Like all classic works of art
A good salad is simple
L
EARN to make a salad from a let-
tuce and you have
the whole art at your finger- tips.
Add, if you like, cucumber, tomato, onion, and radishes, but don't over-do it.
Much preferably make each salnd from one main vegetable only. That in the clasale way.
Above all...
salad is not a device for freshening up moribund vegum tables.
Therefore, whatever you buy for it must be absolutely fresh in the first place, and used as quickly as possible afterwards.
to
:
It is a waste of sympathy help limp lettuce over a stile, but if circumstances compel Son to keep your nice fresh one for Home time before using 11, keep it in the dark, and give it a saucer of water,
The crisp tender leaves which form the heart of lettuce are also the heart of a salag, so ehnge your lettuce with this fact mind.
A
In.
void limpness
cucumber should be
a dark, even green, with a smooth rind and a slitt backbone. If there is any sign of limpness about the thing, drop it!
Tomatoes should also be of an even colour and firm. In a salad they are all the better for being a trifte under-ripe."
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by the HOME PAGE COOK
You do not want the
nice, to
be vozing from them, nor do you want them to collapse when ent.
Feeds
Ne
ow come to the ingre- dients for mixing the dressing.
outer leaves. Banish them from it. Break the remainder with your fingers: never cut them.
"Make each salad from one main vegetable only-that is the classic way."
The word salud implies the use sacred thing. I have tasted some
of salt, so we will have a little of absolutely revolting samples of it. That..
I have also tasted malt vinegar which has been smooth, delicate
Also some pepper, which should he freshly ground, and, of course, and mellow, some, olive oil and vinegar,
We will leave it at that, and to
The oil which you use must be Yone own choice. pus olive oil, and the best obtain- able at that.
Priggish
louch gently
Touch
he less washing a let tuce needs the better, but all the eople will say that the leaves which pass through water only possible vinegar for a salad must be gently shaken dry in a
I have said so cloth or wire basket. is a wine vinegar.
Don't squeeze them in the cloth, myself. Frankly, this is being a
for this bruises them.. trifle priggish.
Mix your antud at table, the moment before you are going to eat it. And use a large bowl. It makes things easier.
ethod
ix a pinch ench of salt and pepper with a tablespoonful of vinegar. Sprinkle this over the leaves and turn them lightly till each one has its share. Then do the same with two Or more, if tablespoonfuls of oil. you like.
Add mustard or sugar, or both, to the vinegar, according to taste. Vinegar will neither mix with nor stick to oil. Ponder this pro- found truth before trying to apply the dressing in any other way.
I know the
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are
Garnish your salad with any chopped herbs which you fancy.
which ones usually no helpfully suggested for the purpose. They are almost un- It is false economy to spoil a obtainable in this country; zo why
Wine vinegar is spoken of in some circles as though it were a salad for the sake of a few coarse worry?
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Substitutes
and Makeshifts
you run out of candied peel, use marmalade when making cakes, I has the merit, too; of keeping the cakes moister.
If you have not enough creant to go read, bent up the white of an egg till snowy and frothy and gently fold into the cream.
When eggs are short ur scarce, use a dessertspoonful of cornflour in your custards, whether baked or boiled, One egg will then go as far as two.
A tablespoonful of vinegar in a large fruit cake will mean that you can do with fewer eggs.
If short of cheese for welsh rarehit, use a few breadcrumbs and a little milk, and half the usual quantity of cheese, but season well.
Save ergs by dipping your fish for frying in the finest oatmeal, or dip in milk before bread-crumbing them. The flavour is considered by many to be superior do egge
If short of butter at an awkward time, soften (don't melt)some margarine and beat in a little new milk. This is good for hot cakes, too, but du see the milk amalgamates properly,
Mix cocon to a paste with condensed milk when short of fresh milk or Then add boiling water and put it into a saucepan and just bring to
cream. the boil.
If you cook too many potatoes, try making a poisto crust for saukage rolls or miteed 'ment. It is a nice change from pastry.
A quick paste substitute for sandwiches can be made by blending hard-· boiled egg yolk with anchovy sauce, adding any other flavouring you like.. Mix with a little melted butter.
SALESMAN SAM
I'M STILL HUNGRY!MEBBE THAT FARMER KIN HELP. ME OUT!
Tasty Sweets To Follow Cold Joints
ERE are a few sweets which would be suit able for cold supper on hot days during Hong- kong's summer.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936.
POPULAR BAND RECORDINGS ON H.M.V. RECORDS.
82204-Blaze Away. March. Band of H.M, Coldstream Guards. March.
Washington Grays.
B2408-Colonel Bogey. March,. Youth & Vigour. March.. 02501-Liberty Bell.
Hiswatha. 82647--Bolls of St. Malo.
Semper Fidollis. 82924-Wee MacGrogor Patrol.
Policeman's Holiday. B2941-Marche Lorraine.
El Capitan. March.
DATE MARSHMALLOWS B3530-Stein Song.
Old Comrades, March. 43' three C1273-Condoliers Selection.
One box of dates, lb, white marahmallows, tico bananas, chopped nats, and C1369-1812 Ovorture.
C1421-Zampa Overture.
cream.
.Massed Bands.
TATTOO.
Cut up dates and marsh-84492-TIDWORTH TATTOO.
B8025- mallows with wet scissors, slice
08106 ALDERSHOT
bananas, whip cream stifly, and B8188- mix into other ingredients. Pile B8224
in individual glasses, top with 88236-es whipped cream.
TOFFEE MERINGUES
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY, Marina House; 19, Queen's Road, Central, Tel. 24648.
All you want are small merin- | 2250AFARI
casen, cream; and toffee
que brittle.
You can buy the brittle, but if you want to make it you put one breakfastcupful of sugar, 1/4 cup golden syrup. 1⁄2 cup of water, in a raucepan and stir until the mixture is very brittle when tried in coll water.
Add butter and teaspoonful lemon essence and pour into large shallow bultered in.
The brittle should be very thin, -80 use' two or three tins if you have Het a large one.
When the brittle has set break into tiny pieces, whip cream very stifly, mix brittle into it, and ure between meringues,
MUSHROOMS IN A FIELD
Our packet of greengage jelly. four bananas, eight round sponge enkra, cream and angelica; ·
Make the jelly and pour into a large shallow dink. Cut bananas in half, and cut a round hole in the centre of the little sponge. rakes so that the bananas will At in like talks.
When the jelly is beginning to set stand the “mushrooms" in it, whip up the cream and spread the top of rach eventy secr Apunge cake.
-Cat-the-anyolien-into-hip- strips and stick in the jelly to resemble pruss, and scatter a few crystalliset violets abost for flowers,
Your
Hands
2
DON'T forget that your hands need special treatment of their own after yesterday's week-end swin You'll need a good nail fle, nippers, orange stick, emery board, cuticle cream, pero- xide, varnish and varnish-
remover.
The newest shades of nail varnish are tomato and tile.
An excellent hand lotion can be made up with equal parts of glycerine, rosewater, and a few drops of lemon- julce. Use it after washing your hands. It softens and whitens at the same time.
A Bite Of A Different Kind
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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Come down to brass tacks, now (hyphen, 7, 4).
Made altarp by the knowledge
that a letter is juside.
10 Grain-not oak grain-for the
pinlater.
this
11 You may think of it as
While someone else endders it
be a debt.
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8 This sounds n very select Rail-
way Line (two words, 5, 6).
12 Makes one realise how very
dark men can be so green.
14 Sealed over 700 years ago and still important to you and me (two words, 5, 0).
15 Animals at heart.
18 To this Thames-side place is,
there the angler is
with his trout.
en Mediterranean-island-part-12 Hidden in Clue 16.
ly embedded in lee.
On the step are both on Monday a
half dozen noticed
from Basra;
17 A noisy joßcation in pain be-
contes truly calamitous..
10 The forepart of a binnacle.
20 A sage who took no rest,
21 Always better when kept,
23 Letters we all like to receive, 24 A hundred
criminals,
27 Asiatic sea.
birds
28 About to let-go free.
20 Biblical mount.
32 Doesn't hold water s
nowadays,
takten hy
as a rule,
33 Bird that is a half wit. I'm
afraid.
den in Clue '16,
35 He's in France to set free by ar-
rangement.
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3 In India he is employed in some
capacity; mestly he builds simple erection of bricks.
4 Frequently described as mother.
Taken for a constable at
time (hyphen, 0, 0).
one
25 On an old line the ass is always
wild,
26 Make deeper her, but don't fol-
low my direction exactly.
27 My business-haste." ("Tam-
ing of the Shrew.")
30 Reft.
31 Female who doesn't make a hit
with anyone.
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