1933-06-17 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

PEARS A LA MODE

Ingredients finger bis- cults: about 4 tinned half pears;

[cocktail sticka.

Honey Dishes Are Nutritious Recipe Given

Honey is not only pleasing to

the taste, but it is wholesome and 2 oz. butter and 5 oz. sugar. Beat casily digested.

the yolk of an egg into the batter, Containing a very large per- then mix in the dry ingredients

Green, Fresh

Or Raw Foods

For Vitamins Colour Important In vanilla essence; cream; 2 ozs.

Vegetables; Yellow

mixed nuts; crystallised cherries, centage of sugar, it is a valuable with I gill milk Whisk the egr food during the winter months and white to a stiff froth and fold In Ones Valuable Also.

Divide the biscuits if they bap breakfast table.

should always find a place on the lightly. Turn into the basin on top of the honey, cover with a pen to be in pairs. Drain the There are several ways in which greased paper and steam for 11⁄2 Too often we make little distinc pears. Add vanilla essence to the

honey can be used; and Koney Boure tion between the terms green, raw Juice, and soak the biscuits well in ginger-bread is very popular with Honey vinegar is a good remedy and fresh as applied to vegetables. the mixture. Lift each biscuit on children.

for colds. Mix together equal However, green as a colour is a fork-not pierced, but held flat

A good recipe consists of 1tb quantities of warm honey and worthy of consideration.

to drain slightly, and then ar flour, 6 oz. butter, 4 oz, sugar, 1 white vinegar, and bottle. Vitamin A, that substance so very range on an attractive plate in tablespoonful ground ginger, 1 gill teaspoonful taken two important for growth as well as the two layers. Place the papers on milk, 4 teaspoonful carbonate of times a day will be soothing for maintenance of health, is found in top, hollow side upwards. Whip the green parts of vegetables. This the cream, put into the hollow of soda, 2 eggs, 1⁄2 teaspoonful mixed coughs and sore throats. same green colour bespeaks the pre. the pears, using forcers if possible. pice, and 10 oz. "honey,

Mix the ginger and flour, slovej sence of iron se valuable for mak- Next force a little

them into a basin and add the Menu Suggestions ing good red corpuscles in the pears on the biscuits. Chop the

nuts and sprinkle over all. Spike sugar in a pan and melt them slow- For To-morrow

spice. Pat the honey, butter andj blood.

a number of cherries, on cocktail ly. Whisk the eggs, add the honey No matter what the source of fron may be egg yolk, liver beef sticks and

among the mixture and pour over the flour.

steak or a medicinal "tonic"-green pears. vegetables should be included in thei dietary because their verdure pro- claim a quality which enables the body to use the supply of iron to the best advantage.

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arrange

around the

A PORTABLE HOOK-

| Mix well and add a little milk.

Mix the soda with the milk, and beat, then add this to the ginger- bread and mix thoroughly. Turn A new gadget which suggests into a well greased tin and bake ¡many uses and blessings is a port-in a moderate oven for about Hunger often is due to the ab. Jable and detachable hook. It needs of an hour. sence of vegetables in the previous neither screws nor nails and can Warm honey brushed aver the meal, especially in the case of chil. be suspended from doors, windows, the top of the cake before it is dren. The habit of eating between furniture, or the kitchen sink, by finished will improve the meals and an unwholesome craving means of a clamping slide move-pearance, __for_more_food_is, never, so prevalent ment, which is adjustable for vary-

Honey Pudding. among those who eat plenty of ing thicknesses.

For honey pudding put 4 table- vegetable regularly.

Travellers should find it especi-spoonfuls of honey in the bottom; The type of vegetables where this ally useful as supplement to of a greased basin. Mix 3 42. greenness is found is of small con hotel wardrobes. It costs only a four, a pinch of carbonate of soda sequence if the vegetable is chosen few cents.

for this property alone. Sweet green peppers, which are so difficult

for many persons to digest, are

nevertheless valuable on their colour count. Such vegetables as spinach, peas, brussels sprouts,

asparagus and a host of others that are easy to digest are rich in other nutrients as well.

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and 3 oz. breadcrumbs, and cream;

BARLEY WATER FOR CHILDREN

Many children take a great dis- Hints To Cooks bud, is a good source of vitamin A. frequently due to the fact that it Who Are Willing

Broccoli, although it's a flower like to barley water, and this is

Its green colour shows the presence is not made in the most appetising of iron,

manner. To be really successful |

To Learn

Breakfast

A

or three

Fresh Rhubarb Sauce Soft Cooked Eggs

Coffee Corn Muffins

* Luncheon Fruit Salad Cheesed Wafters

Tea Sponge Cake

Dinner

Salmon Croquettes Egg Sauce Buttered Potatoes Bread Butter Vegetable Salad

Pear Sauce Brown Sugar Cookies Coffee

For Pe-ro-ski,

Russian Dish

Tasty Crust Adds To Deliciousness Of Novel New Slavic Tid-Bit.

Here is a recipe for an unusual and tasty Russian dish:

Pe-ro-ski. pound ground steak

1 tablespoon butter

2 onions

can tomato pasta 1⁄2 cup stock Seasoning

the butter and add the ground

Brown finely chopped onions in

add tomato paste, the half cup Isbeak. When all is browned well,

stock and seasoning. Boil up and allow to cool.

Use this mixture as filling for rounds of dough made according to the following recipe:

Crust For Pe-ro-ski.

1 cake dawalu yeast

1⁄2 cup lukewarm water

1 cup milk

2/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup shortening

1 cup mashed potatoes

2 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

6 cups flour

Salmon Croquettes, Serving Two salt, sugar and shortening, then Scald milk, and mashed potatoes,

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons four

1 cup milk

2/3 cup salmon

teaspoon paprika

4 teaspoon, celery salt

teaspoon chopped parsley

1 egg or 2 yolks

cool. When cold add yeast, which has been dissolved in the half cup lukewarm water, then add eggs. Add enough flour to make a stiff; dough. Knead for ten minutes, then roll the dough out as thin as a pie crust. Cut in rounds za large as a saucer. Put the filling on one side of the round. Brush the edge with egg. Fold the other side over and pinch the edges to- Melt butter and add flour. Mixgether. Allow to raise in a warm well and add milk and cook until place for about two hours. Brush creamy sauce forms. Stir con-over with egg and bake ina stantly. Add salmon and season- moderate over (350 deg. F:) until ings. Cool, Mix egg and water. brown, about thirty minutes.

2 tablespoons cold water

2/3 cup rolled crumbs

2 tablespoons fat

Leaf lettuce and the loose varle-barley water needs to be made care- ties of head lettuce that are green fully. Pearl barley, though less ex- clear to the centre are richer in pensive than Scots, is excellent for

For the housewife who weighs Take tablespoons of salmon mix-Serve with the soup on side disk. vitamin A and iron content than the making barley water. It should be her food purchases, government ture and dip into crumbs, then into Makes about twenty to twenty-two tight, bleached heads most of us allowed to soak for several hours food experts have issued the fol-egg and again into crambe. Shape pro-akia. prefer. Romaine and cross and the changing the water once or twice, lowing guide; one dozen eggs of and chill. When ready to cook, curly endive should not be forgot-and then added to boiling water at medium size weighs about one and bring croquettes into kitchen and ten 88 salad plants. They are the rate of one ounce of barley to a half pounds; for bread baked let stand for 10 minutes. Heat fat good green colour and may be eaten each quart of water. Then infuse at home allow one pound of four in frying pan. raw. This makes them important for one hour, strain, and serve cold. for one and a half pounds of brown croquettes.

Before serving, the addition of a bread; one pound dried fruit cor- Care should be taken in cooking little flavouring will make all the responds to about four, or five green vegetables to preserve their difference. The juice and rind of pounds of fresh fruit, colour. The three rules for this are both lemons and oranges make the boiling water, uncovered kettle and four far more attractive to chil- Red cabbage when cooked fades short cooking period.

dren, but it may also be flavoured to an unattractive dark purple.

on two counts.

vise federal food experts, by add- ing a little vinegar or lemon juice just before serving.

It's interesting to know that with raisins, liquorice, honey, or Bring back the original color, ad- while tomatoes and carrots and syrup. sweet potatoes are not green colour, they have the same vitamin A as the green once.

in

In fact car- rote are found to be the richest of

all vegetables in this respect.

Nearly all green' vegetables con tain other valuable substances be- afdes the A vitamin. Consequently

Salt Water For Brushes

when tomatoes and carrots and any Stiffening The Bristles during the next week if they have

green vegetable is served you may

Left-over egg yolks should be placed in a cup, have a tablespoon of cold water added and then beaten for one minute with a fork. The yolks may be used any time

been stored in a very cold place, be sure that you are providing a food which promotes growth and

Brooms and brushes which are Hard sauce made with brown su- affords protection against some of allowed to stand on their bristles,gar in place of granulated or con- the every day allments of mankind. instead of being hung up, soon be- fectioner's sugar is a nice change. Green vegetables are also import- come flat and crushed on one side. (and the sauce will blend well with ant sources of vitamins B, C and G. The best way to remedy this defect baked or steamed puddings.

is as follows.

Freshening Stale Bread

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Hold the bristles over a sauce- When cutting cream pies dip the pan of boiling water for a few knife in warm water and none of momenta. They will quickly the filling will stick to the knife. straighter themselves out with this treatment, and should then be hung on a nail, bristles upwards. Both brushes and brooms should be washed periodically in warm soapy If you happen to be one who water to keep them in good condi- seems to accumulate a lot of breadtion. After washing they shoula try freshening it rather than “21- be rinsed in strong cold salt water, ways saving it for stuffing for fowl as this will help to stiffen up the or for dried crumbs.

bristles.

Three Methods.

Bread, muffins, cup cakes, cake alices or steamed puddings may be freshened by any of three methods:

1 Dampen the outer surface of bread or cake. Place on a rack in a baking dish and rebake for ten to twenty minutes, according to the thickness of the product being freshened, at 375 degrees Fahren- helt.

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DAINTIES

FOR SUPPER

For special emppers, don't over

2. Steam the slices of bread or look tiny home-made cookies: for cake soft over water. Care must dessert. They give you that bit of be taken, not to let the moisture sweet you want and are light and which collects on the lid drop back most acceptable as the last touch to onto the product being freshened a good meal. Made very, very small, when paper, or cover tightly in a in different shapes and filled with kettle, the steamer, la opened, nuts, raisins, chopped fruit, these 3. Wrap in parchment or wax tiny dainties simplify your work and rebake ten to fifteen minutes because you can make a big batch at 876 degrees Fahrenhelt.

of them at one Hme.

TRY H with

fish-you'll be delighted with

the flavour.

Add and quickly

Egg Sauce.

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon flour

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

1⁄2 cup milk

1 egg yolk

1⁄4 teaspoon chopped parsley

1⁄2 teaspoon finely chopped pickle Melt butter and add flour. Add milk and cook until creamy, sauce forma. Stir constantly. Add rest of ingredients and cook one minute. Brown Sugar Cookies (2 Dozen)

1⁄2 cup butter

1 cup dark brown sugar 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar

2 egga

1 tablespoon cream

1⁄4 cup nuts

8 cups flour

'teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and cream and beat 2 minutes. Add rest of ingredients and drop portions of stiff dough onto gressed baking sheets. Flatten with knife and bake 12 minutes.

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