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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Chicken And Oyster Pie
Easily Prepared Dish.
Here is a dish that can be put together in a jiffy from cans usually are to be found on the try shelf:
Baked Beans And Brown Small Cakes Bread From Old New England Find Favour
Some of the dishes of old New Add remaining beans, leaving England have been handed down the rind of the pork exposed. Mix from generation
mustard, to generation, salt,
pepper, molasses that They are particularly adapted for (and sugar with boiling water and beanz. Add enough use when hearty fare is wanted. pour over pan-Boston baked beans at Saturday's more bolling water to cover bean
Chicken And Oyster Ple
supper and codfish cakes on Sun-pot and bake in a slow oven for Make a sauce of 2 tablespoons day mornings is the old-fashioned six hours, removing the cover for butter, 2 tablespoons flour, oyster rule still observed by many New the last hour of baking to allow the rind to become brown and thin England housewives. liquor (all) and 11⁄4 cupa
Boston baked beans are a mour-crisp. Serve from bean pot. Season to cream or top milk.
Boston brown bread always is Add shing and satisfying food that taste with salt and pepper. one b-ounce can oysters,
one 6 make a well balanced meal if ser-steamed rather than baked. ounce can chicken and 1⁄2 cup cook-ved wit brown bread and a crisp ains ed diced celery pour into indivi. salad of cabbage or greens. Boston Baked Beans dual ramekins. Cut rounds of i toast large enough to cover tops Two cups pea beans, 1-3 pound and place one on top of each and salt pork, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 sprinkle with grated cheese. tablespoon molasses, 1 tablespoon Place under broiler flame until brown sugar 1-2 teaspoon power- cheese is melted and bubbly. Serves ed mustard, 1-4 teaspoon pepper, four.
TASTY DOUGHNUTS
POPULAR
Dish For Breakfast
Or Tiffin.
I small onion, 1 cup boiling water.
Pick over and wash beans. Cov-
may
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With Hostess
1:2-3 cups sifted cake flour
11⁄2 teaspoons combination baking
powder
1-3 cup butter or other sharten.
ing.
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1⁄2 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla
extract
Sift flour once, measure, add
Hot Breads Go Well In Cold RAISIN
Snappy Days Call For
Baker's Products.
mix to a stiff dough with the
water or milk. Then beat until It] blisters, folding the dough over
SAUCE
One cup white sauce, 1-2 cup
and over on itself and beating with grated cheese, 1-2 cup seeded a rolling pin or wooden mallet. steamed raisins. Boll half an inch thick, cut into] Add cheese to hot white SAUÓD aland when melted add raisins. Keep are rounds, prick the surface with
There's nothing like hot breads for cold weather. Recipes for variety of delicious breads Igiven below.
Baking Powder Biscuits 2 cups flour,
4 teaspoons baking powder.
teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons, fat.
cup milk.
milk
fork or cutter and bake 25 or 30 hot over hot water if not served at minutes in a moderate aven. : once.
Black Walnut Bread
2 cups graham four.
2 cups white flour.
1 cup sugar.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 eggs.
2 cups milk
1 cup nuts.
1 cup chopped dates.
CUCUMBER SAUCE
, a
Mix and sift dry ingredienta. Rai-baking powder and sift together Rub in fat with tips of fingers 'or be added to suit the three times. Cream butter thor- chop in with a knife. Add
and gradually to make a soft dough,
until Beat cup heavy cream modern taste, but the original]oughly, add sugar gradually
atiff. Add 1⁄44 teaspoon salt, a few "Boston Brown" was made with-cream together until light and fluf-Use a knife in mixing. Toss on a ify. Add eggs, then floar, alter-well-floured board. Pat and roll
Mix ingredients, pour into two grains pepper, and gradually two out them.
Inately with milk, a small amount to one inch thickness. Cut with loaf pans lined with wax papers. tablespoons vinegar. Then add one at a time. Beat after each addi- biscuit cutter dipped in flour. Let stand 15 minutes and bake one cucumber, pared, chopped And
an ofled hour in slow oven. tion until smooth. Add favouring. Place close together on Pour into greased cup cake pans, pan and bake in a bot oven 10 to filling them two-thirds full Bake 15 minutes.
Menus For
er with cold water and care. Cow Bridge Parties
over night.
let stand
Beef bouillon, wafers;
In the morning drain
seafood jand cover with fresh water. Bring
slowly to the bailing point. When ring with green vegetable salad; water begins to boil drain and hot spoon bread; damson jam: little cakes; This cranberry mousse; rinse beans in cold water. prevents them from becoming brok-coffee.
in moderate oven (375 degrees) 20 minutes, or until done. Makes two dozen cup cakes.
Dixie Beaten Biscuit
I quart flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons shortening.
Ice cold water or milk.
Sift flour and salt together, work
When Opening Tinned. in the shortening thoroughly and
Asparagus.
an and mushy during baking. In
Broiled lamb chops; broiled to-j the bean pot put a thin slice of
When preparing canned aspara- Doughnuts are an ideal sweet to peeled but not
the salt pork and place the onion, matoes; broiled sliced pineapple;
cut on the pork. scalloped potatoes; icebox rolls; us for serving, open bottom in- take along when picnics are to be Add half the beans.
Cut through currant jelly; olives, celery: alatead of the top, so, that the tips
may be removed whole. enjoyed. Everybody likes dough-rind of remaining pork every half mond torte; coffee. nuts children and grownups, so try inch, making cuts one inch deep this recipe for one of your week and put on top of beans. enda.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
1⁄4 cup milk (approximate)
2 eggs
3 cup flour
1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
1⁄4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
TONGUE AND SPINACH
SALAD" IS 'DELICIOUS ·
Chup cooked spinach very finu and season with salt,' lemon jules and a little melted butter. Pack Individual casserole of chicken; Food Values Of Milk. firmly into moulds which are still riced potatoes; creamed peas;
buttered and fitted with a piece of amall new beets with cheese dress-
So far as the food value of milk buttered paper in the bottom of ing; beaten biscuits; butter pat-ls concerned, Bays the United the mold: ties; puffies; Turkish coffee. States Bureau of Home Economics, This paper trick insures easy it is practically the same whether turning out of the mould. Pat Parsley omelette; asparagus you use fresh milk, evaporated, moulds into ice box to chill. When A variety of cold cats, such as with melted butter and grated dried whole milk powder or an ready to serve unmould on slices sliced ham, roast lamb, sliced Parmesan cheqse; huckleberry equivalent of dried skim milk and
icc butter. coffee, liverwurst and meat Ipať arranged muffins; chocolate
A Delightful Cold
Meat Dish.
Sift flour, salt, baking powder on a platter and garnished with cream; coffee.
can
and spices together. Beat eggs parsley makes an excellent dish. well, add milk, sugar and oil. Stir Stuffed tomato salade into dry ingredienta. Roll floured served with the meats. board. Cut with eutter and fry fu deep hot oil. The fat is hot enough if it browns a bread crumb in 60 acconds or 450 degrees.
CURRIED LAMB IS FAVOURITE.
Peppery Quality Of Curry Makes Popular Dish.
The peppery quality of curry makes it a general favourite with those who like spley dishes, and Curried lamb is one of the most popular of these recipes,
Dinner Serving Four Curled Lamb Buttered Celery Bread Peach Jam Lettuce Salad
Cream
Deep Dish Apple Pie
Coffee (Milk for the Children)
Curried Lamb
3 tablespoons butter.
2 tablespoons chopped onions,
2 tablespoons chopped celery.
3 tablespoons flour.
11⁄2 cups lamb'stock.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt,
1⁄4 teaspoon paprika,
1⁄2 teaspoon curry powder.
11⁄2 cups diced cooked lamb.
1 cup cooked peas.
2 cups bolled rice. -
Melt butter in frying pan, adil
and brown the onions and celery.
Add. flour; and when well blended
add lamb stock and cook.until mix-
with
once;
Left-Over Ham Makes Sandwich Filling.
BOILING ECONOMY
Sandwich Loaf.
of cold boiled tongue.
Drop a spoonful of prepared mayonnalee on each mould and garnish with match-like strips of tongue, eighths of hard cooked egra and crisp heart leaves of let-
blankets; Pigs in
pear salad with cheese balls; gingerbread
Remote crust from loaf of sand. waffles; cocoa.
tuce. wich bread and slice lengthwise Spread slices of Chopped green vegetable sand-into four layers.
bread sandwiches bread with butter, then spread As a general rule, keep the lid wiches; nut on a saucepan when boiling (un-orange ice (garnished with crush with desired fillings.
cake; less stirring), to economiae heat, ed straw-berries); sponge and avoid unnecessary steam. The tea; yellow bonbons; salted nuts. exception 14 in cooking green vegetables.
SALT WITH COFFEE
UBIQUITOUS PAPER TOWELS
OMELETTE INGREDIENTS
Broiled Steak And Cheese.
Have the steak cut from une to two inches thick, Thoroughly pre- Add one tablespoonful water, heat the broiler, then place the- milk, or cream to each three egge steak on the center of the broiler Paper bowels in he kitchen have used for making French Omelette, rack so that there is a distance of long since ceased to be regarded to ensure smoothness and creamy about three inches
Besides
being consistency.
To make good coffee, use a goodļas luxury items, blend unstintingly, heating the dry handy for "sinkslde" ablutions, coffee first, with a pinch of salt paper towels serve a score of pur- added, and making it In an poses notably in connection with
wiping up grease. earthenware vessel.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN
Fish Custard Baked Stuffed Eggs au Gratin · Tomato Steak Rice Snowballs Custard Sauce
DINNER
Haricot Bean Soup
Casserole of Smoked Salmon
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Mock Veal Cutlets
Chinese Sticks ·
Potato StrawE
Flaked Rice Blancmange
Stewed Apricots pi
Fish Castard'
Haricot Bean Soup
1⁄2 lb. Haricot beans; 4 lb. to matoes (skinned and chopped); b. potatoes; 1 onion; 1 oz. mar garine; 1 tablespoon flour; 2% pints stock; salt and pepper to taste.
and soak haricots Wash overnight.. Strain and add the beans and cut up the vegetables to the holling stock. Cook slowly un-
til beans are tender and pass all j
TO STIFFEN OMELETTE
between the flame and the top of the sterk.
When the steak is nicely brown-| ed on one side, turn and brown on the other. For a 2-inch steak al-
If a pinch of powdered sugar low 35 to 40 minutes in all to be and a pinch of cornstarch are add-medium done.
jed to egg yolks when making an
omelette, it will not fall.
How To Use Surplus
Boiled Rice.
Leftover boiled rice can be sex-
soned, rolled in egg and crumbs, shaped into cakes and when browned in a little fat they make a tasty food to serve as a potato substitute.
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FOR LEFTOVER TOAST
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Leftover buttered toast can be
through a sieve: Melt margarine, dried in a slow oven and then roll-
stir in flour, add above mixture, sd and the crumbs are already
seasoning and serve.
Mock Veal Cutlets
2 Tescups brown bread crumbs:
1 teacup chopped peanuts: 1 small
Sole; 1 ox. margarine; 1⁄21⁄2 onion (grated); 1 os. margarine;
buttered and ready to use on escalloped mixtures.
COLD WEATHER FARE
REAL CORNISH PASTIES
ture thickens, add, seasonings and tablespoon flour; 1 teacup milk; 1 teaspoon mace Ib. pota Sensible cold weather fare in-} cooked lamb. Cook slowly 2 min-1 egg; salt and pepper to taste, toes (boiled and mashed). 1cludes more food-containing fat to (utos, - Surround the boiled rics Cut dah into thin alicos. Make a teacup milk; 1 err; salt maintain body warmth, as, for a ring of peas. Berve at sauce of the margarine, flour and and, pepper, Melt, margarine. Stir example, net, butter, cream, olive milk. Cook fish in this for 10 into the potatoes. Add milk all, cocoa, pork mackerel, and minutes, Baat in yolk of egg and Mix In other Ingredients. Beat herringto seasoning. Stir in white (whipped well and turn out on to dish w to stir froth). Pour into greased to cool. Roll into cutlet ahape. baslu, cover with greased paper. Pig in breadcrumbs. Fry fo' deep Steam from 40 to 50 minutes, Serve fat 10 to 15 minutes. Serve with with white and parsley sauce or tomato or bread saubh, Leftover bolled bam can be run bake in pie-dish 30 to 40 minutes. Flaked Rice Blancmange. through a meat, grinder and used, e Tomato Steak NH 14 Pinta milk) 51⁄2 cups diked an sandwich, alling, and 1⁄2 lbi Tomatoes), 2 beaten eggs; rice 2 tablespoons sugari, 1 oz.
To one cup of minced ham add 6 alices brown bread, 1 or man- butter vi väälla nävouring,
teaspoon mixed, mustard, few zarine; fat for frying; pepper and the linked, rios and drepa'of, tabasco sauce, 1 teaspoon salt to taste... Peel and cut, thị cepan and bring
Use this
så papper to bute and tomatoes and put them in sauce
'naues to blend, the with melted margarina?
smooth paste
minutes. Then stir in the
read on thin slice of and seasoning, beating, ally, the
time till set. Boak
[brown bread in millis Senyor | ter."- Tars the tomatoe
filled when fried.
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