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PORK PIE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935.
STAPLES SURPRISES
With A Professional
A cold meat pie served with a winter salad makes an ideal cold supper dish for a large family or party. And if it is a raised pork pie, it will have an
instant success.
Now to make it with that pro- fessional look.
Cut up small 1ib. not tog fat pork, season with pepper, and salt and a little grated nutmeg, and simmer any bones with a little cold water to make stock.
To make the crust allow lib. flour, 8 oz. lard, half a teasp, salt plat milk and water mixed.
Sift flour and salt into a warm mixing bowl; and stand this in a warm place, "or over a pan of hot water, Heat lard, milk and water until boiling, then make a well in the flour and liquid. Stir with a wooden spoon and knead to a smooth paste: Use the hands as soon as the paste is sufficiently cool z
pour in the
Stand the paste for five minutes In a warm place, then, leaving a small piece for a lid shape the crust with the hands on a warm- ed board into a hollow ple. It
you have a mould or ring this will save you much time and
trouble.
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Even Warmth
Keep the paste warm all the time. or it will crack; 11 top lease to cool for a few
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Puddings Without Eggs
When
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dear many eggs are housewife is puzzled to remember, really nice puddings which çan be made without them.
In cold weather light suet pud- dings with their many variations
and saucès to serve with them are
admirable, especially for children."
From the foundation mixture. many variats can be run, and an ordinary plain suet pudding with thick chocolate sauce poured over is a sweet that hungry school children will appreciate at this time of year.
Definite Flavourings are
"Toothsome”
Another way of serving it is to heat a large cupful of golden syrup and pour over just before serving. Add a few shredded al- monds Some cubes of crystalised treacle will make another varia- ginger, cut up, and added to the
tion.
This is a good foundation mix- ture for a boiled suet pudding. To half a pound of white bread-" half a pound of plain four allow
crumbs, a teaspoonful of baking
Powder, a teaspoonful of salt, and half a pound of chopped suet, with enough, cold water to make this into a soft, or stiff, dough, accord- ing to the type of pudding desir
ed. If this is to be bolled in a basin a soft dough is best, if for roly-poly use, then a dough which is stiff enough to roll on a pastry board is necessary. (Six ounces of suet is often allowed, but that extra two ounces in cold weather
while).
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SURPRISE FOR THE CHILDREN
A Rainbow Cake
I have given many parties for children, and have repeatedly noticed that the usual party cake is not la demand
The little ones admire the pretty decorations, but when it comes to eating the cake it's a different matter.
Here is a recipe for a cake which is always popular with the children and their little friends. And it is so pretty to look at wher cut, being a mass, of `rain-" bow colourings.
Dainty Sices
Line a fairly large cake tin with buttered paper. I find a shallow one better than the deeper kind. The slices of cake are not so big, and "therefore more suitable for tiny. children.
Now for the ingredients-5 eggs, their weight in caster sugar, but- ter and plain flour, a pinch of salt and a heaped teaspoonful of baking powder.
Cream the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon, then add the yolks of the eggs and," very, gra- dually, the sifted flour, salt and baking powder.
When all the ingredients are well mixed, fold in the stiffly whisked whites of the eggs.
Arrange four pudding basins round the mixing bowl and put an equal amount of the sponge mixture into each.
Into one basin put two tea- spoonfuls of chocolate powder,
warm seconds.
When sufficiently raised, hair fill it with the meat, add a sliced bard-boiled egg. then fill up with for growing children is worth add a few drops of cochineal to meat.
Add a little of the stock, wet . the edges cover with the ld of „pastry. «Raise the edges of the pastry and press together, then decorate the top with the pastry trimmings and snip the edges with a pair of scissors.
Make a slit in the top, put in a parchment funnel, brush with beaten egg and place on a but- tered paper on a baking sheet. Bake in a fairly quick oven for the first 20 minutes, then a very alow one for 14 hours.
To prevent it burning or be- coming to brittle,, covers the ple... with a. plece "of wet double parchment paper, soaking this again as it becomes dry.
When cooked,
remove the
Delicious "Golden Glory"
Pudding..
Well'grease pudding basin, have Dan of water boiling, also greas- ed "paper or pudding cloth for covering pudding, and see that all Ingredients are to hand before you mix. everything. Well stir in salt and baking powder first with the flour, then mix flour, suet and breadcrumbs, and make the dough by stirring in a little cold water at a time.
This mixture, rolled out, "cut into rounds, and arranged in layers
a basin, with golden syrup and a light sprinkling of cinnamon or. ginger between each layer, is de parchment funnel, and pour in a "Helous, and if a layer of golden cupful of stock in which two syrup is put in the basin first it teaspoonfuls of gelatine have should turn out well. We call this. been dissolved. Stand in a cold Golden Glory. place until set.
Veal and Han
Or perhaps you prefer a real and ham ple, equally tasty.
The pastry is made in the same way as for pork 'ple, but a few drops of lemon juice added to it improves the flavour when veal is used.
You will require 1b, knuckle of veal, 6 oz, ham, one hard bolled egg, half a teaspoonful of lemon rind, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and è pint of white stock.
Cut the veal and ham small pieces. sprinkle over
into the and parsley, lemon rind, salt pepper, then continue as for pork ple above.
PINEAPPLE ROLL
BRAISED STUFFED
CUCUMBER
Peel a large cucumber as thin- ly as possible cut it into two inch pieces and remove the centres. Cook ozs. lentils til soft, then mash, adding a few chopped mushrooms and pepper and salt to taste: Make a smooth white sauce and stir into the mashed lentils with the yolk of an egg. Fill the cucumber shapes with the mixture and lay then in a bak ing tin. with a little vegetable stock in the bottom of the tin. Cover with a piece of buttered paper and braise in a moderate oven for half an hour.
SUPPER SNACKS
Here are some tasty snacks ard savouries for when friends call,...
Cut some puff pastry into small fancy shares, then spread with any of the following mixtures:
Sift two cupsful of flour into a basin with half a teaspoonful of salt. Rub in four tablespoon- fuls of butter and add a quarter of a cupful of castor. sugar. Mix to a light dough with half a cupful of milk and turn out on to a floured board, Roll oat until it is three-quarter of an inch thick, spread with diced First, sardines skinned and pineapple, and sprinkle with little pressed through a hair sieve, then castor sugar. Moisten the edges dusted with pepper and salt and of the pastry and roll up. Lay chopped oilves. Spread on the on a greased baking sheet, brush pastry and sprinkle with chopped, over with milk, and bake, in a
hard-boiled egg and chopped par- moderate oven for half an hour.
Bley,
CHEESE SOUP
Fry a small minced onion in an ounce of butter boll up a seer of milk and add to the onion.
the next to make it a pretty pink. Mix in a few drops of green col- ouring to the third basin, and to the fourth add a few drops of mauve colouring."
Stir each basin until the .col- curing is well blended with the fugredients, then, taking a little at a time from each basin, all the prepared cake tin three-quarters full
Place the tin in the middle of a fairly hot oven. After it has been in for ten, minutes, reduce the heat. The cake should be cooked In just under an hour..
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When baked remove from the oven, leave it in the tin for a few mautes, then cool on a wire rack,
Few children like alymond icing" or hard white sugar icing. I find soft icing much preferred, and it is not so sickly.
Violet and Silver
and
To prepare it sift a pound of Icing sugar into a basin, add the strained juice of a lemon, and a few drops of mauve colouring, mix to a smooth paste.
Dip a large knife in hot water and, with this spread the icing over the sides and top of the cake. Decorate with mauve violet petals and silver balls.
EGG AND SARDINE
Four a little tart jelly into a square tin, and when it begins to thicken arrange thin slices at peeled tomato at regular inter- vals.
Set with 'more jelly. Arrange a sardine on each tomato slice, and add decorations of chopped hard boiled egg and parsley at each side,
Set with more jelly. When set cut into squares and serve on let- tuce leaves.
HORS D'OEUVRES
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Three Sunday Dishes
BREAKFAST
Flaked Haddock
Stew a smoked haddock in milk, and, as soon as it is done, take the flesh from the bones in coarse flakes. Put these into a hot fre- proof dish, pour over them half a pint of Bechamel sauce to which a little anchovy essence has been added, sprinkle with finely chop- ped parsley, and serve very hot.
DINNER
Liffey Flan
Mix together lb. very finely chopped rind and juice"of a “lện mon, the yolks of three eggs, and lib, castor sugar. Lastly add 302, butter melted, and bake on an open tart of short crust.
SUPPER
Cheese Turnovera
Heat together in a saucepan, without boiling, four tablespoon- fuls of grated cheese, two beaten eggs. a walnut of butter, salt, and cayenne to taste. When the mix- tore thickens set it aside to cool..
Roll out thinly the remains of paste from the flan, cut into rounds, place some of the mixture on, each, fold "over, moisten the edges and join, and bake in a hot" over,
Flavoured With Orange
To give extra zest to a mar- malade or orange pudding, make this delicious orange sauce.
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Ball together a tablespoonful of sugar, the grated rind of orange, and pint of water."
Mix a teaspoonful of cornflour a smooth paste with cold water, pour Over the boiling syrup, stir until boiling and thick, then add the strained orange Juice.
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Unusual Wine
Orange and ginger wine is ex- cellent. To make it, but the rind and juice of twenty-four oranges into a tub, pour over three gal- lons of water, add 4oz. bruised ginger, 1lb. raisins and 9lb. sugar. » Stir well daily for a fortnight, then strain into a cask, add-joz, Isinglass and bung tightly,
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Sweet Fritters
Orange frittets make a favou- rite sweet for Sunday sup- per. Seedless oranges are best. Remove the skin and pith, diviče each orange into quarters, and drop each piece into a thick'sh' batter, so that it is well coated..
Fry quickly, drain on paper and sprinkle with castor sugar.
Baked--with Cream
Unusual, but delicious, are baked oranges.. Choose Järge oranges, cut them into quarters, without peeling them, then place them on a baking tin in a mode-
Baste with the syrup until they rate over and sprinkle with sugár.
are browned. Bezve with cream.
CURRIED SPINACH-
Next time you are serving stuff- "Pick and wash four or five bun- ed tomatoes with a dish, prepare dies of spinach and cook with very and cook a few more than you little water til tender, drain need. If you squeeze lemon juice through a sieve to extract all the over them and leave them for the water then rub till of a fine.com-. night you will find them an excelsistency of puree Ty a sliced lent hors d'oeuvre
This is a celery hors d'oeuvre. Take six heads, the best part of them, and blanch them in boll- wing water. Let them get cold and marinate them for twenty-four hours with olive oil, the juice of a lemon, a bay leaf, and three or four cloves. Take out the bay leaf and cloves, and serve them in the marinade.
Mix a tablespoonful of cornflour with a little milk and stir into the soup till thickened, Add 3 oza Srated cheese, season with salt and pepper and bring to the ball again before serving.
onion in a spoonful of butter, add. a little curry powder and simmer till brown, stir in the spinach puree and season, with it cook gently, for a few then add the Juice of half a le mon Dish, up on a
dian and garnish with bolle for an ordinary curry.
tion of a sliced garlic and chillles improves the favour
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