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WARMING cup of soup to discard them at straining starts a meal well these time.

Failing ready-made glock you autumn days, and it has a find that some vegetable boil- happy knack of working up ings make excellent background interest for what is to fol- for quickly-made packet soups. low.

if you are wise over flavours.

All the same, we are apt HOME cooks are mainly

to be a bit easygoing over

interested in clear soups, it. Soup sometimes turns broths, vegetable purces and Both clear up as something indefinably thickened soups.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1938.

Simple

savoury soups

Dried Vogotable Purcos

4oz of dried peas, beana or lentils to a quart of household stock. (Sook peas or beans overnight.}

Fresh Vegetable Purces

A quart of stock.

Colory Purce

2 heads celery to ench quart of stock.

Save-work Recipes

Ingredients

1 onion, carrot, turnip, 1⁄2 peeled potato, bouquet garni and seasonings, loz.

Alll dripping, 1

milk. (Omit carrot for pea or bean soups.),

Method and Special Points

Saule prepared and eut vegetables, add stock and simmer gently 10th herbs and seasonings for about two hours, or till reduced to a pulp. Rub through colander, or steve, add milk, re-heat, season, serve, Serve lentil soup with diced tonst fried bread. For pea soup chopped or powdered dry mint is good. Finely shredded fried bacon makes it n ment.

These are alteays improved with a teaspoon of cream placed in each dish as the soup is poured in.

b. starchy or root vege-

2lb. tables, or

watery type vegetables, or 1ib. of less watery vegetables.

1 union, 1oz. butter, 115 oz. flour, 4 pint milk, 2oz. lean bacon, seasonings.

A linson thickening is usually needed.

Prepare and roughly chop the vegetables. Cut bacon quile small and fry, then saule vegetables in the fat. When fully absorbed add stock and flavourings, and simmer til quite tender-about 40 minutes. Sleve celery and thicken soup with blended flour and milk. Re-boll, season and serve with croutons of tried bread.

Carrot, green pea, artichoke, onion and potato purees can all be made in the same way, using suitable proportions.

(a) Kidney Soup (Brown)

"hot and wet" when it might soups and broths demand clear-11b, ox kidney to I quart

ed meat stock, so for this reason

figure big on a menu. And they are less popular in busy there is a lot in the way it kitchens. is served.

or

Brown white thickened Brought piping hot to table soups, made from fish, meat or in little lidded marmites with vegetable stock, have their in- crispy croutons. erest of gredients neatly cut to serve as cream, or whatever it calls for, garnish. you begin to feel its import.

ance.

Perhaps we slip up on season ing, forget the thickening or run things too close for time? Soups need plan-ahead methods, but very little attention

Milk, thickened per- haps with flour or cereal, blends with white stock, and a liaison of eggs and cream for festive or feed-up occasions.

PUREES are formed by rubbing meat, fish, or once vegetables through a sieve they get going. That's why after preliminary tendering in a big stock, so they form their own thickening. A binding is some- THE life of soup is good times useful to keep it evenly

stock. Not so long ago suspended.

small touches count in way.

stock.

(b) White Voge- able Soup

To 1 quart of well- flavoured white stock add milk (14 pints stock to

pint milk.)

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tel Quick Tapioca Soup (Extra nourishing)

good pints

stuck.

white

(d) Tomato Soup Το 1 quart of quid (made from 1 pint stock, gil milk, and natural lummato juices), 1b, fresh Tomatoes.

THICKENED SOUPS

Small carrot, onion and Prepare, slice and fry in turn the kidney, onion und

vegetables. margarine.

Return ingredients and add slock, sim- turnip. 1oz. joz. cornflour, bouquet mering gently about 14 hours until cooked. Strain garni, and- Wked-2 and thicken with the cornflour. Finely dice or chop the kidney and return to the soup. Season. dessertspoons sherry.

add sherry and serve,

I carrot, 1 turnip, 1 onion, stick of celery, 2oz. flour, bouquet garni, oz. drip- ping.

ill crean, gl milk, seasoning, oz. Frencht tapioca, 2 yolks of eggs.

2az. flour, 2oz, margarine, 1 teaspoon sugar, bouquet garni, onion, plece of carrot, and stick of celery, bacon rind för

favour.

some

Prepare and cut vegetables into fine lin, match- stirks. Chop the onion and toss with the vege- tables in oz, hented dripping for a few minutes. Add stock and flavouring and simmer til tender. Blend flour and milk smnothly, thicken soup and

serve.

Boll stock and sprinkle in tapioca, simmering until it clears (about 10 minutes). Cool, season, then blend yolks with the cream and add soup carefully. Strain back into the pan and re-heat slowly, stir- ring till the egg thickens. When the grain "donts" the egg is cooked.

Saute cut vegetables in fnt, add stock and simmer until tender, then pass through a sieve. Make n sfuce roux with the margarine and flour and add the strained soup to it gradually, and bring to the ball, stirring till the flour is cooked. Remove from heat, add sugar, seasoning, milk, etc., and serve piping hot with a spoon of cream in each cup.

Are You Too Sensible?

I wrote an article on this. With Both purces and thickened hot meals in full swing again soups take little time to make there is bound to be plenty of with atock, because flavour is

double the weight, or use extra| bones or meat trimmings to ready made. Any time you are

thickening. serve the stockpot. Poultry especially rushed you grate or

Sautoing, or sweating out carcasses, "dead-end" portions shred the vegetables instead of from the joint, scraps of gristle cutting them, so they soften vegetables in fat, is the secret

It gives a favour or of quick or ham rind all do their turn, quickly to the purce stage,

extraction. AS truman beings, we are proud of known to be bad for one; Keep the lid on the pan and the our superiority over the animals zest to one's appetite.

Sensible people have the same at- so long as the fat is trimmed pass muster as garnish.

flame low, and toss them from in being able to reason where they beforehand.

else- time to time.

When the stock are only capable of acting by impulse. Litute to beauty. Whether it is danc- Your butcher will always LIKE everything look out a fow bones to add f

proportions count. At is poured in they yield full But there is no doubt that it is pos- ing, scenery, building, flower, frock, sible to become so reasonable, to re- or child, they will admire and com duce one's emotions to such a state ment with Intelligence but without you need them. If you remem- the top of this article is a save- flavour and goodness.

to one's will, There are many ways of giv-of subjection to

of life. ber to strain them off at night, time soup plan with some "par-

come excited," they tell you. All There is

is. a

deal of value in capneity to thrill has been stamped great stock" and serve their time be- tions. No need to memorise garnishes are lacking.

no well underfoot. instinct and impulse, and on yond.

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quite impressive when you slice entirely generally tell the ultra-

You can tre cooked macaroni into fine rings add a peeled onion stuck with Fresh vegetables vary

sensible person at a glance. She is cloves, a scraped carrot, half a mendously in water content, but and heat them through at the healthy but, although one associates Only what is absolutely necessary and turnip and a stick of celery, for starchy ones (potatoes or last. A pulse soup from lentils good health with good spirits, the

excitement of special "treats" is with muslin wrapped bouquet artichokes) allow 1lb. for each or dried peas will brisk up if you latter are lacking in her. That is be useful is bought, consequently, the garni for flavour, but be sure quart, and for very watery ones sorve powdered mint, and perto do, not what she wants to do.

always does what she ought issed. haps shreds of fried bacon the two

they boil up afresh for "second ent" recipes open to many varia- ing zest to the serving when spontanelly is taken out that all a thrill. "I don't allow myself to be- |

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