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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICSER

Sandwiches To Serve At COOKING Warm Weather Salads Include

in

Tea Highly Varied

Thinly Sliced Bread May Have Any One Of Dozens of Fillings.

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If you are planning to entertain

fushion any informal wiches usually come into Used alone with tox or as a accompaniment, they always popular.

FISH.

Advice For The Novice.

Seasonal Fruits

Sea Foods Suggested Also For Summer Menus; Cold Slaw Is Popular.

for the center of the cheese border.

Although apparently one of the Slice the Bread Thin

simpleat, fish is really one of the most difficult of foodstuffs to buy Graham, white, rye, Boston

jand cook successfully. It is never brown bread or whole bread can wise to try to economise

It's cool, refreshing salad we are This is the kind that will give when looking for these summer days you a whole luncheon if combined be used for the foundation. The buying fish: it deteriorates no ra- the kind that maintains appetite with hot rolls and a beverage. The bread should be sliced thin

and pidly that it should always be per appeal, no matter how hot the day. quantities listed will care for from sand-cut in rounds not more than two rectly fresh and in season. If And what could better do this than four to six persons, depending on mind. inches in diameter. Small dia possible the housewife should shopja salad using a juicy fruit base?

the size of servings: salad) monds and hearts can also be cut for it personally, in order to

Take the grapefruitf Consider are and it adds much to the attrac that the flesh is firm and the gille its tangy, refreshing flavour, its tiveness of the finished tray of red. before It is cleaned and cut goodness when combined with other if the shapes are into fillets, as when stale fish is salad ingredients, and more parti- The modern version is

The ways to decorate placed on ice it regains a tempor-cularly the use of its juice in the from the original "two bread with a thin layer of filling these sandwiches are innumerable. ry freshness. Fish should never making of novel salad dressings.

al. because the most

For ribbon sandwiches, use two be kept in water, but should be well between." turing of sandwiches uses but one kinds of bread and cut the bread washed, first in salt water, then in

and the filling is in thick, lengthwise slices, piling This "open them up in alternaling layers. For face" sandwich can be varied al "checkerboards," cut again in thick cooked as soon as possible.

Plice of brend anything but "thin."

most indefinitely.

+

a far cry sandwiches

slices of varied.

and

1 cup diced grapefruit segments 1 cup diced oranges

(or other

1 cup diced peahes

fresh fruit in season) Chilled, crisp lettuce. Arrange three lettuce leaves on each plate to make three cups. In one leaf place a portion of grape- fruit, in second

in the oranges third peaches and serve with marshmallow cheese salad dressing.

cold running water, after which it PICNICS MAY should be dried thoroughly

BE EASY OR

COMPLICATED Melt one package of soft, snap-

--SANDWICHES AND FRUITS

HELP LIFT BURDER OF HOME MAKER

py cheese (Hke Kraft Velveeta) in the top of a double boiler. Gradual- ly add to melted cheese 16 marsh- mallows cut in small pieces. Stir constantly. When melted and completely remove from stove and

It can be made alices and pile one above the other, fish, not realising that this is the The inexperienced usually fry picuresquely being sure that the dark and white most difficult way of cooking it sa- and yarnished HA that it looks more like a confec- brenda alternate. Wrap tightly in

tisfactorily. The fish should be tion than nandwich. Cream waxed paper and put in

# cold

coated with seasoned flour or egg choose softened with heavy cream place for an hour or longer. Then and bread-crumbs, and should not makes an effective border piped aller about three-eighths of an inch be placed in the fat until the lat around the edge. Stuffed olives, thick. Butter each slice

of bread ter is still, with a blue vapour aris- The right sort of sandwiches,|add grapefruit juice to taste. (This sweet pleked eurumber rings, plek- evenly but lightly and put together ing from it, not when it is merely fresh fruit and a drink of some dressing will harden when kept in led watermelon rings, a bright tart with different filings.

The filling bubbling, as is often done, thus ran-kind can be made to serve as an the refrigerator, but can be jelly. nimenia, riced hardcooked must be quite aracoth and not so doring the fish andden. Dripping, adquate and nourishing luncheon. heated in the double boller before egg yolk, any well seasoned sand. moist as to soak the bread. A butter, or vegetable oil are good When a sandwich is to form the serving).

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HERE'S A ONE-DISH MEAL.

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Casserole of veal combined with potatoes, peas and carrota takes care of both meat and vegetables. With a moulded salad and fresh fruit for dessert a well balanced menu is provided.

seasoned hutler is often used and fats wich mixture, a ne shrimp in

Lo use. Only a little fish real "piece de resistance," it should border of capers--all these and is very satisfactory

when several jshould be placed in the pan at abe substantial and both the filling: many more materials can be used' (Continued at foot af next Column.)|time or it will be greasy and un-and the bread should be thicker

appetising. Fried fish should be than that in the tea sandwich. thoroughly drained on issue paper) The picnic of sandwiches and before it in served, and it should fruit has many points in its favour. he hot crisp, and dry when done. It does not mean the packing and

A simple method of cooking. In junpacking of baskets,

no dishes which the novice can only err by are to be washed at home and no overcooking (which dries the fish).scraps are to be disposed of wher is to bake it in the oven in a fire-the lunch is caten. The real heat and still be palatable. Others: proof dish. A few pieces of butter, picnic meal requires is much plan- are ruined after an hour's stand- a little lemon juice seasoning, andning and preparation as any mealing. Meat sandwiches, plain a moderate oven are all that are for a special occasion and means cheese, olive and nut, many vege required. The fish should be well time and effort f the house- table sandwiches and some sweet busted, and cooked for not more keeper. than half an hour. Any fillets or small fish can be cooked in thin There are certain kinds of sand-

LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE

Gives

added

zest to home- cooked dishes.

ELIMINATION

is not enough

Phosferine Health Salt Tones as it Cleanses

Planta Carta

Invigoration must accompany the regular daily removal of the cruses of Consupation, and this is now accum. plished by Phosferine Health Salt, with total freedom from die enervating after-effects produced by old-fashioned

salines.

Metier

Phosfering calth Salt perily chances the systems from Irities mod removes the poisonous ware which clogs the food clunneli and at the same time imparte fresliness and vigour to the digestive organs and

on to the entire body.

Phosferine HEALTH SALT

THE TONIC FRUIT, SALINE

From ell Chemists, in two sizes, the forger size contains double th quantity,

This uniqué preparation is mads and Guaramland by the Propeistars of Phosforino t

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| Wayz Another excellent way of baking is to cover the fish with well-seasoned milk, add a few rings of onion and a little diced carrot. cover the dish, and cook slowly for forty-five minutes.

Many people boil fish, but steam- ing is simpler, and, with the ex- ception of salmon, more satisfac- tory, as the fish has a more dell- cate flavour and it not so easily

Choose "Hardy" Sandwiches

ones are "hardy" and will stand much. But tomato, cucumber and some varieties of cheese, delicious wiches that will endure several as they are, are beat served on the hours of packing and polting and porch or in the garden.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

Tiffin TIFFIN

Cheese Ramekins

Mutton Cutlets a la Macedoine

with a bone to each, and beat them with a wet cutlet-bat to about half an inch in thickness. Trim them

broken. If a steamer is not avail. Duchess Apple Pie with Meringue and leave half inch of bone bare,

able it can be cooked in butter or margarine between two deep plates

on the top of a sauce-pan of boll ing water. Twenty minutes 4 ample time, unless it is a thick piece of fish. If bolling is pre- ferred care should be taken to sim- mer only. The temperature of the water should not be more than 180

DINNER

Pigeon Egg Clear Soup Lomi Loomi Salad Spring Chicken

Roast Potatoes

Baked Apples Butter Cream "Tarts

Cheese Ramekina

Put cup butter in a saucepan degrees, or the fish will break; it add 1⁄2 cup boiling water, heat to will take from eight to ten minutes boiling point, add (all together) 1

the pound. Vinegar, lemon cup flour, pinch of salt and cayen-

season them and egg and bread- crumb them, and fry in clarifed butter in a anute pan for 3 or 4

Dish on minitea.

a border of mashed potatoes, put a macedoine of vegetables in the centre and pour (brown sauce round the base.

Duchess Apple Pie with Meringue.

Wipe, pare

core and steam 5

apples, rub through a sleve add to pulp 1/3 cup butter, 11⁄2 cup sugar, 3 eggs slightly beaten, grated rind

Įjuice, or cooking wine added to the jne. Stir constantly and cook until lemon, 1 tablespoon lemon

water help to keep it firm and a mixture leaves sides of pan, remove good colour.-L. M..

Juice, and a few grains salt. Line a pie dish with rich pastry, wet from stove, add rup grated

edge and lay around 1 inch wide Parmesan cheese, then beat in

strip pastry, Aute rim, building it: varieties of assorted sandwiches 2 egga. adding ope sta well up. Turn in mixture and time. Drop from tip of spoon bake until mixture is set. Spread are served.

For rolled sandwiches remove (on

top with a meringue, return crusts and slice bread lengthwise flat cakes about 1 inch in dia- of the loaf. Spread each slice with meter. Wash tops over with beatenven to brown, then dot over with

cubes of apple jelly. legg, diluted with 2 tablespoons creamed butter and then with 1

milk. Set $ cubes of cheese on top

buttered tin

in sheet

to

Lomi Lomi Salad. | smooth filling. Roll up closely. of each cake and bake 15 minutes. 21⁄2 Cups flaked, boiled, salmon, Spread one end of each graham serve at once with salad course. julca of 1⁄2 lemon 11⁄2 cups diced roll with softened butter and roll Mutton Cutlets a la Maccedoine tomato, 1⁄2 cup shreded cabbage, in grated pistachio nuts. Spread Part of the best and, of neck of French pickle dressing, bolled sa- the end of each white roll with mutton, 1 or 2 eggs; some bread- lad dressing, lettuce, parsley. Com- softened butter and roll in grated crumbs, 3 oz, melted butter, nes-bine the salmon, tomato, "cabbage yellow cheese, Of course any dry sonings, brown sauce, à macédoine and lemon with sufficient French materials that will cling to the of vegetables. Saw off the chine dreming to blend. Chill, stir in a batter can be used but the yellow bone and the ends of the rib bones,, Itle boiled dressing and serve in cheese and green nuts are suggest leaving the cutlet bone about 8, a lettuce-lined bowl. Garnish with ad on account of their colour. inches in length. Cut the cutlets extra dressing and the parsley,

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