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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936.
SURPRISES
MAKE THE MOST OF A
VERSATILE FRUIT
Here's some good advice to begin. with. Never be without a lemon. It is a most versatile fruit. Not only is it used in cookery, but 'It has a great medi- cinal value, and is useİD) as a cosmetic as well as for clearing purposes.
Add a little lemon juice when bolling white fish or rice or white vegetables such as ́ celery. Be- aldes bringing out the flavour, it keeps them white..
Puff pastry will be much lighter if a drop or two of lemon Ju'ce is mixed with the paste. A spoonful of unsweetened lemon Julee in a glass of warrri wa- ter is an effective garg`e LOT sore throat, and a tablespoonful mixed with the same quantity of boney, is also soothing.
If a lemon is put into the oven for a few minutes, or plunged into hot water, nearly double the quantity of juice will be obtairied.
YELLOW CURD
A pot of lemon curd in the store cup board always ecmes "in useful. Here is an easy recipe:
Put llb. loaf sugar, 4oz. butter, 3 eggs. and the rind and juice of three lemons into a double sauce- pan or a jar standing in a pan of hot water. Stir and cook 'slowly until the mixture thickens.
Pour into small
pets. cover closly, and store in "a rool, dry place
LRMON WINE
Lemons make a very palatable wine. The ingredients are 12 lemons, 41b. sågar, one gallon of boiling water. a tablespoonful of
· Yeast.
Thinly peel the rinds from the lemons, and place in an earthen- ware bowl Boil the water and the sugar together for half an hour, then pour the syrup over the fruit rinds.
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"When nearly cool,, add strained lemon juice and a table- spooniu of yeast. Cover with a cloth and leave to stand for 24 nours."
Skin and pour into a caak. Bung loosely until fermentation has ceased, then close the bung
ENGLISH PUDDINGS
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tightly and do not disturb for at least, seven months.;"
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A little singlass may be added the wine after six months,
BANANA
SOUFFLE
This easily made pudding is a clange from the more farinaceous kinds which we make with the ad-. dition of eggs. It is light, quickly cooked, popular with men and children who have become wearily
then it should be left for another philosophic about many puddings,
month.
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SURPRISE PO
Deservedly popular is this de- lletous lemon pie. Line a pla dish with either puff or short crust, bake in a hot oven until almost cooked, then pour in the follow- ing mixture---
Mix two teaspoonfuls of curn- four with a little cold milk to s smooth paste. Boll pint of mik, pour it over the cornflour, return to the pan, and boil and stir until it thickens.
Let it go of the boll, and then add a tablespoonful of sugar, the yolks of two eggs, then fold in the atliny whisked whites of the eggs with a little sugar and lemon "julce. Bake in a moderate oven
for half an hour.
STEAMED PUDDING
and with the addition of cream in serving it is as good for a party
for the nursery. It has the further recommendation from the hostess's point of view that it is the sort Of ́pudding the first spoonful of which the uninitiatëd turn over on their tongues mur- muring "Delicious; but what is 1t?**
To make it you need a fresh egg and a small banana for each person (slightly decreasing this amount as your persons increase, so that two" eggs ought to serve for three persons). You also want some sugar, some lemon juice, a little milk and some scraped coco- nut. Taking care to remove the internal "strings" as well the ex-. ternal skins from the bananas. you mash them into a smooth pulp, add sugar, to taste, a hearty
SUPPER SUR
PRISES
Quickly made, served hot, far- our-some and nourishing. That is what a supper dish should be And this is where maçaroni'helps.
FISH MACARONI PIE..
left-overs. It is always advisable A savoury way of dealing with
to parböll the macaroni for a few minutes in sälted bolling water,
Break the macaroní into three-
inch lengths, drop it into polling salted water and boll rapidly for Ave minutes. Drain through a colander, return "to the pan with a nut of butter. Remove the skin and bone from some cald cooked fish, then flake the fish and ar- range in a greased pledish,
Cover with cooked, macaroni
pint of white sauce, sprinkle over and grated cheese. Pour over i
3 few bread-crumbs, dot with butter and bake in a hot oven for ten to fifteen minutes.
SERVED WITH BACON
Macaroni and bacon makes a change in the menu.
Cook about 5oz. macarons in boiling salted water until tender,
The children will love a lemon squeeze of lemon juice (or, for then drain well. Add 40%, bacon,
pudding for a change.
Get together 402, breadcrumbs, 2oz, shredded suct, loz, self- raising flour, Roz, sugar, one egs, one lemon,
Mix
a variety, grape-fruit or orange), and at least one heaped table- spoonful of the coconut, mixing all together through and through. You then beat up the whites and the yolks of the eggs separately. and add the yolks with a little mix, repeating the thorough mix- ng as before. Last of all, you fold in lightly the stiff whites and put the dish in a moderate oven for about ten minutes or until the
the breadcrumbs, suet, flour and sugar with a pinch of salt. Add the beaten egg, lemon rind and juice, and a little milk "if required. Pour into a buttered basin and steam for 2 hours. Turn out and serve with" a plain white sauce flavoured with lemon.oured. A shake of granulated ju~
UNUSUAL PICKLE
Fur something different try lemon plekle. Here is an excel- lent recipe:
Make a salt water brine sufin- ciently strong to float an
es8. then drop in a dozen lemons and leave for seven days, stirring dally,
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top is nicely crisp and fawn-col-
gar can be added on the top just before serving If you like and if your family, consists of sweet- toothed persons.
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One of the advantages, it will be seen, is that there is no need "to cook the bananas frst, as 15"
necessary when using. Zarola ground rice, or any other cereal in conjunction with eggs, and Remove the lemons, cut them
that no panada made with flour Into pieces, and put into a pan.
13 needed. The result, while Add two or three cloves, two combining froth with crispness, tablespoonfuls of horseradish, gives also just the right amount of" pinch of cayenne, and a Mittle
'substance for good appetites picked garlic, if liked. These spices should be tied in a muslin bag.,
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HICKORYNUT MACAROONS
Whites 2 eggs, 1-2 cup pulver- ized sugar, 1-2 cup chopped nut meats, 12 teaspoon salt, 1-4 tea- spoon vanilla.
Beat whites of eggs until stia,
GINGER SQUARES On cup molasses, 1-2 cup gran- ulated sugar, 1-2 cup shortening, 1-2 cups flour, 1 cup bolling wa-.. ter, 2 teaspoons soda, i teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1-2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1-4 teaspoon THE KING TO DISPOSE OF cloves, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs.
Cream abortening and sugar. ". Add molasses and half the flour. Mix and sift remaining flour with spices and salt. Add 1-2 cup boiling water to first mixture. Add 2 tablespoons evaporated milk remaining dry ingredients and stir
diluted with
alb. Bour.
ib, beef suet
Ib. stoned raisins
1 egg
Pinch of salt
pint water
Skin the act and chop it fine. Cut the raisins, in half and mix them with the four and suet; add the egg and milk and the aalt. Stir well: put mixture in buttered, basin tie up with a cloth and boll':'about 3 hours. Serve with castor sugar slíted over the top.
Bedfordshire Pudding
2 eggs
oz. candied peel "-
A little nutmeg
2 023. currants
2 oza. raisins
6ozs, short crust pastry
3 tablespoons jevaporated - milk
diluted with..
# pint water Line a
fat dish with pastry and decorate the edges. Beat up eggs, add the milk (which should be bolling) mince the peel and raisins rather coarse, add there. with the currants to the custard... and pour, into the prepared ple": dish. Add a grate or two of nut meg and bake for about half an hour in a moderate oven. Cover with caster sugar, Berve hot or cold.
Cambridge Padding
lb. four
.11 ozs. castort sugar
1 egg
ib, cooking apples
3 tablespoons evaporated milk
diluted with
pint water
until smooth. Dissolve soda in remaining boiling water and stir rapidly into batter. Add eggs well beaten and turn into a greased and floured dripping pan. Bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven: (375 degrees F.). Sprinkle with granulated sugar and cut in small squares or bars before re- moying from the pan,
This is a good recipe to divide if you only want half as much. Half of it will make a square of about eight inches.
ONE OF HIS AIRPLANES
London, Jan. 20. King Edward intends to dispose of one of his airplanes, as he no longer requires more than one
machine.
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At present he has two-both new De Havilland Dragon “Rapide" air liners which cruise at 135 ph, and each of which is powered with two air-cooled en gines of 200 hp..
either fried or cold, boiled, a cup- ful of stock for a meat cube dis- solved in a cupful of hot water), two or three skinned tomatoes, or mushrooms, pepper and salt.
Stir gently over a low gas for fifteen minutes, then turn on to a hot dish, and serve withì toast.
ALMOND CAKES
Whites 7 eggs, 1 pound powder-
ed sugar, 1 pound shelled al- monds, 1. teaspoon salt, "table- spoons cocos, teaspoon vanilla..
Beat white of jeggs until stik. Put nuts through ins knife of food chopper, Almonds are not blanched. Mixed ground nuts and sugar and eccon and fold into beaten egg whites. Add salt, and. vanilla and drop from tip of
onto spoon
A buttered baking sheet. Bake 30 minutes in a slow oven (300 degrees F.). Before baking a whole blanched almond may be pressed in the centre of each cake...
beating in sugar and salt. Fold in nuts and vanilla and-drop from tip of "spoon onto a buttered pa-- per spread over a baking" sheet. Bake twenty minutes in a slow oven (300 degresa F.)..
WORLD RENOWNED CONTRALTO
Spinal Trouble Caused By Accident
London, Jan, 22. Dame Clara Butt, the world- famous untralto, died to-day at her home Prospect Cottage, North Stoke, Oxford,
She was 62 and had been 111 Ter some time.
Her husband Mr.:Kennerly Rum- These machines, constructed, at j ford, her daughter and husband Hatfield last year to the special | Major and Mrs. Claude Cross her requirements of his Majesty, can two sisters" and "Mr. W, Lawson ordinarily carry up to a dozen pas Butt her brother, were at the bed- sengers, but are fitted for a very alde, limited number for Royal: the. Dame Clara, a singer for 40 | They are painted in the Guards years, had a voice of exceptional colours, as all his machines have power." It. was stated that not been.
Even the organ at the Albert Hall,
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Peel, core, and slice the apples. It was' in 'one of these that at its loudest, could drown ́ ́ her Make a smooth batter of the Flight-lieut. Fielden few the King notes.
flour. milk, and egg. Add the and the Duke of York from Sand She received her training at me sugar and apples and pour mix-ringham to Hendon. for the Accea-Royal College of Music, and first | ture into a buttered basin. Tie &sion ceremony. floured cloth over and boll for 2 hours.
Manchester Podding
1 pint fine breadcrumbs
3 eggs
1.02, butter
1 lemon
2 tablespoons ja m 3 tablespoons evaported diluted with), ga
FITTED WITH RADIO
distinguished herself in a students' performatice of Gluck's "Orfeo.
She appeared but once at Covent Both machines are fitted with Garden again "in" "Orië wireless, navigation lights few opera was not her medium" and night nying, and a full set of her great successes were blind-flying equipment. The stan- soloist.
dard cost of this type of aircraft 4 SPINAL TROUBLE Is 4100, but is usually more it some years ago Dame Clara re- specially fitted with extra appoint-ceived a serious injury to her milkments to a private owner's re-back Bpinal trouble develo
quirements. This would bring the which necessitated her sitting price to about £4500, down at concerta.
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LIPTON'S TEA HINTS
There is nothing easier than to make tea well-except to make it badly.
So here are some hints on how to make the best of it.
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BUYING TEA Tes in the cheapest and most economical drink in the world. From one pound of good tes you can brew as many as 200 cups. And it pays in the long run to buy good tes because it is more economical to use, and the difference between the cost of one cup of pour tes Bat there is all the and one cup of good ten is so infinitesimally small as not to matter. difference in the favour and it is the flavour that is really the luxury that everyone can now afford.
STORE TEA IN AN AIR-TIGHT CONTAINER. Tea loses its flavour if it is exposed to the air for long, especially in a moist climate. It ought to be kept in a caddy, or in s glass jar with a screw top, or in clean 'tin,"
USE THE RIGHT KIND OF TEA-POT earthenware tea-pot for making good tea..
to remove all stains and dried after use. brush will come in handy for this.
LIPTONS
TEA "SLE & COLDA PLAN •
CHOICEST PURE CEYLON TEA
Nothing compares with an ordinary" "browa This should be carefully cleaned, not just rinsed, When cleaning don't forget the spout a mall
YELLOW LABEL
She first studied under Mr. Rortham, conductor of the Bristol Madrigal Society, and then entered the Royal College of Muse as student under Mr. Henry Blower,
AM—THE BOY
MEASURE THE QUANTITY OF TEA CAREFULLY, “One teaspoon- fal per person and one for the pot, is a Bound old fashioned rule that has never been beaten. But if good tea is used there is no need to allow "one for the pot,” unless very strong tea is wanted, for good tea is more economical than cheap tea
USE ONLY FRESHLY BOILED WATER. Take care to warm the pot thoroughly before putting in the te Then pour on freshly boiled water-not water that has been allowed to simmer. Better tea will be made if the kettle is kept free from the lime or chalk deposits hard water,
-ALLOW-FOUR MINUTES FOR INFUSION. Pour freshly boiled water on to the feares until the tea-pot is full, bat don't pour out the tea into eaps until you have allowed it to stand for at least four minutes. The lid, of course, should be put back as soon to the water is poured into the pot, and then the whole should ho parered with cosy. Don't forget that ten should serer be allowed to stow !! If it is allowed to stand too long ten loses. all its virtue and its flavour.
sent my little boy for two pounds of blackberries, and I only received a pound and a half." **My scales are quite com madam. Have you weighed your little boy?
a pint water,NAL
The King's three-engined mono- Tast August, she was brought Butter, a ple-dish, in which put plane, the Vickers "Viastra" which home from the Continent in an breadcrumbs, grated lemon rind, he used for many journeys all air liner which had been atte diluted milk, and yolks of three over Great Britain, was purchased specially with a bed for her. Be eggs. Mix and bake in
some months ago by the Air was taken bone by her husband moderate oven till drm. When Ministry for wireless' experimental in an ambulance, so she was only 16 when she won cold, place a layer of jam on top work
FIRST GREAT, BONG"/ an open scholarship valued at 400 whip: whites of eggs well, spread Unifke Royal cars which do not The daughter of Henry Albert, guineasy. The song she chose for this roughly on the jars, sprinklebear registration numbers Royal Butt, @captair:","ERK they Mercantile.
the examination was The En Ponder it is said even the Dame. Clara wal So chantress, and in the story of her ers became almost EX near Brighto
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