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Put BANANAS on your Summer
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DANANAS are not only sielicious-they give you energy.
Eaten alane or as the "foundation" of n variety of tempting dishes they are one of the most `ngreeable items on the summer menu, And at the same time they are doing you good, resupplying the energy which summer days consume.
For this reason! When a banana ripens, the fruit or pulp be- comes converted into frult sugar or natural glucose-a substance whose value to general health and whose importance as an energy- maker is now fully acknowledged. It is only the unripe banana which takes more than normal time to digest.
A ripe banana is one of the most quickly digested of all fruits. One eminent authority says that a banane which is ripe, mashed and sloved, may be given to bables who are not even one year old.
A banana is ripe when all trace of green has disappeared from the skin.
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And all the time it is ripening its tougher outer skin is keeping the fruit fresh, clean, germ-free, ready for incorporating, perhaps, in some of the luscious dishes described on this and the next page.
They're delicious cooked
they very logically HAT fine phrase "Hot ripe banana
blame the banana for any subsequent bananas!" will never discomfort.
become an establish- Ripe from the Shop
ed street cry of Hongkong.
It took centuries for the hot
at breakfast, for instance.
Peel, quarter and fry 4 bananas, Poacli in acidulated and salted water (in a shallow pan) 4 new-laid cggs, take each up carefully, drain trim neatly. Dish up the THE banana is not gathered and
ripe from the tree, and is bananas and place the poached cops
the on top. Serve hot.
Or this, Cut the
potato to reach that final dignity even not always gathered ripe from in London. Hongkong is too conser-shop. Valive.
If in doubt, keep it in a warm
required number of
But we have long been famillar room for a day or twe until all trace rashers of streaky bacon and griit with the banana in its natural state, of green disappears from the skin: them both on the barrow and in the shop.
on both sides. Skin some
bananas, cut cach in half length bays, season sparingly with salt and
says
the Home
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sauce are.
berry jam, bananas. Size of plate 9. inches.
Line the enamel plate with pastry, cut half of the bananas into fairly thick slices, and place on the pastry, Spread with jam, put on the re- mainder of the sliced bananas, and cover with a lid of pastry. 30 minutes. Regulo Mark 7.
The banana sauce, which is served hot with sweet puddings or fritters, is made thus:-
Peel 3 bananas and rub them through a sieve. Boll up pint of water with 20. of loaf sugar and a strip of lemon rind. Add the banana pulp and reduce a little.
Now add a small glass of marsala, sherry, curacao or the juice of 1/2 an once more, then orange; boll up strain end serve.
It will then be one of the most very little pepper, dip cach in egg pared with the banana.
Apple ple and appic caten and roll in breadcrumbs, then fru Unfortunately, the man who sells digestible of fruits, whether
them in bacon fat.
household words. it has no time to dwell on its many
raw or cooked.
Dish up the bacon and place half possibilities.
In fact, a ripe banana which has
Banana pic and banana sauce may tea? Garnish We have no time, either, but we been mashed and sleved is one of a banana on each rasher. are sparing some for such a worthy the first non-liquid foods which is with sprigs of parsley and serve hot. have a less familiar ring. You ought
now, placed in the infant's por-
Note: If liked, the bananas can be to know them better. purpose
simply fried in the bacon fat with- Some people still suffer from
ringer.
out being first egged and crumbed. Pie.
the
delusion that a banana is indiges- tible.
When their offspring turn green in the face and admit to the stolen apple, they do not blame the apple. They blame the offspring.
When they themselves wolf on un-
Beginning
Gloria Suggests
With Breakfast.
S we get older we get more As we met older, we anonas
Some Patchwork
TH
Patterns
THE other day a friend took me to see her bed-sitting room, and I spotted a novel idea.
She had cream walls, silk curtains shot with blue and green, blue-green painted furniture, a green armchair, and a deep blue carpet with green surround.
But the most attractive thing in the room was the patchwork bedspread and cushions.
MY
IY friend told me she had bought some old printed and plain silk pattern-books from
- a big store, and had mounted her patchwork on plain blue casement cloth, leaving a plain border.
Most of the big shops will sell their last year's pattem-books for very little, and in this way you can get a greater variety than if you use your own scraps.
Getting to know Them
Aour We will have a little jam with the
LIKE the potato, some fruifs Three-quarters of a pound short have had a long start com- crust pastry, 1 tablesponful rasp-
V
Look After
Tasty Dishes Quickly Cooked Your Hands
WITH
WITH only a small number to cater for, or when time is
a pressing factor, we usually re- sort to one of the quicker mo- thods of cooking, that is, frying.
By GRACE WILSON
Fried dishes, however, can viously mixed with water. Strain, pall with repetition unless little variety is introduced,
Thicken with a little cornflour pre-
Here's how to get that variety. Savoury Cuttots
NAUTE the small lamb cutlets in butter. When cool, dlp first in cgg, then in herb-seasoned brint- crumbs, and fry till n ́goldert brown.
Serve with this savoury tomato butter: three.aitinned tomatoes bolled with one ounce of butter, a few drops, vinegar, and half a cup of stock.
Pork Chops with
Red Cabbage
of butter and a little stock for about three-quarters of an hour in a pan with the lid on.
Then add some boiled and peeled chestnuts, noy fat trimmings from the chops, and continue cooking until cabbage is quite tender. Serve chops surrounded by cabbage,
with gravy handed separately. Tomato Hint
TOMATOES can be preted quickly trimmed, and easily if they are turned for nicely THE pork chops on both sides. a minu cover of they are for
They can then either be finished in an old fork. the pan or grilled slowly for 10 or
12 minutos. The cabbage accom- Brain Fritters paniment can be prepared before- land and reheated.
WAS
WASH a calf's brak well in salt Shred as much red cabbage as you W water, and blanch. Cut, when require into thin strips; sprinkle cold, into alices half an inch thick; with seasoning and cook with some dip in egg and breadcrumbs and fry chopped apple, one tablespoonful in deep far.
HERE IS
Д worthwhile hint for making your hands and arma beautiful. Scrub them briskly with
water, and Boop and bot don't be scared if they get a litle bit red.
No
TOW, mix together some hot olive oil and castor creamy sugar to form a paste. Work this in with firm rubbing movements, especially round the elbows and the top parts of the
Arms.
EAVE this on for. ten minules and then wash off with warm soapy water, This treatment loosens off dry skin, the oil in it feeds the skin, and the rubbing stimulates the circulation-- hence the velvety tingling after-feeling
FRANCES DAY.
And what about banana twists for Take 2 bananas, 2oz. cornflour, 20. castor sugar, Jos. butter, 703. flour, 1 egg yolk, vanila flavouring,
and cornflour. Peel the bananas and mash them very Anely. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg yolk and stir the mixture quickly for a few
Steve the
minutes,
Stir in the mashed banana, flour, and cornflour, also a few drops of vantia and mix all together to a st paste. Turn it on to a floured board and roll out. Cut into strips about seven inches long and three- eighths of an inch wide.
Twist each strip and cross the two cuds. Place in a slightly buttered thu, put into a moderate oven, and bake gently until biscuit colour. They will take about Afteen minutes or perhaps a little longer.
Variety adds Spice
REN'T we getting varied! AREN'Tave by nem var ice- hausted our versatility. Here is luncheon dish-
&
Boil lb. of rice in water, together with a bunch of herba (thyme and a piece of an outon tied up in a bag), and when ready place the rice,
a dish. seasoned, in the centre of a
Fry as many eggs as required and place on top of the rice, and round the rice place 4 bananas, which should be sliced lengthways and fried in hot fat or butter to a nice brown colour.
Fried bacon may be added or brains substituted for the eggs.
We pass on to a banana, savoury; Peel bananas (not too ripe), and cut them in halves lengthwise. Season with salt and a little cayenne, then dip each in milk and into flour; fry them to a golden brown in butter or bacon fat.
Turn the bananas frequently while frying and drain them on paper. Prepare thin slices of toasted bread eut to shape of the bananas,
Dip the bread in milk before toasting, as this will improve the flavour considerably. When toasted, spread each slice with a thin layer of anchovy butter, then place the fried bananas neatly upon them. Serve on a hot dish.
Welcome Addition
A
BANANA omelet is a wèl- come addition to the large
omelet family.
Break 3 caps into a basin, add 1 teaspoonful of castor sugar and mix well together, Melt 1oz, of butter in a pan. When hot, pour in the mixture and stir with a fork,
When setting, place 2 bananas, cut in very small pieces and mixed with 1 tablespoonful of currants and a little sugar in the centre.
Next fold the omelet into cushion shape to the edge of the pan, When set, brown slightly, turn on to a hot disht, sprinkle with sugar and
serve.
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And, so we end, not":
for lock of scores of other banana recipes, but because we are going out to have a bonant.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937.
NEVER REFUSED !
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MANY TEMPTING VARIETIES
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