THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
The Good Cook's College
TODAY: VEGETABLES
They can bo a course
In their own right
THERE is a basic principle to the art of cooking Forget about basic principles. Be creativo. Da ingenious. Use that inborn talent. it's the quickest way to the heart of the man who, though hum won't often admit it, is oh-so-tired of the
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and-two-reg routine. How to do it 7 This college in making it easy for you. Cut oul, day by day, the easy-to- follow recipes, permulate the courses and you can excite your man's palate for months.
by MARY
NORWAK
AUTHOR
OF
FIVE O'CLOCK COOK
ABBAGE or carrots
Carrots or cabbage? Potatoes, of course.
Tried any new vegetables lately?
Even a brief giunce at the broad classification. of the vegetable world can assure you there's no need to get stuck in a rut roots. greens, saluds. potatoes, mushrooms, the onion family, peus and beans, exotic aubergines and peppers, marrows, pumpkins, and squashes.
They're all wonderful to eat with meat and ash, but many of them are even more splendid pre- pared as dishes in their own right.
NEXT WEEK: Puddings and pies
Garden
Casserole
French Green Peas
Whole Fried Onions
INGREDIENTS
lib. lean mit pork:
1oz. butter
116. young carrota :
a stall onions!
216. green pea (weighed before
shelling):
1lb. now potatoes:
teaspoon chopped parsley :
traspoon chopped thyme :
1 bay leaf:
Salt and pepper;
1 dennerspoon four:
Hot water.
13.spring onions :
sprig of parsley;
2 sprigs of basil:
daz. butter:
4 teaspoon salt;
teaspoon sugar :
1 crisis lettuce:
2ib. green
weighed
shriling):
pics before
4 tablespoons
Water.
8 large onions; Salted water; 2 tablespoons
butter: teaspoon salt; teaspoon brown
Bugar:
i pint stock
METHOD
TIME
SPECIAL NOTES
INGREDIENTS
-tran
Upe A
en zerole which can be taken straight to the table Dice pork Kid brown In the bailée. Add carrols and onloșa and cook together for 6 minutes. Add flour, mix well, and cover with hot water. Put on lid, and simmer 30 minutes, Add abelled green peas, potatoes, herbs, and seasoning, and alter for 1 hour.
Over medium heat, put în a saucepan the unions, herbs, 201 butler, all
abredded lettuce, shelled peas, and water, Bring to the ball, cover and simmer
are cooked take out the basli and parsley, and adú remain- ing 20. butter.
Peel onions and boll in salted water for 10 minules, then drain well. Browns the butter In a heavy pan, and add onions. Add salt and sugar. Add and brown the onions stock, cover and simmer til!
soft but not broken.
YOUR GARDEN CAN HAVE
NOCTURNAL
APPEAL
A FEW lights in the garden can add up to a lot
of after-dark beauty.
The trick lies in light placement, according to one lighting consultant, Rose Coakley, in America. She said that simply flooding a garden with light gives it a flat, unintercating after-dark look.
yellow or red, will enhance the colour of flowers the same hue. but deaden the colour of grass and fallage. Yellow light, how-
"The first rule of gardens Bght ing." she told. "is to light up something or things-new green leaves of a tree in ring or a brilliant flower bed in summer.", ever, is desirable in outdoor'
Basics
TRY to achieve
balance in
bving areas since it does not altract insects.
Underground wiring is most desirable for perawnient vulgour Jighting. That is, if you lighting fixtures, but portable strem a tree on one side of the wiring can be ured mafely garden, light a shrub or flower
temporary installations bed on the other side, not neces- weatherproof outlets and equin Esrily with the same intensity.
ment are used. All installations should be made when the r
USE dim lights in the area
Just beyond viewers, brighter den is absolutely dry. lights in further areas give look of depth.
it
TEEP a bulbs chaded or bid- den and den's place them too close to any object. Garden lighting. like 1: lighting. crentes the proper Illusion only when it not obvious.
Miss Coalley suggested, spol. lighting trees from several direc tions to emphasise their form. She warned that a single spot- Fight on the front of a tree tes to flatten its appearance.. Lights may be placed near the tree base
to silhouette its branches, in the bronches and directed down- ward or attached the trunk
for LE
Preparation:
10 minutes.
Oooking
1hr, 40min.
Preparation :
10 trichistes
Opoking
20 mimates
Preparation:
minutes
Cooking:
45 inautes.
The
The tropical Eplant school
by MEL
A very good dish for using a variety of early spring and summer vege tables. Serve with crisp French bread and butter. BELYES FOUL
Perfect na a strepie dlah with crisp bacon, French bread and butter. Very good es an accompaní. ment to poultry, lamb. and ham.
SERVES FOUR,
λ Bwedinis
dlab,
Tery
good on its own, atul
excellent
beef.
with
SERVER FOUL
19703
Spinach Ring
Green
Pepper Salad
Cole
Slaw
Table Is
21b. apinach !
teaspoon salt; 20a büfter: Creanted fish, egga liam or chicken,
10 green_peppern 4 tablespoons
olive oil: tablespoo
lemon Jules;
1 garlic clove; 1 tablespoon
chopped paraloy-
1 well-hearted crisp whita est- bage, mayonnaise or cooked stad dressing.
Upilotal additions: teaspoon caraway
or celery areds;
OR
&
sprinkling
mixed onion
or
green pepper: OR breakfast cup grated raw carrot
sliced stoned olives, 2 tablo spun shredded celery.
Number 3
METHOD
Wash spinach very thoroughly and pul în à covered sauce, pam without any water exoepl That remaining on the leares, Boll hard for 10 minuter. Drain very thoroughly, chop finely and sensori” withs east and add butter. Press Armly lato buttered ring esko mould and keep in a warra place. Turn out on a hol plate and use with selected Uning.
Grill peppers for 10 minuten till the skins blacken and ako v Wash peppers, lo cold water and ex En utripa. Crush the paella clove and blend with oil, temon Juice, word parsley. Pour DYTT peppers and serve very cold.
Remove thick ribs from cab- bage leaves and uhred Tezven very Anely. Leave in leed wafer 111 very crisp, Drain and dry cabunge, und Just hefore serving toss Lis mayonnaise.
Laid.....
COUNTED as currently "in" are plain glass tops,
marble tops and rippled glass surfaces. tablecloths are also in, in every variety.
But
Most popular pre cloths old which can be had now at a fashioned and crocheted, cloths reasonable priceo-set in a DOUD with embroidered borders and or filled with wine and placed plain, mit white damask. beside each class.
These formal. conventional ideas can be adapted in a coarse Nottingham lace tablecloth In
Artificial bunches of flowers ere now all the rage. With a
with candle-
the effect is cool light and summer food.
pure white over a endy pink few blooms placed in a shell,
or pale blue cloth; it looks fresh and pretty and should you stet boned, it doubles as a bed- spread.
A Madeira lace cloth, normal ty in the higher price bracket I now inexpensive because it comes in cotton instead of linen. In white with coffee or honey- coloured embroidery, it fools the experts.
For informal eating, new idols. include a gilded birdcage, deccp. tively real fruit or a hurricane
mo aglow with candles.
And useful items for the table? What appears 35 all attractive porcelain coffee pot is really vacuum jug, complete | I'm afraid is rather warm here, but they are so men-
with porcelain-covered coric one way to solve the problem of sitive to cold....
Pretty idea for the centre- keeping soup or a sauce piping piece of a dinner table are a hot while you serve the rest of ££££££££££**/ collection of cutlass decanters the meal.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Everything Can Talk!
-Grandpa, The Newsman, Proves His Point-
By MAX TRELL
to project light upward throuch RIGHT at the entrance in
the brunches.
Silhouette
Mushroom-type fixtures, which erst a canopy of light, are re-
[ the park stood the old Newsman. He had a stand with newaptipers and magazines on It which he sold to People who wanted them.
Io wore
dark glasse
(1), wonderful, wonderful day
In the morning!" "
Doesn't ballevo
it couda't have
sald
"Oh, that," Knart would promptly
answer, “Birds can't talk.”
"Con't they? What about the be Parrot, Knarty" Grandpa would
commended for iro. concoure ha couldn't sec very ask.
flower beds. For flows near well, and the bright sunlight
a woll, Miss Coakley surrested wasn't good for his eyes. silhouetting them by placing
tween flowers and wall.
floodlamps at ground level be-
Very cheerful
But he was a very cheerful Sculpture generally looks old Newsmat, most attractive lighted from
tolk.
above, us by sunlight, Pools, on
Cats unk
#Good sterplag. Cirandpa,” KELIT muid to the NeiramATI,
vi
"Parrots are different," Knart would answer. "I mean Birds Uke Robin and Sparrows. They can't talk, Grandpa!" insisted this all Birds' could we here. Most Birds and Ani-
But Grandpa, the NewsILAD,
mals and Things only) have one. "Good morning. Grandpa|" "And what's more," he said, word. But they make that no the other hand, should be it Knurf, the Shadow Boy, with o can
Dogs and word do for lots-and-lots from underwater, Miss Coakley |the Tuned-About Name, would Cows and Horses and Automor sreda,” ndvised, Special underwater alwayɛ zay when he mw him, biles and Locomotives and
"I don't know what you Hahte can be concealed under the "What are you, thinkirar about Shoes and Dishes and Pens and mours," said Enerf, looking very pool's ledge or permitted to font, this morning?"
Pencils and Pins and Needles with realistic-looking ly onds
--they can all talk. Don't make puzzled, "How could we talk it clamped to them.
The Newsman wasn't really any mistake about that.” | Khart's Grandfather. Ho duen't
anybody's Grandfather but Grandpa explained he liked to be called Grandpa Coloured ligit in the warder Just the ment.
Coloured light
The sot day drauge, the Newsmani, explained to Kaart what am should be used sparinaly by the "Now
I thinking exactly what he meant when he amatour, Mis Conder whized, about this morning sm qu, he mold tint nil Birds and Animnia The basko rule-blues and greens would answer, "I'm thinking and Things could talk.
we only had one - word Instedi of lots-and-lots of words?”
"I tell you bow," answered Grandpa, the Newaman. "Just supporo we only had the wurd C.
Knart nocked in agreement. Only "Oh"
will add depth to the worden ple- about a song I just heard a "Of course," he said, "they "All right, suppose we only ture, while warm colours, auicly as Robin ang. It wont - "Wonder" haven't got lota of words, like had the word 'Oh," he said.
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the new arti
al
and
fletal flower front; an� all-white arrangement carnations, rosebud. fern. The flowers are wash-→
able.
"You'd say 'Oh!' if you bumped your head, and you'd say 'Oh' if you suddenly un- derstood something."
"And how," Knarf "do Things talk?”
asked,
How things talk "Now just think of all the
"Haven't you ever heard an different things you could say Automobile blow it horn and if you only had the word 'Oh, tell you to Watch out!' or а sald Grandpa.
"If you
saw Locomotive blowing its whistle something that surprised you, far, far away and saying 'Good- you'd say 'Ohi
in a certain tye....good-bye'? Of course you way. Ami If you saw something havel that disappointed
you, you'd say 'Ob..... in a different way."
"Oh!” said Kuorf in surpelse (and he really was surprised).
Granalpa, the Newsman, went
on;
"And as for Pena and Pencils, they write to you. And Pins and Needles make you speak to them."
"They do?" Knart asked. "Certainly! They make you any 'Ouch!' just by sticking you!"
And Knart and Grandpa, the Newsman, laughed.
Rupert and the Snowstorm--17
Tigerlily doesn't answer Rupert's "Why did she say, 'perhapa">" question at once. "Sorcerer no thinks Rupert. "Time boots are say he exchange, anything." she lovely and warbi and. 1. emit run murun, Maybe you get your over the atow faster than in my own when they dry. Now goodbye, own. But, oli dese, (2's not easy You hurry home, yes, perhaps" to keep going' in a 'straight line. She, too, has a quiet smile on her They seem to want to sweSVE face as the linte” bear trots away, sway I'
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TIME SPECIAL NOTES
Preparation :
A minutes.
Cooking:
10 minutes.
Preparation:
15 minutes
Preparation:
6 minutes.
Soaking in
iced water):
1 hour.
A quickly made light dính For luncheon or supper. SERVES FOUR.
Delicious with all cold menta or Nuh. Pack in a leak-proof container to Add zest la pletiles. SERVES SIX.
An American speelality, good with all mrata, and ä refreshing accompani ment to sandwiches, SERVES BLY.
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