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CHINA MAIL: HOME SUPPLEMENT

The Nicest way-

If Your Husband

Likes Good Food.

VERY male creature

bas

E least a latent apprecia-

tion for good food. be he Eng- lishman or foreign. Yes, even the Englishman earns to také notice as soon as be gets a chance!"

There is nothingy pleasanter than 10 cater-and even cook for "a> husband who has an intelligent un- derstanding of food, who Ekes it enjoys it, and is discriminating Here are a few interesting dishes to try if you happen to cook for : one of that category.

SOLE COOKED IN CIDER One of my husband's pet dishes, is filets de sole au cidre.

Put the fillets in a reproof dish, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with 2 or 3 chopped shal- lots, and pour 1 or 2 glasses of cider over them.. Cook in a moder- ate oven for 15 to 20 minutes, till the fish is tender.

When done, put the cider in a small saucepan, add 2 tablespoons Sicur. of butter, a sprinkling of and stir till smooth. Just before serving, add 1 teaspoonful of chop-. ped parsley and pour the sauce over the fish

CHICKEN SAUTE A LA CREME

Cut the chicken in seven pieces- wings, lexa, drumsticks and breast -skín and trim well, and fry these for about three minutes in a little, butter at the foaming stage, turn-"- ing the pieces to brown them lightly: put in salt, pepper, 3 bou- quet. a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces, and a port glassful of either sherry or dry white wine.

Cook, with the lid on, slowly for twenty minutes. Add to them a dozen button onions previously boiled in water with a little better and half a dozen mushrooms cut in slices and cooked two minutes in butter: remove the bouquet, add a zlask of cream, and simmer ten minutes more.

See that the sauce does not reduce 500 much and bind it at the last minute with two yolks of egs diluted in a little

CREAM.

POTATOES PARISIENNE Peel some large potatoUS

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scoop out of them little balls. This is done with a special instrument (which can be got easily' for 'shil-.. Eng or so) in the shape of a round spoon with a very sharp edge. [The best size is about three quarters of an inch in diameter.) Wash the little, balls and put them in cold salted water. -

Bring slowly to the boil boil half a minute and drain them well - Cock them slowly in butter at the foaming stage, shaking them occa- sionally till they are nicely brown. ed, about a quarter of an hour. Drain. salt and serve. A very at tractive way of serving potatoes.

YOUNG CARROTS, MINTED

Wash and scrape small young carrots. Place them, whole, in a heavy saucepan or skillet with 2 tablespoons butter or other, fat to every 6 or 7 carrots. Add only the water that clings to them after washing. Sprinkle with sal cover and cook slowly until almost tender. Sprinkle generously with granulated sugar and cook un covered until carrots take on a glazed appearance. Sprinkle with finely chopped fresh mint a fex minutes before pan

removing from

"CRAB-APPLE“ SALAD Wash and drain a crisp. fresh lettuce, and separate the leaves Arrange them on individual plates and lay on each a round of puslei rape fruit. about half an insha thick.

Eoll some. cream cheese into balls with butter "hands,” and make them look like crab-apples by sprinkling them with paprika, and sticking a clove and tiny leaf in the top for the "eye."

Pour a little mayonnaise on the grape fruit and place an “apple” on the cream.

This is such a pretty dish that it can take its place as a course at luncheon or supper.

MENT AND ORANGE Arrange lettuce at the bottom of a salad bowl. Peal and remove rind from two or three oranges and arrange the pieces on the let- tuce. Sprinkle with the juice of balf a

lemon, a teasroonful of castor sugar and two tablespoon fuls of chopped mint.

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THE FINEST

Serve with wholemeal bread and butter..

HOT ORANGE SOUFFLES

5 orances

2 exxx

14 oz. flour

1 glass sherry or milk

1 oz. castor' sugar

2 oz. buster

2 crumbled sponge fingers Remove a slice from the top of each orange, then scoop out pulp very carefully so as not to break the rinds, Rub palp through a fire siere, and add wine or milk Mel: batter in a large saucepan. Add Bour and crumbs. Stir till frothy. then add 1 cups, of the orange pulp and wine or milk by degrees, stirring constantly. Boil till thick then remove from Sre and allow to cool Stir in sugar, and exk yolks one at a time. Beat ex whites till stiff and fold Rebtly into mixture. Pour into oinet skins. filling them oni three- quarters full Bake on a baking Pacet in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Bake remainder in but- tered souffle dishes. Serve it an- other meal,

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JAM OF FRETT TART Work 6oz. of batter with 3oz. «* Bour, Sez. of ground almonds 2oz. of sugar, and the yolks of exs. Roll the paste out on a floured board to a thickness of 2 inch, cut out and place on a round baking tin; spread with a thic layer of jamor, better still, with fresh fruit, sliced and cooked in a thick syrup, decorate with strips of pastry, forming lattice-work, brush the pastry over with a beaten yolk of egg, and bake in a some- what moderate oven till the pastry is a light golden colour. cold.

Serve

RHUBARB CHIFFON PIE 2 cups finely chopped rhubarb

cup sugar

4up water

1 tablespoon granulated gelatine

4 tablespoons cold water

2 egg whites.

4 tablespoons sugar -

1 cup heavy cream

Cook the rhubarb with the half cup of sugar and quarter cop of water until tender. To the still hot mixture add the gelatine, which has been softened in the cold water, and chill until partly solidi- fied. Then fold the partly stiffen- ed gelatine mixture into a meringue made from the egg whites and. four tablespoons of sugar and, finally fold in the stiffy beaten cream. Serve topped with whipped. cream and garnished with fresh strawberries.

little tricks.

FOR YOUR HANDBAG-Leather handbags, should be given a rab with a cloth smeared with a little colourless shoe cream, and a vigorous polishing with a clean Juster.

Those made of snede need a gentle brushing with a wire shoe brush, while fabric bags may often be cleaned with a rag -dipped in benzine or some spirit

cleaner.

If the contents of the bag are kept scrupulously clean and the. powder container air-tight, the get grubby. lining should not But, if it does, it may also be cleaned fairly satisfactorily with the kind of eleaning fluid you

use for clothes.

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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1935.

Your DIET

Some Questions And Answers

In giving pineapple as part of

a fruit lanch, what is best to com- bine with it?

Milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese. baked custard, vegetable gelatine and lettuce may be combined with pineapple.

May raw fruit and cooked fruit be taken at the same meal with good results?

Never, mix raw fruit with fruit that is cooked, canned or stewed. Their rates of digestion differ and "for this reason they should not be. taken together at the same medi. Whenever it is possible to get raw, ripe and mellow fruit, avoid cook- in it.

May peaches, pears or other sub- -. acid fruits be eaten with whole wheat cereal and mik?

They may be served with whole wheat cereal and milk-in the form of fifty-5fty.

Which cereal is easier of dires- tion wheat or cats?

Wheat is easier of digestion thos oats.

Is cream and butter as good a dressing for salad as "olive oil, when the digestion is weak?

When the digestion is weak it is better to use cream, as this is eas- ier to digest than butter or olive oz

Is lemon juice used merely for. real palatability or has it some value in the salad?

Lemon juice is used, not only to give flavour to the salad, but also to stimulate thy Sow of digestive juices and to a in the digestion of the protein foods..

It is advisable to give children bread with butter and honey? Is it all right to use honey on oatmeal. porridge or corn flakes or puffed rice and paffed wheat? Or is it of the same effect as sugar?

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It is proper to give children bread with butter and honey, Mapie syrup may be taken as well honey. But no matter what sWEETS are taken with bread or cereals, they should be thoroughly masti- ented and then there will be no ten- dener to overeat. -

Is aluminium safe, 10 cook in, or is it a slow course of poisoning?

It is not safe to cook in alumin- imm ware. Use either enamel or granite ware.

Is it all right to eat mushrooms on toast with sweet potatoes, or with what should they be eaten?

Mushrooms may be taken with the vegetable meal" when either meats or starches are served. Is spaghetti a good food? Spaghetti is mere dough soaked in water, Dough made of devitalis. ed white flour from which mineral matter and vitamins have been eliminated.

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Whenever your bag is not in actual use, it should be emptied cf everything it contains, and laid Sat in a drawer, with some- thing on the top of it.

SAKY

The toilet accessories should be dusted, and washed, if neces-. before returning them to the bag when it is to be" used "again, and a last rub should be given to any shining, metal with a silver cleaning cloth.

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