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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
SCALLOPED PARSNIPS AND PINEAPPLE
Good Dish With Fish
Or Fowl.
Four good sized parsnips, 2 small pineapple or 1 can aliced pineapple, cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2 tablespoons
Crisp Toast Is Appetising
Hints On The Fork
And The Fire.
BROWNING NEW BREAD
CHICKEN PIE IS TASTY DISH
Recipe For Serving With Sauce..
2 tablespoons margarine.
Two cups of cooked chicken re moved from bones and cut into large pieces. Place în large baking dish or individual casseroles and pour Well-made toast is always appetis-over the following sauce and bake butter, 2 tablespoons flour 1⁄2 tea-ing, and in cold weather it is in hot oven while preparing the spoon salt 1 cup chicken stock or
It is easily crust: specially acceptable. water. Parboil parenips after and quickly prepared if both fire scrubbing and scraping. Cut in and bread are in perfect order, but Cut sometimes it is required at short. rounds about 1⁄2 inch thick. pineapple in pieces of equal size notice, and must be made under diffi- and shape. Place in alternate! layers In a buttered baking dish; A duil fire may be brightened if sprinkling each layer with brown sugar and cinnamon with butter and four rubbd
culties.
3. tablespoons flour
I cups chicken broth
1⁄2 cup cooked potatoes cut
cubes
1⁄2 cup cooked carrots sliced
cubed
a shallow tin of water is pushed un- derneath it in place of the ash pan.
1⁄2 cup cooked peas
to-
and dotting
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN Artichokes nu Gratin Devonshire; Pie Rice Charlotte Whipped Cream DINNER Cream of Lettuco Smoked Sturgeon Grilled Woodcock Boiled Salsify
- Minced Spinach
Baked Almond Apples
Devonshire Pie
in centre; ornament, and bake in moderate oven for 11⁄2 hours.
Rice Charlotte
1 tablespoon glatine, 1⁄4 cup cold milk, 2 cups hot milk, 1⁄4 cup sugar, pinch salt, 11⁄2 cupa boiled [rice," ̈1⁄4 ̄ ̄cup cream "~1 teaspoon Vanilla, stewed dried apricots. Serve with whipped cream.
Cream of Lettuce
or
6 lettuces, 7 cups chicken veal stock, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, 4 tablespoons." "butter,
and salt to
taste. Wash
Drain well and
2 lb. mutton chops, 2 teaspoons cup washed rice, 1 pint boiling sugar, 2 onions, salt and pepper, milk, pepper into 2 lb. tart apples, allspice to taste. Toar leaves from lettuce,
Trim chops, core and slice apples, and chop finely. orneel and chop onions. Put afry in the melted butter. Season layer of apples in the bottom of to taste. Add parsley, rice and Cover and simmer 45 Inte-dish, sprinkle with sugar and steck
A smoky fire should be sprinkled Melt the margarine. Add flour. ground allspice. Arrange chops aleve. Add balling milk, and gether. Sprinkle with salt and with salt to make it burn clearly. Add milk slowly while stirring on top. Repeat layers till meat little cream, and serve with fried pour in chicken stock or water. It is a good plan always to have Add broth, cook to smooth sauce is used up. Add 1 gill strong routona.
until moderate oven. some smokeless fuel at hand. for Add seasonings and cooked vegeta-gravy, pepper and both parsnips and pineapple are use when toast is required.
bles. A little onion may be cooked with flaky pastry. Make tender. Serve from baking dish. New brend la difficult to toast, but in the margarine if desired.
Bake in a
It will take about 45 minutes for the mixture to bake.
BREAKFAST DISH HINTS.
New Way With "Herrings.
if the slices are dried for a while in a moderate oven or on a plate in the hearth, they are easier to hold on the fork and less liable to brown- unevenly, 'Soft, crynibly bread should be laid across the prongs of the fork and held over the fire until it is dry enough to toust in the usual way.
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt
2
EgH
2
tablespoons margarine 2 cup rich sweet milk Sift flour, adding baking powder and salt and sift again. Work mar- garine into flour. Beat egg and stir! When thin dry toast is required, in milk. Add slowly to flour, alir- for serving, with soup or beef tea, ring to batter. Pour over chicken it is best to cut the bread in fairly and vegetables and bake.
each Don't parboil kippers, as many thick pieces, toast these on English do, before frying in butter. side, carefully slice them through
Butter
in dredge with pepper and salt. Ship then toast the inner sides of
אלו נוט
Snaps
Health egg-steamer again to half their thickness, and
the an cug in eseh one. Season and dab thin slices. Much better results are with butter. Steam till Rel.
salt.
Cover a hole
ICE BOX CLEANING IMPORTANT
Soap And Hot Water Needed.
Boiled Salsify 1 lb. salsify, salt, peppers, 2 oz of butter, lemon juice or vinegar, pint white sauce, croutons of fried bread. Wash the salsify, cut off the tops and about an inch from the end of the stalks, scrape, and rinse it. Tie it into bundles with tape, and put it into a basin of cold water, to which A few drops of lemon juice or 'vinegar Quantities of hot water and have been added to prevent, the Put the soap suds are required for clean-salsity turning black. ing the lee box. Wash well in hot bundles into the pan, with enough water to which soda has been hoiling salted water to cover it. added, using 1 tablespoon of soda Add the butter, and a tablespoon for each quart of water required. of lemon juice or vinegar and Wipe dry with a soft cloth and simmer until it is tender (30 to 40 let the box air. for half an hour minutes). Drain well. Put the before adding the ice or turning salsify on n hot dish, and pour the white sauce over. Garnish with on the power, if you have a
croutons of fried bread. Serve mechanical refrigerator.
with parsley sauce.
obtained in this way than by cutting Aniseed tea often cures a cold in the head. Pour half-a-pint of boil. If you prefer herrings fried, very thin slices at first.
"Antique" toasting forks, which ing water on two teaspoonfuls of split and remove back bones, then
too the seeds. Give a child one, two, or dip in beaten egg and oat-meal be-foften have blunt prongs, set
closely together, should be kept for three teaspoonfuls according to age. . . . fore frying.
Adult take larger doses.
Peel, core and slice apples before ornament only. A simple wire fork, frying. Allow one apple per person. with sharp, well-spaced pronge and Allow one pound Chipolata sausages) a long handle, is a much more prac for four.
tical implement.
گازه
Allow one kidney, one two rashers and one tomuto per person. Skin, split and remove care from kidney and halve tomate before fry- ing.
Scalloped Sweet Potatoes With Apples.
3 medium sizes sweet potatoes
4 medium sized apples,
and cored
cup sugar
pared
Pork Sausage And
Egg Scramble.
Two cold pork sausages, 4 eggs.
3 tablespoons milk.
Pepper and salt to taste..
1 tablespoon butter.
1⁄2 teaspoon chopped parsley. Skin, halve and slice sausages. Add Break, eggs into a saucepan. milk, butter and pepper and salt to
Stir
heat till over a slow butter is melted. Add sausages and parsley. Stir till thick.
Butter or crisped bits of salt taste.
pork
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Cook the sweet potatoes in boil- Sometimes I omit the butter and Ing water until tender; cool and milk, and use four tablespoons un- skin. Cut the sweet potatoes and sweetened canned milk instead. apples into Alices, place in
alternate layers in a greased bak- PARSNIP CAKES FOR VEGETABLE;
ing dish. sprinkle each layer with sugar and salt, dot with butter or with the salt pork, add a little! water, and bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until the apples are soft and the top layer is brown. Serve in the baking dish,
ORANGE PRUNE SALAD FOR FOUR PEOPLE
4 oranges, peeled and sliced. 20 cooked prunes.
1 packet of cream cheese.
1⁄2 cup celery, finely chopped,
cup sweet pickle relish.
20 walnut or almond kernela.
I lettuce.
Arrange five orange circles on
each lettuce-lined plate.
In the centre of each circle place
VARIETY
11⁄2 lb. parsnips,
1
Lablespoon margarine or
bacon fat, Salt and pepper. Mash and season hot boiled drain. ed parsnips smoothly. Stir in the
fat.
Shupe into equal-sized flat cakes about one inch thick, with floured hands.
Dip in flour.
Fry in 'bacon fat or dripping till
brown
NEW ADDITION TO-
SALADS
-
Small fancy shapes cut from
Unbroken chilblains should be Shrimp Salad For Light
painted frequently with a mixture composed of drachm of tincture of capsici and 1⁄2 drachm of the liniment camph: co.
Tiffin.
I amall onion, chopped
1 cup chopped celery
Small portion chopped chives
pound picked shrimps
1⁄4 cup pimiento
flour.
Baked Almond Apples 4 large apples, 2 oz. almonds, flour, 11⁄2 oz. breadcrumbs. 1 egg, 4 oz. sugar, 2 oz. butter. Peel and core the apples, Blanch and chop the almonds and mix them with half the sugar. Beat the egg and the rest of the sugar to- Acid baths are useful for liver
gether and stir in 1 oz. of bread. complaints. Add 141⁄2 ozs. of dilute
érumbs. Cost the apples' with nitro-hydrochloric acid to a bathful |
Melt the butter in a fire- of water (30 gallons).
Toss Ingredients in a salad bowl proof dish in the oven, put in the When a foreign body has been and season with a little salt and apples, fill the centre hole with al- swallowed, take a large meat of pepper and small portion of vine-monds and sugar, and mix the re- potatoes, bread and milk, or por-gar. Place in refrigerator to chill, (mainder with the breadcrumbs. ridge. Never take purgatives. Remove crisp lettuce from refrige-and egg and pour
rator and arrange on individual apples. Sprinkle the remaining Hashed Potatoes For plates. Remove salad from the re-half ounce of breadcrumbs on top dual servings, garnishing each one and bake the apples in a moderate with a small portion of mayonnaise joven till they are tender and and hard boiled eggs cut Intourown. Sufficient for 4 persons.
Tiffin.
2 cups chopped peeled potatoes,
1 tablespoon dripping,
1 pint bone stock,
2 tablespoons bacon fat,
1 tablespoon, flour, Pepper and salt to taste.
fourths.
PRACTICAL HOME HINTS
Leftover scraps of soap make a good soap powder if they are Melt the bacon fat and dripping dried in a cool oven, thep grated. in a saucepan. Stir in flour, and,
Mustard mixed with coffee when brown, add the stock or half
rheumatism.
four cures
Take stock and half vegetable water or
parts of coffee to one of mustard, all the latter.
And potatoes. Cover. Cook for make the coffee as usual.
Stir and season to ten minutes. taste. Simmer for twenty minutes
CREAM OF TARTAR FOR EGG-WHITES
*
If a pinch of cream of tartar is added in whites of eggs when they are being beaten they will froth more quickly and stand up better.
LEMON GOOD FOR LIVER
Lemon Acts beneficially on the
a prune, cooked till tender, cooled, green peppers and pimentos and liver, promoting biliary digestion
When scrubbing A flood you will save yourself a lot of work if you make a movable stand for the pall from a square of wood with a coastor fixed to each cor-
(ner,
WHEN PREPARING BAKED POTATOES.
Yolk Of Egg Gives Bettér Taste.
1
Baked potatoes look much nicer stoned and stuffed with the cream used to adorn the open sandwiches and counteracting aluggishness. For if taken from the shell mashed
accompaniments a bilious headache take coffee with with butter, pepper and salt, cheese, to which celery and pickle make effective
la spoonful of lemon juice added. well beaten yolk of an egg, then Iplaced back in the half shells and! browned in the oven. They not
have been mixed.
Place a nut in each prune, servei with mayonnaise sauce,
Baked apples generously stuffed with chopped dates or raisins will certainly prove a popular dessert with your family circle.
Scotch Shortbread.
2/3 cup shortening
1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugal
2 egg yolka
2 cups flour
1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
for anlads or beverages.
Use Leftover Meat In A Club Salad only look nicer, but taste letter,
Here is a club salad in which you COTTAGE PUDDING can use either cocked pork, beef voal or ham.
and
Finely shred enough of, the meat
to measure one and one-half cups marinate, in well-seasoned French dressing, Arrange "crisp lettuce leaves to form cupá on Individual salad „plates.
PALATABLE.
Gives House-Wives Chance To Use Stale, Cake,
When Cooking Cake Mixture
Cake mixture should come well Jup to the corners and sides of the pana, leaving a slight depression In the centre.
Cake will then be perfectly dat
In each cáp place two firm slices. Cottage pudding is very palat- Cream butter. Add sugar gra- of tomato. Cut a dozen slices of able and it gives the home-maker on top when baked. dually mixing well. Add egg (brolled bacon in dice and add layer a chance to use up that bit, of day- Folks. Add sifted dry ingre- Jon top of the tomato cover with old cake,/-
SANDWICH FILLING
dients,
mayonnaise, then with the shredded Cut the cake in squares, one to Roll out inch thick; cut into meat,
mts person, and then, when you are shape desired Prick with fork; Top with a spoonful... of mayon» ready to serve it, pour « generoun place on baking shoot; bake, in noise and garnish with water cresa portion of hot lemon.or: chocolats Chopped olives, peppers and moderate oven at 350 degrees for finely minced parsley, Triangles sauce over each square, Garnish nuta added to mayonnaise makes “a about 20 minutas. Makes-6 dozen, of toast may socompany the service. with nuts if you like.
[Lasty, filling for, sandwiches.
it over the
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