HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
STAPLES
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN
WITH A DISTINCTIVE
FLAVOUR
Russian Women of
birth new living in America have discovered many ways to simplify the com- plicated recipes of their homeland. and yet preserve the tasty favourį of Russian cooking. A tew of their favourite dishes are described be- low.
This, for instance, is a quick way of preparing that ever popular
SOUD.
GREEN SCHI
Bring to boll
"
2 of 3 quarts of water. Add
1
thinly sliced orulon
1 thinly sliced carrot
1 potato cut in half
I pound of well-washed greens
(spinach or mustard greens >
to turn it over frequently, so it will not acquire a brown crust, and yet be well tonu inside.
In a wooden bowl place the Ever.
onion. add, if desired,
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or 2 hard-boiled eggs. Chop them all up together to the consistency of paste. Add Pepper and
Salt to taste. Add almost
1
pound of chicken fat, working it in.
Liver paste is served as hors doeuvre at the beginning of a meal. You may serve it in a small Bowl from which each person helps himself, or use it as filling between two crackers. It also makes an ex-; cellent sandwich spread.
To save the liver paste for a day
or two, place it in a jar and cover
A little celery (optional). Boit with some chicken fat, which will
until potato is done, then add prevent the air from reaching it. can of hot sauce or tomati soup
COTTAGE CHEESE SQUARES .These make a royal dish for peo- They As soon as this is dissolved, addple who do not eat meat.
a few drops of lemon juice, pre prepared thus and make ready to serve.
Before pouring out the soup.
place in each heated soup- plate
of a hard-boiled egg and
teaspoonful Russian sour
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Mix in a bowl
pound of dry cottage cheese. worked through a strainer.
2 tablespoons of flour,
2 eggs, slightly beaten up.
A pinch of salt: Take a dough
cream. This latter may be board and sprinkle lightly with
omitted).
BARLEY SOUP
Here is another favourite.
Wash well
1 cup barley. Soak overnight in
or 3 quarts of water.
2
day add
„}
sliced carrot and
Next
A small lump of butter, with Salt to taste, and place on a low
fire. Fry
medium-sized, thinly sliced onion in
Alle butter, and add to soup.
Flour. Place on it one-third of
the mixture. shape it into a roll, pat flat on top, and cut into 2 or 3-inch squares. Re- peat-with the rest of the nix- ture.
In the meantime, in a large pan prepare rapidly boiling water and salt it, as you would. for cooking spaghetti Now be sure to lower the fire under the boiling water because if you don't, the squares will crumble as you put them in. Watch the squares for a few ma-
Fifteen minutes before serv-ments until they swim up to the ...ing, add
glass of rich milk. And just utes longer. Drain the squares. before serving, add
Grated cheese, to taste.
A
LIVER PASTE
This popular appetizer is pre-
pared thus:
Take
FOOD
SURPRISES
RECIPES
;
Salt them, and fry in
Butter until they are golden in
colour. Pour over them pound Russian sour cream and place for 15 minutes in a me
dium warth oven.
ANOTHER VERSION Here is another popular way of preparing brinjal in combination with other vegetables:
Cut
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EXCELLENT DISHES MADE
WITH LIVER
Buy calf's liver in a plece and slice it wafer-thin a very sharp knife. Have ready some oiled butter into which you have worked salt, pepper, celery salt, a suspicion of mustard and a little more French The mixture should be mustard runny, but not too hot. Dip slices of liver into flour and then into this. Place each on to a rasher of
1 brinjal into squares, then bacon, and place on a hot grill slice these into pieces the Turn both liver and bacon over thickness of your little finger. when they look cooked on top Grill silced tomatoes (dipped first Place these on a large sauce-
in the same olled butter mixture pan or oven-tray. Add
for liver)
dish to edge or 2 tablespoons water and sed place tray in the oven untfi alternated with sections of lemon. the slices are cooked.
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On another saucepan melt. Some butter, and fry
1 sliced onion and
1 sliced green
pepper. When these are slightly fried, pour over them
1 can of hot tomato sauce. Now Salt the brinial slices, Pepper them, and pear the con- tents of the second saucepan over them. Again place the brinjal in the oven, and 15 minutes before serving. pour over it some
Russian sour cream.
CHOCOLATE COOKIES
The following directions for mak- ing delicious chocolate cookies are given by a Russian prin-
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Beat gradually
+
eggs with
3
sups
of granulated
sugar When it becomes difficult to continue beating, add
pound bitter chocolate, melted' on a pan with
A little butter. Mix well. Melt
1
cup salted butter and pour it slowly into the mixture. Then .add
Fry, pieces of call's liver quickly in butter, just to brown each side.
Chop very tinely 2 rashers of bacon, little parsley and a small onion Mix all together, season.
Place in a fat oven dish with alices of brown liyer on top. Pour over the whole the butter in which the liver was cooked. Cover com- pletely with greased greaseproof paper and cook in a slow over for a quarter of an hou
This should be served with a puree of potato.
WITH PARSLEY AND SPINACH
This is a Stafordshire dish, and Mushrooms grilled instead of the herb dressing is important. tomatoes are suitable with liver. Clean and drain a good quantity but form no colour contrast, so of spinach leaves, 2 handfuls when I have mushrooms I have parsley and a handful of onions. tomatoes us well or dish, the grin Chop the parsley and onions and sprinkle among the spinach Set on to lettuce leaves
them to stew with salt, pepper, and a piece of butter the size of a Chop 11b calf's liver and flu fat walnut. Shake the pan when it bacon finely. Mix them together begins to get warm, cover closely
WELL-FLAVOURED SAUSAGES
add tib breadcrumbs, teas-and set over a very slow beat fill
poonful thyme. one teaspoonful cooked.
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chopped parsley, teaspoonful Fry slices of liver, first dipped 4 flour batter. till nicely unely grated lemon rind, teasin poonful grated nutmeg, one teas-browned; grill some fat rashers of! poonful salt, teaspoonful pepper bacon and poach some eggs one Two eggs well beaten and a little for each person. milk, if necessary, are used to mix. Line "a hot dish with the herb Press the mixture into skins andy and vegetables, lay bacon and liver put aside for 5 to 8 hours, then in centre and put poached eggs prick well. Fry in hot fat and serve round the edge as a garnish. on toast or with mashed potato.
I preferred the above mixture may be made into flat cakes and fried in the same way.
PIQUANT TOASTS
Three slices of bacon. 3 teaspoon - fuls chutney. 20 calf's liver, salt. ALWAYS JUICY AND SAVOURY red pepper. three olives and chop-
Ded parsley. Quarter lb. liver, four thin slices. Place the chopped liver on slices of bacon. 2oz breadcrumbs, little of bacon, sprinkle with salt and red | grated lemon rind, teaspoonful bacon fat, teaspoonful lemon juice. salt and pepper.
Rub fat into the crumbs, add a little grating of lemon. rind and Juice and seasoning. Put a layer of this between two thin slices of liver Take an oven-plate and place and wrap round with the bacon.
surface, then let them boil 5 min-
1
or 2 cups walnuts,
place them on a hot platter with
1
cup flour, and
2 teaspoons
vanilla
'on it
A ttle melted butter, and serve
Separately, serve with them Sugar and
Russian sour cream.
BRINJAL, RUSSIAN STYLE
1 medium-sized onion, grate it if you like mushrooms, brinjall
and fry it in
A little chicken fat Take
pound veal liver, or, if you want it less expensive, beet Ever. Fry the liver separate ly, without salting it.. Be sure
(batu), Russian style, will recall their taste to you..
Cat
1 brinjal into thin slices, add 4 onion, chopped fine. Pepper and
extract.
A little butter and Some crumbs. Pour the mixture on the plate and bake in a moderately hot oven (375 deg. F.) for..20 or 30 minutes. Cut "Into squares while hot and al- low them to cool before serv- ing. Yum-yum! "Christian Science Monitor."
pepper, add chutney and chopped olives. Roll carefully and put a long skewer through the three rolls.
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Motoring And Health
NEED TO AVOID HEAVY MEALS
Car-Sickness And Its Prevention
No dangers to health should arise from the normal use of a motor-čar, either by passen- ger, or driver,. in respect of its nature as a machine, writes the Daily Telegraph medical correspondent.
been either too plentiful or unwisely chosen.
form
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Very little physical exertion is demanded by the driving of a car, and less, of course, by merely sitting in it. But what might be called, perhaps, a "spurious" ap- The inhalation of exhaust gases petite, is often induced by driving. is, of course, fraught with serious Too much focd is taken for the perth, but there can be few ordinary bodily demands required.
Meals during an all-day drive Place in a greased baking tin drivers and users of cars who are and bake in hot oven for 10 or 15 not aware of this risk if an engine should be light, and whenever pos- minutes-when cooked withdraw is left running in a small and sible time should be taken, during" skewer, place rolls on pieces or hot badly-ventilated garage or work- or at the end of a drive! for at * least an hour or two's brisk walk- buttered toast and sprinkle with spop.
of physical: Complaints of dangerous "tu-ing or other chopped parsley.
mea" noticed by persons in drivers' exercise. seats have seldom much basis in fact. In the great majority of For some people too, the, neces- cases such "fumes" are not exhaust sary concentration on the road gases at all, but emanations from while driving-the continual 'visual dirty engines, which may be un- strain imposed on every good and pleasant as odours but are not careful driver-may result in eye- Tinted or headache. definitely inimical to health. Their weariness causes should be easily removable. glasses may be a help in certain THAT "LIVERISH" FEELING cases of this kind, but the only There are, however, a few minor wise course for people who are affections from which some drivers susceptible to this particular reac- and passengers are liable to suffer. [tion is to ration their driving sen- Many people often feel what they sibly. describe as "liverish" on the day after a relatively long drive.
Set in a baking dish, and bake in a fairly not pren for 20 minutes turning the rolls over at half time.
These are tasty and the liver | COCOÂNUT CUSTARD always nice and juicy
COOKED IN CASSEROLE-NO LIQUID
It is a sure way of cooking liver without any possible chance of its being tough.
For your Health's Sake
drink delicious
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-and note the Difference!
PIE
6 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 eggs, beaten
1 cups Carnation Milk
diluted with
1 cups boiling water
4 tsp. vanilla
1 cup shreddeḍ
cocoanut
beaten
Add sugar and salt to eggs. Scald diluted milk in double boller and pour over egg mixture. Return mixture to double boiler and let it get steaming hot, ther add vanilla and pour into unprick ed, cooked ple shell Sprinkle with cocoanut. Start ple to bake in a hot oven (425°F). After 15 min- utes baking at this temperature. decrease to a slow oven and bake until custard gives clean knife test.
CHOCOLATE PIE
2 squares chocolate
1 cup boiling water
1 cup Carnation Milk
4 tbsp. flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1 tbsp. butter
+ tsp. vanilla
Melt chocolate, add bolling water and milk Heat until the mixture
This may, in a small num. ber of cases, be due to the actual motion of the car-a slight manifestation of the "group of disorders included in sea-sickness and train-sick-
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