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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937.

SURPRISES

PLAN YOUR MEAT COURSE TO SUIT

THE SUMMER SEASON

When days are hot and sultry you'll plan to avold the "hearty” meat course as you would the plague if you want to keep your

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FASHIONS IN ENTERTAINMENT

BREAKFAST ENTERTAINING FAVOURED

When holiday or

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LIGHT PUDDINGS

Recipes For Hot Weather

A delicious pudding, which can be served hot or cold, is made with the aid of a cake shell which has a raised centre, making a hollow in the baked shell when It is turned out, Alternatively, one pudding basin, or ordinary cake tin placed inside another can be used. Make the mixture by creaming together four "ounces honour. If you can afford elaborate functions given in each of butter and sugar, beating dainty breakfast

In two large eggs and sifting in nowered china, su fashionable to-

four ounces of self-raising four and a plrich of salt. Flavour day, use them by all means. If with vanilla, lemon rind, or other not, arrange your own dishes on flavouring. Well grease the tins two trays as shown in the illus or basins. spread in the mixture tration.

about half an inch thick and flowered china, doillas, or table cloths of gingham or fringed co-

If you have never tried serving bake in a fairly hot oven until loured linen, and if nowers are the place to begin. It is an Eng-fill the centre with any stewed. hot breads for breakfast, this is cooked. Turn out carefully, and

used as a centerpiece they shouldlish custom that has found favour tuned, be simply arranged in a bowl or in many parts of the world. Hot breads are easy to make and even an unintelligent servant can be taught to bake them successfully, if you impress on her the necessity

letter. of following directions to the

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Entertaining informally at break- Make a blend of 3 tablespoons fast has been growing in favour of of shortening and 3

tablespoons fate among the younger set. It family healthy and happy. But of four. When cheesy add one is a delightful way to begin a if you are wise you'll plan to have cup stock, water or gravy.

to entertain a hot main dish more often than thick. blend with one cup diced after an early morning swimm not. For, delightful and attractive chicken, one cup diced ham, three The keynote of breakfast enter- as cold dishes may be, the careful chopped green olives, and & tea-taining s simplicity. Use gay housewife does not introduce them spoon carry."Put in a baking dish and cover with one can canned too often on her summer menus, Here are some menus to provide the co. Dot with butter and sprinkle

backbone of the well considered summer meal.

with paprika, Bake until brown (about 20 minutes).

WITH POACHED EGGS CORNED BEEF KASH NESTS ..

Open canned corn beef hash and shape into nests. (Individual

basket.

One large table may be used, or small tables, scattered around the living room or patio, are equally only one maid serve this company correct. Many hostesses who have breakfast buffet style.

A WAFFLE BREAKFAST IS NEW If your friends have never tasted waffles, here is your opportunity to introduce them to this delightful

SWEETBREAD SOUFFLE Prepare a pair of sweetbreads by soaking one, hour in cold salted water. Drain and put into d kettle of cold water and allow to come rounds with a depression in the to a boll. Cook for about twenty center). Place..Id a frying pan to minutes. Take them from the heat and brown on the bottom. In kettle and plunge into ice water

the meantime poach as many eggs Suntil Arm. Trim all fat and mem-

as will be needed cooking in rings brane from the sweetbreads and to keep the eggs from spreading. chop them fire. Add one cup of Make parsley butter by creaming cream sauce... three well-beaten egg 3 tablespoons butter and 1 table-dish. Place the wattle tron in yolks and season with salt and spoon finely chopped parsley and front of the hostess and have the pepper to taste. Fold in three egg teaspoon lemon juice; add tea- batter in pitchers with wide snouts whites beaten stiff,

Fill small spoon chopped chives, To serve The maid can serve coffee, or the greased molds two-thirds full of place corned eef nests on a plat-service can be placed on a tray at the mixture. set molds in a pan of ter, drop a poached egg In each the other end of the table and a hot water and bake in a moderate and with

a teaspoon of parsley, friend asked to pour. oven for 30 minutes. Serve with butter. Garnish with sprigs of asparagus tips and hat biscuits. parsley! You may garnish with small white" grapes or silvered almonds.

TONGUE WITH MUSHROOMS. AND TOMAATO

8 strips bacon

1 onion

lb. mushroom s

2 tomatoes

8 slices cooked tongue Brown bacon in frying pan, re- "move, to warming oven and pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat. Slice onlon, very this, brown dell- bacon fat, add mush- cately in rooms cut in slices, cook 2 min utes, add tomatoes, cut, in pieces and tongue. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Serve garnished with

bacon.

LUNCHEON ROLL

I chopped onion

2 tbsp. fat

1 egg

cup milk

1 tsp. salt

Few grains pepper

cup cracker crumbs

I lb. chopped beef

11 cups flour

tap. salt

2 tsp. baking powder,

2 tbsp. shorteping

1 cup milk (approximately)

Fry onion in fat until a delicate brown. Beat egr add milk, salt, pepper and crumbs; mix well. Add chopped beef and fried onion. From into a roll place on, a rack in baking pan. Bake in a moder-

BACON GRILL

Place strips of partially cooked bacon on large slices of bread which have each been spread with teaspoon curry powder mixed with 1 teaspoons of butter. A ternate bacon with thin strips of cheese and broil Garish with tomato slices and pickles.

Cooling Beverages

Hot and sultry days turn our attention to refreshing drinks- serve them often-in the after- noori or over a game of cards when day is done.

BLACK COW

Half fill a glass with chilled ginegerale, add 2

TESTED RECIPES FOR SIMPLE HOT BREADS Royal Biscuits.

2 cups dour

4 teaspoons Royal Baking Fow-

der

or bottled fruit "liked heating it first if the pudding is to be served hot. If served cold, de- corate with whipped cream and. chopped nuts.

Caramel Cream

The following caramel cream is both light and nourshing, Put four ounces of castor sugar into a thick alumimium saucepan. Let It dissolve and get brown. Care- ful watching is necessary here, as If the sugar is left too long it will taste burnt. It should be ap- proximately the colour of brown paper. Have ready a plat of hot milk, and pour on to the sugar, Sift together four, baking pow-ready four eggs beaten with a lit

which will froth up. Also have" der and salt, Add shortening and

teaspoon guit

4 tablespoons shortening

cup milk (or half milk and half water).

tle milk and combine thoroughly with the milk and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence and pour all into a double saucepan. Stir until it thickens, then pour into custard cups and decorate with ratadas,

Chocolate Trifle Chocolate trifle is another good cold sweet. Put four or five small sliced sponge cakes into a dish with a few ratafias and sprinkle with sherry or a little fruit juice. Dissolve two Ounces of plain chocolate in a basin over a pan of hot water and stir in two table- spoonfuls of castor sugar. Take three-quarters of a pint of milk and beat three eggs with some of it. Pour the rest over the chocolate and stir until well blended. Pour this and the eggs into a double saucepan and stir Add until it thickens. Then add a few drops of vanilla essence and pour the "sponge cakes. When quite cold spread the top with whipped cream and decorate with chopped pistachio nuts, angelica, and glace cherries..

Waffles, you know, "are always, mix ti thoroughly with fork. accompanied by generous servings liquid to make soft dough. Turn of syrup, haney, Jellles, jam or out un tablespoons

floured board- and toss cinnamon and sugar mixed. Bet-lightly until outside looks smooth. ter have bowls of each so that Roll out inch thick, Cat with your guests will have a choice. foured biscuit cutter. Place on greased pan. Bake in hot over about 12 minutes. Makes 18 2"- biscuits.

heavy cream or a scoop of ice cream, beat until well mixed and serve at once.

CHILDREN'S MILK SHAKE

To 1 cup of fresh milk add cup unsweetened canned pine- apple juice and i scoop of vanila, ice cream. Have milk and juice throughly chilled. Shake up well or mix with an electric mixer. PINEAPPLE MINT DRINK

Add cup crushed pineapple

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ROYAL WAFFLES

2 cups nour

3 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow-

der

teaspoon salt

2 eggs

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1-3 cups milk

4 tablespoons melted shortening. Sift together dry ingredients. Add slightly beaten egg yolks and

ORANGE BISCUIT SQUARES

1 recipe for Royal Biscuits 1 tablespoon sugar Grated rind and juice of one' orange.

Make a dough. adding sugar and grated orange rind to dry ingre- dients. Turn out

on a foured

ate oven for 45 minutes. Remove to i cup sugar, cup water and milk; beat thoroughly. Add shortboard and roll " thick. Cut in

Cook sugar

4 large

from oven. Mix flour, salt and cup lemon juice.

ening. Fold in stily beaten egg baking powder. Cut in shortening and water first for 2 minutes, add Whites: Bake in hot wattle fron "with knives or rub in with finger lemon juice and strain, then pine-

until brown. Makes tips. Add enough milk to hold in-apple.

waffles. gredients together. Roll out bis-

Next add 1 bunch mint (6 table- cult dough a little larger than the spoons) or teaspoon mint ex.

BREAKFAST ON A TRAY

meat roll.

Cover meat with bis-tract may be used instead of mint breakfast a la tete-a-tete can be When you have a house guest, Cut a design on top teaves. Pour 3 tablespoons or

as charming a part of her en-

cult dough.

of loat and brush with milk. Bake more of pineapple mint syrup tertainment as any of the more in a hot oven until the biscuit over crushed ice and all glasses

crust is a nice brown.

LIVER CAKES

1 lb. beet Liver

1 medium large onion

6 · square crackers

1 tsp salt

tap: pepper

2 tbsp. milk

2 eggs beaten slightly

Force the liver, onion and crack- ers through a food chopper, using the medium blade. Add the salt. pepper, milk and", eggs and mix thoroughly. Drop by rounded tablespoons into skillet containing 3 tablespoon of melted shorten-! ing. Pan fry until nicely browned on both sides...

with gingerale:

ORANGE MILK DRINK

1 cup evaporated milk

2 cups orange juice

3. thap. sugar Few grains salt

Combine ingredients and stir well or shake vigorously. Chill.

SPICED CIDER

DILL BEEF BIRDS

There is a Swedish ath about these "Birds" for the flavouring has the tang of many Swedish foods. Cut one pound of thin round steak into six oblongs. Center each' piece with a bit of bacon and a To 1 gallon sweet cider aad 11 strip of dill pickle Roll, fasten cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon with toothpicks, brown in shorten- whole allspice, 1 tablespoon whole Ing. sprinkle with Bour, salt and cloves, teaspoon salt, dash of paprika and add 4 cups of hot wa- cayenne. Boli 15 minutes. Chill ter. Cook slowly one hour or un- Berve over over crushed ice. til tender. Place dumplings BeK-

soned with caraway seeds, if liked,

on top of the meat and cook 15 minutes longer.

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F FRUNE JUICE DE LUXE

Buy prune juice in a bottle or make at home, by cooking prunes

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and straining them.

Serve fis- vored with lemon juice, grapefruit“ Juice or diluted with gingerale ur charged water. Add: sugar" to

taste.

-FRUIT PUNCH FOR A CROWD.

Juice 3 dagen lemons

Grated rinds of,é lemons. Juice of a dozen oranges

1 quar; grape juice:

2"

squares and sprinkle with granulated sugar and orange juice. Bake in hot oven about. 10 minutes. Makes 13,

Artichoke Cream Soup

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With A Piece Of Bacon

The end of a piece of bacon usually resolves itself into "Ham" Toast or Scrambled Eggs with Bacon But there are other and more attractive ways of finsihing It up. For example, these.

BACON AND EGG TARTLETS Mince six ounces of cold lean bacon and mix with two ounces of White breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, Autmeg and enough milk to make a smooth stiff paste. Butter half- a-dozen patty-pana, dust them over well with browned bread- crumbs and then line them with the mixture. Break an egg tare- fully into each, tartlet, sprinkle with a little more browned brend- crumb, dot with a bit of butter and bake in the oven until the eggs are done.

Ingredients: 2. lbs. artichokes 2 pints white stock, pint milk, 1 leek. 1 oz. butter. 14 oz four, salt, pepper, pinch of "sugår.

Peel and alice artichokes, Wash and alice the leek,, only using the phite part. Melt the butter in the saucepan, add the vegetables,stand-by. Put half a pound of This makes a good breakfast toss in the butter for five minutes. lean and two ounces of fat cock- Do not let them colour..

POTTED BACON

ed bacon two or three times

Add stock sind seasonings, put through the mincing-machine and on the lid, almmer for an hour. pound it well with a teaspoonful Mix the flour smoothly with the each of mace, nutmeg and pepper milk and add to soup. Press through a sieve, bring to the boll then through a

and a pinch of cayenne. Rub it Ane sleve, and again

press it well down into a pot or small piedish. Cover with clari- fed butter, and it will keep some days in a cool place, and weeks in a refrigerator.

Serve with finely grated cheese.

In Season This Week

A number of lovely melons have appeared in local shops this week, and can be recommended.

BACON AND MACARONI PUDDING

Cook some macaroni and have

The melon a peculiar fruit as ready a breakfast-cupful Fut It does not make an univerat this into a buttered-baking-dish appeal. Though most people and over it spread a mixture of a "admit it là delicious " yet many breakfast-cupful of chopped cold fight shy of 12 in hot weather, | bacon, half a teaspoonful of antt, For those who

it “too cold" a good pinch of celery salt and and liable to disagree here is a Depper and a few drops of onion

with it fulce

Bottle maraschino cherries, mini-tip. Take lots of sugar

ced and juice.

and before eating dust your alice Beat up slightly two eggs and To lightly with Pepper Not only add them to a breakfastcupful does it bring out the favour and a half of milk, and pour this. it prevents any vetfects after into the dish. Bake in a moderate Wardi

oven until firing A

our" this over, ice water muke 5 gallons, Sweeten to taste, Add” § gallon gingerale if de sired.

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