Fish dishes are ever in demand. But fish noods
caroful cooking, so
what
about the people who don't know the first thing about cooking?
.
For such cooks there has
"at beon prepared an glanco" guido for cooking fith.
HE chief thing to remem. ber with fish is that the flesh should be "poached" gently as DIT cgg-nover really boiled so the albumin the flakes, sets creamily in
Lemon
water
Woolly fleah results from hap- hazard handling, overcooking and general neglect. juice or vinegar in the helps to set flah so that there is less loss and full flavour is re- tained,
There are two groups - otly types, ke salmon, mackerel, herring, etc., which hold fat in the flakes, and white sh including cod. hnke, whiting and haddock, for which the fat is stored in the liver. Naturally, the ally flesh is
direct-beat suitable for "drying" methods, like grilling or baking, When white fish is grilled it needs brushing with all or suitable fat
more
MOIST 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" paper wrappings keep them meist.
or
stuffing.
Cheese is a useful flavouring for white fish, as it adds interest and adjusts the fat balance, too. "Au gru tins," with browned crumbs or mornay sauce coating, are simple and especially popular for small
portions of cooled fish.
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
simple rules for new cooks
Poached
Baked Steamed
Oily type is best for grilling-white kinds aro maro digestible but
FOOD
POACHING
(or boiling)
Time for cooking from 6-10 mins, per Ib. pius 0-10 míns. by size.
STEAMING
BAKING
(WILH
20
without
a sturing) fels, 10 mins, approx.
Caflets, etc.. 201
30 mins. approx. Allow longer for stuffed fat.
FRYING-1.
Whole fish or steaks or cutlets, ato.
FRYING 2. Fillets,
PREPARATION
· START COOKING
In hot near-boiling water pre- viously kalled and Jemonised Wash thoroughly, but never Allow just enough to barely cover and keep at a low gentla leave soaking. In water.
kimmer till opaque and "#"
Useful for ranit fillets, etc.. between two stressed plates. Ilub with cut lemon and sea- Ion,
Beamon and Gavour prepared fah. Use greated dish and nati with extra daba of flat no stufing.
Skin. веджол and sprinkta with lemon juice. Cost svenly in egg and crumb or batter for prolection.
Skin, wash and dry, Rub with a 1111 seasoned four, squeeze with lemon juice and róli skin-side-in. ar Huff and roll. (Leavo small fillets flat), Cont in prepared cuvering-erg and crumb, etc.
Ways With
Stale Bread
ATHER dry," you may say,
For fish with bone such as sinal Rout the last half of a brown soles, plaice dr whiting, or cod cutlets deep fat frying is especially loaf. A Continental housewife would Successful. The moist-result-do-not-for-one-moment, contemplate
coating
and ad-wasting that stale bread, for Justment of the fat
its
pends on careful coemperatures no crumbs will make one or other" of the conting sets directly the fish is the sweets popular with her family. lowered in Beaten erg and crumb The following "crumb" puddings or French batter, are the usual pro-are.well worth trying- tections, as they quickly cooked in Viennese Layer
the heated fat.
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The play sull becomes more and more important in ward- robes. This model, is distinctive because of the striped crash linen which makes this skirt and one-piece play sult in bolge, blus and yellow.
PROTECT Your Clotties
Pounds*
- dvoch - da ninge
worth.
wmetime and keep them
KEATING'S KILLS
BEETLES, MOTHE,ELEAS etc.even Bugs BUT IT MUST BE KEATING'S
Ingredients:- Stale brown bread, finely grated, one teaspoonful of but- ler, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one pound and a half of prepared apples, and a little plain chocolate, Stew the apples to a pulp and set aside to cool. Cool the crumbs in the butter
till and sugar
nearly dry. When and apples cold put crumbs layers in a glass dish, and sprinkle the top layer of crumbs with grated chocolate.
iri
Danish Coffee Cream:--For this you require one cup cach of very strong coffee and of fine brown crumbs, two tablespoonfuls, each of cornflour and sugar, one pint milk. and 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 fakes of chocolate, or hundreds and thousands.
White Bread
No matter if it is dry, that slale half loat of white bread cun aid economy by a transformation into Home of the very nicest puddings. Try these if they are not famillar to you:-
Hot Tyrolese Triffe:-A ¡itle but- ter 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 stole white bread, a little milk, one egg. two ounces of margarine, golden syrup or honey.
Soak the bread a short time in the cgg and milk. Heat the fat, and fry the allees golden brown. Lay on a large dish, and pour over hot golden} syrup or honey.
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Inverted and paired plates over saucepan of bolling water. Allow to steam steadily 1 set and free from centre bane.
In moderately hot oven, pra fected by greased paper or lid.
In healed deep or shallow fat with blue haza rising. Decreasa heat after first two minutes, Fry 7-10 minutes according to thickness,
Start in well-heated fat, with hazo rising, but reduce rate of cooking when coating hel 3-3 mins, according to size.
MARY
GRAGE
Fried
more difficult to cook
REASONS WHY
Hot water, just beneath the boll, "os" the delicate albu men and provents loss of juices. Lamon fules hastens the setting. released to the Juices (Any stock are avaliable for sauco or soup making.)
Plates protect the food, so water in pan may be boiling. Process takes a little longer than **pdaching." but there is no "loss" "whatever
Fish ferli sets at a lower tem- perature than meat, so cooking pace can be reduced after a fow minutes.
To set juices and keep centra milky and moist, fat must be well heated for fishy flavour will escapa into fat, and flat emerges "greasy."
Coatings pot almost at once if fat is properly heated, and then the fish cooka creamily in its own juices.
May 29, 1940.
THRIFT TIPS
IF a tin of boot polish has -hardoned, pour in thres or four drops of turpentine and stir it round woll with a| matchstick..
•
WHEN you make a custard from custard powder, whip the mixture well. The whipping makes the custard lighter and better flavoured.
FRESH mint is expensive,
but dried mint is not nearly so good. Make a supply | of mint by chopping the fresh leaves finely and pouring boil ing vinegar over them in a wide-mouthed bottle. Keep the bottle closely corked.
IN damp weather put a small
piece of blotting paper in the bottom of the salt col 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 in pears, à pt. milk, 1 egg. 1 tablesp. sugar
Separate gg, beat up yolk. Heat milk, mix with beaten yolk, adding zugar. Return to saucepan and evok Allow to slowly for a few minutes. cool. Mush peary and add.
Dissolve Jilly saucepan with pear syrup, making up to half-pint with hot water. Whim cool, stir into pear cus- tord and when this begins to thicken, stir in glatly whisked egg-white. Turn into wet mould, and leave to set.
BRITISH QUIT BELGIUM
Berlin, May 28.
despatch: A Berlin News Agency declares that the majority of British troops will be able to evacuate Bel- glum and have already left for England-Unlled Press.
BELTS
JEAN BAIRD
-They make the
FASHION
WAISTED 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-line 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.
*
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 gay, there are belts with two hearts cut out in felt as a clusp; metal belts streaked with scarlet, gold, blue and green,
Others in coloured felts are embroidered with brightly coloured little people, trees
and small landscape scenes, fact, the new belts do wonders for your frocks,
HERE'S the now silhouette wide skirt, fitting bodice, and very shapely waist, emphasised by fancy belt. The long waisted girl can wear a wide gauged one, but sashes, chains, ribbons, fancy leathers, bright beads; and coloured felts are all in the 1940 fashion picture.
COUNT THE TELEGRAD EVERYWHERE
H S
In
Hats and belts can match. One of the prettiest belts I have seen was on a black dress. It was in the new artichoke green shade, and of peter- cham with foxglove pink daisies appliqued flat to the ribbon.
Felt belt in bright colours with
little people embroider
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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-Bexhill
the rond пед
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There was blood on the front pas senger seat, and on the floor was-a razor blade, penknife, screwdriver and a partly filed bottle of rum.
Kerr had a cut on his wrist, but death was due to drowning,, I was stated at the inquest at Pevensey. Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed was the verdict.
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