THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1938.
Getting Together Three Wholesome
Meals A Day
Harder Than Planning A Dinner Party
To listen to culinary writers run, 'round, and there ought, of course, on, you would get the idea that life to be a fifth meat on which we could was just one long party after an-fall- back-at least once a week- other, so that the readers of their something a great deal better than pieces may well wonder if the ladies who write about such matters never once in a long while settle down comfortably to an evening at home in the bosom of their families.
Looking back over my own prose I am appalled at the way I seem to have assumed that nobody eats except at buffet suppers, cocktail parties, breakfast parties, Thanks giving dinners, picnics and such like festive occasions. It looks as if I had never faced the remote possibility of any of us sitting down to a meal without guests, and I seem to have been eternally talking about the hostess, when the girl I really brood over is she who has the job of getting together three wholesome meals a day.
Three meals a day is a problem, all right, taking skill, imagination, patience, and a certain degree of sanity. If you possess all these qualities, there is a sporting chance that you won't go crazy under the strain, or that, worse still, you won't make a mess of the job. It's the only business from which there is never any let up. -
Not Enough Variety I'll grant you that there aren't enough kinds of meat to make menu planning as easy as it ought to be Beef, mutton, pork, veal, are definitely not enough variety to go
goat, and a great real cheaper than venison. But aside from this slight difficulty, there isn't really much to complain of, if you will only take this business of meals seriously. I have often wondered how women who just muddle through their housekeeping any sort of way can dare be so hard on their offspring who get bad marks in school Maybe a child doesn't have much aptitude for history, but at least he can put his mind to it and make a go of the subject if he really tries. By the same token, any woman can get (or at least deserve) plus marks from her. family if she will do her very best by three meals a day, instead of saving up all her talents for a din-and pepper and dust with flour. before serving add lemon juice and ner party.
VEAL MARENGO (for 6) 2 lbs. veal (from the leg) 2 tbsps. Salad oil
flour
12 small white onions 4-lb. mushrooms.
Women who muddle through their housekeeping, can be hard on their children who get bad marks in school.
Heat the salad oil in a frying pan, finely chopped parsley. Serve on a and add the carefully peeled white hot platter surrounded by triangles onions (taking care to choose them of bread fried in oil. Can be as small as possible). Saute over garnished with fried eggs as well 2 low fire for 4 minutes, then add as the croutons. the pieces of veal, and continue
STUFFED BEEF SLICES (for 6) .. cooking until the veal is a light 24 Ibs. round steak brown. Add the mushrooms, which 1⁄4 lb. bacon have been peeled, quartered and washed, and cook another 4 minutes, or until the meat is well browned. Pour in the broth, and cron-season with Soy sauce, tomato tons, salt and pepper
paste, garlic, and salt and pepper, Cut a 2-pound slice of veal in and cook, closely covered over a medium-sized cubes, rub with salt low fire, for 10 minutes. Just
1 thin slice garlic (mashed) 11⁄2 cups broth
1 tbsp. tomato paste.
1 tsp. finely chopped. parsley 1 tsp. Soy sauce
34 tsp. lemon juice; fried
2 small onions 3 sprigs parsley 1⁄4 tsp. thyme
few grains ground cloves 1 tbsp. butter
few grains grated nutmeg 1 carrot
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COOKED MEATS
· VEGETABLES
- TOMATOES
20c. Ib.
COOKED HAMS
$2.00 per Ib.
LETTUCE
15c. head
PRESSED TONGUE
1.50
""
PRESSED BEEF
84
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COLD PIES
PRESSED PORK
.85
VEAL & HAM
$1.00 per lb.
PORK.
.32c. each
ROAST STUFFED
PORK LEGS
1.50
SAUSAGE ROLLS
12c. each
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