THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1939.
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By MARY BLAKE ·
Attractive Ways To Serve Tomatoes
Large, finely shaped tomatoes pepper, and pour over
tomatoes.
may appeal more to the eye than|Sprinkle with chopped parsley. Chill the smaller ones. Yet growers re- before serving. gard the medium-sized tomato.as a best-seller.
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To peel tomatoes more easily, the fruit is often dipped in boiling water. If freshly picked, this will not be necessary, for when tomatoes are difficult to skin it indicates that they have been picked some time before they are ripe.
Tomatoes of varying sizes all have their uses. The large fruit is ideal for stuffing and for making tomato baskets, the medium-sized tomatoes are best for salads, while for most kinds of savouries small tomatoes are suitable.
HARLEQUIN TARTLETS
4oz
To make the pastry take flour, 2oz butter, 2oz grated cheese, cold water.
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For the filling you will need small tomatoes, 4 gherkins, a little mayonnaise.
Cut and rub butter into flour. Add salt, a little cayenne pepper and cheese. Mix to a stiff con- sistency with cold water. Roll out thinly and line small shallow tina with the mixture. Cut. the scraps into strips, place a strip of pastry
STUFFED TOMATO RINGS
1
Required: 3 large tomatoes, tablespoonful chopped dates, aspic jelly, 1 cream cheese, 1 cucumber.
Skin tomatoes and cut off tops, hollow out insides. Mix dates and cheese and season well pepper and a dash of cayenne, Pack with salt,
cheese into tomatoes. Allow them to stand for 15 minutes. Slice thickly with a saw-edged knife. Make aspic jelly.
a shallow tin. Turn out on wetted Allow to set in
greaseproof paper. Chop aspic finely. Peel and slice cucumber. Arrange circle of stuffed tomato rings and cucumber slices with a bed of chopped aspic.
This should be accompanied with thin slices of brown butter,
bread and
little tricks
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across each patty tin to divide case A
TEASPOONFUL of dripping added to the water helps to
in half. Bake in a moderate oven make boiled vegetables tender. Nor till golden brown. Allow to cool. will the water boil over.
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Chop gherkins finely and fill one half of each pastry case. Cut toma- toes into small dice, mix with little mayonnaise. Fill the rest of the cases with this mixture. Sieved them white. yolk of hard-boiled egg or any savoury butter may be substituted for gherkin..
A SIMPLE SALAD
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The average person may be in- mentality will give many indivi- clined to be agressive to-day and duals a desire to show their depth perhaps will try to "lay down the of tender regard for someone near law," upon the slightest provoca- and dear to them. Through some tion. This tendency, in all likeli-intuition you may have "a lively hood, is going to be the primary sense of favours to come," and be cause of most of the feeling of gratified before the day passes by Chop half a dozen spring onions and water. resentment aroused to-day, so it receiving some. This may
be a into small pieces. Line 2 dish might be well to resist it. There is likely to be a good deal of affec tion displayed. A feeling of senti-
Skin tomatoes.- Cut into slices. Iit
it in a strong solution of soda
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THERE will be no curdling in the
day when many people will express with crisp lettuce leaves, put în a deep sense of gratitude for kind-the slices of tomato, and sprinkle mayonnaise, sauce it, after nesses they have received in the with chopped onion between each making it in the usual way, the yolk past. Married and engaged couples, layer. When the dish is full, mix of an egg is added. Then stir well as well as those who have made equal quantities of salad oil and until a creamy consistency is achiev- declarations of their admiration Tarragon vinegar, à little salt and ed. and love, must avoid making dis- paraging remarks if they wish to get through the day peacefully.
If a woman and August 8 is your birthday, an excess of vanity might be your great fault. Self- control, a fine sense of justice, and prudence, are likely to be number- ed among your outstanding virtues. Whatever work you undertake is apt to be done with an amount of enthusiasm that will evoke notice and praise. Your good humour and wit is probably accountable for your having many friends, the number of which you might not realise. You ought to have an ex- Do men check their stride as you cellent memory, even if names pass, paying a delicate compliment to escape your mind at times.
You your prepossessing appearance, or do ought to have very good taste, they pass you by with scarcely a especially in the matter of litera- Don't allow pimples and other facial ture, music and the selection of blemishes to mar your attractiveness plays. Your temperament might but preserve a clear complexion with help you greatly in educational, the aid of She-Ko.
dramatic, promotional, or political work. Your affectionate nature, intense loyalty to those you love,
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anyone you are deeply interested in, indicates that your matrimonial future ought to be an exceptional- ly happy one.
The child born on August 8 gen- erally has a surprising amount of energy, originality, and täct. This' youngster, should have the gift of making itself popular, and a leader mong its friends. : very promis
future seems to be ahead of children born on this date.
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