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THE

CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934,

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Here's Diet For Putting On KILLARNEY Breakfast Are Suggested For

Weight

Extra Bread, Butter And Cream Assure Poundage

STIMULATE THE APPETITE

FRESH MUSHROOMS

ARE SERVED

CAKES

1⁄2 cup milk.

2 tablespoons butter.

WITH MEATS 4 egg whites.

This is a new way to prepare fresh mushrooms. They may be served as a side dish with the meat those course or alone as a main course

for luncheon.

Seems funny. after all years when we dieted and banted and struggled to take off curves that we should now be seeking just as frenziedly for ways to put them on! Yet that's the crazy, inexplic- able thing that has happened. what with waistlines tightening in | and short sleeves crying out for dimpled elbows to exploit.

Dimples and curves, however, are not always a question of food only. A woman or a man may be thin because

obscrure uf physical disorder. mental conflict

El

or overwork. In that case, the pro-

Mushrooms Au Gratin

1 sliced onion.

+

pound mushrooms.

2

tablespoons flour.

1

cup mushroom

stock (made

from stems.

2 tablespoons cooking oil.

1⁄2 cup bread crumbs. 1-16 teaspoon pepper.

1⁄4 teaspoon paprika,

1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

Itablespoon butter.

Juice of 1 lemon.

teaspoon cream of tartar,

1⁄4 teaspoon salt.

1

cup cake flour."

1

teaspoon baking powder.

1

cup sugar.

1 teaspoon vanila.

·Child,

Adult

Sedentary Workers Ought To Eat Lightly, And Growing Boys More

Thinking up variations year in

all by

makers

SAVORY PORK & VEAL CAKES

1 pound veal. 1 pound pork.

1 teaspoon alt.

Pepper.

Bacon.

3 tablespoons four.

2 cups cold water.

Heat milk with butter slowly to and year out for three square scalding point. Beat egg whites meals a day-it's a career

Wipe the meat, grind it fine, and until frothy, add cream of tartar itself even if the census

mix in the onion, salt, and pepper. and continue beating until whites

Form into medium-sized cakes hold a point. Sift flour once be- and other statisticians do persist drap around the edge of each a fore measuring. Sift flour, baking in putting the, housewife down as slice of bacon, and fasten with a powder and salt together. Beat one with no occupation. hot milk and butter in with sugar. Add flour mixture to milk and su-

gar

and

into

cake is cold, cut

toothpick. Sear the cakes, on both

dif-sides in hot fat antil golden brown

oven,

Breakfasts are particularly

place in a casserole, cover, and beat well. Fold egg ficult, if we are to judge by

the bake in a moderate oven (350 de-i whites into this mixture and fold letters that come to this desk voic-gree F.) for 40 minutes. [in

A flavoring. Pour

well-ing plaintive calls for help.

Remove the cakes and keep xreased and floured 9-inch square good many families slight the frst warm. From the drippings skim Peel mushrooms, sprinkle with pan and bake in a moderate oven, meal of the day because they don't of the surface fat, add the flour, blem becomes more complicated. salt to extract water. Fry onion 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes. feel up to eating so early in the mix thoroughly, add the water, re-

into morning. That is a mistake. Wor-turn the casserole to the but even so, tempting food willin oil. Add four and brown. Add When help.

stock and seasoning and cook squares, oblongs and diamonds.kers and children alike need the and cook the gravy until thicken- Appetite Stimulators mushrooms, add to sauce. Put into Brush cut sides of each little cake background of hot tempting food ed. Replace the mest cakes in the

white slightly beaten. In the morning. Perhaps one ren The thin person who never feels sauce until it is thickened. Drain with egg hungry should frst of all go on a £ baking

with Set cakes aside to become dry be-son they do not want it is that dish, sprinkle diet that will stimulate him to eat.crumbs, bake until crumbs are fore frosting. Then ice part of the the breakfast is not always tempt- Undoubtedly this lack of appetite slightly browned.

cakes with bitter sweet Icing andling. Yet even the very light one small indicates

stomach.

part of them with white icing. Onjean be made so if the home-make. the white cakes place little green cares enough. capacity, but that can be increased simply by eating more as every over-eater can sorrowfully testify.

Fruits, sucralent vegetables. yeast breads and meat broths are all appetite stimulators. Which make for perfect elimination, so essential to good health.

Plenty of these must be taken: before adding the so-called "fat- tening" foods. An excessive use)

foods alone

of weight-gaining

would do more harm than good. Let this typical menu for a day be your guide:

Breakfast: Fruit, cereal with their equivalent

cream, eggs

Loust, coffee.

01

Luncheon:

Cream

Soup,

croutons,

Cream Of

Celery Soup

2 cups evaporated milk dilated

with 2 cups water,

1 cup meat stock,

1 egz.

1 lice onion.

St. Patrick's Day candies, sham-

rocks, tall hats, harps. pipes, etc.

Bitter Sweet leing

2 squares late.

Kinds Of Breakfasts

The very light breakfast

casserole and serve.

Baking Soda Makes Meat Tender

A pinch of baking soda added to the water in which you are boiling

cludes fruit, some sort of bread-bought in an economical frame of unsweetened choco-such as toast or rolls, and a bever-meats, particularly meats you have juge-milk, cocon or coffee. This mind and which are good but not type of meal is suitable for adults 80 tender as 'the choicer cuts, will whose habits are sedentary and add to their tenderness. who eat adequate noon meals. Melt chocolate and butter over The slightly heavier, though stili

2 tablespoons butter.

2 tablespoons milk.

1 cup confectioners' sugar.

CHEESE STRAWS

3 cups celery cut in small pieces hot water. Add confectioners' su-light breakfast adds cereal to the This meal is convenient gar and stir in well. Add milk if above.

Roll a little grated cheese intol necessary to make icing glossy and because it provides the essentials some pastry dough (pie dough is! atir until smooth. Remove from jof the children's breakfast and iden]). Cut into thin strips with heat spread on cake.

Itakes care of adults who are a sharp knife or pastry wheel and

moderately active physically. bake in a very hot oven.

I leaspoon salt.

7

blespoon butter.

1 teaspoon pepper.

1 tablespoon flour.

Cook celery in two cups of water vegetable until soft. Rub through a sieve. fresh fruit or Melt the butter in the top part of vegetable salad, bread or rolls a double boiler; add then flour and with butter. a hearty pudding such stir until smooth. Dilute the milk us rice with cream, tea.

with the meat stock and pour slow- Dinner: Consomme, meat, pots-3y on to the butter and four, stir. to, cooked vegetable raw vegetable ring until smooth. Add the celery or anlad, bread and butter, dessert.and water in which I was cooked

Weight Gaining Diel

The and

seasonings. Cook ten After appetite-quickening has minutes longer. Beal the egg been established. reinforcements¦slightly and add to the soup. Stir Cook may be brought in, but with due thoroughly into the soup. precaution against stomach upsets, |two minutes longer. Serve

remember. One of the safest ways mediately.

to add fata is in seasoning veget-

ables, serving

butter, cream

and extra bread

ROLLED OATS' RECIPE.

The medium breakfast consiste of fruit, cereal, eggs or their equi valent, bread and beverage, It is suitable for school children, adults

TASTY SALAD.

Ginger pears

added to gelatin Cookies Are Delicious who are active physically and and served with dressing make a

those who take very little luncheon tasty salad with meats or fowl.

rup shortening.

I

SUP Bugar, granulated brown.

or

1 cup Milk.

11⁄2 cups rolled cats.

1⁄2 cup chopped raisins.

1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts,

11⁄2 cups four.

im-

1⁄2 teaspoon soda.

4 teaspoon salt.

1

Teaspoon cinnamon.

1 teaspoon nutmeg.

with the breakfast SAFETY IN TINNED

cereal, and desserts whien combine

cream with fruit.

Milk and eggs ure always nourishing and if plenty of fresh vegetables are used, may alan bej included lavishly in a gaining diet.

GOODS.

No Danger In Modern Canning

A quart of milk a day for an Home economists are often ask. adult in place of his usual pint, anfed if it is harraful to allow canned extra egg, cheese, salted nuts, foods to remain in openca cans piece of candy after luncheon or Nowadays there is no more danger dinner-these together with larger in leaving foods in eans thun in portions of food thun are usually any other container, if the food in taken ought to effect an appreciable covered and kept in a cool place gain in weight for the average too- The new type lining eliminates thin person.

danger. There is nothing about

Add to it exercise in the fresh the can which will contribute to air, plenty of sleep and water to the spoilage of the food, parti- drink and you will insure good, cularly if the product is that of healthy flesh under a clear com a reputable canner. plexion.

Sweet Potate Pie

11⁄2 cups, boiled, riced sweet potatoes.

2 cups milk.

1⁄4 cup sugar.

1⁄2 teaspoon ginger

1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

1 egk.

2 tablespoons butter.

Pastry.

Onion To Flavour Cabbage Salad

When making sole slaw or cab- bage salad, half a small onion, shredded fine, mixed through the cabbage, gives a delightful flavour.

FISH FOR NOURISHMENT

Fish may not be "brain food,"

As the saying goes. It is rich in

Heat the sweet potatoes, milk, proteins, furnishes phosphorus sugar, ginger, and sult in a double)and iodine and—in the case of the boiler. Pour some of the hot mix-fat kinda--vitamins A and D. ture into the beaten egg, mix all together, and add the butter. (Pour the hot filling into a deep baked pastry shell, and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for about 30 minutes, or until the Alling seta.

VEGETABLE ECONOMY

Cold vegetables, such ́es

anips, carrots, or Jerusalem arti-

chokes, can be cut in slices and

Removing Gas Oven Odour

A pinch of cinnamon shaken on the bottom of a gas oven while lamb or beef is roasting will re-

ove the heavy odour.

EASY SANDWICHES

For ease and economy when mak- ing mert andwiches remove

fried in beated drpping or butter grisle and surplus fat and pass the alices through a mincing machiná.

and olive "cil,

1 teaspoon ginger.

at noon.

The heavy breakfast adds an ex hours, and is ready for a meal tra hot dish to the medium break-which will supply food for energy ast menu, Persons who are eu-since an active child uses up a Igaged in strenuous muscular work vast amount of nervous and mus- land those whose total food recular energy during the day. high quirements for the day are Ineed this kind of meal.

Fruit or fruit juice, hot or cold cereal with cream or top milk, milk for cocoa made with milk, toast and in a soft cooked egg makes a full- ne balanced breakfast for a growing meet child.

For Inactive Persons Keeping these classifications mind. It is simple to plan breakfast menu which will the needs of all members of a

Cream shortening well; add family no matter how diversified

The interests.

inactive Augar gradually and continue to their cream; add egg, well beaten, milk, person may merely refuse the ex- rolled oats, raisins and chopped tra dishes and concentrate on the huts. Mix and sift dry ingredients light or medium items.

and add to first mixture. Drop The child's breakfast should fur- from tip of spoon on a well-greas-nish every necessary element for ed pan, about three inches apart, proper nourishment. His stomach and bake in a moderate oven about has been without food for the long- fifteen minutes.

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