THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937.
DUET IN A FLAT
Phyllis & Dorothy are entertained—it
doesn't cost much
(though the guests
wouldn't know it).
CENE: The flat shared by Phyllis and her business friend Dorothy. It is clearly an OCCASION.
Their friends Henry and Ronald are in complete charge of the dinner operations, and the girls have been told to keep out of the kitchen, from where cheerful sounds of whistling and clatter emerge.
Henry has just come in with what Phyllis calls his Paddy's Market look and numerous parcels, including a festive-looking bottle of Chianti. Ronald has laid the table, and it certainly looks odd.
Phyllis longs to whisk things into in starving from the fields and est place, but shows admirable restraint soup so thick that a spoon stands up in not doing so,
in it, and all made without a scrap of meat I know, Go on,
Phyllis: You know you enjoyed their soups when we came out on the
boat.
DOROTHY, who has blown M. M.
most of the housekeeping Dorothy: I shan't enjoy it if you're money during the week on a series going in for stock pots that all the of meals which, although original, flat with a beastly smell of bones a lecture from Phyllis on the sub- Phyllis: ject of soup.
cannot be called economical, is having cooking. rd rather have some
"Henry comes in
with numerous parcels from the compradore's".
Hot Weather Meat Dishes
N hot or sultry weather many people look But there are always "re- mains" to be used up; and country folk often find it difficult to get fish.
Sarah was talking to me only yes. terday about this little problem and suggested the might offer a few simple solutions.
The first two arc mains."
·Beef Salad
for the "re-
FOR this you will want half
a pound of cold beef, bolled or roasted, the same of smali new potatoes bolled in their skins and pecled, six ounces of tomatoes, after they have been a
skinned and the nlps and water removed three ounces of watercress leaves, without their stalks, and hard-boiled CKES.
Cut the beef into slices about a quarter of an inch thick, cutting off potatoes all fat and gristle. Cut the Into rings of the same thickness.
After plunging the tomatoes into boiling water for n
a minute, peel them, cut them in quarters, remove This has been done in a casserole the pips and watery part, and cut much quicker, and nicer if you ask up the flesh into small pieces. Cut Into thin Phylliss I shall get a
ten cent me. (a.) Then there's a spagheld the hard-boiled marrow bone, a cowheel, and two or and ham dish I'm rather fond of (4.), rounds. Mix them gently in a salad three twenty cents of knuckle of veal and we'll top up with cheese and bowl with a dressing made of four
coffee.
tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one of bones and let them cook for a day,
Dorothy: No sweet? You are a vinegar, a little salt, pepper and a and we'll be able to have soup every
touch of cayenne. night for a week. (See footnote 1.) meante.
Dorothy: What fun.
Henry (firmly): Fruit, Phyllis: Properly made soup is nourishing and awfully cheap and. with such good stock
week to make up, orange jules or milk or something.
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Lamb Rissolen
is certainly an excellent,
piece-de- of onion
Nook three tablespoonfuls of builer with a few drops getting Julee until I is
cent soup, smell and all, than some Phyllis: English people don't know of the stuff we've eaten this week, a thing about making soup.
Now that you've broken into next Dorothy: Now we're going to hear week's food money.
Dorothy: I know"My stock is about the French peasants who come Dorothy: I'll go on a diet next such a thick jelly you could stand resistance being a disis of "new" brown, then add an ounce of, flour,
ол Just as though any one potatoes (5.) wants to go and stand on soup.
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Imeal. Henry's
Jet it brown to a nice coffee-colour, Afterwards, praise having gone to and then add salt, paprika pepper Thyllis (in the manner of his head (and possibly the two and a pinch of curry powder and cookery demonstrator): If you use glasses of $2.50 Chiant!), he organises enough stock from the roast lamb to egg-yolk to thicken soup it's a com- a stay-in-strike for himself and make a thick sauce. piele meal,
Ing-up.
Dorothy: I tried that once and Ronnie while the girls do the wash- got revolting bits scrambled
of cg floating about watery soup, ugh! (2)
DONALD enters importantly
smali
Add the pieces of cooked lamb cut
in cubes, and use this mixture. Ilave ready some thin metal skewers, all the same size, and put on each I. There are some of Phyllis's alternately a piece of bacon and a soup variations to be made with her piece of liver, beginning and ending precious stock:-
with
bacon and having four pieces (a) Add a handful or two of pre- of liver and five of bacon on cach Dust each with salt and pepper cook illi soft, thicken with tomato flavoured soup.
and cook them elther under the grill (b) Boll onions in the stock, carefully, or in a hot oven, the and butter spread with grated or geld. When the bacon is crisp. cheese and browned under grill or they should be done.
Rwith a tray containing viously soaked haricot beans to stock, skewer.
anchovies,
tomato juice cocktails, olives and potato crisps.
Dorothy: Oh, my goodness! The boy's spent all his savings on us.
Henry:
I've always told you girls rea and serve with slices of stale skewers being supported by a rack
that you can pick these things up for next to nothing.
Phylls: What's next, Henry?
I
can't wa
wait.
Henry: Some fish.
in oven.
Serve as they are, on the skewers, (c). Add sieved cooked sprouts with watercress. (lbs. sprouts to 3 pints stock), simmer for a while, season with salt,
pepper and nutmeg, add butter just
Dorothy: Fish! I didn't hear any before serving.
Calves' Tongues ·
THESE make a delicious dish
if you cook them properly
frying.
(d) Melt a chopped onion in but- Hetry: There happen to be other ter, add stock, and simmer for an ways of cooking fish besides frying, hour. Thicken with egg-yolk and first, otherwise they may be a little
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cook carefully until thick. Just be-flavourless. fore serving add salt, fresh ground Put the tongues in a saucepan and pepper, nutmeg, cup of minced cover them with boiling water. For parsley, and bread fried in bacon four tongues add half a dozen slices fet.
of carrot, an onion stuck with six 2. Eggs oded to any hot liquid cloves, half a teaspoonful each of will curdle if one is not careful. salt and pepper
corns, and some Dorothy should have let the mixture celery salt the tongues slowly until cool first and then finish cooking over Simmer hot water.
they are tender. Skin and trim
3. Henry puts fillets of any white them while they are hot, cut them fish into a buttered casserole within half and serve them covered with grated onion, salt, pepper, lemon a rich brown gravy flavoured with Juice, a drop or two of anchovy tomato sauce.
essence and a pinch of chopped pars- ley. This is a quick and simple way
NEVERAL of my friends were so much interested in the of cooking fish. The onion must be
that Uncle Sam advised a grated or it won't be cooled by the dishes time the fish in
week or two ago, expecially the ham 4. His favourite ham and spay-one with pineapple, that here are hetti dish is made like this-spaghetti two more for serving ham or gam- bolled until soft in salted water{mon. (about twenty-minutes), served very hot with plenty of butter, pepper, grated cheese, and snippets of ham stirred into it. Sometimes Henry
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1937 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $20,000,, against which the Income to date is $12,400 only.
The Society asks for the balance of
Hon. Treasurera:
$12,600
Mr. D. BLACK, C.A.,
c/o Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, 0 Des Voeux Road, Central.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
t/o Banque de L'Indo China,
Hongkong.
an inch-thick of hom makes it into a grander dish by add-
or gammon, and spread it breakfast- Ing slices of cooked mushroom, with this stuffing. Two chopped tongue as well as ham, cupfuls of fine breadcrumbs, half a pimento from a 41⁄2d. tin, and serving cup of chopped-up stoned raisins, with hot tomato sauce (bottle kind, the same of roughly chopped dried heated).
walnuts, a teaspoonful of salt, half April 15, 1937. 5. You may wonder how it is that) teaspoonful of powdered sage, a 12920 chefs can produce what appear to be good pinch of pepper; mix these all new potatoes regardless of seasons.
two-thirds of a cup of together with All they do is peel away ordinary melted butter. potatoes until they are the size of Roll the slice of ham round and tic large marbles (one can only hope the it. Put it into a baking dish and peelings go in the soup), cook them cover it with stock and tomato sauce, carefully so that they don't break, put on a lid and bake for an hour and serve with olled butter and
and a half or a little more in a chopped mint.
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The second recipe is in to-day's
Phillida Hughes menu.
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