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Can you make Consomme?

That is the test of a good cook

y dear, I really HESTER

do believe I've

-struck a good VALENTINE

cook at last!"

"Can she make 'clear

soup?"

"Yes, her consomme is

perfect."

tells

you

how

Consomme, the classic test of a to get full

first-class cool. ^

When I was just married I had o bad complex about it. I considered inyself a good cook, and yet, when it came to clarifying the contents of

the stock-pot, I was helpless.

that

marks

a blade of mace, Qve or six pepper- It sounded so terribly complicated corns, mushroom stalks and peelings, tomato pulp and skin, a clove of the cookery books. Ait

and the Earle, legs, neck, and bones of skimming and straining;

chicken. tunt clarifying process was never properly explained.

in

SOUP

Pour it into a saucepan, and, if them into your saucepan of It is the jellied variety, dissolve t for a few seconds on the stove. Now flavoured stock, and put on Is the time to add the final flavour- ing.

stove.

cold

tho

Autumn Fashions Go Royalist

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1036.

By ZOE-FARMER TOU finish up summer

with a coat of tan. That is about all you'll have that is in fashion (and even that won't last long...

The hustle for autumn clothes! has already started. Those little coloured jackets over flowered dresses, openwork sandal shoes, little flat crowns with spreading sunshade brims, pale colours for dresses and coats are all "out."

Even your hairdressing, with that cluster of curls on your neck, is finished. Instead, bair is shorter and close, to the head.

High Hat

Hnts are as high-crowned as you can bear. Some oven-getting us used to the iden for next year-are shaped just like crowns, in black velvet, with ermine tails.

Dresses are two inches shorter and daring.

Tweed, that most conservative material, is changing is style to look mannish with well pronounced shoulders, slightly waisted on |straight-Kanging coats.

To replace flowers, the nowest ornaments for belts, clips, buttons hats, are all raging royalist. Jackets are shaped like heralds conts-siceveless and slip- ping over the head.

Do not attempt to whisk or beat The real fun of clear soup-making the soup in the ordinary way. The lies in the art of flavouring. You whites do not need to be mixed in, the top. can combine different essences and but should stay floating Julees with sherry, marsalo, or red Take an egg-whisk and keep Uio

movement from left to right. wine one day?).

Do not on any account stop doing Alternatively, it is not necessary this until boiling-point is reached to use wine at all. A teaspoonful and the egg-whites foam up to the. The next day a colld layer of fat of sugar, n squeeze of lemon juice, brim. Remove at once and stand and how Mr. Valentine enjoys ʼn cup will have formed on top of the dash of tomato ketchup, a sprinic-

Then one autumn 1 went to slay Pour it into a bawl through a fine Wine (and why not try home made soup on the move with a short, 'alary murples, crimson, gold, silver, blue,

Simmer the stock for three hours,

with some friends in France. Since for boiling up again) and put it in strainer (savo the meat and bones That happy visit clear soup has held no secrets for me. I can now clarify the larder. stoel an easily as I can fry an egg,

evening!

Have the stock ready

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cayenne pepper; used of food consomme on a summer, stock. You can remove this very separately or together these ingre

easily with a spoon. The soup may diants will impart now be submitted to the clarifying favour to your consomme. And

distinctive

process described below.

stock which contains a good bunch of herbs or a little extra mace can easily stand on its own. You simply clarify it without adding any fur- ther favouring at all.

FIRST of all there is the

stock pot. If you do not. indulge in the praiseworthy habit of keeping one, you will have to make o lille stock on the day before the soup is needed,

There are three basic consommes: hot, cold, and fellled. Any

Stack For Jollied Consomme

strong of beef,

need sories.

KNUCKLE of veal, 4 pound lean part brisket Bring to the boil and add

Simmer for five hours.

stock can be converted into the first any of the above-mentioned neces- variety, but the two Inter tertain ingredients.

Stock For

Cold Consomme

ONE

Two flavouring combinations

I

the saucepan aside for ten minutes. glamp klicken cloth, doubled, and Strain it very slowly through a

somme, crystal clear. you will have a bowl of real con-

Garnish For The Soup

The topical colours are royal-

Yes, gold is even used on day clothes Lame belt and collars to black dresses.

Velvet Favourite

In character, the favoured stuff in day, in black, Velvet striped with velvet-of all kinds. Velveteens for

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except around neck. Down coat fronts-an inset panel so that it looks as though you have a fur coat under THERE are different sorts of

your

cloth one on sleeves, to into baked creams, cut

make lapels

or waistcoats, tiny stars and squares and circles,

or as epanteties. with which you can garnish con- WILL new tell you of two somme, but personally

Printed materials are also coming I think

out with Coronation colourings. The defnite favouring combin little vermicelli or n few sliced way things are at present, I should You will notice that in these two ations suitable for consomme served vegetables are nicer than anything, think we'll all be dressed like little recipes for stoek I have said nothing at select Hittle dinner parties.

Always add your garnish after the kings by the day King Edward is about skimming. It is so much

1. For hot or cold conanime. casier to over-akim than to under-

To clarifying process, or you will not crowned. skim that I never bother to skim 1 pints of stock (enough for four get your soup clear. Vermicelli my stock at all. To say that a stock people) add a teaspoonful of tinned should be put in boiling water for which has not been skimmed will tomato essence, a small glass of red live minutes before going into the never get clear is untrue.

wine, a tablespoonful of sherry, a consomme. dash each of lemon juice and vine- ger. Clarity.

NE needs 11b, shin of beef, Including pieces of sawn-

However, if you arc keen on up marrow bone.

skimming never attempt to remove Put the meat, cut in pieces, and anything but the grey Bcum which the bones Into a saucepan (or large rises when the stock first comes to carthenware casserole), add about bolling-paint. I you do you will three pints of water and bring to the remove a lot of nourishment. boll slowly. When boiling add sea- soning, two onions and two carrals.

These are the essential ingredients, but you will greatly improve the flavour of your soup If you add any or all of the following things?--

Abay-leaf, mixed herbs, either.

dricd

To Flavour

Consomme

YOUR stock is quite cold, and you hayo, removed fat from the top. A pint is

or fresh (namely, parsley, the thyme, marjoram, tarragon), a clove, enough for three people.

THIS LITTLE RASCAL,

any baby specialist

will tell you, should never be given any but the gentlest of laxa- tives. The best way to be absolutely sure is to give her Castoria, gentle, safe and pre- pared especially for children. She loves to take Castoria because

it tastes so good.

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2. For jellied consomme. Heat up your stock and add four tomatoes cut in quartern and a few drops of tomato ketchup. Simmer for 11⁄2

hours. Strain, allow to cool and clarify.

To Clarify Stock

LLOW two whites of egg A to a pint of stock. (Egg- shells are often used no well, but they do not really help matters much, and I used too generously. Imapart un unpleasant favour).

Beat the whiles to a froth, not too stiff, but fairly firm. Pour

How To Make

Use these vegetables

QUITABLE vegetables to add tre diced and cooled car-

rats, cooked pens and blanched cucumber rind (put some rind which you have cut into thin strips in cold water with a pinch of salt, bring to the bell, and add to the consomme).

consomme The famous Jellied known as "Jullerine" simply has diced carrots, some peas and some chopped vermicelli put into soon..it has been clarified When it gets cold the garnish sets nicely into the jdly,

Tips about

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though bulky.

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Capsule tip (anag). 10 A figurative drawback.

12 A direction in the narrowest

sense,

13 Where King Arthur presum-

ably first part a second part, 10 In well.

17 Hide advices to cruisers in the

Mediterranean,

10 A wrench indeed! TABLESPOONFUL of boiling 21 Gironde (anag). water, added to mayounaise 24. What happened to when it is mixed, will keep it from who lost his speech. "turning" as it sometimes does for 26 Low-life bird? no accountable reason.

A very light and fluffy mayonnaise Is made by adding the stily whip- 'ped egg-white when the dressing la mixed.

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A plain salad is vastly improved it ag by this dressing. Add to a gill of mayonnaise half a teaspoonful of piquante sauce, a tablespoonful of 33 This girl should be fond of tomato catsup, two teaspoonfuls of wine; she's where it is! walnut catsup, and half a teaspoon-34 A bit too grasping altogether. ful of ground cloves,

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This article is written at Tength and in detail to make t

of practical use to the housewife. Cut it out, keep it in your recipe- book.

Fruit Cheeses

VOU can stock your winter store thickens. Then weigh and take the

cupboards from summer gardens, same weight in costor sugar, Fruits have a double usefulness,

Bring the pulp to the boll, add

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The American "Thousand Island” dressing is made by adding chopped olives, chopped pimento, and tomato catsup to mayonnaise. When ob- tainable, chopped green pepper elves a pleasant tang.

NAME

CHART

MARIA

A prophetess.

CUTE penetration of mind,

Symbol:

Fruit cheeses are juiceless jams, the sugar, and bell very rapidly, A lovali, and Azity of purpose and the precious liquid makes stirring carefully, for fifteen minutes, Put into sightly olled moulds, cover and store in a cool pluco,

syrups.

These cheeses can be eaten with bread, or served with custard to All fruits make syrups, though the make wintry pudding time very method of preparation varles. Here summery indeed,

is a typical one-

the Inckiest.

1 Part of the live stock.

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between them,

3 Famous French playwright.

4 Presents a knotty problem, one might say (hyphen, 4 and 3). Might become unstuck.

4

7 One line is partly responsible

for one solitary condition.

He doesn't deny himself one sort of marrow.

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of the day.

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23 A sneaking expression (hyphen,

4 and 3).

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While plums make lovely cheese, Cherry syrup-Mesh the

cher- the 18th. mony midsummer fruits lack ries. Press through a jelly bag. suficient "body." Added apples To each plut of juice so obtained

solve this difficulty and improve the add 1lb. of cane sugar. Stir over! Sonality are deep, rich shades of

flavour.

the fire with a wooden spoon till A standard recipe is to stir sieved boll up for five minutes, skim, pour the sugar is dissolved and then fruit pulp over, a slow are till it into hot bottles, cork and seal.

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