1940-05-29 — Page 14

Fish`dinhos/aro over in domand. But fish noods caroful cooking, so what about the people who don't know the first thing about cooking?

For much cooks there bas been prepared an "at a glanco" guido for cooking fish,

HE chief thing to remem-

fleah should

that the

be "poached" egg-never

as gently BN an really boiled-so the albumin sets creamily in the flakes. Woolly flesh results from hap- hazard handling, overcooking and general neglect. Lemon juice or vinegar in the water helps to set lsh, so that there is less loss and full flavour is re- tained.

There are two groups of fish-~- "ally types, like salmon, meskoral, herring, etc., which hold fat in the flakes, and white fish Including cod, hake, willing and haddock, for which the fat is stored in the liver. Naturally, the oily flesh is

more

suitable for "drying" direct-heat methods, like grilling or baking. When white fish is grilled it needs brushing with oil or sultable fat.

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TOIST methods, like poach- ing or steaming are help. ful for white varieties, as they tend to break up and dry easily, If they are baked, "buttered" wrappings Or paper

keep them moist.

stuffing

Cheese is a useful favouring for white fish, as 1 ndds interest and adjusts the fat balance, too.. "Au gratins," with browned crumbs or mornay sauce coating, are simple and especially popular for sinal! portions of cooked fish.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG = TELEGRAPH

May 29, 1940.

simple rules

for new cooks

Poached

Baked

Steamed

Oily type is best for grilling-white kleds are more digestible but

FOOD

POACHING

(or boiling)

Time for cooking from 5-10 mins. per 1. plum 0-10 mína by size.

STEAMING

without

BAKING (with or

a kumng) Fillets, 13 mina,

Cutlets, etc., 20-4

30 min. approx. Allow longer for stuffed fish.

FRYING-1.

Whole fub or steaks or cutlets, etc.

PREPARATION

Wash thoroughly, but leave soaking in water.

START COOKING

In hat near-boiling water pro- salted and lemonised. Tiously never) Allow Just enough to barely cover and keep af a low gentle ümmer till opaque and "sot.""

Useful for small fillois, ele, between two greaBEd plates, lub with cut lemon and sea- пак.

Season and flavour prepared fish. Uso greased dish and pal "with extra daby of fat, it is stuming

Skin,

ведвол and with lemon juice. Coat evenly in egg and crumb or batter for protection.

inverted and paired plates over saucepan of bolling water. Allow to steam steadily it set and free from centra bone.

In moderately hot oven, pra- lected by greased paper or lid.

sprinkle In heated deep, or shallow fat with blue haze rising. Decrease heat after first two minutes. ry 7-10 minuter according to Wilckness,

Skin, wash and dry. Rub with, a little senso ned squeeze with Jomon

FRYING-2.

roll skin-side-in, or

Filleta,

Bour, juice and

stuff

Start in well-heated fat, with and haza rising, but redues rato, of Toll. (Leave small fillets flat), cooking when coating has set Coat in prepared covering-egg | 3-5 mins, pecording to size. and crumb, etc.

Ways With

.

Stale Bread

For fish with bone-such as small "RATHER dry, you may soles, plaice de whilting, or

cod

say.

about the lust half of a brown cullets deep fat frying is especially leat. A Continental housewife would

de-ndt, for one result successful. The moist

moment, contemplate pends on careful coating and ad- wasting that stale bread, for its justment of the fat temperatures so crumbs will make one or other of the coating seta directly the fish is the sweets popular with her family. lowered in. Beaten egg and crumb, The following "crumb" puddings or French batter, are the usual pro- are well worth trying:- tections, us they quickly cooked in Viennese Layer the heated-fat:

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_The_play_sult becomes more.. and more important in ward- robes. This model is disiläelive because of the striped ... orashi linen which makes tala sület and one-piece play suit in belge, blue and yellow.

PROTECT Your Clothes

Spríska it · 10 Day wmpilena und kop them

Ingredients: Stale-brown-broad, fuely grated, one teaspoonful of but ler, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one pound and a half of prepared appics, and a little plain chocolate. Stew the

pulp and set aside to Die apples to coal Cook the crumbs in the butter ..and _sugar_till_ nearly dry. When cold put crumbs and apples la loyers in a glass dish, and sprinkle the top layer of crumbs with grated chocolate.

KEATING'S KILLS

BERTLES, MOTÁS ILLES Hàn

BUT IT MUST BE KEATING'S

Danish Coffee Cream:--For this: you require one cup each of very strong coffee and of fine brown crumbs, two tablespoonfuls each of cornflour and sugar, one pint milk, a small tin of condensed milk. Make the cornflour with milk and sugar in the ordinary way. Add the coffee, then stir in the crumbs and condensed milk. Top with a few flakes of chocolate, or hundreds and thousands.

White Dread

No matter if it is dry, that stale half loaf of white bread con ald

into

economy by transformation some of the very nicest puddings, Try these if they are not familiar to you:

Roi Tyrolese Triße:—A Stifle but- ter or

or margarine, some small thin squares of dry white bread, thinly sliced apples. Heat the fat in a! frying pan, and in it lightly brown the bread slices, and then the apple. Stir gently till soft, then dish hot with a sprinkling of brown sugar.

Turkish slices:-Some stale white bread, a little milk, one egg,

two ounces of margarine, golden syrup or honey,

Soak the bread a short time in the egg and milk. Heat the fat, and fry the slees golden brown. Lay on a "large" "dishi," "und pour over hot golden

syrup er honey.

II. W. S.

New GAUZE

Kind of

STICKS TO ITSELF{<

Obtainable at all drug

and department stores!

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THE SELF ADHEHIND GAUZI

GAULT

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by

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Fried

more difficult to cook

REASONS WHY

Hot water, just beneath the boil, “acnia” the delicato albu- men and provents loss of juices. Lemon juice hasten the satting. (Any Juices reluc to ulio stock are available for sauce or soup making.)

Plates protect the food, SO water in pan may be boiling. Process takes a little longer than "poaching,” but there is no "iosa" "whatever

Fish flesh sots at a lower tem- perature then meat, so cooking Dace can be reduced after a se minutes.

To set juicer and keep centre milky and moist, fit must be woll heated or by Havour will escape into fat, and fah emerges "grensy.""

Coalings net almost at once if Int is properly unsted, and then the fih cocks creamily in ita uwn juices

THRIFT TIPS

IF a tin of boot, polish has hardened, pour in three or "four drops' of turpentine and atir it round well with a matchstick.

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BANK NOTICES

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by ROYAL Charter 1853 23,000,000 Raid-up Caplist-perunudur.3,000,000

Reservo Liability) «

y' of Proprietors 2,000,000 Foderva Fund kup $3,000,000

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BANKERS:

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BRANCHES

WHEN you make a custard from custard poioder, whip the mixture well. The whipping makes the custard lighter and better favoured outta Kandy

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FRESH mint is expensive,

but dried mint is not nearly so good. Make a supply of mint by chopping the fresh leaves Anely and pouring boil- ing vinegar, over them in a wide-mouthed bottle. Keep the bottle closely corked.

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IN damp weather put a small

piece of blotting paper in the bottom of the salt cel- lar. It keeps the salt dry and crisp.

Pear Jelly Mould

IGHT, nourishing sweet for warmer days, made with 1 pt. lemon jelly. 1 small. tin pears, i pt. milk, 1 egg, 1 Lablesp. sugar

Separate egg, beat up yolk Heat milk, mix with beaten yolk. adding sugar. Return to saucepan and cook lowly for a few minutes. Allow to cool. Mach peara and add.

Dissolve jelly in saucepan with pear syrup, making up to halepint with lot water. When cool, stir into pear cus- tard and when this begins to thicken, stir in Hahtly-whisked egg-white, Tura intɔ wat mould and leave to sel

BRITISH QUIT BELGIUM

Berlin, May 28.

A Berlin News Agency despatch declares that the majority of British troops will be able to evacuate Bel- glum and have already left for England. United Press.

BELTS

JEAN

BAIRD

-They make the

FASHION

ITZAISTED frocks started the belt fashion,

and now this important accessory note is often quite dazzling.

For waists are in-and the direct result is that you'll give particular attention to your belts this spring-probably have two or three for the one frock.

The wide ones especially will give the fashionable waist-fine look to your figure, without any tight lacing.

If you have one of those elaborate filigree | clasps studded with coloured stones tucked away in a drawer, bring it out_and_ally it with a piece of petersham ribbon, and you'll have one of the newest belts.

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Others fitting snugly are from four to six inches deep, in finely gauged silk, to give a swathed line which is smoothed away at the ends,'

Belts are extremely lively and guy, there are belts with two hearts cut out in felt as

a clasp; metal belts streaked with scarlet, gold, blue and green.

Others in coloured felts are embroidered with brightly coloured little people, trees

und amoll landscape scenes, fact, the new belts do wonders for your frocks.

HERE'S the new silhouette wide skirt, fitting bodice, and very shapely waist, emphasised" by fancy belt. The long waisted girl can wear a -wide gauged ono, but anahes, chains, ribbons, fancy leathers, bright beads, and coloured fella are all in the 1940 fashion picture,

In

Hats and bolts can match. One of the prettiest belts I have seen was on a black dress. It was in the now artichoke green shade, and of peter- oham with foxglove_pink daisles appliqued flat to the ribbon.

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War-Wounded Man Had 32 Operations

A man found dead in a stream was sold to have been wounded in the last war, to have had thirty-two operations, and to have been always in pain.

He was George Kerr, aged forty- eight, taxi-cab proprietor of Cam- bridge-road. Hastings. His car had been left-at-Middle Bridge on the Pevensey-Hoxhill road near the

stream.

There was blood on the front pas senger seat, and on the floor was a razor blade, penknife, screwdriver and a partly alled bottle of rum.

Kerr had a cat on his wrist, but death was due to drowning, it was stated at the inquest at Pevensey, Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed was the verdict.

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Manager.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkang Stock Exchange Ofell Summary Issued yesterday says:

The market is marking time, thero boing practically nothing doing.

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