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CAKE MAKING

THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1994,

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

RENDERED EASY

Menus, Recipes Suggested For Three Tasty

New Mixes That Make Entertaining

All Difference.

WALNUT BRAN BREAD

MERINGUE MAKING

Sunday Dinners When making a meringus have

the egg whites very cold and beat them until stiff enough to stand

the other end of the apple. Pleres with a fork in several places, and arrange apples in a shallow, bak- In most families Sunday dinner alone.

An Intimate Supper Hasing dish. Fill cavity of each with is the big social event of the week, Sandwiches, Salad. And pure mincemeat and pour over Here are three:- them a syrup made by boiling to Low-cost Dinner -

With the appearance of Devil's Baked Apples For Menu. gether for six minutes, 1 cup-to-

gar 11⁄2 cups water. Sprinkle ap- Food, Molasses Cookle, Bránd

Our recipe files are just cram-ples with sugar and bake in a mo- Murfin, Fruit Cake, and Ginger-

med with bread mixes in the local grocery for entertaining.

wonderful suggestions derately hot oven. (about 400 do- gree F.) until tender, basting stores.it is now easy to have these

often with the syrup. favourite cakes and muffins at

with Potato and Olive Salad-Peol home with almost no effort at all

are a and dice one quart cold, cooked and at a great saving of time.

potutoës. Add 2 tablespoons grat- Here are two recipes which monstrate the case of cake-making Cream of Mushroom Soup (ready ed onion, cup stuffed Spanish to serve) Crackers

olives, sliced, and mayonnaise to with these mixco.

Afternoon Tea Daintles

de.

1⁄2 can (14 cups) ginger bread

mix

1⁄2 cup warm water Turn ginger bread mix into mix- Add water gradually ing bowl. beating to a smooth, batter. But- ter tiny cup cake or Marguerite pana and put a small amount of batter into each. Bake in a mo derate oven (375 degrees F.) When about 12 to 16 minutes. cool dip in boiled frosting and roll in chopped nuts or chopped shred- ded coconut. Black walnuta arel especially delicious for this pur-1 pose. Lay on heavy waxed pap- per until frosting becomes firm,

Boiled Frosting.

2 cups sugar.

1⁄4 cup light corn syrup.

1/3 cup water.

2 egg whites.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

During the week you undoubt edly will want to entertain intimate suppers-so here few suggestions:

Fried Oyster and Bacon Sand-moisten (Add celery, if desired).

wiches Genuine Dill Tickler

Prepared Mustard Celery stuffed with Cream Cheese and Sandwich Relish

Baked Apples stuffed with Mince

ment

Coffee or Hot Chocolate

Chilled Tomato Juice Cold Sliced Virginia Ham Potato and Olive Salad Sweet Mustard Pickle Apple Butter or Grape Jelly Crusty Rolle Butter

Fruit Cake Coffee

Fried Oyster and Bacon Sand- wiches-Dip 1 pint large oysters in 2.beaten eggs, seasoned with 1⁄2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce.

2

Lamb fricassee with dumplings.

Braised stuffed cabbage,

Saute potatoes. --Brown bread and butter. Apple. Charlotte with custard.

Tea or coffee. Medium-cost-Dinner Chicken pot pie. Bake potatoes.

New spinach, creamed.

French vegetables. Brown broad and butter.

Chocolate cream.

Coffee.

Serve very cold in nests of lettuce,, garnishing each salad attractively Very Special Dinner with slices of hard cooked egg.

DON'T OVERHEAT PIE

When a custard ple shrinks from the crust it had been baked in too hot an oven-

Roast lamb with, mint sauce. New potatoes. New green peas. Asparagus with butter sauce.

Rolls and butter. Orange Spanish cream. Coffes.

For the braised stuffed cabbage cut a head of cabbage in half, par-¦ boil it

The oven should be hot for the first 8 or 10 minutes in order to Spread the large leaves on the bake the pastry so it will not be-table, cover them with a few smal- [come soaked with liquid. The re-ller ones. Season. In & sauce- duce heat or custard will boll. jpan simmer onions with a little butter, add ib, sausage mest, a |dash of mixed herba.“

Original Titbit !

Mix well, put a ball of this mix- A fastidious hostess startled her ture on the cabbage leaves, wrap the leaves firmly around it. Broil guest not long ago by serving for about forty-five minutes or un- Then dip into cracker crumbs or [slender, long slices of raw carrottil tender, rice flake crumbs and fry in skil with beverages. let in which 1⁄2 pound bacon, slie-

She arranged these slices on

This dish will be even nicer it a hot tomato puree is served with

led, then removed. Fry oysters Blender silver server and it was it as a sauce.

Cook sugar, ayrap, and water until crisp and

golden brown, a pretty as well

together, stirring until sugar is Place oysters and slices of hot ba different dish.

díasolved. Boll without stirring

con between slices of buttered

Serve with

to 242 degrees F., or until syrup whole wheat bread. forms a soft ball when tested in

water. Pour syrup alowly prepared mustard or chili sauce.

cold

over stiffly beaten egg whites,

as an entirely

IRONING BOARD HINT

Baked Appice Stuffed with Do you have trouble in making Mince-meat-Core 6 large red ap-the covering of your ironing board

To Remove Cocoa Stains.

Cocoa stains may be quickly and

beating constantly. Continue beat pies, being sure to remove all the smooth? This can be eliminated easily removed with boiling water

ing

share.

until · · mixture holds its

Add vanilla. Walnut Bran Bread

1 can bran muffin mix.

cup warm water.

1 cup finely chopped walnuts.

Turn conents of can into mixing

bowl. Chop nuts fine and add to】

core, but do not cut through to by fastening the cover on when it and borax. Spread the borax on is wet or very damp. The cover the strain, then place the linen will dry slowly and be as smooth over a bowl and pour hot water as when you put it on.

lepto the stain.

Removing Oil From Linen.

To remove machine all from linen, rub it with a little lard, let

dry ingredienta. Add water graduit stand until the stain disappears, ally, stirring, until thoroughly then wash it in warm and soap,

blended. Grease a small bread

WASH RUBBER ICE TRAYS

occasional

pan and line the bottom with waxed paper. Turn- bran mixtura into this and let stand 10 minutes. Bake in moderate over (326 de-} Don't neglect the

F.) about 50 grees

minutes. washing of the rubber ice trays in Allow to cool before cutting. This the mechanical refrigerator. Use brend is slightly crumbly and hct water and soapsuds and rinse should be cat with a sharp kaffe. with plenty of boiling water.

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Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

TIFFIN

Cod Fish Kromeskies Spinach on Toast Nut Roast Brown Sauce

Baked Tomatoes

Apple and Sago Shape Custard Sauce DINNER Asparagus Soup North Country Fish Pie Spanish Cauliflower Lentil and Onion Salad Mayonnaise Sauce

Chestnut Flan

and season the soup to taste. Cook it for 2 or 3 minutes, then stir in soup.. Allow 1⁄4 pint of soup for the chopped parsley and serve the each person.

2

Spanish Cauliflower

tablespoons butter or mar- garine, 1 small onion, few spriga parsley, 1 teaspoon celery salt, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup water 1⁄4 cup catsup, 1 medium head cauliflower. Heat butter, cook the onion chopped, and equal amount of chopped parsley until brown. Add celery salt and flour, and mix to a smooth paste, Add 1% h. spinach, 4 cup cream or

the water gradually and stir until milic 1 small onion, pinch of Bugar, salt, 1 teaspoon butter, the mixture. boils. Strain and add 1 tablespoon flour. Cook the catsup. Pour over the head of spinach until tender, Drain and cauliflower which should be pre- chop fine. Put back into the pan viously cooked. Serves 6 persons. and add 1⁄2 cup of cream or milk

North County Fish Ple

egg.

Spinach on Toast

and-bring to boiling point Add 2 to 3 lb. of halibut, I oz. of finely chopped onion, sugar, salt butter, oz. of flour; 1⁄4 teaspoon to taste, and butter.. Then to the jof salt, pepper, 1 teaspoonful of well beaten egg add the remaining chopped parsley. For the force- cupful of cream or milk and the meat, lb. fresh breadcrumbs, 8 flour. Stir to a smooth parto and eggs, 3 oz. butter, 1 teaspoonful of add to the spinach. Let it all boll chopped thyme and marjoram, 1 together about 3 minutes, stirring tablespoon chopped parsley, constantly. Serve on toast.. onion (chopped), salt and pepper,

Nut Roast

flaky pastry. Wash, dry and cut

1 pound of nuts, scalded, dried, the fish into next pieces. Mix the and grated, mixed kinds. 1⁄2 pound flour with salt, pepper and parsley, of breadcrumba, 3 eggs, 1 pint or and roll the fish in it. Place the more of good vegetable stock fish in a pío-dish with half a gill Pepper and salt. Juice of of fish stock (or water) 'and' put lemon. Mix ingredients together dabs of butter on top. Cover the with sufficient. stock to make it fish with a layer of forcemeat. damp, but quite firm. Well butter Smooth the 'forcement over, then a fire proof mould, sprinkle with roll out the pastry and cut off a breadcrumbs, put in the mixture, strip. Wet the edge of the pla covex with wax paper, and, steam dish and press the strip of parsley for 1 hour, Bake in a hot oven, on it. Brush it with water and lay. and serve with baked tomatoes and the pastry on top, pressing the brown gravy..........

edges a little.Notch it round and cut a atar in the centre. Bake for 1. tim of asparagus, 1 oz. butter, 1 hour. Serve with bolled pota-

Asparagus Soup

1 oz of flour, 1 dessertspoon of toes.

onion juice, 1⁄4 pint of milk. %

Chestrit Flan

pint of white vegetable and barley 11⁄2 lb. sweet pastry,, 2 oz. sugar, stock, seasoning, 1 level dessert-1⁄2 lb. boiled chestnuts, 1 gill milk. spoonful of chopped parsley. Turn Line a fan cane with the pastry, the asparagus out of the tin and half fill with uncooked rice, and cut off the extreme tips. Rub the bake in a hot oven for 12 minutes. remainder of the stalks through a Empty out the rice and cool. Put sieve. - Melt the butter in a sauce the chestnuts through a sieve, and pri,, add the four, and when it is reheat with the milk and "sugay well blended, stir in the stock andjadding a little 'more milk' if neces the asparagus liquor, Add also sary until it la well mixed. · Spread the alevad asparagus and, the tals mixture ovar the pastry, decoT onion Juice. Bring, the acup toate with half, a pint of whipped |

milk and the asparagus tips, cream and serva at phra

Oven

If baked in too hot [meringue will be tough and shrink

when set away to cool.

Have the soot removed from your kitchen range if you wish to obtain the best results in baking.

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