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THE CHINA MAIL

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

High Seasoning Required For Custards, Creams Sweet Potato May Be Served For

Winter Sauces Spices Mellow Blend Of Catsup And Chili Sauce.

Sauces wanted for winter

spoon salt, 1 tablespoon ground cin

namon, 1 teaspoon all-spice, 1 tea spoon cloves, 1 teaspoon white pep- per, 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper,

slip skins. Scald tomatoes and Cut in slices. Remove seeds and pith from pepper and mince flesh. Peel and mince onions. Put all in- segredients into preserving kettle and should be highly seasoned. Spices cook slowly until thick, about twe and seasonings mellow and blend hours. Pour into hot sterilized jars with standing, and since the mis-

and seal. Bion of the sauce is to whet the ap petite, the sauce should be pleasant ly piquant when opened for use.

Catsup and chill sauce are more or less acasoned "to taste." The There are recipes for "cold" chili seasonings suggested in the recipes sauce, but those cruces dont keep makes zestful but not "hot" sauces, well and cannot be

to add so you may want

moro cayenne pepper. Be sure to let the "taste" cool thoroughly before tast- ing and remember that the flavours become less pronounced stand.

Tomoto Cat-up

Eight quarta ripe tomatoes, pound dry onions, 3 tablespoons salt. 2 teaspoons white pepper. 1 teaspoon enyenne pepper, 2 cups

And Desserts

Simple Recipes Given

Below.

These crispy croutons Answer as a substitute for hard crackers and are also relished by most people.

Cut sandwich brend into slices one quarter of an inch thick cat each slice into four small triangles; The spices in chali BRUCE are dry them in the oven slowly until ground and the tomatoes are not they assume a delicate brownish strainul. Otherwise, chili sauce and tint, then serve either hot or cold catsup are practically the same.

for general use.

recommended

Old Fashioned Recipe For Dutch Apple Cake

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2 cups Hour

1

teaspoon salt

1 teaspoons salt

+4

cup sugar

1

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3 tablespoons oil

light brown sugar, 3 cups vinegar.

teaspoons baking powder

teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons broken stick cinna mon: tablespoon whole cloves, ] tablespoon celery seed, 1 tablespoon 2 3 cup milk peppercorns, 1 tablespoon all-apicn berries,

Remove stem and cut tomatoes in

3 ar 4 apples

Dessert

Combined With Coconut

Vegetable Makes Tasty Pudding.

fat, since their palatability depends much on a generous seasoning of butter.

Hight Vitamin Content Vitamin A, so essential for growth and the building of new tissues, is present in sweet potatoes in con- siderable quantity. One table rates The fact that sweet potatoes live the vitamin A "unit" in one ounce up to their name and contain of Irish potato at 8 and in the sama farge amount of sugar make them amount of sweet potato

at

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splendid energy-producing food. Vitamin B and C are found in small Compared with Irish potatoes, the amounts. food value is higher in fat and When 'sweet potatoes have been carbohydrates but lower in protein used in place of white potatoes, a One-half a baked sweet potato prodessert that is

not very aweat A nice way to serve them is

vides 100 calories, while one whole, should be chosen. Fresh fruit, fruit. |spread a paste of part butter and medium sized Irish potato is re-whip, gelatine puddings and ices

part rich creamy cheese, to which quired to furnish the hundred-make auitable endings for meals. may be added a rery little minced

calorie portion. Both sweet and Keep in mind the perishability of parsley.

Irish potatoes are good carriers of sweet potatoes when you buy them.

to

ZIPPY SANDWICHES

1 cup Old English cheese.

141⁄2 cup pickle relish.

They are very susceptible to tem. perature and dampness and spo quickly. Calculate your needs and purchase accordingly in order to nvold waste.

fre

Cornstarch Blane Mange Take one quart of sweet milk and put one pint upon the stove to beat!! in the other pint mix four table- spoonful of cornstarch and half a eupful of sugar; when the milk is hot, pour in the cold milk with the rornstarch and Bugar thoroughly Mix cheese and relish to a spread- After baking they are cut in halves mixed in it, and stir altogethering consistency and spread between lengthwise and the pulp is scooped until there are no lumps and it is buttered slices of white bread. Re-out and mashed. Sesson well with thick; flavour with lemon; Lake from move crusts and cut each sandwich salt, pepper, lots of butter and the stove and add the whites ef into three strips--make thirty-six cream to make moist and beat un- three eggs beaten to a stiff froth. │sandwiches.

taste.

Salmon Salad

i loaf white bread.

Twice baked sweet potatoes delicious and simple to make.

til light and fluffy. Chopped nuts can be added if liked. Plle mixture

Vegetables Neglected At lightly into the shells and

Breakfast-Time.

A Custard For The Above One pint of milk boiled with a 4 tablespoons melted butter Sift the flour, measure, add salt.ttle salt in it, beat the yolks of three eggs with half a cupful of quarters. Peel and slice onions. baking powder and half up and

sugar and add to the boiling milk, Cook until soft and rub through alairt twice. Beat the egg, add the

Vegetables too seldom are stir well, but do not let it bofl untill

used Bieve. Return to kettle with spices oil and milk, then combine the dry the eggs are put into flavour to for breakfast. Creamed on toast tled in a cheesecloth bag and bafljänd liquid mixtures. Drop and

with a garnish of crisp bacon, In until reduced one-third. Add suger.spread the batter in shallow piled

hush, omelets and souces, they offer salt, white and cayenne pepper and pans which batter will be about

jan infinite diversity of foods. vinegar. Boil until thick, stirring (half an inch deep. with a long handled spoon to pre- Have apples pared, cored, and cut vent sticking. Pour inta hotinta rather thick slices lengthwise.

Remove bones and skin and mluce sterilized jars and seal.

Press these slices, edge down, into

delicious filling con salmon. Mix with the latter, placing them close to one

Sprinkle them with half equal amugyt Anely chopped celery afternoon tea sandwich

onion. maple Bugar and finely chopped and one tablespoon minced cup sugar mixed with the cinnamon,

blanched almonds mixed with cream and over this distribute the melted Blend with mayonnaise and

to a consistency to spread. Bake in a hot oven (375 on lettuce. degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, until apples in the centre of the enke are *stay

Chilli Sauce

Eighteen ripe tomatoen, 5 medium | gether sized onions, 4 green peppers, 1 cup sugar. 2 cups vinegar. 1 table

Spiced Bananas.

cup vinegar

2/3 cup sugar

24 whole cloves

1 small stick cinnamon

3 bananaa

Deviled Cheese And Ham Sandwiches.

Berve

Washing Spinach Is Not

Difficult Job.

Washing spinach la not a job at all if the greens are first held un- der the hot water tap. Dirt and mud are quickly washed away, then the spinach roots may be cut off and

water the tops put in cold

Mix two cups of grated American Boil cloves, vinegar, Bugar and cheese, one-half cup ground ham, cinnamon until sugar is dissolved four teaspoons prepared mustard, and the bubbles begin to look thick and one Leaspoon Worcestershire several other washings. Peel bananas, drop into syrup and sautre. Butter rye bread and form boll hard for two minutes. Remove Into andwiches having a filling one-

fire and cool. from

At If desired quarter inch thick.

Berving

FOR WHITE SAUCE

for

bananas may be cut in amall pieces time foast to a golden brown. Cut White sauce will not be lumpy if

before bailing.

attractively and serve.

OK

SAUCE makes a happy appetite

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poured on butter.

SWEET SANDWICHES

A very

for an

brush butter, over the top with melted Return to oven to brown tops and make very hot.

Sweets, French Fried. French fried sweet potatoes are good, too. They are prepared and cooked just like white onca.

You can use sweet potatoes for desserts. Boil them with the skins | on, then peel and mush.

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with butter and a little salt and beat in milk to make moist, adding 1 is grated tablespoon brown sugar and 1⁄4 tea

cup of spoon clunamon to each

Turn into individual potato pulp. molds and bake 25 minutes. Top with marshmallows about Ave minutes before removing from oyen and serve warm with or without cream. This is a good dessert for small children.

For Doughnuts.

There is a theory that if vinegar is added to the fat in which duugh nuts are fried the fatty flavour will be greatly overcome. Add the vine- as soon as the fat is put over fire, using 1 tablespoon vinegar in a kettle of fat.

the

BREAKFAST DRINKS

Chocolate and cocou may often be used interchangeably, but cocon is less rich in fat and easier to digest. This makes it a better beverage for | small children.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN

Halibut on Tossi Brighton Stew

Egg and Tomato Fritters

Pumpkin Pie

DINNER

Curry Kale Soup Fish Pie a Gratin

Aspic Of Asparagos and Mushrooms Celery Salad

Fruit Balad Bavarian Cream

Halibut on Toast.

Put into boiling salted water,

Egg and Tomato Fritters.

hard boiled eggs, 6 teaspoons breadcrumbs, 6 teaspoons minced paraley, 6 teaspoana minced toma to, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, teaspoon pepper, 1 egg. Mince the egga, parsley and tomato and mix aito- gether with the pepper and salt, breadcrumbs and half a beat egg: form into little cutlets, roll in the other half of the egg and bread- crumbs, and fry in boiling oll.

Curly Kale Soup,

4 heads of enfly kale, 1 potato, 1 onion, 11⁄2 pints, water, 1⁄2 pint milk, pound of fresh halibut, cook slow-14 oz. butter, 1 lump of sugar, 1. ly for 16 minutes er until done; re- teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons ago. move from the water and chop it Dissolve the butter in a saucepan move from the water and chop it then add the kale, previously thor Ane, then add half a cup of melted oughly washed and chopped up 8 eggs well beaten. finely, Place on stove and stir often. Season with salt and pepper. Place Peel and slice the potato and onion, jover the stove a good thick frying and place them, together with the pan containing tablespoon of salt, water and sugar, with the kale, Boll one hour, strain, return

butter and

so as to grease the aldes, then put

butter, When melted tip the pan to saucepan, add milk and sago, re- In the fish and #grs and stir one place over the stove an stir for 10 again into...a way until the eggs are cooked, but minutes. Strain not too hard. Turn on toast pre- tureen, and serve with sippata of

|tried bread. viously well buttered. Serva 10

Fish Pie au Gratin

Brighton Blew.

4 lb. cooked potatoes, 4 lb.. .4 lb. cooked haricot beans, 1⁄2 cooked fish' (without skin and bone) pint fresh green peas, 1 small cau- 134 giliz cheese sauté. Seasoning, --- liflower, 6 small osion, i pint barf~ 1. hard-boiled egg, butter or mari

cot beans stock, I ox, butter, 1⁄2 oz. garine, milk, grated cheese, Be flour, one juice of a lemon, salt move the skin and bones from the and pepper to taste. Dissolva the fish, flake up the flesh and season butter in a saucepan,, 'poel and it. Mash the potatoes, add a lump halve the onions and fry them for of butter or margarine, molsten about 10 minutes, but do not allow them wit milk and add pesaoning brown; stir in the dour, add the Make the choose sauce by making a pean and sfocɛ, and simmer until thick white sauces, and stirring, In the vegetabson are tender, stirring one and: half ounces of finely frequently, then add the beans, grated cheese, Bilr, until - the Femon juice and seasoningu." Ball cheese la málted, `x lay the cauliflower, separately, break bona in a battered ple gđình. Mix up the white part into neat place, the sauce with the fish and add to add them to the stew,” and dim¬ theysla dlake Cover with potaton. msar altogether for a few minutes, apriy mpre cheele and hast in Pour into an untriedisk and serva joven, and, brown, y Barve garnlähed rary hot:

with alloed hard boiled eggs

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