THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935
FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
BRIDGE MENUS
Help For The Card Hostess
EASILY PREPARED DISHES
When the last no-trump has been bid and the last hair-rais- ang re-double has been won-ori lost-it suddenly becomes time Good food and plenty of to eat. it is the only cure for that empty feeling after the mental strain of a good keen. game of bridge. Pity the poor hostess who, crav
ing relaxation. must bestir her-
smooth Roll out 1 inch thick. Cat with floured biscuit cutter. Bake in Place on greased pan.
hot oven at 475 degrees F about 12 minutes. Makes 16 two-inch biscuits.
Allegretti Cake
14 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups pastry four
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
Créam shortening, add sugar. ja little at a time, beating in well;
self to provide refreshment for add unbeaten egg whites, one at her guests. It behoves her to a time, beating well, after each Sift serve food that will be hearten-addition. Add flavouring. ing and cost her the last possible together four, baking powder and salt: add alternately. with mixture. Pour Moulded meat or fish salads milk to first are most satisfactory dishes to into well greased 3-inch spring serve when entertaining because form pan-
effort
Bake in moderate
Sea Foam Frosting
they can be prepared the day oven at 350 degrees F. about 50 Cool: cover top and before the party. Then in alminutes. Jiffy, they may be turned out on sides with Sea Foam Frosting- They After frosting has set, spread salad greens and served. are delicious. dairty, and yet just top thinly with bitter chocolate satisfying enough to serve nicely icing. as the main course of a Fight Buncheon. Such a salad served with a simple hot bread, and fol- Jowed by a piece of delicious cake with plenty of good coffee. will even the warm the heart of bridge. player with the lowest
score.
Specimen Luncheon
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons strong coffee 14 teaspoon cream of tartar Whites of 2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
Boil sugar water. coffee and The following suggestions for cream of tartar without stirring bridge luncheons may prove help-until syrup spins a long thread at 248 degrees F. Pour ver fui:
Islowly over beaten egg whites. beating continually until thick Add enough to hold its shape. salt. whip again and spread thickly on cake.
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Ham Luncheon. Ring
Hot Biscuit - Allegretti Cake Coffee II
Shrimp and Ripe Olive Salad
Whole Wheat Biscuits. Prune Cake.
Coffee
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Bitter Chocolate Icing
4 squares (4 oz) unsweetened
chocolate
1/3 cup sugar-
14 cup water
Melt chocolate in top of double
Vanilla Ice Cream
Two New York public school girls pull black cotton stockings over their silken hose as they reach school, because the board of Education is against the wearing of silk ones. More than 2,000 girls. have threatened to revolt and wear silks in class regardless of a re- gulation they term as “unjusi.”
Some Casserole Dishes
Easy To Prepare
SEVERAL RECIPES READY FOR YOU
Here are some casserole dishes, which will not give much difficulty: to prepare:-
Baked Spinach
I No. 2 can spinach.
2 cups rich white sauce. Speek of nutmeg.
1/3 cup grated cheese. Drain spinach and chop
Add nutmeg.
NUT MUFFINS
2 cups pastry four ·
1 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons sugar
1 488
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1/3 cup broker nats
POTATO DISHES CHOP SUEY
New Methods Of Cooking
SIX RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Here are six recipes which will help the housewife to vary ber methods of serving potatoes
Potato Baskets
6 medium-sized potatoes
1 tablespoon fat
2 tablespoons" chopped onion
1 tablespoon flour.
$ tablespoons cooked or canned
mushrooms, chopped
1 tablespoon minced parsley
eup evaporated milk
4 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
34 teaspoon paprika
I additional tablespoon fat
Wash potatoes and cut slice from
or until brown.
Potato Fritters
3 large potatoes
134 cups bread four
4 teaspoon salt
1 well-beaten egg
A Chinese Cook's Recipe
Those who are particularly ford of Chinese food have found the chop suey, chow mein and other
2/3 cup evaporated milk diluted Chinese delicacies served at East-
with
1/3 cup water
ern especially suited to, their taste. The Chinese cook at a Manila hotel Peel, wash and wipe the potatoes bas finally agreed to part with his dry. Cut into 7-inch slices. Mix culinary secrets and here, contri- flour and salt. 'Add egy and dilut-| butes his famous chop suey recipe. ed milk. Beat to smooth batter. Dip potato slices in batter Fry in deep fat 390 degrees F. hot enough to brown a 1-inch cube of bread in 40 seconds. Drain on -unglazed salt and paper. Sprinkle with serve very hot.
(Continued From Last Coltimen) Add mushrooms, chestnuts, and vegetables. Add pint water andi cook until vegetables are tender.
top fer
top and bottom. Scoop out centers Season with salt and pepper. Turn to form cups Place cups in cold out on hot plate. putting sliced] water and dice centers. Melt fat sausages and parsley on Add chopped onion and brown garnish. Serve Chinese toyo sauce slightly. Blend in four. Add mush-on side. rooms and ratsley. Stir in diced potatoes. Cook until golden brown. Stir in milk, pepper, salt and pap rika slowly. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Dry potato cups and fill with mixture. Rub skins with fat. Bake in hot oven 300 degress. F. 35 minutes or until potatoes are tender..
Melrose Potatoes
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
1 cup evaporated milk dilated.
with
1 cup water
2 tablespoons peanut butter
3 caps diced, cooked potatoes
44 cup dry breadcrumbs, buttered
Melt butter in top of double boiler. Blend in four, salt and pepper. "Stir milk in slowly. Cook Mix ingredients and beat one until thick, stirring constantly. Cook until minute. Half all greased muffin Add peanut butter. pans and bake 15 minutes in mode- well Slended, stirring constantly. Add potatoes. Put into greased
Anerate ove
Casserole Of Chicken Noodles
1 No. 1 can boneless chicken.
2 cups mediam white sauce.
1 small package noodles.
CHOCOLATE FILLED CAKE
1/3 cup fat.
2/3 cup sugar.
1⁄2 cup milk.
by simply serving a tomato juice boller. Boil sugar and water to- cocktail or a cup of hot tomato gether five minutes to make a bouillon with crisp cheese thin syrup.. Pour slowly into Add to white sauce. crakers as a first course.
melted chocolate, beating con-Place in a baking dish and sprin- When slightly thickkie with cheese. Bake for 10 min- Then there are the two old tinually. stand-byes. ice cream and cake. consistency, spread thinly on toputes- which are universally acceptable of white or other frosting already With Royal puddings, almost any on cake. kind of ice cream can be made: in the morning, put in the smechanical refrigerator. and Forgotten, no matter how long the game may last. A parti- cularly effective way of serving this ice cream is to make it in milk, bring to boil, stirring con-water. Drain a double tray, and turn it out on stantly. Remove from fire, and water. Pour into shallow dish of ingredient and, beat 2 minutes, Cool slightly and pour Corer with creamed chicken. Top Pour into 2-layer cake pans lined a large platter. However, if the sugar. hostess wishes to display her into refrigerator freezing tray to with buttered crumbs and brown with waxed papers. Bake 20 min best crystal sherbet glasse it is chill. Let freeze about one hour in over for 15 minutes. Just as delicious anl ornamentaljor until very thick but not hard; served this way.
1 package vanilla pudding 1 cup granulated sugar 2 cups milk
1 cup cream, whipped.
1/3 cup buttered cracker crumbs
Heat chicken in white
with Cook noodles in Mix vanilla pudding
The following recipes are sug-about three or four hours. gested to the hostess as delicious possibilities that are easy to
prepare:
Prune Cake
14 cup butter
34 cup sugar
2 eggs
1
cups pastry flour
1 teaspoons baking powder
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon soda
1⁄4 cup sour heavy cream
cup milk
cup chopped stewed prunes
teaspoon vanilla extract
cup chopped pistachio nuts
or candied cherries
Freeze
fold in whipped cream.
Har Luncheon King
1 package gelatin
dessert (lemon flavour)
1 cup boiling water
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cold water
1/4 cup vinegar
3/4 cup mayonnaise
sance.
boiling salted
and rinse in cold.
Tongue And Rice Casserole
2 tablespoons melted butter. 1/3 cup bread crumbs.
1 teaspoon minced parsley.
1 teaspoon minced onion.
1 egg yolk
1 No. 1 can lunch tongue.
1 cup boiled, seasoned rice.
1⁄2 teaspoon paprika.
1/4 cup grated cheese.
1 tablespoon butter.
Mix first five ingredients
1 teaspoon vanilla. teaspoon salt
2/3 cups four.
3 teaspoons baking powder. Cream fat and sugar. Add rest
utes in moderate oven-
CHOCOLATE FILLING
1 square chocolate, cut fine
16 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 egg
111⁄2 cups milk
Leaspoon salt
and
14 teaspoon vanilla.
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1 cups cold ham, cut in small spread in botton of baking dish. Mix chocolate, sugar, four and
pieces
baking dish.
Top with bread:
crumbs. Bake in hot oven, 400 de- grees F. 15 minutes or until brown,
Lyonnaise Potatoes.
3 tablespoons fat.
1⁄4 cup sliced onion
3 cups diced, cooked potatoes
1 teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper
cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons minced parsley
Melt fat in frying pan. Add onion and cook 5 minutes. Adú potatoes, salt and pepper. Pour in until milk is absorbed. Fold and milk. Cook slowly without stirring tuzz onte hot platter. Sprinkle with minced parsley.
Potato Cheese Puff
3 cups hot mashed potatoes 11⁄2 cups grated cheese 1.pimiento, chopped
2 well-besten egg yolles.
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
2/3 cup evaporated milk
2 stiffy-beaten egg whites
Beat together vigorously the pota-
Cover with layer of sliced tongue egg. Add milk. Cook until toes, cheese pimiento, egg yolk, bat- 2 tablespoons minced green Sprinkle with paprika and grated very thick and creamy. Stir ter, salt, pepper, and milk Fold in cheese. Dot with butter and bake constantly. Add rest of ingredi- eggs white. Drop from a table- dill in moderate over. 375 degrees Fents. Cool Use filling.
pepper
2 tablespoons minced
pickle 1/2 teaspoon prepared
tard
for 30 minutes.
MUS-
Eggplant Creole
2 cups eggplant.
Dissolve gelatin in
boiling
Cream butter, add sugar, beat water. Add vinegar, seasonings well Add eggs one at a time, and cold water. Chill until it Gradually beating well after each addition begins to thicken. Sift together flour, baking beat in mayonnaise and fold in powder, salt and soda. Mix remaining ingredients. Mould in cream, milk and prune pulp to individual ring moulds or in loaf gether and add alternately with pan. Chill until firm. Serve on the four to the first mixture lettuce:
Add vanilla extract and nuts or Scherries. Bake in a greased @shallow pan in moderate oven at €350 degrees F. about 50 minutes..
Whole Wheat Biscuits
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
tablespoons shortening.
cup milk:
Shrimp & Ripe Olive Salad
1 package gelatin
dessert (lemon flavour)
1 cup boiling water
1 cup cold water
1% teaspoon salt·
3/4 cup shrimps cut in half
lengthwise
1/4 cup ripe olives, cut in circles
4 small slices canned pineapple
Dissolve gelatin, in bolling
1⁄2 cup canned tomatoes.
1 tablespoon chopped onion..
1 tablespoon chopped green pep
per.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
1⁄4 teaspoon pepper.
1⁄2 cup buttered bread crumbs. Prepare eggplant and stew for
FRESH FRUIT SALAD
4 slices pineapple
4 slices evacado pear
1/3 cup French dressing
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Mix all ingredients and chill 1
Serve on lettuce leaves.
Lima Benus Au Gratin
3 slices bacon, chopped.
20: minutes in as little water as hour. possible. When done, drain and (place a layer of eggplant in ̧« but- tered baking dish. Pour tomatoes over it Sprinkle with onion and pepper. Add another layer of- egz plant and top with battered crumbs. Bake in oven, 375 degrees F. for 20 minutes.
“Creole Senerkrant
1 No. 21⁄2 can sauerkrant. water; add cold water and salt. 1 cup tomato juice.
6 alices bacom
Sift together flour, baking When gelatin begins to thicker.
4 teaspoons flour.
1 No 2 can lima beans
1⁄2 cup grated American cheese.
teaspoon salt.
1⁄2 cup buttered bread crumbs.
spoon. onto a greased baking sheet. Bake in moderate oven 350 degrees F. 25 minutes or until brown.
Potatoes Au Gratin
2 cups diced potatoes
34 cup sliced onion
2 cups, boiling water
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour.
1 teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper
1⁄2 cup evaporated milk diluted
with
1⁄4 cup liquid off potatoes
1 pimiento, chopped
cap grated American cheese
34 cup dry bread crumbs, butter-
ed
Cook potatoes and onion in boil- ing water for 10 minutes." Drain and save liquid Put potatoes in greased baking dish. Melt butter
in top of double boiler. Blend in
Cook bacon until crisp. Blend Hour, salt and pepper. Stir in with flour. Add beans and cheese gradually milk pimiento and
in baking Season Cook mutil smooth and cheese, Cook until thickened, stir
der and salt; add shortening add shrimps and olives. Fil Face sauerkraut and mix in thoroughly with fork four individuais mould Fit dish. Add tomato juice and top thickened. Place in individual bak-ring constantly. Pour sauce onto liquid to make soft dough pineapple into each mould. Chill bacon Bake until bacon is ing dishes and top with battered potatoes. Sprinkle top with 1⁄2 cup on-foured board and until firm, serve with a gazish crap. Bake in oven 375 degrees crumbs, Brown in hot oven 400 dry bread crumbs. Bake in mode-
degrees F. for 10 minutes.
tzte oven 350 degrees F. 20 minutes foss lightly until outside looks of lettuce and mayonnaise, “
Fosfor 20 minutes.
Chop Suey (Serving 4 Persons)
-Raw meat of 1 chicken, sliced thin Rax liver and giblets of 1
chicken, sliced thin
10 button mushrooms, sliced 10 water chestruts, sliced
2 stalks American celery, sliced
head fresh cauliflower
1 cup fresh bean sprouts
1 carrot, sliced
1 cup sliced bamboo sprouts 1 cup pechay
8 pieces sliced canton sausages Parsley, salt and pepper.
Saute chicken, liver, and giblets in hot peanut oil for 2 minutes. Continued at Foot of Preceding Col.
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