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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935.
STAPLES SURPRISES
A FEW TASTY DISHES
GAMMON PIE
Take
a gammon rasher, one inch thick and lightly brown bath sides in frying-pan. Lay Latin large ple-dish or baking-pan, and cover with thick slices of unpeeled apple, then finally a layer of sliced potatues,
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No flavouring is required, us the bacon will give sufficient salt, and the apple makes delictous gravy. Should the apples be very tart, a little brown sugar may be sprinkled with them.
Cover
with grease-proof paper and bake in slow oven one
hour.
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SAVOURY PORK-
'Take six small pork chops, 2 pig's kidneys, 1b. onions, 1 lb. small potatoes, one small apple, one teaspoonful dried sage, one tablespoonful tomato sause, salt Peel and taste. and pepper to allee potatoes and onions, put them into a stew, far or casserole in layers with the chops and spiced kidneys Sprinkle the onion, sliced apple, and scasoning among them Cover with a layer of potatoes, and put into a moderate oven.
Cook for about two hours, when all the vegetables will be very tender. The longer you can cook this dish the more savoury It will be.
LIVER SAVOURY
Slice some potatoes on the bot- tom of a fire-proof glass dish, Then put as many slices of Ever. as required. Sprinkle with chop
ped sage and two sliced onions, pepper and salt." then more sliced potatoes, cover with stock and cook slowly for about 2 hours. "A great improvement is to serve with apple
sauce..
FOR LATE SUPPER When, for one reason or another the usual dinner-hour has to be postponed it is best to order some such supper-dish as kidney hot- pot which can be made in advance and heated up when required. Fry sliced kidneys in butter till well- browned, placed in hot-pot or fireproof glass casserole with layers of carrots, onions and potatoes. Add a dessert-spoonful of pearl barley. Flavour with herbs and season to taste, and finally add a ittle stock. Place in oven and cook slowly for a couple of hours Reheat when dish is wanted, sery- ing in hot-pot Gravy may be thickened if required.
FOR YOUR TEA TABLE
Sandwiches-Sweet Or Savory
Steamed Puddings THE GOOD COOK
For Winter
WHEN A CHILL IS IN THE
AIR SERVE PUDDING
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If a
With the first breath of winter the steamed pudding comes into its own again. Always serve
a good steamed pudding with sauce, Never all the basin" more than half full The two pieces of greaseproof paper over the top, and grease both on each side, t prevent condensed steam from pe- netrating to the pudding. steamer la not avaliable an ordin- ary saucepan can be used, but the pudding should be raised from the bottom of the pan by means of a plate or stand. The saucepan should have a tightly fitting la. A pudding made with two eggi and, butter instead of suet will take from one and a half to two hours to steam; a pudding of the same size made with suet will taxe two and a half hours.
An excellent way of using up stale bread is in a padding; and a bread pudding need not be dull and heavy, as it so often is. Here is a good ginger pudding. Cut two or three ounces of preserved gin- . ger into small pieces. Blightly warm two tablespoonfuls of syrup and beat two eggs with it. Put into a basin four ounces of flour, a pinch of salt. four ounces of shredded suet, four ounces of fine breadcrumbs,
three ounces
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brown sugar, a dessertspoonful of ground ginger, a pinch of mixed spice, and a pinch of cinnamon Add the eggs and syrup, and it the mixture seems very silft put in a little of the syrup from the Beat well, sprinkle in a #ginger.
teaspoonful of baking powder, add the ginger, turn into a greas. "ed basin, and steam for not leas
than two and a half hours.
MUSHROOMS
SOME RECIPES
This method of serving fish will make the most insipid Ash inter- esting. Peel and cut into small pleces four ounces of mushrooms; sprinkle lightly with pepper and salt and simmer gentis in butter until tender. In the meantime, put four fillets of any white fish into a greased casserole; sprin- kle with pepper, salt, und a des- sertspoonful of lemon juice; dot with small pieces of butter, Put “
KNOWS THAT
OVER-RIPE TOMATOES WIL soon become firm' again if they are placed in a basin of salted water for about 20 minutes,
There is no need to scald them. elther if you want to peel them. Simply scrape them gently but firmly a over with a knife, then cut into the top and peci as you would a peach.
A HALF-LEMON p'aced among the leaves of lettuces will keep them fresh and crisp for several
· days.
BEETROOTS make an excellent vegetable if bolled as usual and severed hot, either pain or with white sauce. They are especially good when fried in butter after.. belrg balled.
Try them with bacont
If when you are bolling beet- roots the skin breaks. causing skewer "them to bleed; heat a
until it is red hot and dab it on the break. This will seal the opening.
AN
ORIGNAL SANDWICH FILLING can be made by mixing ground almonds and grated cheese into a paste with whipped cream and seasoning.
BACON BASHERS cooked in
rolls for a garnish should be placed side by side on a long skewer. The job is done more quickly than by tying each one up.
CREAM BISCUITS
Fruit Pudding
A good fruit pudding, which can be made in an emergency, is as follow Ellos thinly a round trife sponge cake; drain a large tin of apricots or other fruit from the syrup,
and cut into pieces Ar- range a layer of cake in a butter- ed basth, then a layer of fruit, and up in this way. Whisk two large eggs with an ounce and a hair of sugar, add a pint of warm- ed milk and pour over the fruit and cake. Let it stand for some time, then e a piece of grease- proof paper over the top aod steam slowly for an hour. Make a sauce by boiling together the apricot, syrup, the juce of a le- mon, and tablespoonful of sugar; thicken slightly with a ten- spoontu, of cornflour, and serve separately.
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Here is a suitana pudding: Cut up tour ounces of sultanes and is two ounces of candied piel. Put six ourices of fine breadcrumba 'into a basin, add half a teaspoon- ful of baking powder, a quarter of a teaspoonful of ground gin. ger, a quarter of a teaspoonful of mixed spice, and a pinch of "nut- meg. Cream together six ounces of caster sugar and four ounces of butter, add alternately two bea- ten eggs and the breadcrumbs, beat well, and if necessary add a little mik, but it should not be softer than an ordinary cake mix- ture. Stir in the sultanas and the peel, cover with greased paper and steam for two hours..
Put half a pound of ane, white flour into a cool oven to get thor- oughly dry; then add a pinch of salt and sift it into a bowl. Rub two ounces of butter into it unti it is as fine as breadcrumbs, and '«
add two ounces of caster sugar. Make into a paste with the yok of an egg and some cream; it should not be sticky. but just moist enough to roll out easily. Add six drops of vanilla essence and a tablespoonful of currants. Rol out thinly and cut into stapes. then brush over with the white of the egg and sprinkle with leing sugar. Bake in a moderate oven
for fifteen to. greased tins
on
twenty minutes.
SOME NOVEL PUDDINGS
1 packet custard powder, pint milk, 1 tablespoonful ground rice, small tin apricots, 2oza. sugar.
greased paper on top, then the Apricot Pudding.-Ingredients: casserole lid, and bake in a mo- derate oven for twenty minutes, When the mushrooms are cooked, put a small tin of unsweetened condensed milk in the saucepan: stir together a level teaspoonful of paprika pepper and a smal teaspoonful of cornflour mix smoothly with a drop of cald milk, and pour into the mushroom mixture when it bouls. Cook gently for five minutes, and mix with it enough of the liqäld the fish has cooked in to make it of the right consistency. Arrange the fish on a hot dish, and coat with the sauce
MUSHROOM TOAST"
Cut up baff a pound of mush- rooms and cook in butter for å few minutes; season well, add à cupful of milk or unsweetened condensed milk, and simmer for a further ten minutes. Remova the mushrooms, and beat two yolks of eggs into tre sauce. Stir all the time, and make thorough
hot without boiling, when it thickens, put back the mushrooms When sumdiently hot, pour on to buttered tomat,”
In many households the tea- table still holds its own in defiance of the cocktail and sherry habit. But it has changed somewhat in character, and whereas formerly tables groaned under a variety of cakes, warranted to increase the most sylphlike form and to satisfy the most alarming appetites, they now hold an equally disconcerting variety of sandwiches. Hostesser vie with each other in finding new sandwich mixtures, and while some are delicious to taste and it is interesting to guess at their in- gredients, the visitor is sometimes- dismayed to And that after a sandwich with a delicious sweet aling comes one with a strong taste of anchovy or other fishy. favour. Even when only two or three varieties are forthcoming. this is apt to happen, and cheese, Bah, and sweet are hopelessly nized, regardless of whether the unfortunate visitor has a passion for fish and a strong dislike for cheese and a perfect hatred, for mixing all three indiscriminately.
Mix two cupfuls of four, a pinch of salt, half a teaspoonful of When arranging sandwiches," whether in large or in small quad baking powder, and three table tities, it is a good plan either to spoonful of shredded muet to a atin dough with cold water. Then distinguish their contents--sweet or savoury-by using different roll out. kinds of bread for each or, better Spread with the mincemeat. still, by having neatly and clearly damp the edges and roll up, well printed little labels attached to the sealing the ends. The into a scald- plates, so that all may know what ed cloth, sprinkled with four to lies hidden between the covering prevent sticking, then boll or steam
for 11 hours of bread.
UNUSUAL BOLY-POLY The children will like mincemeat roly-poly
Mix the custard powder and ground rice with 6 dessertspoon- fuls of milk in a basin. Boil the remainder of the milk with the sugar, and when bolling pour over the paste, stirring thoroughly. Ke- turn to the saucepan, and bring to the boil. Cut the apricots into small pieces and add them, to- gether with the juice, to the mix ture in the saucepan. Bring to the boll, stirring thoroughly. Pour into a pledish, and bake for 15 minutes.
Almond Hasty Pudding-Ingre- dients: 1 packet, custard powder, 1 pint milk; 2 02, sugar, 1 oz, put- ter, 2 oz. ground almonds, 1 tea- cupful breadcrumbs.
Mix the custard powder in a basin with 3 dessertspoonfuls of milk, Boll the rest of the mük with the sugar, and when boiling pour over the paste and stir tho- roughly. Bir in the butter and
ther add the bread-crumbs and ground almonds and rebot.” Serve immediately.
CHOCOLATE PUDDING This is a recipe for the ever- popular chocolate pudding. Cream together four ounces of butter and, four ounces of castor sugar. Bitt four ounces of four with a pinch of salt and half a teaspoonful of baking powder, add to the butter and sugar alternately with two beaten eggs.
ITALIAN LOAF
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Remove any skin and fat frema → pound of steak and mince it. Mix well with a breakfastcupful of fine breadcrumbs and a break- fastcupful of cooked spaghett! broken into small pieces.
Add salt, pepper, and a pinch of mace, 2 tablespoonful of malted butter or dripping, a dessert spoonful of chopped parsley. and haf chopped onion. When well mixed bind with a beaten egg and .▸ little gravy or stock if necessary. Pack tightly into a grease oblong tim or fireproo glass dish, cover with greased paper. team for about two and half hours. elther in a steamer or on a plate In a saucepan containing a little boiling water. Tern out serve with tomato sauce.
SEED CAKE
and
Dry and sift eight ounces of self-raising flour and a pinch of salt into a bowl, and keep in a
Warm
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cream together eight crinces of butter and eight ounces of castor - sugar. Beat until white' and' creamy, then add alternately one fresh egg and some of the four, beating between each addition. until four eggs and all the flour have been used. Add the grated. rind of a lerion and two ounces or caraway seeds. But the mix- ture into a loaftin lined with two thicknesses of greased paper, and baké“ fin a moderate" oven for about an hour and a half." Turn out and put on a cake-rack to cool
USING UP THE MINCEMEAT
Although mincement improves with keeping. It will not keep for ever. ``Bő here are two recipes for
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Batter Pudding-Ingredients: 1 oz, plain flour, I pachet custard
mas. bowder,
1 pint, mil
mik, 2 oz. ZUEKT, 11 oz. currants or sultanas..
Mincement Angers make a plea sant change from, mince ples. Mix the flour and custard pow-
Roll out some fiaky pastry on der in a basin. Out of the pint floured board, then line come of milk také halt a teacupft, and shallow, buttered tins. Spread gradually add to the flour and with mincemeat damp the edges, custard powder, taking care there then lay another piece of pastry are no lumps Holl the remainder on the top of the milk with the sugar, and Mark the fingers with a when boiling pour on to the mix- ture and stir well Mix in the fruit and pour into a piedish. Bake in a moderate oven for 20-30 min- utes
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