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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Out-Door Meals Appreciated When Powerful Meat Casseroles Simplify Cooking;

Picnic Is Not Possible These Days

There is probably no one in the all you'll have to do is dice them, world who doesn't like a plenie. If add the other ingredients, wrap the you want to make your family hap-bowl in oiled paper and pack in py, plan plenty of meals al fresco. the basket.

If you can't go on regular old- fashioned plenies in the country, at

Mixed Vegetable Salad.

A mixed vegetable salad in a de- least try to eat out-of-doors occaviation from the traditional pota- sionally. A table on the porch, in the backyard or on the front lawn to salad always found at plenics,

Here's the way to make it will suffice.

Extract

Must Be Given With Discretion.

HOSPITAL NURSE'S RECIPE

Lamb With Rice Economical GOOD NEWS

Short cuts in cooking which do spaghetti or macaroni and ham. not sacrifice wholesome food, de-¡corned beef with sweet corn, po- liciously prepared and attractively tato and dry lima beans in a sort served are always worth consider of thick chowder, chopped beer Ing. Economy of money and time with macaroni and new turnips, is essential to successful house-casserole of veal and mixed veget As hospital nurse supplies this is essential to successful houseables, lamb in rice border - all combinations and many of recipe for perfect meat extract. She keeping. Dishes which provide the these says: "I have saved many lives maximum of nourishment with the others use inexpensive cute

work, preliminary meat and seasonable vegetables to One teaspoonful is minimum of with this. To one cup each of cooked green

are excellent advantage. and dishwashing a pint of ordinary cooking pras, carrots and string beams, add equal to half

There are two general ways to preparing these dishes. The vege- three tablespoonsful each of chop beef tea, and one must only be practical and a real help to home-

a time if the patient is makers. given at

The "three-in-one" dish. consis- tables and ment can be cooked Ped onions, radishes, celery, green them lightly with moyonnaise pepper, cucumber and tomato. Mix very l1.

Ing of meat or meat substitute, separately and combined in a snuco vegetables and sauce, may be hot for reheating before serving, which has been added a dash of citement which always surrounds a fresh lemon juice.

jor cold. The casserole suggests, an they can all be cooked slowly to Arrange the

infinite variety of hot dishes, while gether in one dish. When left- pienie, does the trick!

salad on a bed of hearts of lettuce Heated Foods Appreciated.

salads, too, may be varied endless-overs are to be used up; the first ly. On a hot day, if the main dish (method is, of course, necessary, but There is a long list of foods in a deep bowl, cover the top with

Is hot a cold dessert is preferable. when fresh materials are used Which are aynonymous with plenies,olled paper, tie it on securely and

but if the main dish is cold, a hot nothing is gained by cooking them Salads, sandwiches, cookies and pack in the basket.

dessert, such as shortcake, is de-separately. ¡sirable.

Eating out-of-doors secms to whet Ingging appetités. Children. who otherwise wouldn't eat a thing, will often be tempted by the food served at a picnic. The fresh air,

combined with the feeling of

ex-

to

the

Sandwiches for picnics should be cakes are four of them. But, if you intend to serve many meals in of the variety which are not juicy. In the first place, too moist fllings: the open air, your menus should vary. Cold salads, meats and sand-will soak into the bread and, sec- wiches just won't do for a family ondly, they'll drip and ruin

clothes of the picnickers. Thermos with growing children. bottles, casseroles which are air- tight and stay hot, and fireless cookers will be valuable invest-} ments if you take picnicking serio- usly.

Of course, if you are packing a picnic basket and actually intend geing into the country, cold dishes, sandwiches and things easy to pack are your best bet.

Meat Loaf

Good When

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Ilb. each of beef, mutton, and veal, all without fat bone. Put into a double sauce- pan without water. The water in the lower saucepan must be kept boiling for six hours, Add bolling water to lower asuce» Strain pan as it boils

KWAY. essence from meat. This can be put in a wine glass and a AMAII quantity of port of sherry added, or brandy lemon juice.

or

It is good; warm or cold. nutritious, but it may cause sick- ness if much is given at a time. If the patient is progressing, two tablespoonfuls may be given.

Combinations Are Many

and Scalloped potatoes

ham

Making A Real Cornish Pasty

Hot Or Cold BROTH FROM BOILED Simplest Recipe For

PORK.

Famous Dainty.

pork FOLDING IS MOST DIFFICULT

PART OF PROCESS

or

Lamb in rice border is an econo- mical dish in both time and money. The shoulder of lamb in one of the <heapest cuts and should be used aore frequently.

Lamb In Rice Border One and one-half ponds of lamb, 1 pound green peas, 2 cups canned tomatoes, 1 small onion, 3 tablespoons flour, 2 teaspoon salt.- 1-2 teaspoon pepper, Ì 1-2 cups cold water.

Trim lamb into neat pieces of clear meat. Put bones and trim-

mings into sauce pan, add cold

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Here is a recipe which just fits

The broth from a boiled for Sunday nights shoulder can be made into a de- It is well to have adequate equip-into the menu

may be served licious soup which tastes a great ment. A supply of paper plates, supper. The loaf

Ing slowly to the boiling point and which won't hot with a thick white sauce or if deal like chicken.

No more savoury meal can be simmer 30 minutes. Strain, Brown Lin cupa, silverware

Cook your retgelables in the conjured up in the mind of a Cor-jlamb in a hot olled frying pan and tarnish and large sheels of oiled you prefer, chilled with Thousand

tarter sauce of same kettle with the pork. Allow nishman than the hot pasty which put into casserole. Add tomatoes, pape are a few things you need. If island dressing.

The broth to cool you broil steaks on your picnics, lemon juice.

after the veget-greets him when his day's work is minced onion, salt, pepper and ables and meat have been removed. done, and Cornish women in min-broth, Cover casserole and cook which comes to the top as the

ing camps all over the world have 30 minutes. Add peas and cook excess Skim off all the

grease folded and rolled their pasties and about an hour longer, until tender. liquid cools. Add seasoning and

thought of the day when they would Remove meat and vegetables to cen- re-heat when you are ready to use. return to the country of their ori-ter of hot platter and surround with

gin.

get a wire broller which ele up over the open fire.

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Loaf Supreme rups diced cooked chicken. tablespoons chopped groen pepper.

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Prepare as many things as you can the day before you plan to go. Potatoes for salad can be boiled the day before. Then, a couple hours before you are ready to leave,

Tomato Sauce That Keeps.

Stew a quantity of tomatoes ali night in a cool oven, or over a very slow fire. Put the pulp through a sieve and add one pint of beat vine- gar to every quart of sieved pulp.

pimiento, chopped. Lablespoons finely chopped celery.

2 tablespoons chopped parsley. cup cooked or canned mush- rooms, chopped.

2 eggs.

*/4 cup finely rolled

flakes.

1 teaspoon salt.

Bash of paprika.

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CROQUETTES

Rather Plain Pastry

Two cups left over mashed pota- The most common Cornish party toes: 3 cups finely chopped coli is made of uncooked beef and pota- corned beef; salt and pepper to toes, and pastry. The pastry should cereal taste; 1 egg: 1 tablespoon finely be plain - 1⁄2 lb. fat or rather less chopped parsley: 1 egg: 2 table-to 1 lb. flour as too rich a pastry spoons milk or water and fine dry will not hold the filling when it crumbs.

geta in the oven, and will go น pieces. Many Cornish people put degree oven for thirty-five minutes. a little suet into the pastry to make to- Unmould carefully and serve in 'one-a harder crust.

tablespoons tomato catsup.

3 tablespoon salad oil.

Mix the Rbove ingredients

Boil gently one hour, with the ad-gether, blending well. Pour into a inch slices with your favourite dition of a few expalcume or chil greased loaf pan and bake in a 875-sauce.

lies, a little 881-all according to taste.

When cold put into bottles. Dip the corks in resin or wax. This It can sauce always keeps well.

be bottled hot and tied down in thei same way as jam, but the cold sauce keeps perfectly.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN

Timble of Macaroni

Pork Chops with Fried Apples

Banana Pudding

Jam Sauce DINNER

Mouilles Soup

APPETISING CANAPES

Artichoke hearts, stuffed cream cheese and caviar, make sp- petising canapes to serve with iced drinks.

with

Fried Whitebait Sauce Piquant Boiled Spiced Beaf

Buet Dumplings

Baked Potatóns

Peas a la Francaise

Roll out a circular piece of pay- try, not too thin, and about 8 in- ches in diameter. The outside edge can be left alightly thicker with care. Take two fairly large un cooked potatoes and cut each into meat of poultry or game or re- malas of joint, then fill up the four. Then slice each section fine- mould with more macaroni, pressly on to the pastry; the plecen ing well down. Bake in moderate should be about the size of a shill- ing. Salt these. Now take % 15. uncooked beef and cut it into piecus

oven. turn out and serve.

Banana Pudding

and

4 oz. margarine, 6 oz. self-raising | 9f about 1 inch square. A scrap Afur, grated rind of. 1 lemon, 2 of kidney can be added if ifked. bananes, apricot jam, a little milk, Sprinkle with salt, pepper Grease a pudding basin, put a four, then cover the potatoes with spoonful or more of apricot jam in the seasoned meat. the base of it. Cream the fat and Wet the edges of the pasty cir

Using the canned hearts, scoop Lemon Custard Jelly with Stewed sugar, then gradually stir in the cle and flour your fingers before out a small portion of the center. Chill them and stuff with equal

parts of cream cheese and caviar.

Serve on a platter garnished with

olives.

Tomatoes Will Remain

Pears

WOMAN

sifted four and finely grated lemon performing the most difficult part Timbale of Macaroni

rind, moistening them with the of pasty making. It is a plea- Break in very short lengths small well-whisked eggs and a little milk sure to watch a Cornish macaroni. Boil in fast boiling as required. Peel and slice the deftly fold and roll her pasty in- salted water until well cooked, bananas and mix them Into the to shape, and it is the art which Drain and dress it with butter and pudding. Turn the mixture into the most "utsiders" find difficult to grated cheese, then work into it one prepared basin and cover it secure- acquire. Firm Sliced This Way or two raw eggs, according to is with a well-pudding for from

Folding the Pasty quantity. Butter and breadcrumb 14 to 2 hours. Then turn it out - Take hold of the top and bottom Tomatoes sliced up and down, în-la plain moold, and ill with mix and serve it with jam sauce. of the circle of pasty, then bring atead of crosswise, yield more ture, pressing it well down and

them both up over, the meat and alices per unit, the appearance is fleaving a hollow in the centre, Into good and they remain more firm which place a well-flavoured mince

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Nouilles Soup

1 whole and 2 yolks of eggs. press together: Then press the re- Parmesan cheese, 4 lb. of four, maining edges on either aide until water to mix, 14 teaspoon salt, 1 the pasty is shaped like a sem-cir- quart of clear stock. Sieve the cle. four and salt on to a board. Make

Do not press the new dat double well in the centre, add the eggs edge too thin or it will not fald. beaten up with 1⁄2 gill of water and Again flour fingers and, starting at" mix adding more water gradually the right end of the semi-circle, if too thick but the paste must be fold over the flat edge of pastry. atin. When worked quite smooth, roll it out in sheets as thinly working towards you, and tucking possible without breaking it. Cut it in by moving first one hand, Chen the other, until a sort of roll- each sheet of pasis into strips of ad or folded edge replaces the fat Tozenges, and spread them out to dry. In 2 hours time throw the one. Take care that the Inat bit is nouilles into some fast boiling well tucked under, well-flavoured celar stock, and serys The pasty is now lifted in flour- As soon as they are suficiently od hands and placed on a greased At It cooked. Add choose."

paper on the over shelf, is put down the pasty la moved slightly so that the rolled top is a little more to the far side instead of right on the topi * Brush

Peas a la Francaise 4-14 3 tablespoons butter or margar ine,, 1 alice, bacon (diced), 2 cup shelled peas, 8 mall onions, cup cream, 1 egg yolk, Balt, pep per. Cook butter with bacon for holes

Remove bacon and add put and onions. Cover with ball.

And cook until the ́ve-

a border of steamed rice. Thicken liquid in casserole with dour stirr ed to a smooth paste with a little cold water and pour over meat,

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