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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1937.
TOO MUCH WATER SPOILS TENDER VEGETABLES
At the end of the evening lovely Diana Gibson looks as fresh as the beginning when she wears this daisy-printed navy blue chiffon gown. The flowers, on the movie actress' gown, are white, green and yellow. A flower at the shoulder is made from the material
Give Your Cook These Hints On Cooking Roots And Green Things
The young
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to cook them in ↑
served are kept
Summer vegetables, If carrots or turnips are cooked in such as new carrots and turnips, a good, strong stock without a lid broad beans, peas, and french the stock will form a delicious beans, lose a great deal of their savoury glaze.
In Butter flavour if they are boiled in water,
Another good way of serving and the water thrown away. "Other methods of cookery should be tried root vegetables is wherein the flavour and goodness batter. but these must
without delay, as of the vegetables are conserved.
Here is a simple and delicious waiting they go soft and oily. way of cooking any kind of root First, cook the vegetables in a lit vegetable Leaf vegetables can be tle water, as in the first method, cooked like this, too, but it spoils but drain them off before they are the colour. Scrape young carrots soft.
Dry well. Put a large piece of or turnips and leave them whole. Put into as wide a saucepan as is butter into a pan, and when hot, but available, with only enough water not brown, put in the vegetables, to cover the bottom of the pan and and finish off cooking in the butter keep the vegetables from burning. The pan should be shaken often Add a little salt, put on the lid and and as soon as the vegetables are they should be cook gently until the vegetables are a pale brown
served. A litle chopped parsley tender.
may be scattered on top. ~
With Sauce
Most
Shake the pan occasionally and add a little more water if neces- sary, so that the vegetables get
summer vegetables are neither dry nor burnt. When cook good served as a separate course ed remove the lid, raise the heat, with an appetising and nourishing First cook the vegetables. and cook quickly until all moisture sauce.
or by the
is absorbed. Add some butter, and either steaming them toss well
Braised
first method mentioned. Then put la tablespoonful of butter into a Braised vegetables are an excel- saucepan, when melted add a level lent accompaniment to boiled beef dessertspoonful of flour, stir, and or mutton. Any one kind of veget-add a breakfastcupful of milk, or ¡able can be used, or a mixture, milk and stock mixed. Boil up, such as carrots, turnips, and broad and cook for a few minutes, then beans or peas. Prepare the veget-add pepper, salt, and a pinch each ables and put into a casserole or of nutmeg and sugar. stewpan. Add enough well-season- ed stock barely to cover them, put in the yolks of two eggs, or the yolk on the lid, and cook gently until of one egg and a spoonful or two of cream. Put in the vegetables done.
and make very hot, but do not boil again.
Take out the vegetables and put on a hot dish. Work a teaspoonful of flour into a småll piece of but- ter, and add this bit by bit to the liquid. Boil up, stirring all the Itime, and pour over the vegetables.
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Remove from the heat, and stir
Any left-over-cold vegetables are excellent heated up in this sauce Another good sauce in which to serve the vegetables is a well-
flavoured stock, boiled rapidly until- it is reduced to half, and made up to its original quantity with
cream.
MIND Your MANNERS
of correct
Test yoursing the
social usage
{following questions, then checking
This extremely smart dress of black silk jersey is worn by Maxine Jennings, screen actress. From the deep V in front, a wide folded band of the jersey rises on each side, goes over the shoulders, and falls in a deep graceful loop to-be- low the hips. The belt, in the front, is a wide band of large square-cut rhinestones.
noon or night of a certain day and call her from a nearby town or the outskirts of the city in which she lives?
Answers
1. Not unless they wear beach robes over them.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Yes.
5. No.
Best: "What Would You Do"
against the authoritative answers solution-(c). below:
1. Should persons driving to a beach or swimming pool wear their
bathing suits in the car?
2. Should men playing on public tennis courts feel free to pull off
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On
4. Is it poor taste for a woman who is wearing street clothes to go bare-legged?
5. Are sleeveless dresses suitable for street wear?
You, are driving across
to visit with friends The take several da and exactly when
(a) Write your hostess
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Vrite her that you will
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Write her that you will är- rive in the morning, after
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