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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1038.

The duck's

best

HESTER VALENTINE tells you how to make the most of green peas- and incidentally all the other vegetables YOUNG green peas fresh

from the gardens! They are just beginning, and for a whole month we shall have them at their best.

This, to me, is an intoxicating. thought, because there is no- thing in all the vegetable king- dom so delicate and exquisite in flavour as English peas, For this reason I looked forward to winter more than to any other season of the year.

English Peas

Now that they are young they are fairly fool-proof to cook; you throw them into fast boiling called water with a sprig of mint. In ten to fifteen minutes they will be len- der and ready for the duck.

But in two or three weeks' time, when they vary in size a bit, it is advisable to use this method: Get two basins, and when you are shel- Ling the peas drop the larger ones into one basin, the smaller onca Into the other.

for

friend

Throw the larger peas into the

first and cook them saucepan four or five minutes before adding enough cold water to cover, bring the little ones.. In this way

"I look forward to winter more than to any other season of the year-vege- tables are at their best."

Wash the required

++++

amount

of

the

you to the boll with the lid on, add spinach (the younger the better) will avoid a dish of mixed hard and plenty of salt, and cook till tender, and cook it ten-afteen minutes in When you have drained the water, a saucepan. It will cook perfectly mushy peas. Keep the lid off the

the water icft on it from saucepan while you are cooking pass them through a little melted in

butter and chopped parsley. Or you washing; on no account add more them.

can cover them (but don't drown them) with a little thin while par- sley sauce.

French Peas

FR nothing to equal our OR poultry and veal there

aimple way of cooking peas, But, eaten as a separate course, or as an accompaniment 10

Cooked

well-trimmed Cucumber

strill Tamb cullets (if you haven't

the facilities for grilling, do them

THIS

THIS is particularly delict- .ous with hot bolled cod

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Meanwhile, melt a little butter in saucepan, stir in a level table spoonful of flour and a heaped tea spoonful

ef finely chopped onion. Let the flour brown very slightly. then add cold water, stirring all the time, till the sauce is like thinnich cream,

COSY LITTLE SUPPER MENU:

Soused herring, potato salad, Beetroot,

Cold stocet-cured Sufolk ham, sweet pickled damsons. Celery and cheese tartlets.

Arranged by

FLORENCE WHITE

For the celery and cheese tax- flats,

greased and lind some floured pattypans with puff_pas- try and all the hollow with bean

crusts of bread to keep centres hollow. Bake the pastry, but do 40 overbake it as it has to be CLEAN, cutting off heads and

LEAN four good fresh ber-baked again when the dlling has

talls, and lay them side by sido To make the filling have a ril in a dish, the thick alternately of good white sauce and stir into with the thin, so that the layer it an equal quantity of celery that is even in the dish, cover with has been cooked in the milk of vinegar, put two bay leaves into which the white sauce has been the vinegar, half a dozen black made, run the white sauce and pepper corns and a little salt. celery, through a hair slevo, sca- Put the lid on the dish or cover son it with cayenne pepper and it closely with another dish, and salt, stir in a little grated cheese. bake for half an hour in a quick Fill the pastry cases with this aven, take off the Ild and if the mixture. Sprinide grated cheese dish is suitable the herring can over and bake until the mixture

be taken when cold to the table is delicately brown on top.

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In It Serve a good potato salad These little tartlets can bo In a salad bowl, and serve a whole (enten hot or cold, and maké akinned beetroot in a small glass į snack for cocktail or bridge re- dish.

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Is Your Child Afraid of Things?

A MOTHER was recently the period when parents consider

in them had also started.

I

that they need not be careful. surprised to note, on have seen babies of two, and even taking her six-year-old son one, start with fear at something to see a film, that he showed at which an adult who was holding not the slightest fear or,

The incident may, of course, im- fact, any emotion when a mediately leave the child's mind, murder was committed on but, on the other hand, it is also the the screen.

possible that his mood and strength of the impression may bo It appears that on such occa- such ns will cause a permanent sions as he had previously been effect.

to the cinema, he had so far It should be a parent's alm, be- always gone with a German fore the child is able to understand girl who acted as a companion words and reasoning, to carry, for in the home. This girl was of sake of example, a serene and poised an exceptionally placid nature, mien in face of anything frighten- and it would have taken aning. Then, when the child is old to understand, he should carthquake to shake her placidi-nough

at once

ty; recounted murder certainly be taught caution and not fear. | did not ruffle her. The result TEACHING “ROAD SENSE”

was that the child took his cue

An example for this from her and viewed with per-

sense," most parents generally fect equanimity any horror films springs to mind. In teaching "road to which he was taken.

adopt a threatening and intimidat- Fow things nro so infectious as ing tone of "You'll get run over fear. Consider a public building in if you don't look out," and the re which fire has broken out. How Bult is a flustered and nervous child. quickly the crowd can be driven One mother wisely says to her small or two bysterical son, "Don't bump into people on the frantic by-one people! On the other hand, they footpath and don't bump into cars can be calmed by the personal force and things on the road." But of someone who keeps his head. whotbar humour is brought into the And if adults can be so easily question or not, there should cer awayed, how much more so a child? tainly be nothing ominous and mor- Other causes do sometimes enter bid about the instructions, but just into the growth of a child's fear, a sensible and calm suggestion for at all: they cook perfectly in their or salmon, and it aise blends well Let it simmer very slowly while but the major one is that of seeing avoiding too close communion with own juice), the French method is a with white ments.

you strain the cooked spinach and It displayed by others.

all things on wheels. dellelous change.

Cut a cucumber into slices one chop I finely (please don't put it

Parents are very frequently puz- Children are sometimes frighten- Keep the lid of the saucepan on inch thick. Peel and have each through your mincing machine- when you are cooking them this silce. Shape the halves, as well as half the juice will be left behind irzled when they see a child in the ed by things which are new

grip of some unaccountable fear. them. One child was terrified by you-can-into-lille ovals. Put them you do!). Now add half a slice of They feel so convinced that they an adult joker who arrived at a In a saucepan with enough cold white, crustless bread which has Put a good lump of buller in a water to cover, and a good pinch of been previously well soaked in wa-have always been careful not to Christmas party with a huge wolf's

(2-3oz.), melt it slowly salt. saucepan

ter. Mash I thoroughly into the frighten him. But are they quite head on his own. The obvious and add two pints of shelled peas,

Spinach and add the mixture to sure that they practised this prin- thing to do In such cases is, of six or eight button onions, the heart Bring to the boll with the lid on,

course, to show the child the truth. of a cabbage lettuce cut into four, strain and return to saucepan with your sauce. Seasons generously and ciple when he was a mere baby?

It is not sufficiently realised to In no case should a child ever be one tablespoonful sugar, sprinkling some melted butter and chopped till tender with

what an extent the youngest of exhorted anil, still worse, laughed of salt and pepper and three table. parsley. Simmer spoonfuls of water.

the ld on. Stir round every now

hables are susceptible to all sorts at and told not to be frightened, Put the lid on and simmer, fairly and then as the cucumber lo opt to

of influences. As a general rule, "because it's nothing," whatever fast, for thirty to forty minutes. By shrivel if it isn't kept buttery.

conscientious parents begin to put the cause of his fear may be, for to their piychological ideas into pras: him it obviously is something. The tice only when they think the child reason for his fear should be dis- is old enough to understand.

In a pan over a hot fire with no fat

-way,

stir over a hol fre.

Let it simmer without a lid for the time the vegetables are tender Don't throw away the rind-it is twenty to thirty minutes. Give it they will have absorbed most of the such an excellent garnish (cut into a good alle occasionally and add moisture and will be left lovely and thin strips, and blanched) for clear more hot water when it gets stodgy, buttery and ready for the cuticla. *oups.

It should be like a thick frult fool when ready.

Boiled White

Radishes

Spinach

COOKED radishes are far Puree

more digestible than raw

vourite midsummer vegetabla dishes.

of doing a spinach purce

Spinach cooked like this makes an excellent supper-dish, not only with the familiar poached egg on top but with fried chipolata sau-

ones and form another of my fa THE

THIS is an economical way Enges. treat them Just ce carrots: without eggs or cream. It is also, A good variation of the eggs and

Ecrape and trim them, put in my opinion, more tasty than any spinach combination

saucepan with Just other way,

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