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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

Cheese Straws ALMOND TOFFEE Sluffed Pears In TWO BUDDINGS

Delicious

Easy To Make.

An Easy-To-Make Delicacy.

Almond toffee is easy to make at home and forms a change from These delicious savouries are casy to make, provided the oven is Everton and treacle toffee.

Put

a

hot and the pastry is stiff enough two capfula of granulated sugar to roll out thinly. Rub two ounces and half a cupful of water into of butter into four ounces of flour, pan and stir them (over a gentle add salt, a pinch of cayenne pep- per, and half a teaspoonful of heat) until the sugar has mustard, then two ounces of grated solved. cheese.

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Custard

Tasty With Sponge Fingers.

Prepare a syrup with half a pint of water, an ounce of sugar, and

STEAMED OR BAKED.

Both these puddings are light and easy to prepare. For fruit sponge, stew a pound of apples to a pulp.

Syrup Sponge Pudding

Favourite Dish For Summer.

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with sufficient water and sugar This is a favourite pudding be- and the juice of half a lemon. Ifing light and at the same time a tablespoonful of lemon juice, preferred, other fresh or bottled fairly substantial. To make it When the sugar has melted, and fruit may be used, but when cook-cream four ounces of butter with the syrup has reached boiling ed it should be a good, thick pulp. two ounces of granulated sugar, point, put into it four large pears. Pat this at the bottom of a greas-And best into it one egg.

Mix together six ounces peeled but not halved. Let the pie-dish. fruit simmer until tender. Take Then cream together the weight seved flour, two ounces of ground Then allow the mixture to boil,jup, scoop out the cores, and fill of one egg in butter and sugar. rice, two teaspoonfuls of baking the powder, and one teaspoonful of Mix all well together, and make and when bolling add a quarter of with a mixture of chopped almonds Add the beaten egg, then

weight of an egg in sifted self-ground ginger, and add it to the into a stiff paste with the yolk of

Arrange the stuffed pears in raising four. Beat this well until butter mixture. Stir in two table- an egg, or a small whole beaten a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and strawberry jam. egg. When the pastry is smooth, mixed with a teaspoonful of water-dish. Cut sponge fingers in halves light, and cover the fruit pulp spoonfuls of golden syrup, and but not sticky, roll it out on Boil the mixture without atir place these round the fruit, and with the mixture. Bake until the then sufficient milk to make a Put a small tablespoonful of floured board until it is not more ring or about half an hour till it cover all with custard made with sponge is golden and firm: it will thick batter, and mix well.

egge and milk,

take thirty to forty minutes. The than an eighth of an inch thick.

Cut into strips about four inches is pale yellow in colour.

Stand aside to get cold and set, oven should be hot for the first syrup in the bottom of a greased basin, and pour in the mixture. long and about half an inch wide, remove it from the heat and stir then decorate with halved pre-fifteen minutes, then moderate.

The following pudding can Coyer with a well-greased paper, put them on a greased tin, and in two ounces of butter, two served cherries and small strips of

either be steamed or baked, but and, steam the pudding for an ounces of almonds (previously angelica.

If baked the mixture should be hour. Serve it with custard sauce: made just a little softer than if it

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bake in a hot oven for about ten minutes. When cold, pile on dish or serve in bundles. The blanched and cut into halves) and Pour pastry can also be made into round a drop of almond essence. biseults with a cutter, when they the toffee into a well-greased tin serve as the basis for many after-and mark it into squares when it

in get dinner savouries.

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UNUSUAL PUDDING

Nourishing And Tasty

Dish.

steamed. Put into a bowl a

COFFEE PUDDING.

tablespoonful of butter and beat it to a cream; add two tablespoon- Coffee, pudding is made by soak. fuls of sugar and beat again. Then ing half a dozon sponge cakes in add two tablespoonfuls of self-a gill of hot black coffee with raising flour and two of ground walnut of butter, then beating this rice, alternately with a beaten egg up with the yolks of two egga, a and about three tablespoonfuls of tablespoonful of castor sugar, and A nourishing pudding can be milk. When it is light and creamy, a little vanilla flavouring. The made in the following way. To thickly cover a greased pie-dish or stiffy whipped whites of the eggs 1 lb. of sifted flour add a pinch of pudding-basin with golden ayrup are stirred in lightly at the last, salt, 4 lb. of butter, two table pour in the mixture, and bake for and the mixture is then steamed spoonfuls of sugar, two eggs, and thirty to forty minutes, or steam in small "greased moulds about enough milk to make a stiff paste for an hour and a half.

three-parts filled. Knead the dough well, roll out thinly, cut out with a cutter or a glass, and fill each round with a cheese mixture which is prepared from cream cheese, adding to it a tablespoonful of sugar, three table- spoonfuls of ground almonds, and 2 oz. of well-washed sultanas.

Cover with another round of dough and moisten the edges with

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HINTS FOR FISH PREPARATION.

Skin Should Always

Be Removed.

When fillets of fish are being

a little milk. Put in a pudding prepared for frying in batter or basin containng a 1⁄4 lb. of melted for steaming it, may be desirable butter and bake for half an hour to remove the skin. This may in a fairly hot oven. When ready easily be done with a sharp knife.

should be crisp and golden brown in colour. When it is baked, add half a gill of cream and serve hot..

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The filles should be laid on a board, skin downwards and held by the tail end The blade of the knife must then be inserted next to the skin, as near the end as possible.

It should be held almost-fat and worked up and down with firm pressure. so that it slides alone. separating the fish from the skin without any waste...

Novelty Salads

Hard boil the required number of egas-allowing half an egg for rach person and cut them in halves lengthways. Scoop out the yolks, pound them well; and beat In some fresh mayonnaises tea- apoonful for each egg-and the saine quantity of melted butter and chopped capers. Season with salt and pepper.

Arrange a few lettuce leaves in individual salad plates, put half an egg white in the centre of each, fill this case with the yolk mix- ture, sprinkle with chopped pars- ley, put a few spige of watercress rotind.:

LIGHT CHOCOLATE CAKE.

Work 30 ozs. butter and 8 ozs. castor sugar to a cream. Then add 3 ozs. flour and the yolks of Your eggs one by one, with a table- spoonful of grated chocolate. Whip the whites of the eggs, to a | stiff froth and stir them lightly in. Pour the mixture into well- buttered mould, and bake in s moderate oven. When quite cold pour chocolate icing all over it.

STRAWBERRY CREAM

Half - pound strawberry: "jam, quarter-pound castor sugar, four- egg-whites, one gill cream.

Pass the Jam through a sleve, mix it with the cantor "sugar, and two teaspoonful lemon juice. Whip the egg-whites to a stiff froth and beat this in. Continue to beat the mixure for half an hour It possible, Divide it into small cus tard cupa, and top each with whipped cream. If the brand Jam mixture Is not a good colour stir in a few drops of before putting it into the glasses:

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