1936-08-25 — Page 2

Salad wisdom

L

-and a few other tips

for ambitious cooks

ETTUCES will keep crisp for two or three daya If half a cut lemon is placed amid the leaves. Another way is to place the lettuce on a cold slab and cover it over with a pudding bowl.

Over-ripe tomators will beconte firm again if put-into a basin of salted water for about twenty minutes,

Most stulo green vegetables can be freshened up by soaking in very cold

hours it possible.

water containing a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Leave for several Salads are more successful if the green vegetables, auch an lettuce, are tossed about in a wire basket after whing, then broken up, instead

af cut with knife.

Decorating the Dish

Fresh cream flavoured with tomato sauce makes a delicious enlad

cream.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1986.

Why can't we NEW BRUNSWICK RECORDS.

have it at home?

PART from the many foreign gro- cers scattered liberally over Lon- don and the other great cities of England several of the big stores stock any- thing from pumpernickel to bamboo shoots.

This week, therefore, we will make a Hittle Continental food tour and Heo what we can "have at home" when we return from our Continental

Radishes make decorative garnishes for your dishes when cut to look liko pink and white flowers. Cut off the tops, and with a flue penknife holidays. scoop the centre away. Split the shell that is left down into sections to represent petals and put into water. Soaking makes the “petala" curi delightfully.

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An

attractive wag of serving ham with anlad is to roll the slices

Lat 119 begin with Germany. Sausages and sauerkraut, preceded by of tam up tale cornet shapes and, comprise a meal as typleally 11 with cold dieed vegetables potatoes, carrots, pens, etc.

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green root vegetables can

11 considerabla

be preserved for

Line in the following manner: Scoop out the pith from the stem so that

n hollow cup is formed. Tie n string round this, and hang,

the vegetables

vary

German as you could wish.

Soup

STRONG

vegetable,

And

upside down in n cool place. Every day fill up the hollow part of the meat stock is the stem with fresh water-they will keep | basis of this popular crisp and green until required. This soup, particularly applies to lettuces, mar- rows, and similar vegetables.

Peeling an Orange

Oranges for a salad should be soaked in boiling water for several minutes before peeling them. This makes the ith come away cleanly and also makes the fruit look more Attractive.

Your lucky stone is the chrysO-

Spinach is best cooked in a cas lith. It gives wisdom and inspira-serole in the aven with a knob of Butter. Don't add any water, simply Your flower is the tea-rose, and the butter; and see that it is cooked your lucky number is 1.

over a very low fame for at least! two hours. The best health-giving juices are retained this way.

KW BLACK

JOYCE ZENY!

Wash and cut up 141b, lean beef and put it in your stock- pot with a Kawn-up marrow bone. Unlike the French, who only add the vege tables when the alock is boiling, the Germans put them in at the beginning with

the ment- carrots, onions, pean, leeks, celery, accord ing to season.

They then fill up

the pot with cold water, bring to the boll, skim, add salt and and pepper,

and

simmer for two to three hours.

seldom add

They herbs,

preferring the pure favour of the meat

When the stock is

and vegetables.

nice and strong

yau

strain it

through a damp cloth into n saucepan and set it on the stove to simmer again.

BEER

Soup.

asks many a traveller as he devours some delicious dish on his way out to Hongkong. There's no reason really, so we've arranged to take you

FOOD-TOURING

With

HESTER VALENTINE Each week she will tell you how to make the famous dishes of the Continent. They're really worth the little trouble they take. And they will bring some of the adventure of travel to your table.

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Meanwhile you prepare a batter * follows: Stir one larize egg for two small ones) into two tablespoonfule of flour, work to a thick creamy batter with three to four tablespoon- fuls milk. When it is smooth lel it drip off a spoon slowly into the shin- moring soup.

This process gives the soup Its hanic

mano einlaufsuppe: the batter runs In to the ilquid. When all the batter is in and has set nicely into little Bakes and strips, renove the soup from the fire and garnish_fur- ther with grated nutmeg of finely chopped chives.

Sausages

IT is quite easy to buy excellent Frankfurt sausages in tins, But they are on the expensive side, and many Germans resident in England have taken to ening our sausages which they treat in the following WAY

They put some pork sausages in a bowl or saucepan and pour boiling

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"Sausages and sauerkraut, pre- ceded by soup, make a meal" as typically German as you could wish."

water on them (this prevents them splitting when fried),

In a minute or two they take them oul and roll them lightly in sea- soned cornflour.

They then put them in a frying- nan or fireproof dish with plenty of hot clarified buller, and fry them till nicely browned on both sider.

They always serve them with the butter in which they

been have cooked and. I can assure you this is the most delicious way of doing sausages that I know,

Bavarian Cabbage

and at some of our big siores.

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1 A worn instrument of chastise-

incnt.

8 A big island,

Satirical.

10 Galt of the cook?

11 Not one word here.

12 Sure to change when i loses

But Bayerisch (Bavarian) kraut its head, though it goes behind

a horse's, (cabbage) can be prepared at home. with very little trouble and is free 13 Strike it out? No, don't.

Falling. quently eaten with sausages.

not in favour.

Get a large, firin spring cabbage. 16 An apparent feature, but really Remove the outer leaves and cut the heart to fine shreds with sharp 17 A motive.. but seamen hate to knife. Wash well, dry in a cloth or

run it 18 Composition. wire salad basket, and put it in a 21 Not very goed (two words).

22 University college.

kow1.

24 This vehicle is mostly an im

position.

25 They have booms every year

and all the year.

20 Eugene, somewint sheepish. 29 Leapt

Peel and remove the core from an apple, cut into very thin slices and mix with your shredded kab- buge. Now sprinkle your apple and 31 Half of a certain flower-possi- cabbage with kitchen salt (about 32 Take only a momentary view

A

level tablespoonful to a big cabbage) and pour over gill malt vinegar.

Set the bowl aside for at least two hours. You can, if you like, prepare the cabbage in the evening and let it stand overnight.

Put 2ozs. clarified butter or pork. fat (lard will do evry well) in a Anely chopped onion and Bone small cubes of boiling bacon.

Add your cabbage and apple and pour la a little hot water, not quite enough to cover the cabbage. Stir everything well together, bring to the boil, and keep it boiling for a whole hour with the lid on. Have a look at it occasionally, and when the water has been absorbed add a

Hittle more. -

THE real sauerkraut is a special white cabbage, only grown in Germany (though there is no reason At the end of an hour the cab. why it should not be grown bage should be cooked and the last elsewhere), salted and pressed with a lot of water absorbed. If it isn't heavy weight on it. You can buy quite tender, go on boiling it a bit it at the German shops in London longer.

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34 "The little--within the lule, that by and by will make the music mute." (Tennyson). 35 The lofty rank the author

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after their retirement.

notice?

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Vegetable.

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this does not explain duties.

his

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