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Seafood

FISH is

BRAIN FOOD

Give your children plenty of Fish

it contains valuable food for both

body and brain and is easily

dijestable.

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SUCCESS

in baking `·.

is simply

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using

Simpson's

SELF-RAISING

Flour

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FRESHNESS

AND

PURITY

are the

outstanding

qualities of

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PURICO

A cooking fat that is not fresh will give an unwholesome flavour to the Cooked article. PURICO is a Vegetable Lard, unexcelled for and Frying. Shortening.

Cake making

ALL GROCERY STORES.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933,

Can You

Raise Humble Fish

To The Peerage?

In these days we cannot all afford the noblest fish. Outside the royal enclosure, are a number of "perfectly good fish, !

Snapper, Macao sole, bril, and white salmon, although not posses sing the personality of trout, or turbot, can be beautifully dressed in a new piquancy if you learn this sauce.

The fish will be cooked when the allets have been in the oven for fif- teen minutes. Sauce over just be tore dishing up. Garnish with a aprig of parsley and serve with creamed mashed potatoes and diced ououmber of lettuce. A lemon sole served like this leaves the Commons for the Lords.

"Sauce Dominica," which I in-

SOLE DUGLERE vented during a recent tour of

Solo Dugléré is very often met the West Indies, is easy to make. For six persous buy two pounds with in restaurants, and is ex- of fish or a two-pound fish, accord-tremely easy to prepare (though ing to your choice of species. Have this may not be reason for its fre- it filed and the bones sent home quent appearance). with it.

"Break up the bones into a quart saucepan. Add a pint of hot water, one bay leaf, and a dessertspoonful of salt. Boil uncovered for half an hour, or until reduced to half a pint. This is your stock.

Put the sole in a buttered. Bre- proof dish with a couple of table- spoonful of finely chopped onion, two or three, peeled and roughly chopped tomatoes, a little roughly chopped parsley, a pinch of salt, a suspicion of pepper, and a glass of white wine.

Now begin cooking the fish. Roll Poach it gently in the oven, and the fillets up and pin them secure- when it is done thicken the liquor

Stand ly with cucktail, sticks.

very slightly with a little white them up in a battered fireproof sauce made with fish stock, and dish and commit to a slow oven for finish it with butter and a few fifteen minutes. While this is hap drops of lemon juice before pour pening return to your Sauce Doing it over the fish.

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Carried Bcallops,

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Chinese lanterns, when used for a children's party, should have a quantity of salt packed round the candle holder. The weight will be of assistance in keeping the lantern steady, and, in case of Bre, would help to smother the flames.

Curtain rings can be sewn on in this labour-saving way, writes 4 Daily Mail correspondent. Tura down the hem of the curtain to the desired depth, and at intervals mark the position of the rings Thread a ring on a piaca of nar- row tape about liin. long, tuck un- der the bem, and machine as nOST to the edge as possible. The rings stitching of the hem. are thus sewn on with

the one

Dog hairs can be removed quick- froin coats, chairs, or sushions by putting on an old kid glove and brushing the surface lightly with

the hand.

Handles of such kitchen imple ments as tin-openers, apple-corers, and so on, which made of wood, often get dark and shabby from frequent washing. Dip the handles in good enamel, and allow to dry hard. They will then look smärt and wash easily.

Put three ounces of butter into a small saucepan.

When melted and Curried prawns and lobsters are

Kippers are usually ruined by sizzing add two tablespoons of always popular, but curried scal- four. Stir and cook the flour, for laps have a delicate flavour being cooked for 8 to 10 minutes in a frying pan. Instead, soak for 10! a minute without browning. Pour, their own. Half stow as many gradually the hot stock, through a scallops as you want, while you minutes in cold water and then strainer into the cooked four and are making your very best curry let soak for 5 seconds. Then place pour on really boiling water, and butter. Stir continually until of a sauce. When they are ready, in- very thick consistency.

troduce them into the sauce, cook on a hot greased grill only unti! very slowly for an hour, and serve thoroughly heated (probably 1 to them in their shells with a thin minutes), and send very hot to border of rice in each.

Add to an egg yolk, in a small pudding basin wineglassful of lime juice and a teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar. Stir together": and add to the het sauce. Taste, add salt and pepper as requir. ed. Add two teaspoons of milk, or enough to bring to a thick, cream nsistency, but do not allow the sauce, which is now a rich custard colour, to boil after adding the milk. Keep the pan hot at the side of the stove or in a saucepan of boiling water.

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For those with strong digestions I can recommend the following-30 long as it is not kept waiting. But ter a fireproof dish, and put into it some fillets of halibut, brushed over with melted butter, salted, pepper ed, and sprinkled with a squeeze of lemon juice. Bake them in the oven till they are ready, and, on serving, pour over them a Walsh Rarebit.

rendered more to mpting by being prettily served.

The Contented Babe

needs. It is important that a de- faite basis of feeding be observed, as to go through a succession of different foods in the hope of find ing "one that kuits" or that "he likes" is bound to upset the diges- tion still more and may lead to very serious complications.

"Ankoria and Allenburys are two foods which can be, thoroughly re- commended.

In natural feeding it is the wise mother who avoids snacks between meals and áncreases the fresh sle One of the greatest authorities on meat in her diet and chews her baby care has given a description food very well, avoiding those large,

babe, so of a healthy, contented

called nourishing meals that "Proper feeding," he says, and well-meaning relatives and friends warmth of body afford practically so often press upon her. Con the sole satisfactions of earliest in- fancy-expressed by contentment, quiet and sleep."

If baby gains too fast or has i digestion, feeds should be shortened

Does your baby answer this des cription, or is he fretful and rest-starting.. leak, crying at intervals of disturb ed sleep during the day and waking through the night i

GENERAL PROGRESS

Let us take proper feeding first. You would be surprised how much depends on that; not only the pre sont and future health but the

tentment Modern research has

table.

Liver left-overs can be converted into an excellent sandwich filling by rubbing them through a wire sieve and moistening with lemon juice, melted butter, and season- inge. The proportions are left to individual taste. A slice of bacon can be included, treated in the same way.

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The Fashion of the Dish

A la Florentine

Marrow usually leaves a little water in the dish in which it is sarved. To obviate this, put ja

We are

all accustomed to the thick half-slice of bread at the various accepted fashions of pre- bottom of the dish and place the paring dishes of different kinds, cooked marrow on top. The bread but it may be useful to have a lit absorbs all the moisture, and can tle catalogue of the foods which afterwards be used for making can be prepared in these fashions bread sauce.

Let us take a la Florentine first, mostly assorted with spinach and cheese as garnishes,

Raffia bound round the lid-hand-

·les of aluminium saucepans will save many burns when lids have constantly to be removed in the course of cooking.

C'

The first course in which we find it is the egg course. Toached eggs and wufe mollets (peeled sort-boil- ed eggs) are thus served on a bed of spinach cooked in butter-or sometimes, a pure of spinach-and masked with a cheese sauce and browned quickly under the grill,

more cheese and browning it. Boles can be treated in the same way.

Meats and Sweets,

In the meat course noisettes of lamb or mutton and tournedos of beef are served à la Florentine when grilled and arranged on a of spinach, masked', witth bed Chateaubriand

sauce, and gar dished with fried croquettes of semolina..

Braised sweetbreads are served in this fashion on a bed of spinaen with a gracy of the reduced liquor in which they have cooked. Chic- ken breasts can also be served on s bed of spinach and masked with a cheese sauce. Artichokes can be presented similarly..

There is an American salad call- ed" Florentine,” which is made with Cos lettuce, dice of raw cel ary, green pimentoes cut in rounds, blanches spinach and are cut up,

Wool that has been knitted up An Omelette à la Florentine is can be made to look fresh and new made by incorporating with the if unravelled, wound round a thin eggs before they are cooked some board or stout cardboard and iron-blanched spinach cooked in butter ed under a damp cloth..

A little cheese can be grated over the omelette when it is cooked, though this is not essential."

Eggs sur le plat become "Floren-moistened with vinaigrette sauce, tinised if the bottom of the plat is spread with a purée of spinach spinkled with grated cheese....

Next, for the first course, oysters can be cooked by firat poaching thera lightly, then laying them in a coquille on a bed of spinach cook ed in butter, covering them with cheese sance, sprinkling this with

THE KEYNOTE

STUFFED VEAL

A Crème Florentine in nerò cata mel chilled and decorated with whipped cream - flavoured with kirsch, over which some chopped: pistachio nuts have been sprinkled.s And lastly, a Bombe Florentine is a Bombe praline (that is, chopped almonds), clothed with a raspberry ice,

MERINGUES WITH

OUT CREAM:

Sometimes when visitors arrive. unexpectedly we find ourselves with some meringues hidden away safe- ly in a tin but no cream to fill them with!

Here is a very useful and deli cious bint which will successfully solve the problem for you. Keep & few ounces of shelled walnuts in the house. it is a good idea to have some chopped and sieved ready for use in an emergency.

arid warm, boiled, unsweetened Warmth of body is essential, but water given immediately before this does not mean coddling in air- less rooms or under pram hood and Out of all the babies who are born insuitable coverings. Free moving healthy a distressing number suffer from digestive disturbances and ill-air is essential and warm porous ness owing to wrong feeding, clothing in three even layers.

This is a useful dish for two or Long woolly leggings, coat and

three people, who have met to

Take three onaces of butter gloves are necessary, and a hot-gether to appreciate the hostess

margarine, whichever you have most water bottle may be needed in ex- cooking.

de of beat it until it gets white. Add treme cold for a tiny baby out of Get a slice of fillet of veal large four ounces of sieved icing sugar, doors. Here, again, right feeding enough for your requirements about and a few drops of good coffee is the keynote, for the baby who an inch thick. Cut it in half, lear sence together with the pounde

ing two slices each half an inch walnuts. Beat this all to a

IMPORTANT FIRST YEARS

The seeds of future health are

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thin slices of cooked ham, a lean really stron na possible, and spread on this

and snow, yet keep as warm as stuffing made with the fat of the

general progress and all-round con- own during those all-important rightly, fed has a good-efoula thick. "On one of these tysome cream : sée that the coffee flavour

first years. More babies are over- proved beyond all doubt that fod than under-fed; it is important tion and is able to be put in frost natural feeding is the best, and in to realise this pinety-five out of every hundred Over-feading may continue for a toast onses this is possible, provided considerable time with no apparent necessary adjustments are made and harm, but the reaction when it does ante-natal preparation is carried come may be so severe se almost to

cost the little one his life,

but

Second to this is a properly The baby who is allowed to be modified mixture, containing the

egory food components in tight come over-fat is likely to proportion, given at blood heat and not too fast. It should approxi mate the natural food as nearly as possible. No night feed is given.

Should

will be im

unti

put

with

ked

honey.

ham mushrooms and chopped together, and

some

flour and

Alicevon

to ether

sauce and bound wit Place the oth

Now brown the sandwich on both Liderin butter and let it simmer. "there" for halfizan-hormat ther end of that time pour in some more

sauce, and cook for half

hour longer. When it is done un- tis it, strain the sauce over it, and garnish with little baked tomatoes

1. grilled mushrooms

frust