY SAUCES FOR DUCK.
Tart Jellies Are Best.
Duck is served with apple sauce, pan-fried apples, currant jelly, barberry or some other tart jelly Sliced oranges or cranberry sauce are often used, too.
P
Too much salt often has spoiled A remedy for this is the soup. to add from half a cup to a whole cup of sliced raw potatoes to the kettle of soup.
Let stand 10 or 15 minutes, re- move potatoes and serve. The potatoes absorb the excess salt.
LESS EGGS FOR CUSTARD
In a custard recipe calling for several eggs, one or more may be left out if tablespoon of corn. starch is added for each egg
Brown gravy or hot orange sauce omitted. can be chosen as preferred. Orange rauce is not served when sliced oranges accompany duck.
TO SERVE GUINEA FOWL
Heat Makes Jam Fresh.
If jam becomes had and sugary Guinea fowl is served with cur-before it is used up, place it in a rant or cranberry jelly or any jelly moderate oven until the
sugar or conserve with a sharp flavour. melts. When cool the jam is al-
Baked bananas are good, too.
most as good as new.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN
Chicken Liver Croutes Coiled Corned Brisket Suct Dumplings Creamed Cabbage Boiled Leeks
Baked Pancskes
sliced Lemon
DINNER
Chicken Ten
Cheese Straws
Fillets of Mackerel a la Mariane
Grilled Partridges
Grilled Apples
Sraw Potatoes
Cauliflower Salad
Tea Jelly
Chicken Liver Croutes
2 amal) mackerels, 2 doz. clams,
4 lb. fresh butter, 2 chopped onions, chopped parsley, pepper, 1
B
Plain Lettuce
A splendid dress-up for plain lettuce is made thus:
If not cooked unti! `tender, Hittle boiling water can be added] · and the cooking Anlehed. Season and serve as usual. If things have not gone too far, most of the vegetable can be served without ja taint of burn.
Accompaniments For Beef
Different Cuts Need Varied Trimmings,
The various cuts of beef require special accompaniments. A roll-
Mix
1⁄2 cup French dressing
Anely
chopped
1 hard-boiled egg, chopped 2 tablespoons
parsley
1 tablespoon shredded pimento 1 tablespoon minced chives, and 1 or 2 drops tabasco or Werres
tershire sauce
CURDLED SAUCE.
Dover Beater Useful In Kitchen.
*
1⁄4 teaspoon ginger
4 teaspoon salt.
1⁄4 teaspoon mace.
6 egga
Eggs in Marinade
1 pint vinegar
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
24 whole cloves
remove
beaspoon ground mustard 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper Boil eggs 15 minutes shells and stick & cloves into each egg. Put vinegar on to boil. Rub mustard, salt and pepper, with a little cold vinegar, to a smooth paste, and add to the vingar when... boiling. Stir over the fire 1min ate. Put egge in glasa fruit jar, pour over them the boiling vine. gar, cover and let stand two weeks.
TO STIFFEN GELATINE JELLY
A gelatine jelly that refuses, to ed to lump despite vigorous stir-stiffen in the required length of ring a heavy wire whisk or a strong time can be hurried if more gela dover beater will beat out the tine is softened in cold water, dia. lumps and make the cereal appetis- solved over hot water and added ingly smooth.
at once to the stubborn jelly,
Smoother Cereals For Breakfast.
Line a deep pie plate with Puff Paste. Brush over paste with egg] white, alightly besten, and sprinkle If the breakfast cereal contriv. with stale bread drumbs. Fül and bake. Serve warm.
Perfect Appetiser Has Caviar.
Caviar makes the perfect appe- tiser and has a de luxe air, Serve two tiny triangles of toast, spread with caviar on a salad plate gar nished with parsley, or put the toast bits on hearts of lettuce.
Then add to the plate a table- spoon of finely chopped Bermuda onion and two fancily cut slices of
lemon.
Parsley Useful When Cut And Dried.
Don't think parsley cannot be had in off seasons. Save some while you can obtain It, cut in
If a custard sauce curdles, beat small pieces and dry, and it will
it well with a dover beater. This keep for these times. same beater often will beat the ¡lumps out of white sauce that has
been made in too big a hurry.
If the sauce is very lumpy it can be rubbed through a fine sieve and reheated.
FISH VARIETY
Chutney or cold horseradish sauce makes variety with
fried fish, as does caper or tomato sauce if it is boiled or steamed.
ed or standing rib roast is served SAUCE WITH FLOUR NEEDS WHEN SERVING ROAST LAMB
with horseradish sauce and B brawn gravy if the meat is well done.
LONG BOIL
No sauce
Roast lamb is served with`-mint containing flour is jelly or sauce, currant jelly or Done rare,
the natural meat ready as soon as it comes to boll. crab-apple jelly. Brown gravy is julces take the place of the gravy At least five minutes' simmering usually made in the pan in which
the raw the meat was roasted. and the roast is served "an jus"is necessary to remove Yorkshire pudding also is the pro-taste of the flour. per accompaniment to this type of roast.
LAMB BROTH IS NOURISHING.
glass white wine, Fillet the Appetising For Invalids,
on
ORIGINAL TIDBIT!
VEAL CONDIMENTS
Veal in good with a tart jelly or fam. Cranberry sauce is excellent. Brown gravy or tomato sauce may be chosen, depending of course on
her guests not long ago by serving
A fastidious hostess' startled the vegetables.
mackorel. Butter a baking tin
slender, long slices of raw carrot and arrange mackerel
tin. If someone in the family, is not with beverages. Sprinkle with parsley and pepper, feeling very well lamb broth may
She arranged these slices on s onion and wine. Place the prove both appetising as well as slender ailver server and it was & clams, carefully washed, round the nourishing.
forent dish.
FOR SMOOTH PASTRY
Allets. Cover with a buttered Cut a pound of lamb steak into pretty as well as an entirely dif paper bake 15 minutes, arrange on small pieces, put in a stew pan a hot dish lined with a border of with a quart of cold water and let lapinach, the mackerel in the cen-stand an hour without boiling.
tre, and the' clams round. Then Then boil until you haye about cook the sauce quickly, till it is a pint. Strain, add a' teacup of reduced to half its quantity, add cream, salt and pepper and some butter bit by bit, stirring con- chopped celery, Then heat again stantly, season and pour over. and serve.
Mushroom Sauce With Beef.
Pinch bicarbonate of soda ́ ́ be- tween the fingers to remove all lumps before adding to the flour for puddings and cakes,
TO KEEP MAYONNAISE
Grilled Partridges · Chicken liver, then slices of 1 brace partridges, 1 teaspoon beçon, 1 oz. butter, cayenne, 6 to salt; 1⁄2 oz. butter, 1⁄2 lemon, 1 8 oval shaped croutes of fried or tablespoon "salad öll, 1⁄2 teaspoon
A tablespoon of boiling water wasted bread, 1 saltspoon mustard. pepper, 1 tablespoon Worcester
placed in mayonnaise, makes ma Clean the livers, cut them in sauce, I terapoon, made mustra mush-room sauce and a tart spicy bottled and kept in the ice box for Fillet of beef is served with salad dressing, which may be halves, sprinkle with pepper, roll Split very fresh partridges operam or conserve, each piece in a thin slice of bacon, through backs. Remove spinal
Even if the fillet is roasted in the
broil under the grill. Mix the bones. Draw, wrap in a courbe plece, a brown gravy should not
butter with the mustard and a cloth. Flatten each with pluch of cayenne, spread the steak beater. Mix oil, salt- and crouts with this, dish up and pepper on a plate. Brush birds place the brolled liver and bacon over with marinade. Grill for 10 on the croutes, gärnish with fried] minutes on each alde, · Stir Wor- paraley, and serve quickly.
caster sauce, mustard and lemon
Baked Pancakes
be served.
EXTRA: EGG - MAKES FIRM MAYONNAISE
several days or a week.';
Cheese For Broiled Steak.
Just as a brolled steak is ready to remove from the brofler aprend
Pork, is served with apple naucs or cranberry sauce, A gravy in seldom used:
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SAUCE
IS THE HEART OF A HEARTY MEAL
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REDUCTION IN PRICES
We are pleased to announce the
following reductions
AUSTRALIAN CHEDDER CHEESE
CANADIAN SALMON
80 ETS. PER LB.
€68
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julce into butter. Spread over If the mayonnaise separates, with thin slices of cheese and slip
take another ese volk in a fresh back under the fame to melt the FRESH HERRINGS
Swedes Are Tasty And Nourishing.
6 oz. flour, 42 eggs, rind of 1|partridges. small lemon, rind of 1 small ore
Tea Jelly
bowl and lowly bent in the curd cheese, ange, pint milk, 1 teaspoon A pint unsweetened snowdakceled 'dressing, continuing so nausi baking powder, 4 oz. sugar, 8 oz. cream, 2 yolks of egg, 6 ors, sugar, until all the lemon juice and on butter or margarine. Beat the Vox gelatine, about. 1⁄2 gill water; is used." butter, and sugar” to a cream and 1⁄2 pint strong Lipton's tea, - Whisk add the finely grated rind of the the egg yolks, and the sugar. orange and lemon, Sift the flour: Gradually and 3⁄41⁄2 tin cream and with the baking powder and stir the tea, and turn the mixture into
RAW. POTATOES FOR SALTY SOUP
it in gradually, adding also the the top of a double boiler, Whisk. If soup in too salty, add
- well-wisked eggs, and then the it over with hot water until it of, raw potato
milk,...), Butter, some old strong] thickens.""""Remove it from the minutes. Remove them. sapoers, and pour a little of the hot water, turn it into a basin and is still too salty, repeat the pro-
into each. Bake them in strain in the gelatina, dissolved in casa,
hot oven for about 20 water, When the mixture is be- Serve them as soon as ginning to thicken, stir in the re- Kfter baking, heaped on a mainder of, the cream, previously with sugar, whipped.). Pour the mixture into about one a rinsed-out mould and put it on fos to cool. Wh set up mould
COOK SAUSAGES SLOWLY
Cook
Swedes are high in vitami
jare very appetising as
If they are bollad mashed with
Walt.
TO
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are now ready.
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