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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Tips Are Given For Buying &

ICING IS BAKED

WITH THE CAKE

FOR VARIATION Recipes Given For

THOUSAND ISLAND

TO DRESSING AND Fish Cocktails May Be Made With This Sauce minced sweet green pepper.

Cooking Chops

Pickle in separate dishes all the afternoon the vegetables left over

Loin Cut Contains Less potatoes,

Waste In Bone, Fat; Flavour Is Excellent.

Shrimps are served the same way. Oyster Cocktall. Mix oystore with sauce in glasses

from lunch, peas, beans, carrots, IT WILL ADD ZEST TO ALL

spinach-almost BBY SEA FOOD APPETISERS, THAT and sprinkle with finely minced thing but cabbage-then add

EVERYBODY LIKES

{celery, spoonfuls of these to the usual lettuce, creas, cucumber, radish and tomato.

Scallop Cocktail

Mix cooked and chilled scallops made with sauce in glasses and sprinkle with tiny pearl onions. Capers are crab good with scallops as well as lobs- cock. ter and crab-meat.

Cock-tails and appetisers-hors Break the yolks of four eggs in d'oeuvres-are invitingly Baked Icing.

When you purchase pork chops a bowl and stir in slowly one table-with various kinds of fish. Ever think of varying the cake-what do you ask for loin, rib, spoonful of olive oil followed by Shrimps, lobster, oyster,

An excellent sauce for making routine with baked icing? shoulders? There is usually a dif- one tablespoonful of vinegar, half meat and clams are used for Or broiled icing for that matter? ference in the meat. So, when tarragon, half malt. To this, add tails. And the next time company coming you order, it's well worth while tone small teaspoonful of mustard, these fish is made as follows:

shake each of white pepper and Two tablespoons tomato catsup, above Lime juice and minced for dinner makes you yearn for know which you want and to say half a teaspoonful of salt, and a something new to try, you might

The loin chop is the choices of cayenne. Finally add two ahallots 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish, parsley add zest to this cocktail. go deeply into the mysteries of

them all, because it contains as the chopped very fine, or two table-1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce icebox icings..

Not that there is anything very complicated about these unusual

sounding adornmente for the sin ple cake. D❞ the contrary, the save both time and labour,

50.

name implies the tenderloin on the underside of the bone. It is juicy and tender and of exee' ent flavour

in bone. and contains less wa

cuta. and fat than the othe two For these reasons, loin chops are Baked icing, as you might guess ¦

higher in price) from the name, is baked right often somewhat along with the cake. Here's how than rib and shoulder chops. you do it:

Baked Icing

Next in desirability is the rib chop. It also is juicy and tender and of good flavour but has no ten- Whites 3 eggs, 1 cup brown Bugar, 1-2 cup broken nut meats, derloin on one side of the bone.

Then comes the shoulder chop which is larger and of darker col Roll brown sugar on molding! board to remove all lumps. Beat ored meat than the loin and rib whites of eggs until light and stiff chaps. The texture of the meat is but not dry. Bent in mugar

and coarser than in the other two and

1-2 cup chopped dates,

bone through the

tie

spoonfuls of finely chopped pickled nions and gherkins. This gives a delightfully piquant flavour to any

salad.

جنبي

FROZEN TOMATO

SALAD.

1 package lemon gelatin

cups tomato juice

4

2 tablespoons lemon juice

teaspoons salt

1

1⁄2 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon onion juice

1⁄2 teaspoon cloves

Heat 1 cup tomato juice to boil.

Cocktail Sauce.

· Another · crab-meat cocktail is made with a mayonnaise sauce la- stead of the tomato sauce given

Smoked fish such as salmon and

1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon finnan haddie are often used for lemon juice, 1-2 teaspoon minced hors d'oeuvre and give an appetis- onion, 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-4 ten- ing tang to this kind of appetiser- spoon tabasco sauce.

The same shell-fish suggested for Mix several hours before want-cocktails, of course, are popular. jed for serving and keep an ico totoo.

chill thoroughly. Use about 1 tablespoonful of the mixture each serving.

Shad roc is expensive but her- for ring hues are moderate in price. and are delicious sauted in butter and served on tiny Angers of toast. Split, bone and skin sardines, put on strips, of toast just the size of the sardine and brofl under the; Jame. Serve bat,,

Clam Cocktail. Mix clams with sauce la cɔçk- tail glasses.

Sprinkle with finely

CREAM OF PEA SOUP.

1 can peas

Cold water

1 slice onion

1⁄2 tablespoon sugar

ing with salt and seasoninge. Dia- fold in chopped dates. Spread there is more

solve lemon gelatin in hot tomato roughly on cake batter,sprinkle chop

The rib and loin chop can jalce. Add remainder of juice aud with nuts and bake in a moderate; oven 1350 to 375 degrees F) for 30 cut single or double as you prefer. chill. Place in freezer. Turn crank minutes. This amount of frosting Double chops are especially nice about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in will be enough for a sheet of cake for baking and stuffing. Natural-moulds and pack in ice and salt

1 iy, on account of the thickness of about 1⁄2 hour. Serve sliced on baked in a pan 9 by 13 inches.

The following cake recipe is de- the ment, they take longer to cook lettuce or water cress.

than the single chop,

licious with this icing' and makes an excellent dessert,

Spice Cake

One-half cup shortening, 1 12

:

Suggestions For Cooking.

And here are some suggestionė

cup brown sugar, 1 whole egg. for cooking pork chops. yolks 3 eggs, 2 1-2 cups flour, 3

Always cook all pork products teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup at a low temperature,

sweet milk, 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1-4 teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon salt Pepper

cup evaporated milk diluted

with

1 cup water or chicken stock

Put small oysters in a shallow pan and brush over with melted butter. Broil under the flame for a few minutes. Toast small fancy shapes of whole wheat bread and spread lightly with butter and then with chutney sauce or any rather sweet highly spiced pickle you may have at hand. Put a hot joyster on each piece of toast and

serve hot

Remove yolks from hard cooked eggs which have been cut in halves crosswise: Stuff with a mixture of chopped shrimps, cocktail sauce Make a white sauce of the land minced parsley, Chill. Cut diluted milk, flour, butter, salt and in slices and serve' on erlep

Preventing Rolls From Sticking.

1 tablespoon flour

TO STRAIN FATS

1 tablespoon butter

ly.

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AMERICAN SUMMER

mayon-

of shrimps and tomatoo cocktail: sauce as suggested,

Line pans used for baking cin-pepper. Drain the liquid from the crackers a little larger than the namon rolls with waxed paper, and peas. Add the onion and sugar and egg slices. Put a border of riced Panned chops, are cooked in the when baked the paper can be eastboll for five minutes, then rub egg yolk around the edge of each frying pan on top the stove. Trimly removed from the rolls. This through a sieve. Combine pulp cracker. Crabmeat and Cream shortoning and gradually off enough fat from the edges of will prevent the rolls from sticking and white sauce. Serve immediate-nales could be used in place of add brown sugar which has been the chops to lightly oil the frying to the pan. rolled to make smooth. Beat until han. In other words, rub the bit creamy and beat in 1-2 cup sifted of fat over the surface of the pan and sift remaining flour with salt until it looks very shiny but there flour. Add eggs well beaten. Mix is no surplus fat. Add chops and and baking powder and add alter.sear slightly first on one side and nately with milk to Arst mixture.then on the other. Pour into a greased and floured Sprinkle salt and pepper on both "dripping" pan, cover with icing sides after searing, allowing about and bake 36 minutes in a moderate 1-4 teaspoon salt for each. chop- 1-8 teaspoon to a ride. Now cover the spider, reduce heat and cook

oven.

Fat in which doughnuts or simi- lar foods have been fried can be cleared by stretching cloth across the top of a jar and pouring the warm melted fat through it.

HINT ON CREAM

SALAD:

Apple And Celery Salad.

Prepare a curly lettuce, cucum-

Prepare two cups of sliced ap ber, watercress, mustard and cress, and small radishes. Put in a cloth ples and one-half cup of chopped

to dry. Prepare dressing as folcelery and one-fourth cup of chop-| lows:

ped walnut meats. Mix together

on

Beat one tablespoonful of cream with mayonnaise or bolled salad

and bead

lettuce slowly until done. It will take Rinsing the cream, pitchers with til stiff; add the beaten white of dressing about 20 minutes for single chops ice cold water before you fill them an egg white vinegar, lemon juice, leaves. Garnish with sprinkling of and thirty minutes for double will prevent the cream from stick-pepper and salt. Mix well and add paprika. ones. Chops cooked this way willing to the sides,

UNUSUAL STUFFINGS not be dry and chippy but juicy

and tender and deliciously flavor.

Here are some stuffings for some. goose, duck and chicken from dif- ferent parts of the world.

A Danish Stuffing

Stuffed Pork Chops. Choose double chops for stuf- fing and make a slit through the

B

Delicious stuffing for ducks or center, toward the bone, with geese can be made as follow:--

sharp knife. Rub each chop with.

Peel, care and cut into slices 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-8 teaspoon pep- good cooking apples, as many as per and 1-8 teaspoon or less dry required according to size of bird. mustard thoroughly mixed. Place and with equal quantity to prunes, two tablespoons of celery and stuff the bird. Sew it up neatly, bread fasten cut edges with wood- and roast in oven as usual. This en tooothpicks if tiny akowers are stuffing doen not sweeten the ment,

not at hand.

Sear in a hot frying pan as in preceding recipe for 10 minutes.

but gives it a nice flavour.

A Brazilian Recipe

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One le sausage meat, 1 cupful Cover closely and boke in pineapple cubes, 1 dozen olives, 1derate oven for one hour. 850 de- hard-boiled egg. a little salt, red grees F. le a good temperature to pepper, and 2 oz. butter.

|maintain ́during the baking,

Roll out the sausage meat, chop the pineapple, stone and. chop the olives, coarsely, grate the egg.! Spread these ingredients on the sausage; -BOBION well, dot the butter over and roll up neat- ly. Press the stuffing into the body of the bird.

Fruit And Vegetable Salad.

Two lettuce hearts, four smalt

Use ordinary forcemest for the ripe tomatoes, one tablespoonful breast of the bird.

With Candied Pecl

diced cold cooked carrot, one table:f spoonful diced cold cooked potato, The following quantities are suf-one tablespoonful diced beetroot, ficient for a chicken: 4 ozs. chopone tesspoonful chopped chives, pad suet, 4 oza, fresh breadcrumbs, one small tin. pineapple, ona tek- 11⁄2 oz. shredded mixed candied spoonful grated cheese, one peel, 1 teaspoonful chopped pars-spoonful each orange juice and ley, pepper and salt to taste." lemon juice, unit and pepper to

Mix all together with one exx" taste.

take

ECONOMY WITH BISCUITS

the chopped cucumber. Place...- a lettuce leaf on each plate, and on that a ring of pineapple. In each hole put some dressing, and around it alternate lettuce and watercress Left-over biscuits, rolls or corn with mustard and cress here bread may be cut into atrips and and there. Between each of these toasted until well browned and place a radish, and in the centre then served with soups or salads.

a pinch of coralline pepper.

For a turkey double the quantity is Well wash the lettuce and pull required: I have also found this into small pieces. Arrange in a recipe useful for forcement balle bowl. Sprinkle with the chives14, with jugged bare. This comes from Add the tomatoes peeled and sliced Norfolk in England:

and the pineapple cut into small pieces. Garnish with the best- root, carrot, and potato and Japříňklé all over with the grated"

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In selecting fresh fish be certain cheese. Mix together the orange "that the gills are brought rad, the and lemon juices, salt and pepper, flesh Arm and springy and the eyes and sprinkle over the salad the Inet bright; and full,

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