1934-08-25 — Page 10

10

THE CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934.

FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS

FROZEN DESSERT Cool Gelatin Salads

IS BEST ENDING

TO A HOT DAY] ·

LEMON ICE, MINT SHERBET FOR KEEPING COOL NOW

a hot day Nothing is better on than a frozen fruit dessert, sherbet, An ice cream ice or muscovitė. rich with cream, eggs, nuts and chocolate furnishes lots of food value but also heat-producing So while it may be cold calories. to the taste, it has the reverse effect on the body.

4

Add

Interesting Note To Menu

Beet Luncheon Salad.

1 package lemon gelatin.

I pint warm water,

3 tablespoons vinegar.

1 teaspoon salt.

diced.

1 pimienta, chopped.

Dissolve gelatin in. warm water, Add asparagus stock, vinegar and

OMELETTE

A DISH FOR

ANY MEAL

Gives Scope For Wide Variety

FRUIT COCKTAIL. CONTAINERS

Ice Shells Add New Note When Serving

souffle

Ice shells for serving fruit cock- tails are something new and differ-

glass custard cups or in salt. Chill. When slightly thick-MUST BE SERVED IMMEDIATELY ent. These can be made either in ened, fold in asparagus and pim-

The great all-meal dish, that's the cups. Fill the cups with water, A little food colouring can be used if Turn into Individual

desired... cook-iento.

mould, Chill until firm. Unmould omelette. For breakfast, luncheon, Garnish with dinner and mid-night supper, there's mayonnaise. Sprakle with papri- always old faithful.

You must watch one thing, though 11⁄2 cups cabbage, finely shred-on crisp lettuce.

ded.

It ought to be served immediately.

1⁄2 teaspoon scraped onion. 11⁄2 cups (4 small) beets,

cooked and diced.

1/4 cup green pepper, diend. Dissolve gelatin in warm water. Remember in making ices that Add vinegar, salt and onion, Chill. augar is a quick energiser and adds When slightly thickened, fold in Turn into individual fuel value to a meal. Use enough vegetables.

Garnish with

to make the ice palatable, but don't moulds. Chill until arm. Unmold over-sweeten and thus add extra on crisp lettuce. heat.

Fruit pulp and sugar are used to make a muscovite and fruit juice) and sugar syrup to make an ice. Sherbet or sorbet adds stiffly beaten whites of egga to a water ice founda- tion.

Muscovite Of Watermelon

Four cups shredded watermelon.

2 cups powdered sugar. 4 tablespoons non-alcoholic sherry.

Break watermelon' with a fork, Combine with removing seeds. sugar and

yonnaise.

Crisp Summer Salad 1. package lemon gelatin.

1 pint warm water.

1 tablespoon vinegar.

1 teaspoon salt.

1 cup cucumber, diced.

1 cup red radishes, thinly

ed.

"

ka.

Red Creast Tomato Aspic

1 package strawberry gelatin.

1 pint warm tomatoes.

2 teaspoons prepared horse-

radish.

11⁄2 teaspoons scraped onion. 11⁄2 teaspoon salt.

Dash of cayenne. Dissolve gelatin in warm toma- toes. Add horseradish, onion, salt and cayenne. Force through a sieve. Turn into individual molds.

Chill until firm, Garnish with ma- slic-lyonnaise. May also be mouled in half-moulds and used as relish or

Place a thickness of waxed paper in the freezing tray and then place the cups on the paper. This will produce more uniform freezing. It loses its golden fluffiness quickly Allow the water to freeze approxi

if it stands. Turn it quickly onto a

hot, buttered platter and eat at once.mately 4 inch all around,

Remove the cups, and pour out Plain Omelette

the water from the centre. Return Allow one egg for each person to to freezing tray for a short time. be served and a extra egg for the Then remove the ice shells from pan. For each egg use 1 tablespoon the containers and place them in Separate yolks and the glass chill tray beneath the hot water. whites of eggs. Season yolks with freezer. salt and pepper and best well, A dozen or more of these shells gradually beating in water. Beat can be frozen and stored for future whites until stiff and fold the yolks

on a dolly and arrange fruft na de- well-buttered omelette pan or a sired. Serve immediately. (a plece into the whites. Pour into & hot, use. When serving, place the shell heavy frying pan and cook slowly of paper will prevent these shells

1 cup tender young onion, thin- garnish for platter of cold meat until the underside is lightly brown- from freezing on the chill tray,

ly sliced.

Dissolve gelatin in warm water.

Add vinegar and salt. Chill. When

sherry en turn into slightly thickened, fold in vege-1

into Turn

individual: tables.

Un- moulds. Chill until frm. mould on crisp lettuce. with mayonnaise.

freezer. Pack in four parts ite to one part ice cream salt and let stand two hours or longer.

in chilled sherbet glasses.

Lemon Ice

Serve

This can be used as the founda-

tion for several inviting desserts and beverages.

Four cups water, 2 cups sugar, 4 lemons, 1 large orange or 2 emall ores, 1 tablespoon granulated xela- tine.

Grate rinds of orange and lemon

Garnish

Fresh Asparagus Salad

1 package lemon gelatin.

cup asparagus stock or

1 cup warm water.

3 tablespoons vinegar.

1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

2 cups

Twopenny Salad

package lemon gelatin,

1 pint warm water.

1⁄2 teaspoon salt.

1⁄2 teaspoon celery salt.

3 tablespoone vinegar.

2 tablespoons tomato ketchup. 1 cup cabbage, finely shredded.

ed. Then put the pan in a slow

oven, 350 degrees F. and bake until which would make them dificult to

remove.) the omelette le firm to the touch.

To fold make a cut with a spatula

at right angles to the handle of the

pan and about two-thirds down from the handle. Be sure not to

Dissolve gelatin in warm water.cat more than half-way through the mixture. Tip the pan, allde spatula Add seasonings, vinegar, and ketch-up. When slightly thicken-under omelette and fold it over as

Turn into you slide it onto the hot platter.

Other Varieties water.ed, fold in cabbage.

individual molds. Chill until Arm. Unmould on crisp lettuce. Garnish

asparagus, cooked and with mayonnaise.

and add to sugar and water. Briag TOMATOES WIN

to the boiling point and boil eight Add gelatine which has minutes. been softened in 4 tablespoons cold water for five minutes. Stir until gelatine is dissolved, strain and cool. Squeeze juice from lemons and orange and strain. When syrup is cold, add strained juice and turn

into freezer. Freeze as usual.

To make tutti-fruitti Ice, add 1

FAVOUR AS A

RICE PUDDING

3 eggs

2/3 cups sugar

2 cups milk

1 teaspoon vanilla.

14 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup boiled rice

2 tablespoons butter

To make jelly omelette, spread cooked omelette with jelly just be

Mix ingredients and pour into fore folding. Jam, preserves or

buttered baking dish. Bake 50 min-1 jelly can be used.

Cool and Ham Omelette: Sprinkle with ajutes in very slow oven.

SPICED LOAF CAKE thick layer of chopped cocked ham,

1⁄2 cup fat

HEALTH FOOD 1 cup sugar

VEGETABLE ONCE DESPISED GRADUALLY BECOMES A NECESSITY IN MENU

Time changes all things--for

cup diced peaches or apricots and verification of this adage, consider

1 cup red raspberries when lemon the tomato.

ice is half frozen.

Time was when this

fruit-oh, regardless of common

1 cup classification as a vegetable, toma-

1 egg

11⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon cloves

teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup sour milk

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

1/3-cup nuts

1/3 cup raising

Lady regarded as poison. Its original of ingredients.

sweet cider and 1 cup crushed ice toes are the fruit of the vine-was

For lemon granite, add

and serve in tall glasses.

to serve with the granite.

most insidious title.

Lemon frappe is served in punch tomato became glasses. Moke a hole in the centra with distrust by many. of each serving and All with 2 or 3 tablespoons grape juice.

mixed with a little minced parsley If you like, before folding, 1 like to pour a cup of medium white sauce! around ham omelette when ready to

serve.

chill. Serve plain or with cream.

CHEESE SOUFFLE

Add lb. of grated cheese to the yolks of 4 eggs and 2 tablespoons Chicken Omelette: Before folding of cream: mix well with the stiff omelette, cover with a thick layer froth of 4 whites of egg. Pour the of diced cooked chicken in a rich mixture into a well-buttered souffle- cream sauce. This is splendid for

pan and bake in the oven

satisfactory for summer entertain-quarter of an hour.

a party breakfast or "brunch" go

ing. Cooked sweetbreads can be substituted for the chicken or you

can use fish-tuna, crabmeat, lob- ster or salmon.

Sauce Bechamel

for B

Meit 1 oz. of butter on a low fire,

Cream fat and sugar. Add rest Cheese Omelette: Sprinkle a thick add 1 oz of flour and work it in for

Beat 2 minutes. layer of grated cheese over the top about 3 minutes.

Add 1⁄2 pint of

Bring it to a boil, stirring. jed by a border of sauted tomato meg.

slices. This is inviting for dinner constantly. when the day has been hot.

fingers or sponge cup cakes are good name was love apple," apparently a Pour into loaf pan lined with wax-before folding and serve surround-milk, salt, pepper, and grated nut-

Later the ed paper. Bake 50 minutes in mo a luxury-viewed derately slow oven.

Now it enters into more healthful dishes than possibly any single food) As n served on American tables.

containing valuable

Mint Sherbet

Four lemons, 2 oranges, 1 large beverage

bunch mint, 2 cups water, 1 cup minerals and vitamins, tomato julcs sugar, white of 1 egg, few grains has no superior.

and water

A

Among the minerals in tomato salt, green vegetable colouring,

juice are phosphorus, calcium and Cut mint finely and put into large bowl. Make a syrup of sugar iron. Vitamins A, B and C are and pour over mint. present in abundance, particularly Cover closely and let stand 1 hour. the last named. Small wonder then Strain and add juice from lemons that baby specialists recommend to- and oranges. Add colouring it mato juice for children from the wanted and turn into freezer. When tender age of 3 months on to ma-

turity.

half frozed fold in white of egg

FOR SANDWICHES OR SALADS

Boiled Dressing

8 egg yolks.

4 tablespoons flour.

1 teaspoon dry mustard.

2/3 cup sugar.

1 teaspoon salt.

1/4 teaspoon pepper.

2/8 cup vinegar.

1 cup water."

If you start varying omelettes you will go on almost Indefinitely be cause all the vegetables can be used, mushrooms. are delicious and the meats are savoury and numerous.

FRUIT WHIP

4 egg whites..

11⁄2 cups crushed pineaple.

Beat egg whites stiff and fold

in fruit. Turn tato refrigerator

Beat yolks, add dry ingredients. freezing trays and freeze 1 to 2

beaten until stiff with a few grains tomatoes, whether fresh or canned, slowly, stirring constantly, until

It is most gratifying to know that Add rest of ingredients. Cook hours. Fills 2 pine trays,

Variation Any fresh or can- of salt. Finish freezing and serve

Beat ned fruit may be used. Sweeten to:

with a garnish of slightly sweeten-retain their healthful properties to dressing is thick, creamy.

the fullest extent. The facilities well, pour into glass jar which taste and add lemon juice if ne

ed whipped cream..

CUCUMBER DRESSING rigid tests as

ADDS ZEST

Useful Salad Hint

Cucumber dressing cold fish or meat

to

Cool, cover and store in lee box fruit.

for modern canning promote this has been rinsed out of cold water. cessary to bring out flavour of happy state of affairs.

Only tomatoes that have passed to their size and quality are used for canning pur- poses, the entire process being governed with scientific exactitude. Fresh tomatoes are perfect just now eat them in abundance, In salads or combined with cooked foods. This same goodness can

whip cold crearly also

be obtained in. canned tomatoes

it too and canned tomato juice.

atif), put in a little vinegar, salt; pepper and paprika. Leave it in

the ice box until ready to serve and then add a cupful of thinly sliced cucumber,

FRUIT FRAPPE

1⁄2 cup orange juice...

1/4 cup lemon juice.

1⁄2 cup powdered sugar.

1 cup water

EAT WHAT MOST APPEALS

Hints On Summer Diets

A good thing to do about the diet in hot weather is to eat what most appeals to you, And don't eat when you don't feel like It. Remember, Mix fruit juices, and then add though, to intersperse & few hot sugar and stir until sugar is dis-dishes with the cold ones, whether golved. Add water, Turn into re- you think you want them much or frigerator freezing tray and freeze not. You'll really be surprised how 2 to 8 hours Fills 1 pint tray, good an occasional substantial hot Mills may be used instead of meal will tasta if you've subsisted

pamperion for several days on knicknacką.

COLD meal and

fowl become really appetising with a little

LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE

DESIG ANP

Once You See them, You Know They Are Good.

Quality Goods Need No Boom!

Crackers

JACOB'S world famous BISCUITS

VIROLI

A BUILDING-UP FOOD FOR ALL AGES VIROL has no medi- cal action It is a food only. It res- tores tone and vita- Iity by supplying easily digested food, thus meeting the needs of the exhaust- ed cells of the body.

TRADE

FLESCHLONS

MORLEY

BEER

Best German

Beer

The Best British KNITWEAR

Blankets

&c.

SHARP'S

TOFFEE

Best British Toffee

Sre probal ́azvilcem WINSOR & NEWTON'S SHOWCARD COLOURS ARTIST'S OIL COLOURS

·SCHOLASTIC WATER COLOURS

HALK

Already known to Artists as the

best colours since 1892.

ONLALEZ PORT

GONZALEZ

PORTS

"Special Tawny"

"Three Crowns**

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

Hongkong's Largest Department Store

DELICIOUS

HAVE

YOU TRIED

THE NEW

FRUIT-FILLED

"TUTTI-

FRUITTI'

ICE CREAM

30 cents.

Per Portion.

DAIRY FARM SODA FOUNTAIN

13, Queen's Road, Central