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WEEK-END

Cooking to please

by Alex Simmons

Why not try an Angel Cake?

IT THOROUGHLY DESERVES ITS FAME

WIT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

COOKING COLUMN

BY HELEN BURKE

Brunch: There's an idea I can recommend

SOME clever (or cyni-

cal?) person has

said that, if a visitor to this country wants to have three good meals a day, he or she should make them breakfasts.

Certainly, the good English

breakfast is nonething to re- member, but I do not subscribe

to this sentiment. We have our

7ITHIN the past few years, the fame of Angel

Cake, or White Cake as it is sometimes call-own good cooks delicated cooks-who really do take pains ed, has spread to a dozen nations. As with 50 is produce good food. many other things, we owe this surge of interest to the United States where the cake is particularly popular.

Angel Cake is completely colourless; the reason being that egg yolks are omitted. Only the whites are used to enrich and aerate the mixture and this naturally makes the crumb of the cake white rather than yellow.

At first, the other principal ingredients were four and sugar. Egg whites and sugar were sported and then the Dur was

But as time went on, hydro- fat, sul mnd buking Vensterl powder were introduced us well. The sult was. a more tender

and rither cake.

Mixing method

These are just two recipes fur the cakedin. I ask you to pay particular attention to the mix- ing methud.

You will need 100%. tf plain flour. 5% on. of white fat, and 14 uz. of cantor sugar. Cream then together until they are thoroughı» ly blended, then beat in 1⁄4 oz. <if kult and 2 Hz. of baking powder.

Next add 4 nz of millik beating It in A little at a time. Then beat in 7 oz. of egg whites, also a little at a time,

Finally, add a further 31⁄2 oz. uf milk with any favouring you care to seleet. When all the milic hus been alteri, continae to beat for a further five minutes, mak- ing sure that the mixtare Is benten from the bottom und sides. as well. The batter should be very south and creamy.

Lined tins

Plage the mixture into round

Ibins which are fined, bottom

and sides with grease paper.

SWEDEN

APPLE MERINGUE: Hutter a round baking dish and

Inte pul a sponge sandwich the same size. Make a sweet apple sauce from three medlum apples and heap il on top of the sponge.

Mix three egg whites fo 1 st form and idd three ounces of caster suKLE, A attlie at a time.

With a forcing bag and tube, use this meringue mixture to

decorate the surface of the #pple.

Put the baking dish into pan containing water. Then put ball: containers

into FL slow oven-350 degrees For regulo 3-

until the meringue takes on

a golden colour.

Serve the meringue with whipped cream.

The inking time is approximately one hour at a temperature

of 360 deg F, or regulo 4.

A simpler recipe calls for: 10 oz. of dour, § ez, of white fat, s

ez of salt, oz. of bakbig powder, and 13 oz. of eastor sugar. These Ingredients should be just blended together so that there are no tumps.

In another hawl, mix together 9 oz. of egg whites and 41⁄2 oz. of milk, Add half of this combination to the mixture in the first

bowl art bant for 10 minuta.

As a slab

Ses ape the sides of the bawl with a knife to make sure that there are no unmixed ingredients, then add the rest of the eng and milk and beat for a further five minutes.

The mixture can be baked in a stab, or in cup eskes, or la

1 cakes us preferred.

If you bake it us a sinb, the temperature must be low-870 desees . for 30 minutes, reducing to 350 for a further hour lo an hour and a hall. Gas should be regulated from mark 4 for 30 minutes daten to mark for the rest of the time,

One-pound enkes are baked as before, while cup cakes need a higher tempearture-around 400 degrees F. or regulo 5. Baking Ume is from 10 to 15 minutes.

A LESSON FROM ALEXANDRA

The trouble in that we, in the big cities, do not know the faste of fresh vegetables or meat properly hung and it not always easy to turn out good dishes from aged Judifferent ingedients.

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the eur

Bank

A few weeks ago, I returned from a weekend in a cottage in Sussex, far enough away from the main roads, hurly-burly of none-to-tali

of traffic and crowds holidaying falk.

Apart from groceries, all the food we had was local-grown,

Like Beef, properly hung. wise, melt-in-the-mouth leg of lamb wrapped in caul, that wonderful self-basting material we never see in London. (1 wonder what they do with it?) And cggs so fresh that one might be forgiven for consider ing those we get in our large lowns as being pretty stele.

Vegetables? Newly-dug pota-,, toes; cabbage straight from the be marrow freshly gather ed; peas picked only minutes off their being cooked, and toma- toes, all warm from the sun with that wonderful "minty" aroo not only in their calyces but also all over.

Those who decry our cooking of vegetables must never, I am sure, have had them really fresh. There is, Inevitably, a time lag between the "morning plcked" claim of our town greengrocers and the receipt of the vegetables by them and, later, us.

My hostess, Patricia Hardie, who holds

A must exacting executive position in one of the country's Inrgyst engineering Arms (but does not look at all like that) organises her private life with the same thoroughness as she does her working days, Everything of our weekend was planned, but we were ucl aware of it. There was no seeming hurry; all things moved like a well-olled machine. And sho can cook!

Our first lunch was steak and onions, the latter sprinkled with a pinch of sugar which dhil more them than one would for imagine; freshly-dug potatoes marrow without and vegetable

a wrinkle on its skin.

Brunch, round about 11 corn something. That week- o'clock on a Sunday morning, end, it was such a simple in a "regular" with many people thing that I had never myself phd, what a delicious meal it done it (perhaps because I is for folk who never cat a real seldom get really fresh-picked breakfast! Il is not possible, of peas?). "Add any that pods with course, where there are young nothing in them to the peas in chlidren. In the family because the pot. They are sugar-sweet they would never stand for the and have more pet finvour than long "e-in."

the peas themselves,

Wo awakened to

cups of fragrant tea and biscuits. There followed another drowse and then, without anyone realising i. Patriela was in her kitelten and, in no time at all, we had our mild-morning meal. Grilled kidneys and local-cured bacun, tomatoes and tried eggs, suute potatoes, hot thin-skinned soft baps from the local baker, tonsi and marmalade.

I shall remember this mes] Long after

I have forgotten more exotic ones.

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Penches are plentiful just now and here is Patricia's own peach #weet.

First, wipe well as many peaches as you have folk to cal them. Cover them with boiling water and skin them, reialning the skins. Place the peaches in un oven-dish and, over thera, pour the juice from the skins (in which there is a lot of flavour) and the water in which the peaches were soaked, The peaches were cooked in the veil with the lamb for the last hour..

Make a sauce with pench and pear Jam and the water in which the peaches were cook- ed. Slightly thicken it with arrow-root or corniour. At the last minute, add Kirsch to taste. were Pour this sauce over the peaches and you have a quite unusual and refreshing sweet.

Sometimes,

By 12.15, the meal was over and everything was cleared up and before us

long we had afternoon of motoring through the lovely Constable country, Thot is another "beauty" of brunch in the country. The time when we set out was that when most other folles either sitting down to or con-

midday sidering their

So we had the narrow practically to ourselves.

meal.

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Always, when walch some- one else doing the cooking 1

SOONER OR LATER IT HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY

When somebody says 'Show

me

London

A guide to tactics: By Barbara Griggs

ONE of the major afflictions of the English summer

Foreigner, who has to be shown the town.

is the Visiting

Sooner or later, by an illegibly scrawled letter (foreigners always have such peculiar writing) or by a gay voice carolling fractured Eng- lish down the telephone your Londoner realises that his hour is upon him.

That his daughter's little air

chum Marie-Bernard WHAT

is now descending to claim her

pound of flesh; that the Duponts

THEY WANT

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wife nobly in Paris six months sgo are now in London for the

return match; thut those charm-

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ritz and urged to look him up

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If ever they found themselves in bulit or who gave all those nice fish and chips, they'l

never

town are now, horror of horrors, pictures to the nation, and while think of the Mirabelle. (All of doing just that very thing.

you have several guaranteed which makes them quite CHEAP facts about Nelson "le volin, to entertain.) sur la colonne.

There VFs lend to want one

voyez") VOUS

Most Londoners have their

of two things; and personally, 1 can never make up my mind your friends, unluckily, seem to own very small, very comfort-

know all about him too. which is the more exacting.

THEY ASK

You have no idea what time

able and perfectly parochial London. What these visitors The other kind of VF demands, want is a glorious Neapolitan the lot, from the inalstently, to be shown a mys- cut through terious city known as The Lon- private life of a bummaree to don that the Tourist Never Sees, the address of a stockbroker's Preased to elucidate, they wave tailor. And this London is od- -down. THE Brat kind is hell bent on the hands about and speak of mittedly hard to track

secing every traditional Tous Cos Sinistres

one is always: hearing Pubs, Ces though sight of London. And a full Cornair House (more famous in rumours of it, morth spent doing your home. Paris than London) and those As of today, the best place to work beforehand will not, I'm perfectly marvellous young mers and it (or possibly, bone up an afraid, save you from exposing in bowler hats, (This kind of it in advance) is at the Evening your abysmal ignorance of the foreigner tends to feel cheated, Standard Living London Exhibi- aubject at some moment.

even in July, unless you can also slon, in Jaeger, Regent-street.. Toy on a per-soup tog for his Traditional London is richly arrival.)

represented by the Pently King and Queen, and the replica Crown Jewels (guarded and what's more, the Guard 19 changed at noon sharp daily). HAT they want, in fact, la London, natio

The much more, fnscluaiing inn serinm remarkablo photographs and wh local colour by the bucket of ful; they

want to be dragged taken in fazz dive down the Portobello-road till market, in pub and strrel, by You don't know very much their feet ache; they want to be aeger director Vernon Stratton, about the Crown Jewels either, taken to small, dark public in moody drawings by Patrick stink of fish and Stackhouse, in a wallful of and you have absolutely no idea hours that when the Tower was built. overlook several yards of rotting menus allently testifying to the rather thart your richness and variety of London A heated dikenission about the own comfortable but notably astronomy, in a Nelson's Col- middle water Fishing Tent dan featureless local.

uma of pleturo postcard Lon- be rolled on to send

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WHAT is the most useful chiffon Aquare to. save her the Changing of the Guard object in a woman's ward- hairdo froin offshore breezes a sturis; nor, If a taxi-driver gets robe? Answer: headsquare, the set out for a cocktail party,you out of that one, are you in a Among those who evidently A long white chiffon cart for position to reveal to your friends think so: Princess Alexandra her arrival at the Royal Yacht why it Involves the Life Guarde when this custom storted, or

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Let your Visiting Foreigner are billed above the

Her American agente silpu-clan you can positively fdentify penditure at the Four Hundred title ille simply, as "Donny Kaye and lated the billing when she figueight is Mr Macmillan, and by taking then to some insalu loose here: then possibly, you

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