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Herring Salad

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herring_revised

Cooking time: 30 mins.
Preparation time: 20 mins.
Main cooking utensil: deep covered casserole
Oven temperature: 325-350°F
Oven position: center

For 4 people you need:
4 large herring
2/3 cup white vinegar
4 peppercorns
2 bay leaves
1 small onion
1 cucumber
2 red-skinned eating apples
2/3 cup sour cream*
seasoning
lemon juice

Garnish:
parsley

*You can buy cartons sour cream or use yogurt or fresh cream plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice

1. Remove heads, intestines and backbones from herring, leave about 1/2 inch of bone at tail end.

2. Roll herring, start at the head end and secure rolls by piercing fish with backbone left at the tail end.

3. Put fish into casserole, add vinegar, peppercorns, bay leaves, and sliced onion with scant 2 cups water.

4. Cover dish with lid and bake for time and at temperature given.

5. Cool in the liquid, then drain.

6. Skin and dice cucumber.

7. Core apples, leave skin on. Cut half apple into slices, dice the remainder.

8. Mix diced apple and cucumber.

9. Mix with cream and seasoning.

TO SERVE: Arrange cucumber mixture on a long dish, place herring rolls on top, garnish with apple slices, dipped in lemon juice, and parsley.

TO VARY: Dice herrings after cooking, mix with diced apple, onion, cucumber, add 2 diced hard-cooked eggs, 1 small diced cooked beet, 3 diced sweet dill pickle. Put into mold and leave for 1 hour.

PRINTED IN CANADA ©Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967

Glazed Ham and Peaches

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Cooking time: see stage 2
Preparation time: 15 mins.
Main cooking utensils: saucepan, roasting dish
Oven temperature: 400°F
Oven position: center

You will need:
1/3 – 1/2 lb. ham per person*

Glaze:
(sufficient for a 4- to 5-lb. piece of ham and for stuffing the peaches)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peach syrup
1/2 – 2/3 cup seedless white raisins
medium or large can peach halves

1. Ham, unless mild-cure, should be soaked for 24 hours in cold water.

2. When boiling ham, put into fresh cold water and allow approximately 25 minutes per lb. and 25 minutes over.

3. Mix the brown sugar with the peach syrup and raisins.

4. Remove the thick rind from the ham. Cut fat, of the glaze and place in the pan in the oven for approximately 20 minutes.

TO SERVE: Garnish with halves of peaches filled with the glaze. If serving hot, these can be warmed through in the oven. If serving cold, the peaches should not be cooked.

TO VARY: The treacle glaze on Card 22, or the apricot on Card 24 may also be used.
*For choice of ham see Card 17.

Printed in Canada. © Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967

Prawn Stuffed Apples

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Preparation time: 10 mins.
Main cooking utensils: bowl, wooden toothpicks

For 6 people you need:
6 red-skinned eating apples
lemon juice

Filling:
3 tablespoons thick mayonnaise
1 teaspoon tomato paste
dash Tabasco sauce
2 pickled cucumbers, finely sliced
4 stuffed olives, chopped
2/3 cup peeled prawns or shrimp
1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Garnish:
6 whole prawns or shrimp
6 stuffed olives

1. Cut off the tops of the apples, and scoop out the insides to hollow them.

2. Remove all core and pips and dice remaining flesh.

3. Sprinkle the apples with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.

4. Mix the chopped apple with all the other filling ingredients.

5. Just before serving, pile into the apple cases.

6. Decorate with prawn and a stuffed olive on a wooden toothpick.

TO SERVE: With a green salad.

TO VARY: Use same filling with addition of chopped celery or omit the olives and add extra chopped gherkins and a few capers instead.

PRINTED IN CANADA. © Copyright Paul Hamlyn, Ltd. 1967

Californian Beef Olives

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Cooking time: 2 hours
Preparation time: 25 mins.
Cooking utensil: covered casserole
Oven temperature: 325-350°F
Oven position: center

For 4 people you need:
Stuffing:
3/4 cup cashew nuts or walnuts
1/4 cup butter
2 medium slices bread
1 chopped apple
1 chopped stalk celery
2/3 cup chopped uncooked prunes
1 tablespoon chopped onion
seasoning
juice of 1/2-1 lemon
1 egg

4 large slices beef round
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 lb. onions
1/2 lb. carrots
2/3 cup prunes
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups stock
salt and pepper

1. Fry nuts in hot butter until golden, take out of pan.

2. Remove crusts from bread, dice, add the apple, celery, prunes, and onion, fry until golden colored.

3. Season well, add lemon juice, bind with egg. Add nuts; blend well.

4. Beat steak out as thinly as possible.

5. Use as 4 large or 8 smaller pieces.

6. Put stuffing on meat, roll firmly, skewer or tie with cotton.

7. Fry for 2-3 minutes in hot fat, lift into casserole. Fry diced vegetables for few minutes, add to meat in casserole with the prunes.

8. Stir flour into any fat remaining in pan, cook for 2-3 minutes, gradually add liquid, stirring well.

9. Bring to boil, cook until a smooth sauce, season. Pour over meat, vegetables, and prunes, cover casserole and cook until tender.

TO SERVE: Remove skewers or cotton. Serve olives in casserole or on a hot serving dish topped with parsley.

TO VARY: Thinly sliced veal or lamb could be used.

Printed in Canada. © Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967

Pressed Brisket of Beef

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Cooking time: see Card 28**
Preparation time: 20 mins.
Main cooking utensils: large saucepan, loaf pan or spring form pan

For 8-10 people you need:
3 1/2-4 lb. corned beef
2 onions
water
1 beef bouillon cube
1 teaspoon powdered gelatin

1. Soak the beef as Card 28.*
2. Cook as directed, covering with water but omit the carrot and use the 2 onions only.
3. Add bouillon beef cube to water.
4. When cooked lift the meat from the stock, press into loaf pan or spring form pan.
5. Boil the stock in an uncovered pan until only 2/3 cup is left.
6. Soften gelatin in 3 tablespoons cold water, add to stock and strain carefully over the meat.
7. Put a piece of wax paper on top and a weight.
8. Leave until cold, then turn out.

TO SERVE: With a mixed salad.

To salt beef: For a piece of beef approximately 5-6 lb. Boil 20 cups water with 1 1/3 cups salt, 2/3 cup brown sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons saltpeter. Strain into large bowl or pickling jar. Trim discolored parts from meat, wipe, put into cold pickle. Turn daily. Leave in cool place 10-14 days for very salt beef: 5-7 days for mild salt beef.

*Soak the beef overnight in cold water. 
Put into fresh cold water, bring to boil, add onion, carrot , bay leaf.
Simmer very gently in covered pan, allowing ** 30 minutes to the lb. and 30 minutes over.

Printed in Canada © Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967

Beef in Aspic

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Cooking time: few mins. only
Preparation time: 15 mins.
Main utensils: quart casserole, spring form pan or mold

For 4-6 people you need:

1 1/2 tablespoons gelatin
2 1/2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 lb. cooked carrots, sliced
sprigs of parsley
8 slices cold roast beef
seasoning
1/2 teaspoon chopped thyme

Garnish:
sprigs parsley

1. Soak the gelatin in 1/4 cup of the water. Then dissolve it in remaining hot water.

2. Flavor the gelatin with Worcestershire sauce.

3. Spoon a 1/4-inch layer of gelatin in base of casserole. All to set.

4. Pour 3 tablespoons of remaining gelatin onto saucer.

5. Dip each carrot slice in this gelatin and arrange a border on base of casserole.

6. Dip a few parsley sprigs in gelatin and place in center of garnish. Allow to set.

7. Pour 3/4-inch layer of gelatin on garnish and allow to set.

8 Season sliced beef, add thyme.

9 Cut into small pieces and dip in the reserved gelatin.

10. Place some of the beef in casserole, allow to set, continue like this until all the gelatin etc. has been used.

TO SERVE: Allow to set, turn out and serve garnished with parsley and with a green salad.

TO STORE: In the refrigerator.

Printed in Canada ©Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967

Chicken Salad With Cottage Cheese Sauce

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Cooking time: few mins.
Preparation time: 10 mins.
Main cooking utensil: saucepan

For 4 servings you need:
1/2 lb. cooked chicken*
1/4 lb. sliced lean ham
lettuce
watercress
Belgian endive
pickled onions

Cottage cheese sauce:
1 1/2 tablespoons red currant jelly
1 cup cottage cheese
1 teaspoon horseradish cream
1/2 cup coffee cream
seasoning

Approximate calories:
Chicken – 330 for 1/2 lb.
Ham – 400 for 1/4 lb.
Cottage Cheese – 200 for 1 cup
Red currant jelly – 90 for 1 1/2 tablespoons

*steamed if possible

1. Arrange the sliced meat on a plate with the crisp lettuce leaves, watercress, endive and pickled onions.

2. Sauce: Melt the red currant jelly over low heat, cool slightly.

3. Blend ingredients together, fold in cream, and season to taste.

TO SERVE: With the savor cottage cheese sauce.

TO VARY: Use all chicken. A cottage cheese dressing blends with many salads. The jelly may be omitted and a little lemon juice and grated rind used in its place. If cottage cheese is unattainable, use finely grated cheddar cheese, but this is higher in calories, i.e. approximately 480 calories for 4 oz.

NOTE: Choose chicken, turkey – preferably steamed or roasted – do not eat skin or stuffings or sauces, lean game may also be included. Avoid duck and goose.

© Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd 1967

Prawn Cocktail with Sour Cream Sauce

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Preparating time: 10 mins.
Main utensils: sharp knife, bowl

For 4 servings you need:
1/2 lettuce
1 1/2 cups peeled prawns or shrimp
1 tablespoon fresh tomato purée (made from skinned tomato rubbed through sieve)
few drops Worcestershire sauce
seasoning
1/2 cup sour cream or fresh cream and 1 tablespoon lemon juice
paprika (optional)

Garnish:
4 whole prawns
4 lemon wedges

Approximate calories:
Prawns or shrimp – 50 for 1/2 cup
Sour cream – 45 for 1 tablespoon

1. Shred lettuce finely and divide this and peeled prawns or shrimp among 4 glass dishes.

2. Blend together tomato purée, Worcestershire sauce, seasoning, and sour cream.

TO SERVE: Pour sauce over prawns and lettuce just before serving. Sprinkle with paprika if wished. Garnish with whole prawns and lemon slices, slit halfway up so they sit on the edge of the glass dishes.

TO VARY: Use other shellfish or flaked steamed white fish; add a little anchovy paste to give a stronger flavor. Shredded endive could be used in place of lettuce.

TO STORE: In the refrigerator for a limited time.

NOTE: This dish is suitable for a special occasion – and would enable you to serve the same hors d’oeuvre to everyone. The person on a diet could have a smaller portion of the dressing, if wished.

©Copyright Paul Hamlyn, Ltd. 1967

Apple Jelly Ring

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Cooking time: 15 mins.
Preparation time: 25 mins.
Main cooking utensils: large saucepan, 9-in. ring mold

For 8 servings you need:
8 dessert apples
2 1/2 cups water
juice of 2 lemons
grated ring of 2 lemons
1/4 cup sugar
2 packages lemon-flavored jello

Cheese balls:
3/4-1 cup cream cheese
1/2-3/4 cup blanched almonds

Decoration
slices dessert apple
squeeze lemon juice

1. Peel and core apples, cut into neat pieces, save few pieces of peel.

2. Put water, lemon juice, rind and sugar into pan, bring to boil.

3. Put pieces of apple into this syrup and poach very gently for 10 minutes.

4. Lift out the apples, and strain the syrup.

5. Measure and add enough water to give a good 3 1/2 cups.

6. Reheat, dissolve the lemon jellos in this liquid.

7. Pour very thin layer of jello into the mould, allow to set, arrange some of the apple pieces and thin strips of peel on this and cover with cold liquid jello. Leave to set.

8. Continue like this until mold is filled.

9. Split the almonds and brown for a minute under the broiler.

10. Mold cheese in balls and coat with the almonds.

TO SERVE: Dip mold in hot water for 30 seconds, turn out, and fill with cheese balls; decorate with apple slices dipped in lemon juice.

Printed in Canada. ©Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd 1967

Haddock and Prawn Casserole

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Cooking time: 30 mins.
Preparation time: 20 mins.
Main cooking utensil: casserole
Oven temperature: 375°F
Oven position: center

For 4 people you need:
4 pieces fresh haddock
1 1/4 cups fish stock-see stage 1
1/4 cup butter
1 onion
1 red sweet pepper*
1-2 cups mushrooms
seasoning
1 small can kernel corn
1 1/4 cups prawns or shrimp

Garnish:
parsley

*Or well drained canned pimiento

1. Skin the haddock, put the skin in a saucepan with water and simmer for 25 minutes – strain off 1 1/4 cups as stock.

2. Heat the butter and fry the sliced, peeled onion for 3 minutes.

3. Chop the flesh of the red sweet pepper, discard seeds and core, add to the onion and cook for further 10 minutes.

4. Put the fish, onion, pepper, whole or sliced mushrooms, fish stock into the casserole, season well.

5. Cover and bake for 20 minutes in the oven, then removed lid, add drained corn and the shelled prawns – save a few unshelled for garnish.

6. Complete cooking, then garnish with the unshelled prawns and parsley.

TO SERVE: Hot with vegetables or a salad and fresh bread and butter.

TO VARY: Other white fish may be used – omit the corn, add peas or chopped green sweet pepper, fried as red pepper.

To skin fish: Did a sharp knife in a little salt. Make a cut at tail end of fish. Gently ease the flesh away from the skin.

Printed in Canada © Copyright Paul Hamlyn Ltd 1967