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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934.

& APAZIO

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Potato Fried Cakes Simple

SPLIT PEAS.

HINT FOR COOKING Croquets Best Pinch of Soda Removes Made Of Left-

The Gas.

Wash split peas thoroughly, put

Over Meat

or

in cold water and let it come to

Croquettes offer one of the best boil slowly. When boiling put in a pinch of soda which removes the ways to make over cold meats

Here is basic recipe that peas. Boil fish. slowly three-quarters of an hour, can be applied to either meat or strain, then add thyme, salt, pepper fish. and butter.

Potato fried cakes keep moist gas and softens the for some time after making and are very easy to make.

One cup hot mashed potatoes, 4 tablespoons butter, 3 egge, 1 1-3 cupa sugar, I

Before serving add a little cream cup milk, 4 cups and serve with crisp buttered toast flour, 6 teaspoons baking powder, cut in dlce shapes.

1 teaspoon grated nutmeg.

Add butter to hot mashed pota- DELECTABLE

well.

toes and beat

Beat eggs with sugar and stir into first mix- salt, ture. Mix and Rift Bour. baking powder and nutmeg and add milk Lo first alternately with

an hour or longer. Dust molding

APPETISERS.

Recipes With Cheese.

Croquettes.

2 Cups finely minced cooked

meat or fish.

cup white sauce.

1 teaspoon paprika.

1 egg.

1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

1 tablespoon grated onion (op:

tional).

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN Turkey Cakes Stewed Pork Chops Creamed Curly Kale Baked Mash Potatoes

Transparent Pudding Lemon Custard Sauce

DINNER

Mutton Hot Pot Small Lobster Tartlets Venison. Cutlets with Chestnut

Puree

Cold Ham Bamboo Shoot Salad Spiced Cranberry Jelly Whipped Cream Turkey Cakes

1 cup chopped cooked turkey, 1

1 tablespoons finely minced tablespoon Carnation cream, 1 egg,

green pepper.

slightly beaten, 1⁄4 teaspoon salt.

Put the ingredients together in few graine pepper, 1 cup white the order given adding the egg sause 1/3 cup celery, finely cut. |

mixture. Add variila. Cover Cut Swiss cheese into long nar mixing bowl and let dough chill for row slices and fill holes flush with board with four and turn dogmustard and anchovy paste and yolk, unbeaten. The craquettes Add cream, cxg, salt and pepper are then shaped, one rounding to turkey. Shape in small flat butter and serve on bread strips.

Cream cheese made into balls tablespoon of the mixture being cakes, dip in egg and crumbs and and rolled in narrow strips of dried allowed for each one, then rolled fry in butter until well browned. Add celery to beef and skewered with toothpicks. In fine dry bread crumbs, then in on both sides.

diluted with sauce and pour over cakes before Olives (stuffed) rolled in bacon, slightly beaten egg, skewered and brailed-serve pip-one fourth cup of milk or water to serving. ing hot.

onto board. Roll with a ftoured rolling pin into a sheet about inch thick. Tut with a floured culter. Fry in deep hot fat and drain on crumpled paper. Το ποι pile one above the other until cool.

GOOD RECIPE FOR RICE MUFFINS

An Easily Prepared Dish.

BAKED POTATOES NEED OIL.

More Delectable When Greased.

a ples-able w

each.

Transparent Pudding

6 yolks of egg, 4 oz. sugar, 4 02. butler, and apricot jam. Cream

FLAVOUR VARIETY the sugar and butter together, add

IN CORN SOUP.

Add Popped Corn Kernels.

one by one the yolks of eggs, beat jup for about 15 mintes. Butter 15 or 6 small timbales. Divide half the above mixture equally into the moulde, then place about a dessert- spoonful of apricot jam in the Baked potatoes are more delect-

To give variety in flavour and middle of each mould, fill up with rubbed with a vegetable appearance to cream of corn soup, the remainder of mixture, and Rice muffins constitute

il nr

I before baking. A small

after it has been placed in the steam them for 20 to 25 minutes. Hant variety in quick breads.

either lard of oil in the soup dishes, sprinkle several ker-Take up, allow the moulds to stand; Sift two and a half cups flour,amous

he palm is sufficient tonels of popped corn on top of each for a few minutes, then turn out add two and a half teaspoons com-venter o

service. bination type baking powder, three prepare a dozen small potatoes.

half Potatoes baked in this way are tablespoons sugar and one

Sprinkle with paprika, add teaspoon salt. Sift again. Beat up easily peeled for frying purposes. dash of whipped cream and

have a festive dish. one egg and add one-half cup of milk. Stir into dry ingredients.

Then add three tablespoons melt-

ed shortening. Stir well. Into an additional half cup of milk stir

Figs Instead Of Grapefruit.

into a hot dish, pour round some a custard sauce, and serve.

You

Mutton Hot Pot

About 11⁄2 lb.. lean breast, neck jor shoulder of mutton, 14 ib. pota- Loca, 2 onions, 2 to 4 pint of

BEETS MAKE DECORATIVE DISH stock, salt and pepper to season. Bone the selected piece of mutton, one-half cup cold boiled rice. Add Fresh figs are plentiful, and to Brat mixture, blending well. may take the place of grapefruit;

Large beets, thoroughly cooked and cut into short neat pieces. Bake in greased muffin tin 20 min-cut each partially in quarters, open and chilled, can be second out and Put the slop to cook for stock. out petal-wise, and sprinkle centre alled with celery and covered with Wash and peel thinkly the potatoes

ulen in 375 degree oven.

with

Whole Meal Rock

Cakes.

sugar.

These will also be

appreciated

leman jufce

and Castor (mayonnaise to make a delicious and cut each into 3 or 4 pieces.

Bujad. Placed on lettuce they make a decorative dish as well.

Peel and slice the onions.

Put a layer of meat, onion, potatoes and seasoning into a hot pot or ple dish, continue until the dish is

BEETS SERVED HOT

Frer hly balled beetroots may be

in small! on your tea table. You require 3 skinned while hot, cut eggs, ib. each wholemeal and cubes, tossed in hot butter, sprin- sugar, 6 or 8 oz. of desiccated co-kled with chopped parsley, and ser-

ved as a hot vegetable.

conul.

Whisk the eggs till frothy, stir in the sugar, then the meal, then add as much coconut as will make

FOR BETTER TEA

When

I

by 4

PICKLED FRUITS ARE TASTY Full, leaving potatoes for the last

WITH MEAT

.layer. Pour over the stock, cover with a greased paper, and bake in Pickled fruits are characterised! ļa moderate oven for about 2 hours. pleasing blend of fruit Serve hot in the dish. More stock flavours, spice and vinegar. They or gravy

be added make a delicious accompaniment cooking I found necesary. Small Lobster Tartlets Line a number of buttered fut- ed tartletto moulds (smallest size)

for meat courses.

the

Baked Baranas

making tea, "lift" leaves by stirring brisky as soon

a stiff paste. Drop this in rocky lumps or heaps on to a floured tin and bake 20 minutes in a brisk as the boiling water is poured on

oven.

the leaves.

Cooler Days Demand

may

whilst

Peel and split four bananas and with thinly rolled-out puff paste. Prepare a salad of the meat of put them in a battered baking pan. lobster claws and rich sauce, and Sprinkle with three,tablespoons of į

crusta. Cover

brown sugar and add half cup of fill the tarlette water Bake in a moderate oven with a thin layer of finely chopped aspic, and garnish to taste with small radishes, and pimiento but-

for about 25 minutes.

More Solid Dishes To Flavour Apple

Substantial Foods Are A Necessity.

Heat milk and add cooked rice,

Sauce.

To give tasteless apple sauce 1

ter.

Venison Cullets with Chestnut Puree

+

6 version cutlets, 11⁄2 oz. butter, breadcrumbs, savoury egg,

2 tablespoons butter and salt and good flavour, add 1⁄2 teaspoon of chestnut purce, demi glace sauce Flatten and trim pepper. Beat well and add the cream of tartar to the cinnamon and seasoning.

them with well beaten yolks of eggs, Fold and sugar used. ·

the cutlets, season Cool mornings demand heartier In whites of eggs beaten until stiff

pepper and salt, bent up the agg, breakfast than those which have and dry.. Mremaining batter CHILL CABBAGE FOR SALAD dip each cutlet in egg, and cover been served during the hot sum in a hot iron spider or omelet pan.

in a saute pan, when hot put in mer months. School children in Turn pan until thoroughly coated Cabbage uned for salad should the cutlet brown nicely on both particular must have a nourishing with butter and make sizzling hot-be washed, stripped and put in the sides, then take them up, drain, Pour in omelet mixture and let refrigerator until ready to serve. and dish up in a circle on a small

meal to start the day.

A substantial dish which com- cook on top of stove for two min- bines both cereal and eggs for utes to brown the bottom. Then breakfast is a rice omelet, This cook in a hot oven until well puff-

is splendid for school children, ed and firm to the touch. since it's hearty and of high food and turn

value. Served with. a

Fold out on a hot platter. tomato Serve with tomato sauce or fresh

sauce, the whole furnishes all the tomatoes cut in slices, dipped in elements necessary for proper melted butter and broiled. nutrition.

MASON'S

OK

SAUCE

bed of mashed potatoes, Fill the centre with chestnut pureè, pour a little demiglare or other thin brown sauce round the base of the dish and serve.

Spiced Cranberry Jelly

1 quart cranberries, 1 спр boiling water, 2 cups sugar, 1/3 cup cold water 2 inch piece stick cinnamon, 24 whole cloves, a pinch of allspice, a few grains salt, Pick over and wash berries. Add boll, ing water and spices and boil until cranberries are soft. Rub through Ja aleve and add remaining ingre

dients.

Bring to boiling point and simmer 15 minutes. Turn into a mould and chill.

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CHEESE

for

EVERY TASTE.

Always keep a few varieties for emergencies.

Danish Cammembert, in 8 oz. boxes

80 cts. per box

70, per carton

Emmenthaler Cheese, in 8 oz. cartons Kraft Cheddar, în 1 oz, portions, 8 to Carton Kraft Gruyere, in 1 oz. portions, 8 to carton Kraft Grated Cheese, in 6 oz. shakers (glass)

per carton

75

» per carton.

.65

per shaker.

Veal Breast Makes

Kraft Cheddar, by weight

85

Delicious Stew.

Gouda Cheese by weight

$1.00 per lb.

The

**you will like to serve a rice is an

breast or shoulder of venl inexpensive cut but one

Gorgonzola

1.40 per lb.

It

IS THE HEART

OF A HEARTY

MEAL

Crisp toast should be included in' the breakfast menu for the sake of the teeth if for no other reason, Dentists tell us that the teeth need as the exercise quite as much muscles of the body.

"amalet, because it's easy to prepare which a very nutritious, "and is very attractive. The rice makes delicious-staws, meat Jorves

should be cooked the night before. or fricasseed dishes.

morning for the cooking of break-

No extra time, in required in the

fast in as much as the rice omelet

cooks as quickly as any omelet and

Removing Smears

From Lacquer.

To

two dishes are combined in one. " Itier Omelet

One up cooked rice, 1 cup milk, quer

teaspoon salt, 1⁄2 teaspoon pep

per, & tablespoons butter va ego,

remove smears from

tray sprinkle with a litt

and rub

k'high' polish

Indu

1.00 per lb.

R. LOXLEY & CO..

White Cheddar, Farm made

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