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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937.

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DUET IN A FLAT

Phyllis & Dorothy are entertained-it

doesn't cost much

(though the guests

wouldn't know it).

CENE: The flat shared by Phyllis and her business friend Dorothy. It is clearly an OCCASION..

Their friends Henry and Ronald, are in complete charge of the dinner operations, and the girls have been told to keep out of the kitchen, from where cheerful sounds of whistling and clatter

emerge.

Henry has just come in with what Phyllis calls his Paddy's Market look uni numerous parcels, including a festive-looking bottle of Chianti Ronald has laid the table, and it certainly looks odd.

Phyllis longs to whisk things into in starving from the fields and cat place, but shows admirable restraint 'soup so thick thot n spoon stands up in not doing so.

in it, and all made without a scrap of meat-I know. Go on.

Phyllis: You know you enjoyed their soups when we came out on the

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DOROTHY, who has blown M. M. boat,

of the housekeeping Dorothy: I shan't enjoy it if you're money during the week on series going in for stock pots that all the of meals which, although original, Hat with a beastly smell of bones cannot be called economical, is having cookins: I'd rather have some de a lecture from Phyllis on, the sub- ject of soup.

cent soup, smell and all, than some

Phyllis: English people don't know of the stuff we've eaten this week, a thing about making soup.

Now that you've broken into next Dorothy: Now we're going to hear week's food money.

dirt about the French peasants who come

Doroihy: I'll go on a

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"Henry comes in with numerous parcels from the compradore's".

Hot Weather Meat Dishes

I

N hot or sultry weather many people look But there are always "re- mains" to be used up; and country folk often find it difficult to get fish.

Sarah was talking to me only yes- terday about this little problem and suggested she might offer a few simple solutions.

The first two are mains."

Beef Salad

for the "re-

Fot this you will want half . a pound of cold beef, boiled or ronsted, the same of amalf new potatoes bolled in their skins and peeled, six ounces of tomatoes, after they have been

skinned and the pips and water removed three ounces of watercress leaves, without their stalks, and two hard-boiled eggs,

Cut the beet into slices about a

of an inch thick, quarter

cutting off all fat and gristic. Cut the potatoes into rings of the same thickness.

After, plunging the tomatoes into boiling water for a minute, peel them, cut them in quarters, remove the

watery part, pips and

cut and werk to make up, orange juice or This has been done la a casserole milk or something.

much quicker, and nicer if you ask up the flesh into small pieces. Cut eggs into thin Phyliss I shall get a ten cent me. (3.) Then there's a spaghettl the hard-boiled marrow bone, a cowheel, and two or and ham dish I'm rather fond of (4.), rounds. Mix them gently in a salad three twenty cents of knuckle of veal and we'll top up with cheese and bowl with a dressing made of four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one of bones and let them cook for a day, coffee,

Dorothy: No aweel? You are a vinegar, a little salt, pepper and a and we'll be able to have soup every

touch of cayenne. night for a week. (See footnoje 1.) meanle.

Dorothy: What fun.

Henry (firmly): Fruit.

Phylls: Properly made soup 18 nourishing and awfully cheap and with such good stock

Dorothy: I know "My stock is

IT

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such a thick jelly you could stand resistance being on it. Just as though any one potatoes (5.) wants to go and stand on soup

piece-de- of onion

Lamb Rissoles

OOK three tablespoonfuls is certainly an excellent,

of butter with a few drops meal. Henry's

getting Julee until it is a dish of "new" brown, then add on ounce of flour, nice coffee-colour, let it brown to Afterwards, praise having gone to and then add salt, paprika pepper Phyllis (In the manner of his head (and possibly the two cookery demonstrator): If you use glasses of $2.50 Chianti), be organises enough stock from the roast lamb to and a pinch of curry powder and egg-yolk to thicken soup it's a com- g stay-in-strike for himself and plete meal.

Dorothy: I tried that once Ronnie while the girls do the wash-make a thick sauce.

and got revolting bits of scrambled

floating about watery Seg

soup, ugh! (2)

ing-up.

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RONAL

JONALD enters importantly

with a

precious stock:-

Add the pieces of cooked lamb cut in small cubes, and use this mixture. Have ready some thin metal skewers, all the same size, and put on each 1. These are some of Phylia's alternately a piece of bacon and soup variations to be made with her piece of liver, beginning and ending with bacon and having four pleces (a) Add a handful of two of pre-of liver and five of breon on each tray containing 'viously soaked haricot beans to stock, skewer.

Dust each with salt and pepper tomato juice cocktails, anchovies, cook till soft, thicken with tomato-

favoured soup.

and cook them either under the grill olives and potato crisps.

(b) Boil anlour in the stack, carefully, or in a hot oven, the strain, and serve with slices of state skewers being supported by a rack bread and butter spread with prated or grid. When the bacon is crisp cheese and browned under grill or they should be done. in oven.

Serve as they are, on the skewers, (c) Add sleved cooked sprouts with watercress.

The

Dorothy: Oh my goodness! boy's spent all his savings on us.

Henry: I've always told you girls that you can pick these things up fc next to nothing.

hylls: What's next, Henry?

can't wali.

Henry: Some fish.

I (12lbs. sprouts to 3 pints stock), simmer for a while, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, edd butter just:

Dorothy: Fish! 1, didn't hear any before serving. frying.

Henry: There happen to be other ways of cooking fish besides frying

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Calves' Tongues

(d) Meli a chopped onion in but-

THESE make ́n delicious dish ter, add stock, and simmer for an

If you cook them properly hour. Thicken with cog-yolk and first, otherwise they may be a little cook carefully until thick. Just bc-flavourless, fore serving add salt, fresh ground Put the tongues in a saucepan and pepper, nutmeg, cup-of-minced cover them with boiling water. For parsley, and bread fried in bacon four tongues add half a dozen slices jat.

of 'carrot, an onion stuck with six 2. Eggs aded to any hot liquid cloves, hall a teaspoonful cach of will curdle if one is not careful. galt and pepper

corns, and some Dorothy should have let the mixture celery set the tongues slowly until cool first and then finish cooking over hot water.

trim

Ravoured with.

Simmer they are tender. Skin and 3. Henry puts filless of any white them while they are hot, cut them fish into a buttered casserole within half and serve them covered with prated onion, salt, pepper, lemon juice, a drop or two of anchovy

a rich brown gravy essence and pinch of chopped pars- ley. This is a quick and simple way

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4. His favourite ham and spag-one with pineapple, that here are hetti dish is made like this-spaghetti two more for serving ham or gam- bolled until soft in salted water mon.. fabout twenty minutes), served very hot with plenty of buller, pepper, grated cheese, and snippets of ham stirred into it. Sometimes Henry

an inch-thick of ham makes it into a grander dish by add-

or gammon, and spread it Ing alices

of cooked mushroom, with this stuffing. Two breakfast- chopped tongue ca well as ham, cupfuls of fine breadcrumbs, half a pimiento from, a 412d. sin, and serving cup of chopped-up stoned raisins, with hot tomato sauce (bottle kind, the same of roughly-chopped dried heated).

walnuts, .a teaspoonful of salt, half April 6. You may wonder how it is that a teaspoonful of powdered sage, a chefs can produce what appear to be good pluch of pepper; mix these all new potatoes regardless of seasons, together with two-thirds of a cup of All they do is peel away ordinary melted butter.

potatoes until they are the size of Roll the slice of hem round and tie large marbles fone can only hope the. Put it into a baking dish and peelings go in the soup), cook them cover it with stock and tomato sauce, carefully so that they don't break, put on a lid and bake for an hour and serve toith oiled butter and and

half.or a little more in a chopped mint

moderate oven.

The second récipe is in to-day's

Phillida Hughes menu.

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