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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935.
STAPLES SURPRISES
THE MILKY WAY
DEVONSHIRE JUNKET
1 quart of mük.
2 heaped tablespoonsful of
castor sugar.
Rennet and flavouring.
The milk is put in a basin with the sugar and flavouring: then the basin is placed over a sauce- pan of hot water, or on the side of the range until it reaches blood heat, when it is removed from the stove."
The Bavourings vary: they may be of almond or vanilla, or cof- [ee essence, or a little good cho- colate may be melted and added. to make a chocolate funket.
Junket has a great advantage over many milk dishes inasmuch as it requires very little prepara- tion and no cooking. It appeals to unset people for that reason. just as all breakfast cereals do... They make no demand for labour or time. and yet are some of the finest bases for milk foods.
As variations may be made in Junkets, so the milk for drinking » is varied with a dash of coffee
essence oz strong tea, chocolate, or even a vanilla pod.
TENNIS CUSTARD
For this, také:
3 teacupsful of milk,
4 eggs,
3 teaspoonsful of castor sugar,
A few drops of almond flavour-
ing.
A PARTY CAKE
A simple party cake is made thus: Measure three teacupsful of self-raising Bour. one of granu- lated sugar, one of currants, one of sultanas, one of seedless rais- Ins, and one of chopped candied peel. Wash and dry the fruit. Put the sugar into a basin with a quarted of a pound of butter, and cream them together. Add the flour and fruft, and mix well. Beat two eggs and add them, with as much milk as necessary to make a very stiff paste. If the dough is soft, it will be heavy and the fruit will sink to the bottom while booking.
Line a cake tin with grease- proof paper, put in the mixture." and spread it out evenly with the wooden spoon. Put into a hot oven and bake for about an hour and a half, or until cooked. Test by putting the blade of a knife through it. If the blade comes out clean the cake is done; sticky. it needs more cooking. When done, take the cake from the tin. remove the paper, and allow to get quite cold before Icing.
TO ICE THE CAKE Roll out three quarters of a pound of icing sugar, put it into a basin and mix with the juice of one lemon. Have ready some bolling water and add a littl eat. a time, mixing all the time with 4 wooden spoon, till the icing is smooth enough to spread easily. but does not run. Spread it rather roughly on the cake with a knife, so that it looks like snow, covering top and sides.
ALMOND PUDDING
/ Sift six ounces of self-raising flour into a bowl; rub in finely three ounces of butter, then add A pinch of salt and a level tablespoonful of castor sugar. Make into a stiff dough with the yolk of an egg and a little milk; the paste should not be sticky. Roll out lightly to nt a shallow ple-dish and prick the pastry all over. Cover it thinly with apricot or raspberry jam. In 1 small saucepan put six ounces of ground almonds, the whites of two eggs, and three pudices q blanched almonds cut into thin strips, and stir over a low heat. until the sugar has melted and 100ks poonfuls of":
almond essence Pour this mixture over the pastry and bake in a moderate
Separate the whites of the eggs from the yolks, and beat them to astiff froth. Bring the milk to the boil, then add the 'whites of egg. a tablespoonful at a time. to the bo'ling milk. If whipped
to
the right degree, the egg whites should set in balls in less than a minute. As soon as they are set. remove them from the milk with a perforated spoon and put in a fancy dish
FRUIT
Aid To Beauty
In these enlightened days we hear much about the medicinal benefits of fruit consumption. De- tails about fruit therapy are not, however, easy to find. Here are some gleanings.
Fruit is the enemy of poisons. It purifies the blood by attacking directly the poisonous matter in the system, and so produces bene-
The custard is made with the egg yolks, milk, sugar, and fav-ical effects on the skin. Fresh ouring, and, when thick, it covers the white balls in the dish.
SUMMER SAVOURY
1 pint of milk.
pound of cooked veal, chop- ped small.
2 tablespoonsful of flour,
1 tablespoonsful of butter.
1 breakfastcupful... of fine
breadcrumbs.
- 1 egg-yolk
..
1 small onion, finely chopped.
1 teaspoonful of parsley. Salt and pepper,
season
Make a sauce with the milk. butter, and flour. Cook for 5 minutes. Add the breadcrumbs, onion, and parsley and with pepper and salt. Stir care- fully and keep very hot. Stir in the yolk of egg, then the meat. Pour the completed mixture into à buttered Areproof dish and bake for half an hour.
Saddle Of Lamb
fry is essential for good health,
TOMATOES
Tomatoes it is still an unde- cided question whether they are fruit or
vegetable--are excellent for the liver and internal econo- my. The Ideal is to take one pound once a day as a meal, without any accompaniment.
Gooseberries are believed to contain sulphur and consequently
• remove Impurities through the skin and so beautify it. Rasp- berries, blackberries and logan- berries are all alkalisers; they rid the blood of boxing owing to the acid they contain.
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The apple was considered by the early Scandinavians as the food of the gods, who when they felt themselves growing feeble consumed this fruit to renew po wer of mind and body.. To-day the apple is recognised as 'Na- ture's tooth-brush and a great aid to digestion.
The Citrus fruits, that is oran- ges, grape-fruits and lemons, are the greatest blood purifiers. The lemon is also fumed as 8 liver stimulant. The sailor's godsend, it is a preventative of scurvy. which arises from the absence of A small saddle of Lamb is not
fruit and green vegetables in the 100 overpoweringty mealy
d.et. for
To be most efficacious the warm weather. With the aid of a
Juice of one lemon should" be few mushrooms, it can be trans-
taken in cold water on rising Or- formed into a rather special dish.
anges are best specifices against Influenza.
Cook the saddle in the oven un- til it is very nearly, done, in a large stewpan with the lid on. with half a dozen medium-sized onions, a bouquet of parsley, thy- me and baylear, two or three sliced carrots and a little butter.
While it is cooking make a fine puree of six ounces of mush- rooms, and make this into a fair- ly stiff puree with the sleved onlons which have cooked with the lamb.
When the saddle is nearly done, take it out of the pan and carve it in thin, long slices down the. chine, and then arrange the slices back on the bone, putting between them little of the onion and mushroom puree.
Tie the joint round
carefully with string, 'and sprinkle it well with a mixture of finely" grated Parmesan and state breadcrumbs, add a little more salt and pepper, and let it get just golden in the oven,
Two pounds of lettuce, four small young onlons, a bouquet of one sprig of parsley, two ounces of butter and two lumps of sugar. Cut the lettuce leaves across tr strips about a finger thick. Divide the butter into small pieces.
Put a third of the lettuce into
a hick saucepan, metal or ear- thenware, and put on it a third of the butter, put in another third of he lettuce and another third of the butter pressing it down well, then add the rest in the same way,
In the middle, and on top put the peeled onions, the bouquet and the lumps of sugar. Sprinkle with salt.
Do not add any liquid at all. Cover: closely and let it sim mer very gently for from three- quarters of an hour to an hour. You will find that when the let- tuces are done, there will be about four good tablespoonfuls of liquid in the bottom of the pan. Bind this quickly with flour and a little butter, and serve the let tuce quickly.
* Do not let the liquid bol away. at all, or you will lose some of its delicate devour. The bouquet will, of course, have been removed when the lettuce is done, but the onions may be served withr (the
HOLLYWOOD'S CHOICE
What better digestive is there than pineapple? Probably that is the reason why Hollywood util- Ises it in its slimming cures. Obe-. sity is often the result of im- perfect assimilation.
Grapes and their juice are a food medicine. Grapes are used in febrile conditions and are 1 great restorative in weakness and debility since they have. tissue- buildin gand tissue -repairing pro- perties. Grape juice will all out hollows, for it feeds blood, body and nerve cells. A glass of this julcé taken on retiring will pre- vent insomnia and assist refresh- ing sleep.
For the best results fruft must be eaten ripe. Unripe or over- ripe fruit is apt to produce intes- tinal pain. All fruits contain cer- tain acids and salts. By various chemical processes in the body these become changed and keep the conditions of the body nor- mally and healthily alkaline, so as to resist disease.
AN AUGUST LUNCHEON
COLD SAUCES
Orange Sauce
Mix six, tablespoonsful of red- currant jelly, three of sugar, and the grated rind of two dranges, and beat them together, for five minutes. Then stir
two tablespoonsful each of Jemon and orange juice, a good pinch of salt and small pinch of cayenne pepper. If you like, add a couple of tablespoonsful of port
SPANISH SAUCE
Cock three-quarters of a pint DA tomato pulp for Afteen minutes with a spring onion. half dozen cloves, # small third of a teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of cayenne
pepper. A
quarter of teaspoonful of paprika, a sprig of parsley, and a piece of a bayledi.
Then rub through a sieve and. mix with three egg-yolks which have previously been lightly beaten and mixed with three tablespoonsful of olive oil. Cook In a double saucepan together. and then add a tablespoonful of gelatine which has been dissolv- ed in three-quarters of a tables-" poonful each of tarragon vinegar and cold water. Strain.
AMERICAN
VINAIGRETTE
SAUCE
Mix together a teaspoonful of salt. a quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika, a pinch of pepper, a tablepoonful of tarragon vinegar, six tablespooonful. of olive oll.
a tablespoonful each of chopped green pepper and pickle cucumber, and teaspoonful each of Anely chopped parsley and chives,
CUCUMBER SAUCE
The simplest is to pare, grate, and drain well a couple of of cucumbers and to mix them with vinegar. seasoning with salt.
A more elaborate way is to beat a gill of cream till thick," Continue beating while you add two tablespoonful of vinegar by degrees, season. with salt and pepper, and anally stir in care- fully D pared, chopped, and welldrained cucumber.
MINT CERRANT JELLY
Half melt a cupful of red- currant jelly, add a teaspoonful of very
anely chopped fresh mint and a little grated orange. peel." Stir in cold water until the felly begins to sat.
CHOCOLATE MACAROONS
Mix half pound of "ground al- monda and half
8 pound of caster sugar, warm four ounces of chocolate until it runs into a... paste, and add it to the almonds and sugar, mixing all togther well. Whip the whites or three large eggs (four if small) to a stiff froth and fold lightly into the mixture. Form into little cakes and place on waterpaper or 1 greased baking-tir. Bake
Beramble your eggs in your very best manner, and as you mix them beforehand, stir in some very thin strips of "raw". for ten minutes in a moderatel sorrel.
A most delicious flavour-oven.
is the resut, which can be achle- ved in the same manner in an omelette.
Cut the escalops very thin and beat them thinner still (for veal must be included in those things which improve by beat- Ing); season them, fry them butter until golden and done.
Then take them out and keep them warm while you make n Kively coffee-coloured sauce by stirring cream into the pan in which they were tooked: -
Flavour this 'with a small squeeze of lemon juice and" at the last minute add to it a ch cumber which you'ñávs cut into malt pieces, and stewed: Pour this all over the escalopes, and ́eat quickly
The amusing souffé, a hot one, is made with half vanilla and halt chocolate, two la
layers, one on the pastry is top of the other" and baked to- Berve hot or cold
gether. Delicious, too.
for twen
FOR DINNER TO-NIGHT
Omelette Clamart. Crabe a l'indleane. Poufet de grains Bergere. Bombe Prophete.
The omelette is stuffed with green peas, cooked a l'anglaise of a la francaise as you prefer.
Serve the crab meat, mixed with a lightish curry sauce in little coquilles, browned quickly before serving.
The spring chicken is cooked in a cocotte with butter, and is ser- ved in it garnished with fried pieces of mushrooms and with fried fardotis of blanched pickled park,
The ice pudding is clothed with strawberry, Ice, the inside being. pineapple.
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CHOCOLATE SWEET
A steamed chocolate pudding will please the family as well as warm them. The ingredients re- ¡quired are 2oz, breadcrumbs, 2oz. shredded suet, 2cm sugar, Zoz. grated chocolate, one egg, a little milk, and a few drops of vanilla essence.
FRUTT COCKTAIL FOR
SIX
I-gredients.-1 sweet-orange. One tin apricots, 6 maraschini cherries, 3'dez, grapes, grenadine syrup, a little sherry,
Remove pith, peel, and pipe from the crange, and cut the plup into small pieces with a sil- ver knite. Cut the apricots in
Dissolve the chocolate in the warm milk and bring to the boll, then pour over the breadcrumbs and leave to soak for half an hour.quarers, and peel and seed the
Stir in the sugar and suet, add the beaten egg and ...vanilla essence.
Pour into a buttered mould and steam for two hours..
Serve
with this chocolate
Fauce
Mix two teaspoonfuls of corn- four to a smooth paste with cold milk. Bring # pint of milk to the boll and pour on to the cornflour. Return to the pan, add a table- spoonful of grated chocolate and
grapes. Mix all together, moisten with apricot juice, a table-spoon of sherry, a table spoon of maras- china syrup, and a teaspoon of grenadine syrup, Chill, place, in cocktail glasses, and serve with a tiny sprig of fresh mint on top of each glass.
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, boil and sur till it thickena. Remove from fire
ittle vanille
RICE CAKE
It is difficult to get a satisfac- tory recipe for this wholesome and rather rarely made cake. The following has been tried with suc cess. It is simple and is quickly made.
Cream
together the. weight of two eggs in butter and
castor sugar, and mix in the grated rind of half a lemon, Add two eggs, well beaten, two punces of the best ground rice, and two ounces of sifted flour to which nearly a teaspoonful of baking. powder has been added. Bake for an hour in a moderate oven.
Fitting
Mannequins dressed exactly like stained-glass window, saints or pic tures of saints by old Italian masters were a sensation at both Lanvin's and Bruyere's openings.
Of course, with saintly painted lips and encarnadinied finger nalia.