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Tomate and Cucumber Cup Sweet Green Peppers Grilled Mutton Chops Fried Potatoes or Crisps Compote of Fresh Fruit Savoury Cheese, in Cases

TOMATO "AND CUCUMBER CUPS are drained and filled with- picked prawns blended with

mayonnaise or Tartare sauce. each surrounded with a ring of chopped fresh green cupricunts from which the seeds and pith have been removed. Keep in the refrigerator till required. They can be prepared earlier in the day

and at the same time the chops

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936.

SURPRISES

APPLE DUMPLING

Take 2 level tea-cups nour. 4 level tea-cup suet, 1 tea-spoon baking powder, cold water, salt, 2 lbs. cooking apples, Juice of half an orange, 3 tablespoons sugar 3 or 4 cloves.

Peel, core, and slice the apples. and throw them into a basin of

cold water. Sieve into a basin the flour, salt and baking powder. Add the finely chopped auet. and enough cold water to make a very stiff dough. Have ready a greased pudding basin. Roll out pastry large enough to cover the inside of the bastu. Line neatly with the pastry, and prick bottom and sides. Put in half the apples, then the sugar and orange juice, then remainder of apples. Cut off scraps of pastry, form into a d. we the edges and fix an. Twist on. a greased paper and steam steadily for four hours. Turn out

na hot dish.

can be put in the following mari SAVOURY" POTATOES

nude.

MARINADE FOR CHOPS: Pre- pare a mixture of tablespoon-

fuls of the best salad oll, and one

of vinegar with 2 shalots or 2 oz. of onion sliced. "b bay leaf, a spoonful, of salt, a couple of tea- spoonfuls of mixed herbs a table- spoonful of mixed fresh parsley, and a strip or two of very finely pared lemon. The chops are 10 be set in this, kept turned and well-basted for two hours.", Ther. lift out, do not wipe but grill. when required. Serve with a ball of maritre d'hoter on top. and some watercress or cooked potatoes sliced thickly and friend, or pota- to crisps

“COMPOTE OF FRESH FRUIT. Any fresh fruit, cooked in a clarified syrup. Make the syrup as follows: Put } pint of water and 1 lb. loaf sugar in a saucepan. When the sugar is melted beat in the white and crushed shell of One washed egg. let it boil up. The saucepan musi be able to hold twice as much as the amount of syrup you are making because this rises so much. As the scum rises, throw in a tablespoonful of water to check it. Do not skim. Do this three times: The fourth time the syrup bolls up skim thoroughly and then boil for 20 minutes. While it is boiling hot throw in the fruit you are going to cook, and simmer until it 18 terder.

Y It must not break.. CHEESE IN CASES.-1 oz. buc- ter, 4 oz, grated cheese, 11 oz breadchumbs, a little made most- ard. pint boiling milk, 2 eggs salt and a tile cayenne.

CLEAR SOUP

A plate of clear soup is much appreciated in hot weather. The following recipe is easily prepared from ingredients always to hand. Chop an onion and four ounces of ham or lean bacon. Fry them for B-few minutes in dripping, then add three pints of boiling water or stock to which a dessertspoonful of meat extract has been added. Add a coarsely grated carrot an turnip, bunch of parsley, a buy leaf, a teaspoonful of mixed herbs for some chopped herbs from the garden), pepper, salt, and a quar- ter of a teaspoonful of celery salt. Let all siminer slowly for forty- five minutes, then strain through a sieve and leave to cool, when all fat" should be removed. Next add the whites and shells of one or two eggs, and let the soup sim- mer slowly for a further few min- utes. Strain and use when want- ed.

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LUNCH ROLL

Here is an excellent', cold-meat Boll and, mash- the quanilty of potatoes required; to each pound dish for summer lunch; or supper, allow four ounces of raw bacon. Mince a pound of steak and half a Chop up the bacon and fry for a

pound of bacon, and mix well minute or two until just crispinig.gether with half a pound of sau- Add four ounces of mix with the potatoes, together sage meat. with 1 ttle flour, some, perper, bread-crumbs, a quarter of a fine-" ly grated onlon a pinch of nutmeg, and the yolks of one or two egks Mix well,cool, and shape into balls

a pinch of mace, a teaspoonful on a foured board. Roll in sea-

of chopped parsley, and pepper

saned flour or else in eggs and

and salt. Stir in two tablespoon- -breadcrumbs and fry in boiling fat fuls, of gravy or stock flavoured until golden brown. Drain well with meat extract. Add a beaten and serve on a lace paper.

APPLE PIE WITH A

DIFFERENCE

Peel and

core four good sized apples, chop them and put them into a saucepan. Grate the rind of one lemon and strain the juice. | 2 Add both to the apples with three quarters of a cupful of castor sugar, a quarter cupful of raisima and a quarter cupful of chopped almonds. Finally add a quarter teaspoonful of cinnamon Cook.

Form Into a roll and tie

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Savoury Rabbit

. Always add a little stewing beef to a rabbit pie, It adds much to the favour and appearance,

Wash and joint the rabbit, cut thể stewing beef up small, and dice lb. pork or bacon. Place all in layers in a ple dish, seasoning each layer with salt and pepper. then fill three-quarters full with

stock.

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Cover with rough puff pastry. brush over with beaten egy. bake in a fairly hot over, for the first hour, then reduce the hea and cook for another hour. When serving hot, add more stock to the pic. If cold, add ‡ or. "dissol· ved gelatine,

"CASSEROLE OF RABBIT Casseroled rabbit, is extra flay-

oursome.

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Joint the rabbit and sprinkle t Inside and put with pepper and salt, then fry lightly in dripping together with three rashers of ba-

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Place rabbit and bacón in a cas- serole, then fry a sliced onion and udd. Add sliced carrot

Sprinkle with Hour and a tea- spoonful of mixed herbs, then eover with water. Put or the lid and stand in a moderate oven for two hours."

ihicken the

Before serving, gravy.

GRAPE JUICE FLIP

cup water

cup sugar

1 pint bottled grape juice

Cup ime

1 pint nerated water

ekk. In a floured cloth. Put in the steamer or In a saucepan on £ plate with water under the plate and steam for a couple of "hours. Roll in browned crumbs while warm, or leave, to cool and brush over with glazes. Serve with greenutes. Chill. Add grap and Ilme

salad.

SOUR-MILK MUFFINS

Substitute sour milk, teaspoon soda and teaspoons baking powder for the sweet milk and teaspoons baking powder in Plain Muffin.

Sift.

STANDARD WAFFLES

with the cover on the saucepan 2 cups flour, measure and sift twide

for five minutes, then remove from

with

Pour the boiling milk on the but ter and breadcrumbs, stir in the cheese and seasoning». Mix well the fire and allow to cool." Line a 4 teaspoons baking powder and Separate the whites from the fireproof plate with short crust, 1 teaspoon salt. Combine yolks of the eggs and beat in the Put in the mixture and bake in a 14 cups milk volks. Whisk the whites very moderate oven for about half an 4 tablespoons incited butter and stiffy, fold them in, fill little grea- hour. When cooked decorate the 2 beaten egg yolks. Add to the sed paper souffle cases, dust with|ple with whipped cream, sweeten- some of the grated cheese, such ed to taste and flavoured with a as you bake cakes in, and bake few drops of rum, and sprinkle in a hot oven while you are eating with almonds, blanched and fried the chops!

in butter.

sifted dry ingredients, mixing only until smooth. Fold in the

stly beaten egg whites. Drop

2

egg whites (beaten to a froth)

Fresh mint.

Cook water and sugar five min-

juice. When ready to serve add aerated water, stir in egg white and your over crushed ice. Garnish with fresh mint,

SOUR MILK WAFFLES

Substitute sour milk

à teaspoon soda and.

1 teaspoon baking powder for sweet milk and 4 teaspoons baking powder In Standard Wafites.

VARIATIONS FOR PLAIN MUFFINS

by spoonfuls on hot, slightly | Apple--And 1 cup finely chopped olled waffe. Yield: 8x waffles.

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Cheese Add 1 cup grated cheese

to sifted dry ingredients. Chocolate-Melt" 14 squares choco- late and add to combined in- gredients and stir lightly to give marble effect, 霉 Corn Meal Substitue cup carn

meal and 1 cups flour for 2 cups flour in sour-milk munitas. Date Add cup chopped dates to

sifted dry ingredients. Jelly-Drop to teaspoon jeliy on each mufa when placed in oven.

Orange Add 1 cup diced orange to

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