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Refreshing Drinks For
Thirsty Days
You'll like these homely, easy- to-make recipes for the various frült drinks which are so much better for you than aerated wa-
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TEA FUNCH Ingredients:-1 pint tea, 2 or- anges, 2 limes, 1 small pineapple, sugar to taste, crushed ice.
Method.-Make the tea in the " usual way allowing 1 dessert- spochful of tea lo 1 pint of boil- Ing water. When cold, add the strained juice of the oranges and mes and the pressed out juice "of the pineapple. Add sugar to taste and stir until it is dissolved. Serve the punch in tail glasses with a little crushed ice. A thin slice of orange my be floated on the top or sume shredded pine- apple may be added.
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GINGER ORANGEADE' Ingredients--Ginger ale, 1 or- ange, lime, sugar to taste, crushed ice
Method.-Put some crushed ice into a soda water glass and strain In the juice of the orange and lime. Sweeen to taste and all
up with ginger cie. Serve with a straw-
· Dishes Appropriate `For Summer Menus
BAKED FLANK STEAK
Flank steak.
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprike
1/3
cup flour
4 tablespoons fai
1 eup tomatoes
cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons chopped onions Pound steak on both sides. Sprinkle with salt, paprika, and Sour. Heat fat in pan. Add steak and brown quickly on both sides. Add rest of Ingredients and cover with itd. Bake 11 hours in moderate oven. eral times in cooking.
Turn steak sev-
COLD CHICKEN. PIE Cut up and boll a young fowl with sweet herbs. Remove meat and reduce stock, to pint. Al- ternate meat in layers with sliced hard-cooked eggs." Dissolve. 1 tablespoon soaked gelatine in Lot stock, season, pour over chicken. chill and cover with baked pas- try crust.
FRIED CHICKEN
1 or 2 young chickens
Salt and pepper
Flour
4 tablespoons fat
"Bacon strips
1 cups white sauce
Clean, single and cut young.
chickens in pieces for serving.
Plunge in cold water, drain sprin-
kle with salt and pepper and
coat thickly with four. Put ist In frying pan on stove and when hot add chicken. Turn until brown on all sides. Cover with
strips of bacon, cover pan, arid cook very slowly until tender, turning occasionally. Serve with white sauce.
CALVES. LIVER WITH NOODLES
1 pound calves' liver
Salt
Pepper
+ cup, four
¿ cup bacon fat-
3 medium-sized ripe tomatoes
3 medium-sized green peppers
6 small white onions
★ teaspoon cesty salt
1 teaspoons poultry seasoning
* 3 cups cooked noodles
- Pour boiling water over Liver and soak for 100 minutes. Drain, dredge with salt, pepper and dour, then brown quickly in hot bacon fat. Place, in casserole with remaining ingredients, except the noodles, 'add 1 cup water.". Cover and bake for 1 hour. Berve with hot cooked noodles.
Shrimp
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The remains of picked shrimps can be used for this. They should – be pounded us finely as possible. combined with their weight 10 butter and passed through a very
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SURPRISES
PINEAPPLE CUP
Ingredients- I large juley pineapple, orange juice, sugar to taste. Ice.
Method. Peel the "pineapple. taking out the eyes, then cut it in quarters and remove the core. Chop the fruit up roughly, put it into a ccarse cloth and squeeze out all the juice, Then add a lit- the water to the pulp and sequeeze again. To every pint of juice, add the strained juicesof an orange. Sweeter to taste and just before it is required add 2 or 3 lumps of Ice.
"BÅKLEY WATER Ingredients.-1 os pearl barley, 2 pints cold water, juice o12 or- anges or a lime, sugar to taste.
Method. Wash the barley, put it into a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring quickly to the oil and pour off the water. Put the barley back into the saucepan with the 2 pints of water and simmer slowly for about 2 hours. Then strain, add the orange or lime juice and sweeten to taste.
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Try Fruit Or Juices For Delicious Icing
„Fresh fruit or fruit juices, mix- ed with sufficient confectioners' sugar to stiffen, make a delicious covering for white or yellow cake.
A little lemon juice added to the frosting improves the flavour.
Using Mushrooms
There is the breakfast mush-
room and bacon. Both these are the direct method. More subtle is the use of mushroom as a flavouring. Mushroom soup, for instance, makes an agree- able change, Some stock, thick- ened and flavoured, with several mushrooms chopped up finely in
it, la distinctive: Mushroom with sole or turbet is one of the tasti"" est methods of dealing with white fist and a little mushroom, goes a long way. Small pieces of sole can be rolled up round pieces of mushroom, while, equally, mush- room can be chopped up to make a sauce. Beefsteak pudding cooking 50 that the mush- rooms have disappeared in if is food to remember. Chicken.. is often apt to be a little dry. Creamed, mixed with chopped-up mushroom, and served in a little cup, it is delicious.
Cherry Pudding
Rub an ounce of butter into eight ounces of four, add three ounces of caster sugar, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; half a teaspoonful of tertar, and the grated rind of half a lemon. Add a beaten egg to a teacupful ...of milk and mix well with the dry ingredients. Have ready two or three ounces of glace cherries cut into quarters, stir them into the mixture, which should then be steamed in a greased, basin for two hours. Berve with any sweet sauce.
Apple Meringue Tart
Stew a pound and a half of ap- ples with the juice of a lemon and it grated rind, and. sugar 10 taste. When cooked, mash up. until smooth, add a lump of but- ter and the beaten yolks of two eggs. Line a pie-dish thinly with pastry pour in the apple, and bake in a hot oven until the pas try is cooked. Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiut forth with some castor. sugar and a few drops of vaquila essence, arrange the meringue on top of the apple, sift with icing sugar, and put back into the oven until the mer- Ingue sets.
DATES IN
COOKERY
The Americans make a greater- use of Dates in their cookery than other nations do. Try these re- cipes from an American Journal:- DATE COOKIES
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Cream
cup shortening and 1 cup sugar. Add
2 eggs, unbeaten, and beat well
Add
1/3 cup milk,
cups flour sifted with
3 teaspoons baking powder.
teaspoon soda,
Stu In 1 cupful chopped nuts, 1 cupful chopped dates, Chill dough and then drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased baking sheet. Makes about 50 cookies.
DATE KRUMMEL TORTE Beat the yolks OI"
3 eggs until creamy and add
1 cupful sugar and
1 cup chopped dates..
1 teaspoons vanilla,
1 cup chopped nuts.
Add 1 teaspoon baking powder mixed with 1 cup dried bread crumbs, rolled Ane. Beat whites of eggs stiff and add 1/3 teaspoon cream of tartar. }
Pour
Fold into first mixture. Inta a square pan, buttered, and hake slowly. When cool gut into" squares. Serve with whipped cream garnished with maraschino cherries. Seryes six
ICE BOX DATE COOKIES
Стевга
1 cup shortening with
1 cup white sugar and
1 cup brown sugar. Add.
2 eggs, unbeaten, and beat well
Add
3
1 teaspoon soda over
1 teaspoon vanila,
1 cup chopped nuts,
1 cup chopped dates. Sitt
4 cups flour with
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
1 teaspoon nutmeg.
1 teaspoon cinnamon.""
teaspoon cloves,
1 teaspoons salt. Mix to sti dough and knead it well. Form into long roll and chill in re- frigerator over night. Cut in 'thin slices to bake.
· DATE NUT LOAF
Sprinkle
15
1 teaspoon soda orei
cups dates. Over this pour
Cream
1 cup boiling water.
2 tablespoons shortening and
1
cup brown sugar." Add teaspoon salt,
1 egg, unbeaten, and beat well,
Add
and cup pecans
then the date-soda " mixture. Stir in .. 13 rups flour. Bake in a slow oven 4 hour
Sireet & Savoury ·
First, a tasty snack made with a cupful of grated cheese, two whites of "eggs, salt, a pinch of cayenne, breadcrumbs, a few drops of Worcester sauce.
Whisk the whites of eggs to a stift froth, stir in the grated cheese. sauce, salt and cayenne, and add sufficient breadcrumbs to form into balls.
Dip, in egg and sprinkle with breadcrumbs, then fry to a golden brown in hot fat. Drain and sprinkle with chopped parsley,
Almond Shortbread
Guests will appreciate a piece of almond shortbread. The ไค- gredients are so butter, 2oz. caster --- sugar, ilb.' flour, - 10z. blanched almonds, a pinch of salt. Cream the butter, sift in the flour and add sugar. Knead well with the knuckles, then roll out into a round, prick over with a fork and sprinkle over the minced aimonde, but
. Bake in a moderate, oven until lightly browned, then whilst still warza cut into slices. Store in an air-tight tin
Sardine
“Hasty” Meals
It frequently happens that something a little out of the or dinary has to be prepared in a hutry when unexpected guesta decide to stay for lunch. Here are some practical suggestions which may prove useful in dealing
ith the situation,
* SAVOURY TONGUES »Feel, wash and dry a pound of mushrooms; season with salt and pepper and fry in butter until soft. Grate a couple of shallots into half a plot of good brown gravy, season, and add a amall, wineglassint of claret if this is available. Boll and, if necessary, thicken with cornflour. and con- tinue to cook for two or three minutes.
Cut about a pound of tongue into thin slices, put it into a pan, pour over it the liquor in which the mushrooms were cooked," and add the
Simmer strained gravy gently, for ten minutes. Arrange the slices of tongue in an entree dish, cover with mushroorns, pour on the gravy, and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Here is another idea-nusual and therefore much appreciated.
VIENNESE TOASTS Mince some raw beef-about three ounces for each person-- season with pepper, salt, a pinch of sweet herbs, chopped parsley and minced onion. Mix with about half the quantity of bread- crumbs, and bind with beaten egg. Form into flat cakes the size of the round of bread on which the mince is to be served, fry in butter, and drain well. Place a savoury cake on each round of toast, top with a poach- ed egg. and finish with chopped. parsley.
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POTATO SURPRISE
Peel and bolt some good sized potatoes, allowing, two for each person. Drain, mash well with hot milk, butter. salt and pepper, and whisk to a foam. Allow · à sheep's kidney for each person--- or two if this is to be the main dish. Blanch the kidneys for three minutes in boiling salted water, chop them, mix with the potato.. season with pepper, salt and chopped parsley. Bind with beaten egg. form into pun balls, roli in breadcrumbs, and fry one in deep bouing fat until brown all over.
FRENCH FILLETS
Cut raw steak into neat rounds about half an inch thick, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and leave" them thus seasoned for a short time. Cut slices of bread the same size as the fillets, and fry. them until crisp and lightly browned. Drain well, and keep hot. Rub the fillets with`bilve ofl. then try them lightly. Put one allet on each round of tried bread. Pulp two or three toma- toes, add a pinch of herbs, some chopped parsley and a light sea-. soning of salt and pepper. Fry in the pan in which the fillets were. cooked, thicken with cornflour, add a little stock, cook for a few minutes, and pour over the Allets in än entree dish. Serve piping hot with a monid of creamy mashed potato on each.
Cake Tins
The greasing of cake tins and pie dishes is rather a messy-busi- ness and one which takes place most days of the week. To avoid the stickiness usually involved,
the following simple method is a good one to adopt. Keep a small jar of lard in the kitchen and, when tins have to be greas ed. place the far near the fire or stove for a few minutes." The lard 4 Wil- quickly become liquid and can the applied to the tins by means of a brush. This method ls quick, economical and effective
ekin and bone some...” good • shel sardines, drain them and pound: them with an equal quantity of butter, seasoning with, cayenne pepper and adding, if you like little chopped parsley.
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