An interlur gllimpse of the reception
In right background the mounted Persian rug given by the Shah of Persia.
room.
COOKERY COLUMN... by Helen Burke
(UCH
Scritton
pokon A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
• fot has been
and about the best way to make coffee. But the method alone
the beans UTC ground
unl coffee was ofien nearly cold.
Welcome guests are the bill Tinnt butterflies flattering around
Is not enough.. Im or electricity. The degree to the herbacious borders bright with iris peonies, anemones.portant points to consider whitch marigolds. sweet williams, snap-ore the beans or blend of depends on the method used. dragons and other blooms in them, the degree to which For years 1 used a French dry coffce In the upper
The soll is rich their season.
are roasted and they and flowers and shrubs such as camellias and rardenias grow stage profusely.
to which they medium ground-fine,
arc
If you have one of these pots, here is a tip: Having placed the,
coffee maker. the drip
This container, add just enough ball- consisted of 1 len-pot-like ing water to wet it thoroughly. base with added receptacle ou This will create its own little or top into which the dry coffee channels through which the
(medium
Was grind)
placed, remaining water will pass more Boiling water was then poured quickly and easily, Meanwhile, The flat-roofed cowshed con-dry coffee to be used. Too much and left to tip through stand the pot in a pan of bo:i- This was a slow process and, ing water so that the resulting verted to a bungalow proved to and the coffer wit
the time the water had coffee will be hot. dripped into the lower pot, the
Name for welcome
coarse.
Then there is the amount of
be bitter;
by
be full of leaks during the rainy too tile and it will be flavour, season and full, also, of white, lers. Most coffee merchants sell ants not to mention, spiders ofja special measure
and
all sizes. In 1955 the demolition consider that 4 measures of dry started, tred rools were treated coffee to 1 pint of water are to exterminate the pests.
the correct proportions.
IMPROVED
DLENDS, today, arc
not as
Costa Rica and Vera Paz. Old
Salamat with its name for welcome, well-known as a Ma- Ingan greeting, was built and In addition to the Mexican has since, constantly lived up graves, others of old Chinese to its name, for people of all from and rank. the Wongs nationalities familles including
10 prin- numerous คร they were and Chans were found and ad- homeless wanderers vertised in the prescribed man- cesses, salesmen to sultans, have before the war. My favourites ner before they were removed known hospitality under is used to be Mocha, Mysore, by the Urban Services' officiels. roof. Every time a docter picks up
Some of the well-glazed pots
In the long reception room | Government Java is not only a have been kept as souvenirs as with its mirror wall and grace- delicious ecffer on its own, but patient's hands and look: at the fingernails, it is not just they may have contained the
artistle ob-is also used to Improve blends, ful staircase, are to say: "you could do with a
remains of some of the earliest jecta collected from many paris in the United States un- maniche." in fact he is tenk-
people ever to come to Hong- of the world. These include a blended Guatemala coffee is ing for signs of arcemia or kong,
priceless Persian rug given by popular. So is Jamaican Blue luing diseases of a long-standing The name Pokfulam is asso, the Shah Reza of Persia to Mrs Mountain. nature, such 35 brenchiectasis clated with the pine forest and Church's son-in-law when he
the 1.038 steps leading up the was tubes lung where
rudiitary
Britain,
Kenya the
attache widened and inefficient. In billside from the shore.
Teheran from 1943 to 1944. coffee is now one of the most bronchicetasis 13 ingernails
used. It has greatly improved Li Herklots, son, of the author made sometimes curve envexly for-
During the day, dogs and
over the past few years, of "The Hongkong Countryside" young children may be seen Not wards in a elawlike fashion,
returned to the scene of his
sloping ramping down But I made a sp. diagnos childhood recently and told Mr lawns of Salamal, are
of roasting change Degrees with their the flavour of any coffee bean. a quarter of an hour ako."
Church that the birds in the ever-changing views of the The British and the Americans Anit. "From a man's fired face,
Salamat garden are willi very Pearl River waters inetu prefer Gn ordinary medium lame. The created Kingfishers with the China Sen. Ferries to brown roast with no glistening and red-tailed shrike still come the islands and Macao pass the of the volatile oit on the fur-
sampans and Chinese Junks face of the benas, swaying along with gentle
are
I
1 guessed that he was over- many spot disposer
and needed to relax pou made rrently working
bit." wife eventually persuaded in to arled Me Jennings,
But I came in here a quarter Lu
first sed me, "The
Only yesterday man had
nt 1572 hor
sald {"
Mr thing a doctor does
asked my advice because when a
Jennings. patient comes into his surgery thiming fair, But even as he
"Exactly." I said. "Now strip is to have a good look at him. had come through the door I had Not Just
to recognise if it is thought: "That's a myxedemic and I examine you." Mr Brown, but to note whether
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visiting.
Cobra came too... rhythm.
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One day in the rainy season At night the garden resumes a king cobra nearly seven feet its vell of mystery, nestling in in length came too. The dogs the lee of the dark mountain.
by Barry Appleby
WHERE?
YOU DIDN'T LOOK
QUICKLY ENOUGH
LONDON
YOU COULD BRING IT UP-TO-DATE WITH A
CUMMERBUND
YOU'D NEED MATERIAL ABOUT)
THIS LONG
NONGENGE, DEAR,
AT LEAST
· THIS LONG
BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERB DESCRIBING THAT FISH I MISSED YESTERDAY
JET BY
AIR-INDIA
GAS IS TOPS
SAYS MR. THERM
The French Toast in darker, with the oil beginning to exude. Viennese coffee is somewhere between the two, while the Italian roast
1+ very dark indeed, with o!l drawn out of} the beans in tiny beads.
MANY WAYS
THERE are all sorts of ways of making coffee, ranging from the ordinary brown jug and saucepan, by way of the drip pot and percolator, to the Conai machine, heated by spirit lamp
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