Cooking on
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Skewers
ATHER more than five years ago my first article on cooking
R was published in the News Chronicle. We had been to the By
claborate dish of skewered meats, and it seemed an amusing subject for an article.
Ambrose
Heath
The other day we motored past some campers in the New Forest. They were cooking their evening meal at a camp fire-on skowers! It is a most attractive way to serve meat, and fish too, and as it originates in the East it is very likely an elaboration of the old camp-fire cooking. It is very simple, but it is rather exciting: not, mind you, only by the fireside, but dainty little silver-plated skewers with exelting-looking pieces of meal, ele. impaled on them make an original meal for any wise hostess with which to surprise served-on-the-skewers-accompanied often with some straw potatoes and her friends.
of mution or lanh eut ready, with fresh watercress. the pieces of bacon and onion, and
Kebabs
TN the East these skewered to fet them remain for an hour bes meats were called Kebabs fure they are cooked, sprinkled with
or Kabobs (the spelling varies), and curry powder, salt, pepper and a they are always pleees of meat alternating with vegetable or fruit le round singer. They are then
Sketered Fish
FISH can be skewered in.
Another Continental dish
is brochettes of salt cod. Here the
on the skewer, more often grille, impaled, brushed over with butter Pieces of cod are alternated
often baked and sometimes fried.
and taked.
and
The skewers must be thin about six to eight inches long. They may either be wooden ones, or just
Brochettes de Rognons
Tusually
IESE Eastern Kebales aré
served with
ordinary metal ones, or silverplated pilaf rice, which is ordinary rice
or silver.
with:
slices of tomato, and the whole is. grbled or balted in the oven, withi plelifed bastings of butter or olive [PL].
But pieces of lobster skewered | between slices of mushroom, e- rooked in stock and seasoned with and breadcrumbed and then fried in deep fat make a delicious dish, and For example, cut stune raw mul- savoury spices. The skewers arc ton or beef into little square pieces served with the meat on them, and have even come across a skewer about an inch and a half sides and when the rice has been helped on dish of mushrooms alone, with one an inch thick. Next to the to the plate the pheres of meat, etc., piece of stale bread between every -piece of meat put a piece of bacon are, pulled off the skewer on to it. two stires of mushroom. These are then rrally anointed with butter rasher, next to that a slice of onlott,
became better and slowly grilled, being
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When
kebabs
You will have
served
to that a slice of tomato own in Western Europe a famous afterwards with melted butter into apple, then nivat' again, and so on. Parisian dish was based on them, which you have squeezed a lite
When you have enough on the Brochettes de Rognons. This con- lemon juice. skewer, salt and pepper 1 and persisted of round slices of sheep's kid-
to be enreful in haps sprinkle over, a little mixed ney. fust just stiffened in butter, grilling not to get your bits of meat herbs, pour over a little melted and then impaled on skewers alter- Overdone. Some people like to stlek butter and grill or bake in the oven mately with squares of lean bacon the skewer at first in the flames for Or you can add half a kidney, and slices of lightly fried mush- a second or two, as it gives a piva- were then sprinkled Sant burnt laste to the meat. If you bake your skewers, put them in the say, a piece of mutton, half a kid- rooms., They
and browned oven on a grid or bang them from ncy, a piece of bacon, and so on. with melted butter
grilled, being the top. Another way is to have the pieces breadcrumbs
and
Are You Going to a PARTY?
By
T
HERE always seems to be a big crop
of informal parties about this time of year, little intimate affairs when even the simplest of evening frocks
is out of place.
are
The telephone rings and you invited by Elizabeth to come and drink a cocktail with Bill, who is passing through to Shanghai on his way back from leave. Some body else decides that a bridge party on the verandah followed by a buffet supper would be an excellent way of getting fresh air without troublesome exercise. Or Philip calls with car and suggests making up a foursome and driving down to Repulse Bay for supper and a dance or two.
Susan Gay
For such in promptu excite- ments one's dress need not be cla- horate. A pretty
little afternoon frock is all that is necessary.
E pattern skelched here, would be excellent for such purposes.
It is dressy without being fussy, simple with-
out being severe.
If you are inclined to be a bit short and stumpy I suggest you
The inverte should make it in the first 'style in the illustration. tucks that run down for a few inches from the front of the neckline accentuate the centre front panels in the skirt and help to give an illusion of height. The ruched sleeve-tops, too, allow graceful full- ness to the sleeves without giving that balloon-like appearance that full sleeves so often give to stocky women.
M
AKE it of plain georgette, a fabric that is becoming to
And if you want to be very smart make it i all women, of that new light rusty shade that seems to be a cross And wear a dark jade brooch and between tomato and orange.
huckle.
The secand version of this pattern is shown made up in flowered crepe de Chine. Here the bodice is cut without the centre fullness of the other design.
The white flowers in the red, green and white patterned material are emphasised by the white georgette collar that softens the high Square neckline.
The fullness of the short, set-in-sleeves is gathered under a tal of the prettily-shaped sleeve band.
If you choose colours that blend or contrast with any light- weight coat that you may already have the two garments will make an excellent ensemble to carry you through the autumn..
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1 Simple liters who move in a
grave set.
9 It is an English river in which we are interested here (rev.)
10 22 are poured out of this.
11 The one in the sailor's check doesn't act as much of a 'stop- per.
13 Footwear used in wards and all
such places.
15 Foreshadow.
10 Amy has nothing in China,
17 Firees of gold and silver.
1 Leads in sensation, kea
Japanese copper.
20 Makes provision for
traces.
21 Tree-fork; not sind.
leaving
23 Take the ck: don't talk back!
24 One girl with a one-step makes
this South American production.
27 A tale of old Iceland,
28 Posts for woodchoppers?
20 Gues wrong, partly due to the
French finish.
32 The rule in Germany.
33 If I went in and took the helm
would certainly things
roster.
34 You must have just onc.
look
35 Not for them the battle and the sirike of life (hyphens, 4, 2, 5).
DOWN
2 Sheep of the West.
3 Use.
4 Sharp's the word.
5 If you possessed this quality,
you couldn't be weighed.
6 Common sense.
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7 Poetical, no doubt, but what
has Richard done?.
8 Strangely enough this is said to make-one too big for one's boots (two words, 7, 4).
12 Smokes for the short-winded.
Hal- - serag-soup -{ana).).
14.
face? There's nothing in the place to warrant it.
13 Why nake อ sulky
18 Widen the way in the middle!
22' Frequently. pssociated with
minerals in rural districts,
25 Here we see the munld about' the doctor, instead of vice versa. Capital
26 Used to be tapped in the ring. 27 How to make any suit do for
on artist.
30 Savour.
31 Valley outside Denholmu.
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ADVERTISE
where there is no
doubt about
CIRCULATION
SALESMAN SAM
IF YA WANT TA VISIT OUR CAMP THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TA GIT THERE, SO YOU'LL HAFTA SWIM!
OKAY, BOYS! THEN I BETTER TAKE MY
CLOTHES OFF
Now Sam Oughta Get Soaked
GOSH, MISTER, WHY'D YA TAKE) GOLLY, KID, YER CLOTHES OFF, AN CARRY THASS A FOOLISH ONE TA ASK ME! EM UNDER YER ARM?
By Small
TA KEEP EM FROM GETTIN' ALL WET!
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