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'THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

MAYONNAISE

WINS PRAISE

AS HOT SAUCE

It Gives Fine Flavour To Any Green Vegetables Or To Filet Of Sole.

It's downright exciting when the discovery is made that some tried and true food, such as Mayonnaise. has been leading a “double Bie" all these years.

All of us think of this mayonnaise as being the other half of a perfect salad, and as such, we keep it in readiness to play this important part in making our meals so appetising and healthful. But as a hot sauce for steaming green vegetables, or delicately prepared white fish- mayonnaise "No, really," you ex- claim.

Vegetable Salad ONE-DISH MEAL

2 cups diced tomatoes

2 eup sliced cucumbers

1⁄2 cup diced celery

2 tablespoons chopped

peppers

1 tablespoon, chopped onions

1 tablespoon salt

4 teaspoon paprika

LIFE-SAVER FOR

BUSY WOMAN

green Recipes Given For Three

Time-Saving Dishes Of Meat And Vegetables

2 tablespoons French dressing Mix ingredients in glass bowl Cover and chill. Serve on lettuce and add more dressing.

CREME ORIENT

1 package lemon gelatin

1 cup canned pineapple juice

1

cup oling water

1

cup whipped cream

cup pineapple, diced

Tomato Juice Is Feature Of

Help Yourself Meals

if you've ever robbed an icebox, jcluding pickled onions, bur gherkins you'll agree that some foods taste and sweet pickles in a three-part all the better for a little self-ser- hors d'oeuvres dish.

vice. Maybe that's why the help- yourself party has become so To popular, especially when it's an juice evening party, for that, as a rule, means men, and we all know how men like to roll their own.

Housecleaning! Garden making! Spring sewing! The budding, awakening out-of-doors to explore So many off-the-routine tasks and pleasures press upon the home-

An enticing array of good things maker at this season that she posito ent features ice-cold tomato juice tively begrudges the time that must cocktail. With it go crackers and be given to cooking three meals cheese plain eream and plmiento- day.

and an assortment of relishes, in-

Luckily, there are short cuts. The one-dish meal, combining an adequate supply of meat and vege-

1⁄4 cup preserved ginger, chopped tables, is a time-saver that every

fine

busy woman should know about. It cuts down on dish-washing, too, what's mure to the point!

Mutton Recipe For Two Persons.

No need, if there are only two in

Dissolve lemon gelatin in boiling Green vegetables, such as broccoli, water; add pineapple juice and chill spinach, asparagus and artichokes until thick but not set. Whip with The following role for chop suey the house. to get in a joint of mut- guin much in Lasty flavour if they egg beater until frothy. Add cream makes a dish that needs only a salad ton. Your butcher will always sell are sent to the table with a creamy and fruit. Pile into sherbet glasses and simple desert to provide you a slice off the leg. sauce that has the fart, rich accents or large mould. Serve very cold. nourishing spring dinner. The meal of Hollandaise. As for a delicate!

is not a "make-shift," nor does it filet of sule-steamed to perfection

sacrifice important food elements for the sake of time or economy.

and garnished with a few shrimpa-

what such a sauce can do to that dish-

Molded Cereal With Fruit.

Chop Suey.

Try this in a casserole with dried haricot beans-lb. of beans to 1lb. of mutton. Boil the beans (in two waters) till they are soft. Then put in the bottom of a casserole a nut One-half pound pork loin, 1-2 of butter, 2 chopped onions, 1 slice Here is the basic recipe for this Heat left-over cooked cereal and pound round steak, 2 onions, of chopped bacon, a bay leaf. Lay! sauce. You may make it up in quan-pour into individual molds or large head celery, 1 small head cabbage, the beans on this and the mutton on tity and reheat-surely an added mold, rinsed in cold water. When 1 cup rice, 4 cups canned tomatoes, the beans. Add 1⁄2 pint of stock, virtue.

cool place in refrigerator until 1-2 teaspoons salt, 1-4 teaspoon Cover, and cook slowly for 1 hour.

Sauce Piquant

1 cup rich cream sauce

1 Nulaid egg

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1⁄2 cup mayonnaise

Use Double Boiler

It is wise to make the cream sauce

in the top of a double boiler to as sure smoothness.

Take from the

ready to serve.

Turn out on small plates and top: with stewed figs, stewed dates,

pepper, 2 alices bacon.

Spinach Spread For Sandwiches.

Tomato Juice Cocktail make a well-seasoned tomato cocktails use!

1 can tomato juice 2/3 teaspoon celery salt 2 teaspoons lemon juice

1 teaspoon mild vinegar

1⁄2 teaspoon onion juice

2/3 teaspoon Worcestershire

sauce

4 drops tabasco anuce

Mix Ingredients thoroughly and chill well before serving.

UBC

By the way, do you

the tomato juice in making jellied] tomato salada? It does save a lot of work.

Tomato Aspic Mould For three cups tomato juice use:

1 onion, sliced 1 bay leaf

teaspoon ground cloves 1⁄4 cup lemon juice Salt, pepper, enyenne

11⁄2 teaspoons Worcestershire

Bauce

2 tablespoons plain gelatin 1⁄2 cup cold water

Cook tomato juice, onion, bay leaf and cloves five minutes. Strain, add lemon juice, seasonings, Worcester- shire sauce and the gelatin soaked In cold water. Pour into a mold that has been dipped in cold water. When firm, unmold and garnish

Cut bacon in small pieces and fry out fat in a large iron frying sliced fresh or canned peaches or pan with a tight cover. Add meat berries. This makes a good lun-cut in half inch cubes and brown

heon dessert for the children.

quickly on all sides.

Spinach, fresh cooked or tinned, with asparagus, tips and small nests Add onion, finely minced, celery can be used as a spread between of lettuce filled with mayonnaise. cut in dice and cabbage finely three-decker "sandwiches" of pan-

STEAMED MARROWS

shredded. Mix thoroughly with cakes. or it tastes good in souffles Hot Ham Makes Tasty

mix it

Add tomatoes, salt and pep.or omelettes: or you can marrows are less meat.

flavoured per and sprinkle rice over top. with crushed macaroons and sugar They are Cover closely and cook over a low to make an unusual sweet dish. and taste fire for one hour. Serve very hot. Route in Dried, canned or fresh mushrooms can be added and chop suey sauce can be used in seasoning.

fire and stir a small portion of the

Small custard sauce into the well-beaten egg, then watery and more subtly islend with entire mixture, using a than vegetable murraw. rotary beater. Now add the lemon round and curly edged, juice return to the fire and reheat good when steamed and Now is the time to add the mayon-butter. naise. beating it until thoroughly mixed. The result will be a thick rich sauce, pale yellow in colour, of exactly the right tartiness to en- hance many delicious foods.

Here are a few suggestions for its broccoli. use: Buy twa pounds of

Freshen in either cold water or the refrigerator, then cut off the lower portion. plunge into salted boiling water and cook rapidly until tender. Remember-lots of water for broc- col--and no lid on the pot if you want it to remain freshly green. drain well and arrange on a serving!

The sauve Decopies another piale. dish and is served ench person.

Steamed Filet Of Sole Now, details about that grand term steamed filet of nole: Chef this dish Sole Marguery. Take re gular pieces of sole and roll them into little "mops." Place in a shul- low pan with not more than inch and a half of hot water, cover closely and steam on the top of the stove for about 15 minutes.

Remove carefully with the aid of a cake turner-watching to see that they are well drained. Arrange in

COMPANY SUPPER

5

2

Menu

Jellied Chicken Loag Stuffed Tomato Salad Hot Biscuits Grape Jelly Orange Layer Cake

Coffee

Jellied Chicken Loaf tablespoons cold water tablespoons granulated gelatin 2 cups boiling chicken stock 11⁄2 cups diced, cooked chicken

1⁄2 teaspoon sail

1/4 teaspoon paprika

2

1⁄2 cup finely chopped celery

tablespoons

chopped green

peppers

2

VEGETABLE VARIETY

Dish.

Here is a recipe for hot ham. Have ready as many thick slices as you need, ready cooked. Mix 1 tea- spoonful made mustard, 1 tables-| For the hostess who wishes to poonful tarragon vinegar, 1 teaspoon-j provide a selection of vegetables at ful paprika, one of Worcester sauce, Ifam casserole served with spin-one meal, giant leeks would make aand a little sall. Spread your ham uch and a dessert of fresh fruit good contrast if served in one dish, slices with this mixture. Heat up make an appetising meal.

with tiny carrots, turnips, and 2 tablespoonfuls olive oil in a frying inch dwarf beans in another.

Ham Casserole.

Оле slice ham out one thick. potatoes, onions, pepper. mustard, ginger, 1 cup milk,

Slice enough raw, peeled pola- toes to more than half fill a baking · dish or casserole. Season with pepper. Cover with a thick layer of onions sliced thin. Season with pepper. Place on top the slice of ham which has been soaked in cold water for two hours.

and mustard.

Grape And Cream Cheese.

Skin and stone 1⁄21⁄2 lb, white grapes.

If dipped in boiling, then cold

Įpan.

When this begins to smoke,

put in the ham and brown It quickly.

Cakes In Fashion Again.

Cakes are in fashion again.

water, the skin comes off quite easily. Women are once more enjoying the Chop 2oz. English walnuts and mix delicacies of the tea-table. Among!

roll Sprinkle into cream cheese, then the the layer cakes, of which so many!

over 1-8 teaspoon each of ginger cheese into balls with butler pats. the most popular cakes to-day are Arrange the grapes on crisp let-variations are found. The choice of Pour in milk at one side of the tuce leaves, pile three on four cheese attractive fillings is endless. dish. Cover and bake 1 1-2 hours balls in the middle, and mask with in a moderate oven. Serve from mayonnaise. baking dish. Choose ham with a

tablespoons chopped pimentos rim of fat. During the baking the place of white, adding 2 table- Souk gelutin in cold water five potatoes absorb this fat as it melts | spoons brown sugar. This dish minutes. Add stock and stir until and a dish of rich, savory flavor is dish must be watched toward the

Cool. Add the result,

end of baking and a low heat must gelatin has dissolved.

into Sweet potatoes can be used in be maintained,

rest of ingredients and pour

has been glass loaf mold which rinsed out with cold water. Set in Unmold, cut cold place to stiffen.

on

a baking dish with perhaps a few in slices and arrange platter. oysters and shrimps around the Garnish with parsley. sides of the "mops."

When making jellied chicken it is "Pour the sauce over this array. best to highly season the stock in sprinkle with a little grated Parme. which chicken is cooking.

Diced aan cheese and place in the aven-celery, finely chopped onion, bay leaf let it be fairly hot-until the cheese and four cleves give good flavour. melts. Serve in the baking dish.

After chicken has been removed from

You may also mix a cup of this stock, pour stock through sieve. It sauce with a cup of shredded crab then is ready to use for jellied chic- meat and a few minced plekies and ken.

chopped celery and bake quickly in

the oven with a topping of grated cheese.

FOR SOUPS, SALADS

Orange Cake

1/2 cup butter

I

cup sugar

2 cggs

1

t

Remove crusts from thin slices of white bread, spread bread on shal low pan and bake in moderate oven

until toast is delicate brown colour,

teaspoon orange extract.

1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract

2/3 cup cold water

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

2 cups pastry flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder

. Cream butter and sugar,

Addi

and very crisp. Serve with soups, rest of ingredients and beat three salads or with the main course of minutes. Pour into two small layer meal

FRUIT DESERT

1 can mixed frufts

cake pana lined with waxed papers. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Add filling.

Orange Filling

21⁄2 cup sugar

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tablespoon lemon juice

1/3 cup water

1 tablespoon butter

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