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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1988.

Try something new. Here,

for instance, is a

DANISH DINNER

ONE advantage about sugar, and make a ceromel in, a thick

all over.

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Peas with Carrots

frypan. Add butter the size of a Anna, our Danish cook, walnut, and toss the previously holl- at even if you arrange cd potatoes in this 11 they are brown perfectly ordinary meal like chops and tomatoes it will probably be preceded by something quite surprising, like rum and rhubarb soup.

Yes, mixed.

+

TA

TAKE 116. of each vegetable. Slice the carrots thinly and put them with the shelled peas into about an inch of cold water in a closely covered stewpan.

Cook very

So life has quite a fillip, and slowly till tender; it should not bo

necessary to add more water, but we have given up trying to order shake the pan occasionally to pre- meals, but just take what Anna vent sticking. Then, in a separate gives us. For instance, this is saucepan, melt a nut of butter, add £1 tablespoonful of flour and cook for a few moments. Add this very care- the meal she provided when

the vegetable liquid to said we wanted something in- fully to

thicken it, being careful not to break teresting but simple.

the vegetables. It is simplest to pour the liquld on to the thickening, inally pouring the Anished Bauce Add cherubies in the serving dish. Add chopped parsley.

Wine Soup

INTO one pint of boillon is

throw two tablespoonfuls of tapioen and 2oz. of seedless raisins. Cook for three-quarters of an hour, when it should be done. Take it off the fire, add the juice and grated rind of one lemon,, then mix well

together a tablespoonful of caster (just

Apple Cake ·

TEW your pound of cut-up apples. in very little water enough to prevent sticking), sugar and the yolk of one egg, and half a vanilla pod, and sugar to taste. stir this into the soup. (The C88 They should not be too sweet. must not be put in while the soup two ounces of butter in a frying pan, is boiling.) Just before serving odd and when it is at the foaming stage a table spoonful of sherry

madeira; in Denmark they put dol- erum lops of stiffly whipped egg white to brown float on the soup.

Parsley Chicken

Put

sugolden.

Now

or throw in 4 tablespoonfuls of bread- crumbs and 2 tablespoonfuls of

demerara

Fry to- gether til crisp and

apple to a smooth beat the stewed puree. Have a buttered fireproof disit, and All it with alternate layers FIRST rinse the chicken with of apple and buttered breadcrumbs, FIRS

cold water, then scald out being careful to begin and end with its inside with boiling water and dry the breadcrumbs. Put in a moder- it very well both inside and out to ate oven and bake for half an hour. preserve the delicate flavour of this Serve hot or ice cold. If hot in the twopenny fireproot dish: If cold, turned out, good recipe. Take bunch of parsley, plek off the big maskeil with whipped cream, and sinlks, but do not chop, and put it decorated with a few cherries.

is then inside the chileken, which

a

floured, flavoured lightly with salt

and pepper

fried on all sides

and in butter or good dripping lil it is golden brown all over. Then put into a casserole

It

Rum Soup -

·

THERE'S how-you can make H

1 it with dried apricots, us

or thick saucepan well as rhubarb. with the fat and a cupful of bolling stock. Simmer very slowly, adding

Take some cooked rhubarb that

much

stock as necessary. Towards the has been stewed in not too end of, the cooking add a cup of water, and rub enough through a cream or thick creamy milk. Serve sieve to make a pint of rather thin Boil it up for a few minutes, the chicken if possible in its own puree.

and when I is off the boll add a covered casserole.

tablespoonful of rum (or sherry) and the yolk of an egg well mixed with a tablespoonful of caster sugar, HOOSE very small roundish Serve with small cubes of bread new potatoes. To b of rolled in brown sugar and fried in them allow 2 tablespoonfuls louf butter.

Sweet Brown Potatoes

M

Surprise Dish

CHEESE PUDDING

JELT half an ounce of butter in a stewpan. Stir into it a table- spoonful of flour, and when will mixed, add a little milk and Stir the mixture over a three ounces of grated Parmesan cheese, slow fire until it looks like thick cream, On no account let it boll. Season it with cayenne pepper (or white, if you prefer it) and salt, keep it at a very moderate heat for ten minutes and stir l occasionally. Then let it get quite cold, still stirring it now and then.

Add the beaten yolks of three cass mixed with a little milk. Whip the whites of five cops to a stiff froth, and lightly mix this in with the rest. Pour the mixture into a souffle dish, filling it three-parts up, and put it in the oven at once.

Serve the pudding as soon as it has risen to the top of the dish and is nicely browned. And serve it quickly.

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HERE'S HOW

TO MAKE THEM

YOU need 1 oz. ball of croche

You

wool, 1 bone crochet hook, No. 10: 2 round pearl buttons.

Abbreviations: Cr-crochet, inc increase, st-stitch, dec-decrease.

RIGHT SHOE

Cr chaln. Return, doing one tricot st in each chain. You will now have sts on your hook. Con- tinue for 20 rows.

When you have finished the 20th row, add 6 chain and join the wool on to beginning of shoe. This forms basis for the instep and you will now have 24 sts on, which to work. Cr 3 rows (in tricot stitch) without dec.

Remember that the inside of shoe (the left-hand side) is quite straight and the "upper" is shaped by dec 1 st on the outside in every row (after the 3rd row),

Continue this unt! you have only 14 sts left on your hook.

Proceed as follows:-Cr the first

st singly. Then er two sts together until you come to the last st, which should be is er singly. This line done very tightly.

You

have now 8 sis on your hook. Return Cr2 2.sts together until you have only 4 sts on your hook. Re-

turn. Then inc to 8 sts.

You now make the sale, which is

Bits To Cut Out

First Aid Tip

IF you are called upon to tle up an injury, and you have no proper bandage available, pass a very hot iron over an old, clean handkerchief or piece of clean rag. This will sterilise completely.

Freshener

it

AKE your cut flowers out Twater at night, lay

them on a stone floor (in the

out pantry, perhaps)

uf the draughts, and cover them with a damp blanicet.

In the morning they will be as much refreshed by a good night's rest as you are.

New Kind Of Jam

USE little, whole

green tomatoes for this in the proportion of one pound of toma- toes to three-quarters of a pound of sugar, a gill of water, and four or five scented geranium leaves.

Dissolve the sugar in the water for over gentle heat and boil five minutes. Put in the toma-

with toes, previously wiped

geranium clamp cloth, and the leaves in ᄆ musiln bag. Holl

.preserve briskly until the

sets when tested. Remove the geran- ium leaves before potting up in the usual way.

This preserve has # delicate and unusual flavour, and can be used either as jam or with cold meat. Try it on your next visitor. It will probably get her guess- Ing.

The easiest way

is the best

WHEN YOU'RE

COOKING BEANS.

way

UNNER BEANS, when young, should never be shredded,

er in one piece with the "upper.". There is no earthly reason why they should be sent to table

Cr 8 rows with 8

3 sts.

Dec 1 si on outside for 2 following looking like a ball of green string.

rows. You have now. 6 sts in the

row. Cr 8 more rows, dec to 4 sts

for the last row in order to round

All that is necessary is to remove any "string" from the

off the heel. The sole is now com-beans (there should not be much of this when they are young), and to break them across into two or three pieces according to Pleie.

Turn he shoe Inside out and sew their size, the sole on to the upper like this:-

See that the middle of the heel The simplest way of cooking is in the centre of the back of the them is to put them into a sauce- upper part of shoc. Carefully sow phn of boiling salted water and the back half of sole on to the upper. to boil them, with the lid off, until Sew it on without fulness for about they

about tender. Timie,

fre

half its length. Then fasten off and twenty minutes. Drain them well begin at the "toe" end. The fulness before sending them to table, in the upper part of the shoe should

he very carefully gathered into the Must be bone Dry

sold.

When they are served "au beurre,"

STRAP

Gay Bowls For Table Decorations

NOW that gardens are almost bare

of blossom and flowers are be- coming more expensive, the task of providing the house with that spot of colour and fresh green which is so essential to its appearance, be

the days Cr 3 sts. Continue for 23 rows.extremely careful draining and dry-comes more dimcult as Make a loop of 3 or 4 chain and sewing is necessary.

Sprays of leaves and berries trent- button on to opposite side. Then

To this end you put the cooked ed with glycerine, and dried ever- sew the strap on to back of "upper" and drained beans into a hot, dry lasting flowers look enchanting In part of shoe,

LEFT SHOE

For the left shoe, the inside edge (in this case the, right-hand side) should be kept straight and the upper shaped by dee on the left side, after 3rd row.

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A widowed mother has to support her children. Sha

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pan, and shake them about in it tall vases, but, largely owing to their until they are us waterless an pos- size, prove unsuitable sible. Then ndd the butter, and toss decoration. the beans in it until it is melted. Season to taste.

Serve the beans as they are, ur, If you like, sprinkle them with a little anely chopped parsley,

Apart from their use with other cooked vegetables in the well-known Russian salad, these beans make a very good salad on their own.

With a minimum of trouble, how- ever, gay bowls may be arranged, which are ideal for this purpose.

Few people think of using ivy or autumn creeper inside the house, yel a few young shools well washed and placed artistically in a gay blue bowl of water will form a dainty centre- piece for the table, and should Inst for weeks

Grass seed sown on a bowl of demp Put them into the salad bowl, mould or earth will bring forth 8 sprinkle them with finely chopped crop of cool greenery in a few days, flowers dotted parsley and chives, and gently mix and Ittle artificial

in an ornary dressing of olive oil here and there amongst the blades and vinegar or, if you prefer 1,will complete ni very little cost a mayonnaise. Here, again, the effect fresh little garden which will last is completely spoiled If the beans from 8-10 weeks, are cut up smali.

Laying up for Winter

Bird seed, too, sown in earth or Abro, will produce a summery bowl, as will mustard and creas. A little Inter in the season, crocus bulbs may Any glut of beans can be dealt then seed sown on top, and the the soll of Abre and be planted in with by salting them down for beauty of the bulbs will be enhanced winter use. Prepare them as advis by the greenricas of their back- ed for cooking.

Put a layer of salt in the bottom

ground.

Cut flower-will-Jost for- a very

of an earthenware Jar, and put an long time and look more natural if inch layer of beans on top of this placed in a bowl of soil or mons. Cover the beans with a layer of salt, The stalks should be freshly telini- Repeat this process as forns themed before insertion and the earth beans will go.

or mess kept very damp. Tiny Bowers such as violets look especially The contents of the jar can be lovely if tied together in litte bun- thus added to as more beans come ches and dotted here and there ever Blong.

a bowl of wet moss, and their cont, even in winter, is not prohibitivo. The fingi lager must be a good Fern, too, will stand for many woeka, one of all which completely, covers und a specially: good bowl may be |produced by arranging a few sturdy: the beans,

anemones. “amongst ? some” feathery sprigs offern, walang old

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