THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1938.
Cook's Tour With George Rector
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Without Tomato Sauce
I think it's a good idea to
Try
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Alfredo was made a cavaliere of and a whole meal to boot. Italy because he is a great restaur-Georgio Rectorio's version of Al- ateur. His place in the Via della fredo's spaghetti. Scrofa in Rome is small, seating sixty people at the most, proving the old adage about good mer- chandise coming in small packages. Alfredo does not make spaghetti. a spaghetti dish and omit the tomato He does not cook spaghetti He sauce, just for a change. In Genoa, achieves it! He said: "Rome is Italy, I came across a splendid and built on seven hills. Look! Here simple way to prepare it. Cook is the eighth hill" And there on a one-half pound of spaghetti in the side table was the largest and tal-usual way and drain. Heat four lest amount of spaghetti I ever tablespoons of olive oil and two tablespoons of butter. It makes a nice combination. Add one teaspoon Alfredo is a good showman. He of chopped garlic and cook colour- won't do any mixing without music. less, which means, do not let the When he is re dy, the violinist of garlic brown. Now add three tab- his small orchestra, moves over to lespoons of finely chopped parsley his side, playing the love motif and one-half pint of cream. Stir, from "Faust" or "Lá Tosca” and mix and heat, but do not let the the great maestro goes to work cream boil. All the cooked spag- His mammoth platter, containing hetti, salt and pepper, and again that eighth hill of spaghetti, is mix, along with three quarters cup piping hot. So is the sauce. With of grated Parmesan cheese. Add his spoon and fork he proceeds to the grated cheese and finish it up mix spaghetti and sauce. There is with more mixing. Be sure a large bowl of grated Parmesan spaghetti is very hot, because the cheese standing by, which comes cheese should melt while mixing. into action later on.
Noodles With Ham
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A PERFECT TRAM. Yards and yards of stiff white organdy fashious these twin frocks for the summer bridesmaid. The corset- ted bodice is stitched to white satin which also forms the understip. The pretty sleeves are putted and gathered at the seam, and rows of scalloping trims the skirt and neckline. Note the flattering picture hat, tied under the chin with long taffeta ribbon.
The actual cooling of spaghetti |
Every now and then, noodles
is easy. All you need is a whole
the
lot of galloping boiling water. Drop with ham appeared on the luncheon in the spaghetti, along with some menu of Rector's. Here are salt. You can boil it for ten min-ingredients:
utes or up to twelve minutes. Stir the spaghetti around several times just so it won't stick to the pan. When it is cooked let some hot water men over it after it is drain- ed through a collander. Packaged spaghetti comes in different weights, so let us cook one pound.
Great Variety of Sances
Spaghetti without a sauce doesn't make sense. I have eaten
spag- hetti all over Italy and there's a different sauce for every section. Milan has its way of preparing the sauce; so has Florence, and Naples and Genoa, but they all agree - on three of the ingredients that go in the sauce and these are dive oil, tomatoes and garlic. You can't dodge them no matter where you go in Italy.
Alfredo has a good line of sauces His favourite one and the specialty
on
pound noodles
1 slice of raw ham (1 pound)
3 tablespoons olive oil
11⁄2 cups of stock
2 onions
1 carrot
1 button garlic
cup tomato sauce
salt and pepper
Personal Jottings
Mr. G. Stanley Lovett, managing and the couple expect to director of Messrs. The Organic the Colony in November the ss. Empress of Canada on a Fertilizer Co., Ltd., is leaving in
four months business trip to New York, for the purpose of securing Mr. A. L. Fisher of Messrs. The further territory for the expansion Hong Kong Telephone Company is of the company, and to visit the
an leave in the latest fertilizer plants in the United ss. Empress of Cam States. While in New York he will call on Dr. Barp-Thomas, imminent | soil bacteriologist and scientist, who holds the world patent rights on a number of fertilizer processes.
on Friday.
A day's outing to Repulse Bay will be enjoyed by members of the Ladies Section of the Y.M.C.A to- day.
The League of Nations Society, Hong Kong, will hold their annual general meeting at the Helena May Institute tomorrow at 5.30 pm, when the society's president, Dr.
Friends of Mr. Edgar Abraham, the exchange broker, will be glad Cut the ham in thin strips. Put to learn that he has returned to his onions, carrot and garlic through office following a lengthy illness. the food chopper or chop finety. Heat olive oil in sauce pan and odd to it the chopped vegetables andi seasonings. Do not let the vegetablés|| Miss Myers and Miss AJH Montgomery, will deliver his has been heated with the tomato brown. Now add the stock, which Majers, arrived here in the Yasu-presidential address. All those in-
kuni Maru from Malaya, and are terested are invited to attend. sauce, and let this mixture heat for staying at the Peninsula Hotel, on
in his fine little restaurant is made fifteen minutes. Cook the noodles and a short holidayz first by pot roasting four pounds of brisket of beef or the cat you prefer. Put one-third cup of olive oil in a heavy pot or casserole; when the oil is hot, seer the meat all sides. Reince the heat and sea- son with salt. Add to the meat two bay leaves, a pinch of thyme, one dozen whole black peppers, two but- tons of garlic. Now cover the pot
Tuna Fish Combined or casserole and simmer for two and one half hours, turning the meat Tuna fish cooked in with occasionally. Then add a No. 2 hetti is another combination can of tomatoes and cook thirty is worth trying sometime minutes longer.
boiling water for about ten minides, drain and arrange them in a circle on a platter, making a nest in the It is understood that Mr. Gilbert centre for the sauce. Mix the nood Harriman, the local sharebroker, is les well with the sauce right at the returning from A table and serve with greated cheese, next month,~ either Swiss or Parmesan.
one-half pound of spaghetti. Hewi
Mr. Han
Some
The marriage took place yester- day at the Registry, Supreme Court, between Au Kwang Wai, son of Al Tai Shing, merchant, and Chung, Kwai Lan, daughter of the late Chung Foo Him. The ceremony which took place at 10.30 am. was the Deputy Registrar and Mr. Philip
The following forthcoming ma riages are announced: Mr. Cecil
attended by the to Miss Mary Battey of 117 Sai Yee.
one-fourth cup of olive oil and add Friday in the s.s. Empress When you remove the meat there to it one teaspoon of fmely chopped cocktail party was given in his Raymond Smirke, overseer, residing
Canada. Prior to his epartu should be about two cupfuls of li-garlic and two tablespoons of finely honour at the German Club last at 9 Ho Tung Mansions, Kowloon, quid remaining. Strain and add chopped parsley and cook for bever Tuesday, and one cupful of tomato sauce oral minutes. Now add one cup of Consul General for Germany, Herz Street, Kowloon Mr. Eric Henry puree. Put the meat through the tomato sauce, one-quarter cup of Gippercihi
Watts, merchant, residing at 14 food chopper and add it and the stock Season with salt and pepper.
Broadwood Boad, Hong Kong- to spaghetti to the sauce. Heat After the spaghetti has been fram-
Miss Frida Prisella Summers of thoroughly and place the spaghetti ed add it to the sauce and also the
Grantleigh Hotel, Inverness. Ter- on a large hot platter and serve. contents of one small can of tuna
Mr. B. Raworth, manager of race, London, W1, and Mr. Leg Sprinkle libenlly over the top the fah which has been faked Mix Messrs. The General Electric Co. of Tze Wa, secretary in the employ of grated Parmesan cheese
well and beat thoroughly for about China, Ltd., left for Home on leave Messrs. Tung- Now you have a spaghetti dish ten minutes and
usual, in the sx. Potsdam on Sunday. He Ltd, to Mise with the meat in the meat, sauce" with grated cheese.
is accompanied Mrs. Baworth, Fung Yuen North Stree
Canton