1938-01-25 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1938.

Can A Hard-Boiled

Fascist Live

On Soft-Boiled Eggs

thing first of all for the pots to boil is a full-time job. Such a problem is grave even at Home, but it is still graver in Colonial dependencies like Hong Kong, where behind the woman there is no such experience which can be turned to profit, but perhaps only some ten to fifteen years of

living. easy

The usual last straw, to become a sales-lady, is not always available, and to make suggestions is useless, because

taken into account.

But,

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Tonkinese Exhibition of Art as

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WE have not heard lately much about that "back- individual considerations must be to-the-kitchen" movement which most of the sibly, the story of Madame Du- dictators have decreed for their women. Whether port will serve to many as

inspiration. that means that all women are by now back to the kitchen and that nothing more can be said about it, or that the movement has had its well-deserved Madame Duport is the charm- ending failure I don't know. I have a suspicion ing and efficient lady who has that my second guess is right. The dictators come to Hong Kong with the must have discovered that not every woman can be the representative of the Indo- sent back to the kitchen and that, in fact, there are China Government. She is quite a number who, for the sake of all concerned, tached to the Hanoi Museum of Economies, an institution founded are better kept out of the kitchen at all costs. After to foster the development of all and intellectual re- all, how can a hard-boiled fascist live only on soft- industrial

sources of the country. In her boiled eggs?

capacity as an organiser, Mad- ame de Port has to travel very But, joking aside, there is a tion is to be a good house-wife often and her chief duty is to serious side to the question. The and mother. What should a wo- look after the artists and crafts- question that must often be ask- man do who is left a widow with- men in whom the Government of ed by many women and not only out means and with children to Indo-China takes a great înter- in dictator-ridden countries. And bring up. She can't very well go est. Madame Duport's husband often by women whose inclina- back to the kitchen; to find some was a scientist in the truest sense.

These Recipes Will

Establish Your Reputation

or

1 onion, sliced.

2 tablespoons parsley, chopped. 4 cups okra, cut crosswise. Bay leaf or celery seed, if desired, 1 green pepper, chopped fine.

1 teaspoon salt. Few grains pepper. Cooked rice.

of the word. A man who found his pleasure in his work and not in the accumulation of wealth. So, when he died some fifteen years ago, she had to take care of herself and her two children.

provides

Madame Duport answer to the back-to-the-kitchen movement.

She obtained work with the Museum of Economics and though she had had no sort of training to fit her for an important ap- pointment, in a few years time she had worked her way up to work up an interest in her new her present responsible position, occupation, because she had al- purely by the simple method of ways a similiar interest in her work. her new husband's entnomological taking an interest in work and by learning.

The conclusion I am inclined

Everybody likes rice when it is. well cooked. And that's the catch. "Well

cooked" means tender, fluffy grains that stand alone -

no clinging together in a sticky mass, if you please. I don't know what good Samaritan thought up the rice ball, but I do know it's one of the easiest ways

1⁄2 cup celery, cut in pieces. Cook the ham and beef in a little to boost one's reputation as a cook.

Put 1 cup of rice (white

fat until brown. Add the parsley, Her work requires organising to draw from Madame Duport's brown) into a bowl. Wash by let- onion, green pepper, and celery, and business acumen, but what case is, that it often pays, dir- ting water pour through the rice Cook mixture for few minutes and is at least equally important, a ectly or indirectly, to take an until the water runs clear. Add 1 add water and tomatoes. Cover the theoretical knowledge of the dif- interest in your husband's work. teaspoon of salt for each quart of pan and simmer until the meat is ferent crafts and their processes. You might like it yourself and water. Boil white rice about 20 almost tender. Then add the okra, She could acquire that by seeing become a real help-mate to him, minutes or until the kernels are pepper, salt, and bay leaf or celery the craftsmen at work and by or at least acquire a genuine in- tender. If in doubt, press grains seed if desired, and simmer unco keeping her eyes open, and it was terest which might some day be between thumb and fore-finger to vered until the okra is tender and surely not difficult for her to very useful to you. test their softness. Makes four the stew has thickened. Shape

border of rice on a large platter and cups cooked rice.

fill centre with the stew. Serves 8:

RICE URUGUAYEN -

RIGE CUTLET:

2 cups cooked rice.

1 teaspoon salt.

1 egg:

1 cup booked carrot pulp.

1 tablespoon onion, minced.

1 tablespoon milk.

Few graine pepper.

1 teaspoon chopped parsley.

1⁄4 cup bread crumbs.

Mixed cooked rice, carrot

"Do try this apple batter. Here's soft. Add flour, salt, and milk gra- the recipe: Make a thin batter in dually. Cook until thick, stirring the usual way. Grease a baking dish constantly, and then add the pea- and pour in half of the batter

medium-sized carrots 11⁄2 cup nuts, cheese, and pimiento. Pour Cover this with a thick layer of

water

medium-sized onions pound round steak, minced

1 teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 1 cup uncooked rice

1 small clove garlic

11⁄2 tablespoon chopped parsley- Cut - carrots and onions in fine

pulp, minced onion, pepper, salt, egg, and pieces. Brown steak in a little fat

milk together. Form into even? sized balls and shape into cutlets. Roll in bread crumbs and let stand

salt

this sauce over the hot rice. ish with parsley and sliced cooked eggs. Serves 6.

FROZEN RICE

Garn- sliced apples (raw), sprinkle with hard- sugar and currants, and pour in the other half of the batter. Bake in a hot oven for twenty-five minutes."

2 cups milk, 1 cup cooked rice 2 egg yolks cups crushed pineapple

and add carrots, onions, rice, water, 1⁄2 cup sugar, 1 cup cream, whipped

pepper, garlic, and parsley and cook slowly 45 minutes to

Serves 6.

5 minutes. Fry the cutlets in a lit hour. Add more water as needed. tle fat until a golden brown on both sides.. Arrange on a hot plate and sprinkle with parsley. Serve with apple or currant jelly

RICE GUMBO

4 pound ham, diced.

2 cups water.

4 cups-tomatoes (fresh or can

ned).

1 pound beef, diced,

RICE MONTCLAIR

tablespoons green pepper, chopped 2 cups milk 4 tablespoons fat

1⁄2 cup peanuts, chopped

4 tablespoons flour. 1 teaspoon salt 1⁄2 cup cheese, grated tablespoons pimiento, chopped

3 cups cooked rice

"Instead of cutting across the stalk of a cauliflower when ready for cooking, take a pointed knife or apple corer and scoop out a deep hole in the stalk. Then your cauli- flower will boil, and leave saucepan without breaking.”

1⁄2 teaspoon salt Scald milk in upper part of dou- ble boller, pour it over egg yolks and sugar beaten together. Return to the double, boiler, and cook, stir ring constantly until mixture coats the spoon. Add rice and pine- apple, Chill. Fold in the whipped "When washing watercress add a cream and salt. Pour into the freez little vinegar to the water and stir ing tray of a mechanical refrigera for a few moments. It will be tor or pour into a mold and pack found that the seeds and

other

in equal parts of ice and salt for waste matter quickly sink to the 3 to 4 hours. Unmould-and-serve bottom, leaving the watercress plain or

and fresh ready sliced clean

Cook green pepper in fat until pineapple.

table."