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GRAPEFRUIT MOONS
squares.
AT HOME
| SOFT, GINGERBREAD, WITHOUT EGGS
Salads This
Hot Weather
all
when you are entertaining is to Grapefruit jelly served this way.
Place half a cupful of demerara make your dishes as Interesting is sure to please. To make one sugar, one cupful black treacle, and attractive to the eye as pos- dezen "moons" you need six large and a third of a cupful of fresh Salads served crisp and cold add sible. It is not enough to provide grapefruit. Remove the pulp, add butter in a saucepan, and stir over zest and variety to any meal. The good, wholesome fare, you must de- this to two dissolved one pint jelly a gentle heat until all are melted secret of an attractive salad is to light as well if you are to become
of the and of a thick creamy consistency. have
ingredients # popular hostess among your friends. If you are
Remove from are, and add three-thoroughly chilled and drained. planning a
use a fork, supper party you will and the
quarters of a cupful of sour milk, In combining them following sweets very helpful, they
and two cupfuls and a half of flour mixing carefully so as not to mast are gay and attractive-looking and
previously sifted three times with the ingredients. Add the dressing one tablespoonful each of ground just before serving. will ensure the success of your
ginger and cocoa, one teaspoonful party. I would advise you to cut
powdered cinnamon, one beaped teaspoonful bl-carbonate of soda,
the recipes for future occasions.
If you are arranging a buffet supper. It is a good idea to have niles of saucers or plates with a box of spoons on a small table nearby so that guests can themselves tand how they will at
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the trifle--men have just as sweet A tooth as we have when there is a tipsy cake on view)
LARGE TRIFLE
Make up with hot water to mea- sure two pints, then nearly all the rape fruit skins. Leave to set, then decorate with whipped cream, nuts, a glacé chopped pistachio cherry, and almends.
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ind a saltspoonful salt.
Mix all together thoroughly, and beat well, and then pour the mix-
TOMATO SALAD"
Btomatoes.
1 head of lettuce Mayonnaise
Select tomatoes, of good shape
Ught, refreshing jelly sweet. Ingredients: 3oz. sugar.pint boiling water, 3 tablespoonfuls of cold water, pint orange juice, 2 ture into a greased in, dusted out and colour. Peel and cut 3 thin with four. Bake in a moderate oven slices off the top of each tomato salad for about forty minutes, placing and arrange on lettuce on first on the lowest shelf, and re-plates. Cover slices and top of moving to the middle shelf as soon tomato with mayonnaise sprinkle as the top of the cake forms a soft with paprika. 'crust,"
gelatine. 2 whites of eggs.. tablespoonfuls lemon juice. Loz,
.Soak the gelatine.. in the cold Tater. add the boiling water and Lugar, and gently dissolve over a low heat. Add the orange and How quickly this will vanish. lemon juice, blend thoroughly and Ingredients: 10 small sponge stand in a cold place until nearly Angers, 3 glasses of home-adde) wt, then whisk until very frothy. wine or sherry, or fruit juice." 4] fold in the stiffly whisked egg dozen macaroons. 2oz, ratafias. I whites, pour in à mould rinsed out pint good custard. pint cream. with cold water. Turn into a glass
Split
with the sponge cakes
dish, sprinkle and
desiccated
spread with Jam, arrange in a glass
coconut. dish and pour over the sherry. : home-made wine or fruit juice.
Allow to soak for half an hour,
then sprinkle over the crushed macaroons and pour over the custard. Whip the cream. sweeten and flavour, then spread it, or pipe it over the custard.
TIPSY CAKE
“Most
COFFEE CREAM
grown-ups, appreciate a
coffee-flavoured sweet,
This is easily made and is de- licious to cat. You will require:
EMPRESS JOSEPHINE CAKE 3 uzs. ground almonds,
3 ozs, castor augar,
4 ozs. flour.
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If desired, the inside of the tomato may be scooped out and the cup sprinkled with salt. Then Invers and chill: when ready to serve add a chicken Alling made by combining I cup chopped chicken, cup diced celery, and } Sift the flour, add the ground up nuts with mayonnaise. Or, a almonds and sugar and blend well. vegetable filling may be made by Beat the whites of the eggs untombining diced tomato.. cup of foamy. and add to the mixture.diced celery, cup nuts, and cup forming it into a paste. Roll out on chopped olives or sweet pickles
: Whites of two eggs.
STUFFED CELERY
a board or slab in two equal pieces, with mayonnaise. Serves 6. of whatever shape is desired. If the. cake is to be cut up into small cakes an oblong is best, but if to be served whole the shape may
11 pints milk, 2 tablespoonfuls of be kept round. If it is inclined to strong coffee. 2 eggs, 202. castor stick, sprinkle the slab lightly with
Bake on Ughtly-greased tins in
a moderate oven Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
6 stalks celery
3 cup cream"cheese
2 tbsp. Carnation Milk
sp. salt
1 tsp. onion juice Paprika
• Mayonnaise
1 tsp. chopped green
pepper Lettuce leaves
Decorate with the rataflas, can-sugar. pint thick cream. oz. sieved four, ned fruit, glacé cherries, and sefatine. blanched spiked almonds.
Dissolve the gelatine in the hot coffee, boll the milk in a double cooker, let it go.off the boil, then When quite cold, sandwich the Another version of this kind of add the
thin eggs and sugar. Cook two cakes together with a sweet..
very "slowly until the mixture layer of apricot Jam, and decorate Select crisp stalks of celery hay- thickens, then remove, and add the top with a layer of icing made Ing deep grooves. Add milk and
be coffee and gelatine.
by blending two ounces of sieved seasoning to the cream cheese. icing sugar with sufficient, strained Pile mixture securely into the lime-juice to form a paste. Spread grooves of celery, leaving a fluffy, this over the top of the cake, and rough surface. Cut into 4 decorate the edge with thin slices of lengths. Select a small crisp celery almonds and glace cherries, placed tip and place into one end. alternately all round. For small Sprinkle with paprika and lay two cakes, cut into strips, and place aor three stalks on a lettuce leat. cherry and two thin slices of Serve with mayonnaise. Serves 6. langelica in the centre of each.
Leave to set.
GINGER ALE SALAD"
Ingredients; 1 large sponge cake "baked in a fancy mould, sherry or home-made wine, 1 pints custard. 2oz. sweet almonds, a few drops of ratafia essence. crystallised, fruits and blanched almonds.
Allow to cool partly. then stir In the whipped cream. Pour into a wet mould and leave to set Turn cut and decorate with ground almonds.
ORANGE COMPOTE
Place the sponge cake in a deep glass dish, and soak with sherry. home-made wine or lemon juice. Pour over the custard flavoured A large bowl filled with compote with the ratafia essence. Blanch of oranges will tempt guests who the almonds and cut into spikes, are hot and thirsty. This is how stick these into the
sponge, to prepare it: Dissolve lib. loaf sprinkle with chopped pistachio sugar in i pint water, and sim- nuts and decorate with crystallised mer for 15 minutes, Add six large julcy oranges, peeled and cut into Serve very cold. If you haven't thick alices. Sprinkle a little of an ice box. then stand the dish the grated orange rind over the top "in a bowl of salt and water to set. and a few chopped walnuts.
fruits.
STRAWBERRY CREAM
Decorative and delicious.
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Ingredients: 11b, canned straw-
Serve with whipped cream,
NUT MERINGUE
SIMPLE ORANGE CAKE Take the weight of three eggs in gour. Grate the rind of one orange fresh butter, castor" sugar, 'and]
finely, removing only the outer part of the skin, and strain the Juice of the whole orange. Level teaspoonful baking powder.
3 tbsp. gelatine
cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
2 cups golden ginger ale
cup lemon juice
2 tsp. sugar
Few grains salt
4 drops liquid green
or red colouring
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped apple
1 cup diced pineapple
inch
Rub butter and sugar, together until well creamed, add the grated rind, and beat thoroughly. Add the berries. 1oz. dissolved gelatine, is made with meringues and nuts after each addition. Lastly add the A pretty green and white sweet eggs one at a time, beating in well pint custard. Method: Rub the
Cover the Hat sides ot the four sleved three times with the strawberries through a hair sieve, meringues with whipped cream baking powder. Cover the bowl add the custard and the dissolved containing a little finely-chopped with a cloth, and set aside for 5 minutes, add bolling water and
gelatine.
"Mix thoroughly, then pour into
a mould and leave to set. Tura out and decorate with whole straw berries.
..WINE JELLY Ingredients: 14 pints water, à pint home-made wine, the juice of two lemons, the rind of one lemon, 24oz. gelatine, 3 cloves, cinnamon. the whites and shells of two eggs. 402. sugar, cochineal.
three
2 tbsp, crystallized
ginger, finely diced
Soak gelatine in cold water for
add
stir until dissolved.
the
Then add
walnuts.
then -minutes; Place the halves together and orange juice and pour at once into singer ale, lemon juice, sugar and tently press the cream so that a well-greased tin. Bake in 2
salt. Colour, if desired When
Little
out. Sprinkle with moderate oven.. Turn out into a mixture begins to thicken add re-
rack to cool.
maining ingredients and chill in a chopped pistachio nuts.
This makes a nice, moist cake, mould. Serve with mayonnaise on which may be teed with orange crisp lettuce leaves. Serves 10:
oozes
AMERICAN GINGERBREAD
то one breakfast-cupful of
glace Icing or eaten plain. It keeps fresh for several days, if stored in an airtight tin.
TOMATO EGGS
Wash the lemons and eggs. granulated sugar, allow two of self- Place the gelatine, sugar, water, raising flour. See that the four s
Melt an ounce of batter in 2 whites of eggs and crushed egg quite cry and that there are no saucepan and add a cup of cooked, shells in a large saucepan, over a humps in it. Mix, into it half a sieved tomatoes (tinned ones will gentle heat. Cut the rind off the teaspoonful of salt and two teas- do), with a little of the juice lemona into thin strips, and squeeze poonsful of ground ginger. Beat poured off if necessary, as they out the juice, adding water to two eggs, add the sugar to them must not be too wet. Season well make it up to 4 pint, add these and beat again. Bift in the flour with a pinch of sugar, pepper, salt, with the cinnamon and clöves and mixture, with sumcient milk to and cayenne. Bring to the ball, add a pinch of salt.
CARNATIONNAISE
(Mayonnaise)
4 tbsp. flour
1 tbsp. suga
1 tbsp. mustard
1 tsp. salt
Paprika
1 cup salad ell
cup cider vinegar
3/4 cup water 1, egz
2/3 cup Carnation Milk Mix dry ingredients and to this
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SALADS
of Carnation Mlik, and 3/4 cup of salaŭ oil. Add the milk and all slowly and beat very smooth. This makes 3 cups of mayonnaise. It will keep indefinitely.
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CREAMY NO EGG MAYONNAISE (For fruit salad dressing use 11 tbsp. sugar and 2 tbsp, vinegar in- stead of amounts given below).
2 tsp. sugai
tsp. paprika tup. salt
Few grains pepper
1 tsp. dry mustard
cup Carnation Milk
2 tbsp. vinegar
1 to 1 cups salad oll Mix dry ingredients with Carna- tion; beat in vinegar; add oll gradually, beating thoroughly. Since the mixture thickens some- what when chilled it may be desir- able.. to thin it with undiluted Carnation before using, or less oil can be used if a thinner mixture. is desired. Makes 1 pint.
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For economy and appetite ap- peal salmon ranics high and it has the additional advantage of variety in means of preparation.
SPAGHETTI WITH SALMON
SADOR..
1 9-ounce package
spaghetti
1-77 can salmon
drained, toned
and flaked
2 tbsp. salad oil
2 Small onions.
chopped
cup chopped mush-
rooms canned or fresh
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2 cans condensed
tomato soup
1 cup water
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. chopped
parsley
+ tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
tap. Angostura bitters.
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Sift 2 cups four with 4 tea-.. spoons taking powder and i tea- Flake 2 cup canned salmon. spoon salt, Blend with 4 table- Remore bones. Combine, with 13 |spoons butter and stir la † to 1 cups cooked tomatoes, 18 cups cup milk Knead lightly on well- stale bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons floured board and roll in sheet. make the ingredients into the con-a cup of anely grated cheese, add gradually cup of salad oil, i
butter and 1 egg well besten, 1|two-thirds as wide" as long. Com- Place spaghetti in 2 quarts boll-tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon bine 2 cups faked salmon. 1 cup Whisk well until the mixture sliteney of a` cake dough, turn remove from the heat and stir cup of cider vinegar, and 3/4 cup ing water and boll rapidly 10 min-wait, 1 teaspoon pepper. Mix light-medium white sauce and 1 ext bolla, skim and simmer for 7' min- | iptó A buttered tin, place some until the cheese melts. Then stir of water. Stir until smooth. Cook utes, Desin. Place the ofl in &ly. Pour into a well-oiled circular slightly beaten. Spread on dough. utes, add the wine, atrain through pieces of preserved ginger on top, in four beaten eggs, and put on over a slow fire until thick and the trying pan, add the onion, garlic mould. Bake in hot oven about 20 Roll as jelly roll and brush with a jelly cloth, pour into individual and bake for half an hour. Be sure a very low heat indeed until it is flour is well cooked, stirring con- and mushrooms and cook over low minutes. Turn out on a round milk or melted butter. Bake in moulds, When set, turn out and the oven is quite hot when the all thick. Pour on to alices of toast stantly. Remove from fire and heat until the onion is soft. Add platter and all center with butter- hot oven about 30 minutes. Berve decorate with a little whipped gingerbread goes in, and turn it to If too great a heat is used both beat into the mixture 1 egg (which salmon soup and water ang, sea-led peas and surround with tiny hot with a stuffed offve mance (4 cream and glacé cherry.
moderate. during cooking."
eggs and cheese will go hard.
has been slightly beaten), 2/3 cup sonings and cook slowly 30 min-whole buttered beets. Berve with cup stuffed olives in 1 cup highly
Hollandaise sauce.
|seasoned cream sauce);
Carnation
Protect the health of your family, use Carnation it is sterilized and pasteurized and it contains more than twice as much cream as ordinary milk.
"from contented cows.
CARNATION EVAPORATED
MILK
Cenation