1938-03-17 — Page 3

STAPLES

TWO SAUCES

Skilfully favoured sauces will go a long way towards ensuring the success of a simple dish.

The basis of a large number of sauces is white sauce. From this foundation can be" made such varieties as anchovy, caper, cheese, onion and parsley.

There are just one or two tips it would be as well to mention with regard to the making of white

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1938.

SURPRISES

CASSEROLE DISHES

FORK HOT POT Your family will enjoy wholesome dish.

DATE PUDDING

We should make the most of

cheap, and can be used for many pudding dlahes

Brown the meat in the hot fat, dates. They are nutritious and this then fry the bacon, remove and cook the sliced vegetables slowly for 20 minutes. Arrange the meat and bacon on the top and cook for half an hour, slowly with the lid on Add the stock. chopped parsley and seasonings.

Ingredients: i spare rib'of pork. lb. skirt of beef, į lb. onions, 11 1. potatoes, 4 carrots, 2 turnips, parships, water, salt, pepper and a pinch of mixed herbs, a nut of dripping.

Cat the pork and skirt into small pleces and place in a hot oct with the sliced onions, carrots, turnirs

sauce. It is all-important that the butter and four should cook to gether before the milk is added.and parsnips. "Never use cold milk for the sauce.

The potatoes are best bolled and served in a separate dish.

WHITE SAUCE »

Add the seasoning to the hot pot, Here is a recipe for white sauce and cold water to come up to half which I have always found success-way of the pot. Put the dripping in cover with a lid and cook for three hours in a moderate oven.

The

fut:-

Ingredierits: A pint milk, 1oz. butter, loz. flour. teaspoonful salt. Put the butter into a small and saucepan over gentle heat gradually add the flour, stirring until free from lumps, then cook for two or three minutes.

Remove saucepan from fire and pour in the hot milk slowly, again stirring until the mixture is quite smooth.

potatoes can be sliced and added one hour before the

before

stow is cooked. Remove the lid for serving to ten" minutes brown the potatoes.

Serve hot. In the casserole,

TRIPE AND ONIONS Telpe is nourishing and digested.

Ingredients: 2 lb. cleaned tripe.)

easily

Sprinkle in the salt and stir partly cooked-- uncooked, wash while the sauce comes to the boll, and scrape smoothly. Put the! then simmer for just five minutes.ipe into boiling water for three: stirring all the time.,

HOLLANDAISE

Excellent sauce with fish.

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It must not be allowed to boll

or it will curdle. so use a double saucepan.

Heat water vinegar and egg yolks together, stirring constantly until sauce thickens.

minutes. then remove and drop

into cold water, repeat this twice.

Cook slowly for 2 hours with the d on. Pour on to a large deep dish and serve with boiled potatoes,

FISH EN CASSEROLE

Hented up in a casserole. left- over fish makes a tasty dish

Melt a little butter in a pan, and gradually add a tablespoonful of four then pint milk and water. Stir until it thickens, stir in two tablespoonfuls of anchovy essence, a little chopped parsley and a few drops of lemon juice.

Put into a casserole about 1ib. and cooked cod. with the bones skin removed, and naked. Add Sepper and salt, put on the lid and cook in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Pour over the sauce and serve fish in the casserole. Mashed potatoes are good with this.

CHEESE AND HAM TOAST

First, for a family pudding.

Ingredients: 403 breadcrumbs, 3oz. door, 3oz. shredded suet, a pinch of salt, spice and nutmeg and ground cloves, 2 eggs. 3oz. sugar, teaspoonful of baking

spoonful of golden syrup. 4oz. powder. 2oz. glace cherries, I table-

dates milk, to mix.

beaten

Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder; add the cut-up dates and breadcrumbs. halved cherries, suct sugar and treacle to the sieved Ingredients. Stir in the eggs and a little milk to form a well- stiff batter. greased basin and steam for 2 hours. Turn out and serve with custard,

Pour into

DATE JAM

Children will like this in sand-.. wiches.

Ir.gredients: tib. dates, 2 packets. of lemon jelly (in squares), 4oz. preserved or crystallised ginger, 23 pints of water.

Cut the jelly into small pleces. add the stoned dates and ginger, and simmer in the water, stirring occasionally for one hour. Four into dry jars, and seal ot once.

Dates should be wiped with a Cover with cold water and simmer them, and keep hot. Chop finely cloth before being used, and the for six hours, until very tender.

Remove the tripe, drain and cut three ounces of lean ham and little woody tips must be removed. into neat pieces, but into a sauce-grate three ounces of dry cheese. pan with the onions. water and

with cold water...

Serve with toast round. the dish.

BRISKET AND BACON

Toast two slices of bread, butter

SWEET PICKLE

cinnamon.

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Cold meat becomes a tasty dish Ingredients: 2oz. butter. 1 table-milk, and s'nimer for two hours Put a tablespoonful of butter into

3 double saucepan, and when served with this relist. spoonful vinegar, 2 tablespoonfuls Season well, and thicken with a

ine ham arid" cheese. Ingredients: 31b. dates, stoned water, 2 yolks of eggs, squeeze of Ittle flour mixed to a smooth paste melted add lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Stir until hot add a beaten egg, and halved, salt, 14oz pickling pepper, and salt it necessary. Stir spice, z. ground until thick, and divide between, the pints vinegar, lb. brown sugar a little more if 2 sweet pickle is An unusual and tasty dish.

pieces of toast. Sprinkle with a liked. Ingredients.-2 lb. brisket of beef,

little chopped parsley and serve at Boll the vinegar and spices and pieces of ham or bolled bacon or

until syrupy Place the cold left-over bacon. 3 onions, 2j once. If a very savoury favour is sugar carrots, a turnip and celery, a wanted, add a spoonful of piquant stoned and halved dates in jars, then pour over the hot syrup. 1 pint sauce or chutney to the mixture When cold, tle down and use after

while cooking.

Reduce heat and add butter in small pieces, letting each plese melt before the next is put in, add lemon juice and seasoning to taste:

MUSHROOMS FOR FLAVOUR

A can of mushrooms may net he actual magic, but the delicious re- sults savour of a cook who knows all sorts of tricks with flavours Combine mushrooms with ordinary foods and the result is always gratifying. one's reputation as a cock growing by leaps and bounds. MUSHROOM BROTH

You may use chicken stock, beef stock, canned soup or stock made from bouillon cubes but I prefer chicken stock. Put in a saucepan

4 cups stock,

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cup mushrooms, broken in pieces an onlon, thinly sliced

stalk celery, cut in small pieces teaspoon salt, a

Few grains pepper, and

1 clove, and boil slowly for ten

minutes. Pour

cup cold water into a bowl and

sprinkle

2 level tablespoons gelatin on top of water. Add gelation to hot stock and stir until dissolved. Strain and chill. Serve with a spoonful of whipped cream on each cup...

MUSHROOM SAUCE.

This gives the de luxe touch and the inimitable flavour good, books strive for. Serve it with roasted or broiled beef.

Combine

4 tablespoons melted butter with.

4 tablespoons flour. Brown slight-

1y. Add

1 cups beet or chicken stock, and

1 cup of water.

Add

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1 cup sliced pantried mushrooms. Heat thoroughly and quickly. Season with salt and pepper. Serve at once.

MUSHROOM AND RICE LOAF

Wash and boil

tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a pinch of powdered sage, water or stock, salt and pepper.

three months.

Chinese Ladies Take Cookery Lessons

Cookery classes organised by the Advertising and Publicity Bureau on behalf of

Assra. Simpson

Bros. (manufactures of Simpson's Self-Raising Flour) and Messrs. Oxo, Ltd., held at the Y.W.C.A.

last week, were very popular, as the above picture shows.

CHILD WELFARE FRUIT AND. FITNESS | AUTOGIRO FLIES

WORK IN SINGAPORE

Lord Mayor's National Campaign Proposal

Fruit and fitness was the main theme of a speech by the Lord Mayor of London, Bir Harry

Funds Insufficient Twyford, at the livery dinner of

the Fruiterers' Company at Haber-

IN HALL

German Invention Can Stay Still In Air

Over 50,000 children attended deshers" Hall, EC., recently. · "the clinics attached to the cre- Referring to the National Fitness

The German air-woman, Hanna ches run by the Singapore Child Campaign, he said:

Reitsch, flew an autogiro in a Welfare Society and over 25,000 "Tauggest that the campaign

Berlin hall recently, states children had been cared for in the might be advantageously linked

up with that of Bat more fruit. special message from Berlin.

She took off from the centre of the benefit

the floor and made a circult of the floor

2 cups rice. Cook in butter the creches during 1937.

following:

i cup chopped onion.

3 green peppers, chopped

1 pimiento, chopped, and

1 cup mushrooms broken in pieces.

Cook five minutes but don't brown.

Combine with the rice,

1 cup Italian cheese

2 eggs

1 cup whole wheat crumbs and

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CREAM OF BARLEY SOUP

Mr. Chen Tao-met, former Gov- ernor of Klangsu, who left Shang-1 Excellent for growing children, pint milk, season with salt and hai for Hong Kong last month in

pepper and a pinch of nutmeg.

order to avoid the pressure brought invalids and elderly folk.

Add a nut of margarine, thicken to bear on him, by interested par- Wash 1 lb. pearl barley, drain with 4 oz. cornflour mixed to a les urging him to head a new and add it to 1 plat white stock, smooth paste with a little cold Kiangsu provincial government, is Bring to the boll, then simmer milk. Heat and stir for fifteen now on his way to Kwelchow, says minutes, then sprinkle with finely a message to the China Daily News, gently for two hours. Rub through chopped celery, serve with toast Mr. Chen will not return to Shafig-

hal for some time to come. a sleve, return to the pan, add fingers,