1935-10-03 — Page 3

Page

I

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.

STAPLES SURPRISES

The Art Of Flavouring

Adding A Tomato Flavour

The difference between a good

and bad cock often lies in the fact that one has the art of flavouring and the other has rot.

Vegetables Of

very "definite "flavour such as celery, onions, garlic and shallots, and aromatie plants such as ginger, lemon bay. mace. and other herbs, work wonders when used with judg- ment and discretion. The reason that they are frequently foregɔt-. ten or omitted by the average cook is because they are not Celery always readily available.

may be out of season, ginger may only be obtainable in powder form and garlic and shallots are rarely ordered in the private house.

VARIETY IN SEASONINGS

The use of Worcester sauce and ketchup makes good, the de- ficiency, but variety is ever want- ed in seasonings, and the cook who keeps small stock of essences Including celery, cloves, garlic.

and ginger shallots,

wil ind them helpful allies in producing attractive savoury dishes,

ur

It is agreed that one does not always want highly spiced seasoned food, in fact "there s nothing more tiring than too much of it. On the other hand. too these days of economy when the utmost be made of cold cook- ed meat and the cheaper cuts of meat, it is of great advant- age to be able to improve the palateablity of savoury dishes by the addition of a drop or two of distinctive flavouring.

Many of the prepared sauces sold to-day are of real help to. the busy cook. They are whole- some, made from pure ingredients and econom'g in use. A home- made flavouring can be and bottled as follows:-

FLAVOURING SAUCE

oz. butter or dripping

O four

pint stock

Seasoning

Celery, clove

Benices

Browning

and garlic

mixed

23-

This is very quickly made and is specially suitable for mince, rissoje, shepherd's pie etc.

Make a brown sauce by melt- ing oz. of butter or dripping in a small saucepan; add the flour and fry together without burning. Half a pint of stock or diluted meat extract should be added to this, and well stirred until it thickens. Season with salt, pepper, ane drop of celery essence. one drop of clove es- sence and two drops of garlic

essence. A ittle browning should then be added to give the sauce a nice rich colour,

SALAD DRESSING

A drop of garlic essence add- ed to the oil and vinogaz dress- ing of a salad will be liked by

some.

CHEESE STRAWS

A drop of garlic essence will be found to introduce a novel flavour into cheese straws.

MINCED VEAL AND EGGS

Mash some bolled potatoes with butter, season with salt and pepper, and arrange in a circle on a dish. Mince the "veal, mois- ten well will the above flavour- ing sauce, and Al the potato border. Poach the

exgs and place on top of the mince, de- corating the spaces between the eggs with little rolls of bacon, made by rolling up tightly small rashers and cooking' them on a skewer in the oven for a [ew minutes. or under

a gril. in which case they must be turned whilst cooking...

RISSOLES

In making these, the flavour- ing, sauce should be added to the cold minced meat, but should by of a. thicker variety, made with only half the above quan- tity of stock, of the meat will not bind. Allow the mixture to sol, before making into cutlet shapes. Egg and cook to 1 golden brown in bolling fat and then stick a piece of macaroni

one end to imitate the Eone. range on a dish, garish with fried parsley and tomatoes. If there is any panada left over. dilute it with some more of the stock and pour it round the ris- soles.

SPANISH MACARONI

כינו

Boll the macaron! until it is soft. Melt some butter in 3 saucepan, and warm

the macaroni In this... Add some tinned tomatce and chopped green chilles. Flavour with salt.

pepper and one drop of garlic essence added to the melt- ed butter.

CHICKEN CASSEROLE

Have a chicken cut into joints), and brown these all over in but- ter. Then put a chopped onion into the saucepan and let this brown slightly. Add a quarter of a pound of chopped mushrooms and one pound of skinned to- matoes cut into, small pieces. Season with salt, pepper, chop- ped pimentos make the dish more interesting, but can be omitted. Cook slowly for three quarters of an hour, according to "the size of the chicken, turning the joints frequently. A little stock may be necessary from time to time to moisten the contents of the cas- serole, but the sauce should be kept thick. Transfer the chicken to a hot dish and arrange round it grilled whole tomatoes mushrooms.

and

If you have mislaid or lost your glove stretcher, try alipping a pair of ordinary curling iron (cold, of course, and clean) up the in- gers of each glove, then gently open them a little. You will find they make an excellent substitute

Tomatoes add a savoury touch tn whatever dish they help to make. These recipes are all tasty. First. tomato and Ash ple.

To make it, grease a ple-dish. arrange in it

cold a layer of cooked

sh. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and salt, then pour over a cupful of cooked.. sieved tomato.

Cover with bolled rice and, lustly, mash potatoes. Roughen the top with a fork, dot with butter, cover with grease-proof paper, and bake for 15 minutes.

WITH MACARONI

A delicious supper dish made with tomato and macs-

roni

$

Break sufficient macaroni into small lengths. " and boli until tender. Skin the tomatoes, put them into a saucepan with z ut of butter, and gently stew.

Put the cooked macaroni into with "greased pie-dish season

salt and pepper and chopped onion, then add the tomatoes.

A SALAD

Here is an appetising sand which has the advantage that can be made some hours before it is required. Beat up 131 a basin a large cream cheese, add a dessertspoonful of lemon juice, half a teaspoonful of made mustard, a little anchovy essence and some pepper, alke enough *milk or cream to make it sol

and

Form creamy.

this into smail balls and roll them in finely chopped nuts. Pile up in a bowl, and arrange round them lices of beetroot and cucumber sprink- led with finely chooped chives. Decorate with sprigs

of water-

cress

GREEN PIE.

You'll like cucumber pie, and It's "something different," too..

Slice a cucumber and two amail onions, simmer in milk and water for twenty minutes. Melt a knob of butter in a pan, stir in a dessertspoonful of cornflour.

Add a pinch of salt and pep- per, a teablespoonful of grated cheese, and pint of milk."Sim- mer and stir until the mixture thickens.

1i

Sprinkle a ple-dish with bread- crumbs and grated cheese, then more breadcrumbs, add the cu- cumber and onion, and pour over the white sauce. Sprinkie with more breadcrumbs and grated cheese, and a little finely chopped parsley.

Bake in the oven for twenty minutes.

It flowers droop after you have bought them, place a lump of starch in the water. It revives them like magic.

100 GLORIFIED RECIPES

SUGGESTING NEW AND

IMPROVED USES FOR

Carnation CARNATION MILK

Jen onzenlod koma

STERILIZED

PAPORATI

MILK

MAY BE OBTAINED

BY MAILING THE COUPON BELOW

CONNELL BROS, CO,

LID.

PO

!!

BOX 88,

HONG KONG.

PLEASE SEND ME MARY BLAKE'S "100 GLORIFIED RECIPES".

·NAME..

ADDRESS:

Grate foz, cheese over the top. sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and dab with butter. Bake in a mo- derate oven for 15 minutes.

P

CHEESE-TOMATO

Tomatoes and cheese for this satisfying snack.

Melt à nut. of butter in a small pan. "add a tablespoonful cf milk. a. teacupful of grated cheese, a pinch of salt and pep- per.

two

-Blend well. then add tablespoonfuls of fine bread- crumbs. and a teacupful of to- mato puree Serve 00 fried bread or buttered toast.

KIDNEY SAVOURY

Sheep's kidneys grked with tomatoes will prove popular.

Skin and halve the kidneys. then fry ghtly in dripping with a small chopped onion...

Arrange on rounds of buttered toast then place some rings at skinned tomates on the top. Grill until slightly browned.

ORANGE CREAMS

Press the juice from a large orange und scrape out as much of the pulp as possible. Do not use ary of the white plth, but peel very thinly half of the yellow skin and chop it finely.

Have. ready a pound of icing sugar well rolled ill there are no lumps in it. Beat up the white

of an egg and add it to the or- ange juice and peel. then add gradually the sugar, mixing will with a fork. As; oranges contain more or less juice and all eggs are not the same size, more sugar may be required to make a sfin Cream which can be handied without sticking to the fingers

Rail the cream into a black, çu it into squares, and leave these sieve for twelve hours to

on a

set

SOUR MILK

Milk that has turned sour in hot weather need not be wasted. It may be used with advantage for mixing scones. It may be added to the soapy water 'in which discoloured clothes or arti- cles of house linen are washed. and it will help to whiten them, After inpleum has been washed a anal wipe over with sour milk gives it a good polish.

BOSTON CREAM

-B:ston cream is a refreshing. summer drink. Boli three quarts. of water and pour it over one and a half pounds of white sugár, * stirring occasionally. When cold add two ounces of tartaric acid, one and a half teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, and the well-whlak- ed whites of two eggs. Bottle and put aside for us. When re- quired, take one tablespoonful of the mixture to half a tumbler of water and add a saltspoonful of baking soda,

GINGER BISCUITS

Sift into a bowl haif a pound of plain hour: sprinkle in a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of ground ginger, and half a teaspoon- ful of bicarbonate of soda. Dissolve over a gentle heat four ounces of butter with four ounces of brown sugar, and two table- spoonfuls of golden syrup; stir in a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Pour this on to the flour, beat all well together, then form into email round balls with the hands, Place them well apart on: a greased baking sheet and leave in a warin place for half an hour for id: Then bake' in a' moderate Gran for about twenty minutes. These keep well if put into a tin when cold.

Autumn COLDS are Gripping THOUSANDS

HE change from Summer to Autumn Tweather has brought an unusual preva

lence of severe colds. Warnings have been issued to take every care, because the common cold is the forerunner of the dreaded Fa. Smash Cold attacks at once with 'ASPRO. At the slightest sign of miff ling-neezing-watery eyes cold in the head or sore throat, take 'ASPRO' Tablets according to the directions in the packet. You'll not only smash the attack and get quick relief at once-you day save further complications and loss of time through ness. ness. "ASPRO is the world's tested cine to

ill-

niedi

quickly oust a Cold attack-its purity

is in its safety. By the ASPRO pathed the body poisons are eliminated through the pores of the skip, and pain, Colds and Flu are banished by natural means. Buy 'ASPRO' to-day. Carry a few Tablets with your ready for emergency-

ASPRO'

WILL SMASH A COLD ATTACK IN

ONE NIGHT

READ THIS Use 'ASPRO' for:

CONVINCING

LETTER!

'Flu ® Attack Beaten!

Co. Post Office.

HORNSBY, NSW."

Dede Sil that I must write

Just

kad tell you how glad i am that “ASPRO Tablets were ever made or maps- facture 1 is so true that they break up ⚫ COLD or PLU, A while ago I caught a very BAD COLD and FLU. I commented taking "ASPROT also tock excalyptus on aga m

Imanaged, to get to s chemist for some medicine. He aded my what i had been taking. I I told him. He then told me not to take much old her "bas, it not been for but to INHALE as much in- ↑ kod **Birt," "ald'

ASPRT you would not in this shop today but inly bed," He was a great believer in ASPRON Then two weeks ago I caught another HAD COLD, W by taking ASPRO' there times a day, I mu eyed to Break the cold, and wet, will.

Yours sincerely,

128/34.

יי

(KCM)" M. FLAVEL.

ALCOHOLIC AFTER EFFECTS

"ASPRO' GIVES GREAT RELIEF TO WOMEN WHEN DEPRESSED

HEADACHE

RHEUMATISM

SLEEPLESSNESS

TEMPERATURE

TOOTHACHE... SORE THROAT NEURALGIA'

HAY FEVER FEVERISHNESS IRRITABILITY INFLUENZA

EARACHE LUMBAGO

DENGUE ASTHMA

NEURITIS

SCIATICA

COLDS MALARIA GOUT

"GIBSON" REFRIGERATORS:

Designed to meet the most up-to-date demands in modern electrical refrigeration.

The GIBSON machine is quiet- and efficient in operation. strong and sturdy in construction and low in price.

We give a four years guarantee."

A large range of attractive models always in stock. Cull Bod inspect them,!"

VACUUM CLEANERS

A labour saving device to pro long the life of your carpets. Write or phone us, and we will forward you a useful booklet illustrating the its many uses in your home.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., VOER AGENTS)

National Commercial Bank Building, Ice House Street, Hong Kong.