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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.
FISH IN THE FESTIVE SEASON
Hint for "Ordinary Home-Meals"
SHEPHERD'S PIE
SOME FAULTS TO AVOID
Occasionally too dry, frequently too moist, only too often insipid and covered with a soggy and some times lumpy layer of potatoes,
A worthy pie of this order may
At the time when feasting and festivities are in full swing the ordinary house-wife probably likes to save a bit between have its meat filling finely chopped whiles and incidentally to give those greedy children, young and or but through a mincer this is a matter of personal taste-but whe old, a good plain meal between the goose and the turkey, the ther minced or chopped the rucat What better than fish? | will have been carefully freed from plum pudding and the things with cream, Therefore this we k while not keeping this feature to our scaly skin, gristle, burnt piece and super friend ware giving him a "fair innings.” Fish dishes require s.me skill in this place. Are there not ungrateful persons who say that whatever it may be called there is only one fish in the sea at Hongkong-our old friend Snapper.
fluous fat first.
Seasoning and Gravy,
Holiday When You Serve Fish and does not obtruds itself in the
FISH-In The Holiday
Housewives'
Catering Schemes
will filict the dory and make fish
Some of us, during the next few weeks, may experience the joy and excitement of catching, or assisting to catch, the very fish we shall gon Aume later on. It is an occupation that can be filled with thrills, whe-stock with the head, bones, some ther the fish come out of the river vegetables and some seasonings or the sea, and to the town dweller there is a particularly prideful quality about the food that his or her own efforts have provided.
The difficulties begin to arise when it is a question of how to cook the fish you have caught,
Among the August, freshwater fish which may come your way, there Are the princely trout, the agree able perch, or the vorneious pike.
BAKED JOHN DORY
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Trim the fillets neatly, brush them over with beaten egg, and sprinkle them with pepper and salt and a mixture of chopped parsley, chervil and chives, Arrange them in a battered fireproof baking dish with six tablespoonfuls of the fish stock, and, if you can spare them, three tablespoonfuls of white wine. Sanwater fish include mackerel, and no mackerel on a marble slab If wine is unavailable use an extra was ever half so lovely as a mae-amount of fish stock. kerel straight but of the sea. There Rake in a rather slow oven till are also bass, breani, red mullet, the fish is done, and while it is garnets, herrings, dory, and all the baking make a smooth white sauce ordinary kinds, which overy body {with butter, flour, fish stock, lemon knows all about.
juice, and a touch of anchovy
SCALING
Essence.
When the fish is nearly done add Nest to trout, perch is supposed to be one of the best of the fresh the juice from the dish to the
sauce.
water fish. It should be used at once, and if it.js difficult to scale Arrange alternate slices of stewed a minute or two's immersion in boil-temate and pieces of stewed cucum ing water will simplify matters. ber round the fish, strain the sauce You can kill it or fry it likever it, put the dish back into the herring, you can bake it and serve
oven for a few moments, and serve it with a muce of butter, parsley
it very hot. and lemon juice. You can boil it and serve it cold with tartare or mayonnaise sauce, and it is very
GURNET AND BASS Gurnets are odd to look at. but good indeed stewed with fish stock,very gond to eat if you are getrus herbs, seasonings and a little white with butter. wine.
Pike is inclined to be dry, and
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One way of treating them is to bake them with a fow slices of fat
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The horring, so cheap, but when properly cooked so delicious that if expensive it would certainly be looked upon as a delicacy, is top often ill-treated before appearing on the table.
The point to remember is that should, therefore, be grid rather this fish is naturally very oily and than fried whenever possible.
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Cut off the head and fins and drape of the scales, score it across diagonally so that it shall not shrink or curl, brush it over with a little olive oil or melted butter, sprinkle it with pepper and salt and Brill for eight or nine minutes.
If you must fry it it is desirable your seasoning to correct the oil to include a little lemon juice in ness of the fish, and to see that the tour or oatmeal you use for its coat covers it adequately. It is also best to fillet it for frying, or, at least, to remove the backbone and as many of the others as you can.
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It will have been judiciously seasoned with salt, pepper, and onion" or shallot, so Anely chopped that it blends subtly with the meat aggressive amor that careless slicing will allow-it-to. If onion is dude celery salt in the seasoning. thboo, it is always possible to in This gives a different and aggreable effect,
Just enough good and not greasy gravy or sauce is added to moisten the meat sufficiently.
the meat when it is in the oven may The potato layer that protects be smoothly mashed or put through turns it out like, soft flakes of rice, a sieve or potato masher, which This, again, is a matter of personifi taste.
Well Browded, Not Burnt,
GOLDEN APPLES
QUINCES AND MEDLARS
Fashions changa in fruit as in other things, and quinces, consider ed such a, delicacy by our grand- fathers, bro scene in all too Law. gastronomic considerations, this is gardens now Even apart from tragedy, for hardly any other fruit that grows in England is no beautiful.
Greeks called it the golden apple, Because of its lovely colour, the and in autumn its leaves display
nearly every colour of the artist's palette. From the end.of October the Fruit gives off very strong scent, and this is the signal that it is ready for cooking.
A Delicious Jelly.
delicately Bavoured of all preserves Quince jelly is one of the most. and is popularly credited with This is how it is made. being good for the digestive organs.
Pare and slice the quinces and put into a pan with just enough water to over them. Boil until soft and pulped.
quarters of an hour and tret. When Strain through butter muslin; and loaf sugar. Boil for about three- to each pint of juice allow llb. of
the jelly appear firm on the plate it is done.
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As a Marmalade."
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To overy pound of quince pulp allow gib. of leaf sugar.
Slice the quinces into a preserv- In the first caso the potatoes willing pan and cover with water. have been beaten with a wooden Stew them till reduced to a pulp, they are absolutely smooth, and keep back the skins and sead, spoon while they are still hot until then, rub through a hair sieve to duly enriched with butter, n very Weigh the pulp, and to every pound little-hot-not- cold-milk pepper add 4lb. of loaf sugar. Wash ut and galt. They are spread over the preserving pan and rub round the dish of meat neatly and marked the sides and bottom with a little with the hack of a knife or fork.
Jucen oil, Place on the fire and stil well with a wooden spoon.
In the second case they should be piled "thickly all over the ment, When fish like cod, hake, or snapper is boiled its appearance should be well browned and not In both cases the top of the pic though this may be well concealed. burnt. frequently arouses dismay, even
This is because the fish itself is so often insipid, if not actually Laste- less, and the sauce which accom- panies it glucy, and altogether hor-
rible..
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If the fish is cooked in water duly seasoned with carrot, onion, pepper, salt, a bunch of herbs and vinegar it will not be tasteless. If it has been carefully tied up first and properly drained afterwards it will not look untidy, and the cook who does not make a simple sauce well is just not trying.
This marmalade burns very easily, and must be watched cars. fully. It takes about three quarters of an hour to boil the pulp and sugar. Test in the usual way.
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Made Into Jam.
Pare the quinces and cut them in
To-day's Dinner pieces, removing the cores. Just
Menu
Tomato Soup. Baked Halibut. Potato Balla. Creamed Cabbage.
Chocolate Lost,
CHOCOLATE LOAF nicer than the "somed herring. This is something a good deal Take some well-washed flots of cup sweet condensed milk, half cup -Ingredients.-Sponge fingers, one herring, and if possible leave, them water, half teaspoonful vanilla, soza, water, so that they become as for some hours under running unsweetened chocolate. white as possible. Lay them out Instructions.--Line a loaf-shaped
tin or fireproof glass dish with but with the sponge fingers.
you must never cook the roe with bacon and some potatoes, with flat and sprinkle them well Wtered paper or why paper and line
it, but if you remember this and to give it plenty of butter and kind treatment the results should be ex- cellent,
If you like horseradish, mustard or hollandaise muce the pike can be boiled in water and vinegar, with vegetables, and seasonings, as any other fish. It is good baked
lemon juice and parsley as antidotes to the baron fat.
A still batter way is with mush rooms and brown sauce.
Skin the gurnets, fillet them, and sprinkle the fillets with pepper, salt, and lemon juice. Fold them in hall and arrange them in a buttered fire proof baking dish.
with butter, lemon-juice and Peel as inany small mushrooms- narsley; good baked with a stuffing as there are fillets and place one
broken cloves, coarsely ground little mustard popper, a powder and some finely chopped Melt the chocolate in a doublé onions. Roll them up and tie them saucepan and add the condensed "with entton, put them in a dish and wilke diluted with the water. Cook until it thickens, probably for "Prinkle them well with salt.
about five minutes, stirring all the time. Stir in the vanilla and pour half the mixture into prepared mould.
Now make a court-bouillon of carrot, onion and one-part water to three-parts wine vinegar, bring
Cover this with sponge fragers,
it to the boil and cook it for a add the rest of the mixture, cover quarter of an hour. Pour this, with sponge fingers again, and leave while it is still boiling over the in a very cold place for twenty-four hours. Turn out, remove the paper
of breadcrumbs, parsley and ogg if on each fillet.. Hont about a quar fillets, cover the dish, and leave serve. you baste it frequently during the ter of a pint of brown sauce and them for three days. They will woking; and very good indeed pour it over the fish. Mix a table keep for at least another week, and stowed with wine, like the perch. spoonfuls of breadcrumbs, sprinkle can be used when, wanted.
John dory is one of the seawater these on top of the fish, place small And do not forget that soft her; fish which seem to be almost un-pieces of butter all over the top; ring roes make excellent frittors, known to w great many people. nath-bake in a gentle oven till done, but they should be well seasoned, Boiling is good for 'dorys, in the It will take twenty o
properly seasoned liquor, of course, and the flavour of the fish comes
out especially well when it is cold,
ao that if you want a cold fish course with mayonnaise, and a salad the dory is sound choice.
minutes to cook.
thirty
Bass seems to take better to
5.
heaped teaspoonful of cornflour..
Method Squeeze the juice from the oranges and stir over the fire with the sugar until dissolved. When cool add the well-beaten yolks of eggs and the milk, in which
cover with water, and stow till soft. Then add lb, of sugar for each pound of pulp, and cook till the jam sets when tested. Some people prefer half apple and half quince for this jam
Medfar Cheese,
Cover some medlars with water and cook over a slow fire till quitë soft, then press through a bair slove. To every pound of pulp, for about one hour or till it firms allow 1lb. of loaf sugari Simmer.
when tested.
SMILE AWHILE
He mechanically consumed, the food she placed before him.
Oh," she said, "I am so glad you like it. Mother anys there are only two things I can make pro- perly potato pie and marmalade tart
"Indeed," said he, "and which of the two is this ""
AN EGG HINT
SOMETIMES when the white of on egg is required without the yolk, the egg does not separate ensi- ly and a little of the yolk becomes mixed with the white.
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Trying to remove it with a spoon only makes the white become cloudy. It may be removed easily the cornflour has previously been out a cloth in hot water and just with a warm damp cloth. Wring
Ingredients. Two small sweet mixed. Stir over the fire until it touch the yolk with one corner of
ORANGE CUSTARD
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Raute, egg sauce, mastard savec,
If, on the other hand, you want and parsley sauce are all good com
an excellent hot fish course, yois -panions.
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