1937-07-19 — Page 2

"THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1937.

WAYS OF COOKING CRAB

perspiring Chinese gentleman, creamy; 2 tomatoes;

tablespoon-mon juice, å suspicion of

A werthian, and white rolled up ful, chopped parsley, 3 pickled mustard and the yolk of

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Serve the biscuits, decorated

chovy, curled round on the top, or with a stoned French olive. Garnish with cress.

made[ a hard- trousers, sat dangling a string of walnuts, chopped small; 1⁄2 teas-boiled egg. Spread this mixture crabs in the bus the other day, poonful salt and a shake of pepper, rather thickly on the tomato and The crabs fumed, and bubbled on Flake and season crab meat with then pile on it the white flesh of the their string, but were a reminder salt and pepper. Mix chopped egg claws mashed up in a little stiffly Stir whipped cream, to which a pinch of that they are in the market these whites, walnuts and parsley.

Pile salt may be added. days and that they are delicious. all these into mayonnaise.

cleaned crab shells, cover

al- Here is a collection of crab recipes into from all over the world. Most with sieved tomato and sieve egg ternatively with a thin strip of an-

For a picnic take the people like crab when they try it-yolk over. but so many cooks are conservative latter in small cartons and add just in their manner of dealing with before serving. this shell-fish. Crab dressed salad is good, but there are innum-

a particularly attractive erable ways of producing hot dishes way on serving crabs on hot days, of real distinction as well as attrac-It satisfies the palate as well as tive varieties of the familiar salad.looking appetising.

Cut grapefruit in halves with a This method of serving crabs is

Take out pulp, re- used in the West Indies for cooking sharp knife.

carefully that gift. to the gourmet, the black move pips and skin land crab. It brings out the de- Place pulp on a sieve and drain off licate flavour far better than the its juice. ordinary methods.

as

a

Select two medium-sized crabs. Pick the meat from the shells and claws,

brown.

This

Fruit And Fish

Make a thick mayonnaise, or take a prepared one, add a little double cream and some tomato catsup.

Shortly before serving mix crabs,

and

A Singapore Omelette This recipe came from a Chinese Sing- but- "makan" (eating) shop at

Delicious Sandwich Paste Take contents of a middle-sized crab-body and claws well mixed; 2lb fresh butter; 14 tablespoon- powder; 1⁄2 tablespoon- ful salt; 1 small teaspoonful cayenne pepper; 1 clove of garlic well bruised.

fuls curry

Melt the butter in a strong glazed Add all the ingredients and jar.

Cover the top and bake Add stir well. in a slow oven for 11⁄2 hour. about 4 tablespoonfuls vinegar. Stir well again and put into small jars,

suet or! covering when cold with lard to exclude air.

As Served At Suez Ingredients: 1 dressed crab, large tomatoes, Zoz. unpolished rice, 2 pickled gherkins, salad cream to taste.

and run

chop finely and mix with

mafonnaise. Fill four tablespoonfuls breadcrumbs, grapefruit one tablespoonful butter, half teas- the empty half grapefruit skins sprinkle with: poonful grated lemon rind, a good with this mixture, pinch each of mixed herbs-fresh, some drops of tomato catsup and Serve on ice. Do not not dried, if possible-cayenne parsley. pepper and salt, and one teaspoon-use refrigerator. ful mango chutney. Pack mixture into shells, sprinkle with · bread- crumbs, put a small lump of

Wash rice, drop into boiling ter on top of each, and bake in a apore. They do not give away re- water, add a pinch of salt and sim- hot oven for 20-30 minutes till cipes at such places but the most mer for about a quarter of an hour, bread-crumbs are a crisp golden pleasing results can be achieved by till rice is soft. Drain in colander

experiment.

cold water through to Serve as hot as possible, accom- Boil till soft some diced cucum-separate grains.. +

Peel tomatoes, by placing in boil- panied by a salad of sliced Avocado ber and a chopped onion in a little pear seasoned with salt, pepper salted water. Beat up one egg for ing water for one minute, when the and vinegar. You can then easily each person. Drain the cucum- peel will come away without stick- imagine that you are in the islandber well and add to the omelette ing.

the glorious for its scenery, climate mixture with

shredded crabkins. and native cookery-Jamaica. meat seasoned with a little pepper crab

From the Outer Hebrides

and salt. Fry and roll an omelette ir The island folk specialise in the the usual way with not too cooking of crabs. · This is a most fat. Then add a cupful of hot delicious dish..

water, lower the flame and cover the frying pan, leaving the omelette to simmer for three minutes.

1 freshly boiled crab; 2 egg whites; 2 egg yolks; 2 tablespoon- fuls mayonnaise, home made or

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the pale cheeks of her daughter who lacks appetite, is under-

Cut into slices. Chop gher- Mix them with the chopped and add salad cream to taste.

Piping Hot With Lemon much Place this mixture in centre of al

dish, arrange rice in a ring round and garnish with sliced tomato.

Remove meat from shell. Put one desertspoonful salad oil and a Pour away the water. Place the piece of butter, the size of a omelette, as dry as possible, on

awalnut, into frying pan. When hot plate with a pat of butter and a quite hot add one tablespoonful little tomato sauce spread light on top, and, if liked, just a suspicion of chilli powder to add piquancy to it. Serve at once.

Individual omelettes look better than

An a large one divided. enamel frying pan with its smooth surface lessens the tendency to sticking.

Cold Crab Rävigote This recipe comes from a hotel in Philadelphia, famous for its good cooking.

1 pint of best cold cooked crab meat, cut very fine or shredded; 2 large ripe, firm tomatoes; 1 large green pepper; 1 pimento, 1 table- spoonful chopped parsley.

Remove seeds from pepper and pimento and then chop them fine Mix all together weight, easily exhausted, breathless with tomatoes.

and nervous. Such symptoms indicate with enough mayonnaise to make that the girl is anaemic and her urgent the mixture quite moist. Season need is Dr. Williams Pink Pills which to taste with salt and paprika. contain the vital, energising, life-giving Fill small crab shells with this mixture and garnish with 2 an- For 'teen age weakness in girls, Dr. chovies, a piece of cut lemon and a Williams Pink Pills are unsurpassed pickle cut in

nourishment demands.

blood which anaemic

They are the prescription of a doctor, Decorate platery thin slices.

an

M.D. of Edinburgh University,

with water: cress

Scotland, and are world-renowned as surrounding the crab shell.

Savoury Pastry Biscuits

Cut

a safe reliable blood and nerve tonic. Equally good for women of all ages, Make some rich short pastry, and they are especially helpful for building when mixing it add enough anchovy up health and strength after child- sauce to give a distinct flavour. birth and at the critical change of life'

Add also a little red pepper. period.

For run-down worn-out men, and for the pas

pastry into rounds and bake. sufferers of both sexes from digestive When cold lay on top of each one weakness, rheumatism in any of its a slice of tomato as nearly as pos- forms, nervous troubles and general

sible the same size as biscuit. debility-1 Williams Pink Pi likewise

specific. They

Now mix the dark body flesh of the crab with a teaspoonful of le-

finely chopped parsley and fry for a few moments. Add the crab, which must have no large pieces in it, and shake in the pan till hot through; it must not actually fry.

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Add sufficient fine breadcrumbs to make the mixture fairly dry about it must be very hot-with a tablespoonful is usually sufficient bread and lemon.

and to mix over fire. | [Season

This is an 'Austrian dish. pepper, salt and a much liked. by people who

Serve quickly eaten only cold crab.

squeeze of lemon.

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