1939-01-16 — Page 24

"Practical—but inter- esting." That is the motto of SUSAN HERON, the Woman's Page Cookery Expert, who to- day gives you some cold weather dishes.

Let's have

some

The man beside me in the bus sneezed violently and fumbled for a handkerchief. "Lot of 'flu about," he remarked conversationally, em- erging with a vicious sniff "Llable to catch one's death, hanging about for buses these cold evening."

Į edged as far away from him as possible and agreed. The wind round the bus stop had cut like a knife, whirling the dead leaves it up the pavements towards Piccadil- ly

"Be glad to get home to my sup- per,

said the man beside me. "Makes you look forward to some thing hot to eat, weather like this."

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Soup

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1939

And I hope to goodness his wife true. But with all the dozens of gave him a plate of good, hot, nouri- delicious tinned and cube form shing soup the moment he got back, soups on the market there's simply for if ever a man needed it, he did. no excuse.

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Soup is the best thing in world when you're cold and hungry, as well as being the most easily di- gestible meal you can possibly have.

Even on those evenings when you come home feeling almost too tired to eat anything, haven't you notic- ed that you feel quite a different person after a cup of hot soup?

And yet many housewives don't seem to serve soup very often. Boil ing stock and slicing the vegetables take such a time, they say. That's

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for a few minutes in a little butter, then add six sliced tomatoes and a finely chopped apple; cook in the butter till tender.

Add one dessertspoonful of flour, salt, pepper, and a tablespoonful of castor sugar.

Pour on one and a half pints of water or stock, bring to boil, and simmer for fifteen minutes. You can either rub the soup through a sieve or eat it as it is.

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CHESTNUT SOUP

Take 1lb.' chestnuts, remove skins by cutting a slit in the sides and boiling for a few minutes. Fry four diced rashers of bacon in a pan, add the chestnuts, salt and pepper, and one and a half pints' of milk and water mixed.

Boil gently till the chestnuts are tender, rub through a coarse sieve, and add an egg yolk beaten up in a little milk at the end. A little sugar improves this soup, too.

Cold meat, always a horor, should be banished for ever from our tables during the winter, and here are two recipes for new "do- ups" which will enliven the re- mains of Sunday's joint.

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SPANISH HASH

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Put a chopped onion and three sliced tomatoes in a pan with a little butter, fry for a few minutes, add salt and

four pepper, and handfuls of rice. Cover with water, and cook till the rice is done, adding more water when necessary.

Put the rice round the edge of a dish, fill the centre with slices of cooked meat, and cover them with a good brown sauce to which a little tomato ketchup has been added.

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One of the nicest brands I've tri- ed so far is Maggi's, and it's amaz- HUNTER'S PIE ingly quick to make. They sell it in cubes, and there are fourteen different flavours.

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Put a layer of any sliced cooked meat in the bottom of a pie dish, cover with a few rashers of bacon, You just crumble the cube of

some broken up macaroni, cook it for a few minutes to let it cover with a thin brown sauce. soup into a saucepan, add water, sprinkling of chopped onion, and

thicken, and there you are!

Continue the layers till the dish One cube will make two or three is full, cover the top with short plates of soup, and I can promise crust or flaky pastry, and bake in you it's excellent.

a quick over till the pastry is You shouldn't let the winter go golden brown. by, though without trying your hand at some home-made soups.

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The following two recipes are both quick and simple to make. POTAGE NORMANDE

This is old friend tomato soup

with a difference.

Chop finely half an onion

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Try warming some slices of cold meat, laying them in a dish sur- rounded by some cooked potatoes and cauliflower (or really cooked vegetable).

any

Pour a thick cheese sauce over the whole dish, sprinkle with more fry cheese, and brown in the oven.

JESSIE'S HAIR WAS IN A MESS

And, of course, she had a date- that night.

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And, of course, she simply hadn't time to go to the hair- dresser's. Here's what she did instead.

On the way home she bought a dry shampoo, and put a little on before she did anything when she got in.

After ten minutes, she brushed it all but until her head tingled, and there wasn't a scrap of shampoo left.

Then she pinned the wild mop of hair into neat curls and waves as she does when she goes to bed and then she went into the bathroom and turned only the hot water on, so that the room was full of steam.

If it's not always practic- able to steam up the bath- That steam acted as a setting room as Jessie did, you can lotion. She left the pins in while get the same effect by using a | she dressed-to allowe her hair to bowl of boiling water.

dry - and then she combed it out, and found she had been a most successful home hairdresser.

JANET GREY.