CS - Wednesday, January 18, 1984 - North Shore News Tips on controlling food smelis ONE CONCEDES that winter food is sometimes aromatic. Some, insensitive to the bouquet of boil- ing broccoli, might say corned-beef-and-cabbage, ‘“noisome.’’ All that that smoked-cod-with- boiled-taties, those short-ribs-with-onions rouse the salivation at serving time, but don’t seem to be so effective when their ghosts are_encountered next day in the front hall. The current ‘‘Food & Wine’’ magazine has a couple of good control suggestions, less clinical than one of those purifier things that remove all trace of human occupation. Mind you, I use that word ‘‘current’’ loosely. The Post Office brought the November issue on December 29 last; the Christmas issue arrived January 6. Let us hope it was because their lunch-room was One of these splendid sug- gestions is for reducing the powerful emanations from the cabbage pot. Steamed or boiled cabbage is one of my favorite vegetables, with lots of butter, and | tried this last night when I prepared my lonely supper: two bay leaves laid on top of the vegetable during the cooking period, then discarded. It worked very well. 1] couldn’t smell cabbage at all the scene of bustling experi- ment with ‘*‘Crabmeat Canapes Balcomb’’ and ‘Veal Scallops with Black Mushrooms.’’ The epicurean postmen. during the cooking period, but, in case 1 had simply Saturated my olfactory system, I] went out into the hall and re-entered the apart- ment to see what a refreshed Gouda cheese eee CURRANT-NUT Gouda Cheese Ball for special occasions SAY “CHEESE". Lots of people do at snack me Two favorite cheeses, for nibbling with drinks or on their own, mustard, Worcestershire, gathe powder and white pep per Forminto a ball, chill 20 to 30 minutes until firm Roll are Edam and G;ouda in chopped parsley Makes Here are some cheese one 4 inch (10 cm) cheese recipes. for cheese balls, ball Makes 24 0 servings cheese curls and cheese pastries, for special snacks PECAN GINGER CHEESE BALL $00 2 (1 Ib) medium or aged Csouda of Edam cheese. HERB AND OLIVE CHEESE BAL! $00 g (1 Ib) medium of aged shredded Couda of Edam cheese, SO mE (oa cup) mayonnatse shredded SQ mi ('« cup) finely 20 stuffed olives, tinels chopped candied ginger chopped Sant (Cb tsp) curry powder SOmb (be cup) mayonnaise bank (oa tsp) cinnamon PSoamk €b thsp od Dayoan P2Sank C00 cup) chopped mustard Peaans Samtl Ch ispy Worcester shite sauce Porm (oa typo) peas dic powder In ow farpe bowl Conmsbine Ringer, curry powder and oiainameots Porm ante a tall otal) 2O0tG Rolhan chopped pecans Makes one 4 toot CEO) cmd ball Makes cheese mayonnaise Pinch white pepper P2Somb (a cup) tinels chopped patsicy YOomoysnwtes veatil fiom In a large bowl Combine olives, cheese cheese, May Onna 24 servings NEW LOW PRICES! While everyone @lse ts fasting theigs we lowered the ON every bread in the And thats fot all We vee SU got super proces on athour hay Oth cakes and breads Come and see ut ver pice forall cot freests Shore suipidan only died i) Oscatssous 24a Peuhetton Ave NV DATA nose could detect. Nothing. Really. Mind you, | had done only a quarter of a cabbage, just for myself, but it certain- ly worked. And the flavor was delicious, though without real evidence of bay leaf. The other onions, and this will work for people who weep streams of tears just cutting one in half as well as for those occasions when you want to boil a pot- ful to cream, as an accom- paniment to your meat, or for a grand soup. Simply, cook them with their skins on. At the end of 25 to 30 minutes, drain and run some cold water over, and you'll find the naked onion squirts easily out of its case when squeezed. Neat. You lose a layer or two of the flesh, but for sufferers the loss is worth it. That’s only useful for cooking whole onions, of course, but you might try balis they‘ll Edam up CHEESE CURLS 375 mL (1'4 cups) whole wheat flour 125 mL (% cup) all-purpose flour 15 mL (1 tbsp) baking powder 2 mL ('2 tsp) salt 125 mL (4% cup) butter 125 ml (4%: cup) milk 250 mL. (1 cup) shredded Edam or Gouda cheese Combine flours, baking powder and salt. Cut butter in with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs Sti tn milk and torm dough into a ball Roll outona lightly Moured board to a 38x30 cm (15x12 inch) rectangle Sprinkle with half of cheese Fold in three, press with rolling pin and roll to orginal size Sprinkle with remaining cheese, fold again and roll This looks tike 2 small yelly rolls yorned Roll wm from each of the fonger sides towards centre Cutin tl ecm (': inch) shees) Place on gicased wookic sheet and bake in a 220° (425° oven 12 to 14 browned minutes utntl Makes lightly about 2 doven curls John Fowles, idea concerns | ‘‘blanching’”’ ones that have inevitably to be peeled and sliced or chopped. Cover them all over with boiling water and let them sit until cool, then start at the root end — cut un off and peel downwards. You may get some relief. If you like onions as a side- dish, this is an interesting way to treat them: Peel and slice into rounds -inch thick (1.25cm) Keep the rounds intact In a frying pan, melt 2-3 Tbspns. butter (30-45mL) Sur into it 1 Tbspn. brown sugar (iS5mL) pinch of salt Heat this to bubbling, and lay the onion slices in it in one layer only. Cover now, and cook for ten minutes. Uncover, turn, and season with pepper and thyme or EDAM CHEESE PASTRIES 500 mL (2 cups) shredded Edam cheese 2 eggs, beaten 25 mL (2 tbsp) Dijon mustard SmL (1 tsp) basil S mL (1 tsp) thyme i pkg (454 g/ l60z) trozen filo pastry, thawed 50 ml! (4 cup) butter, melted Mix together Edam cheese, eggs, mustard, basil and thyme Unwrap filo pastry and cover with waxed paper and a damp cloth to prevent drying Laver 3 sheets of pastry, one on top of the other on a cutting board and cut into 10 em (4-inch) squares. Place about S ml (1 isp) of cheese filling near one of the corners and told towards the centre Next fold in the two sides and lastly the tinal corner to enclose the tilling in an cnvelope fashion Place on a greased baking sheet and brush top with a lit tle butter, repeat Bake ina PBOP8C CUSOPR) Oven TS ta 20 minutes until putfed and formerly of the original the kitchen ranger A cAtE LOvAR CARPET ORLLERD USED EE I by Eleanor Godley Rid of ghosts from meals gone by onion combines two strong vegetables in one smooth dish: Peel and cut up a small rutabaga. Boil it in a couple of inches of hot water to tender. Drain. While the turnip is cooking, dice or slice a couple of onions and boil or saute to the tender stage. Now, using a blender or a food-mill, mix the two and run the machine until you have a turnip-onion paste. Stir in butter, pepper and some real cream and heat up in a double-boiler. Try a little nutmeg, too. 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