SALADS JELLIED FOR CHANGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

SALADS JELLIED FOR CHANGE

The ordinary salad, no matter how good it is, becomes monotonous. Why not try jellied salads for a change? They can be made in the morning for dinner or in the evening for next day’s lunch. And they are invaluable to pack in the picnic box or to stow away in a luncheon basket for the beach. You can make a delicious love apple salad with one pint of tomato juice. This you heat with onion juice, and pepper and salt to taste. Now add a few drops of lemon juice and a tablespoonful of gelatine soaked in a quarter of a cup of cold water until dissolved, then strained. Pour into tiny moulds, and when required turn out on crisp lettuce leaves, one on each, and serve with mayonnaise. Or pour jelly into a border mould, and when you turn it out on a bed of lettuce fill the centre with potato salad.

Then try a Chelsea salad. Dissolve a packet of lemon jelly in a pint of boiling water, seasoned with pepper and salt, and minced parsley. When cold, pour a shallow layer of jelly into a mould, and, when partly set, put in a layer of peeled and sliced tomatoes. Now fill up the mould, which must be a large one, with alternate layers of salmon, cold cooked peas, and the jelly, and serve on a bed of lettuce leaves, garnished with quarter tomatoes.

ECONOMICAL MILK ICING.

Put one cup ftialf pint size), of plain white sugar into an enamelled pot. Add *oz fresh butter and small half-cupful (same size) of milk. Boil eight minutes, stirring well. Flavour with an essence and beat till thick as cream. Spread over the cake with a knife; It will be white when cold. Should this icing turn sugary, add a little more milk. Cook in a good-sized saucepan, or it will boil over.

LUNCH CAKE WITHOUT EGGS.

With one pound of flour mix a small half-teaspoonful each of bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Rub in five ounces of lard or dripping, and add a half-pound of quartered peel, and four ounces of sugar. Moisten with about two teacupfuls of milk. .Bake rather quickly in a greased shallow tin.

A METHOD OF MAKING TEA.

Make the tea with boiling milk as you would with water. Scald the teapot, put in about a teaspoonful and a half of good tea for one cup, and pour about l pint of freshly-boiled milk ove* it. Let it stand for three minutes, and serve. This is excellent for an invalid or an aged person.

HOT DAY DIET.

Summer is the time when cold snacks are popular, and it is often difficult to eliminate fattening and unhealthy foods from quickly-prepared meals. Avoid red meat as much as possible. White fish is the safest' to eat. Too many eggs are bad, and when eaten should be boiled or poached, never fried. Indeed, all fried foods are bad for the complexion. Drink at least six glasses of water between meals during the day.