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MISCELLANEOUS

CHOW MEIN

' 2 Ibs. noodles 2 young onions with
1 cup water chest- greens
nuts 2 tbsp. Chinese sauce
1 cup bamboo shoots 2 tsp. salt
1 cup celery 1 cup stock or water
1. lb. raw. pork or 2 tbsp. Cornstarch in
chicken 2 tsp. water.
1 egg, beaten

Peel Chinese chestnuts, slice, then cut. into
threads; cut bamboo shoots and celery 3 inches
long, then into slices lengthwise, and then into
long threads. . Cut pork or.chicken into strips. 1%
inches long; fry egg in oiled pan, cut in 14%4-inch
strips; cut onion. into threads.

The noodles must be freshly made and well
Gzvied. Sprinkle about 2 tbsp. of oil over the
noodles, place on rack of steamer, let steam 15
minutés, lifting carefully with fork to separate
well, Spread on board, let cool, then fry until
crisp and golden brown, in deep hot oil. Drain
well and place on hot platter.

Have ready the following: Heat in frying pan,
add salt, 1-3 cup oil or pork drippings, then the
pork; let fry gently without browning, about 15
minutes, Stixring occasionally. Then add chest-
nuts, bamboo shoots, celery and 1 tbsp. Chinese
sauce. Cover; let steam about 15 mins., stirring
occasionally. Add 1. tbsp. Chinese sauce to
softened cornstarch; mix with about 144 cup stock
or water if necessary.. Pour dver the vegetables.
Mix well, add more water if necessary. Stir and
let cook 2 mins. and spread over the hot fried
noodles and decorate the top with onion strips
and egg threads. Chicken may be used in place
of pork.

BEEF HASH

Thinly chop 2 small onions. Melt 1 tbsp. but-

ter in a very small saucepan over a slow fire. Add
onion and cook 5 mins. and add to the following
ingredients.
Cut into very small dice 2 cups full of boiled
left-over superfluous fat, skin and _ gristle re-
moved, also nearly as much cold potatoes boiled
or baked the cay before. Season with a tsp. of
salt and 1-3 tsp pepper and powdered sweet
thyme. If thyme is ‘not available, use either sage
or nutmeg. Mix all together.

Melt in an omelet pan set over a moderate heat
3 tbsp. dripping. When hot arrange in the hash
mixture. Cook until browned underneath. Then
turn over. When again browned underneath fold,
shaping it aS an omelet. Invert like omelet on a
hot EVID’ dish and garnish with parsley.

CURRIED TRIPE

First boil the tripe in water for half an hour.
While it is cooking; peel and chop two or three
large onions and fry them lightly in butter; when
browned, push them to one side and stir in a
dessertspoon of curry powder and a bear ib i>
of flour into the remaining. fat.

Now gradually add one pint of stock and stir
until it boils, then add the tripe (which should
be cut into small pieces), season with salt and a
squeeze of lemon juice, and stew gently for one
and a half hours.. Serve very hot with a border
of boiled rice. :

BAKED BEAN WITH FRUIT

Add to baked beans or vetarian beans ready to
bake the grated pulp of a sour apple or the
juice of an orange.

HONEY BEAN POT

1% tsp. pepper
4% cup honey
4 sliced apples

1 pt. pea beans

2 slices onion

% cup vegetable oil

2 tsp. salt ;

Soak the beans overnight, drain and rinse, add
4% tsp. scda and boil in water to cover until the
skins are loosened. Drain. Put the beans in a
casserole with the onions, oil, seasonings and
honey... Barely cover with boiling water and cook
until soft about 2% hours, temp. 300F. Place the
apples over the top and cook uncovered until
brown and tender.

BACON AND PRUNE SAVOURY

6 prunes 6 small slices of

6 almonds bread

6 thin Slices of Salt and pepper.
bacon

Wash the prunes and soak overnight, then
stew gently until tender, using no sugar. When
cooked drain 6ff the water, split each prune, take
out stone, season inside with salt and pepper,
then insert almond and close up again. Cut the
rind from the bacon and roll up with a™“prune in-
side.

Fut in baking dish and cook gently in the
oven. Cut bread same size and fry in some bacon
fat. Serve a roll on each piece of fried bread.

Add a quarter cup of finely chopped suet for
each cup of your dumpling mixture and boil as
you do ordinary dumplings. You’ll have a dumpling
with a bit more flavor than ordinarily. And,
speaking of dumplings, add an egg for richness
now and then, if eggs are plentiful.

If the baby won’t eat cereal and is big enough |

to have pasteurized butter, try adding a bit of
butter to the cereal. He may eat the cereal] for
the sake of getting the butter..

When you are bathing your cat in soap suds, be sure to rinse well as he will lick
himself afterwards and soap is none too good for cats.

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