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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.

Dinners For Two People

Warm weather and sports and Jeannette MacDonald, singing screen star, selects a suit as her rchoice. Her black woolen skirt is topped with dusty rose jacket, fea- turing interesting patch pocket. The blouse is of dusty rose, green and black figured print.

LAMB PINWHEEL

Prize Menus And A Selection Of Best Dishes

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tinuously and never allow it to boil after the meat is added or it will become hard, This curry should be dark brown, and is served on a separate dish from the rice.

Baked Bananas And Marmalade There is no more difficult problem | shrimps, salt, pepper and ground

Grease a baking

with in practical housewifery than cater mace, few drops of lemon juice. little butter. Slice four bananas ing for two people who require Chop shrimps finely. Melt but-

lengthwise, and lay at bottom little dinner that is attractive, well-ter in a pan, add flour, then milk, dish. Cover with two tablespoon- balanced, and not too costly.

and stir till boiling. Cook well, then fuls marmalade, and one tables- Monotony has to be avoided, "left-add shrimps and seasonings.

poonful Demerara sugar. Pour in and filled fish, sprinkle overs" are not desirable, so food Skin

a little sherry, or rum, and add a that can be bought in small quanti-with sathe shrimp mixture on the dium heat for about 20 minutes. and lemon juice, then small piece of butter. Bake in me- ties is preferable. Sometimes the spread plan of buying a small joint and skinned side of each filled. Roll up Serve hot. having it cut up in different ways from the tail end and fasten with --Stand rolls in a buttered to provide a variety of dishes, such string. as a roast, pudding, or pie, a mince tin, cover with greased paper and into a piedish and mix with it a and a stew, is followed with satis-bake in moderate factory results. This means, how minutes. ever, at best a succession of beef, cover with white mutton, or feal dishes, and they are garnish with powdered lobster coral with grated cheese and bake for 15 apt to pall.

and sprigs of paraley.

Here are some ideas for you:- Stewed Pigeon and Olives. Mashed or New Potatoes, Peas..

Orange Pudding

with Rum Butter

STEWED PIGEON.

oven

Fish With Sweet Corn

Flake Steam 1lb white fish.

it

15 to 20 small tin of sweet corn. Cover with Dish up, cut off strings, half a pint of white sauce, dust fish sauce and with breadcrumbs, sprinkle well

One-quarter lb of chopped lobster or crayfish may be substituted for shrimps.

Dry Curry

minutes.

French Fruit Pancakes One oz butter, loz sugar, 1 egg, 1oz flour, 1 gill milk, pinch salt, 2 tablespoonfuls of any kind of cold fruit.

Cut plenty of onions into thin Divide slices, fry in butter (with salt) or Cream the butter with wooden pigeon into quarters. Fry in but-bacon fat (without salt) till brown. spoon, beat egg till frothy and stir ter till pale brown. Put into Take them out and put into the hot in. Add sugar and salt. Mix well. 34-pint of good stock, cover

and liquid the curry powder, six or Add half the flour and half the milk, cook gently for 40 minutes,

seven stoned and chopped raisins then the remainder, beating well and a very little desiccated cocoanut. Bring these ingredients to the boil, stirring all the time.

Stew the olives. Serve pigeon with olives arranged round the dish. ORANGE PUDDING.—1 cupful breadcrumbs, 4 cupful sugar, Add the meat, which has been pinch salt, 2 table spoonfuls melted

Turn mixture into two large old saucers and bake in moderate oven for 15 minutes or till golden brown.

cut into pieces an inch square and When cooked turn out, place | butter, grated løñía ¡of 1⁄2 orange. lightly fried, also the onions. Let fruit on wrong side and turn over

Mix well and moisten with juice all simmer for 11⁄2 hour.

of 1⁄2 orange and 1 beaten egg.

Pour into 2 small moulds and steam] for 40 minutes. Serve with rum

butter.

A Second Menu Grilled Mince-Patties. Mushrooms and Tomatoes

Potatoes in Jackets. Caramel Rhubarb Puddings. Take 2lb best steak, finely minc- ed (the butcher will do it for you, if ̈necessary), 2 tablespoonfuls

Ask your butcher to bone a lamb breadcrumbs, 1⁄2 teaspoonful salt, breast and spread it with bulk pork dash of pepper, Mix well and form cakes. Brush with sausage. Other ground meat such into two flat

Grill five minutes as ground round steak may be used, melted butter.

each side. but the flavour and spiciness

of sausage is most desirable in this combination. Roll and tie or skewer the meat into shape.

Season with salt and pepper and brown quickly in hot fat in a skillet. jackets.

Serve with 4lb mushrooms and 4lb tomatoes, nicely seasoned and cooked in butter, and potatoes scrub- in their bed and baked in oven

Add enough hot water to cover the Cream 1oz butter and 1oz moist bottom of the skillet, cover tightly brown sugar together. Spread and cook slowly until lamb is tender. equally inside two fireproof moulds. This makes the caramel sauce for The meat should cook tender in 11⁄2 to 2 hours. As the water cooks the puddings. away, add more to

insure good

Sift lb self-raising flour, rub gravy when the meat is tender. If in 202. butter, loz sugar. Mix with Roll out and line desired, the lamb may be baked in a beaten egg.

each mould. Fill with chopped rhubarb and sugar. Put on lid of paste.

a moderate oven, 350 degrees, about the same length of time.

When the lamb roll is sliced the darker colour of the sausage makes the circles in the slices and produces (Continued at foot of next col.)

SKILFULLY BLENDED

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Set in shallow pan of water and Serve with bake about 40 minutes.

cream.

Stuffed Fillets Of Soles Ingredients: 1 lemon sole (1 to 11⁄2lb), 1⁄2oz butter, 2oz flour, 3 tablespoonfuls milk, 4 pint picked

the pinwheel effect.

With this meat course the fol lowing foods would combine to per- fection:

Cabbage Salad With Sour Cream

Shred the cabbage to hair-like fineness. The whipped sour cream (which must be ordered a day ahead) can be added to either boil- ed salad dressing or the oil may- onnaise, equal portions of dressing and cream. A dash of paparika strewn across the top of the salad gives a festive colour.

Stir con-like an omelette. Serve hot.

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