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Can
you
SOUP
make
Consomme?
That is the test
of a good cook
Y dear, I really HESTER
"Mo
do believe I've
-struck a good VALENTINE
cook-at last!"
"Can she make 'clear.
soup?"
"Yes, her consomme is tells you how
perfect."
Consomme, the classic test of a Bral-class cook,
When I was just married I had a bad complex about it. I considered myself a good cook, and yet, when it came to clarifying the contents of the stock-pot, I was helpless,
to get full
marks.
Pour it into a saucepan, and, if
them
into your saucepan of it is the jellied variety, dissolve it for a few seconds on the stove. Now favoured lock, and put on Is the time to add the final flavour- stove. ing.
cold
the m!
a blade of mace, five or six pepper
Do not attempt to whisk or beat It sounded sa terribly complicated corns, mushroom stalks and peelings,
The real fun of clear soup-making the soup in the urdinary way. The that tomato pulp and skin, a clove of rookery books, All The kimming and straining; and the garlic. legs, neck, and bones of alles in the art of flavouring. You whites do not need to be mixed in, enn combine different expences and but should stay floating on the top. actual.clarifying process was never
juices with sherry, matsuda, or red Take an egg-whisk and keep the properly explained,
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Then one submin I went to stay that happy visit clear soup has held nu secrets for me. I can now clarity stock easily as I can try an eng and how Mr. Valentine enjoys a cup .of good consomm
evening!
with some friends in France. Since
chicken,
Autumn Fashions Go Royalist
By ZOE FARMER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936, .
OU finish up summer
Y with
up
That is about all you'll have that is in fashion (and even that won't last long.
The hustle for autumn clothes hะเส already started, Those little coloured jackets over flowered. dresses,. openwork sandal shoes, little fist crowns with spreading aunshade brima, palo colours-for dresses and coats-are all "out."
Even your hairdressing, with that cluster of curls on your neck, is Anished. Instead, hair is shorter and close to the head.
High Hat
Iata or as high-crowned as you can bear. Some even-getting us: used to the idea for next year-are shaped just like crowns, in black velvet, with ermine talls.
Dresses are two inches shorter- and flaring.
Tweed, that most conservative material, is changing its style to look mannish with well pronounced shoulders, Blightly waisted on | straight-linnging coats.
To replace flowers, the newest ornaments for belts, clips, buttons hats, are all raging royalist,
Jackets
are shaped like heralds' coals sleeveless and slip- ping over the head. The topical colours are royal-
Yes, cold is even used on day clothes Lume belts and collars to black dresses,
Simmer the stock for three hours. wine (and why not try home-made soup on the move with a short, sharp purples, crimson, gold, silver, blue, i
Pour it into a bowl through ue wine one day). straler (ave the meat and bones for boiling up again) and put it in the larder.
movement from left to right.
the
Do not on any account stop doing Alternatively, it is not necessary
this imitil boiling-point to use wine at all. A teaspoonful and the egg-whites foam up to the Is reached The next day a solid layer of fat of custar, a squeeze of lemon juice, brim. Remove at unce and stand
a dash of tomato ketchup, a sprink- top of the in will have formed on
saucepan aside for ten minutes. ol cayenne pepper; n summer stock. You can remove this very separately or together these ingredam kitchen cloth.
Strain it very slowly through a eastly with a spoon. The soup my dients
doubled, and now be submitted to the clarifying flavour to your consomme.
will impart a
you will have a bowl of real con- process described below,
komme, erystul clear.
Have the stock ready
FIRST of all there is the
stock pot. If you do not indulge in the praiseworthy habit of keeping one, you
will have to make n Bittle stock on the day before
the soup is needed.
There are three basic consommes:
Stock For Jellied Consomma
A KNUCKLE of veal, is
pound Jean part brisket
hot, cold, and julled. Any strong of beef. Bring to the oil and adel stock can be converted into the first any of the above-mentioned acces- variety, but the two latter need suries. Simmer for five hours. certain ingredients.
Stock For
Cold Consomme
NE needs lib, shin of beef, including pieces of sawn-
ONE
up marrow bone.
used
distinctive And
stock which contains a good bunch of herbs or a little extra mace can cally stand on its own. You simply clarify it without adding any fur- ther flavouring at all.
Two flavouring
combinations.
Garnish For The Soup
TH
THERE are different sorts of into baked creams, cut tiny stars and squares and circles, with which you can garnish con- WILL now tell you of two somme, but personally I think n
vermicelli
I definite favouring combi- little
or
Velvet Favourite
In character, the favoured stuff is velvet-of all kinds, Velveteens for day. In binck. Velvet striped with | shiny satin ta mixed weave) for afternoon dresses. Chiffon velvet, ribbed like corduroy or with metallic glints, for evening,
Far is to be word almost everywhere,
the except around neck. Down cost fronts-as *11 inset panel so that it looks as though you have a fur coat under your clothi one-on sleeves, tó make lapels . or waistcoats. or as epaulettes. Printed materials are also coming a few sliced out with Coronation colourings. The You will notice that in these two ations suitable for consomme served vegetables are nicer than anything. think we'll all be dressed lite little way things are at present, I should recipes for stock I have said nothing nt select little dinner parties. about slimming. It is so much
Always add your garnish after the kings by the day King Edward is 1. For hot or cold consomme, To clarifying process, or you will not crowned, easier to over-skim thon to under- skim that I never bother to skim 14 pints of stock (enough for four ret your soup clear. Vermicelli teaspoonful of tinned should be put in boiling water, for my stock at all. To say that n stock people) add which has not been skimmed will tomato essence, a small glass of red five minutes before going into the never get clear is untrue,
wine, a tablespoonful of sherry, a consomme. dash each of lemon juice and vine-
Use these vegetables
SUITABLE vegetables to add
However, if you arc keen un Kar. Clarify. skimming never" attempt to remove
· 2. For jellied consomme, Heat up Put the meat, cut in pieces, and anything but, the grey scum which the bones into a saucepan (or large rises when the stock first comes to your stock and add four tomatoes eurthenware casserole), add about boiling-point. It you do you will cut in quarters and a few drops of three pints of water and bring to the remove a lot of nourishinent, boil slowly. When bolling add sen- soning, two onions and two carrots.
These are the essential ingredients,
To Flavour
but you will greatly improve the favour of your soup if you add any
Consomme
Yoand
or all of the following things:-
A bay leaf, mixed herbs, either
YOUR stock is quite cold,
you have removed
drled or fresh (namely, parsley, the fat from the top. A pint is thyme, marjoram, tarragon), a clove. enough for three people.
THIS LITTLE RASCAL,
any baby specialist
will tell you, should never be given any but the gentlest of laxa- tives. The best way to be absolutely sure is to give her Custoria, gentle, safe and pre- pared especially for children. She loves to take Castoria because it tastes so good.
THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE
CASTORIA
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tomato ketchup. Simmer for 12 hours, Strakt, allow to cool clarify.
To Clarify Stock
nud
ALLOW we waited. (Eg
LLOW two whites of egg
shells are often used as well, but they do not really help matters much, and if used too generously. impart an unpleasant flavour)..
Beat the whites to a froth,__not too stiff, but fairly Arm. Pour
How To Make
Yo
are dleed and cooked car- rots,
cooked peas
and blanched cucumber rind (put some rind which you have cut into thin strips in cold water with a pinch of salt, bring to: the boll, and add to the consomme).
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famous Jellied consomme mixed. known as "Jullenne" simply has dieed carrots, some peas and some chopped vermicelli put into it as soon as it has been clarified. When it gets cold the paralsh sets nicely into the jelly.
This article ta ritien at length and in detail to make it of practical use to the housewife. Cut it out, keep it in your recipe- bool
Fruit Cheeses
YOU can stock your winter store thickens. Then weigh and take the
cupboards from summer gardens, same weight in castor sugar. Fruits have a double usefulness.
Bring the pulp to the boll, add Fruit cheeses are juiceless jams, the sugar, and boll very rapidly,
and
Byrups.
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These cheeses can be eaten with brend, or served with custard to make wintry pudding time very summery indeed.,
Put into sightly oiled moulds, cover and store in a cool place.
All fruits make syrups, though the method of preparation varies. Here is a typical one-
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