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THE CHINA MAIL

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Appetizers Are Most Inspiring How To Pickle

Part Of A Meal

Cauliflower

A number of people lige to pickle

their own cauliflowers. Break

Tantalizing Tidbits Must Be Kept Few In Number small bunches off the cauliflowers,

And Served Daintily.

IN FOOD

TINS

Boiling Water Assists Opening.

days. After two or three days the edges in the process.

down tightly with leather.

Food For The Convalescent

When children are convales-

cent a good deal of ingenuity is required: to devise fresh antuse ments for them and to add sur- choosing the tightest available.

Whole salmon is awkward to prise touches to their meals. Sprinkle a dish with coarse salt and spread the cauliflowers on top. extract from a tin without break- Any plaid cake of sponge or madeira mixture may be made All our lives we've been warn-boards, and meals start out with Then cover with more salt and ing or crumbling round the into a "Convalescent Cake" in The ap the following way:--The top is ed against clambering out of a real zip in taste and colour leave in a 'cool place for several -bed on the unlucky side, putting when they are served. the wrong foot forward and get- First, have you discovered the flowers will be quite dry. They pearance of the salmon is im-covered with a thin layer of ting off to a bad start: Every-assorted temptations that can should then be placed in a bowl and mediately spoilt for serving icing sugar, and on this, instead body seema to agree that it's come from a small, jar of those, boiling salt water poured over when this happens, and a good of the usual decorations, a scene first impressions that count and funny little pickled fish, the anthem. Finally drain, and tie down precaution to take before re- from life is arranged. Two Or from a tube of in glass jars which contain distill-, moving the salmon is to immerse tiny dolls, suitably dressed, re- that a good beginning in half the chovies? battle.

anchovy paste? Accept, then, ed vinegar. The jars should be tied the tin in boiling water for a present the doctor and the nurse, few seconds. The warmth will and another doll in a little bed is Jenable the salmon to be turned the patient. With pieces of But too often we forget to some quick tips.

A perfect cocktail accompani-

out whole from the tin without coloured paper and a few large apply these commendable bits of

Fruit Salads Need We ment or a solo appetizer for the

trouble or fear of crumbling, pins the bedstead, chairs, and philosophy to dinners.

start of a meal may be made in pot

Special Dressing. bargo into the attack on

Tins of tongue or ham may be table may be contrived, if suit! treated successfully in the same able dolls' house furniture is not roasts and club steaks, forgetting this way. Supply yourself with one of the

An extra patient ori Tart fruit salads need a well manner. If the tongue is in a available. that to do true justice to their stuffed olives, Lay

on each hearty deliciousness our palates little fish lengthwise

a stuffed spiced dressing. To one cup of glass and not in a tin care should two may be added. if desired, and need tickling-peed a smart slice of bacon, place Alip from a piquant tid-bit to olive in the center, and roll the mayonnaise add 1⁄2 cup of sour be taken not to immerse it in any touches of "local colour" Whip the two with rot-too hot, water. It is better to that suggest themselves may bel prime them for full enjoyment bacon around it, fastening with cream.

{the 'scène.` hot so hot of the pleasures to come. Lazy a toothpick. Broil under a slow ary beater and add a few drops soak it longer in water which is Nitroduced to lend interest to

by flame until the bacon is crisp. of tabasco. palates are quickly bored main courses, and no wise hos-Serve with a garnish of lemon, less needlessly flirts with failure without removing the toothpick. A luncheon appetizer is the when a cup of avory, tantalizing

of anchovy egg. To prepare this! scup or any of the scores tempting appetizers are quick for eight diners, cut four hard- tricks with big rewards in family cooked eggs in half, lengthwise, Blend land remove the yolks. appetites.

these yolks until smooth with four teaspoons of anchovy paste and one-eighth teaspoon pepper-] eauce. Pile the mixture lightly! back into the whites' and chill. When ready to serve, prepare

hold

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Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN

Devilled Crab Braised Oxtail

Potato Cream Salad

Napoleons DINNER

Dark Onion Soup Marrow au Fromage

Tongue Saute Fried Tomatoes Banana Chartreuse Braised Oxtail

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with a little salt added. Bodi gent. Proper Use Of Tinware "RICKSHAW BRAND

For Cooking.

fly for about 10 minutes until it is lightly cooked, then drain it tho

New articles of tinware are roughly and place it in a fireproof dish. Season each piece and not easy to use, as anything bak- sprinkle thickly with the grated led in them is inclined to stick cheese, keeping back one and a half when they are used for the first It is a good plan for peo- dessertspoons of the cheese. Mix time.

this with the breadcrumbs and ple who bake their cakes in tins sprinkle it on top of the marrow. paper to treat new tins before Dot it with small daba of butter. they are used and thus avoid any Put It under the grill to melt the sticking. The tins in which

Serve garnished with aiderably improved for cooking if they are treated in a similar Tongue Saute,

manner. Sprinkle the bottom

thin bread rounds toasted light ly on the top sides. Cup the centres of the toast rounds out 3 tablespoons heated dripping; 1 cheese and brown the top of the puddings are baked will be con- with a smaller cutter and place large oxtail; 2 tablespoons flour; 2 marrow. half a stuffed egg in each. Cover large onions; 2 cupfuls stocks; 2 parsley, with a spoonful of tomato carrots, sliced crosswise; tea-

of the tins with bran and place mayonnaise.

spoon salt 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper; 2 Tomato Mayonnaise or 3 cloves; 1 tablespoon lemon, tato; I dessertspoon minced onion; them in the oven at a moderate This mayonnaise, by the way, juice, Separate the oxtail into tomato: seasoning: 1 oz. butter; heat. When the bran is dry the Chop tins should be removed and allow- is a smart new dressing that's joints, roll in the four, and brown 1 teaspoon grated cheese.

After this treat- good on a big family of Ash in the heated dripping. When the the tongue into small pieces ored to cool. salads or appetizers.

meat is browned, remove the fat, mince it doarsely. Mix it with the ment there need be no fear ot

mayonnaise.

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Tomato Mayonnaise

1 cup mayonnaise.

1⁄4 cup pimento, chopped.

1 teaspoon peppery sauce.

1 cup tomatoes, drained dry

(either canned or fresh).

serve.

Potato Cream Salad.

9 oz. cold tongue; 3 oz. cold po-

sticking

Fresh Cherry Cake.

the onions and cook golden brown in the same fat, Add butter in a. frying pan and cook the stock; stir until boiling, Put the onion In-it until it begins to

cloves in the salt, pepper,

and colour. Add the peeled and chop- carrots and he browned meat. Sim-ped tomato and stir in the potato mer 2 hours, add the lemon juice and tongue. Cook the mixture for and serve with boiled potatoes, rice few minutes, keeping it stirred

Take 2 eggs and their weight in and add seasoning to taste. Draw Add the pimento, sauce, and or macaroni.

the mixture to one side of the pan flour, sugar and butter. and half- the finely cut up tomatoes to the mayonnaise, Blend well and 3 cups warm, diced, boiled pota-and shape It. Add the remainder pound of dark cherries,

toes; 1 cup boiled corn; 2 chopped of the butter to the pan and let the Beat butter till creamy, add Another quick trick calls for hard boiled eggs: 1 cup celery: 4 tongue mixture brown 'slowly, then sugar and eggs, and lastly the thin foast cut in two inch cup French dressing; 4 cup whip turn it over and shape it again and four. Put in a sandwich tin and When it is ready, arrange on top about half a pound

Bake in squares. Over each square ped cream; 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise; let it brown. spread a mixture of chopped up thinly sliced cucumbers. Combine turn it on to a plata, sprinkle the of fresh dark cherries:

This is delicious, light cake hard cooked egg yolk and white, the potatoes while warm with the cheese on top of it and bat it un-moderate oven,

Chill, der the grill for a minute before a little sweet relish, flat an-French dressing and eggs:

Garnish with parsley and very suitable for garden serving. chovies chopped small, and salad add the celery, corn, mayonnaise

parties. dressing to molaten.

and eroam and press into a bowl. Sufficient for one person; Or, if you prefer your an- Turn out on a salad dish and gar- 4 chovies rolled, here is an appetiz- nish with the cucumbers, dipped Hard cook in French, dressing. Surround with 3% cents.ing inspiration,

Reveral eggs and cut in two cross-lettuce and little paraley,

Napoleons. wise. Crush the yolks and blend! them with oil from the anchovies. Puff pastry; raspberry jam: Spread this mixture on crackers Cream flling; frosting. Cut, puff or toasted bread squares and paste into strips 4 Inches long and place a rolled anchovy in the two inches wide. Brush one strip centre of each. Now slice egg with egg or milk, lay a second strip white into rings and place one on top and bake. When cold spilt:

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about each anchovy as a garnish arst layer with raspberry jam, the lengthwise into three. Spread the For even a speedier canape, second with cream filling and frost cut thin toast in rouns, spread and decorate the top with fruit with chopped pickled onions icing

blended with the tomato ma (*, "Marrow an-Fromage, yonnaise given above and place

a rolled anchovy in the centre of each, havREN

Terbit Stuffed Celery,

Half a medium sitod marrow; 8 dessert spoons grated cheese; 1% dessertspoon: "breadcrumbs; sesson- ling: 4 oz. butter; parsley. Pool

Crisp celery hearts stuffed half a medium sized marrow, cut it with any of sundry inspirations into two places, remove the seeds may do double duty either as a and then put it into boiling water pre-meal appetizer, or as the smas

main attraction of a luncheon chives makes a delectable, filling salad, get off by a bed of lettuce for cool celery, hearts, With

Creamy, coltage cheese mixed the smaller ones, leave the yelow-| with chopped sweet pickdes, green leaves, on to add colour tol minced pimiento or chopped the salad.

SOUPS faste better with a few drops of

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