KAY JOHNSON, CERTAINLY SALADS!
THAT'S
for dinner, what's for
We supper?"
Two tablespoonfuls seven days a sauce and dash of -week, and twice a day, the house- Sauce.
wife has to cudgel her brains. Now the weather is warm, appetites get more fickle. - Something different, and tasty, must be served up if the family are to do justice to food.
their
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1937.
HOUSEWIFE, ABOUT
KNOWS
of
tomato Worcester
A small piece of butter. About 2oz of cottage cheese, or four portions of Velveeta.
Seasoning.
halve
and
Hard boil the eggs, remove the yolks. Beat these to a Salads are just about the best soft cream with the butter, season- summer food you can have, anding and sauce.
ous.
there are so many variations possi- Make a nest of lettuce on indivi- arrange ble that they need not be monoton-dual serving plates, and
the sliced tomato and cucumber on Don't forget the dressing, though, it. Stand the two halves of a stuf- Dot about for it adds to the food value of the fed egg in the middle.
Only salad, as well as making, it more the chopped apple and cheese.
add the apple just before serving, appetising.
else it will discolour.
For a really quick-to-prepare meal, make a salad, with fish, cheese or eggs in it, for the main course. With a sweet to follow it is amply satisfying, and full of Try, for instance.
COTTAGE SALAD
2
half tablespoonfuls
Any cream or mayonnaise dress- ing is good with it, but this is par- ticularly nice:
One and vitamins.
vinegar, three tablespoonfuls oil, two tablespoonfuls cream, one teas- poonful made mustard (French is raw nicest), salt and pepper, one
vinegar, Mix together egg yolk. mustard, egg yolk and seasoning,
For four people you need:-
A good-sized lettuce.
A small cucumber.
7
Two or three tomatoes or a beet-When well blended stir in the oil
root.
Two apples.
Four eggs.
Special Drawer For
Nail Polish
and lastly cream.
HOT MEAT AND COLD SALAD As a variation to the usual cold
hot meat and mixed salad, have meat and plain, green salad, and omit cooked vegetables.
Fried or grilled cutlets of veal (buy shoulder of veal and cut it into half-inch-thick slilces yourself
thick An indispensable item in every it's more economical) with woman's boudoir is a special "nail gravy, spaghetti and lettuce salad polish drawer," in which she may is fit for a king, and it's simple to keep a selection of those
various do..
Have you tried devilled potatoes? beef, They are. grand with cold
colourful little bottles of polish, pol- ish remover and cuticle remover so necessary in keeping the nails dain-ham or lamb. Melt a tablespoonful ty and beautiful.
of butter in a pan, and half a spoon- One shade of polish does not fit ful of mustard, salt, a little cay- all times of day. Daytime polishes enne and then about half
a tables- should be light pastels, such as rose, poonful of vinegar. Cook for three flesh or pink; while night calls for or four minutes. Lastly, add about deeper shades, such as carmine or six small potatoes and the beaten blood red. Dusky copper hues are yolk of an egg- Stir till the mix- good for outdoors, just as palerture thickens.
tints are best for bridge luncheons There are times when a hot sup and teas.
per dish seems essential.
A carefully planned "beauty bri- LE COD'S ROE PANCAKES gade” of nail polish bottles will help are soon made, and make a pleasant keep hands more noticeable; more change. Crush the ready cooked and lovely. Through the transparent still hot cod's roe, add 1oz. butter. walls of the glass container the two teaspoonfuls tomato sauce and polish may be seen and selected im- the. mediately.
Asking For Trouble!
same of anchovy sauce. one teaspoonful lemon juice and a dash of pepper. These quantities are for a large roe-about llb.
Make thin pancakes (the mixture can be prepared previously), put à tablespoonful of the hot roe in the middle of each one and roll up.
Cod's roes can be bought canned, very inexpensively, if the fresh are not obtainable. I If liked, an omelette mixture, made with a tablespoonful of milk ane of breadcrumbs or
Weetabix to each egg, can be sub- stituted for the pancake batter. You are asking for trouble if you
If you are putting up a meal to ignore rules and regulations and fail to obey danger signals. For instance, go out, or are expecting friends to to constipation, bilious attacks, liverish-drop in, sandwiches are hard ness, sick headaches are danger signals beat-provided they are good. which can only be disregarded at the real risk of your health. To relieve Minced meat or ham, with chop- congestion in the digestive tract, to ped salad, moistened with sauce, stimulate the liver, to dispel sick- is a satisfying filling, and it makes headaches and to banish biliousness fine, tidy sandwiches that are easy nothing is better than Pinkettes.
Cheese. with Gentle yet thorough in action, these to eat in public!
dainty laxative pilules help to purify crisp apple is good, too, as is whip the breath, brighten the eves, and keep ped banana with strawberry jam. the skin free from blemishes. Chemists
Remember, too, herrings →everywhere sell Pinkettes,
Here she
tells you
how to make
some hot weather dishes.
nourishing.
tables-
SELSEY HERRINGS Get 6 fresh herrings, a poonful vinegar, 3 tablespoonfuls grated horse radish, ful of fine salt, white wine vinegar, 4 tablespoonfuls cream, a dash of cayenne, a pinch
of dry mustard, a pinch of castor sugar, and a teaspoonful of tarra- gon vinegar.
First clean and fillet the fish, then roll up the fillets, including the roes, and, secure each ́ roll of fish and' roe with a cotton thread.
Set the herring rolls in a butter- ed fireproof dish, putting a little vinegar. on each, then add cold water to come mid-way up the rolls.
Bake for 4 hour, then let them get cold.
Now for the "sauce.
crape the horse radish, add to this the salt, the mustard,
sugar, then the cream.
•
castor
Blend with this the tarragon vine- gar, then the white wine vinegar, and stir well.
Arrange the herrings on a dish with a border of green salad- and serve the sauce în a boat.
use
Instead of cream, milk may be
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