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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932
"Lets Have Something GOOD to Eat"
DELICIOUS SUMMER FOODS
THAT UTILIZE THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES OF THE SEASON.
FOODS that are simple to prepare that tempt the palate in hot weather-that's the problem of the home maker these hot days. Now that the whole outdoor world invites us to ramble few of us want to spend long hours in a kitchen made unbearable by oven heat explaining complicated dishes.
Simple menus, quickly prepared are the solution for all these difficulties. And so, this page contains just the dishes you'll find
epsiest to prepare-most palatable and most economicai,
By careful watching of food ad vertisements you will be able to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at prices that will suit the most slender 1 budget. Your family will be heal thier and happier for the additions of such food as suggested here.
Remember-light menus--rich in minerals and all the fine food ele ments contained in green things and in Inscious fruits are best!
Poultry
BROILED CHICKEN
BAKED TOMATOES.
Wash tomatoes, remove the stem ends, cut in half, place in a shallow greased baking dish, cover with buttered bread crumbs seasoned with salt and pepper. Add a littla
Like Squash? You'll Love TOUR NEW FEATURE.
PANNED SUMMER SQUASH
14 quarts diced 14 teaspoons
summer squash; salt. 3 tablespoons
teaspoon butter or other pepper. fat
Select young tender squash, wash well, and remove the tips from each end.
Cut the squash into small, pieces, leaving the skin on unless it is very tough. Melt the fat in a skillet until slightly brown, put in the squash, sprinkle with the salt and pepper, cover, and cook for 10 or 15 minutes at modernto hent. Remove the cover and cook a little longer for the liquid to evaporate, Serve hot.
FRIED CARROTS AND APPLES.
medium-sized
carrots.
6 tart apples. 2 tablespoons
fat.
1 tablespoon
augar. teaspoon salt.
Scrape the carrots and cut thenf lengthwise into thin slices. Pare the apples or leave the skin on, as preferred, core, and ext into slices about a fourth of an inch thick. Placo a single layer of the apples and the carrots in a large skillet with the fat, cover tightly, and cook until well browned, turn, and brown the other side. Just before the cooking is finished, sprinkle with the sugar and salt. Serve on a hot
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CHEESE DREAMS.
Slice bread thin, remove the erusts, and without buttering make We hope that our women readers into aandwiches with thin even will be interested in this new slices of sharp-flavoured cheese as feature which we propese to have the filling and a sprinkling of salt and a drop or two of trabsco sauce once a week. Although not very for seasoning. In a heavy skillet my women here do their own melt sufficient butter to cover the cooking, have couk boya who are sufficiently delicately and rather slowly on hotli usbottom and brown the sandwiches intelligent to try out a new dish. sides, adding more butter if neces-
If any readers would like to send sary. us there own favourite recipe we should be glad to publish them.
.still
Bone of.
platter, first a layer of carrots, then a layer of apples, so the two can be lifted together.
Take care that the butter does not become so hot that it browns the sandwiches before the bread is heated through and the cheese melted. Sorva the cheese dreams at once with a salad of vegetables or of sardines.
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sticking to the dish. Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes, or until the tomatoes are tender and the crumbs down.
LIMA BEANS IN TOMATO SAUCE,
2 cup dried limo
beans.
2 quarts water.
large onion, sliced. 2 tablespoons
four.
Salt.
Pepper. Tabasco sauce.
2 cups canned
tomatoes.
8 whole cloves,
b sliced.
bacon.
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Children's
Corner
BY
UNCLE JACK
OUR CONTINUED STORY THE BALLOON BOY.
DO YOU KNOW?
The North Star, which is about the size of our sun, is seventy Edwin hurred away, anxious to light years away from us
so to work and show Mr. Artley When we look at this bright star how well he could work. He pull beam of light that is just now away. The dry brush he piled and of the northern aky, we see only ed the weeds and wheeled them reaching us after being seventy burned. He raked the paths, and years on the road. .. And light picked off the stones from the beas. travels at the rate of186,400 miles Where grass had a second.
grown over tro beds he pulled it out and raked the Rabit urs are sold to customers smooth. under dozens of trade names.
Here are some of them: Baltig but he stuck to it. When it was It took two days of hard work, lion, American seal, Baltic black all in order, he asked Mr. Artley fox, black lynx, Belgian beaver, bo come and see it. Mr. Artley French sable, galland squirrel, looked all about, at the neatspaths, Australian cony, Baltic tiger, er-nnd the corners cleaned up care- minette, French chinchilla, cony fully." Hudson Bay seal, Baltic white fox, of work," he told Edwin. That mole, Russian leopard, visonette, You've done a very good piece buckskin seal, castoretta, minkony garden is all ready for spading in nutriette and muskratine,
the spring now. I'm going to pay you for the work. A dollar and a half a day for two days would be
Select a plump, young chicken, split down the buck, draw, wash and wine dry. Rub all over with
Mast newspaper reporters keep a Wash the beans 'and soak them butter, sprinkle with sals and
In scrap book-he calls it a Specimen pick in a roasting pan skin the morning the pour off this water, book. In this book he pastes, the pepper, dust with flour, and place overnight in water to cover. side up. Broil under the flame of cook in 2 quarts of lightly salted cutting of every function that he An oven, and as soon as lightly water for about one-half hour, or browned turn the other side up until tender but not broken, and attends and writes about. At some Continue to cook under the flame drain. Simmer the tomatoes with later day his book may take the for about 20 minutes, then place the cloves for 10 minutes and strain part of a reference, for it shows, POUR LES PETITS. in a moderato oven (350 deg. F.) off the juice. Cook the bacon in a for 15 minutes to finish. Through skillet until crisp, remove from the exactly, what experience the man out the cooking baste frequently fat, drain on absorbent paper, and bans had, with the drippings and with melted
keep warm. Brown the onion in
butter. Serve the brailed chicken the bacon fat, stir in the flour until on a hot platter with the drippings poured over ft.
If more convenient start the cook ing of the chicken in the oven and finish by browning directly under
the flame of the oven.
SAVORY CREAMED CHICKEN
4-ib fowl....
1 cup chopped"
colery and Icarce.
Flour.
to 1 cup cream.
1 teaspoons
salt.
1 cup chopped 3 drops tabasco
onion.
1 green peppers
chopped.
sauce.
Place the fowl in a kettle on a
rack, half filled with boiling water,
cover, cook alowly until tender, and
well blended, add the tomato juice and beans, and cook until the sauce thickens. Season to taste with salt, pepper, tabasco sauce, and serve with the strips of bacon over the
top.
Fix Tomatoes a New Way. TOMATO JELLY SALAD
1 teaspoon
3 tablespoons
gelatin.
1 cup cold water.
1 quart canned
tomatoes.
2 or 3 slices of
⚫ onion.
sugar.
1 tablespoon
chopped green pepper.
2 tablespoons
chopped cetery
1 tablespoon
chopped
1 teaspoone
salt,
parsley.
cup abredded
cabbage.
Soak the gelatin in the cold
let stand in the broth overnight in water for minutes. Boil the
Some of the greatest fun is in making the scrap book up and It is really sticking things in. quite an art to have it neat and clean and tidy. Get a fairly large book and on the front page write your name and the date of com mencing the book,
Why not start off by collecting the "Children's Corner" cuttings.
Cheerio,
UNCLE JACK,
A STICKY SUBJECT.
Many boys have melted down' a
Mon père a acheté une poupée el un berceau pour mai la poupée) est-jolie elle a une robe rouge et un chapean noir:
(Translation to-morrow.)
THE REAL QUESTION.
a cold place: Skim the fat from tomatoes and onion for: 5 minutes, cake of glue in their time, though the bones, and cut it into uniform strain through a fine sieve, pour pieces. Return the bones to the the hot tomato juice over the probably few are aquainted with|
A farmor, visiting his son's, simmer for a short while so as to softened gelatin, and stir until it the manner in which it is manu- college and wandering into a chem get off any small pieces, of meat is dissolved. Add the salt and
factured. that cling to the bones. Brown the sugar and chill. When the gelatin
It consists of various istry class, saw some students busy
with retorts and test tubes. celery, onion and green pepper in mixture is partly set, add the finely kinds of cuttings from slaughter What are you trying to do?” ha 4 tablespoons of the fat removed chopped vegetables, and mix well. houses, and is first of all-boiled in | asked, from the chicken stock. Measure:Add more salt if needed. I the
*"'We're endeavoring,”! ... ́ replied
the broth. There should be about mixture is not tart enough, oddags of small-meshed "net. After it one of the students, to discover
1 quart. For each cup of broth add little lemon juice or vinegar. Four has become partically solidified it for invent a universal solvent,
tabloepeons of flour to the orcam into wet custard cups and place in is stretched upon nets and dried in "What's that?" asked the farm- and mix until smooth. Add to the a cold place until set, turn out on the air. underneath sheds. Some er. cineken broth with the salt and the crisp lettuce leaves, and serve with times, if it is desired to hasten this ́ ́ ́"A liquid that will dissolve any- tabasco, stir until thickened, add mayonnaise. This saind, is delicious part of the process, beated atmos thing "h the chicken and mix until well served with a platter of cold meat | pherin currents are used. The note "That's a great idea," agreed the blended. Serve on crisp toast or faliood and iced coffee on a hot account for the small marks which farmer. When you find it, what with rice patties.
night
may be observed on a cake of glue. are you going to keep it int
three dollars."
He took three crisp dollar bills from his wallet and held them out to Edwin, But Edwin put his hands behind him, and shook his head
"I wouldn't think of taking pay," he said. "You've given Mo- ther and me a wonderful summer here and I'm only too glad that there was work I could do for you." For a moment Mr. Artley looked into Edwin's dark eyes. Then he smiled as though he was pleased about something. He put thei money back in his pocket and went away, still smiling to himself.
Then one drowsy afternoon, ho called the boys and gave Paul i note.
I want you two to make your selves neat and then take this note to Mr. Prescott," he said. "Wait until he has road it.”
When the boys were dressed and on the way Paul looked at the envelope curioasty.,"
(To be continued).
FOR A RAINY DAY.
Daft-Cousin-Stella- Once bought an umbrella Which fat Bister. Bella Hurled into the collar. But no one dared tell her--- That daft Cousin Stella- The horrible end of her new
umbrella:
What a sell-J
For Your Next Bridge Luncheon! JELLIED FISH SALAD.
Sea food
2 tablespoons
gelatin.
cup cold water,
teaspoon salt." teaspoon celery .need.
cup vinegar. cup water. 2 cup canned
tuna fish.
Soften the gelatin in the collį (tr water for 5 minutes. Beat the eggs, add the salt, celery seed, vinegar and water until thickened. Add the softened gelatin and stir until "the gelatin has dissolved; then add the fish which has 'boon soparated from the bones and minced. Pour into individual dampened molds, let stand in a cold place until firmly set, turn out on crisp lettuce, and servo with mayonnaise.
After
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