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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Perfect Table Manners Mark When Preparing PLANTS

Socially Poised

Art Acquired By Definite Knowledge Of Silver, How Foods Are Eaten.

Club Celery IN HOUSE Place In Icy Cold Water ARE CHEERY

For Eating.

Club Celery

Enamelled Flower Pots Add Colour.

also

Post-Cards For Mer Corners

Several Hung In Row

On String.

Gay foral post-cards or pictures In colour of post-card. "aire, all framed in narrow

frames the

Only definite knowledge of table they are seated. The hostess alts When preparing celery for the There is nothing like growing colour of your wall, make a de- manners gives one unquestioned down first, then the other women. table, clean it thoroughly and then and blooming plants to cheer a grace and poise, but there are two A diner sita upright in his chair cut the thick stalks lengthwise in-home. For very little money now

corative splash for some dark factors in favour of any one un-and does not fiddle with silver. to very narrow strips with certain about correct mealtime eti-The napkin is only half unfolded sharp

you can get flowers aplenty.

corner in your ball, sitting room, knife, down to within an There are

or bedroom quette.

and laid across the lap.

inexpensive inch of the top end of the stalk plants all started in their own fer. You can use as many as two Place in icy cold water and they tile soll that you merely place, dozen of these cards together in soil and all, in a bowl or pot one group, hanging them just One excellent idea for cheering solid either making a square of the home is to take ordinary

them or a rectangle, having two flower pots, each planted in some rows more going up and down than ivy or a bulb, ·and enamel each one a different colour for a bloom:

If a slip is made, the chances are that it will pass unnoticed if one doesn't call attention to it by obvious embarrassment.

Again, holding back a bit to see what others do in the business of caling à particular food or choos- ing a particular piece of silver) practically insures doing the cor- rect thing.

The Preliminarica

Men draw back women's chairs,

or at least remain standing until

PRAWNS FAVOURITE TIFFIN DISH

Devilled And Preserved

In Ramekins.

Prawns are

a favourite tiffin) Freparation with most of us, and

In restaurants when a man and woman are dining or lunching the will twist and curl and look oddly woman gives her order to the attractive and be easier to eat man, who relays it to the waiter.than the big thick stalks...

Menu Suggestions For To-morrowing window.

TIFFIN

Fish Croquettes Tomato Sauce

Prawns a la Newberg Baked Mashed Potatoes

Sliced Cucumbers and Radishes

1

French Dressing

Cottage Pudding

Sherry, Sauce

DNINER

If you prefer, you can

across.

Have Food Scraps Can

Be Used

ter, add 1⁄4 cup fine bread crumbs, greenery in each one and paint the /4 cup cream, 2 tablespoons finely pots cherry red, or some red and chopped parsley and 2 eggs beaten some gold. If you paint pots with. until thick and lemon-tinted season blooms, that will be out soon, be, with salt, pepper and a few grains sure your colour scheme goes well

A

and decorated

cayence. Mix well and turn into with the shade of the bloom.

buttered

fish Children usually love Rowers mould, cover with a buttered paper and taking care of the plants and steam 25 minutes. Unmould affords a pleasant chore for any

Cutting Waste In The

Kitchen.

There are many little ways of

and pour around fist salmon sauce. boy or girl from eight years on-getting all the valuable parts of Salmon

sauce: To the strained ward. Hquid drained from fish add a table- spoon butter and 1⁄2 cup milk. Heat to boiling point and thicken with 1 teaspoon cornflour, diluted with 2 tablespoons cold milk Boil 5 minutes and add 4 tablespoons tomato catsup, season and pepper.

Extinguishers In Home

with salt Should Be Always At

food when it la being cooked, care- ful attention to which will in time cut grecery and meat bills.

Bacon fat, if properly cooked, la good to use for browning foods, for seasoning and for adding flavour to soups and stews. When Boon as cooking bacon, pour off the fat as it melts, With every pound of bacon you will find near- ly a cup of fat.

Green Asparagus Soup Tomato Cream Toast

Salmon Loaf Buttered Green Peas Steamed Celery, White Sauce

Pears Monach Style Fish Croquettes To 2 cups cold cooked flakes fish, there are dozens of fascinating add 1 cup thick white sauce. Sea- ways to prepare them, from hors son with salt, pepper and lemon d'oeuvres, cocktails entrees, or the juice to taste spread mixture on a chief tiffin dish, to a variety of de-plate to cool. Shape and roll in Jectable salads. They are dell-cracker crumbs, egg and trumbs, your desk or table for all, bills that will not injure fabrics, should perly, the extinguisher will per- If you set aside one drawer in manipulate, and containing fluids ing fluid hasn't been handled pro- clous when devilled and served in and fry in.deep fat, drain on brown and sales slips you never will have be kept in your home. ramekins or scallop shells for anpaper garnish with parsley and to hunt all over the house for any

form an instant service. lemon slices. Serve with Tartare one of them,

If blaze begins when an fron Such an extinguisher has its has become overheated, or a clean place on every floor of the house,

entree.

Cream of new green pea soup sauce. with tomato is a "somewhat differ-

ent" soup combination that you

Salmon Loaf Drain 1 Tb. salmon from the same. Remove

will also like as well as Creole liquid reserve

salad garnished with crisp hearts bones and skin from fish and rub

of lettuce. An almond omelet will to a paste, with 2 tablespoons but-, also be appreciated for its fine flavour as well as for its newness.

If you are reluctant in letting, your cook try his hand at the new dishes, an excellent thing to do, is to tell him to get everything all ready and then you can stand over him, Instructing him just how to proceed.

If you have the time to devote) to this task, you will be surpris- ed just how quickly he will learn. If he is permitted to go ahead blindly, the results are not always just what they should be.

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