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POLYPLORATION
RUSSIA'S
Professor Otto Schmidt on the
New Northern Passage
Une investigations and in the economic development of
·Aretie.”··
the
THE FIVE-YEAR FLAN In 1929 a plan of exploration in the Arctic formed an integral part of the "ve-year-plan and the soviet Government, with its vast resources, but into the hands of scientific men everything neces-
London, Dec. 9. provisions for two months, built The Royal Geographical Society from the wreckage a wooden house usually enjoys the privilege of be for fifty people, and, after twenty ing the Arst in London to hear attempts, succeeded in making a sary for the expeditions, including lectures of such importance to landing place for the promised: ice-breakers and laboratories. Pro geographers as the one by Proseroplanes; how they organised fessor Schmidt was in charge of fesa Otto Schmidt on "Popular their daily life and never falled to the expéditions. Exploration, and the USSR." but study scientifically the drift of the that privilege fell last night to the ice, and conducted a study circle Congress of Peace and Friendship... on advanced mathematics for the When the had finished the audience engineeri
To-day more
than forty stations, covering the whole coast and the islands, Have been established. Equipped with wireless; they tramwait meteoro-
felt that it had been shown a new He described the arrival of the logical data to ships, aeroplanes, Arst acroplane, and its rescue of and the central meteorologicar world..
The professor, a suitably roman-the women and children (includbureaux in the USAR THEI tic-looking man, with a long backing Karina, the baby born in the communications play an important beard, a thatch of black hair, Kara Sea)" a day before the ice part in weather forecast for the lively dark eyes, and a ready laugh, destroyed their wooden house, and world and the long-term weather described the adventures of the the arrival, a month later, of the forecasting is of especial value to unlucky Chelyaskin and of the planes that rescued the rest of the the Boviet Union with its planned. men, women, and children aboard party. The wrack of the Chel her, who were condemned to spend yakin," he said, was only the eighteen winter weeks in the mid- signal for still greater efforts to dle of the Arctic ice, first on the wards the exploration of the hemmed-in-ship, and then, when Arctic" she was destroyed, on the shifting Still more interesting than this precarions Ice-fice,
story was his general survey of what the U888 has done in ex- plo
the northern seas and 7ce-breakerd had never ing all the centuries was not more
END OF THE CHELTUSKIN
He described how one day in February the helpless watched a
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STAPLES URPRISES
FOOD AND DISHES
Such a
variety of attractive dishes is available nowadays that the task of cooking is made con- siderably easter. Earthenware, once an ugly brown that no hostess would place on the table, can zow be obtained in blue, green, yellow, and cream, as well as gally pat- terned, whlie fireproof glass is fa- millar to every housewife. Shapes and sizes are so varied that al- most any kind of cooking can be carried out in these dishes and the food brought to the table to
Ham au Gratin
Mince half to three-quarters of a pound of boiled or roast hám, after removing the fat. Make half a pint of white sauce and stir foto it a teaspoonful of made mustard and a little pepper, add the ham, cover rather thickly with breadcrumbs” and. cheese, pour over a little melted butter, and brown top.
Sets of scallop shells, ramekins, and individual casseroles are use-
them. A grätin dish is indispen--ful, and not so extravagant as
sable; It should be wide and shal- low, so that as wide an area as possible can be crisply browned: It should have two "ears" so that It can be handled easily; and it should be of a shape which will easily slip under the grill. „A gra- tin dish is particularly useful to the housewife without, a mald, is all kinds of dishes which can be prepared beforehand can be left in the gratih dish ready to go under the gril
When cooked "au gratin," fish. ment, or vegetables are covered with a rich white, or other thick sauce, sprinkled with a mixture of grated cheese and breadcrumbs and topped with melted butter. Here are some examples:
Asparagus au Gratin
Put a cupful of evaporated milk, the beaten yolks of two eggs, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, salt and pepper into a double sauce- pah. sur until thick. Put a tin of asparagus tips into the dish, cover with the sauce, SIR- kle with crumbz, and brown,
they sound, for these small dishes cook the food quicker, and so are a sating in time and fuel. Any of the gratin dishes can se cooked in the scallop shells, while the ramekins are particularly rise- ful for all egg disties, creamed and minced fish, and meat. In the small casseroles can be cook- ed chops, stewed steak, small birds, and portions of chicken for an invalid. Here are one or two Examples:
Baked Eggs
Butter a ramekin for each pet- son and sprinkle its sides, and bot- tom with finely chopped tongue. Break the egg over it, keeping the yolk intact, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour a dessertspoon- ful of cream over the top, dust with a.mixture of paprika, grated cheese, and finely chopped par- sley, and bake in the oven until Just set, which will be in five to ted minutes.
Creamed Fish
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Fish left from a previous meal can be used for this. Remove skin and bone and divide into small Spaghetti au Gratia
flakes. Blend a tablespoonful of Cover the dish with a thick layer cornflour with a little milk, pour of cooked spaghetti, cover that a breakfast-cuptul of boiling with a layer of thinly sliced, peel-"mlik on it; lid boll fot five min- ed tomatoes
Season well, fill is utts, Ming well. Add a small with white sauce cover with
crumbs and cheese, and brown in
a hot oven for half an hour.
DATE DELIGHTS
2/3 cup Butter
2 cups dark brown sugar
teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon cloves
teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
teaspoon salt
2 eggi
3 tablespoons - cream
4 cups Bour
14 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter, sugar. Add rest or ingredients, mixing lightly. Chill dough overnight. Roll out dough until very thin. Cut out circles. On half *cookies spread date mixture. Cover with other circles. Press edges together using fork. "Prick tops. Bake 12 BUT. utés la moderate oven.
Date FWing
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
teaspoon salt
cup orange juicë
teaspoon lemon extract cup chopped, dates cup nuda,
2 tablespoons butter... Blend sugar, flour. Add rest of ingredients, cook slowly, stir con tantly, unti Alling thickens. Coul tise as filling.
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White Fruit Cake
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilia
teaspoon almond extract teaspoon salt
Leap chopped white raising
cup chopped almonds
1 cup chopped candied orange
peel
i cup chopped cauffed pine
apple
1 cup chopped citron 6 ekr whiten, heated
teaspoon cream of tartar
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agriculture, www Cream butter, sugar. Add milk,
Giving an idea of the swift de velopment of Artic navigation, Beat 2 minutes! Add rest of in- the professor said that on Septem-gredients, ring lightly, Dour into loat pane lined with waxed ber 1 eleven different boats met together at the northernmost point papers. Bake if hours, in slow of Asta, Cape Chelyusicin, although oven. the total number of ships that naa
2/3 cup fát previously reached, that espe, dur-
Holod for Arctic, exploration thar
SHA been shown)
when the ice-breaker, Kraesin went the nort
rescue of the Nobile en tor
established.
Regular sallings be
and Vladiybatočk, by pen ronte, baya, begg
Mar
pedition in 1928. Since that time taken cargoes into
Merken has become the
orougái - principal instrument in our scien rivers
Viking Cookies.
dark brown sugar
+
Mincemeat That Is Mince Meat
Mincement 13 NO CAST And cheap to buy, nowadays that few of us. still mike our owd, and fewer still adhere to the old practice, of making it really mince meat. But a friend of mine recenti brought back from America a re- cipe for the kind of mincemeat they make there and think-in- is worth while giving it. If only for sake of its unusual ingr dients.
This is how they make it. First take to Bounts of lean beef and a pound of beef suet, cover them with boiling water and cook unti: the meat is tender. Let it get cold; take off the set (which has risen to the top in fat); take out the meat and reduce stock. until it measures three-quarters of a pint.
Now chop the meat up fine's and add to it twice is amount of finely chopped peeled-art-cored-- apples. Now add a pound and a half of sugar, ene breakfastorp fup of molasses, a quart of cider two pounds of sliced sredi raisins, a pound and á half of currants, four ounces of finely cut candied citron peel. the set Enely chopped and the reduced stock.
Let this mixture"get hot gradu- alig, stirring it now and then, änd cook it slowly for a couple of nours, then add a pint of grape- Juice (you can buy this bottled).
dessertspoonful each of ciri- amon. mace, and powerdered cloves, a grated nutmeg. half a teaspoonful of pepper, and a ittle salt. The moistening here m'cht be grape-juice and brandy. in the proportion you fancy.
blere of butter, bepper, salt, a New And Tasty
teaspoonful of lemon juice and a teaspoonfd) at öhlon juice, slao.
a dash of anchovy essence. MIX this with the fish, fill the rame- kins with the mixture, and bake". In the oven until thoroughly hợt, or else steam.
DEVILLED TOMATOES
Amongst the many savoury. re- cipes for tomato distres the fo- towing is perhaps not general y known Choose six large to- matres, not 190 .p and slee them; then fry them in butter Rub the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs into two ounces of butter and mix in two tablespoonfuls- vinegar. Season with a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of sugar, pinch of mustard and casenze. pepper. Stir over gentle heat. beat well and do not allow to boll.
Then add two well-beaten eggs. comtinne, to, stir unt? the mixture is thick and creamy. pour over the tomatoes, which have been piled on hot buttered toast and serve hot.
FOR SUPPER
Have one or two large tomatoes for each person, cut a plece off the top and remove most of the pulp. Sprinkle the insides of the tomatoes with paprika and salt. Put an bùnce of butter into a saucepan with a small chopped ontory Cook until the onion is tender and then put in the tomato pulp and an ounce of ilver per person, cut into small pieces, Cook all together gently for a few minutes, after sprink- the tomatoes with the mix- ling with fur and seasoning. ture, spinkle the top with bread- crumbs, pour a litte melted butter over, and cook on a gressed dich until the tomatoes pre
tender which will be in twenty minutes to half an hour." Serve with a border of bored
rice or macaront
cup chopped raisins cup chopped altron
2/3 cup nuts
felspoon van
Creum fat. Add rest of ingre- dienta, drop Portions from p spoon one greased baking
moderate over:
Stuffing For
Holiday Birds
NUT STUFFING
1 Onion
2 tablespoons butter
21 cup soft crumbl
I cup chopped walnuts
teaspoon thyme cup boiling water + teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper
Fry onion in butter until a déi Ilcate brown. Add crumbs, wal- nuts, thyme, water, salt and pep- per. Mix thoroughly and stutt fowl
CHESTNUT STUFFING
(För 12 Phund Fo
1 pound chestnuts, cooked 8 cups soft bread crumbs
I cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon zaif.
teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
3 tablespoons chopped telers Cook chestnuts in water to tover, until soft, Cool and mash Add to test of ingre- or dice. dients. Lightly stuff fowl.
CELERY, OLIVE, AND ERAZIL- NUT STUFFING
11⁄2 cups chopped cźlery
cup chopped olives (drained)] 5 cups soft bread crumbs. 14 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
↑ tablespoon/græter 'ontor"
↑ teaspoon paprika /
1 teaspoon pepper.
5 tat espoons melted sorLET
1 cup chopped Brazil nuts 1 cup hot water or stock Mix all the ingredients and blend thoroughly. Dry inside of turkey and stuff. This amount is sufficient for a 10-pound tur- key!
CORN AND GREEN-PEPPER FAME STUFFING
cup minced onion
cup chopped green peffer
cup melted shortening
cup chopped celery
2 No. 2 cans corn
I teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon thyme
34 cups stale read crumbs
1 teaspoons telt
teaspoon pepper
pepper and celery in a little or
but not browned:
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Favourite Recipes
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TOASTED SPICE CAKE Bend together
1 cup light brown sugar
cup butter or substitute
a egg ydikű. DjkšÕIVĚ
2 teaspoon soda in
1 cups sour milk, and add 'alter—
nately with the following dry.
âgredients:
Sin together
1:
2 1-3 cups Rour
แ
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon salt. Last add
1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour into greased shallow pan and spread "batter with brown sågar meringue.
Mix together until smooth 2 egg whites beatin stir ánd 1 cup
light brown sugar Sprinkle with...
cup broken nut meats. Bate in moderate oven 350 deg. F. about 45 minutes:
PLAIN PLUM PUDDING
Sift together
21 curs dour...
I FERIDOON galt
teaboons mixed spice
+ Leaspoons baking soda. Then
add
cups sugar
"
24 cups raisins, stoned and cut
in half
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cup shortening, worked into the above, Add
1 egg well beaten (can be
omitted) mixed well with
2 cups buttermilk Steam na mquid for at least 31 hours and Anish off in the oven for { ut an hour. Serve" wit sance made as follows. Boll
$ cune
ilk, or tilk.. and water, add
dessert spoons sugar and dessert spoons odour dis- solved with milk....
I teapron butter. Add
teaspoon tantis flavouring just before serving.
The pudding can be mixed over night. This is a useful recipe When eggs are scams eight or tex
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COOKERY NOOK
Jew
A friend of mine cited days ago, bearing some pretty little covered tartlets which the wanted me to try. They were. really delicious with a mystériões favour which I could not place At first, There appeared to be o nothing inside but a few carrants, but they tasted rather like mince ples,
The secret, she told me aeter- wards, is mint. The filling was simply
CRETARIS. mitter, sugar, and a little very inely chopped mint. I visé everyone to try them; bowdered mint would pr bably do, but possibly would not be quite so good. Just a pinch tri each; how large a pinch depends upon your taste.
GINGERBREAD BOYS
Here's a real Christmas delight, ginger cookies suitable for ginger- bread boyai
2/3 cup Lat If cups sugar,"
cup
2 eggs
4 eggs
molasses
cupy endile
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons cinamon
teaspoon clover
1 teaspoon giktů.
1 teaspoon nutmeg
#teaspoon salt
4: cups flour
1 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon baking powder Cream fat, sugar. Add mo lasses, eggs, milk. Add rest if the gredients and chill dough. Holl
pieces
dough
or break off small Place Cookies 2 inches apart on greased baking sheet ha bake 10 minutes in moderate aven
For gingerbread boys, dough and cut dit "boy"
ing around paper pattern,
out
makes 6, ctos of
pound út key.