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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 80, 1988.

Accidents at Table.. Only guest behaving correctly marked with a cross.

Countess Morphy suggests

RESTAURANT DISHES for the

Family Menu

Do You Know

How

to Behave

a. When you make an introduction

b. When you play bridge

c. When you make a social call

d. If you have an accident at table

IF you have any respect

for social habits-and

asks Grace Herbert

Playing Bridge ing your beat,

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and At out again. Never, whatever you do, prolong a

a rellet to your hostess." But, on

Calls can be made any time be-

NOW for "." Bridge has call until your departure becomes by that I mean the stereo-

a way of destroying the other hand, of course, don't keep typed behaviours to which one's social sense. It is difficult looking at the clock. we must conform if we are to for a good player to be civil to be accepted in the "best circles," und chatterers, easy bidders, and tween half-past three and half-post the afternoon. Of course, it Juli

live in a neighbourhood there are things, according to downright bad players, when he or ve in

she happens to be faced with them where afternoon naps" are all the authorities On the subject,

as partners. But etiquette has which YOU MUST KNOW. And that, if you want to play bridge at rage, you'll have to pick your time

Recordingly. circumstances Your a citizen may be all, you must in no 09

call should your worth

be returned Judged by your ability to act sensibly show your feelings.

promptly it Mrs. Smith really wants You must never, for instance, show to be friends. At any rate within a are fireproof dista. On the unbrowned on what you know, however difcult

annoyance over mistakes made by period of three weeks at the most. If your partner, nor must you stand on she doesn't come or even leave side of the cutlets heap some chopped that may be at times. overnwed and just a

on card it means she's giving you the mixed with

Introductions his foot under the table. But, little bewildered by "restaurant" cooked mushrooms,

the other hand, your partner, should cold shoulder.

Accidents food.

FOR instance, take "a" on he or she be an indifferent player, must retire from the gure before the list above. When the party shows any Siz of be- make an introduction you coming rough.

MANY housewives

little thick white sauce-made with butter, flour, stock or milk-sprinkle grated cheese, mutsten with They imagine it to be quite be with yond the scope of the average house- melted butter and brown lightly in a

OVERL Serve with hold--something which only highly moderate

amato xaLICE

Zabaglioni a l'Italienne

plain

you

Hve Them

mustn't garble people's names, If, however, there is no other per- skilled chefs can do and which taker boiled new potatoes and a thick to turn hurriedly away and leave them sun to take over the fourth hand, and Belirs Lo prepare This is quite

together without any conversational he allows himself to be persuaded to

mistake.

opening.

continue, he should be trented with the utmost courtesy, because he has, In glancing through the "Carle cli

n lead such as "Mr. in fact, bravely indicated his inex- Put the yolks of three large ht. I want to introduce Mr. Left perience. Summing this up, I should Jour of any of the famous Londo

He, like you, is interested advise you, if yours is an unforgiv restaurants, I am struck by the num- eggs in a basin and beat with

of sugar till the mix- in politicn." ber of popular dishes which figure 1/40%.

What happens after is, in nature,ver to play bridge with

strangers. and ture turns almost white and is very apparently, none of your business. prominently in

Social Calls which are well within the remeh and light

the verURE cook capacity of

calls have long housewife.

been vexed point.

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their menus

For instance, the following men could

be must satisfactorily served

in the average home

Euf Poche Florentine,

La Brochette au Risotto,

Crepes a la Parisienne.

OEut Pocho Florentine---

This consists of a poached egg. carefully trimmed, placed on a neat round of bread, about an inch thick, previously

fried to a light golden colour in butter, and covered with a thin layer of spinach. Cover the whole with Sauce Mornay--a thick white sauce,

with well

cheese-and flavoured place in a hot oven for a few minutes to glaze.

La Brochette au Risotto

Allow 2 ΟΥ 3

very small sausages (the "cocktail" varie- ty) to each skewer, and 2 chicken livers. Wrap the sau-

thin rasher, and sages neatly in put on a skewer, alternately with half a chicken liver, also wrapped in bacon. Either gr for about ten minutes, or try in bulter. Then dress on mourid of rice, piled up in a dish, and well sprinkled with Par- mesan cheese, and molstened with melted butter.

Crepes a la Parisienne→→→

Make a batter with lb. of flour, 11/2oz. of sugar, 2 large or a small ones, 4 table- cggg spoonfuls of cream. 102. of

to you.

Add just over 1 grill of Mar- sala wine

Madeira (

Fut the But don't fall into the practical mixture in it double saucepan. and joker's formula of attaching a label bent

continuously over a slow fire, to a person that isn't strictly accur wituut allowing it to buil

SOCIA

When it begins to thicken and to ale. For instance, a friend of mine First calls, which shouldn't last vise remove from 1 Are, und. It wilt insist upon introducing me to more than a quarter of an hour to be served cold, continue beating impossible atrangers with the words, or twenty minutes, give one about as until almost cold.

Then pour into "Mrs

an expert at breeding much chance of interesting conver- gluses and keep in a coal place till butterflies under glaša"--about which sation

train as a erowded tube required

1 kom practically nothing.

What you really do is to fit in, look-

it 15

Try leaving

these on the

sideboard

WELL, I never.

straw, but we will make one out beef.

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AST in the list, “d," constitutes an eventu- ality well provided for in the etiquette books. In- structions are short and to the point. If wine or soup is spilled. and presumably if peas shoot across the table, or a chicken wing finds its way somewhat surprisingly on to your lap, host, hostess, and guests Ignore the disturbance altogether.

The well-trained servant re- moves the nuisance nothing had happened.

if

Above all, there is no fuss, no indica- lion by even the raising of an "yebrow, that anything auto- ward has becurred. And if you haven't n well-trained servant well, after all this good advice, I'm going to let you work that one ut for yourself,

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From Theatre-Land

II.

1.00

The Matched MAKEUP

Orchestra. 1. 1st Movement from Sonata in G

Con

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Minor (Plutti)...L. A. Lafford; 2. (a) Praise ya the Lard (Bantock); Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Gounod-"Faust" Acts I and, (b) What though I trace (from

"Solomon,"-Handel)

Mra

N. Mathieson; 3. Folk Tunc (Whitlock) Vocalists: Heddle Nash, Robert RADIO BROADCAST

...L. A. Lafford; 4. (a) Pardon us, Easton, Harold Williams, Doris Vane, Robert Carr, Miriam Liette and the gracious Lord (Bach); (b) Easter (Continued from Page 9.)

B.B.C. Choir with Symphony Or-Hymn (arr. Frank Bridge)....Mrs.

|N. Mathieson; 5. Second Organ chestra, conducted by Sir Thomas certo (Handel)....L. A. Lafford. Relay of Morning Beecham.

8.45 Beethoven-Concerto In D Paul's Church

2.30 Close Down,

Major, Op. 01. 6,00-7,00 Chinese Programme,

Brahms Sonata in F Minor and The London Philharmonic Or

Played by Fritz Kreisler (Violia) 12,13 Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E:

Op. 120. No. 1. allnor, Op. 11.

chestra conducted by John Barbirolli. Played by Lionel Terlis (Viola)

0.30 Reuter and Played

Rugby Press, by

Rubinstein and Harriet Cohen (Piano). Artbur

Weather Forecast and Announce- 7.25

Richard (Piano) and The London Symphony

Bongs by

ments. Orchestra eunducted by John Bar- (Tenor),

5.40 birolil.

Woodlands Far (F. Mendelssohn Guards. 12.50

Songs by Elizabeth Scho

-Bartholdy-I von. Eichendorf); Ruy Blas Overture (Mendelssohn); mann (Soprano).

Heber Nacht (Hugo Wolt-Julius Silver Trumpets--Band Processional Maria Wiegenlied, Op. 74, No. 52 Sturm) Pallucck-Such A Game March (Vivian-arr. F. Godfrey); (Beolitz-Reger); Zum Schlafen, Op. (Leoncavallo Weatherly): Pagliacel The Beggar's Opera-Selection (Gay 70. No. 50 (Schellenberg-Reger);On With The Motley (Leancavallo Spharenklange (W. Knepler-J -Weatherly), Strauss-orr. F. Mittler).

1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Albert Sandier (Violin) and itis Orchestra.

You

Tauber

Band of HI. M. Grenadier

-Austin),

9.58 Organ Prologue. The necessities for this' are 1h.

7.35 Barnabas Von Geczy and Nb. Introduction And Fugue (From Jean beef, Gozs. Uhick streaky bacon,

Orchestra.

Fantasia on "Ad Nos Salutem") 4ozs, breadcrumbs, two eggs, a finely

Fresh Breezes (Borchert); In Merry (Liszt)....Fernando Germani played chopped shallot, half teaspamful

Mood

(Haringer); Kindu Song on New Yoric Wanamaker Audl of mixed spicer, a teaspoonful of Wor Prelude (Haydn Wood); For Love ("Sadko"-Rimsky-Korsakov); Ma-

torium Organ; Choral Prelude ("In cestershire sauce, a sultspoonful ufor

nga (Rixner); Poem (Fibich); Cradle Thee Is Joy-Buch)....Marcel bu- {from the Film-Franz Inga pepper, a pinch of dry mustard, and Vienna) ....Orchestra; Love's Last Song Of The Virgin Mary (Reger): pre-played on Organ of Alexandra a little stock for moistening.

Word (Cremieux); Le Chaland Qui Andante Religioso (Theme).

London. Passe (Blxto)

8,00 ....Orchestra; Large

Time and Weather.

Lucio-Sunday Sveng (Handel) Londonderry Air (Tradi- 8.03 Lindsay A. Lafford at the Epilogue, Rav, J. Mackenzlo-Dow tional) ..Albert

Sandler (Violin Cathedral Organ with Mrs. Neil on "Faith." Solo) Sidney Torch (Orgon); Waltzes Mathieson (Contralto).

10.30 Close Down.

A boastful friend has been telling Wimblestraw that his wife makes the best brawn, Mince, mix and roll the best galantine, and the best potted shrimps in the south of England.

PASS the beef

sonings.

meat.

and bacon together twice through the What of it, Mrs. Wimblestraw?

mincer. and then mix them well You can be equally accomplished if only you will set the nim with the breadcrumbs and the sea- ble mind to work.

Husbands like to boast about their wives' accomplishments. And if, Heat the eggs, mix them with the : the face of such boasting, all that Wimblestraw can murmur is "Well, rest, and add enough stock to get the batter, I gill of milk, and 2oz. of my wife fries a pretty ega" of "Her blanemangea seldom collapse," such whole to the consistency of sausante | crushed macaroons. Let the mixture observations are bound to cone under the heading of feeble retorts.

It is just in such things as cold side dishes, whether for breakfast, before lunch or supper, that you really have a chance to make a name for your

self in these days, Mrs, Wimblestraw.

There are lots of things for the

Put the cleaned meat into a sauce- Put it into balling water and cook store cupboard which the manufac- pan with two quarts of water and a for two hours. turers con make a great deal better half a dozen black pepper-corns and Take out the galantine and press than you can yourself, but when it the same number of allspice berries it between two dishes while it is gel-

to the purveyors of cooked tied in a piece of muslin.

ting cold. Brush It over with liquid! neut, you can beat them every time,

Bring to the boil and simmer gen- meat glaze and garnish it with water.

tress, lly for two and a half to three hours.

stand

for 1 hour, and add 2 ten-

just of brandy spoonfuls making the pancakes.

Make the pancakes in the ordinary way, keeping them very thin.

Fold, sprinkle with sugar, and serve very hot.

Harenys Lucas

Cotelettes Murillo,

Zabalone a l'Italienne

Harengs Lucas——

comes

if only you have a try.

Shape the mixture into a thickish roll, wrap it in greaseproof paper, and then the into a pudding cloth,

to depend much en bus When done, the meat should come How to pot shrimps Anway, 10 ing ready-cooked meats, as so many very easily from the bones. people do, is an extravagant form of housekeeping.

Soak a few kippered her- So make your own side dishes and rings in cold water for 4 or 5 give Wimblestraw another subject of conversation to add to his somewhat hours. Then bone them care-limited repertoire. fully and cut into thin strips. Arrange them neatly on a dish and Is the meat salted?

FOR the brawn

Cut-in small pieces

THERE are various ways

of potting shrimps, both whole and otherwise, and here is a DUT the bones back into very simple and delicious one.

the saucepan with the liquor and boll fast until it is re-shrimps with

Season halt a pint of shelled duced to half the quantity.

a pinch each of Cut the meat into fairly small should be salt enough from the wa- powered mace and cayenne. They pieces, and season it with pepper ter in which they were cooked but

ir not add a little salt. and a little grated nutmeg.

Cook the shrimps gently in upan Arrange the places neatly, but too tightly, in a basin, and well cover with 3ms, butter for a quarter of The eye-piece of a pig consists of them" with the liquor, Stand the an hour. They must not boll. Then haff its hend, minus the cheek. The brawn in a cold place to set. Turn

put them on a sieve to drain. cheek will have been taken out to it out of the basin and serve. be converted Into a bath chap.

cover with a sauce made with the

you will chopped yolks of two hard-bolled

need the two eye-pieces eggs, one teaspoonful of made mus- tard, three or four chopped gherkins, of a plg and two feet. These can be ono teaspoonful of chopped shallot or bought from any pork butcher, and onion, and three tablespoonfuls of are quite inexpensive,

oil to one of vinegar.

Cotolettas Murillo

If the meat has been already salted, Now for a galantine you need add no salt to the water when cooking it. Otherwise, you #must.

Brown one side of the cutlets. in hot butter or fat. Remove from the pan and place in

Pack them tightly into small pots and cover them with the hot butter. Serve with toast or bread and but-

ler,

YES, there are all sorts of

galantines Mrs. Wimble-

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