Hurry- Up Meals

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 21

Hurry- Up Meals

A Quick Sweet

The speed with which hurry-up meals for motorists or the all-of-a-sudden guest can be made depends a good deal on the supplies in the house. Tinned soups and fruits, sweet corn and tomato spaghetti, tomato puree, potted meats, cheese and biscuits are among the stand-bys that it is well to have at hand. Eggs are always in the house, and cream, often. Now for a few suggestions. Jiffy tomato soup is looked upon as a great resource by hospitable Americans. This is a recipe sent from New York: Jiffy Tomato Soup.—Simmer half a

From the Pantry Stock

tin of thick tomato soup with a slice of onion, some sprigs of parsley with salt, pepper and a tablespoonful of butter added gradually in small bits. After 15 minutes add a saltspoonful of baking powder and whisk all well together. When the liquid has stopped foaming add one quart of hot milk, strain, thicken slightly, and strain again into hot cups. Add one tablespoonful of whipped cream on top of each cup. Jiffy Green Pea or Celery Soup may be made in the same way. A Fish Dish Fish Saute.—lf you have remnants of sole, flounders —any nice fish—in the house, it is quick work to saute them. Take as large pieces as you have, dip them in a couple of eggs well beaten. Put six tablespoonfuls of olive oil in a frying-pan, place it over the fire, and when quite hot put in the fish. Let them remain five minutes, turn it over, and fry on the other side. Ten minutes should suffice to cook the fish. Slices of tomato may be added to the fish while frying. Apple Snow.—Take four large dessert apples and peel, slice and mash them. Squeeze on to these at once the juice of a large lemon to prevent discolouration. Beat up the apple mash with the whites of two newlaid eggs, and go on beating until the sweet is light and foamy. Add three 1 tablespoonfuls of castor sugar. Beat again and pile the apple snow in glasses. Banana snow may be made in the same way. Creme de St. Gervais. —This, the quickest of all sweets to make, is simply whipped cream, served in custard glasses, with a spoonful of curacoa, cherry brandy or cognac, for each person. If you have no cream in the house, then try this substitute, which you will also find excellent, to serve with fruit: — Beat together the whites of two eggs, a level tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of cornflour, and butter the size of a walnut. Stir in half a breakfast cup of cold milk, and beat as hard as possible. Put a cup of cold milk in a pan over the fire, and as soon as it boils draw aside the pan to the cooler part of the range and pour in the egg mixture, beating the while. Simmer slowly until the milk thickens. Set aside to cool; strain. Many flowered hats are being shown by the Paris milliners, although they prefer to mould the flowers from pretty laces. An example of the success of this method is seen in a skull-cap model of black crin. lined in yellow straw, the crown of which is a golden aura of lace poppies massed together.