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The 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 salted water with a sprig of mint. In ten to fifteen minutes they will be ten- der and ready for the duck.

But in two or three weeks' time, bit, it is when they vary in size

Get advisable to use this method: two basins, and when you are shel- Jing the peas drop the larger ones into one basin, the smaller ones Into the other.

duck's friend

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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY," FÉRUARY 20, 1938.

COSY LITTLE SUPPER MENU:

Soured herring, potato salad, Beetroot,

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

Arranged by

· FLORENCE WHITE For the celery and cheese tar- lieta, ling some greased and Bloured pattypans with puff__pas- try and All the hollow with beans or crusts of bread to keep centres hollow. Bake the pastry, but do not overbake it as it has to be

CLEAN four good fresh herbaked again when the filling has

rings, cutting off heads and been put in.

talls, and lay them side by aldo To make the Mling have a gill 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 oven 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

galt.

pepper corns and a little sait. celery through a hair aleve, sea- Put the lid on the dish or cover son it with cayenne pepper and it closely with another dich, and salt, stir in a little grated cheese. bake for half an hour in a quick Til the pastry cases with this oven, take off the lid and if the mixture. Sprinkle grated chocsd dish is suitable the herring can over and bake until the mixture be taken when cold to the table is delicately brown on top. in it. Serve a good potato salad In a salad bowl, and serve a whole skinned beetroot in a small glass dish.

These little tarticts can be eaten hot or cold, and make snack for cocktail or bridge re- freshments.

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Is Your Child Afraid of Things?

A

MOTHER was recently the period when parents consider that they need not be careful. I 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, in them lind also started.

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 screen.

posable that his mood and the strength of the impression may be It appears that on such occa- such as will cause a permanent sions as he had previously been effect. to the cinema, ho had so far. It should be a parent's him, 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, malen in face of anything frighten- and it would have taken an Ing. Then, when the child is old to understand, he should earthquake to shake her placidi- enough ty; recounted murder certainly be taught caution and not fear. did not ruffle her. The result TEACHING "ROAD SENSE"

An Wush the required amount of was that the child took his cue

example for this the boll with the ild on, add spinaeli

from her and viewed with per- (the younger the better)

sense," most parents generally will avold a dish of mixed hard and plenty of salt, and cook till tender, and cook it ten-fifteen minutes in feet equanimity any horror films springs to mind. In teaching "road

When you have drained the water, a saucepan. It will cook perfectly to which he was taken.

adopt a threatening and intimidat-D mushy peas. Keep the lid off the

the water left on it from them through a little melted in salicepan while you are cooking butter and chopped par ley. Or you washing: on no account add more.

Few things are so infectious us ing tone of "You'll get run over fear. Consider a public building in if you don't look out," and the re can cover them (but don't drown

which fire has broken out. How sult is a flustered and nervous child. them) with a little thin white par sley sauce.

quickly the crowd can be driven One mother wisely says to her small or two hysterical son, "Don't bump into people on the frantic by one people! On the other hand, they footpath and don't bump into cara But can be calmed by the personal force and things on the rond." of someone who keeps his head. whether humour is brought into the And if adults can be so easily question or not, there should cor- swayed, 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 but the major one is that of aceing avaiding too close communion with it displayed by others.

all things on wheels.

Throw the larger peas into the for first and cook them Esucepan four or five minutes before adding enough cold water to cover, bring

the little ones. In this way you

them.

French Peas

FR nothing to equal pur poultry and vest there

simple way of cooking peas.

But,

caten os separate course, or as on accompaniment to well-trimmed grill lamb cutlets (If you haven't the facilities for grilling, do them

way.

to

Cooked

Cucumber

Cut

water

salt,

3

++

the

Meanwhile, melt little butter in saucepan, stir in a level table- spoonful of flour and a heaped tea- spoonful of finely chopped onion. Let the four brown very slightly. then add cold-water, stirring all the time, till the sauce is like thinnish

cream..

bread which has

at once

It

THIS with hot bolled cod is particularly delicl- in a pan over a hot fire with no fat at all they cook perfectly in their or salmon, and it also blends well Let it simmer very slowly while own juice), the French method is a with while meats,

you strain the cooked spinach and delicious change.

a cucumber into slices one chop it Anely (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 cach through your mincing machine- when you are cooking them this alice. Shape the halves, as well as half the juice will be left behind if led when they see a child in the ed by things which are new to grip of some unaccountable fear. them." One child was terrified by you can, into little ovals. Put them you do!). Now add half a slice of They feel so convinced that they an adult joker who arrived at Put-a-good-lump-of-butter-in-a-in saucepan with enough cold white, crustless

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

The obvious saucepan

But are they quite head on his own. ter, Mashi it thoroughly into the frighten him. and add two pints of shelled peas,

spinach and add the mixture to Aure that they practised this prin- thing to do in such cases is, of six or eight bution onions, the heart Bring to the bell with the lid on,

course, to show the child the truth. of a cabbage leltuce cut into four, strain and return to saucepan with your sauce. Season generously and ciple when he was a mere baby 7

It is not sufficiently realised

In no case should a child ever be one tablespoonful sugar, sprinkling some

and chopped stir over a hot fire,

what an extent the youngest of salt and pepper and three table- parsley. Simmer

of exhorted and, still worso, laughed spoonfuls of water.

babies are susceptible to all sorts at and told not to be frightened, of influences.

whatever As a general rule, "because it's nothing," conscientious parents begin put the cause of his fear may be, for to their paychological ideas into prac him it obviously is something. The

is old enough to understand. tice only when they think the child reason for his fear should be dis-

melted butter

till tender

with

the lid on. Stir round every now Put the lid on and simmer, fairly and then as the cucumber is apt la fast, for thirty to forty minutes. By shrivel if it isn't kept buttery, 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 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 cuticts. soups.

Boiled White

Radishes

ROOKED radishes pre for

more digestible than raw

ones and form another of my fo-

vourite midsummer vegetable dishes,

Spinach Puree

is an economical way

a good stir occasionally and add

It should be like a thick fruit fool when rendy.

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

T doing a spinach puree sages.

of

You treat them just like carrots: without eggs or cream. It is also. A good variation of the eggs and scrape and trim them, put in my opinion, more tasty than any spinach combination is to make Into a saucepan with just other way.

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