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STAPLES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936.
SURPRISES
SWEET AND SAVOURY FRITTERS
The many excellent dishes that come under the heading of fritters may be classified as sweet and savoury and are made with fruit and vegetables--both fresh and cooked the remains of cold meat and poultry, and lastly Ash which is particularly good when cooked in this manner.
There are several points to guard
against when making these tasty
neat pleces. kept free from y moisture and arranged on a dish ready to be dipped into the batter before frying.
VEGETABLE FRITTERS Mix and sift one cup dour, half teaspoon salt and one and half teaspoons taking powder to- gether. Beat two eggs and add to them quarter cup of milk, stle in the flour gradually and beat well dishes and falture can only be at- tributed to
either an improperly to prevent it getting lumpy. Add two ounces of meited butter and two made bätter too slow a Arc. the
cups of cooked chopped vegetables wrong kind of utensli used, or an insufficien: amounier frying fat as Deas, carrots, beans or
If
to
these
cook them in. points Bre carefully attend- ed to there will be no dif- ficulty whatever in producing saus- "factory results and the fritters will
be appetizing and good.
To take each point in order, 13 necessary then to "be able to make a good batter first which is the foundation of all fritters and 'should be prepared at least an
hour before it is used.
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cafcwer and pumkin. mix all well into the bater, season with Pepper and salt and drop by table- spoons into deep hot fat and try light brown. Drain and serve hot with grated cheese,
LUNCHEON CAKE
CREAMS
These sweets are always welcome at party-time, and they are very simple to prepare. All you want is a gill of cream, three-quarters of a pint of ordinary bolled cus- tard, sugar, and half an ounce of, gelatine.. Creams are best made In a refrigator, but if you have not one, in hot weather you must add rather more gelatine.
CcCee cream is made by using milk and coffee' mixed as you like. and chocolate cream by adding an ounce of chocolate when mak- ing your custard. For example,
CHOCOLATE GREAM
A good and easily made caire 1x made (13 follows. Prepare a fairly large caketin by lining it with two or three thicknesses ot greased paper. Dry a pound of plain flour and sitt it into a mix-i ing-bowl with a quarter of a tea spoonful of salt and a teaspoon ful of mixed spice. Rub in finely half a pound of butter, then add half a pound of sugar, the gräte- ed rind of a lemon, two ounces of chopped candied peel, half a pound of chopped raisins, halt a currants, and, hall a
Make a pound of
boiled custard three- bound, of sultanas. Beat three quarters of a pint with the addi- tion "of a ounce of chocolate. eggs with a full breakfastcup of! Let the custard get quite cold. inlik, add a teaspoonful of blear- | then add the gll of cream (which bonate of soda, and mix thorough-should De half-whipped) and Now add your half-ounce of gelatine dissolved in a little water, stir in a baria in cold water until the cream begins to sel, then mould it. If you like, you can add the gelatine first to the cold custard, sweeten it. and when It Just begins to set told in the half-whipped cream and mould
CHEÈSE FRITTERS · Put half pound grated
cheese.ly with the other ingredients at Sweeten it to taste. one cup flour, three beaten eggs. cayenne and
into the bowl, once. Put the mixture salt into add teaspoon of
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Worcester prepared tin and bake in a micde- sauce, and after mixing the in- rate oven for two and a half to gredients, form into fritters dip
three hours, reducing the heat a in egg and roll in crumbs and fry in hot fat tf well browned. Serve little towards the end
with tomato sauce.
FRUIT FRITTERS Banumas, apries, pineapples -or-
SAVOURY BATTER
For a savoury baiter four egg3 to" four ounces of melted butter for best salad oil it preferred), to seven ounces of our is the standard, recizę, which may be altered for sweet fritters by the peaches may be used in making addition of sugar and flavouringsfrittere and are very nice when It should be carefully noted that the proper consistency of the batter 1 its most important point. It too thick It will not coat the frit- ter evenly. forming lumps here and there and making themi heavy and tough when tried. The addition of the stiffly beatch whites of eggs last of all to the batter helps to thin it down, as well as adding lightness to the fritter.
GOOD HEAT
A brisk even fre is the second essential point in this kind of fry- Ing and a deep frying-pan with wire basket is recoramended
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when there are several fritters to be cooked. The fal used should be quite two inches deep with enough pace in the pan to pre-
caten hot, Make a batter of four ounces flour sifted with a tea- spoon of baking powder: and two eggs beaten with half a cupful of milk. Stir in an ounce of melt- ed butter and allow the batter to stand for an hour, after beating It up. Pare and care the fruit, to be used, dip each slice in the bat
ter and fry, sprinkle with powder- ed sugar.
SALMON PUDDING
SCOTCH MIST
It.
OTHER FLAVOURINGS
You can make a cream favoured with vanilla or some other flavour-..
Try this for your next dinner, ing. and add small dice of banana, party sweet:---
Crush about 1 dozen small maco- roons and some stale sponge cake
pineapple, glaces cherries or gin- ger, and these fruits should be added about two ounces for the. quantities given above) in the first a basin. moisten with a liqueur case before the gelatine is added, glass of maraschino and half aand in the second case afterwards. cup of cream so as to form a stit paste. Heap it in a pyramid in a glass or silver dish, Whisk more cream with a little sugar and flavouring, divide in halves and co- lour one pink and the other green. Place in a forcing bag a tablespoon ful of each, alternately and pipe
Put half a pound of tinned sa- mom into a bowl and break" it up with a fork. Add two tablespoon-1 over the pyramid. Decorate fuls of breadcrumbs, two' table.
with glace cherries, angelics; pre- spoonfuls of melted butter, and a pinca of pepper and salt. Bind served rose petals or in any way
vent balling over. Most People | the mixture together with two preferred.
use clarifed bref sue; with very good results, but the various ve- getable products
n. the
markel
we il-beaten eggs and turn it into
4 greased mould. Cover with greased paper and steam slowly
are well worth a trial when large the mixture is firm. Turn the quantities are needed and butler
or ghee is found too expensive
FIRST TEST
It
To test the proper heat of the rat, drop a small plece of bread into it when boiling and browns and rises to the surface almost at once the fat is ready
| mould out on to a hot dish and serve with butter sauce made as follows, Chop up a small onion
ICING
Breiv, mix it with two dessert- When to icing sugar is avail- poonfuls of vinegar. and cookable for glace Inding put three- slowly to u pan till most of the quarters of a cupful of ordinary vinegar hus evaporated. Then add sugar and half a teacupful of
little at a & plece of butter, a
water into a pan and boll till it time. irring continuously until is thick and syrupy. When stirred the fritters-but if the mixtura becomes thick. Serve with a spoon it should leave the there is heavy shoke arising, the once.
in receive
fat is far too hot. Be sure to
have the fritters entirely covered
by the fat and allow them to cook
a deep rich. brown. Lift up with
a perforated spoon and drain on
a sheet of kitchen paper. When
WHIPPING
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tajal o the spoon. Have ready the stiffly whisked white of one egg and then" gradually beat the syrup into the white of egg. Use the icing at once. To make a little icing sugar go a long way mix with sorte tine breadcrumbs. There 18 no noticeable difference in the taste, and the consistency of the icing is much improved. A sub- to another and thus change the stitute for whipped cream can be position of the muscle action. If made by slicing a banana and the whisk is warmed before beat- adding this to the white of an ing up egg whites they can be done ekk. Then whisk all together till to be cooked, should be cut in much more quickly.
cake mixtures. cream or white of egg, move the bowl from one level
To prevent an aching arm when quite dry dust either with salt or beatning Or whipping batters, sugar according to the kind of fritter made. Never put in more than the pan can easily hold and reheat the fat before frying each batch.
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If you want a richer cream, use half a pint of custard to half a pint of cream. A still richer cream is made by using simply one pint of cream and two ounces of gelatine, the Cream then being simply flavoured with wine or a liqueur and sweetened to taste.
And make sure to strain the dis- solved gelatine before mixing it in.
SHOPKEEPER LOOKS IN THE WINDOWS
Annoyed By What He Sees
OXFORD SHUTTERS
A sidelight on shoppers was. given to the Drapers' Chamber of Trade Summer School, at Oxford, recently, by Mr. Harry Trethowan, of Messrs. Heal and Son, Totten- ham Court-road,
He confessed that when he went out to look at the windows he sometimes followed people to near what they said.
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out the whole country; London's quota is 900-234 in the City and 53 each for the 12 County of Lon-- don, battalions.
Many of
OLD SOLDIERS WANT TO
ENLIST waiting lists this morning.
LIF
Woman's Journal." Recruits For New
Defence Corps
Men break laws for proft, sho says, but women do it as a matter of course.
law on the statute book,"
There has not been such liveli-
these battalions had
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They have been receiving letters for days from men, who did their bit in the Great War and are eager to take over such duties as the National Defence Companies are to perform-doing sentry to outside munition works or wherever else guards may be needed,
A PLEDGE
"One afternoon." sald Mr. To the commón criticism that the old sex is logical, she answers that Trethowan, "I followed an Ian and his wife-two "old-age
chat is why nothing la impossible, ness on London's recruiting front for years-middle-aged men walk- pensioners. I should' think--and to it. "When their hearts are
ing up to join the National Defence ¦ There is a pledge that the men. they were looking in the windows concerned, women will break every
Companies of the Territorial Army; | who enrol in these companies will They stopped in front of one which
not be used in any civil distur- was the choicest that one could In a study of "Beauty Bronzed," Young men pouring in for the new think of and was a very long way Jean Cleland summarises the mat-Supplementary Reserve of Intan pance beyond their dreams.
ter thus:
They enrol only for a war emerg- As the old Chelsea pensioner out-ency, when they would be served crutting headquarters. remarked, assigned their places so as to re- "Anybody would think a war was on."
"The old man turned to his wife
"Nothing is more flattering to the
try,
and said. 'Mary, what about it?' looks than sun tan, 1f well carried side Great Scotland Yard, the re- our with uniforms and rules and
She said. Give me the kitchen every time, John.""
Some of Mr. Trethowan's com- ments were:-
"When I say most windows annoy me I do not think I am very far from the truth. I think
it is suen a pity, as you move up and down the country, that you cannot get some pleasure out of the business end of the town or city you are visiting.
"I find that windowi are, all pretty much alike because the Imagination does not run to...any- thing different.
UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR
ul. But it mist be done with thought, care, and artistry."
There was a fine poster display at the entrance setting out the
is the value of a window from the special terms for young men be- Belling standpoint.
My idea 18, I can make Tollen- ham Court-road a pleasant place to walk down and give pleasure to people who do not want to muy anything.
More windows should be able to be seen at night. In Oxford recently, for instance, I noticed some of the window shutters were well down. I don't know whether people are dishonest in Oxford or not, but you cannot see a long I have been asked whether I line of windows. ever tried to dress a humorous-
Is one thing I cannot There
why sofne window, but in my opinion mu understand that is many windows are unconsciously people go into business, or any humorous that it would be a pity thing else for that matter, because to try and make them any differ-apparently they dislike it so. They never seem to worry about getting to grips with it. and they say, Thank goodness it's Baturday midday, and, we shan't see this place antul Morday,
"Freakish displays are not exseti tially business getters; they may hall the passer-by, they may even raise a laugh, but the main theme
lease younger men for more im portant work.
One or two applicants were veterans of the Boer War Others had been at Mons and as
tween 17 and 25, and inside a doi Ypres and on the Somme.
zen young fellows who called with-
in the first two hours had a friend-Men in important poutons ir
ly reception, a medical examina- the business world in London and Į many" working men are on the tion, and a cup of tea' each.
Lista
Bir Harry Know, the Adjutant-
Four working men, all in... · the General, walked over to the denities, were among the personal pot and had a talk with them, let-callers at the 9th London head-
quarters to-day...
All of them had been an
ting them see that he liked their spirit.
the
SOLDIERS' SONS THERE
Western front. They took away There were soldiers' sons among with them forms to fill up with a these recruits and one man said declaration that they were willing that his dad was on the way, to a | to enrol and 'to report in writing Territorial headquarters to enrol in 'in person once a year. the National Defence Companies. Ir "Keen as Mustard"
he succeeded he had to hurry.
The enthusiasm shown by the bors of the old brigade for this scherae la such, that like a povu lar fasule in the City. it has been over-subscribed at the start, About 8.450 men between the area or 40 and 60 are wanted through--
The old chaps we have had áll look very sound and they are be keen as mustard," in "Erenfug News" representative wie, told at the Territorial headquanera, **
"London will be able to select lis 900 m spreral thousanda
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