1937-05-04 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937.

Put BANANAS

on

your Summer

menus

BANANAS

are not only delicious-they give you energy. Eaten alone or as the "foundation" of a variety of tempting disher they are one of the most agreeable 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 fruit 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 banana which is ripe, mushed and sleved, may be given to babies who are not even one year old.

A banana la ripe when all trace of green has disappeared from the skin.

And all the time it is ripening its tougher outer skin is keeping the fruit fresh, clean, germ-free, ready for incorporating, perlinps, In some of the luscious dishes described on this and the next page.

They're delicious cooked

they very Illogically at breakfast, for instance.

HAT fine phrase "Hot pipe banann

blame the banana for any subsequent Peel, quarter and fry 4 bananas.

Tbananas!" will never durcomfort, in the Shop

ed street cry of Hongkong.

THE

trim banana is not gathered

Poach in acidulated and salted water (in a shallow pan) 4 new-lald eggs, take each up carefully), drain and

neatly. Dish up the ripe from the tree, and is bananas and place the poached c903

the on top. Serve hot. potato to reach that final dignity even not always gathered ripe from in London. Hongkong is too conser- shop. vative,

It took

centuries for the hot

Or this, Cut

of

the If in doubt, keep it in a warm

required number But we have long been tamillar room for a day or two until all trace rashiers of streaky bacon and grill Skin some with the banana in its natural state, of green disappears from the skin. them on both sides.

bananas, cut cach in half length- both on the barrow and in the shop.

ways, season sparingly with salt and

says

the Home

Page Cook

It will then be one of the most very little pepper, dip cach in egg pared with the banana. Unfortunately, the man who sells digestible of fruits, whether eaten and roll in breadcrumbs, then fry Apple ple and apple sauce are it has no time to dwell on its many

them in bacon fat.

bousehold words. Taw or cooked. possibilities.

In fact, a ripe banana which has Dish up the bacon and place helf Banana ple and banana sauce may We have no time, either, but we been mashed and sleved is one of a banana on each rasher. Garnish are sparing some for such a worthy the first non-liquid foods which is with sprics of parsley and serve hot, have a less famillar ring. You ought purpose.

the

now placed in the infant's ringer.

Some people still suffer from delusion that a banana is indiges- tibic.

When their offspring turn green_in the face and admlt to the stolen apple, they do not blame the apple. They blame the offspring.

When they themselves wolf an un-

Beginning

With Breakfast

por-

As

we get older we get more

Gloria Suggests Some Patchwork Patterns

THE

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 was the patchwork bodspread and cushions.

room

Note: If liked, the bananas can be to know them beiter. simply fried in the bacon fat with- We will have a little jam with the out being first- egged and crumbed. ple.

Getting to know Them

IKE the potato, some fruits

Three-quarters of a pound short La inve had a long start com craft pastry, I tablesponjul rasp-

berry jam, 4 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:

Peet 3 bananas and rub them through a sieve. Doll up 4 pint of water with 20%. of loaf sugar and

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 orange; boil up once more, then strain and scrve.

tea?

And what about banana twists for Take 2 bananas, 2oz.. cornflour, 2oz. castor rugar, 3oz. butter, 70s. flour, egg yolk, vanila flavouring.

Sleue the flour and cornflour. Peel the bananas and mash them very finely. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg yolk and stir the mixture quickly for a few

minutes.

Stir in the mashed banana, flour, and cornflour, also a few drops of vanila and mix all together to a stiff 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 ends,

Place in a slightly buttered tin,-put-into-a-moderate oven, and bake gently until biscuit colour.

They will take about fifteen minutes or perhaps a little longer.

Variety adds Spice

A we have by ne me vis ex- REN'T we getting varied!

hausted our versatility. Here is a Juncheon dish:-

Bell ib. of rice in water, together with a bunch of herbs (thyme and piece of an onion tied up in a bag), and when ready place the rice. seasoned, in the centre of a dish.

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 fut or buiter to a nicc brown colour.

Fried bacon may be added or brains substituted for the eggs.

NEVER REFUSED!

THEY'RE MUCH TOO GOOD

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IY friend told me she had bought some old

M'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 pattern-books for very little, and in this way you can get a greater variety than If you use your own scraps.

Tasty

Look After

Dishes Quickly Cooked Your Hands

WITH only a small number to

cater for, or when time is

a pressing factor, we usually re- sort to one of the quicker me- thods of cooking, that is, frying.

By GRACE WILSON

Fried dishes, however, can Thicken with a little cornflour pre-

viously mixed with water. Stralo.

pali with repetition unless a little variety is introduced.. Pork Chops with

Here's how to get that variety. Savoury Cuttots

SAU

CAUTE the small lamb cutlets in,.

butter. When cool, dip first in egg then in, herb-seasoned bread- crumbs, and fry till a golden brown.

Serve with this savoury tomato butter, three skinned tomatoes boiled with one ounce of butter, a few drops vinegar, and half a cup of stock.

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 bolled and peeled chestnuts, any 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 peeled' quickly' THE pork chops, nicely trimmed, and easily if they are furned for are tried quickly on both sides, a minute over a low gas flame. Use They can then either be finished in an old fork; the pan or grilled slowly for 10 or

12 minutes. The cabbage accom- Brain Frittore

· paniment can be prepared before- hand and reheated,

WASH a calf's brain well in 'salt. Shred as much red cabbage as you water, and blanch. Cut, when require into thin strips; sprinkle cold, into slices half an inch thick; with seasoning and cook with some dip in cap and breadcrumbs and fry chopped apple, one tablespoonful in deep fat.

a worthwhille

Hint for making your

hands and arms beautiful. Scrub them briskly with soap and hot water, and don't be scared if they get a little bit red,

TOW, mix together some N

hot olive oil and cantor sugar to form a creamy paste. Work 'this in - with firm rubbing movements, especially round the elbows and the top parts of the arms.

Cut

We pass on to a banana savoury. Peel 4 bananas ‘(not too ripe), and them in Halver lengthwise. Season with salt and a little cayenne, then cach in milk and into flour, fry them to a golden brown in butter or bacon fat.

dip

Turn the bananas frequently while frying and drain them on paper: Prepare thin slices of toasted- bread cut to shape of the bananas.

Dip the bread in milk before toasting, as this will improve the flavour considerably. When toasted, spread each alice 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 wel- come addition to the large

omeiet family,

"atic

・Break 3 eggs 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 mized TEAVE this on for ten with 1 tablespoonful of

currants and a lille sugar, in the centres

Next fald the. omelet into cualtion shape to the edge of the pan. hot dish, aprinkle with sugar and When set, brown slightly, turn on to

minutes and then wash

off with warm soapy water; This treatment loosens" off dry'skin, the oil'in it feeds

the skin, and the rubbirsa alimulates the circulation hence, the velvely ungling after-feeling.

FRANUES DAY.

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And so we end, not for lack-of- scores of other banana recipes, but because we are going out to have a banana.

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