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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST

1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

APRICOT MOUSSE Nut Bread Gives BIRTHDAY PARTY Sponge Cake

Delightful Frozen Desert.

1 tablespoon granulated gelatin

4 tablespoons.cold water

1 cup mashed cooked apricots

1/3 cup sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice

teaspoon salt

2/3 cup diced marshmallows

1 cup whipped cream

Charige

Can Be Made Into Finger Rolls.

1 cake yeast

1 tablespoon sugar

1 cup milk, scalded and cooled

3 cups sifted flour

2 tablespoons shortening

1/3 teaspoon salt.

$4 cup chopped walnuts Dissolve yeast and one table spoon sugar in lukewarm milk, add

4 eggs

CAKE

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons favouring

2 cups sugar

1 cup milk

2 tablespoons butter

2 tups cake flour-

2 teaspoons baking powder

Beat eggs until very light with rotary egg beater. Beat in aalt, sugar and flavouring. Beat in the milk which is boiling hot and heated with the which has been butter. Sift flour once before mea-

Waffles

Ideal For Informal Suppers.

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup cake, flour

8 tablespoons melted butter 4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup cold water.

1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract

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ORANGE HONEY

TARTLET

Pleasant Change From Jam.

This attractive preserve

is. a pleasant change from jam and lemon curd ass Alfing for tartlets, and can also be used to spread |sweet sand-wiches for tea.

To. prepare take 4 lb. of fresh butter and wash in cold water un- til white. Place it with one cup

Dinner For Four

- Menu

Deviled Steak

Mashed Potatoes

Bread

Carrot Strips

Peach Butter. Asparagus Salad Sliced Pineapple Coffee

Deviled Steak For Four

1 pound round steak

5 tablespons flour

5 tablespoons salt

3 tablespoons chopped onions.

Fruit Tarts

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HOW TO OBTAIN · GLAZED EFFECT.

Soak gelatin in water 5 minutes.

ful of castor sugar in a double Dissolve over, hot water. Cool.

Beat eggs until light. Beat in boiler and melt carefully. Take Add rest of ingredients excepting cream; chill overnight in Ice box.

3 tablespoons chopped green pep-tarts are in the morning add cream and 4 cups flour; beat thoroughlysuring. Bent in the flour and augar. Sift flour once before mea-one whole egg and two egg yolka Cover and set aside in warm place baking powder which have been suring. Sift flour, baking powder and beat together! then add the "pour into tray in mechanical re-

hours this 50 minutes or until light. Cream sifted together. Pour very quick and salt together. Beat into the juice of two oranges, the grated pers frigerator. In four

shorten-in, add sugar and beatly into two greased and floured Begg mixture. Beat in melted but-rind of one orange and one table- dessert be frozen.

well; add to yeast mixture; add inch layer pans and bake immedi-ter, cold water and lemon extract. spoonful of strained lemon juice. stifly beaten egg white, aalt and ately in a moderate oven 350 de- Preheat iron about 10 minutes. remainder of four or enough to drees F. from 25 to 80 minutes.

JELLIED CHEESE RING.

Tempting Dish For Summer.

11⁄2 tablespoons gelatie

1⁄2 cup cold water

3 cups scalded milk

3 egg yolks

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

1⁄2 teaspoon mustard

1⁄2 teaspoon paprika

2 cups strained cheese

Soak gelatin in cold water. Beal. the eggs with the seasonings and stir in a little of the milk and stir over hot water until it begins to thicken. Stir in the cheese and

make a dough; mix in nuts.

Knead well; place in greased bowl, cover and let rise until double in bulk, about 21⁄2 hours. Mould into a loaf or small finger rolls, and place in well-greased pans. Let rise again until light, about 1 hour. Bake in moderate oven at 400 degrees F. about 45 minutes. Bake finger rolls in hot oven at 460 degrees F. about 8 minutes.

ORIGINAL SWEET FOR DINNER

Indian Cream

It is often dificult to think of an

LEMON SAUCE.

1 tablespoon cornstarch 1⁄2 cup sugar.

1 egg yolk, well beaten

1 cup boiling water

3 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons lemon juice Grated rind 1⁄2 lemon

Combine cornstarch and sugar with egg yolk; add boiling water slowly stirring constantly until smooth. Cook over boiling water until mixture thickens. Remove

Small fruit tarts, which are brought from A shop have a glazed, transparent appearance which is not often found in home- made tarts.

can be obtained This effect easily in the following manner:- Make a syrup of equal parts of sugar and water and cook for a few minutes with a little frult similar to that with which the filled. Thicken each pint of the syrup so obtained with four tablespoonfuls of arrowroot. 3 tablespoons chopped celery

Mix the arrowroot first with a 11⁄2 cups tomatoes „Have steak cut 2/3 inch thick. little cold water. Then strain the Bake on a hot waffle iron until de- and being large and juicy are ex-Pound well on both sides, sprinkle syrup and allow it to cool before licately browned, about 2 minutes, cellent for. the purpose. Beat with flour. Heat fat in frying pan, pouring over the tarts. The glaze. For shortcake, sprinkle with con- these ingredients together well add und quickly brown steak. Add so obtained is transparent. feétioners' sugar and serve with and stir slowly into the suger and and brown onions, peppers, celery. In the double) Add rest of ingredients and cover. berries and whipped cream or top butter mixture

boiler. Stir over the fire until the Cook alowly 40 minutes. Turn fre- with ice cream and fruit.

mixture thickens, filling up the quently.. water in the base of the double saucepan as it boils away.

CREAM OF VEAL FOR DINNER

How To Prepare Potato Case.

from heat, add lemon juice, rind For one meal, you will need two and butter. A few gratings of nut-or three ounces of leg of veal, a meg may be added if desired,

couple of tablespoonsful of white sauce, and a dessertspoonful of minced ham (if liked). COOKIES Wash and dry the ment, after

2/3 cup fat 2 cups sugar

when melted remove from fire and original sweet for a dinner party CHOCOLATE atir in softened gelatin. Pour into or for some other special occasion. a ring mold and chill until set. Un-Indian cream is a delicious sweet mold onto a platter or chop plate and which will be found to be greatly garnish with pimiento. Fill centre appreciated. Cut up a fresh pine- with mixed vegetable salad.

apple thinly into halfmoon slices.. Poach these slices, for about ten minutes In sweetened water vanila. Leave them to drain on a

French Dressing Easy This Way.

1/3 cup white vbiegar

2/3 cup olive oil

4 teaspoon mustard

3 tablespoons sugar-

Salt and pepper

cloth..

In the meantime grease apud- ding basin and dust it over with

8 squares chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

Jaffa oranges are now in season.

When thick put into glass jars and tie down in the normal way. to exclude air, and store in a cool. dry place.

LEMON SHERBET FOR THE KIDDIES

Delightful Drink For Hot Days..

1 cup granulted sugar

1 pint water

cup lemon juice

2 tablespoons orange juice

1/16 teaspoon salt

2 egg whites

1⁄2 cup coffee cream"

removing skin and any gristle wrap it in grease-proof paper to make it air-tight, and cook it slow- ly for three-quarters of an hour in the oven. Remove paper, and leave the meat to grow cold. Then mince it finely, mix it with white sauce the minced ham, and sea-

taste of salt and ten minutes. Cool. Add to strain- Bonings to

ed fruit juice. Pour into freezing pepper.

While the veal is cooking, pre-tray and freeze firm. Remove to Add chopare POTATO CASE: Mash two ice-cold mixing bowl, and beat with colate, vanilla, salt and cream. Mix ounces bolled potatoes with buttez, rotary beaten until very light.

1/4 cup cream

1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon

S eggs

31⁄2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

Cream fat and sugar.

Cook sugar and water slowly for

Carrot Strips

2 cups carrot strips

4 cups water

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons butter

Soak 20

Chocolate Butter Icing.

1⁄4 cup butter

2 squates chocolaté

3 cups confectioner's suger

6 tablespoons cream Melt butter and chocolate to- Blend in

1⁄4 teaspoon paprika Wash, scrape carrots. minutes in cold water. Cut into gether over hot water, strips 2 inches long, inch wide, the sugar and cream and beat un- Add salt to water and when boil-til smooth. Leave over hot water ing add strips and boll 10 minutes. for 15 minutes to take out the un- Drain, add rest of ingredients and cooked taste. If necessary, add more cream to make the teing heat one minute.

smooth and glossy and easy to spread.

"Asparagus Salad

4 pieces crisp lettuce 16 apears cooked asparagus

1 hard cooked egg, sliced

1 tablespoon chopped pickles

1 teaspoon chopped onion

2. tablespoons cataup

1 teaspoon horseradish

6 tablespoons mayonnaise

APRICOT SOUFFLE

Cold souffle is made as follows:- Dissolve oz. gelatine in a pint

of milk, add the yolks of two eggs,

Chill. ingredients. Arrange leta tablespoonful of castor sugar, tace on plates and top with remain-and a few drops of vanilla. ing ingredients.

KEEPING TOMATOES FRESH

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over them,

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When the mixture is cold, but not quite set, mix lightly in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Put a layer of apricot jam into a castor sugar. Arrange the pine- apple slices at the bottom and

When stuffing tomatoes for ple- souffle dish and pour in the mix- round the sides of the basin 80well. Add rest of ingrédients and season, and bind. with half an egg. Add coffee cream and fold in.stillynics, a good way to keep them inture.

A ball, flour beaten egg white to which salt has tact, and freaks is to pour parafin Serve with whipped cream that they overlap one another.ş'

Fill the rest of the basin with a drop portions from tip of spoon onto yolk. Form into

top and been added. Pour into tray and 1 teaspoon paprika

Bake 12 lightly, and flatten

allow to finish. freezing, without bottom... Combine vinegar with dry ingre-mixture consisting of the follow-greased baking sheets,

Brush with remaining half-agg-further agitating. dients.

Then add-oil slowly, con- ing ingredients beaten up well to- minutes in moderate oven. gether: the whites of three eggs

yolk, roll in breadcrumbs, and tinuing to beat until all the oil is

marks a circle in the centre of the added. One egg white whipped in-beaten to a stiff froth, two ounces of ground almonds, a quarter of a

top with a cutter, going fairly to this mixture will improve the

deeply into the potato. Fry in emulsion. If oll is not desired, one-pound of castor sugar, and a drop

deep fat, drain, and remove the lid made by the cutter. Scoop out wiches which you wish to be parti- some of the inside, leaving a firm cularly dainty and of fancy shape,

of vanilla essence.

Cover the basin and stream the

third cup of melted butter can be substituted for one-third cup of oil mixture for half an hour. Allow If this dressing is kept in refrigera-it to cool and then turn it out on a tor, is should be shaken well before dish and decorate with a little serving.

whipped cream.........

Asparagus Salad Somerset.

1 cup diced cooked asparagus

1⁄2 cup diced cucumbers

4 cups diced radishes

2 tablespoons chopped green pep-

pers

1 tablespoon chopped onion

1 tablespoon chopped pickles

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

1⁄4 teaspoon pepper

4 tablespoons French dressing

Mix, chill ingredients and serve on crisp lettuce leaves.

RUSSIAN DRESSING.

EGGS COOKED IN BASQUE STYLE

A Simple Recipe.

8.hard cooked eggs

1⁄2 cup finely chopped ham

1/3 cup chopped celery.

2 tablespoons chopped green pep.

pera

4 teaspoon salt

14 teaspoon peppor

1 egg, well beaten

2 tablespoons cold water

1 cup rolled bread or crumbs Cut eggs "in halves lengthwise Remove and mash egg yolks. Add ham, celery, green peppers, salt and pepper to egg yolks. Refill egg to cases and press halves together.

cup anchovies or anchovy paste 1 cup French dressing

Add French dressing slowly anchovies, mixing well until dressing is added.

Strawberry Dessert.

2 cups whipped cream

1/8 cup confectioner's sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla ------

all water has been added. Roll in

Dip filled eggs in egg to which cold

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2 cups berries, washed and hulled

2/3 cup granted sugar

8 alices angel food cake

Mix and chill whipped cream, con

FRUIT SALAD DRESSING

2 egg yolks

2 tablespoons sugar

Juice.bf two lemons

1 tablespoon flour

DAINTY SANDWICHES -

When cutting bread for gand-

1⁄2 cup strained honey or mapie under the grill or in the oven, and always eut lengthwise to avoid

syrup

1⁄2 cup whipping cream

case. Fill the case with the veal waste.

cream, piling it up on top, re-heat

Mix honey or syrup, flour and serve with a slice of lemon.

sugar. Cook in double boffer for

10 minutes. Add lemon Juice and

beaten egg yolks slowly and cook VEAL SALAD LOAF.

for five minutes, stirring constantly,

HINT WHEN SERVING CELERY.

I package lemon flavoured gelatin mixture

1-2/3 cups boiling water

1 teaspoon chopped onion

1 tablespoon chopped pimiento

1 tablespoon chopped green pep-

2/3 teaspoon salt 1/3 teaspoon paprika -1⁄2 cup diced celery

To dice celery, freshen the stalks per in cold water and wash thorough ly. Then cut the stalke in ama!! sections. lengthwise. Lay several stalks together on a board and cut crosswise. Tiny leaves may be used for garnishing, while larger leaves may be dried for soups.

How To Seat Your Principal Guests.

Always have the guest of honour

crumbs. Fry in deep hot fat until sit at the right of the hostess at &

2 cups chopped cooked veal

Pour water over gelatin mixture, stir until dissolved. Cool, allow to thicken a little. Add rest of ingre dients, pour into glass mould. Chill until stiff.

Lemon Cheese.

When eggs and butter are cheap

light brown colour. Serve with To- luncheon or dinner. If it is in the housewife may replenish her

mato Sauce.

PLAN SCONES.

"Rub loz. butter into 1⁄2 lb. four,

add a teaspoonful of baking pow

der and a pinch of salt, and mix

in enough sour milk to make into

honour of a man and a woman, stock of lemon cheese, for when have the woman sit at the right of sealed in jars it will keep good for the boat and the man sit at the a long time. The following is an excellent recipe. Put the juice of right of the hostess, 22-

two lemons and the rind of one,

TO CLEAN BAKING DISHES

with two ounces of butter and halt

a pound of lump sugar, into a

To clean baking dishes and pans, saucepan. When dissolved add

a dough. Roll out and ent Inta doak than in Bot water to which two eggs well beaten and stir well

fectioner's sugar and vanilla. Mix rounds, brush over with the white washing soda has been added. Use until the mixture thickens. This and chlif berries and granulated of an egg, and bake in fairly one tablespoons of sola for each quantity can be doubled. sugar. When ready to serve com- quick oven for about a quarter of quart of water required to fill the

bine, chilled nfixtures and serve or an hour. cake slices. Serve with a fork.

LEMON JUICE ON.

FRUIT SALADS??

A little lemon juice, sprinkled over

just befo

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