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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1987,

Cakes & Pastries.

for Tea

of salt, and cold water for mixing. Line a plate with the pastry. Trim the edge by pressing all round with a fork, prick the contre and spread with jam.

Roll out the trimminga, cut into strips and twist, then place criss-cross over the pic. Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes.

The old custom of dancing round the Maypole still livos in many parts of the country..

MAY DAY Feastings

TROM time immemorial the first of

FROM immoy of rejoicing and

feasting in Britain and over a large part of Europe.

It to chiefly in the Wes Country that traces of the old "Junketings" survive, Old' people all recall the days when early in the morning the young people of Devon- hire went to the woods, where they cut down their Maypole and decked with a. garland, then re it back with postes of flowers and sweet-smelling herbs, to the green where later the old dances were performed.

"At Penzance," we read in the ancient records, "par- tics of youths and maidens went out to farmhouses early in the day, there to partake of a beverage called Junket, made of raw milk and rennet (or 'running,' as it in there called), sweetened with sugar and a little cream added."

Cakes and.

The old chronicler tells also of 14 'heavy country cake made of flour, cream, sugar and currants," which

was eaten on these ocENETOLLF

to the accompaniment of liberal por-

Hons of rum and milk.

Cornwall is one of the last fastnesses of the old traditional May Day cere. monies. These arriving at a house with garlands of flowera with which to deck the home were rewarded with cream, great bowls of junket and sometimes laced" with brandy or port.

May Day was essentially the milk- maids festival. In many towns and villages the girls would lend their favourite

Sweetlipa Cows Ruby.

.. Then

& NOW!

An open jam tart

is a family favourite.

Strawberry-with loops of garlands and sweet herbs twined in their horns, through the streets. This was a scene not unknown to the London of those days.

Lancashire and Cheshire, Derbyshire anti many parts of the North Midlantis had similar traditional celebrations down to the 70's and 80's of last cen-

Decorative Veils

THIB spring vells are purely decora

tive. Our artist hos sketched a hat

of the pill-box type thant-ls trimmed. with a bunch of blue and white violets set alightly to the side.

The accompanying vell is of a very Ane mesh and descends midway be tween brow and chin-very becoming to those who can't wear a brimless style.

The crowns of many hats are com -posed -entirely of flowers, and, if you want to be really up to the minute and add a further gala note. pin a large posy to match at the right spot on the

Inpel of your tallar-made.

Another pretty" idea for Ane- crowned models

Is to have a ban-

drau CUL very

low over the hair at the back, massed with tiny blossoms of rambler rosea or marguerite daisies,

Many vells are on elastic so that they can be transferred from ong hat to another useful on a morning "when you can't look a brave new day fully in the face.

tury, but every case, no matter how widely the local celebrations differed in chin- racter, Junkel was the son- sonal dish in cottage and in Castle.

Junket, by a dozen different.. names and made a dozen different ways, was knowl And mudo from very ancient times, from Kent ta the Shetlands.

From the simple milk, curdled with remet

and allowed to set overnight, to highly seasoned milk dishes, with wine and spices among the ingredients.

Norwegian Custom

To this day in the far northern isles and in parla of Norway, the May Day Junket is simply fresh milk "yearned," or soured, by the addition of the juice of the graceful little streamside plant, the butterwort, and allowed to stand uzili firmly SCL.

The modern dietitian would encourage the revival of the Junketings of our ancestors, though he, like Cromwell. might consider brandy or rum condu- cive to a too enthusiastic celebration of the occasion.

Here

to celebrate this May Day of Now, to 1030, when hearts are light and gay with

the coming of brighter weather, something new to make our pastry and cakes light, too.

It 1 a

snow-white vegetable fat, made from pure vegetable oils-taste- less, odourless and perfectly digestible.

ᏗᏓ

It was aptly christened Spry, because

it is ready creamed, a point every busy cook will appreciate,

Just you try it!

Next, and equally important, Spry is A fat which can be used in every branch of cookery, as well as for cake and pastry making. For frying, bast- ing, baking, för puddings and ples, both sweet and savoury. But try a tin for yourself. There are two sizes,

id. and 10d.

An open jam tart, with appetising criss-crosses of golden pastry, like the one ilustrated. "simply melis in your mouth, if made with Spry and cool

·hands--

Use 6oz. short crust pastry, made with Boz, four, 402. Spry, a good pinch

Custard Tart

Something else that's nice for tea-

DINNER

MENU

Fillets of Plaice Meuniere

Boiled Chicken and Curry Sauce.

Bolled Rice Mango Chutney

J

Fresh Fruit Salad

#morish custard ALLOW a fillet of, place for each

tart.

Make Goz. short .critat pastry (In- gredients in the recipe for Jam tart), and line a sandwich tin with this. Warm ipt. milk and beat 2 eggs and 1oz. sugar together sightly. Add a pinch of salt, and ilo milk.

Pour all into the ined tin, first prick- ing the pastry to provent it rising. Bprinkle with grated nutmeg and bake in a moderate oven for 40 minutes.

Now home fairy cakes for tea. They will prove popular among the young folk.

Bent To Spry and 2oz. sugar" to- seller, add a beaten egg gradually.

Sieve 20% flour and 2oz. cornflour with 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, and add to the creamy mixture. Add mill; until the mixture is fairly soft.

Brush small bun ins witli melted Spry, three-quarters full, and unke

noderately for 10 minutes,

To make these cakes extra nice for parties, cut off the tops when cool and but a spoonful of whipped cream on rach cake. Then cut the top in half and, repince to form wings.

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Cut small gashes. In person. the fish, rub in salt, pepper, and the juice of half a lemon, and stand for 10 minutes. Then dip in milk, dredge with-flour, and fry in butter. Put in a hot dish, add the julee of half a lemon to the butter in which teaspoonful of they were fried, a chopped parsley, and heat thorough- ly before pouring over the fish.

Curry sauce adds flavour to 11 bolled chicken. Peel and slice B onfons and 3 apples, cook in 3oz. of butter until tender, then add a good iablespoonful of curry powder, mix well, and add a pint of the stock in which the chicken was cooked. Stir well and cook for 20 minutes, rub through a sleve, thicken if liked, and serve very hot.

For the fruit, make a syrup with Goz, of caster sugar and a gill of water, pour over the frult while hot, and leave to cool.

Tell me,

doctor..

• . You know

what children are- - always falling and cutting their knees and grazing their hands. I don't regard such things as trifles: I had a young brother who died of blood-poisoning. Telline, is there no, efficient antiseptic I can apply at once with per fect confidence?"

'Dettol is such an antiseptic-dangerous only to germs. It is a clean, pleasant fluid-non-poisonous and non-staining- highly efficient as a germ-killer. You can apply it freely (there are directions on every boule), Remember, the smallest break in the skin is a wide-open gateway for the germs of septic infection. Disinfect cuts and scratches at once with 'Dettol' The way to prevent blood-poisoning is to kill the germs that cause it,.

Use 'Delfol' prampily in fime of accident: Your Chemist has it.

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MACARONI FAMILY

IF you want to meet all the mem- 111⁄2 cupculs of good stock, and when

bers of this extensive family you Itellan must go to Soho. In the shops there you will find all kinds of unexpected varieties, but in the big stores there are usually to be hnd nearly a dozen different varieties of macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelil und noodles, as well as letters, shells and

stars for usa in soup Wholemeal

mecarohi makes a 'change sometimes, and in varying the ways of cooking the paste, it is interesting to try dit- ferent members of the tribe,

The secret of cooking all these varieties is to have your water, salted and bolling hard, and so genfrous that the pieces of macaront can al- most swim in it. Sodden macaroni is usually due to insufficient water, so that the strands adhere to each

olher.

The Italians take endless trouble

tender add 4 cupful finely shredded ham and 4oz. of chopped cooked mushrooms. Season well, thicken if and necessary with a little flour, pour over some cooked macaront or spaghetti, and decorate with sliced hard-boiled egg and paprika.

Horseradish Sauce

Mix together tablespoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of

of dry mustard, 14 teaspoonful salt, a tablespoonful of vingar, 2 tablespoonfuls of tomato Ketchup, a cupful of good stock, and gill grated horseradish. Heat to- gether, and pour over 6oz. of ribbon macaront that has been cooked, rinsed and drained. A little cream

can be mixed with the mucuroni be- fore the sauce is added. Serve very hot with roast beef.

with the sauces they serve to make Spaghetti Souffle their staple food exciting. Try these with your next dish of spaghett! or macaroni,

Ham & Mushroom Sauce

Cook a cupful of chopped celery, and, a cupful of chopped onions in

WATSON'S

I

is made by mixing about 6oz. of cooked spaghetti with a pint of tick white sauce. Add 5 beaten egg yolks, o grated onion, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, salt and pepper, Cool, then fold in the stiffly whipped egg whites, pour into a greased dish,

or

and bake in a hot oven for about 20

Serve with mushroom minutes, tomato sauce. More or less spaghetti can be used according to taste. Noodle Loaf

aro

Noodles

of A flat: edition macaroni, made with eggs. Mix to- 14 gether pint cooked noodles, gilla fine breadcrumbs, 2 beaten eggs, a gill of grated cheese, 11⁄2 plat cooked tomatoes, a tablespoonful of melted butter, and seasonings of salt, pepper and made mustard. Bake in a greased dish in a moderate oven for about thirty-five minutes, turn upalde down and garnish with parsley.

Macaroni Fritters.

are made by chopping some cooked macaroni and mixing it with thick white sauce. Flavour with grated cheese and tomato ketchup, make into flat cakes on a floured board. Brush with beaten egg, fry in boiling fat and drain. These can be used as a sweet if the cheese and ketchup are omitted, the white sauce sweet- ened, and the fritters served with Jam,

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