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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.

RAFOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Easy Luncheons For Summer Fresh Fruits

For

Much Can Be Done With sieved, and scasoned and reheated. 1 pernickety guest you might accompany it with asparagus -out of a tin at the moment-

Cold Beef.

ECONOMICAL DISHES

as we term

Luncheon, or tiffin the mid-day meal in Hong Kong, is quite one of the easiest of meals to make attractive at this time of the

year; and unusual, even if one has only ordinary everyday goods to deal with.

Time counts, of course; it al- ways does in this matter of meals.

If time is short, much can be dene with cold meat engagingly arranged and a good looking salad. A fresh fruit cocktail could precede this dish, or a tinned frult one,

maunted on fresh hot buttered toast. with a creamy sauce poured over it, and if the exchequer will allow you a few mushrooms, much the better.

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Peel the mushrooms and cook

Hot Sandwich

two

Welcomed At Most Meals

Breakfast Not Only Time When Appetite Needs Stimulating.

GREENS ESSENTIAL The Vegetable

TO HEALTH

Correct Preparation

Of Cabbage.

Green vegetables are essential to health, as they provide the right] kinds of salts and some vitamins.

cooked. *-

Problem

Too Much Overcooked Cabbage.

"It would be possible to produce a much greater variety of veget- ables in this country if there were

Can the average Englishwoman This question The cabbage is one of the most cook vegetables? valuable and has the virtues of de- has been raised by Sir John Rus A few experiments will show the ing easy to grow, cheap to buy, and sell, Director of the Rothamsted "The greatest problem of mar- them with their stems in fast-housewife that fresh fruit will be always available. It is most im- Experimental Station, Harpenden.

water for about as welcome for luncheon or dinner portant that it should not be over-

as for breakfast. bolling salted

"is to persuade the woman in the Prepared in the following way ket gardening," Sir John States, eight minutes.

Any meal is made more interest Choose a nice large one for eaching and nutritious by the judi- it is as tender as spinach. It should kitchen to cook vegetables so that) a cocktail be cut up and left to soak for an they be eaten with pleasure and cious use of fruit. As

satisfaction." person and chop the rest. Mix the the appetite is stimulated and the hour in a bowlful of cold water chopped ones with one tablespoonfuls melted butter and a flow of digestive juices increased with a handful of salt. Have & tablespoon of finely chopped onion. Fruit served as a salad with a plain saucepan of boiling water ready, Add a little finely chopped celery French dressing provides contrast put the cabbage into this and bolt

As a final and drain, and empty the pan. whichever is the more convenient or parsley and one finely chopped in flavours between the main course fast for three minutes. Take out allowing a good cheese and celery pickled walnut. Stir over the fire and the sweet course.

for five minutes, and fill the large course fruit is valuable since its Put a large teacupful of water tartness of favour stimulates the into the saucepan, bring to the to precede the coffee.

On a dull day one can do delight-mushrooms with the mixture.

of tooth bonate of soda. Put the cabbage You can serve the beef hot too flow of an alkaline saliva which boil, and add a good pinch of car- ful things with hot sandwishes, or

back into the pan and boil gently decay. a quickly made egg dish, or a light if you give it just long enough to aids in the prevention

make it curl up at the edges.

Grapes, well washed and chill-for half an hour. Take it out, ...grill and some fish.

A joint of salt beef-silverside,

anbine this crisp grilled beef with ed, make a delightful dessert. The strain, and chop up finely with til they are almost unrecognisable." | as they poetically call it, 'is

of toasted and buttered large bunches are divided into sin-little butter, pepper, and salt. excellent standby. This seems to be slices slightly diferently pickled from bread, grilled tomato, and a little le portions for serving.

method, and one chutney or sharp sauce. the home-side generally finds that pickled beef Beveral needs a good soaking in waters.

Cold Beef Best

At this time of the year it is better to cook it and refrain from cutting it until it is cold. With this good pink beef one can do all sorts of things. It can be carved at the table or thinly sliced and arranged on

R diah-preferably

white, with parsley.or watercress added for relief.

cream,

For companions one may give it a salad of potatoes and mayonnaise or salad and one of celery, apples and walnuts with French dressing. Green peppers added to this latter salad are good if one likes the flavour.

Light Fish Dish - Prawns or other fish in asple make a light dieh, and celery juice

For a hot sandwich you can com-,

Iced Chocolate Gateau

Halves of grapefruit thorough-

ly chilled and served with a maras- chine-cherry and some of the syrup in each half are an excellent dessert to finish a dinner.

CHINESE CHICKEN.

he sufficient demand for them," said. "But while they are cooked mere as, generally they are, the husband cannot be expected. to be enthusiastle.

"Cabbage too often is served as a sloppy mess," he added, "and vegetables in stews are cooked un-

THE DUTCH METHOD Professor Winifred Cullis (of the London School of Medicine for Women,) commenting on this view, stated: "It is a vital question. Ar

often

Chop up fine a small pineapple and saute the fruit in three table- spoonfuls of butter, add four table things are the cabbage is The combination of grapefruit in spoonfuls of flour and cook until liable to be the most disappointing salads is almost legion. A plain thick and smooth. Then add two item in an English meal. Steam- grapefruit and lettuce salad is al- cupfuls of diced cooked chicken and ing or cooking vegetables in the oven should be encouraged, as this ways suitable for a dinner salad one cupful of chicken stock and will be particularly welcome beling water, with half a capful not only retains their valuable to those who are dieting to reduce. of shredded celery and half juices, but avoids the messiness of Grapefruit and avacado pear salad small green chili finely shredded. the over-boiled and badly drained is most delicious. Grapefruit and Cook slowly five minutes, season Two dessertspoonfuls of caster-Chinese cabbage is another Invit-well, then garnish with

shredded almonds.

Ingredients:

Four ounces of four.

Two ounces of butter.

sugar.

Two eggs. Two tablespoonfuls of sugar.

A little milk.

ing combination...

All fruit cocktails gain

zest if

OF

toasted

vegetables."

Mr. Iwan Kriens (Headmaster, L.C.C. School of Cookery and Wait- ing), said: "There is not so much wrong with the cooking of the

icing grapefruit is added to the mixture. Tomato Bisque Is Simple British housewife, but it is too

Two ounces of plain chocolate.

Twelve drops of vanilla essence.

Or grapefruit alone is an accept- able appetizer.

Cranberries also make delicious! The juice is available: cocktails.

Beat the butter and caster sugar bottled on the market or you can to a cream, mix with it the four, make it yourself. chocolate, finely grated, and the vanilla essence. Beat in the yolks

should be added to the jelly and of the eggs and two dessertspoon- HARLEQUIN

green peppers, finely chopped may fuis of milk.

be mixed with it. If one is doubt-

Turn the mixture

ful regarding fish here in summer, into a small tin mould or cake tin. fried code roes from the tin make and bake in a moderate oven for a quick tiffin savoury and should about twenty-five to thirty minutes, be served upon rounds toast.

of fried

Turn on to a sieve and leave

SALAD

-

To Make

arti- conservative. Aubergines, chokes, plum tomatoes, and car- doons are vegetables which can be

"In Holland, themed of my easily cooked after a "fety lessons. birth, they cook the much-abused

Tomato bisque can easily be made if you have bottled tomato juice on your pantry half: Tó, each cup of number two white sauce, add two cups of tomato juice. Heat and cabbage first by, bolling it till it serve with a spoon of whipped is nearly tender, and then finish-

ing it off ia butter or fat."

cream.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN French. Macaroni

Carrots German Potato Salad Hot Rice Pudding with Hot Chocolate Sauce

been added 1/3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley.

Use black pep-

Halve large seedless oranges till cold. Rub the icing sugar crosswise and remove pulp, and through a fine sieve. Mix with it dice. Mix with an equal quantity Ham Timbale with Green Peas and per in place of paprika, adding a

egg to of diced pineapple, quartered mar- Bananas with sugar and cream, enough whippd white of

Spread this abmallowbs, shreded almonds and served in individual glasses make form a stiff paste. a aweet that is quick, and dear over the chocolate mould, sprinkle bananas. Moisten with Epicurean the palates of children. Pineapple

Salad Dressing to which you have added a quarter cupful of maras- custard, chilled and also served in

chino cherries cut in quarters and individual glasses in another

one cupful of whipped cream. Fill favourite with the children.

the orange skins and garnish with Left Overs

whole raisins. Serve on lettuce or

For economical family meals you can turn left-over boiled potatoes into a crown border by mashing them, arranging them round a fire-

proof dish, and browning them in

with hundreds and thousands, and leave in a warm place to set.

TASTY LUNCHEON DISHES.

www

Here are two easily prepared and

the oven or under the grill. Fill tasty luncheon dishes. The stuff-

the centre with cooked peas

beans or carrots, or a mixture

these, or even spring greens cabbage, very finely chopped

APPLE

oring for the onions may be made up

of of any left-over meat.

or

STRUDEL

cresa.

SALAD - BASKETS.

When green salads are

being

Cupped Egge-Six eggs, 1 tea-prepared much time and trouble

DINNER

Pot au Feu Fried Roe with Bacon and Mushrooms

Stuffed Roast Duck Baked Onions Red Currant Jelly Cauliflower Fritters Parfait Amour French Macaroni

Reduce quart of tomatoes to a thick pulp. Rub through puree

sprinkle with cheese.

pinch pf cayenne. Garnish with nasturtium blossoms and leaves. Hot Rice Pudding with Hot

Chocolate Sauce * Mix 1⁄2 cup rice; 1 teaspoon salt; 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg; 1/3 cup sugar 1⁄2 cup seeded raisins with I quart bolled milk. Turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake slowly in a moderate oven for 2 hours, stirr- ing occasionally the first hour. After cooking 2 hours, add 1 pint. cold milk and continue cooking hour longer. Serve with hot cho colate sauce.

Parfait Amour. Make a syrup by boiling 4 cups or spoon, chopped parsley, 2 teaspoons may be saved by shaking them dry

strainer. There should be one cup. water and 2 cups sugar. Boll for minced, cooked ham, a few bread-in a wire salad-basket. :

After the lettuces or other Season pulp with sait, paprika and 2 minutes. Add 4 cups orange crumbe, pepper and salt and but-

Add 1 tablespoon juice, 1⁄2 cup lemon juice, grated ter & small rounds of toast. Bul-greens have been washed they are onion juice.

to drain. butter and 1⁄2 cup each chopped rind of 2 oranges, cool, strain and ter cups or moulds, sprinkle with placed in the basket paraley, ham, breadcrumbs and sea. Then the basket is closed and mushrooms and staffed olives. freeze. Serve in tall glasses, fill- soning, break an egg into each and shaken briskly until the salad Have ready packet macaroni ing glasses quite solid with the put in a saucepan of boiling water free from water. When dried in cooked, Reheat macaroni in sauce. mixture. With an apple corer Often the most elaborate-seeming until set (but not hard), then turn this way greens retain their crisp Turn on to hot serving plate and make a cavity in the centre of ench portion, All cavity with ras not to fill the basket too full.

berry ice. Set a rose of whipped -dishes are the simplest to prepare. each one on to a round of butterfreshness. Care must be taken

cream on top of each portion, Apple Strudel is a sweetmeat with-ed toast.

Baked Stuffed Onions.Parboil out which no Continental festive

Summer Dish.

teasprinkle with finely chopped val- | table is complete. It may be served 6 large onions, take out centres and at dinner as a dessert with a good fill with rissolement mixture or

Asparagus, au gratin, served in custard sauce, or as an adjunt to seasoned minced kidney. Place on the teatable it will be a pleasant a buttered dish, put a small piece the pottery baldng dish in which surprise. Here is the recipe. Make of butter on each and bake in good it is cooked, makes a delectable a pastry of half a pound of flour, oven about 1 hour until tender and main dish for warm day suppers.. one teaspoonful of sugar, tablespoonful of nat oil, and

one brown.

4

little water, Roll out as thinly as SAVOURY ROLL FOR tissue paper and spread with a quarter pound of clarified butter. VEGETARIAN MEAL

Mix together one teaspoonsful of a

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Ham Timbale with Green

Peas and Carrots To & well-beaten eggs add 1⁄4 spoon each salt and paprika, nat meats. cup soft crumpeas, cooked with carrots, The latter must be new tender ones, and cut in half or quarters. Season vegetables with butter, salt and pepper.

German Potato Salad

Spices Blend To Give

Tang To Dressing.

For a "peppy dressing to servo] Cat 6 medium sized cold potatoes with combination vegetable salad,

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