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SALADS SUPREME ON MENU
Health-Giving Dish Holds First Place
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FRENCH SERVING STYLE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Ham Cornucopias PINEAPPLE SALADS PROVIDE Apple Snow
For Breakfast
Can Be Served Cold
Toast some strips of bread, hutter them, and sprinkle thickly with finely chopped hard-boiled What is the dish that should reign
cgg. Have some thin slices of ham supreme on the menu? People used ready, fold into cornucopias, and to award the crown to Christmas All with cream cheese, mixed with roast turkey and rich plum pudding, cream and onion juice. or a beautifully decorated birthday. cake.
BETTY
Delicious Sweet For
Hot Days
Melt two tablespoonfuls of but- ter and brown a pint of fina, dry. breadcrumbs in it.
HEALTH
Natural Balancing Of Diet
MOST VALUABLE FOOD
Pudding Easy
To Make
1 package quick-setting gelatin (lemon)
4 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
1⁄2 cup cold water.
2 egg whites
Raw salads, besides containing the vitamins and mineral salts necessary to bodily health, provide bulk, roughage and moisture which is helpful in softening and lubricat ing waste matter. Therefore salads 1 tablespoon lemon juice are healthful laxatives as well as
Dissolve getalin, sugar and salt; Finish with crumbs, and bake in valuable foods. It is a mistake to in bolling water. Add cold water; a hot oven for about twenty min-serve salads at the end of a meal. chill until mixture begins, to
Mix with four ounces of sugar, and make alternate layera in a greased fireproof dish with the Arrange the cornucopies on the rained contents of a small tin of toast strips, and serve cold, gar-pineapple. But now we all know better.nished with parsley. The salad has been elevated to its
true position because of its-health- HOW TO KEEP CUT
The salad is. giving ingredients.
FLOWERS FRESH
In
Arrange In Cool Dark Place
deserving of much more attention than it usually receives. Europe, ments are rarely served without an accompanying leaf of fruit salad or both, and more atten- tion is paid to the flavouring and mixing of salads.
Flowers from your garden will
Serve with hard utes. favoured with nutmeg.
saure,
FOR SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER
The true French style of serving remain fresh much longer if they Veal And Ham Pie An
lettuce is as follows. The lettuce, are put into cold water the minuto
a bucket of La first washed and allowed to they are cut. Take
into the garden with you become very crisp in ice cold water, water It is then drained thoroughly and and, as each flower is cut, put it wrapped in a piece of cheese cloth into the water. or a tea-towel and placed on ice, until ready to serve.
Excellent Dish
A real and ham "ple makes an excellent dish for Sunday night's supper or, if baked in small ple dishes, these pies provide appetising
When you're ready to rearrange them in vases, do so in a cool, dark lunches. place.
APRICOT JAM
1 large tart red apple
To secure their full enjoyment, thicken. Grate unpeeled apple and salads should be eaten first, as they pour the lemon juice over it.. Add. not only stimulate the appetite but to thickened gelatin mixture and in their lusciousness and freshness whip. When light and frothy, add
increase the flow of saliva which in legg whites beaten very stiff. Con- | turn causes a flow of gastric juices tinue to beat until mixture holds which prepare for better digestion. its shape. Pile into sherbet The greatest argument in favour glasses or moulds. Chill. Serves
eight. of eating raw sugden every day in
A FRUIT SALAD DRESSING
the need of balancing the diet. Meat, fish, poultry and breads are Fruits and acid forming foods. green vegetables are valuable as a means of counteracting excessive accumulation of acid elements in Can Be Kept For Many
Occasions
the blood,
The liberal use of citrous fruite A pound and a half of veal and half a pound of ham will be enough and tomatoes together with other for five or six people. The fillet is raw leafy greens is the best way to the best part to use for this dish. keep the diet alkaline and thus Cut up the meat into small pieces, maintain the natural balance in the uz. and fry for two or three minutes body.
The salad bowl is first rubbed with a clove of garlic or slice of onion. Into this bowl are measured four tablespoons of salad cil, a half teaspoon of salt, a half teaspoon of One pound of dried apricots, 3% pepper, a half teaspoon of celery-16 sugar, 4 pints water, 1
and over until they are coated and longer. ahlny with the dressing.
and 3
Add about
Eggs In Cocottes
Quick Tiffin Dish
1 cup pineapple juice Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 orange
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Z beaten eggs
1 cup whipping cream
Balt and one teaspoon of sugar. almonds. Wash the fruit, soak for in dripping, until just browned. A Boil the little finely chopped onion may be Mix well with a spoon and slowly 48 hours in the water. add four tablespoons of lemon juice. fruit and water for one hour. Add added. Cover the bottom of a pie
Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt.j Break, but do not cut, the lettuce sugar, allow to dissolve; boll again dish with the meat, and season well Mix for one hour. Add the almonds with pepper, salt, chopped parsley,
Mix fruit juices. Add fruit Juices leaves and put into the bowl.
Boil B few minutes little grated lemon riad.
to dry mixture and cook in top of thoroughly, turning the leaves over shredded.
Turn out into warm dry pinch of mixed herbs.
For six people take a gill of but double boiler for 20 minutes. Re Cover with a slice or two of ham, tered crumbs, half a pint of grated move from fire and add well-beaten pote; cover with parchment.
and continue filling up the dish in cheese, a teaspoonful each of salt egg yolke. Cook again for, five this way until it is full. Two hard and mustard, and six eggs.
minutes, stirring constantly. boiled eggs cut into slices may be
Butter the cocottes, sprinkle Remove from fire, combine with put in, if desired.
with cheese and a little salt and stiffly beaten egg whites, then cool cupful of stock, and cover the pie mustard, spread an egg on top and This can be kept in a jar in rofri- with good flaky pastry. Leave a cover with more cheese. Sprinkle gerator for future use. hole in the middle, brush the top with mustard and salt and cover with beaten egg, and bake for one with buttered crumbe.
SPINACH SALAD IS and a half to two hours. The oven
Place the cocottes in a baking tin
A VARIATION should be hot for half an hour, then of water and bake in a moderate! moderate.
oven for ten minutes. Serve on When the pie is cooked, pour in small plates with little lace Use cooked spinach for salad, and another cupful of hot gravy. If the d'oyleys, and garnish with sprigs beat into the cold puree a table. pie is to be eaten cold and the stock of parsley. does not jelly, dissolve a little powdered gelatine in it before use.
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Tomatoes Form Base Of Quick Dish
spoonful of melted butter. Put the puree (which should be rather
WHEN FLOURING tiff) into buttered moulds, and let
FISH
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This is a very tasty little savoury.
Housewives will appreciate this Slice six tomatoes half an inch way of flouring fish. Take a thick and bake for a few minutes strong
paper or linen bag and
on a buttered fin. Heat in a sauce-pour into it a small quantity, of pan three ounces of butter, season flour. Drop in the fish and give with salt and cayenne pepper, add the bag a good shaking.
If the
a pinch of caster sugar and half fish is then taken out with a pair
a teaspoonful of made mustard. of tongs the hands will not be Stir all well together. Dip each made messy, and the fish will be allée of tomato in the dressing and perfectly floured-with no waste. lay on hot buttered toast; pour over
all that remains of the dressing..
Have ready cooked, and tossed in very hot seasoned butter the point
from a moderate sized bundle of Arrange. In A circla
asparagus. round the toast.
This dish must be prepared
EDIBLE FLOWERS
Often Used By Cooks
In The Past
With a different outlook entirely expeditionaly so that it is served from that of the lady who cried for
very hot.
hyacinths instead of bread, does Miss Florence White in her book
SOMETHING NEW IN "Flowers as Food" write of the
SHORT CAKE
2 young coconuts."
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoons shortening
Sift dry ingredients together. “ Work in butter; and milk to make| a soft dough. Roll on foured board to desired thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake in a hot oven: 20 to 26 minutes. Split, but- ter, and fill with shredded coconut previously sweetened with sugar and chilled.. Top with the shred- ded coconut mixture. Serve with coconut" cream and augat,q
MAPLE SYRUP FOR PADE DERFROSTINGAME
flowers.
Miss White makes out quite a long list of "edible" flowers, though roses, violets, and marigolds appear to have been specially honoured by the cooks of the past. It is impor- tant, however, she points out, to know exactly which part of a flower is edible.
COCONUT CAKE
1⁄2 cup grated cocontre 4 tablespoons butter
1⁄2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1⁄2 cup coconut milk
1 cup flour
Pinch of salt
11⁄2 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter end sugar; add flavouring and beaten-erg. Add" milk and mix thoroughly. Then add four gifted with baking pow maple syrup, mixed with confeeder and salt Mix adding shred- [Honor's sugar tinkës most deli dea coconut Transfer to cake tim
clous frosting for a cake.
and thake in alom oven.
it stand overnight, Turn it out and decorate each mould with pieces of cold bolled tongue.. Garnish this. with little bits of tomatoes, and serve with cold tartar sauce..
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