Category Archives: Appetizers & Party Foods

Paper-Wrapped and Deep Fat Fried Prawns (Jee Bow Har)

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Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
To serve: 4

You will need
1 tomato
parsley
4 prawns
pinch white pepper
pinch salt
1 teaspoon sherry
pinch monosodium glutamate
little peanut oil or lard
8 thin slices ginger
9 slices spring onion
8 snow peas
8 6-inch squares of greaseproof or waxed paper

Make tomato basket and put the parsley in it. Remove shells and the intestines of prawns. Cut each prawn in half, add pepper, salt, sherry and monosodium glutamate, mix well. Rub each piece of greaseproof paper with a little peanut oil or lard. Place one slice of prawn and one slice of ginger, one slice of spring onion and one snow pea on the paper. Fold opposite corners of the paper, then fold the edge as the picture shows.

Heat enough oil and deep fry, flap side down until light brown in colour. Place on the serving plate with the tomato basket in middle as the photograph shows.

© Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1968 English text © Shufunotomo Col, Ltd., Japan 1968

Nightmare (Vienna Toast Kebabs)

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Vienna Toast Kebabs

2 cans (5-oz size) Vienna sausages (14 sausages)
28 cubes (i inch each) white bread
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) melted butter
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
14 cherry tomatoes
Blue Cheese Dip (below)

Cut Vienna sausages in half, crosswise, and set aside.Brush bread cubes with melted butter and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Prepare skewers: Spear one Vienna sausage half on wooden 8-inch cocktail skewer; spear cube of bread and press next to sausage; follow with second sausage half and bread cube.

Repeat on remaining skewers. Shortly before serving, preheat oven to broil. Place skewers on baking sheet and put under broiler; broil until bread is browned, turning once (about 2 minutes).

Remove from oven. Spear end of each skewer with cherry tomato. Serve with Blue Cheese Dip.

Yield: 14 kebabs

Blue Cheese Dip

1/4 pound blue cheese
1/2 cup dairy sour cream
2 tablespoons dry sherry
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Crumble blue cheese and gently blend in sour cream and sherry; add in Worcestershire sauce. Serve in bowl surrounded by kebabs.

Copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.

Canadian Soul Kiss (Sole and Salmon Roulade with Green Sauce)

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Sole and Salmon Roulade with Green Sauce
2-3 sole or flounder fillets
1/4 pound thinly sliced smoked salmon
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
2 tablespoons capers
Green Sauce (see below)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Cut sole into thin strips, 3/4-inch wide and 4-5 inches long. Lay strips of smoked salmon on sole strips. Roll up and secure with wooden pick. Arrange on lightly oiled baking sheet; dot with butter and sprinkle with lemon juice. Bake 20 minutes. Remove, cool, and chill. Arrange on serving dish and sprinkle with pepper and capers. Serve with Green Sauce.
Yield: About 8-12 servings.

Green Sauce

1 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup finely minced parsley
1 tablespoon fresh chervil, chopped (or 1 teaspoon dry)
1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, chopped (or 1 teaspoon dry)
1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped (or 1 teaspoon dry)

Combine ingredients and purée in blender or food processor. Serve cold. If using dried herbs, intensify green color of sauce by adding 1-2 drops green food coloring if desired.

Yield: About 1 1/2 cups sauce.

Copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.

Red-Eyed Russian (Shrimp Duchesses)

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Shrimp Duchesses

Duchesses are first cousins to Carolines, the tiny choux puff pastries that appear several times in this Collection (see Index). The difference is that the Duchesses are served cold and glazed with aspic rather than served with a cream sauce, and are usually sprinkled with chopped nuts. The Shrimp Duchesses below are typical.

To make the puffs: Melt 1/4 cup butter in 1/2 cup boiling water; add 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, all at once, and stir vigorously; cook, stirring constantly, until mixture forms a shiny ball; remove from heat. Beat in 1/4 teaspoon salt and 2 eggs; beat thoroughly until smooth; beat in 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese.

Heat oven to 400 F. Grease baking sheet; drop dough onto sheet in heaping teaspoonfuls and shape into ovals; bake 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Carefully cut off top. Fill with puréed shrimp and glaze with Tarragon Aspic (below). Sprinkle with finely chopped walnuts and serve, cold, on decorative doilies, if desired.
Yield: About 24.

Puréed Shrimp: Purée 1 cup cooked shrimp in blender or food processor or pass through food mill; moisten with mayonnaise.

Tarragon Aspic: Pour 1 cup clam juice, 1/2 cup white wine, and 2 tablespoons tarragon in saucepan; bring to boil and cook 10 minutes over low heat. Sprinkle 1 envelope unflavored gelatin over 1/4 cup wine to soften; stir mixture into clam juice. Strain to eliminate tarragon leaves. Cool and chill. Spoon partially jelled aspic onto Duchesses; chill until aspic is thoroughly set. Garnish with chopped walnuts and fresh tarragon sprigs, if available.

Note: Using the basic recipe above, but eliminating the puréed shrimp, you can concoct a variety of imaginative Duchesses. For example: Fill chilled pastry puffs with canned chunky chicken sandwich spread or deviled ham, or with a red caviar and sour cream spread.

Copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.

Steamed Prawn Dumplings (Har Gow)

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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
To serve: 4-6 minutes

You will need
2 prawns
2 tablespoons chopped pork fat
pinch salt
1 teaspoon sherry
1 teaspoon gingelly* oil
1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate
6 oz. Chinese wheat starch
hot water

Clean the prawns. Cut pork fat and prawns into small pieces and pound them into a paste. Add salt, sherry, gingelly oil and monosodium glutamate, mix well. Put the wheat starch on a board and make a depression in the centre and add hot water drop by drop, mixing until it becomes a paste. Place paste in a basin an steam for 5 minutes. After steaming remove the paste an form into a roll as soon as you can. Cut into 12 pieces. Press each into rounds about 2 1/2-inches in diameter. Divide the prawn paste between them, fold them like a half moon and pinch the edges together into a Dutch bonnet shape. (See photograph.) Steam for 15 minutes and serve hot.

* Blogger’s note: Gingelly oil is another name for sesame oil.

©Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1968. English text © Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1968

Terrine aux Aromates (Herb Pâté)

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Preparation time: 20-30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
To serve: 4

You will need
1 lb. spinach or 10 oz. carton frozen spinach
1 lb. lean belly pork, minced
4 oz. cooked ham, diced
1 heaped tablespoon mixed chopped fresh herbs (parsley, chevril, basil, marjoram, etc.)
2 oz. onion, finely grated
1/2 clove garlic, crushed
1 level teaspoon salt
ground black pepper
1/4 level teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 egg
4 rashers mild streaky bacon

A rough textured green flecked and herb flavored pâté. Cook prepared fresh of the frozen spinach in boiling salted water, drain and press as dry as possible. Chop finely or mince with the pork. Into a basin put the spinach, pork, ham, herbs, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, nutmeg and egg. Mix very thoroughly. Press into 1 1/2 pint capacity oven-proof dish. Remove the rind from the rashers of bacon and lay them on top of the mixture in the dish. Cover and stand in a baking tin with hot water to reach halfway up the dish. Cook in centre of a pre-heated moderate oven (350° F. or Gas Mark 4), for about 1 hour. When cold, cover and mature in refrigerator for 24 hours.

Serve from the terrine, garnished with olives and herbs when available.

©Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1968 English text © The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. 1968

Champignons à la Grecque, Oeufs à la Toulonnaise

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Champignons à la grecque
Mushrooms stewed in oil and wine

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10-12 minutes
To serve: 2-4 (depending if other dishes are served)

You will need
4 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons white wine
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 level tablespoon chopped onion
1 level teaspoon tomato purée
1/2 bay leaf
salt and ground black pepper
8 oz. small button mushrooms

Put all ingredients except the button mushrooms into a pan and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Wash the button mushrooms (if large cut into halves or quarters) and add to the ingredients in the pan. Simmer for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drain the mushrooms and arrange in a shallow dish. Reduce liquid to syrupy consistency by boiling rapidly for minute or two, pour over mushrooms. Serve cold, alone, or in a mixed hors d’oeuvre.

Oeufs à la Toulonnaise
Hard-boiled eggs Toulon style

Preparation time: 15 minutes
To serve: 3 (more if part of a mixed hors d’oeuvre)
You will need
3 hard-boiled eggs
2 oz. anchovy fillets
1/4 pin (U.S. 5/8 cup) thick mayonnaise

Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half lengthwise and arrange cut side down in a shallow dish. Cut the anchovy fillets into thin strips. If necessary thin the mayonnaise to a thick coating consistency with creamy milk, then coat the eggs. Band each egg with anchovy strips.

Mayonnaise

Preparation time: 10-15 minutes
To serve: 4

You will need
2 fresh egg yolks
1/2 level teaspoon salt
1/4 level teaspoon dry or 1/2 level teaspoon French mustard
1/2-1 tablespoon wine or tarragon vinegar, or lemon juice
about 1/2 pint (U.S. 1 1/4 cups) olive oil

Have all ingredients at room temperature. Put egg yolks in a small pudding basin standing on a folded damp cloth. Add salt, mustard and a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice and beat thoroughly before adding any oil. Use a small wire whisk or wooden spoon for mixing. Have the oil in a measuring jug with lip but add drop by drop from a teaspoon to start, beating all the time. When the mayonnaise thickens half teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice and increase the flow of oil to an intermittent thin stream, beating continuously. Continue until all the oil is added.

© Shufunotomo Co., Ltd. Japan 1968 English text ©The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.,1968

Old Fashioned Indoor Weenie Roast

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What better to go with an Old Fashioned than an old-fashioned weenie roast? This creation, which reached its apex in the mid ‘fifties, fell into low repute as fondue cookery caught on and upstaged it; but recently, as more and more apartment dwellers yearn for the pleasures of outdoor living, the humble indoor weenie roast is coming back into its own.

1 large head cabbage
Frankfurters (or Vienna sausages or smoked frankfurters)
Canned liquid heat
Cabbage-Mustard Sauce (see below)

Trim soiled outer leaves from cabbage head; slice off bottom of cabbage so cabbage sits upright steadily; hollow out top of cabbage to make well for canned liquid heat; place can in well.

Cut frankfurters crosswise into thirds and skewer on 8-inch bamboo cocktail skewers. Spear into sides of cabbage. TO serve, ignite canned heat; invite guests to roast their weenies over flame. Serve with Cabbage-Mustard sauce as dip.

Cabbage-Mustard Sauce

Finely grate cabbage pieces left over from making well in cabbage head; place in saucepan; add 1 cup water and 1/2 cup vinegar; bring to low boil and cook over medium heat 15 minutes. Remove from saucepan and drain; blend in 1/2 cup mayonnaise and 1/2 cup prepared mustard. Serve at room temperature.

Copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.

Quiche Lorraine

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Pastry for one-crust, 9-inch pie shell
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 pound bacon, crisply fried and crumbled
1 1/4 cups Swiss cheese, grated
4 eggs
2 cups cream
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Heat oven to 425°. Prepare pastry, following recipe directions. Roll out 1/8 inch thick and line a 9-inch pie plate. Bake in hot oven 5 minutes. Cool and put in the freezer for at least 1 hour. Sauté onions in butter until transparent. Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion in bottom of frozen shell. Beat eggs, cream and seasonings; add to pie shell. Put on a flat shelf in freezer; wrap when frozen. To serve: Heat oven to 425° and bake 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350° and bake for 50 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. NOTE: To bake without freezing, reduce final baking time to 30 minutes.

Serves 6
Preparation time: 2 Hr., 40Min.
Approximate calories per serving… 500

SUGGESTED MENU
Quiche Lorraine
Tomato Cup with Vegetable Salad
Peaches with Cherry Sauce

From the Kitchens of Dorothy Taylor

HELPFUL HINT: Ham or lobster may be substituted for bacon.

© 1973 Curtin Publications, Inc. New York, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A.

Mousse of Chicken Livers

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1/2 cup sweet butter
1 large onion, sliced (1 cup)
1 1/4 lb chicken livers
1 hard-cooked egg
1 1/2 tablespoons Cognac
1/2 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Chopped green onion (scallions)

1. In 2 tablespoons hot butter in skillet, sauté sliced onion until tender – about 10 minutes. Remove from skillet.

2. Heat remaining butter in same skillet. Add chicken livers, and sauté over medium heat, 30 to 5 minutes, or until golden brown. (Liver should be pink inside.)

3. Put half the sautéed onion, chicken livers, egg, and Cognac in blender; blend at low speed just until smooth. Turn into bowl. Repeat with remainder of onions, livers, egg and Cognac. Stir in salt and pepper. Turn into crock or small bowl.

4. Refrigerate, covered, until well chilled. Turn out of bowl onto serving plate. Garnish with green onion. Surround with toast or crackers.

Makes 3 cups.

Pâtés are always the hit of a cocktail party and this is an especially good one. It makes a great hostess gift, especially welcome during the holidays.

© Copyright 1973 by The McCall Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.