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MINT

THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

CREAM

FILLING

1/4 cup sugar

4 tablespoons cornstarch

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

1 cup water

2 egg yolka

1 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon mint extract

Green food colouring

Mix

sugar (except 2

Delicious Drinks For Hot Days ACCURATE

Canned Fruits May Be Used.

REFRESHING PUNCHES

Grape Punch

1 pint grape juice

1 quart water

Juice of 2 lemons

Juice of 1 orange

1 cup sugar

with chilled ginger ale. This will jus" / cause the syrup to remain in the bottom and ginger ale on top- very attractive serving. Stir well before drinking. Grenadine syrup crema de can be substituted for menthe, using an ice cube garniah-] led with a red maraschino cherry."

Fruit Punch

2 tablespoons tea

2 quarts boiling water

1 pound granulated sugar

4 oranges

I fresh pineapple

Two

1 pint strawberries 6 lemons

MEASURE FOR

GOOD PASTRY

Minimum Of Water Important.

CHILL BEFORE ROLLING

Accurate measurements and pre- cision of procedure will result in perfect pastry every time. If you follow the rules, your pics will be the melt-in-the-mouth, tender, flaky kind that every man smacks his lips:

over.

Home-made Bread

E & H

3 cups graham flour

1 cup white flour

1 cup sugar :

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 cup nuts

1 cup ralaina.

2/8 cup evaporated milk diluted

with

into Combine well,

a

Heut water and sugar until all table-augar is dissolved. Cool. Add to spoons), cornstarch and salt. Add fruit juice and place in refrigerator

1-1/3 cups water Maantire ingredients water slowly and cook over boiling to chill. Serve with ice cubes, constantly. Add egg yolks with frozen with lemon alices.

And speaking of pie. let no dis-large mixing bowl ,water until very thick, stirring parts ginger ale to one part grape

Grate the rind of two lemons and gruntled modern; who won't take Pour into two well greased bread 2 tablespoons sugar; cook three juice may be used. This makes cook with sugar and water for five the trouble to learn to make it tell pans. Bake about 40 minutes in a minutes longer. Beat until smooth, another refreshing beverage. Add butter; cool. Add mint ex- 'tract and colour a delicate green.

UBIQUITOUS LOAF.

Bread Has Many Uses

In Kitchen,

Egg-Nog

1 egg

Pinch of salt

3 tablespoon sugar 34 cup milk

11⁄2 tablespoons ivine or

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Pecon Waffles

1⁄2 cup broken pecans

13⁄4 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

minutes. Pour over ten and let you that it's "indigestible anyway." moderate oven. Yield: two loaves stand for five minutes. Then Well baked pie used in the right about two inches deep. strain. Cool, Cut two oranges meal, as a definite part of the meal Cut pineapple into and not as an after-throught, is into slices. small pieces. Wash, stem, and quiet digestible for the average crush strawberries. Mix all fruits healthy person. Certain; pies made and add juice of remaining lemons with milk and eggs should be fen- 1 tablespoon brandy

and oranges. Add cool ten to fruittured as the main dish, the preced- Have eggs and milk very cold, mixture and place in refrigeratin

Fing courses consisting chiefly of Mix egg. sugar and salt either into chill. Pour into punch bowl with vegetables and salads, Bread isn't only the staff of life mixing bowl with egg beater or in ice cubes decorated with maraschino -sometimes it's a kitchen "fe- ja lemonade shaker. Add milk, and cherries. Serve in punch glasses. saver." for instance, if you've hav-stimulant and, when fully blended, If fresh fruit is not available. ing fried oysters, line the dish with serve immediately.

canned fruit may be substituted..

Fruitade slices of bread. This will absorb Egg white can be beaten separate- excess grease. The bread isn't toily and folded into the mixture after milk and stimulant are added. Beat be cafen.

A piece of bread in the cake box the egg white until foamy not stiff will help to keep the cake from get-and fold in lightly. Stimulant can ting atule and hard, but bread injbe omitted and a granting of nut- the cracker box will spoil the meg can bo substituted. This re crackers.

cipe is very good for invalids.

Creme do Menthe

Use plenty of waxed paper and it will save dish washing. The Place in glass one ice cube which paper can be used for lining cake has been slightly coloured with a and bread pans, for holding candies small portion of yellow food colour to harden, for wrapping foods to ing and a slice ef lemon frozen on be stored in the ice box and for top. Put approximately an eighth wrapping cakes, cookies and lunch part creme de menthe syrup into leich glass. Fill glass very slowly

box contents.

Stimulates the appetite

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1⁄2 cup shredded pineapple Juice of 1 orange

2 cups boiling water

1⁄4 cup sugar

3 egg yolks

11⁄2 cup milks

1 tablespoon fat, melted-

Plain. Pie Crust One and one-half cups flour, 8 tablespoons shortening, & to 4 table spoons cold water, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

3 egg whites, stiffly beaten A good bread or all-purpose flour

Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, makes a flakier crust than pastry

Béat 3 flour. Pastry four makes a crum-salt; egg yolks and milk,

minutes. Food in fat and egg bly, tender crust. Of course, either

whites. four can be used with satisfactory iron with pecans. Add waffle bat- Sprinkle greased waffle

Juice of 1 lemon Combine lemon and orange juice results. Measure flour after sift- with shredded pineapple. Dissolve ing once,

A good quality of shortening sugar in boiling water and add to fruit juice: Let cool. Then strain should be used because this largely and place in refrigerator to chill. determines the flavour of the crust. Serve with ice cube garnished with Lard or vegetable fat can be used

as preferred. maraschino cherry.

Lime Fizz

6 oranges 2 lemons

1⁄2 cup granulated sugar

2 cups water

Add

The proportion of, fat and flour with the minimum of water is of great importance but the method of mixing, the ingredients also must be painstakingly observed. The tendency to over-mix the materials

.

ter.

Cook until well browned.

Almond Cheese Cakes

Some short crust

1 lime rind, grated 1 teaspoon brandy 2 egg whites

1⁄4 pound ground almonds

ounce fresh butter, melted

3 drops almond essence

1 tablespoon cream

Line some buttered patty tins

2 bottles lime pop

is usually the beginner's worst Extract juices and strain.

fault. With the large proportion with paste, mix almond paste in a augar and stir until sugar is dis-of fat used, it is only too easy for bowl with the, sugar, lime and bat- solved. Add water, Divide equally the novice to work the constantly ter, gradually stir in brandy, cream into six serving glasses. Fill with

warming and hoftening fat into the and essence, beat whites stiffy lime pop. This can be made very flour until a greasy mass is formed and stir them in lightly Three- attractive by adding an ice cube that cannot absorb enough water to quarters fill lined patty tins. Bake garnished with lemon slice.

In a moderate "over."

Lady Betty Cake

2/3 cup shortening 11⁄2 cups sugar.

4 eggs

2-1/4 cups flour

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 cup milk

3 squares unsweetened chocolate,

melted

make the pastry flaky.

COVERED DISH FOR BUTTER

......

Always keep butter in a covered

The 'skilled worker can mix the shortening into the flour with her fingers because her touch is so light and quick that it does not soften and melt the fat. The beginner diab.. will find that a pastry blender solves this problem efficiently and cheaply. Invest in one of these gadgets, by all means, if you haven't one. Mix the fat and flour until it resembles kernels of pop-corn.

Add Water Carefully

The addition of water is another ticklish point. Too much water |makes a heavy, tough dough in spite of correct proportions of fat and flour. Water must be added in such Cream shortening; add sugar

a way that it is distributed evenly Among the flour-coated particles of slowly, beating continually. Add

fat. Sprinkle the water on, not eggs one at a time, benting well after each addition. Sift together time, mixing lightly with a fork.

more than a tablespoonful at flour, salt and baking powder; add Only enough water la waed to make nuts. Add to first mixture after the shortening and four "kernels" nately with milk; mix well. Add hold together. Use very cold water, melted and cooled chocolate, Bake Ice-water if possible. in well greased,, deep tube pan fu

"It's a good idea to chill the moderate oven at $25 degrees F. about 1% hours. When cold cover not imperative.

pastry before rolling, but this 18

tops and sides with chocolate icing. For a smaller cake, use the recipe and bake 50 minutes.

When the pastry is rolled, roll away from the centre and lift, the rolling pin at the edge of the sheet, each-time. Make the pastry one

HAM A LA KING eighth inch thick.

6. slices hot buttered toast

4 tablespoons butter

6 tablespoons four

3 cups milk.

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

1⁄4 teaspoon' paprika

11⁄2 cups chopped cooked ham

3 tablespoons chopped,

celery

cooked

This amount of "dough'will.make one two-crust pie seven inches in diameter.

Pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees F. End bake the ple at this tempera- ture for ten minutes. Then reduce the heat to 400 degrees F. and finish baking.

2 tablespoons chopped, cooked CREAM SPONGE CAKE

green pepper

2 eggs, wall beaten ··

Melt butter and add flour, · Blend well. Add milk and cook until creamy sauce forms. Add sekson- |[lnga," and · ham, Cook #2′′ miliutes:

Add "egge, cook 1 minute, constantly. Serve on toast

2 tea cups, sugar

2 cups Bour

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I teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon lemon essence

Stir-1 cup cream

VINEGAR FRESHENS SALAD CREENS

Beat up eggaland zenger, ad

up for a few minutes and add four gradual;

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