THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE
THE ODDS
If words and prelimin- ary actions mean any- thing-which they do not always
to Japanese statesmen-the time is ripe for a further word of warning to Japan before she commits herself to a Course from which there can be no with- drawal. The strength of her ties with the Axis have in the last two or three days been ostenta- tiously advertised, Mr. Matsuoka has been
Fes-
ponsible for further threats, and the anti-Bri-! tish campaign has been revived. The attacks on . Britain concentrate upoit the allegation that the restrictions imposed upon supplies to Japan are a deliberate attempt strangle the reotiomie life of Japan it. IS well- known, of course, that those restrictions
are
Yates
TOMATÓ
SOUP
BOYS WILL BE BOYS!
KANG
OF CROATIA
Obeisance To Pudding
It is one of the oddities of Wing--
those rendered necessary by la) our own priority of need and b by the open hostility of Japan,| which makes no attempt to disguise her efforts to supply Britain's enemies that a nation which has in fact been expreially rich in the with raw materials which, quick genus of poets and wits and
as famous for the dash of its sea- engaged as we are in amen as for its speed on horse and life and death struggle, we are determined must be cut off.
foot likes to think of itself chiefly as lethargie and solid, trusty bu praderoun, The eighteenth-con-
By
Ivor Brown
Buy order f a sturdy but slow | ding less and less after their meatlock or cum Hardy. Doubtless the
habit of The
but note
pudden-brided heavy-weight be.
Ban to win the general assent.
Sald and eggs and lighter fair Teme the Italian spark's
guitar. Amil. if I take Dan
right,
tons fight.
of
The
may
even have had cheese as well. He
as
ous haunt of the city's carnivores, "I hear
Welsh they're serving Rabbit mistend of meat on two days a week." The tone in which The gasped out this appalling news suggested that darkest night hart fallen upon Irwell's banks and that chats had come again to all {the Chorltons, whether on Med- Jolin Bull was allowed to obscure and cheese more and more. The new note that has he memory of the Elizabethan Victorian gentleman had a sweeter
famous house is providing some robust puddings to All in the lately appeared in Japan-itors who, in their lighter craft
with nimbler faculties, had dine off clips and roly-poy pud-fallen men, who disdained of old tooth and an ampler capacity, Tocorners. Now, I falley, some chop- ese official comment and
umumiyred the heavy gulleon.ding with avidity" was the happy the solid allure of a Baked Albert in the inspired Press, that of the dulles-minded Don.
Roll, may have become eager ad- "pur hing So the nation of the beevish particle" in "Patience,“
young these restrictions, which
Chops --
diets of that massive and glutin- Buton and of the gallant do not prevent umple sup-
The self-indulgent wretch
the plural--and roly-poly. ous confection. Such are the re-
sults of "wars, horrid wars." plies of necessary
There can, while any ingredients ?
difficulty about materials for her own use
would not have deemed himself to remain, be no have dined without some sugary supply of British puddings. Our reaching Japan, are so¦
and tarinaceous "follow" to his native cookery books abound with meat. The American of vexatious as to justify ag-|
10-day | names and notions Congreve |
of puddings, sustains our Victorian tradition with the courtly and consequential gressive action against
and usually adds to the meat dish names as well as with the comic Britain, powerfully sug-
Pudding and beef make Bri- of his midday meal a substantial and plebeian ones. Who could not slab of "pie," possibly houped be impressed by a pudding called gests that the develop-
with ice-cream as well. It is not Sir Watkin, which seems to sing .ment of a new crisis may To what extent this rhyme
that he eats more, but he has the from the menu, like any Gilbertian
"Bow, bow Prior's forecast the rival dietaries sweeter taste and lacks our inter-peer.
(as well not be far off. At!
in North Africa, 1941, is uncer-
est in cheese and savouries.
stodge). ye lower middle classes?" the moment, the
ob-tain. Only those who have dined
This addiction to "pie" and Who, on the other hand, could not jective may possibly not the desert know the menu, but similar kickshaws was surely wilt be impressed by the humility of
middle-class life. "Amy's if General Wavell's army has in- ing in British
Crumb Ple?" Оп the involve anything more deed been regaled with pudding! The men had lost the craving for august side are Queen's, Cabinet, serious than a futile and beef, these articles appear to cakes and milky dishes, and the and Diplomat: on the commoners afford FIO obstacle to extreme women, since they were slimming. bill of fare are the Roly-poly and attempt at intimida-mobility, nor do they hamper a viewed the succulence of steam- the Spotted Dog.
'ed suet or the layer of pastry and tion.
Pudding began, it is true, in a It
knack of mixing the temper of u arises from
Prince Rupert with the speed of the jug of cream with horrifted meaty way. It was the happy ag- the complaints of Japan-a Rolls-Royce,
alarm; reluctantly, perhaps, but gregation of the butcher's bits and nono At any rate, on the home ground ese industrial leaders, who]
the less resolutely, they pleces, nothing so magnificent as pudding has recovered its position averted the watering mouth. The steak and kidney, but more of the are pressing strongly for on the national diet sheet. Britons taste for a savoury and astringent haggis kind and has not haggis overcoming the ap- been accurately as well as wittily abandonment of the dan-lately were tending to eat pud-article was
petite for rich and lush refresh- described as "all of the sheep ex- gerous allegiance to the
Pudding was more and cept the mutton?" But later on more left to the nursery.
its Its pudding achieved
progress Axis, in the sense that Tokyo hopes to calm the perous future for Japan suavity as well as its bulk had be- from the liver and lights to the come the enemy. I do not say fruit and sugar. It became, in the can only be assured by that this was a righteous judg- majestic English of the Oxford Japanese business world maintaining friendly re- ment. Many despised ingredients English Dictionary, by frightening Britain
of the pudding tribe, like tapioca, lations and free inter-
a preparation of food of a soft have a distinctive, subtle, and by or moderately firm consistency into a reversal of policy. course with the demo- no means sickly flavour. But they in which the ingredients, animal
It should be broad cracies.
won a bad name at school, where or vegetable, are either mingled they wore often, vilely cooked, and in a farinaceous basis or are en- nothing needs more perfect pre- closed in a farinaceous crust,
and cooked by boiling or steam paration than a milk pudding.
ing. Preparations of butter, milk not a subservient tool of the United States would and with many
and eggs, rice, sago, and other farinaceous substances, suitably Hitler, that if it
can stand aside, a neutral of a savoury scarcely more com-
mon, the pudding reasserts
seasoned and cooked by baking, be suggested, in
all spectator. It is true that claim. If there be no meat course are now also called puddings. seriousness, that the in-America will not be will- to precede and no "closing rites"
of cheese thereafter but only some You may gather from that how significant pain inflicted ingly provoked; any more trining fillet of fish, then pudding posterior, and even inferior, are by British trade restric- than will the British Em- in the grand manner is of ob- the puddings abominably known vious value, especially if the wind as "sweets." For my part I re- tions, do injury to Japan- pire. But Washington's he cold. The poor man of old fuse utterly to apply the word ese economy, her plight warnings have been ex- might cosset himself with pudding "sweet" to anything but confec
only on Sunday: would be increased not plicit and continuous and tenfold but a hundred- have only been intensi- fold should she have in-fied by recent develop- clination towards pro-ments. Japan must take voking an open conflict. her choice with a shrewd Trade figures tell the notion on what the odds plain story that a pros- of American entry will be.
enough hint to a Japan There seems to be some thinking for herself and impression in Tokyo that
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ment.
But now, with cheese so scarce other elements
its
One solid dish his weekday meal
affords, An added pudding solemnis'd
the Lord's,
i
tionery. Let fruit be fruit and pie pic. Spotted Dog, Sir Watkin,
Roll-are Baked Albert
these monsters and notables to ..be fobbed off with the petty title of "sweet?" Hore's outrage îndeed. "Sweets" to the sweet, but not to. Not long ago, tar up in the Pen- the sensible. If we are going back" nines, I heard a Manchester man, to pudden, let the dull thud of that whose thoughts ran deeply on tremendous title be properly re-. nutritive matters, say of a fam- garded and preserved.
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