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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.
MORNING
NOON
NIGHT ✰
FOOD VALU
for
ECONOMY
SAFETY
CLEANLINESS
MOFFAT COOKERS
ARE
BRITISH
MADE®
The World's Standard
SHEWAN, TOMES and CO.
NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
8, DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL.
TAKE A HINT
Milk will not burn if the sauce-" pan is rinsed in cold water be- fore polling.
A small piece of butter added to the water in which vegetables are. to be cooked will prevent them from boiling over,
A hot, cloth wrapped round a jelly mould will enable the con- tents to be jurned out. whole.
Glass will have a brighter ap- pearance if it is washed in cold water in preference to hot.
Corks may be rendered water- tight and air-tight if they are soaked in oll for a few minutes before using.
The inside of a vacuum flask should be washed out with a solution of salt and vinegar.
An ordinary wire letter-basket can be made to serve many use- ful purposes in the kitchen.
Turned upside down, it will make an excellent, rack for cooling your cakes and. buns.
AN AID TO HEALTH
One does not need to make an intensive study of dietetics, but a working knowledge of the dif- ferent kinds of foods and what they do for the body is invaluble.
A well-balanced meal for the average person. In average health contains protein, to take care of the muscles, bones, and tissues: fats or carbohyrates or sweets to supply onergy and heat; cleansing agents or roughage, which act as regulators; miner- als, also, useful to the tissues and body fluids; and vitamins, which are absolutely essential to health
and well-being.
Plenty of liquid is necessary, too, to keep the body in good working order; but many people find it best to take most of this between meals.
CARE OF THE HANDS!
Washing the hands at this time of year is souseless that many people would seem to persist in it merely from force of habi rather than because any real re- sult can be achieved. The main thing is to try to prevent dam. age rather than to curse it. Siri- ple preventives can be used, such as oll for preventing cracks and lemon fot cleaning of stains. Potatoes, apples. "ad, Indeed. vegetables. generally in almost. indelibly, unless a piece of lemon Is kept with which to erase them. "This acts like a charm and pre- vents a great deal of rubbing. which makes for soreness. It is a mistake to think that washing clothes or stockings makes the hands clean. It makes them soft
and easily cracked, and the hands should be well rubbed with gre- ase or áll, before this process takes place. Afterwards they can be ofled again. Washing-up. even with a mop, is often de- trimental to the hands, and here soda should of all things be wolded. A little soap in the wa- ter answers every purpose. Where the hands have become really cracked and look dirty no matter what is done to them there must be a long course of greasing, es- pecially during bed-time, when they can remain greased for some hours. A clean, loose pair of chamols leather gloves on the top of agood greasing does won- ders for the hands in one night alone. Constant wearing of them almost keeps the hands right by themselves. Many people "wash their hands in small basins of hot water into which they have poured olive oil This also helps greatly to keep the hands soft.
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HONG KONG
BALANCING THE DAILY
DIET
Fats may be provided by means of butter, cream, olive oil, creamy sauses or soups, the fats of meat, fatty fish, chocolate, nuts and
food cooked in oil
Starch is often used in far far- ger proportions than is either necessary" or desirable. Breads. biscuits, cakes, pastry, and things like macaroni or vermicelli are " mostly composed of starch. Pot- atoes, bananas and rice are star- chy too.
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Sweets naturally Include sugars, jams, jellies, and honey. fruit cooked with sugar, many fresh. fruits and all sweet puddings, cakes, ice-creams,
Оле of the most Valuable minerals is iron, which occurs in spinach, red meats, yolk of egg. uatmeal, raisins and prunes,
HOUSEKEEPING
SHORTBREAD BISCUITS
Ingredients-4 62s. Bour, 2 023. rice flour 4 oss, margarine or butter, 2 ozs castor sugar, pinch Balt
Steve toto a basin the four, rice, tour, and salt. Very Ughtly with the tips of the fingers rub in the margarine. While doing. so, constantly lift the bands in and out of the basin to let in air.
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Add the slaved castor sugar and press-all into a ball No liquid is required. Turn out on a board lightly, dusted with flour, and knead till smooth.. Roll out inch thick and cut into rounds with a fluted cutter ar stamp out with the rim of a tumbler.« Lay on a lightly floured tin, and prick right through with a fork Bake i a moderate oven, till golden brown, then cool on Д steve. While still hot, dust light- "ly with caster sugar. Care must be taken in lifting the shortbread biscuits ox the tin, for when, newly baked they are very britţle....į Thick shortbread is made in the same way. but instead rolling it out thinly it should be formed into a round "nearly an inch thick Nip round the edges with the thumb and first fingers. lft on to a floured tray, and after pricking thoroughly, pin, a double band of greased paper 2 inches in height round the cake to prevent it spreading, and so losing its shape. Bake in a slow oven for three quarters of an hour. till of a pale straw colour. Remove from the oven, take of the band of paper, but "do not lift the cake of the tin till it is quite cold. Toast both shortbread and shortbread biscuits in a very cool oven each time before serv- ing. Keep both in an airtight tim.
Sweet Mangoe Chutney
Ingredients: - Three pounds mangoes, 1 bottles vinegar.
pound sultanas, cur- rants, 2 lbs brown sugar. 21 ozs. salt,
OZ. garlic, 24 02$. oa whole, ginger, oz. chillies. Use mangoes that have
onten,
Can be a Dragon with been picked before beginning to
Many Heads
To those who do not really..en- Joy it. or who would rather, be about some other business, house- keeping is a dragon"with many heads. They have to be dealt with one by one; but "mercifully some of them are more important. than others and once you get the more aggressive ones under control the others become more docile.
The catering problem is un- doubtedly the first to be dealt with.. Human beings can exist in all sorts of uncomfortable сод- ditions, but not without food, and' the better this is the inore serene. the household is likely to be
The housekeeper who will sit down with a cookery book or twe
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES and a notebook and plan out her
Calcium is another, and this occurs in milk, vegetables, fruit, cheese, whole grains, and butter **and eggs.
In a daily diet which contains a pint of milk, some green vege- tables, some fresh fruit and a
fresh salad, you will be sure of your vitamins, minerals, a fair amount of liquid-in the fruit and vegetables as well as in the milk-some" protein-in the milk a little carbohydrate, and the cleansing action of green "salads and raw fruits.
You can add eggs, meat or fish; butter of an oll dressing with the salad; bread or another starchy product and some kind of sweet. It is much better to experiment and see what arrangement, of meals suits you best than to lay down a hard and fast rule and stick to it without noticing whe- ther it is best for you individu- ally.
Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR
Commencing 1st FEBRUARŸ, A
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AND MANY ART GOODS FOR TEN (10) DAYS ONLY
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ART & CURIO EXPERTS
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UNIQUE KIMONO AND COLOUR PRINTS EXHIBITION os SAME DATE.
meals can do a great deal to keep que cost of food down and the standard of meals up.
The housekeeper who can visit the shops to refresh her mind 'be- fore she makes any plans and who always chooses her, purch- ases in person can do much more. It is quite impossible to say too much in favour
personal shopping.
In the case of things which are put up in packages,OT bottles. It is naturally merely a question of knowing what make you want and seeing that you get .It.
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In the case of any fresh food, fish, flesh; fowi, vegetables, or fruit, there is much more. to it "The state of the market on that particular day, of your own plans and the amount of cooking time.. of your disposal, of the Weather all these are factors which may make all the difference between ordering something by telephone or proxy, which may be
quite good, and buying something else yourself which be superlatively good,
Fresh fruits and vegetables are more than ever important at this tline of the year. If your family is naughty about eating ordinary salads, as so many English house- holds are, you can make up for.. this by giving them, plenty of watercress as well as another ye- getable, with grills, fish," or mest: cress or tomato fand later on cu- cumber) sandwiches with tea, fresh fruit to begin breakfast with if they cannot be trusted to take it later in the day, and to- mato or orange juice cocktails to begin the evening meal
SMILE AWHILE.
The man's nerves appeared to be worn to a frazzle, He con- sulted his doctor.
"The thing for you to đó” kala the doctor, "is to stop thinking about yourself lose yourself. in your work."
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"What!" boomed the patient, and me a cement mixer?"!
ripen. Method-Peel mangoes and cut into slices. Ball the vinegar and sugar for twenty minutes add the mangoes and boil until trans- perent: Add the other ingredients and boll till the required corisis- tency. The garlic, chillies and onion should be pounded and cut very finely, and the ginger should be pounded well. This takes about three or four hours cook,
Currant Cookies
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1 scant cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 cups Ingredients-Half cup butter,, Simpson's four cup milk, 14 tablespoons currants Method- Cream butter sugar add egg and milk then flour and currants. Roll on a foured board about inch thick and cut in fancy shapes. Bake. In a moderate oven for about" Afteen minutes.
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SMILE AWHILE
"If your mamma and I get divorced, which one of us will you stay with ?"
"Which one's going to keep the Car 7!!
RANDOM RECIPES.‚·
A Simple Orange Wine-Slice & 'dozen oranges to each gallon of water, and let them stand in a pan, for three weeks
until a thick scum appears upon the surface. Skim very carefully and stain the liquor. back into the clean pan, adding 3lbs. Demerara sugar to each, gallon, When the sugar is thoroughly dissolved pour the wine into bottles, with the corks loose, and only when the wine is.que still from work- fhg cork it down. It may take a considerable time to finish work- ing. but turns out very "good and clear if properly skimmed in the. Arst place-
Preserved Apple Ginger.-Peel 2lbs. good sound apples and cut them in fairly thick pieces. Make a syrup of 3lbs. loaf sugar and Ave breakfastcupfuls of water. Boil until quite clear, then put in the apples and boil until tran-i sparent. Add 10z. ginger. Put into
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MENU SUGGESTIONS
Breakfast: Orange juice; brot ed bacon; poached eggs;"ontineal biscuits with ag iam; coffee or chocolate.
Lunch: Tomato juice: ham timbales with savory sauce; string beans, sliced cucumbers, but tered rols; tapioca cream pudd- Ing; iced tea
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Dinner: Fruit cup; poris chaps en casserole; baked mashrodis sweet potato put lettuce salad with chiffonade dressing: ptbe apple sherbet; wafers; colle
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