1940-05-29 — Page 4

Fish dishes are ever in demand. But fish noeda careful cooking, so what about the people who don't know the first thing about cooking?

For such cooks there has

"at S boon prepared an glanco" guide for cooking fish.

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THE chief thing to remem- ber with fish is that the

should be

flesh

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"poached" an gently as egg-never really boiled-so the albumin Bets creamily in the flakes. Woolly flesh results from hap- "hazard handling overcooking and general neglect Lemon water juice or vinegar in the helps to set fish, so that there is less loss and full flavour is re- tained.

fish-

two groups There are ully types, like salmon, mackerel, herring, etc., which hold fat in the Naices, und while fish including cod, hake, whiting and hadduck, for which the fat is stored in the liver. Naturally, the olly flesh is suitable for "drylog" direct-heal or balting. methods, ilke When while fish is grliled It needs brushing with oil or sultable fat,

more

TOIST methods, like ponch-

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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

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or

Cheese is a useful flavouring for white fish, as it adds interest and adjusts the fat balance, too. grating," with browned crumbs

sauce coating. are sinple! Inp?huy

Amall and especially popular for portions of cooked fish.

cod

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 29, 1940.

simple rules for new cooks

Poached

Baked

Steameed

Fried

Oily type is best for grilling-white kinds are more digestible but maro difficult to cook

FOOD

POACHING

(or boiling)

Time for cooking from 0-10 min, per 10. phim 0-50 mln. by sizo,

STEAMING

BAKING

(with no without

aluming) Pillets. 15 min

approx. Cullels, etc..

130 mins. approx. Allow Jonger for stuffed fish.

FRYING-1, ~Whole fish or steakal

or cullets, etc.

FRYING-2.

Fillu.

PREPARATION

Wash thoroughly, but leave soaking in water,

START COOKING

In hot near-boiling water pre- vlously salted and emonised. never Allow Just enough to barely cover and keep at a low gentle simmer til opaque, and "set."

Useful for small filets, etc., two greased plates, between Rub with cut lemon and sea-

pon.

Season and favour prepared fish. Use greased dish and pal with extra dalis of fat i no stuffing.

Skin. SCOSOFI BAD sprinkle with teman Julee. Coat evenly in reg and crumb or baiter for protection.

nour,

Skin. wash and dry. Rub with a little seasoned squeeze with lemon juice and rol akin-side-in, or muf roli. (Leave small filetu fat). Cust in prepared covering-ers and crumb, etc.

Ways With

Stale Bread

may say. For fish with bone-such as small "PATHER dry," you soles, plnice

whiting. or

about the last half of a brown cutlets deep fat frying is especially loaf. A Continental housewife would successful.- The moist result de- nd, for one moment, contemplate pends on careful coating and ad- wasting that state-brend, for its justment of the fat temperatures so crumbs will make one or other of the coating sets directly the fish is the sweets popular with her family. lowered in. Beaten egg and crumb, The following "crumb" or French batter, are the usut pro are well worth tryingt- tections, as 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 distinctive because of the striped crasti finer which makes this skirt and one-piece play suit in belge, blue and yellow.

PROTECT

Your Clothes

worth mooth-damage ta: myydi every year by Keating Ke

sprinkle it "ón furs; and

wsellega und keep them

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KEATING'S KILLS

BEETLES, MOTHS, FLEAS vặc, wan bugs BUTIT MUST BE KEATING'S

puddings

Ingredients:-Stale brown bread, finely grated, one teaspoonful of but- ter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one found and a tialf of prepared apples, and little plain chocolate. Stew! the apples-to-u-pulp-and-set aside to cool. Cook the crumbs in the botter and sugar nearly dry, When

apples cold put crumbs and

In

layers in a class dish, and sprinkle the top layer of crumbs with grated. chocolate.

Danish Coffee Cream:-For this you require one cup each of very strong coffee and of fine brown crumbs, two tablespoonfuls ench 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 Aikes of chocolate, or hundreds and thousands.

White Bread

No matter if it is dry, that stale halloaf of white bread enn ald economy by a transformation into some of the very nicest puddings. Try these if they are not familiar to

you:

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Hot Tyrolese Trife:-A title but- ter or margarine, some small thin squares of dry white bread, thinly sliced apples. Heat the fat in 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 allees:-Some stale white two bread, ole milk, one CHA ouates of margarine, golden syrup or honey.

Soak the brend a short time in thei egg and milk. Heat the fat, and fry the slices golden brown. Lay on u large dish, and pour over hot golden ayrup or honey.

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New GAUZE

Kind of

》STICKS TO ITSELFĶ

Obtainable at all drug

and department stores!

GAUZTEX

THAT NG LUASHTHING GAUZE

GAUZTEX

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CENTRAL CLEAN "COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF

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laverted and paired plates over saucepan of boiling water. Allow to steam steadily til not and free from centre bone.

.

In moderately hot oven, pro- teeted by greased paper or lid.

In heated deep or shallow fat with the hare rising. Decrease cat after first, two minutes. Fry1-10-minutes nocording to thlekness.

Start in well-heated fat, with Jinze thing, but reduce rate of cooking when coating has set 3.5 socording to size;

by

MARY

GRACE

REASONS WHY

lot water, Just beneath thro boll, "senis the delicate albts- men and prevent loss of juices. Lemon juice hastens the selling. to the Any Juices released stock are avaliable for sauce or soup making.)

Fales protect the fact.. so water in pan may be boiling. Process takes a little longer than "poaching," but fliere li no "lost" whatever

Fish flesh scis of a lower ten- perature than meat, so cooking pace can be reduced after a few minutes.

To set juices and keep centre milky and moist, fat must be well heated

fishy RAVDUAT will escape into fa, ajd fah emerges "greasy,"

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Coatings set almost at once it fat in properly heated, and then the fit cooks creamily in its own Juices.

IF

THRIFT TIPS

[F a tin of boot polish has hardened, pour in three or four drops of turpentine and stir it round well with a matchstick..

WHEN you make a custard from custard powder, whip the mixture well.

whipping makes the custard

lighter and better flavoured.

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FRESH mint is expensive,

not

but dried mint is nearly, so good. Make a supply of mint by chopping the fresh leaves finely and pouring boil, ing vinegar over them in o wide-mouthed bottle. Keep the battle 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

LIGHT nourishing sweet for warmer dinya, made with 1 pt. lemon Jelly, 1 small tin pears à pt. milk, 1 egg. 1 tablesp. sugar

Heat

Separate egg, beat up yolk milk, mix with beaten yolk, adding sugar. Return to caucepan and cook Allow to slowly for a few minutes. rool

Mesh praninud add, Dissolve jelly in saucepan with pear syrup, making up to half-pint with hat When cool, stir into pear cus tard and when tils begins to thicken, stle in Helly-whisked egg-while. Tum inta wat mould and leave to set.

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Berlin, May 28.

A Berlin News Agency despatch declares that the majority of British troops will be able to evacuate Bel- gium and have already left for England.-United 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 these 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 Inve one of the newest belts,

* *

Others fitting snugly are from four to alx 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 clasp-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,

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

COUNT THE

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EVERYWHERE

In

fhet, the new belts do wonders for your frocks..

Hots and belts can match. One of the prettiest belts I have seen was on a black dress. It was the new artichoke green shade, and of peter. cham with foxglove pink (taisies appliqued flat to the ribbon.

Folt belt in bright colours with

cople embroideri).

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A man found dead in a stream was said 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- elghi, taxi-cab "proprietor of Cam- bridge-road, Hastings. His car had) been left at Middle Bridge, on the Pevensey-Bexhill годо

the near

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There was blood on the front pas- Benger seat, and on the floor was a razor blade, penknife, screwdriver jand a partly filled bottle of rum.

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Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says:

The market is marking time, there being practically nothing doing.

· Buyers *** H.K. Banker $1,330 Trams $16 Electries $50 11.15. -Govt-4-102

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