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New Soup On Dinner Menu Found Here

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JUE

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

· Delicious Cake Suggested For Dessert At This Tempting Dinner,

Clam Juice Cocktail

Tomato Soup, Savory Croutons Broiled Ham with Golden Brown

Fillet of Chicken

Golden Sauce-Pickled Peaches Candied Sweet Potatoes Baked Corn

Endive Salad, Russian Dressing

Custard Ice Cream with

Chocolate Marble Cake

Hot Rolla

Choicest Cantonese Foods Popular

Historic Chinese Cafe Head's Views

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SIDELIGHTS ON 'CHOW"

"Hothouse," blind

Curries In Hot Weather Buck

Up Appetites

Vegetable Curries And Liver Curries Furnish Unusual Opportunities. EXPERT DESCRIBES NOVEEL WAYS OF USING DISH,

juice, banana cut in inch slices Simmer and cocoanut infusion.

until tender and serve with rice. grate or scrape cocoanut and let stand in one cup boiling water

To make cocoanut infusion

for 20 minutes. Strain through cheese-cloth, squeezing cocoanut as dry as possible.

Curries were originated in Eat Your Carrots

India and are intended to stimu

chickens, rants is the famous "struggle be late lagging appetites during de- Raw If You Want sea tween, dragon and tiger." A special pressing weather. The highly All Vitamins For

porkers fed on cream, great

kind of snake is cooked together seasoned, pungent curry sauce

turtles, soup made of bears' paws, with fox. In ordinary course, how-with its distinctive flavour does Health & Beauty

Boup made of anark's fins costing ever, cats are used as a substitute

Demi tasse $100 a bowl, and "Struggle Between for fox, though the snakes are indeed tempt the appetite and

Tomato Soup Savory

1⁄2 pound bacon

6

cups water

cups tomatoes

small onion

2 whole cloves

Pepper and salt to taste

bay leaf

1

cupa cooked rice

very hot,

The cheapness of carrots puts Dragon and Tiger" (a dish com-really used. This special dish is will be found a worth-while addi-

within the reach of every family posed of snake mixed with fox- considered of great nutritive value tion to summer menus.

A curry is invariably served those food elements which are ́es- usually cat)-these are some of the and is generally taken in the win- delicacies enjoyed by gourmets who ter. Another unique dish is made

Strong muscles, red blood, sound know good food and demand that it of fresh bear's paw for soup. The with rice and may or may not sential to growth, health and vigor, be served correctly when they visit paws come from Harbin. Both the use meat or fish in its make-up teeth, firm fesh, straight bones, the Hung Far Lou Restaurant at snake-and-fox soup and the bear's Vegetable curries are excellent glossy hair and clear skin are the

famous paw dish are expensive, but not as

have 2.-Hote

a

table

years.

vegetables.

2

Road, 526 Foochow Chinese food centre established nere expensive as the classic shark's fin and help solve the luncheon or result when vitamins and minerals Boil the bacon in water for an 60 years ago.

Mr. Lee Man-cheng, A large bowl of shark's fin of the supper problem. The rice forms are present in the diet. And since hour, covered. Add the tomatoes assistant manager of the restaurant, best quality costs $100. This de-the border and the other mater-carrots contribute vitamins and

Left-over told to eat carrots "for beauty."

Next to onions, carrots are the and onions sliced and the season-old all about the chew business licacy has been so popular with lial in the curry gives the piquant minerals se generously, we've been ing. Simmer for one hour. Strain. when interviewed recently by a Chinese diners that no big dinner flavour to the dish.

curry sauce and served in a bor-most efficient blood-purifiers. They Set aside to cool, then remove the China Press reporter who presented or banquet will be considered com- meats can be re-heated in the

der of rice. This suggests an at. rank next to spinach in iron con- Multi-Course Dinners, grease. Add the cooked rice. Serve him with 10 "pertinent" questions plete without shark's_fin soup.

plexions and sparking eyes! concerning Chinese restaurants, for-

Has the popularity of tong, tractive way to use up left-overs. tent. Two reasons for clear com- The following basic rule for Vitamin A is found in carrots. jeign and Chinese tastes, etc.

formal multi-course dinners acaned

curry sauce has been modified to This puts carrots in the list, of Press in the last few years! Stained Mattresses. The 10 questions in the

and Mr. Lee's Answer.Yes, such long-drawn please Western palates. Even so, foods with cod liver oil, butter fat, Questionnaire

out dinners have lost much popu-some tastes will prefer less curry-egg yolk and the leaves of green During spring-cleaning it is answers follow:

Curry Sauce. 1.Is your restaurant one of the larity during the last few frequently discovered that mat-

One scant tablespoon curry

Best Eaten Raw, At present, banquets are generally tresses are stained. These stains, oldest in Shanghai.

To gain the most benefit from Lou restricted to four cold and four powder, 1 tablespoon flour whether they have been caused Answer. The Hung For

and cight tablespoons butter, 2-cups tomato the-vegetable as a beautifier, it by rust or by a leaking hot-water Restaurant was established 60 years hot dishes, four fruits, bottle, can usually be removed by ago, being the oldest among the main courses. Usually less than two juice, 1 small onion, 1 tablespoon should be eaten raw. Then there to get chutney sauce. 1-2 tablespoons is no loss of vitamins B and C. an application of fuller's earth, focal restaurants serving Cantonese hours will be required

lemon juice, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1-2 Both these vitamins are somewhat through such a dinner. The fuller's earth should be mix-food.

Chinese tasies 6-What was the biggest dinner teaspoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon pep-affected by careless cooking and ed to a stiff paste-like consistency

there is apt to be loss of minerals. with a little liquid soap and ap-changed in the last few years in re- you ever served? Was it the most per.

Melt butter and stir in curry Carrot straws add a pleasant plied thickly to the stains. gard to type and quantity of food expensivel

Answer. The biggest dinner the powder and flour. Cook and stir contrast of colour to a tray of Grated raw carrot is Leave the mixture to dry tho-consumed at meals of banquets? roughly before brushing it off. Do Chinese diners eat more or less, Hung Far Lou Restaurant ever until bubbly and slowly add to-relishes.

served was in October, 1931, atmato juice, stirring constantly good in any vegetable salad and If the stains have not been com-jin general, than 20 years ago?

Answer.Chinese tastes change tre wedding banquet of a high off-When smooth, add minced onion, some fruit salads. Rings of carrot pletely removed by this process, a second application should be practically every year, and in order cial in the Ministry of Finance chutney, lemon juice, sugar, salt filled with highly seasoned cream given. If a little vaseline is rub-to meet the ever-changing fancies Altogether about 120 tables were and pepper, Simmer for 30 min-cheese make attractive and inex

restaurants served in the restaurant at the utes. if chutney sauce is not pensive, appetizers.

cucumber bed over a wire mattress period-jof their patrons, the

cost available chopped

There is very little loss of food ically, rust will be entirely-avoid-nave to device numerous new dishes same time. As each

from time to time. But in general, about $30, the total expenses of the rings or mixed sweet pickle can value in such a dish as scalloped carrots. Try it for luncheon with ed.

remarkable change has been banquer camp up to approximately be used.

Tender left-over veal, lamb, breaded veal cutlets some Satur- to the quantity $3,600. noticed in regard of food consumed by Chinese diners 7-Do groups of Chinese woman mutton, chicken, beef or fish can day when a special luncheon may

gather for formal dinners or is be reheated in this sauce and oe wanted. during the last two decades,

Scalloped Carrots, Old towels which are too worn!

Popular Dishes.

this sort of entertainment in public served in a border of well cooked

rice Cheap cuts of meat can be Two cups thinly sliced carrots, or discoloured for. ordinary use! 3.-What foods or dishes are most restaurants exclusive to ment

be turned into the

Answer. No, the privilege to dine cut in small pieces, seared quick-1-2 cup thinly sliced onion, 2 sweet can often

in public restaurants is not exclu-ly in hot fat and simmered until green peppers, 1 cup milk, 2 table- new type of oven cloth with popular among Chinese?

foreigners? pockets

the at each end for

Answer.-Above all things, Chin-sive to men. Groups of woman tender in the sauce in the oven orlspoons butter, 1 tablespoon flour, Water can, 11-2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, hands. To make one of these

the patrons also frequently have parties on top of the stove. ese patrons particularly like

of course, be used in place of to-11-8 teaspoon pepper, 1-3 cup coarne take a towel or strip about thirtyso-called "Hsing Feng Chicken." in our restaurant...

stale bread crumbs. the from chickens inches by eighteen, and double it'

mato juice. Foreign Patronage.

East Indian Curry.

Arrange carrots and onions in 20 that there is a long, narrow suburbs of Canton. Being bred in! 8.-Is your restaurant often pat-i piece.

One pound round steak or lean alternating layers in a well but- room for ironized by foreigners

aprinkling Join the two ewges and fold them to walk about, these chickens Answer-Yes, we do have a large beef of any cut: 1 tablespoonstered baking dish, back the ends about six inches, have tender flesh and soft bones, patronage from foreigners. World curry powder, 2 tablespoons but-minced peppers, through sewing them to the main strip Cooked in any way one likes, they tourists coming to Shanghai almost ter, 1 onion, 1-2 lemon, 1-2 tea-layer. Melt butter, stirr in flour and when bubbling add milk, stir- on both sides so that pockets are always form a treat for the diners. always visit our restaurant before spoon salt.

Cut meat in small squares. ring constantly. Add sugar, salt formed. A loop of tape in the Shark in soup, fried "milk-pig." leaving for another port. This is centre completes the cloth, turtle from Kwangsi and sea-dog-especially true of Japanese tourists. Melt butter in stew pan and, when and pepper and bring to the boil- Four over mixture in the Manchu it bubbles, add onion minced and ing point. which can then hang by the oven fish from Kwangtung are other In the late years of door to be slipped on when a hot popular dishes served in the rea-regime, a nigh Japanese naval curry powder. Stir with a fork baking dish. Cover and bake 30 Add minutes in a hot oven. Remove dish has to be turned or lifted out.taurant. In general, foreigners, as officer visited Shanghai. He ate at and cook five minutes.

the Chinese, always insist on hav-our restaurant, and before he left, meat and brown quickly. Add cover, sprinkle with crumbs, dot -jing the best and most delicious took a picture of the place. In my boiling water to cover and sim-with bits of butter and return to dishes. But in particular, they care visit to the Japanese Empire a few mer one hour adding water if oven to brown. Serve from baking

Add years ago, I found the picture was necessary. for the famous chop suey.

in What dishes are the most still on display in a museum The tablespoons of grated yel

Tokyo. When the Lytton Commis- low cheese added to salad dress-junique and expensive!

arrived in Shanghai Answer. One of the most unique ston ing used for fruit salads gives

dishes served in Cantonese restau- February, 1832, the Hung Far Lou added flavour.

Restaurant was honoured with the order for a dinner for the gentle-

Oven Cloths.

YELLOW CHEESE FOR FRUIT SALAD.

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Waffles

Maple Syrup Coffee Dinner

Answer Quite a few delicacies Leg of Lamb served in our restaurant are in-

ported from foreign places. For instance, we buy shark's fins from

Mint Jelly Salad

1⁄2 cup boiling pineapple juice

package mint flavoured gela.

tine mixture

2.

Browned Potatoes Creamed Peas

11⁄2 cup

1

Butter

Coffee

Bread..

Mint Jelly Salad

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10. Has the short-order Chinese restaurant gained in popularity in recent years in catering to the down-town officer workers who do

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REMOVING FRUIT STAINS.

from dresses,

Crab Salad

Supper

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Leg of Lamb And Browned Potatoes Seven-pound leg lamb

8 potatoes, peeled

boiling water

tablespoon lemon juice

34 cup diced canned pineapple

1⁄2 cup diced celery.

2 tablespoons.chopped pimien

tos

1⁄4 teaspoon salt.

Pour pineapple juice and water over gelatine mixture and stir until it hes dissolved. Cool Add. rest of ingredients. Pour into glass mould and chill until stig. Cut in squares and serve on lettuce leaves and top with salad dressing. Cherry Pie Filling,

cups seeded cherries

+3

tablespoons flour

1

teaspoon paprika

teaspoon paprika

1⁄2 cup water.

3

T1⁄4 cups sugar

Place lamb in balding pan.

2

tablespoons flour

Sprinkle with flour,

salt and

1⁄2 teaspon salťa

paprika Bake 18 minutes in hot

1

oven. Cover and add water and

3

tablespoon lemon fulce tablespoons butter

To remove-fresh fruit afains bake 2 hours in a moderate Blend ingredients and pour into aprons, napkins, oven. Baste frequently while bak- unbaked crust. Cover with crust In which four slits have been cut. tablecloths, put the material over inze

60 min-Bake 10 minutes in moderately hot bowl and pour boiling water Add potatotes the over the spots, holding the kettle utes of balding Turn them several oven. Lower fire and bake 40 min-

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