STAPLES
Menus To Please Appetite
And Purse
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935.
SURPRISES
THE
THE WHOLESOME AND
HOMELY POTATO
WRECKED
"There is real satisfaction in planning your menus so that even a restricted budget will find the
month ending with a surplus. -overs, utilize left Dishes that that include seasonal fruits and vegetabes and that take advant- ape of clever favouring are the of all. Here economicial most
are some menus designed to suit the limited budget.
Swedish Meat Balls Green BeanS Mashed Potatoes Bread Stewed Pear Halves Coffee
SWEDISH MEAT BALLS
i ib. veal
lb. lean pork
1 small onion"
2 sces bread
2 eggs
Salt and pepper
Put veal, pork, onion and bread. which has first Eeer soaked in milk through the food chopper twide Add unbeaten eggs and. season with salt and pepper. Mix well. Shape with a teaspoon into small ovals; cook quickly in hot fat, taking care that the meat does not become hard by over- cooking..
STEWED PEAR HALVES". Boil & pear halves in one and a half cups water and one-half Remove from the cup sugar.
dessert syrup and arrange on plates. To the remaining syrup it which the pears were cooked add two sections of sweet choco- late and melt in a double boiler. Beat until well blended with the syrup and pour over the halves
ôf pears.
Serve hot or cold.'
Fricassee of Beef
Dutch Spinach
Parsley Potatoes Left-Over Cake Pudding Coffee
FRICASSEE OF BEEF
Have a 21 pound round steak cut about 2 inches thick. Cut Brown meat in a into servings.
meat and Remove Kittle fat. make gravy by browning 6 table- spoons of flour in 3 tablespoons and adding 2 cups hot of fat milk. Stir until smooth and Pt the meat in rather thick. the gravy and bake in a mode- rate oven about 24 hours or unt'l meat is tender. The meat should be covered the first hour then the cover can be removed for the Re- rest of the corking period.
move meat to a platter and add
a little milk to the gravy
and
stir until gravy is smooth,
"EGGS IN NESTS" SAVOURIES
!!
For each person allow an egg, an ounce of rice, an ounce of Wash grated Parmesan cheese.
the rice and cook it in salted wa- ter until tender-about twenty minutes. Drain well and dry in a warm oven. Add half the cheese to the rice, season with salt and pepper and a little chopped par sley, mix well, and make nests of the mixture on a greased baking tin, Into each break an' egg, sea- son. lightly, sprinkle with grated cheese, and bake for about five minutes in a hot oven.
LEMON PARFAIT
Dissolve 1 cups of granulated sugar in 1 cup of water; add the thin peel of 1 lemon and boil to the "thread stage; then remove the lemon. Whip the whites or 3 eggs. to a stiff froth; pour the syrup over them, whipping all the time. When nearly cold addi cup of strained lemon juice, whip a few minutes tonger; fold in 1 pint of stiffly whipped cream end freeze in the electric refrigerator 4 to 5 hours. Chili alender glasses and all with the parfait, smooth the top of each glass and top with a rosette of whipped cream.
"DUTCH SPINACH
3 cups chopped raw spinach 4 slices bacon
3 tbsp. flour
1 cups water or potato water
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp. vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste
z hard cooked eggs.
Place the cleaned and drained "chopped spinach in a bowl. Dice the bacon, heat in a skillet and stir until well crisped. Remove the crisped bacon and add to the spinach. To the remaining fat add the flour and smooth to paste.
or Add the hot water potato water and cook to a thin, smooth sauce, stirring constantly. Add the sugar.. vinegar, salt and pepper. Pour the spinach, stir well and serve with hard-cooked eggs.
LEFT-OVER CAKE PUDDING
To 3 cups of left-over cake crumbs add enough hot water to soften. Add 1 cup of sweet milk and beat well. Beat the yolk of one egg and add to the mixture. Thicken on top of the stove, stir- ing constantly. Then place in a baking dish and cover with me- rangue. Brown lightly in oven.
FISH WITH TOMATOES
salt and
pepper.
seasoning of iny
Put on the top again and bake in a hot oven for an hour.
Potatoes can be used in number of wholesome and nou rishing dishes. You will find the family will appreciate these:-
WITH PICKLED PORK
This unusual dish comes from France, and is much appreciated by many. Get a piece of pickled breast of pork, cut it into rashers, fairly thick, and blanch them in boiling water for a few minutes. Cut Then cut them into dice. some peeled potatoes into rounds, put a layer of the pickled pork into an earthenware casserole. then a good layer of potatoes and so on until the pan is full, seasoning as you go with plenty of black pepper and, if necessary. a little salt. Put the lid on tight, and cook in a very slow oven for two hours.
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WITH MUSTARD SAUCE,
15
Boil some potatoes in their skins and slice them, and then fry them in butter as you would saute potatoes, While the pota- toes are boiling, make some good
flavour white
and souce with made mustard in the pro- a tablespoonful of portion of mustard to three quarters of a pint sauce. When the potatoes are properly fried, pour the sauce over them, and shake the pan As to mix them with the sauce. you dish them for the table,
chopped " sprinkle finally parsley over them.
some
WITH HERBS
Peel some large potatoes of the same size, cut off half an inch
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For four people, have a large sole aleted. Sprinkle the fillets with paprika, lemon juice, and a little salt, and leave for half an hour. Then roll up, place on
little. weli-buttered dish, put a butter on each flet, cover with a buttered paper, and cook in a mo- derate oven for twenty minutes to half an hour. In the meantime, prepare the tomatoes. Cook them until soft in a little butter, using about a pound. Season them well with a Xttle grated onion, pepper, salt, lemon juice, and sugar. Pr298 through a sieve, Cook an ounce of flour in an ounce of butter, add.a. quarter of a pint of milk, evapor-" When. milk, or smooth add the tomato pure and Pour the cook for five minutes. sauce over the flah.
ated
cream.
FAVOURITE DISH
Cauliflower and Ham au Gratin
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1 head cauliflower
2 cups medium white sauce 1 tablespoon butter and salt to
taste
2 cups paked ham, diced
3 tablespoons grated cheese
Wash and trim the cauliflower and cook until tender in boiling salt water. When done drain well Plac: and break into flowerets.
in baking dish, pour over it the.
to which has been white sauce added the diced ham Sprinkle with grated chзese and dot with butter. Bake in moderate oven for Afteen minutes..
CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE
pound citron strips
1 pound seed raisins
1 glass candid cherries-
2 cups scedless raisins 1 cup des
Candied pineapple
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons soda teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon al-Dice
1 teaspoor cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon #cup wine.
1 cup sour milk
4 cups four.
the top and hollow out the insides, leaving half an inch o potato still inside the shell. Now
wth
mixture. this them Cream an ounce of butter, add the yolk of an egg and beat a little longer. Mix this with three ounces of breadcrumbs, a pinch e mixed herbs (fresh if possible) a Httle chopped parsley. three- quarters of all of milk and a
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FRITTERS (SWEET) Bake some floury potatoes in,
while their jackets, peel them they are hot, mash them well and pound them with a pinch of salt, a little sugar and an ounce of butter, moistening with a table- spoonful of cream, Now add beaten egg until you have a purec which can be made into little balls Roll these in four and fry them in deep fat until golden Serve them sprinkled with sugar, or, if you prefer hand some hot Jam separately.
WITH BEETROOT
Rather a pretty dish for those who like hot beetroot. Make a light and well-wisked potato puree (no lumps!) and arrange it in a dish so that there is a hollow in the middle. Meanwhile you will have made a good white or Bechamel sauce, and when this is cocked add to it finely chopped cooked beetroot. Pour this mixture inside the wall of potato and serve very hot.
GLACE GRAPES
This recipe Icr
some
KIA-
giace pes is very useful. Take 8 oz. cup of brown
golden syrup 1 sugar, 15.
green grapes, 2 oz.
unsalted butter."
Melt butter in a saucepan, add Stir t ball- syrup and sugar.
ing. Boll till a little tested. It cold water hardens, then remove from fire at once.
While waiting for the mixture to cool a little, cut grapes from 'stem in clusters of two or three and suspend them on a string. Dip them in the sugar and wher thoroughly coated hang them up to dry.
NEW PUDDINGS ARE
WELCOME
CHOCOLATE RICE CREAM
Make some cream of rice by putting a couple of tablespoonfuls of rice into a pint of cold milk with half a dozen lamps "of sugar, and cook it in a double saucepan very slowly until the rice has absorbed all the milk. Then flavour with a spot or two of vanilla essence, turn out the rice in "a heap and serve with chocolate sauce poured over 1.
APPLE AND HONEY ROLL Make some auet crust and roll it out to make a roly-poly. Chop up some apples and grate over them the rind of a lemon, Bwee- ten with honey and roll up the crust. One can then either boil it A or bake it but baking is best. little touch of cinnamon tome- with the honey times goes well
flavour.
FRIED CREAM This sounds rather odd, but it is more of a custard than cream, Mix a teaspoonful of our web, a gül of milk until quite smooth, then boll it until cooked, see that" it is still smooth, cool it and add a tablespoonful of sugar, three -yolks of egg and one white well baten together and a gill of
cream.
Cook in a double sauce- pan unt! it thickens and, leaves the sides of the pan, then flavour it and turn it out en in a buttered dish
cut
When it is cold
it into squares or oblongs, dip them in beaten egg and then in finely-ale- ved cake-crumbs and fry in very hot fat. Serve sprinkled with Ane sugar,
BUTTERSCOTCH TART
Put a tablespoonful of fresh" butter in a saucepan and let it brown lightly. Then stir in three- quarters or a breakfastcupful of
brown sugar and than a table-
spoonful of flour, Take the pan of the fire, and add two egg-yolks
well beaten into a breakfastcupful
and a half of milk. Boil this up, stirring well, and ise It to fill a pastry flan which has already been baked "blind." Eat it when it is cold. A good sweet..
APPLE TURNOVERS
é applies
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter teaspoon vanila
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Peel and core apples. Add wa- ter and boll five minutes. Add rest of ingredients and simmer until apples are tender when test- ed with a fork. While cooking,
the applies should be turned and basted frequently so that they will cook evenly. Cool and place on dough squares that have "pre- Combine above ingredients, re-viously been made of rich biscuit serving some of the citran, pine- dough, roled, to a medium thick- ness and cut in", squares large apple and candied cherries to decorate the top. Place in enough to accommodate the ap
pis Bring the corners of the greased B inch tin but do not put the fruit decorations on the cake squares together over the apples, moisten and press well together unt: the last 1 hour of baking..
then bake in a moderate oven, It is well to line the cake tin with
Serve with waxed paper. Bake in a moderate folded side down.
cream or sauce. oven for 24 hours.
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OLYMPIAD
$172,000 Budget For
China's Participation
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright)}
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Nanking, Nov 28. China has decided to take part -in-seven branches of competitions at the next World Olympiad to be held in Berlin next summer, it is definitely learnt here to-day, The, severц branches of athletics that ,have been picked by China for participation are soccer, track and weight-lifting. fleid, basketball, swimming, boxing and marathon ráce,
TRAINING GALLOPS
The following times were clocked yesterday at the training callops at Happy Valley:-
Dis- 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Last
Philanderer Flybynight
Alacrity.....
Able Amazon "kid Beginner's Luck
tance Qr.
Qr.
Cold Morning and Empire Day 1 The Tiger
Zero
Night Star
Bag Tor
Limelight
40.3 1.18.4-1.52.1
35.3 1.07.3 1.41-
33.2
33.3
33.3 1.053 1.341.
28.3
2.06 29
37.2 1.11 1.44.4 2.18.3 33.4
2.10
28 32.4
33.4 1.08.2 137
36.4 1.10.1 1.41
36.3 1.11.11.44.
46 1.30.1 2012 2.32.1 30:4 1.34.3 2034 29.1 1-321-1,04
Propitious Time and Flamingo 37
fayflower ......... Snowy River. Racing Boy and
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1.12.4 1.45.3
41
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1 35 1.09.3 1.41.4 2.11.1 29.2 38.1 1.19.2 1.48.3 2.19,1 32.3 32.4 34
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38.3 1.12
Soldier of Peace. 1
Emergency Call and
.9 The Rain Gauge
Gold Bullion and
48.3 1.27.2 2.00
46.2 1.26.2.1.57.3
Flying Tourist 33.1 1.05.3 1.38.1
1.43.1 2.12.3 29.2
2.31.1 31.1
31.1
32.3
The financing of the delegation is assured as the budget of $172,000 as worked out by the Ministry of Education is stated to have been-- approved by the Executive Yuan. Unilke the last Olympiad held at and field events at the Sixth Na-athletes and not dolls Australia Los Angeles to which China sent tlabal Athletic Meet which was has in the past welcomed with only one delegate, the Berlin meet held in Shanghai last October, open arms Chinese football teams, will see China represented by 80 there is marked improvement in swimmers and tannis players, and athletes and 20 oficiais. Accord-technique among Chinese athletes, such visits have done more for ing to plans worked out by the The people of this country cannot China's prestige than any number National Amateur Athletic Federa- help but feel that, when Chinese of visits by any other dignitaries tion, the Chinese delegation will athletes can hold their own at the could have done. Physical prowess: leave Shanghai next June, return World Olympiad, it will mark the invariably commands respect and ing to China in September. But day when China has taken her admiration: and therefore the near future to see a contingent of before departure the athletes will rightful place among the nations. People in this country hope in the undergo a period of rigid training
Furthermore, athletic teams Chinese athletes sall for the next beginning next March. R
have proved time and again that World's Olympiad and, while there, CHINESE ATHLETES IMPROVED they are the best of good-will am climb the first rungs of the ladder
Judging from the excelent re-bassadors, and so when Chins of physical equality----- cords that have hem set in track feels the need of such let them be! China United: Press (by mail)