AMERICAN HINTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 15

AMERICAN HINTS

Few fruits have as many talents as the friendly banana. And are as ready to show off at any time and place. Brown polka dots on a banana are more than a dressy note. They mean ripeness. As a sauce to use on ices or ice cream, bananas are 86 delicate as the lift of an eyebrow. Mash the bananas and beat smoothly with a little sugar and lemon juice to make a creamy mass. Chill. Good on puddings, too. And a banana cake is as welcome on the supper table as a four-leaf clover on a hard-luck day. Grapefruit, invading the broiler, takes to the fire as tactfully as a steak. And comes out as either. a goer-along with meat or fish or as a dessert. Cut the fruit in halves, pink the edges, and separate the sections. Cut out the centre and see that there are no seeds left, and take out all membrane. Cover liberally with brown sugar and broil till browned. And try to think up a name. Something snappy. It deserves one for good behaviour. . Filling grapefruit centres with cut orange sections, shredded pineapple or just more grapefruit is a thought. Takes away that lonesome look. Tastes better, too. And go light on the sugar. Some like salt. After all. cherries in a grapefruit are iust cherries- in a grapefruit. Time to do something about it. Soon be time for boiled cider applesauce. That will be my cue for the country. And I hope quinces haven't gone out of style. Long, green cucumbere are a garden fruit and not just another vegetable. Cucumbers peeled and cut into slices one and one-half inches thick, hollowed out slightly and filled with flaked sardines, are a toothsome bite. Use a little lemon juice on the fish. Canned salmon behaves just as well as sardines. Some like it better. The whole thing needs cold and lettuce. Cucumbers may be cooked, but no good excuse has been found for doing so. From an old cookbook: "How rarely do we meet with eood toast and water, or well-made coffee." The same old complaint. Times don't chancre so very much. —Ladies' Home Journal.