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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Suggestions For Sandwiches
For Sandwiches DINNER
FOR WARM New Fillings And Shapes
DAYS
Veal Loaf
1 cup shredded veal
Salt and pepper
4.cup cold water
2 hard cooked eggs
1 tablespoon gelatine
Modern Taste.
VARIETY IN NECESSARY
There's always a time in the life
FOR TWO
Menu
Creamed Celery and Poached Eggs
Buttered Peas
Bread. Num Jam Asparagus Salad Dutch Apricot, Cake Coffee
Celery and Poached Eggs
2/3 cup diced celery
11⁄2 cups water
of every hostess when she ardently longs for inspiration for sand-Creamed wiches. New sandwich shapes, as well as fillings-if only for the sake of variety immediately Boil real in small amount of characterise the maker as a woman water until meat is tender. Shred who is alert to modern trends in cupful of meat. Season with salt entertaining. and pepper. Add one cup of veal
Sandwiches are fun to make if liquar to which has been added the the right bread is used. Improved gelatine dissolved in cold water. baking methods now make the use Slice 2 hard boiled
nish.
Chilled Chicken Bouillon
3 cups chicken broth
teaspoon celery Balt teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
3 eggs
1⁄4 teaspoon paprika Mix celery, water and half the eggs. Pack of fresh bread in sandwiches en-salt. Cover and simmer 25 min veal and eggs in alternate layers tirely successful. Slo-baking, which utes. Drain and reserve 1/3 cup of in muld. Chill in
refrigerator-distinguishes Wonder bread, not the stock. Melt butter and add
out leaves and gur-alone brings
the nut-like flour. Serve on lettuce
Add stock and milk and forms. creamy sauce flavour of the whent, but also so cook until improves the texture and digesti-Add rest of salt, flour and cooked bility of the bread #3 to celery and pour inte shallow serv make it ideal for immediate use injing dish. Top with poached eggs. all manner of sandwiches.
To poach eggs, 2/3 fill a shallow With equally distributed mols-pan with water, add 1⁄2 teaspoon ture, made possible by slo-baking. of salt and bring to boil. Breaki Wonder bread can be used for roll-eggs into saucer and quickly drop Heat bouillon with seasoning to ed sandwiches without fear of them into water. Turn off fire, boiling point; and gelatine. Chill breaking. It also toasta un even cover and cook until eggs are well! in refrigerator for two or three brawn and does not have that dis-coated with white film. Carefully hoora Beat with fork. Serverassing tendency to become soggy remove to celery mixture, in bouillon cups and top with a when fillings are added. mound of salted whipped cream. Serves six.
in
1 Lablespoon gelatine dissolved
1⁄4 cup of cold water
fl
MUSHROOMS MAKE
IDEAL LUNCHEONS.
The sandwich suggestions given here are just about as new as to- morrow's hat, and probably a great deal more satisfying. You will certainly want to keep them on file for convenient reference next time you start planning a special party. Cut slices of Wonder bread 1
these cut With mushrooms plentiful in inches thick. From local markets it is possible to use small cylinders about 1 to in diameter. Hollow them frequently in menus. This inches
recipe dish:
Scalloped Mushrooms
3 pounds mushrooma
1 cup beef ur chicken stock
1⁄2 cup butter
of
Dutch Apricot Cake
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
cup sugar
11⁄2 teaspoon salt 1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
Mix
3 tablespoons fat, melted
ingredients lightly. Pour 14 into greased shallow pan. Spread Our with apricot mixture.
makes an ideal luncheon the inside, leaving a small flower pot effect Fill with any of the following mixtures and insert a small sprig of parsley in the top 1 Drained each. Fillinga: crushed pineapple, chapped nuts And
cream cheese, 2, Chopped dates and nut meats blended with whipped cream salad dressing.
Cornucopia Sandwich Cut very thin clices of Wonder
2 egg yolks
11⁄2 tablespoons sherry
Salt and lemon juice
Method-wash mushrooms and cut into large pieces. Place in
rapidly boiling water for a few bread, remover crust and round *minutes, then drain and blanch in off one corner of each slice, mak- fan-shaped pieces. Spread cold water. Dry well and saute in in butler, adding boiling meat stock. with creamed butter. Put a spoon- Allow to simmer 10 minutes. Add ful of $1ling on each, roll like a lemon juice and seasoning, then cornucopia and seal lapping edge remove from fire and combine with with butter. Fillings: Creamed Finely beaten egg yolks and sherry. Place minced mushrooms. 2 in greased ramekins, dot with minced chicken salad. 3. Creamed butter and place in oven until very chicken or lobster. hot.
Cantaloupes Make Very Good Salads.
something
this simple molded saind.
Melon Salaď
1 package line gelatine
1 tablespoon vinegar
I pint hot water
11⁄2 cups cantaloupe ballo
Apricot Mixture
1 cup cooked apricots
1⁄2 cup sugar
teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons soft butter
Keep White Sauce Handy
MAPLE SUGAR CAKE A Jar Is Indispensible
To The Housewife.
qup butter
1 cup soft maple augar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoon salt
teaspoon lemon extract 1⁄2 cup milk
11⁄2 cups flour (sifted)
STORE IN REFRIGERATOR
Versatility in the kitchen is us important as in any other phase of modern life, and the cook who possesses this attribute will have herself much work, much ponder Adding as to what to have and still give her family appetising and wholesome foods.
cup cornstarch (sifted) 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter and sugar. 3 egg whites, beaten vanilia; lemon' extract, milk, flour and cornstarch. Beat two min- utes. Add rest of ingredients. Bake in two-layer cake pans. Frost with any desired white or yellow frusting.
MOIST CARAMEL CAKE
2/3 cup butter
2 cups dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1 cup hot mashed potatoes
4 egg yolks
4.cup milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups milk
4 egg whites, beaten
1⁄2 cup peans
Cream butter and sugar.
One food with which you are all familiar and yet is the most adapt able one to almost any need is the proved a life saver in many emer ordinary white sauce. It has
gencies, and a time saver in the ordinary routine. It is so simple that it is surprising that many have not thought of it before. It is simply:, KEEP A JAR OF WHITE SAUCE IN THE RE- FRIGERATOR.
When you make some white sauce the next time make an extra cup and put it in a jar for future use. It will keep for several days, in the course of which you are cer- tain to have a use for it. The time expended is no great than in mak- ing the original amount, thus say- Adding time, energy and a few cents'
vanilla, salt, potatoes, yolks and worth of fuel; all of which are im milk. Beat three minutes. Add portant items in the life of a busy rest of ingredients. Pour into home maker. Ishallow pan Ined with waxed
frost.
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Adaptability
.
paper. Bake
minutes in
Now, to illustrate my point of moderately slow oven. Cool and adaptability. For breakfast there is cream toast, creamed eggs or creamed chipped beef that can be I made in thrice with the ever ready jar of white sauce. Further, the creamed chipped beef may be glori or ice fed to a luncheon dish by topping
FESTIVE ICE CREAM
Crushed or broken marcaroons served an top of sherbet cream add flavour and give a fes-with the atiffly beaten white of an tive touch.
HOT POTATO SALAD
For hot potato salad
Mix ingredients and spread on soft mixture. Bake 20 minutes in French dressing. A cold moderate oven. Cut in squares makes the salad neither
I cold. and serve fresh.
heat the
egg, the yolk dropped into this fluffy bed and the whole browned in a quick oven.
From The Emergency Shelf Another use for your jar of dressing white sauce is in preparing cream. hot nor soups. For luncheons or dinners
Sunday Morning Buffet
[chooses.
they supply a wholesome, nourish- Ing and thoroughly satisfying ad- dition. When made with the white Sauce combined with the purce commonly known as "atrained vegetables" or "baby foods," they!
Informal Breakfast As may help himself at any time he are incredibly simple to make. On
A Boon To Hostess.
FOR LEISURE RISING
The formal
my emergency shelf stands a whole рева, row
materials: Hot Chocolate
of soup A pot of steaming chocolate, or spinach, asparagus, tomato, and a kettle of boiling water ready to mushroom broth, any of which ca be mixed with postam, for those a noup would gratify the most ex- Checkerboard Sandwiches Cut Wondon bread and Wonder
Sunday morning who prefer that drink, furnishes a acting epicure." wheat
fit in good foundation for a refreshing bread in inch slices. breakfast hardly seems to Spread with mixture of 1⁄2 cup the modern home where the pro-breakfast. Fresh fruit, which the xrated American cheese and 1⁄4 cup vision of a refreshing morning re-individual may select and prepare butter. Make three 3-layer sand-past for the various members of the for himself lessens the preparatory
the home-maker. wiches-two with white bread top family, all of whom may wish to work of
gether. Wrap, chill and slice. Toasted Rolled Sandwiches
Often those
A
Cantaloupes are beginning to and bottom and dark in middle, arise at different hours, is likely covered hot, plate containing well- appear in the market. When they and one with dark top and bottom to present a difficult problem for browned fish provides a substantial become bit cheaper-or even and light in middle. Sprend the the home-maker. The problem is serving for those who like and who right now, If you want to serve last on both long sides with especially difficult if the home enjoy a hearty breakfast.
A pitcher of waffle batter and a extra special-make cheese. Press the other two on maker desires to attend Sunday)
either side of this. Press to-school and church services and to covered dish filled with tiny sa1- allow her helpers the same privi-sages provides a simple breakfast and one which is quite sure to lege. Cut very thin slices of Wonder
who are employed, meet with general approval, bread, remove
crusts and spread outside the home during the week. It is easy to plan appetizing buf- with a mixture of soft packaged object to the routine which would fet breakfasts which will be parti- to the tastes and Dissolve gelatine in hot water, American cheese and butter (three force them to arise on Sunday in cularly suited add vinegar and when mixture be-parts cheese to one of butter). Roll time to have breakfast with the needs of the family, and guesta. ging to thicken add melon balls. and place lapping edges down on a family. Week-end guests usually Most families enjoy the inform- Pour into a well mold and chill buttered baking sheet. Brush tops enjoy a leisurely arising at any ality.of., the buffet breakfast, and thoroughly in the refrigerator. with melted butter, sprinkle with time which suits their fancy-yet guests feel more at ease when as- Unmold on a bed of lettuce and pakrika and brown lightly under a definite and fairly early hour is sured that their presence is not serve with a rich mayonnaise. the broiling flame. Other fillings: essential if the hostess is to be depriving either. the hostess
1. Anchovy paste. 2. Onion favoured given time to get to the morning her helpers of their privilege of sardine paste. 3. Cream cheese and church services.
TO REMOVE NUT SHELLS.
jam.
or
attending both church and Sunday A happy solution for this pro-School services. Chicken Salad Patties
blem is the புறக of the buffet Cut large rounds from slices of breakfast for Sunday morning. Wonder bread, then cut slightly Most modern homes have enough
JELLY FOR COUGH
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c250 an annoying
The task of removing nute from smaller rounds from these, leaving electrical appliances, to keep one Black currant jelly stirred in hot their shells may be simplified by a large ring of bread. Place one or two dishes warm and palatable water → may pouring boiling water over them of these on each individual plate on on the buffet where the late risericough. and allowing them to soak during a lettuce leaf, fill with finely cut
the night. Next morning the nut chicken salad and top with the
meats may be removed easily.
TEMPTING SALAD
smaller round of bread ring and
put a spoonful of currant jelly on top of the small round of bread.
For a tempting estad, stunt cook-VARIETY IN BAKED
ed prunes with cheese, nyt ofĺt
chopped celery, arrange on lettuce
and top with mayonnaise.
MERINGUE MAKING
APPLES.
Stuffed Centres.
To give variety to baked apples, stuff centres with dates, figa rat When making meringue for a le-ains, nuts, coconuts, peanut butter, man pie, slir 2 tablespoons of ball. prunes or marshmallows.
ing water into it when it is ready A bit of jelly or jam added the to put on the pls, and the merin last five minutes of baking gives
gives delicious favour.. que will not run.
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