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Something simple

SUCCESSFUL summer

caterers arrange for simple dishes which save the goodness and flavour of garden foods.

Here is a week's daily dinner menu, in case your pencil starts wavering on this menu business. Featuring the foods we have at the moment, there is no strict relationship day to day, though you'll find an underlying streak of economy.

Sunday brings a roast, but with lamb we look for mint and jelly is change from, time-honoured sauce. Perhaps you made some last year when apples were plentiful? Any- way, it is shmple enough.

If you've not tried green peas a

lots In Franenise, there are

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reasons why you should. Just spear an onion with two cloves, tie a morsel of muslin to enclose parsley, thyme, and half a bay leaf, and have a pound or more of ready shelled pras. Meit one ounce of butter in

lid

a pan, anute and partly cook the onion, then add the pens and toss in butler for a moment. Add the herb bouquet, and pour in about a gill of stock, almmering gently with the til the peos are tender. Remove the onion 1 and herbs. sprinkle half teaspoon of sugar, and you will find a mere dressing! of stock remains, but the peas will gilsten with butter. Hurry them to pare the potatoes while they are good and hot.

On potatoes-remember that new ones take a tossing in paprika it you tire of chopped parsley for them.

MONDAY'S meal grows from

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remember to set some slices on a decorative dish overnight ur next morning. If aspic sounds remote to there's always the packet variety or perhaps stiffening far rich-flavoured, stock,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1988.

How To Cater For UALUESTUES

The Week During

The Hot Days

Here are some suggestions for each day of the week.

Sunday

Cream at corn soup. Shoulder of lamb, mint felly, new potatoes. Green peas the French way. Cherry tartlets, glazed with conserve.

Monday

Tomato and rice soup, or tomato bouillon. Sliced lumb in neplc. Summer salad: glazed and gingered carrots. Coffee aprical meringue (using leftover sponge or cake).

Tuesday

Spinach puree. Creamed cgits and, asparagus, with! grilled bacon rolls. Strawberry panniers (filled cake

"baskets").

Wednesday

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Summer soup. Fowl or chicken fricassee. Gooseberry ****

shape, with mock creain decoration.

Thursday

Chicken jelly squares. Rice, ham and whole tomato salad (the baby English ones). New potatoes, Hot rhubarb platetart (made with flaky pastry, and ginger favouring). Cheese and biscuits.

Friday

Chicken broth with mushroums. Cold salmon. Cucum- ber jelly (moulded ring or Individual jellies stuffed with mayonnaised salad). Potatoes. Lemon chiffon pie, with cornflake pastry,

Saturday

Orange and mint appetiser. Veal cutlets, spaghetti milane, new potatoes, Souffle omelette, banana filling. Cheese straws. Coffee,

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and

Summer says need no elabora- baked a dellente crisp brown at cake, mixture into dariele tins for af forced whipped cream or custard 2 added tablespoons of vinegar, and tion, but a few glazed corrofs pep quite the lowest pace. (Deltom shelf a batch of cup cakes. These "scoop coating.

a teaspoon of onion julee, with salt, things up a bit, especially if you of Regulo 6 If you have other things out to make pannier baskets for the In case you have not tried a corn- pepper and a trace of green colour- A oz, of gelatine is sufficient the ing. berries. Small strawberries silced, flour

cream, here seasoned with lemon juice and formula. One gill of milk thickened to set these ingredients. Cook some split and quartered THEN the time arrives for a stirred lightly into sweetened and with a dessertspoon of contour,

If you have a soft spot for Lemen medium-sized

meatless meal, so try cream- whipped cream, pile into these cases and allowed to cool while a dessert Chiffon Pie you'il fall for it more carrots in bolling ed eggs and asparagus. Bacon rolls and make most delectable eating spoon of caster sugar is creamed salted water. When tender, drain

ever in a cornflake pastry case. and dress, in equal parts melted or ham enter for another occasion. Fur dresa occasions you could make with an ounce of butter till white an Bin, square cube in un

loose. The cooled butter and demerura sugar with a Simply hard boll two eggs for each angelica leaves and handles, and set and

large pie plate, and melt 2oz. butter person and quarter them, adding at the dessert of little lee plates with sauce is then added, spoon at a generous whake of

in it. Mix 6 gills of crushed and ground ginger.

ankt whisked till creamy Heat through at simmering rate till well-favoured bechamel or white green leaf dolleys.

smooth. A

with sieved cornflakes mixed with 207. sauce. Diced cooked ham or bacon

of pinch

Falt ey tak

take a glossy tan, then speed and prepared or canned asparagus

easter sugar

and half a teaspoon of WEDNESDAY'S choice

a vanilla is

favouring is an improve- cinnamon, then stir them into the them on their way,

fowl or chicken, with goose- ment, and if it is used at once the butter, pressing till evenly absorbed. Coffee or maple meringur rescues

berry shape as outlet for the "surplus substitute forers through a cream Reserve suflicient for dressing the Individual portions served week-end cake misfits in the kind-

on bread" problem. It is a variation pipe most convincingly. liest way.

biscuits of the well-worn summer pudding, Strong coffee or weak toast or square cracker maple syrup, thickened with corn- make a godd impression, but the so choose a deep melon or blanc- CALMON and cucumber is and bottom of the tin and proceed Blour and enriched with egg yolk, whole could be turned into a fire-

mould and line it with enshrouds the sliced and layered proof dish, circled with toast sippets moderately thick slices of crustless cumber is a pleasant change. You the pie some three hours before you cake. Arranged In a china souffle or tiny bacon rolls and asparagus bread, Layers of hot syrup-stewed either set it in a ring mould, or make plan to serve il. dish, with spreadings of chopped lips.

gooseberries are sandwiched and little enstles and stuff the centres. nuls and honey or apricot maima- Strawberries or raspberries need topped with the bread, then weighted Creamed shrimp is fine for a change. Inde, it forms a succulent base for the simplest serving of alt. Next down and left overnight. It then For two good sized grated cucum- the meringued top, which is then ume you bake at home turn some turns out for decoration with lines bers take half a gill of water with

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are the other items.

For BOYS and GIRLS

Lighting-up time for gloto-worms-a warning to snails.

OT everyone finds the glow- worm's soft, greenish-gold "lamp" elther pleasing or beautiful. For shalls it ought to shine a warning red. Because the glow-worm is greatly partial to a snail feast.

She creeps, ghostlike, upon Snally. Altting pretty inside his brittle shell She doesn't knock at his door, bit, with most unladylike ferocity, gnaws through his Almy entrance. ond fully eats him out of hearth and home-out of existence!

Midsummer is the glow-worn's "lighting-up" time. Hero and there, about moors, chalky downs, country lanes and dells, you may discover elther ono ** “ dozen together. mounted uрол grassy blades, and bearing upon the stars.

Beetle Family

Luckily for their owner, this remark- ablo "lamp" gives out no warmth, but is cold as stone. For if it emilled hent in proportion to its shining power, like, say, a candle finme, the glow worm would be scorched to death.

Among our nativa glow-worms, the female always has the finest lamp.”

A queer creattire. · She has neither. wings nor wing covers, and, with her tapering, fatly body divided into nina or ten segments, looks more like a cater- pillar than a beetle, her true genus.

Quicker!

BRASSA

and a shine

as bright as lightning

BRASSO

METAL POLISH

However, he male Insect, whose power of radiation is feeblo Indeed.

traditional, but jellied cu-

top of the pic, then coat the sides

as usual. It is best to set and chill

Ann Marvel

DANGER Do you day-dream?

LIGHT for SNAILS

luminous. Perhaps their glow, hinting at the mysterious, acts as a keep-of sign to inquisitive birds. And, a sunde more prominently, the glow-worm's larvæ or grubs give off the same un canny radiance,

These creeping inmps also spell run to analis. While, for devouring slugs, another popular lem on their menu, baby glow-worms are gifted with bristly back feet (these resemble a set of brushes in miniature) so that, with- out any bother, they can clamber up n slug's slippery back and settle down to the business of eating.

wears dark wing shields, goes foraging All A-Glowing

by air, and is a beetle of most gentle manners, judging by his lack of stag- liko jaws and other visible beetle “ armaments."

When her tati coils are properly aglow, one "worn' gives sumetent light, when placed eight inches away. for you to read your watch on a pitch dark night. Thomas Hardy, the great Wessex novelist, describes A scene whereby two men threw their dice in darkness upon an open heath. They caught and put glow-worms upon a stone to serve as their lanterna.

Glow-worm eggs. too, are slightly

Thanks to these habits, we may put glow-worms in our gardens and treat them a peta For as alles in the un- ending warfare against aluga and anails, they pay their rent not in cash but

encinics slain several times That's the sort of tenant

weekly, gardenem like.

Then their soft beauty, so lovely. serene and inysterious, must surely rouse fairies from their beds and bring troupes of elfin dancers on to the law to revel by glow-worm light and to grasshopper musle!

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TOPE may "spring eternal commonest plen of all-nobody ever in the human breast," but helps them. What help can be given when a mind is prone to fantastic its encouragement to remain orgies of its own .is dimcult to there should be decided by its imagine. nature.

Perhaps, most serious of all, is the There is the quite legitimate hope fact that unchecked day dreaming that some particular undertaking or leads to mental deterioration. The enterprise may prove successful; brain becomes so focused on the this to be coupled by an effort to impossible that it loses its capacity bring such hope to fulfilment. On to judge the true value of mundane the other hand, there is the hope things rationally.

never-never and results in

All is distorted

which comes from the land of

the and subservient to the never-never practice of day-dreaming-a habit innd, and the dreamer becomes un- which grows opace and sups slowly reliable both in social and business and Insidiously the vital energy of life and in domestic relations. the dreamer,

FOR those who indulge in These hope-dreams

in vary

this dangerous form of accordance with the particular recreation the best advice is to give temperament which -

encourages it up-come back to earth and leave them. With one they may take the the realms of fancy to poets, pain- form of vast possessions, and here ters and those who make word ple- the life lived in fancy's reuim will tures for profit and livelihood. It' regal pretensions. With may be difficult to stage a world of another social success coloure the realism, after a long sojourn of hope brain horizon, while yet a third will in the never-never, but it is more be Invested with some marvellous than worth while. talent that will ensure a world-wide In the case of children, who revel popularity and excite the envy of all in the Jand of make-believe, wise and sundry folk around.

direction is necessary to ensure that

be of

the habit does not assume undue LL very silly this never proportions by and by 'Faith in never land of the Impos- fairies is a childhood's Idyll, but the sible, but at the same time all very child who wants to pretend it is fascinating to those people who in something else all the time is habit its realm.

stepping out on to a road that leads It often, happens that those who nowhere. Indulge in day-dreaming have been Playing at grown-ups is harmless, disappointed and disillusioned in the since one day they will be grown- life they actually lead and resort to up, and this game affords opportu creating a world of their

own in nities to point a moral and adorn compensation for the loss of that a tote without in any way impair stale of life in which they would ing is attractions or diverting ita wish to find themselves. In short, charm. But of the community, yet make no as only exceeding money can supply, Buch things effort to help themselves or better should never be encouraged, Small their conditions of life and so in folks brains are quick and recep- achieve the hopes live and the cult of the impossible they foster so, futilely.

a very real lure to hope in the never- Day-dreaming often fills the mind never. to the exclusion of other and more For young and older folk alike profitable considerations. Oppor hope is a spur that must never be tunities that come are everlooked overlooked, but it must be hope,

whatever form may take.. any dreamers by? Yet from their own an ultimate end makes the requisite point of view, blame is never attach- striving worth while, and stimulates ing to themselves-they are born the brain to greater effort, even if unlucky-fate is against them, and, all is not plain sailing by the way.

they are the discontented members people, and to be Kran

some

measure

and lost.

The

Is it any wonder that success in whated in the possible and probable, direction phasce these day- desire to win through and achieve

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