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THE CHINA MAIL:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934,
AFOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Cake Failures May Be Due To Various Causes
FRITTERS ARE
NOT DIFFICULT
Tomato Mince FOR DIGESTION Meat Is Novel
Vegetable And Meat
Recipes.
Although frittera
come under
temperature. of the fat
More Digestible Than Ordinary Variety.
FIG PUDDING IS TASTY.
Ideal For Special Dinner.
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Treat For Cake Lovers
1⁄4 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 egg whites
34
teaspoon salt cups cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder 11⁄2 cups liquid
2 teaspoons vanilla
11⁄4 cup water, and 1⁄4 teaspoon cream of tarter together until syrup spins a thread, 238 degrees F. Pour hot syrup over 2 stiffly beaten egg whites and beat with egg beater consistently. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla
LET FRUIT CAKE STAND.
Flavour Improved By Air-Tight Storage.
If you're thinking of fruit cake, remember that it will improve in continue flavour if allowed to stand a little beating with spoon until mixture while before it is used.
and
"
A tasty ng pudding is fine for There are a number of things
topping off the special dinner. which might cause cake failures
Chop 1/3 cupful suet and work it and here is a list of them. Check
Many persona consider green to-with the hands until creamy. Add them carefully and you will pro- the category of fried foods they
2 squares melted chocolate is fluffy and will hold its shape. Select a heavy pan for baking bably be able to correct existing are not too difficult of digestion ifmato mince meat quite as good as 1⁄2 pound finely chopped figs. Soak cer 21⁄2 cupfuls stale bread crumbs in
teaspoon soda
Reserve 3 tablespoons of Icing, the fruit cake and line it with two cake troubles:
properly cooked. A properly cook-"regular" mince meat, and
Cream the shortening, add the spread the rest over top and eldes thicknesses of heavy waxed paper. When &
cake "falls in the ed fritter is fried in deep fat attainly it is that it's not as rich and cupful milk mixed with 4 well
dificult to digest as the meat breaten eggs, 1 cupful brown sugar gradually and cream well, of cake. Melt 2 squares chocolate As soon as the cake in done, re certain definite middle" it may be caused by insuf-a
variety. And it is more economi- sugar, a teaspoonful salt, te Add the unbeaten eggs whites one and add the reserved icing. Pipe move it to a wire rack to cool but ficient quantity of flour or leaven-And the temperature
cal to make.
spoonful cinnamon and 1⁄2 cupful at a time, and beat into the mix this chocolate over white icing in do not tear off the waxed paper. ing ingredient.
determines the digestibility of the
There are two good rules for grated nutmeg. Combine these two ture. Sift the flour once before1⁄4-inch strips about 1 inch apart. When the cake is cool wrap it in Or incorrect oven temperature, fritter.
tomato mincemeat. One mixtures and add 1⁄2 cupful wal measuring. Mix and sift the flour. Then draw a knife quickly across several layers of waxed paper and or removing from the oven before If the fat is too hot, a hard crustuses suet and the other does not. nuts and cupful raisins dredged baking powder and salt together through the strips at 1-inch Inter- tie with white cord. Store in an aufficiently baked.
is formed on the outside which Heavy cakes are often occasion-facts as a non-consiductor of heat of course, the one with suet is with flour Sprinkle 2 teaspoonful and add alternately with the li-vals. This gives a wavy marbled air-tight box or stone jar to
richer than the one without. The baking powder over the mixture quid. Add the vanilla. Add the effect. suctiess mixture is very like a pre- and beat thoroughly. Turn into a soda to the melted chocolate. Di- serve highly apiced and piquant, buttered mold, steam 3 hours and vide the batter into two parts add- Nuts can be added to either recipe serve with sauce. when the pies are baked.
ed, by too slow an oven or too large
and the outside gets darker and an amount of sugar and butter. harder while the inside remains
A cake is solid or "bready" when idoughy and uncooked. too much flour is used.
An uneven surface with cracks on the top of the eske occur when too much flour has been used.
If on the other hand the fat is not hot enough the fritter sinks to the bottom
green
Mock Mince Ment
of the kettle, re- One neck green tomatoes, 3 fuses to come to the top, absorbs lemons, 1 cup chopped suet, 2 cupa Or too great a heat is used at the too much fat and remains pale and seeded raisins, 4 pounds light first part of the baking time. (NUKRY. The correct temperature brown sugar, 11⁄2 cups vinegar, 2 Coarse grained cakes may be duelis between 360 and 230 degrees tablespoons powdered cinnamon, 1 to too much leavening ingredient, Fahrenheit. If a thermometer tablespoon grated nutmeg, 1 table- such as baking powder, soda, etc. is not at hand an inch cube of
FRUIT JUICE FOR MAYONNAISE.
Gives Unique Flavour.
Orange, grapefruit juice
@
of ing chocolate mixture to one the parts. Drop the batter by teaspoonfuls into a floured and greased cake pan alternating spoonful of the chocolate batter until all is used. Bake and frost with special icing in one farge pån 12 by 8 inches or two loaf
or pans 4 by 8 inches in a moderate!
Or too slow an oven temperature bread from the soft part of the spoon ground cloves, 1 tablespoon lemon juice is a delicious addition oven, 360 degrees F. for 50 min-1
Icing for Marble Cake Make a white boiled icing Hollows: Boil 2 cups white sugar,
ground allspice, 1 tablespoon salt.
to mayonnaise. One of the three ules. Wash tomatoes and cut out stem ends and any blemishes. Put may be used in French dressing. through food chopper. Place in a You will enjoy the unique flavour and large crock, sprinkling 1 cup salt imparted by these fruits. and through them. Let stand three little hours,
or insufficient mixing and blending if can be dropped into the bot of the butter, sugar and eggs, fat. It should turn a golden brown
If nuts and fruits sink to the in sixty seconds, bottom of a cake it is due to a Fritters arc so quickly batter which is too thin.
easily prepared and cooked are so helpful in making “a go a long way" that they
SLOW COOKING FOR FLANK STEAK.
A Meal In One Dish.
A smothered flank steak is very
worthy of consideration.
arc
Drain over night through a col- Menu Suggestions
There under and discard juice. Squeeze Jure vegetable fritters and
meal juice from lemons and put rind fritters which make eplendid main through food chopped. Add juice, {dishes. The sweet fritters and lemon rind, vinegar and suet to to- fruit fritters are delicious desserts matoes in preserving kettle, bring Íto serve with maple syrup or a to the boiling point and cook 15
contrasting fruit sauce.
minutes.
An excellent standard rule for
delicious. Slow cooking is necesfritter batter is the following. sary when preparing this cut of meat, so we cover the pot in which It is cooked whether we follow top stove or oven method of cooking.
This recipe produces a meal in one dish and with a crisp salad and light dessert it is all most people would need for nourishment and "eye appeal."
I flank steak, about 2 pounds,
3 tablespoons shortening.
4 cups rice, uncooked.
1 green pepper, chopped.
1 cup sliced onions.
4 cups tomato juice or sauce.
2 teaspoons salt.
Flour.
Wine the flank steak with
clean, damp cloth and dredge
il
RAPID COOKING FOR
OMLETTES.
Success in making an omelette depends largely on rapid cooking in hot butter over brink heat and
on manipulating the egg mixture quickly and deftly.
1.
WHEN MAKING CRUMBS
A paper bag, tied over the food
A chopper when grinding bread, will keep the crumbs from scattering with flour. Heat the shortening and save zolling
a par for bread in a heavy skillet, Dutch oven or crumbs.
They can then be turned casserole dich. Sear the steak from the bag into the jar for stor lightly on both sides. Cover with ing. the uncooked rice, and the balance
of the ingredients. Cover with a tight lid and cook over a very low fame or in a 275 degree oven for two hours.
Tasty Salad For Winter.
An attractive winter salad is made from cold cooked vegetables. dressed high in the ish, an garnish- ed with beetroot and
celery,
WHEN BUYING MEAT
Select small meat when choosing
over-
a joint, as the flesh of an grown or overfatted animal is. coarse and the bones large.
Preserves Good For Health.
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Add sugar, raisins and spices and bring again to boiling point Simmer until thick and seat in hot sterilized jars. When pies are |baked, chopped apple and nuts can
he added as liked.
JAM FROM CANNED FRUITS
Extra Sugar Needed.
TIFFIN
Hashed Wild Ducks, Slices of
Oranges
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Fried Potatoes Brolled Steak Horseradish Sauce Mashed Pumpkin Polish Pancakes
DINNER
Cheese Soup Baked Stuffed Fish Stewed Fillets of Venison Cold Beef Inspic Beetroot Salad Steamed Ribbon Sponge Apricot Jam Sauce
Bashed Wild Ducks
as
For To-morrow
add the flour and blend well, cook for 5 minutes without browning. Boil the milk and add it gradually, stirring all the time, season and simmer gently for 15 minutes, stir- ring well. Beat up the yolks of the [eggs with a little milk, Draw, the pan from the stove and stir in the | eggs and grated cheese until nearly boiling, then serve. Hand dice of fried bread. Do not let this ball after adding the eggs.
Baked Stuffed Pish Choose a medium sized man- darin, weighing from 3 to 8 pounds. Leave the bead on but the tall may be cut off. Wash the fish, wipe dry and sprinkle the inside with salt. Fill with seasoned stuffing and sew
The remains of 9 or 4 roasted up the opening or secure it with No home maker needs to be with wild ducks, pint of stock, 1 skewers. Lay the fish, back up on out home-made jams, jellies, pro- serves and relishes, whether she glass of port wine, 1 tablespoon a fish sheet in a baking pan. Make has for some reason failed to stock mushroom ketchup, flour, salt, and diagonal gashes in the skin of the her storeroom with these delicacies, Pepper. Croute of fried bread. back and insert strips of salt pork Divide the remains of the ducks or bacon. Place a little pork or or the store on band has been
into depleted.
nest pieces, dredge them bacon in the pan. Dredge with with flour, and put them into a pan flour and bake in a hot oven (400) Canned fruits properly blended and cooked with extra sugar make with the ketchup, port wine and degrees) about an hour, basting preserves which are quite as good very gently without allowing it t~
stock. Season to taste and simmer often. as those made from fresh fruit, boll for about 15 minutes. Hay and they may be made in either ready a large square croute of fried small or large quantities at any bread about 1 inch thick, place it
Small Cakes For time during the year.
Bridge Parties
Just Bran And Salt.
To clean copper, no matter how Small cakes are always a wel-bad it is, take a eupful of bran and come aid when entertaining with half a cup of salt. bridge teas. Try these some time Moisten it with vinegar into A the family will like them, too: thick paste, rub hard one place at
3 cup sifted cake flour
a time and it will shine like magic.
3 teaspoons combination bak-
ing powder
1⁄2 teaspoon soda
I teaspoon salt
11⁄2 cup sugar
2 eggs, well besten
1 cup heavy rour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cup shredded coconut
Sift flour once, measure add bak-
ing powder, soda and salt and sift |
NOVEL SAUCE FOR DUCK
.
on a hot entree dish and arrange: the pieces of duck neatly over. Boll the sauce until thickens, skim, and pour it over and round the duck and serve very hot. This may be garalêhed with finely cut slices of orange.
Polish Pancakes,
4 large eggs, 6 oz. flour, 6 lumps sugar, 3 pirts míjk, 1 oz. butter, 4 oz. currants, 1 lemon. Rub the sugar thoroughly on a clean lemon and stir in a little of the milk Half a cup of diced orange
Sieve the flour, add enough milk to added to the stock left in the pan make a smooth battar. Beat the after a duck is roasted makes 3 good sauce to be poured over the duck on the serving platter,
Chill our
FRUIT SYRUP ON HAM
88, add the rest of the milk and the ralted butter and sugar and mix all to smooth batter, Grease [the 'rying pan with a little' butter, pou, in enough batter to cover the again. Beat sugar into beaten "The syrup from canned, pears, When cooked turn out on a sugared pan and sprinkle in a few raisīgs. eggs. Add cream, vanilla and apricots or peaches poured over paper, sprinkle with sugar and coconut and mix until blended. baked ham gives a delicious flav-lemon juice and roll up. Add flour and mix well. until frm enough to roll. ⠀⠀ Böll
Broiled Steak Fruits and vegetables preserved inch thick on slightly doazed bound.
CARE OF LINOLEUM
Steak should be cut at least in now mean health insurance for the Cut with floured B-cutter¿Plues
inch thick: Wipe the meat with a Bwinter..
far apart, on ungreased barfar Linoleum look better, lasta long-cloth and place on a boiler that has sheet and bake in hot oven (400 EGGS DISCOLOUR ALUMINIUM degrees), 12 to 15 minutes, or until rept polished." One way is to sp-quily, then reduce the host and er and is easier to clean if it in been beated. Bear both sides done. Makes 21⁄2 dozen jumbles. ply a thin coat of liquid wax and, cook more slowly turning, frequent To Use Leftover
when dry, polish with a soft cloth.ly. The time will depend on the thickness, of the meat and the bent used, 10 to 12 minutes is the aver“ age time for an inch
*** Avold using an aluminium sance. pan for boiling eggs, as it becomes badly discoloured by salts from the shells.
TO RE-HEAT COLD SAUCE
Scrambled Eggs. "PRESERVED" KENT Leftover scrambled eggs are de-Sa that you can have "home licious cut in small pieces; rained made" mint sauce in the winter, To re-heat a cold sauce, apply with chopped celery, finely diced set, some, nice fresh mint, dry bat and stir or whisk vigoronály chives and mayonnaise and served thoroughly, chop.
vent Itipsformin
PER DISH
over night in sour milă:
as a salad on crisp lattuos.
WHITE-NOT / BLACK!
After, bolling "args hard, soaked merse in cold water, as this pre-
vents them from turning black
SHORT MACARONI BEST
Break macaroni engtos for cooking, but lRY ietti and vermicelli na long a
steak, cooked care. If the meat la Dr ferred medium or well done {mure time mas
more to a hot dish," a butter, and sprinkl pepper.
and
"ripen."
Rickshaw
Brand
Ceylon tea
15
OK
is the
SAUCE heart of a hearty meal
Agents: W. K. LOXLEY & CO.
CHEESE
for
EVERY TASTE.
Always keep a few varieties for emergencies.
Danish Cammembert, in 8 oz. boxes .................
Emmenthaler Cheese, in 8 oz. cartons
gobar la mig
Kraft Cheddar, in 1 oz, portions, 8 to Carton Kraft Gruyere, in 1 oz. portions, 8 to carton Kraft Grated Cheese, in 6 oz. shakers (glass)
Kraft Cheddar, by weight
Gouda Cheese by weight
Gorgonzola
White Cheddar, Farm made
23 28;
80 cts, per box
70
per carton
60
» per carton
» per carton
65
101
per shaker. Per Ib.
$1.00 per lb.
140 per lb.
1.00 per Ib.
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