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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1934.
AFOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
JELLIED SALAD Angel And Sponge Cakes Are SOUR CREAM
FLAVOUR CAN
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BE IMPROVED Favourites For Afternoon Tea
DRESSING MIXED DIRECTLY INTO GELATIN; DISH IS IDEAL FOR LUNCHEONS
Beating mayonnaise into half- cooled gelatin, before adding the other ingredients, is the modera method of making main-course. jellied salads. When homemakers first begun to use gelatin for sal
famous that
Angel. Cake
White of 8 eggs ****
cup fine granulated sugar cup pastry flour
1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon vanilla or almond
extract Whip, egg whites to stiff froth:
ads, they served the dressing se-fold sugar in lightly. Fold in flour parately but, thanks to
sifted three times with baking pow- dietitians, they've learned
der, salt, and cream of tartar; add salad is improved favouring. Bake in ungreased tube the flavour of
place
pan in moderate oven at 350 de- grees F. about 50 minutes. Invert
if the combination takes before the, mixture sets.
For
Sift together flour and powder; add nuts. mixture and mix in just enough to blend. Pour into an Bake in ungreased tube moderate oven at 325 degrees F.
baking
Add to first very lightly,
pan.
cake.
Sponge Cake
1 cup suger
6 eggs Grated rind of 1⁄2 lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup pastry flour
1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
FINDS MANY
BAKING USES Heightens Flavour Of Cakes
FROZEN VEGETABLE A Fine Friday
COCKTAIL
Admirable Oppetiser For Summer
Frozen Cocktail
Dinner
Salmon Loaf Served With Sauce
UNUSUAL TIFFIN DISH Salad Prepared In
Gelatin
A salad in gelatin is an unusual fone and is quite sufficient for a
When time is short for market-light-tiffin served with crackers.
2 cups cooked salmon,
canned
Z egg6
1⁄2 cup cracker mea!
4 tablespoons butter
fresh
2 tablespoons gelatip.
1⁄2 cup cold water.
2 cups of boiling water
1⁄2 cup of lemon juice.
1 teaspoon salt.
6 hard boiled eggs.
1 small tin of peas.
1 cup sliced boiled carrots,
1 bunch of watercress.
Soak the gelatin in the half cup Pour the bolling
of cold water,
water over it and stir until dis- Add the lemon juice and solved.
The summer luncheon, or dinner can be started off with flying colours, AN ECONOMICAL HINT
ing, Friday dinner may be well taken care of if the meat course We've all been through the un- it were, with a cleverly served
Here is a simple recipe, wing-onsists of delicious salmon loaf) the served with a cream sauce contain- about 1 hour. The nuts must be pleasant experience of finding that frozen fruit or vegetable cocktail.
willing chopped hard cooked egg.** Makes 1 eight-inch be used for the breakfast cereal fresh tomatoes and celery as
Salmon.Lost finely chopped or the batter will not the cream has "turned" and can't
cream which principal ingredients, that hold them up.
But this same sour seemed auch a tragedy at seven-admirably All the role. When it is thirty can be turned into a real as-frozen, serve.in clover glasses so as to enhance the attractive red colour act at nine if you use it right:
Cakes and cookica, for instance, of the appetiser. made with sour cream have unusual
Cut out the core and other dellacy of flavour and perfection of
salt and allow to cool, but not set. texture. Foreign cooks use it in blemishes of a sufficient number of
Rinse a jelly mould with cold soups, and meat sauces, salad dresa-large fresh tomatoes to meet your
eggs water and put a layer of sliced bard whip ing, cake fillings, pie fillings and needs. Cut in quarters, unpeeled,
make beaten slightly, melted butter, boiled eggs and a ring of peas in sifted frostings. Almost any course in the and mash. Cook slowly in a cover-
Remove Add meal gains richness and flavour by ed utensil long enough to
thoroughly tender, then put through cracker meal, salt, pepper, parsley the bottom of the mould and pour in Whip the addition of sour cream;
Very little additional shortening a fine sieve so that skins, fiberous and onion. Put into a greased enough gelatin to cover.
baking pan and bake in a pan of mould to the ice chest and when the Meanwhile cook a half cup of hot water in a moderate (350 de-jelly had hardened put in a layer of
Serve fold half the egg whites into the is required when sour cream is used parts and seeds are removed.
carrots and peas and again cover first mixture. Fold in sifted dry in cakes and cookies. There
add remaining egg two grades of sour cream just as celery in a like. amount of water gree) oven for 40 minutes. ingredients;
Bake in un-there are two grades of sweet and until tender. This amount of celery, with cream sauce containing minced with gelatin.
is allowed for every two cups of hard cooked egg. whites; mix lightly.
Then combine 1⁄2 cup finely chopped pecans
Itomato juice used. Measure Soda Carefully Beat egga until light and thick. greased tube pan in moderate oven. Add sugar gradually, beating con- at 350 degrees F. about 50 minutes. stantly until sugar is nearly dis- Remove from oven, invert pan and Solved: And hot coffee slowly, stir-let stand until cold. Remove from
Add vanilla extract.'pan. Makes 1 ten-inch cake.
Coffee Nut Sponge Cake
2 eggs
1 cup BugBr
1⁄2 cup hot, strong coffee
Jellled salads are easy to prepare cake and pan and let stand until and, since left-overs can be used in cold. Makes 1 ten-inch cake. them, ure economical, too. instance, when you have n dish of peas, a few green beans, several olives and a bit of cold salmon or tunafish in the icebox, cumbine them in a lemon or aspic flavoured gelatin or Sunday to make a luncheon night supper dish. Or add a few fresh fruits to canned left-overs, chill the mixture in a fruit-flavoured gelatin and you have party refresh ments.
:
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
11⁄2 cups pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Ham Lunch Ring Ham luncheon ring is a delicious, ring well. buffet supper er luncheon disk made in the new manner. Here is the recipe:
Dissolve one package of gelatin (aspic flavour) in one cup of boil- Ing water. Add three-quarters cup of cold water, set in icebox until It begins to thicken. Take out and beat in three-quarters cup of may- onnaise.
Then stir in one and one-half cups of cold, diced ham, two tablespoons of minced green pepper and two tablespoons of mineed dill pickle.
· Chill until firm and serve on a bed or other salad
of crisp lettuce
greens.
AN IMPROVISED
HANDLE
CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING
An Easy-To-Make Sweet
2 cups water
1⁄2 cup powdered milk
1 cup bread crumbs
1 square unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup sugar
Few grains of salt
2 eggs
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilia
Place water in container. Place powdered milk on top of water and
beat.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Beat egg yolks with wire until thick; gradually add sugar, beating continually, grated rind and lemon juice.
egg whites until stiff but not dry;
ORANGE JUICE IN SALADS
Best-Known Source Of Vitamin C
SHOULD BE USED FREELY
heavy.
are
Salt and pepper Minced parsley
1 small onion, chopped fine
Flake the fish, add the
On aouring, the light cream sep-the water from the drained celery
OMELETTE WITH HAM rises to the top and the milk which tabasco sauce, a teaspoon of wor
AND, GARLIC arates into two layers. The fat with tomato juice, adding a dash of was left in the cream settles to the cestershire sauce and a few drops bottom. If the cream is skimmed of lemon juice.
Allow mixture to cool, then pour
Chop up as much cooked or raw from the top. it is the same as heavy cream, but if the top and into freezing tray of mechanical
Whisk in € bottom are stirred together the re-refrigerator and allow to freeze to ham, fat and lean together, as would sult is less rich and some other a mush before placing in cocktail fill a cup. Mix with it a section of
glasses garnished with a small slice garlic chopped fine.
eggs and fry in a pan with butter shortening is needed,
in the usual way for making an Remember that one-half teaspoon of lemon.
omelette. cup sour Boda is used with one cream and be careful to measure ac- curately. The amount of baking! powder ordinarily used is reduced jone-half.
Figa, olives, prunes, apricots and
Heayy, solid cream is used to raisina are valuable sources of food make pie or tart fillings, sour cream iron and add zest to any salad. Too frosting and some salad dressings much cannot be said for the use Quick breads, cakes, cookies and of oranges and orange juice in puddings of cake-like texture can be made of light cream with a small Beinds.
amount of additional shortening.
Not only is the flavour delicious Soak bread crumbs in reli- and refreshing, but orange juice is quified powdered milk. Melt choco-ready for immediate absorption into After tying the string round the late over hot water and add sugar the system. It is the best known basin for a steamed pudding pass and salt. Add soaked crumbs, beat curce of vitamin C, its mineral vanilla to chocolate elements are alkaline in reaction another piece across the top and tle en eggs and
mixture. Place in buttered custard and its calcium content good.
Oranges should not be regarded Becurely on the opposite side.
This will form a handle by which cups and bake in moderate oven
Sour cream salad dressing is es pecially good with fruit salads and keeps well.
Sour Cream Salad Dressing.
APPLE TOASTEE PUDDING
4 half-inch slices whole wheat
bread.
1 cup sweetened applesauce. 1 cup evaporated milk diluted
with.
1⁄2 cup water.
1⁄4 cup sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt
I well-beaten egg,
Cut bread in small triangles and Two tablespoons melted butter, 1 toast. Put 1/3 of toast in bottom tablespoon flour, 1-2 teaspoon salt. of greased baking dish. Cover with Add second as 2 tablespoons sugar, 1-4 teaspoon half of applesauce.
Top with remain-
the basin can be removed from the 350 degrees F., about 20 minutes or a breakfast fruit only, but should celery salt, 1-8 teaspoon paprika layer of each. saucepan without the danger of until custard is set. Serve hot. be used freely in salads, while the few grains clanamon, 2 drops, vaniling toast. Mix. milk, water, egg:
scalded fingers.
plain or with hard sauce.
NO dining table is complete without it
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SAVING. ONE'S THUMB
vege-
In preparing fruits and tables, use a heavy rubber thumb cot like those used by stenographers and file clerks, and the thumb of
the right hand is not cut and stained
as it used to be.
Fruit Sherbet.
1⁄2 cup orange juice
1⁄2 cup lemon juice
1 cup crushed banana
1 cup powdered sugar
Allow this to set and arrange another layer of sliced eggs, peas and carrots, covering them with gelatin. When the whole mould has set quite firm, turn it out on a flat dish and surround it with fresh crisp watercress.
GOOD FOR LATE SUPPER
Cheese Pancakes Are Quick Dish
Here we come with definitely new for
party.
Bomething
a late supper
Cheese Pancakes
11⁄2 cups flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1-8 cups milk
2 eg**
2 tablespoons butter, melted
6 tablespoons grated cheese
1 tablespoon salt
Beat the eggs, add milk and beat well together. Sift flour, resift with baking powder and salt. Stir liquid into dry ingredients, adding Then stir in melted butter last. cheese. Fry on griddle, being sure that pancakes are good size When done and not too thick. sprinkle with grated cheese and 2 cups milk
You may juice may be used not only for la, 4 tablespoons lemon juice, 2
sugar and salt together. Pour mix-
Mix in order given and stir un-melted' butter and roll.
Turn into also fill pancakes with cooked chop flavouring the salad dressing but in tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon ture into baking dish over toast
Blow til: sugar is dissolved. flavouring and dressing cooked
water, yolks 2 eggs, 1-2 cup heavy and apple-sauce. Bake in
aven 325 degrees. F. for 40 min-refrigerator freezing tray and freeze ped ham that has been mixed with vegetables.
Fills 2 plat trays. sour cream, 19 to 4 hours. It is sometimes difficult to per- Mix and gift flour, salt, cinnamon, utes, or until firm.
children
salads,
sugar, celery salt and paprika. Add until especially the leafy and vegetable to melted butter and stir
Children's tastes for salads thoroughly blended. Stir in lemon can best be cultivated by grating juice, vinegar and water. Cook and or chopping raw vegetables very stir over a low fire until thick and fine, and by combining them with smooth. Remove from fire and stir fruits and fruit juice dressings within yolks of egge. Let cool. the vegetables.
jauade
ones.
to eat
sour cream.
with vanilla to cooked mixture. The following recipe is especially cream and whip until firm. appealing to the small members of the family.
CAREFUL USE OF OVENWARE
Asbestos Mats Must Be Used
Chill Add
These seasonings, carefully select- ed and blended, make a salad dress- ing of fine flavour for fruits. The omission of cinnamon and vanilla and the addition of mustard and onion juice produce dressing for use with vegetables and means. FINE SOUP FOR SUMMER
!
Oven glass and fireproof oven- ware of all kinds may easily be Odd damaged if it is set down, while hot, on any cold surface, such as a atone slab, an earthenware sink, or
a wet draining-board.
Combination Gives
New Flavour
A brand new flavour in soap may
To prevent this, one or two be obtained through the use of cu asbestos mate should be kept at cumbers with a white stock base. hand., Hot dishes and casseroles This combination is odd, but makes
may be safely placed on these mats,
which protect them from sudden cold and also ensure that the sur- face below is not soiled or scorched.
KEEPING TINS AIRTIGHT
If you want to make a tin air-
Light seal it round the edge of the
·MUSHROOM OMELETTE
fine soup.
Cucumber Soup
2 or 3 cucumbers.
4 tablespoons butter..
4 tablespoons flour.
1 quart white stock.
2 eggs yolks, slightly beaten.
1⁄2 cup rich creams.
Peal cucumbers and slice thin, re-
lid with a piece of adhesive tape moving seeds. Melt the butter over This will keep the contents of the a slow fire, add the cucumbers, and tin perfectly fresh. One piece of simmer: 16 minutes. Blend in the tape can be used over and over flour. Set pot over a good fire and, wille stirring continuously, add the again.
stock gradually and bring quickly to a bold Lower flame and simmer 80 minutes or until vegetables are oma: peeled tender. Rub soup through a puree Ery them strainer, reheat, add to egga slowly "of butter and cook over het water for five the minutes, then add cream and season Nitto tarte with salt and pepper eve
'on and
DELICIOUS
HAVE
YOU TRIED
THE NEW
FRUIT-FILLED
“TUTTI-
FRUITTI"
ICE CREAM
30 cents.
Per Portion.
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13, Queen's Road, Central,