1933-04-08 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

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Hot Cross Bun Recipes

Preparing For Good Friday.

AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.

SERVING

BACON

in a hot oven, Brush over with a When you serve grilled bacon. syrup made by boiling 1-4 cup su- perhaps with grilled tomatoes, rar with 2 tablespoons water for place a folded paper napkin on the platter before you arrange the ba-] con for the table. The napkin ab- Borba excessive fat and leaves the bacon crisp and tempting.

one minute.

Short Process.. One cup milk, 1 yeast cake, 14 During Lent, hot cross buns cup likewarm water, 1-3 cup gran- claim much of our interest. Manyĵulated sugar, 8 cups flour 1 tea- bakers feature this bread every spoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon- Friday" during the period while 1-4 cup butter, 1 egg, 1-2 cup cur-↑ others save them especially for rants.

MOUSSE A

LA RUSSE

Good Friday and Easter morning. Scald milk and cool to luke

temperature. Add yeast The custom of eating hot cross warm buns originated in old England. cake dissolved in water. Add au-

White of 4 eggs, 1⁄2 lb. of apricot In ancient times buns, if properly gar, salt, cinnamon and egg well made, were supposed to keep for beaten. Add flour, currants and jam, 1 tablespoonful water, Taku years. They probably took the softened butter and work until sugar. Put the jam into a sauce- place of a pagan sweetment serv- thoroughly blended. Knead to a pan mix with the water, slightly ed in honour of Easter, a Saxon smooth dough and let rise in a warm it.. Then rub it through a goddess of the east, whose feast warm place until double in bulk. fine sleve to get rid of any pieces, was celebrated in the spring. The The temperature for this rising of skin. Whisk the whites of eggs sign of the cross on the buns pro-should be between 70 and 80 de to a very stiff froth. Fold the fam claimed

cake.grees F. It should take about an lightly into the whisked whites. It 群 Christian Often the housewife put the sign hour. Pinch off small pieces and Pile it all on the dish in which it of the cross on her bread to pre-shape as in preceding recipe. Let is to be served and sprinkle with Place into a cool oven to. vent the evil spirit from interfer-rise until double in bulk and bake sugar, ing with her baking. As Good in a hot oven. Brush over with set, but avoid browning it. Serve: Friday was considered the most syrup when taken from the oven, hot or cold. unlucky day of the year she na-

turally took every precaution to guard against evil influences and make her baking a success.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

Tomato Juice Cocktail

Since proper hot cross buns are made with yeast, there are, of Chicken Croquettes Buttered Peasly. Add chicken and seasonings. course, two good methods-the long- process and the short process.

Long Process.

One and one-half cups milk, 1/8 cup granulated sugar, 4 table- spoons butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 1.2 yeast cake, 4 tablespoons luke- warm water, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 egg, 1-2 cup currants, four.

Rolls Strawberry Preserves Washington Salad Cherry Tarts Whipped Cream

Coffee

Tomato Juice Cocktail. (For eight persons)

4 cups.tomato juice.

1 teaspoon salt.

Scald milk and add butter, salt1⁄4 teaspoon paprika.

and sugar. When lukewarm add feast cake, crumbled and dissolved in lukewarm water. And 2 1-2 cups flour mixed and sifted with cinnamon. Beat well and add egg well beaten. Mix thoroughly and

1 teaspoon sugar.

2 tablespoons lemon juice.

2 tablespoons catsup.

2 tablespoons horseradish.

1⁄2 teaspoon tabasco pepper aRUCE. Mix and chill ingredients. Serve

Chicken Croquettes.

6 tablespoons butter.

add currants and flour to knead, in glass cups placed on white pa- from 1-2 to 1 cup more. Knead per dollies on serving plates. antil elastic and put into a large mixing bowl. Cover with a cloth and let rise in a moderately warm place over night. In the morning skape in amall balls and with sharp knife cut a deep gaah on the Hop of each. Place in a buttered pan about an inch apart and let rise in a warm place for thirty

8 tablespoons flour,

A

21⁄2 cups milk.

DAVIE, BOAG & Co. Ltd. minutes. Bake twenty-five minutes

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2 cups diced, cooked chicken. 1 tablespoon chopped parsley,

1 tablespoon chopped celery...

1 tablespoon chopped pimientos. 1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

1⁄4 teaspoon paprika.

2 eggs.

2 tablespoons water.

2 cups rolled crumbs.

Melt butter and add flour. Blend:

thick sauce forms. Stir constant-

mir- Cool. Take tablespoonful of ture, dip in crumbs, in the eggs, which have been mixed with the water, and roll in the crumbs. Shape as desired. When ready to serve, fry in deep hot fat. Insert tiny flags, serve at once.

Washington Saled.

1 package lemon flavoured gela.

tine mixture.

1 cup boiling water.

1 cup boiling pineapple juice.

1 cup diced pineapple,

4 tablespoons chopped pimientos.

1 cup white cream cheese.

1⁄2 cup grape jelly.

Pour water and juice over gela- tine mixture, stir until dissolved. Cool and allow to thicken a little. Pour half into shallow mold, when' a little stiff. Add pimientos and pineapple. Allow to stiffen, then ladd rest of jelly and the cheese, When stiff, top with grape jolly. Chill until very stiff. Cut into flag shapes, arrange on lettuce. Place cheese sticks at sides of flags to represent flag poles.

Good Sandwich Spread

Parsley butter as a sandwich fill-

well, add milk, cook until very ing is an interesting way to intro-

duce this valuable food into the: diet of those unfamiliar with it Wash the parsley and drain it thor

YORKSHIREhly. Then, using

RAREBIT

OZS

Then, using a chopping

bowl or food grinder, or a pair of scissors, if you like, prepare suf- ficient paraley to fill one cup. Blend this amount of parsley with eas Ingredienta

Cheshire half cup of well creamed butter, cheese, half oz. butter, three table-add one teaspoon of lemon juice, spoons milk or good ale, Worcester salt to taste and cream until well sauce or vinegar, mustard, pepper, blended to a smooth paste for buttered toast, two poached eggs. spreading. Spread between slices Method-Cat cheese into small of graham or brown bread. pieces, place them in a saucepan

with the butter, milk or ale, add

a little made mustard, a few drops HINTS FOR

of sauce, pepper to taste, stir and

cook gently, until the mixture" re-

sembles tiles cream. Meanwhile SANDWICHES

2.

prepare 1 allés buttered toast, trim

For a savoury sandwich an ex- the edges and cut it in two, and poach the eggs in as plump & form cellent Allfagis made with cold, as possible. Pour the cheese pre-cooked kidney, minted, and sprin paration over the toast, lay the kled with mushroom ketchup. eggs on top and serve quickly,

Favourite Recipe

Tomato Onions.

3 c..peeled and sliced onions.

2 c. canned tomatoes.

1 tsp. alt

tap, pepper.

1 tsp granulated sugar.

2 cloves.

1 bay leaf,

Grated celery, mixed with grated chesse, is another good suggestion, while nursery folks would appre cinta sweet sandwiches, made by covering thin slices of brown bread with strawberry jam, and then putting a mixture of mashed banan- as and Devonshire cream between them

Neatly cut squares of white bread and butter, spread with thick honey, sprinkled with chop- ped seedless raisins, and covered

1 tap, bottled condiment sauce.with plain slices of white bread and Arrange the sliced onions in the butter, would also be popular, largs inset pan of the cooker and Useful hints to the sandwich- pour over them the tomatoes, to makat-are-~(1) cut the bread, with which the her ingredients have a large sharp knife dipped - fre been added: Placa on a rack above qushtly into hot water; (2) la cold the pork and potatoes, and cook 2 weather stand the butter to be used on top of the jar of hot water the cooker and the heat used for ble knife;) (8) trim, lowered.

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