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SUGAR SYRUP FOR FRUIT DRINKS
Best When Sweetening Beverages
KEEP CANNED FRUIT JUICE
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934.
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Frufly, ley drinks make the hot days more bearable and
every
household should have an icebox
AVOID PROTEINS
TO REMAIN COOL ·
IN HOT WEATHER
Choice Of Food Important
BALANCED DIETS
In keeping cool during the sum-
drink reserve always ready former months choice of foods will guests and family.
wea
play an important part.
requirements Are The energy It is Interesting to know that ginger ale and innumerable other naturally less with warm bottled beverages made with her, so the caloric consumption "charged" or "carbonated" water of cool months should be reduced. are healthful drinks, according to The heat and humidity as well as the Chemical Research of the the tendency, toward physical in- United States. Department Agriculture.
of netivity make it unnecessary and Inadvisable to provide a diet rich
These beverages are of some in heat producing foods, food value due to the sugar used
However, it is vastly important
in their making, while the fruit to eat nourishing foods which are
MENU FOR DINNER COTTAGE CHEESE
Mezu Princess Soup Stuffed Liver Rolls German Fried Potatoes
Carrot Strips Coffee
Qrange. Moss
Princess Soup
4 cups chicken or beef broth
1/3 cup chopped onion
2/8 cup chopped celery 1 bay leaf
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1⁄2 cup cooked or canned peas 1 cup finely shredded lettuce
(outer leaves)
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons flour
1⁄4 cup water
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
Cook together broth, onion,
juices, selds and extracts and easily digested and will regulate celery and bay leaf for 10 min- other
Aromatic the functions of the body and utes. Add peas, lettuce, parsley flavours from
as well as herba and roots
the guard against the annoying di-,and milk. Mix flour and water to carbon dioxide gas present, act as gestive troubles. Always keep in smooth, thin paste. Stir info mix- mind that the stomach is as sen- ture and boil for 5 minutes. Add tonics and mild stimulants.
When you are making drinks sitive to the heat as any, part of salt and pepper. Serve at once.
organism and over- for summer refreshment, take the human
care not to make them too sweet. loading or over-taxing it in any
A sugar syrup is better than plain way may cause much unnecessary
sugar. This you can make
keep in a jar.
and distress.
Have Balanced Diet
Carrot Strips
9 medium-sized carrots
4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon sugar
I teaspoon chopped parsley
1⁄2 cup evaporated milk
20 minutes. Then add milk. Cook
5 minutes or until milk is ab- sorbed. Serve at once.
German Fried Potatoes
8 cups thinly-sliced potatoes 4 tablespoons chopped onion
3 tablespoons hot fat
11⁄2 teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
1 cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons chopped parsley Cook together potatoes, onion and fat in frying pan 15 minutes for until brown. Add salt, pepper, milk and parsley. Cook slowly 10 minutes or until mallkie absorbed.
Stuffed Liver Rells
3 cups bread, cubes
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
3 tablespoons malted shortening
1⁄2 cup evaporated milk
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
1⁄4 teaspoon sage
11⁄2 pounds thinly sliced liver 11⁄2 teaspoon pepper
HELPS TO SOLVE
MENU PROBLEMS
Nourishing Meals For Dog Days
SHORT-CUTTING "WORK
Are you wrestling with such problems as getting the family to use its quota of milk daily, balan cing the food budget, thinking up inviting and nourishing meals for the dog days and short-cutting Then you work in the kitchen?
In these may find your answer. recipes using cottage cheese.
A moulded cheese-ring filled with a salad of mixed vegetables, mix- jed fruits, chicken or fish is deli- clous for luncheon or Sunday night supper or any time you want it.
1
Moulded Cheese Ring One pound cottage cheese, green pepper, 4 teaspoon onion juice, 1⁄2 teaspoon Worcestershire Mix bread cubes, chopped onion, sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, 1⁄4 teas celery and melted shortening to poon white pepper, 1 cup whip- gether. Moisten with milk. Sea-ping cream, 1 tablespoon grank- son with salt, pepper, and sage. lated gelatine, 8 tablespoons cold Scald liver with boiling water, then water. drain and dry with towel. Sprinkle
Cover and cooklutes or until browned.
Rub cheese through sieve. Re- Try to maintain a balanced
with salt and pepper. Spread move seeds and pith from pepper Adding Sparkle And Pep
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
with bread stuffing, then roll up and chop flesh. Whip cream un- Ginger ale adds sparkle and pep diet, using the minimum amount
Wash and cut carrots Into-land wrap in 12 strips of bacon. til firm. Soften gelatine in cold to 9 fruit punch. Carbonated of fat and carbohydrate, possible
Melt butter in Secure with toothpicks. Bake in water for five minutes and dis- water gives a tang, while tea-dis.to keep the correct proportions, match-like strips.
Protein always is needed to take saucepan. Add carrots and sugar, hot oven 425 degrees, F. 20 min-solve over hot water. Combine tinctly changes the flavour. But
all the ingredients folding cream all give character whereas plain care of the wear and tear of the parsley and salt.
and dissolved gelatine in last. water merely lessens the fruity body. but because protein foods produc-
Turn into a ring mould which taste and increases the quantity.tend to increase energy
has been rinsed in cold water and Keep your refrigerator stockedtion in the system, it's advisable with bottles of sugar syrup, fruit to cut down on them, too.
let stand on ice for five or six When the heat is excessive,
hours or over syrup and ginger ale and you're
become firm. ready for customers at a minute's there are certain types of fooda it is wise to avoid. Rich sauces
with
any preferred notice.
The excess juice left
mayonnaise. from canning small fruits always and gravies, fried foods, rich
Instead of moulding this salad in a ring you can use it to stuff:
CHOPPED NUTS IN WELL-MADE LOAF
SALAD
can be used to advantage in sum- cakes and desserts, hot breads Necessary Nourishment
mer drinks. Lemon and lime and all kinds of aweets have a
decided heating effect 00 the body. All fats are heat producers
jufce give a pleasant tartness to all fruit punches and always should be added if at all possible, and some are difficult to digest
Grated lemon rind added to the as well.
endurable.
Provided
SUBSTANTIAL GARNISH
*
The housewife who has to con-
HAS MANY USES
IN ENTERTAINING
Recipe For All Manner
Of Parties
be used for all manner of summer
Cheese Sandwich Loar
night to chill and Unmould and serve salad and
tomatoes. Prepare tomatoes for stuffing, fill with cheese mixture and let stand on ice to chill and congeal. Be sure salt the in- verted for an hour before filling. This draws out the excess juice and makes the flesh firm.
Stured Fruits
Choose fine large prunes, dates cherries or larger fruita if you prefer them. Rub one-half
The foods to eat are freak Chopped nuts are the perfect FOR SUMMER AND FALL sugar syrup while it is hot adds fruits and vegetables, meat or its ingredients for summer salads. The uses
of a well made sand- immensely to the flavour of the substitute not oftener than once They add the right amount of wich loaf for entertaining are fruit beverage. Make a simple a day. And drink plenty of milk nourishment to a dish that other manifold Here is a recipe for this syrup as usual. When cooked, and water. Three well-balanced wise might be considered too add the grated rind of two lemonsmeals with for every cup of sugar used and minating will
these foods predo-light to keep the consumer from useful and attractive food that may let stand until cool. Strain and making even
do much toward getting hungry before the next {partica: bottle or use aa wanted.
very hot weather meal. Whenever it's possible, make
Fresh fruits and vegetables are sider the healthy appetites of a Remove crust from a smaller cup cottage cheese through the punch several hours before it will be used. The flavours blend refreshing and cooling because husband and growing sons will loaf of sandwich bread. Trim, loai sieve, season with 1⁄4 teaspoon salt with each other as well as the they are low in calories which do well to plan menus that cen-land slice bread lengthwise into five and 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper and 1 drop onion juice. Work until produce heat and energy. Vitamins tre around salads which are tong slices. Be sure slices are finer and mineral constituents, so es "filling" as well as cool and ap-only 1-3 of an inch thick. Butter smooth and fill cavities of fruits one or twe sential for maintaining health are petising.
slices on both sides except top and with mixture. Serve
stuffed dates and several stuffed Brazil nuts go well with near bottom slices, making fillinga 23 supplied in abundance. They are
cherries on a bed of lettuce with valuable, too, on account of their ly everything but particularly do follows:
French dressing. structure, which acts as ballast or they lend themselves in a delec roughage and is as necessary in
Auvor and the drink is
flavour and smooth.
A GOOD FRUIT SOUFFLE
Tempting Tiffin Sweet
summer as in winter.
Sip Cold Drinks Slowly.
-
If larger fruits, are chosen try
serving one-half stuffed peach
Red filling. Four slices, ham, table way to fruit salads. Here's chopped fine; 8 slices crisp boiled a fine recipe for a main course bacon, cut fine; 1 chopped pimen and one-half stuffed pear and one- summer salad that uses chopped
Brazil nutar
- Brazil Nut Garnish
Of course plenty of liquide al Why not plan on serving a de-ways are needed. But as heat licious fruit souffle? You may causes more rapid evaporation nuts. crash up any of the berries for from the surface of the body, into fine strips, one inch long, and
this dish.
Fruit Souffle
1 cup fruit pulp
Sugar
3 egg whites
Salt
elimination.
NUTRITIOUS WHEAT PUDDING
half stuffed apricot You can use Yellow filling-Yolks of 8 hard- fresh or canned fruits, drained Shred one-half pound of Brazil cooked eggs, seasoned with salt, from their juice.
Cut one small pineapple pepper and 1⁄2 teaspoon vinegar.
White Glling One-half pack- larger amount of milk and water add one diced pimento. Then go white cream cheese, softened and fruit juices are required in put in a dash of curry powder with a grated cucumber warm weather to insure adequate (no more than can be put on the Green filling--Four small sweet tip of the blade of a small knife), pickles and 6 sprige of watercress Iced beverages are inviting on the juice of one lemon, a pinch or parsley, chopped fine. a hot day but remember that of salt and one-quarter pint of All these fillings should be mix- Heat the fruit pulp with sugar they are drunk rapidly they may whipped cream.
ed with a little salad dressing to and pinch of salt, then fold in the cause discomfort by the sudden Mix the ingredients together make them easy to spread. Spread stiffly beaton egg whites. Fill a chilling of the stomach. Slowly in an ice cold bowl and, when slices of buttered bread with the greased mould three-quarters full, sipping very cold drinks and ready to serve, line a platter, with lings in order given. Soften 3 set in a pan of hot water and bake slowly eating frozen dishes is the bits of crisp lettuce and put the packages of white crean. in na moderate oven, $75 degrees, safest way and the most effec-salad in the centre. Garnish with awcet cream and spread on Serve with whipped tive, too, because it creates a with pieces of pimento, two the outside of loaf, as you would
aliced, hard-boiled eggs and Brazil ice a cake. Ices and sherbets are more cool-nuts-cut-lengthwise ing than ice creams. The higher the fat content in any dessert,
until frm. cream.
Cheese Rolls In American Style.
more lasting coolness.
frozen or otherwise, the more cal- GINGERALE PUNCH ories and consequently the more
1⁄2 cup grated American cheese heat.
2 tablespoons chopped dill
pickles
1 tablespoons chopped onion
1/8 cup chopped celery
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
14 teaspoon paprika
4 tablespoons salad dressing
Mix all ingredients and when
soft and creamy spread on butter-
ed graham bread, cut long way of
loaf. Roll up and wrap in waxed
paper. Chill, When ready
serve cüt in“ 1/3 inch slices.
ENEMY OF RUST.
to
GREEN CORN GRIDDLE MUFFINS
2 cups green corn, cut from cob
1⁄2 cup milk, or1⁄2 cup if corn is
dry
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups flour
$ teaspoons baking powder
11⁄2 teaspoons
teaspoon pepper
(For Six)
1 pint gingerale cup sugar
2 cups water
1⁄4 cup lemon juice
2/3 cupa orange juice Chopped Ice
Boll sugar and water 2 minutes. Cool, add fruit juices and chill. When ready to serve, add gingerale and pour into glasses.
half. filled with chopped "Ice. Top with red
4 tablespoons shortening, melt-cherries and mist and serve imme
ed
diately.
HYGIENE IN THE KITCHEN
Tha
kept
Mix together corn; milk": "and beaten eggs. Add four sifted with baking
and epper. mix well. muffin rings th
Vinegar will remove rust Add melt stalps from the sink Simply Drop into pour.on a few drops, leave them placed on a there for at least 15 minutes, and slowly
then scour the sink in the usual turn and bake und brow
:other?
cheese
COCONUT KISSES AS TEA CAKE
Easy Made And Tasty
Coconut kisses are really. candy but they may be served a fancy tea cake.
Mix together
„34 cup sugara
1
cups shredded coconut 1 tablespoon flour
4 cup raisina:
cup candied cherries and
4 teaspoon salt. Add and mix
Health-Giving Dessert
*For Kiddies
2 cups water
- 1⁄2 cup powdered, milk 5 tablespoons flour.
Few grains of salt
2 egg whites
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
Place water in container. Place powdered milk on top of water and beat. Bend flour and a little of [the cold reliquefied powdered milk to a smooth paste. Scald remainder: of milk and add flour mixture. Cook thoroughly, add salt and flavouring and fold in the white of egg beaten alightly. Put into cold, wet mould [cool, and set in ice box to harden. Serve with soft custard sauca of whipped cream or sprinkle with powdered sugar, and pour over 16 1⁄2 cup (fresh fruit juice or crushed fruit Serves six.
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