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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936.
STAPLES SURPRISES
DELICIOUS LAYER
CAKES
THREE-LAYER CAKE
1 cup shortening
1 cups sugar
3 egka
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
21 cups pastry flour
21 teaspoons baking powder
1 Teaspoon salt 2/3 cup milk
Cream shortening: add sugar slowly, beating in well. Add wel! beated egg yolks and beat unsil blended. Add vanilla extract, Sif Logeiber dry ingredients and add alternately with milk to first mix- ,ture. Mix in stiffly beaten egg whites thoroughly. Bake in greas- ed loaf pan la moderate oven a 350 degrees F. about 1 hour or in greased layer cake pan in moder- ale oven at 375 degrees F. about 25 minutes
BIARGIELALLOW NUT LAYER
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1 recipe three-layer cake
resipe marshallow frosting
Bake Make layer-cake batter,
as directed; cool. Put layers 10- gether and cover top and Aldes with marshallow frosting. While, frosting is still soft, sprinkle Ane- ly chopped pecans thickly on sides of the cake
MARSHALLOW FROSTING
1 cups granulated sugar
1 cup water.
9 large marshallowa
2 egg whitea.
2 teaspoons lemon juice
reaspoon baking powder
Boil sugar and water to 238 de- grees F. or until syrup spins a thread. Add marshallowa, cut Ento small pieces; lo not stir Into syrup, Four slowly into stiffy
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RECIPES FOR CONVALESCENTS
Al the up-to-date nursing-home
a great part of the menu is ""by doctor's orders." the doctor fre- quently giving precise fnstructions which the the manner in food is to be prepared, and insist- ing that these instructions shall be carefully carried out.
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beaten whites of eggs, beating unill smooth and thick enough to spread without running. Add baking powder and lenton juice.
MARIGOLD CAKE
1 recipe three-layer cake
1 recipe banana lemon Alling
1 recipe seven-minute frosting Sliced ananas
Bake
Make layer cake batter. as directed; cool. Spread banana lemon Sling between layers. Cover Lop and sides with frosting. Garnish with sliced bananas.
BANANA LEMON FILLING
3 tablespoons cornstarcn
cup sugar
cup water
1 CAB YOLK
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Granted rind of lemoả
1 tablespoon butter
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banana, sliced
Mix cornstarch and sugar to- Cook in dou- her: and water.
ble boller until thick and smooth, stirring constantly. Add beaten egg yolk and cook 2 minutes lon- ger.
Remove from fire; add le- Juice.
butter. rind and
Cool. Spread on cake, arrange on this a layer of thinly sliced bananas and spread thinly with more fll- Ing.
SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
1 unbeaten egg white
cup ganulated sugar
3 tablespoons cold water
teaspoon vanilla extract
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teaspoon baking powder Put Arst three ingredients iop. of double boiler. Place over boiling water; beat with egg bea-
LET.
FUDGE FOR THE NEW CANDY BOX
MIX
Chocolate Fudge
2 cups sugar
teaspoon salt cup milk
2 squares chipped chocolate and 2 tablespoons light corn sirup in a smooth saucepan. Bring to a boll slowly, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Continue cooking. stirring occasionally to prevent burning, to 235° F. on a candy thermometer, or until a very soft ball is formed in cold water. Remove from fre, pour into a clean pan, and add
of 2 tablespoons butter. Set aside to cool. without stirring, until lukewarm (110" F.). Add
Calves' liver is ordered by medi cal men for such is as anaemia, diabetes, and deblity. But Hver, cooked by the inexperienced, may prove tough and indigestible in- stead of the blood-forming, invi- gorating food that it should be.
method The
nursing-home cooking the daily quarter-of-a- pound is to put it through a min-
that cing-machine, taking care
the juice is lost. It is none of then mixed with a little scraped some onion, pinch of salt and chopped parsley, and shaped into a roll
texture of towing to the liver, no medium is necessary for the purpose of binding it). It is then placed under the griller just. long enough to cook lightly. The Inside of the roll, when opened, Rashers of should be reddish. bacon may be served with it.
SICK ROOM BEVERAGES
Barley-water as 'served in
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nursing-home is a good deal more tempting than the thick, rather glutinous drink which too often.
The ac- passes under that, ante. cepted method is "to wash a table- spoonful of pearl barley in several waters and place it in a saucepan with one pint of cold water. It is then gently simmered until re- duced by half, and flavoured with
1 teaspoon vanilla and beat until fudge begins to turn dull or until a small amount dropped from
a spoon will hold its shape. Pour quickly into buttered pan to 1 inch thick- ness. When cold cut in squares with a sharp knife.
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VARIATIONS IN FUDGE
Marshmallow- Increase chocu- late to 3 squares, Add 1 cup marshmallows, cut in small pieces, after beating fudge and before turning into pan.
and
Brown Sugar-Substitute browni sugar for white, stirring constant- ly to prevent curdling. Cook to
238 F.
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PRUNE NUT SQUARES
2/3 cup fu
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
cup inlik
1 teaspoon vanilia
2 teaspoons cinnamon..
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon sal
1 cup chopped prunes 2/3 cup broken nuts
4 cups flour
1
caspoon sada
Cream far and sugar, Add rest of ingredients, mixing lightly. Spread -inch thick on greased baking sheets. Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. While warTI), cut into 1-inch squares. Cool Remove and sprinkle with con- fectioner's sugar, Store in ear- her-ware-cooky jar, tightly
covered.
POTATO CAKES
3
cups mashed potatoes
3 tablespoons hot milk
teaspoon salt
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teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
1/3 cup flour
4 tablespoons fat
Mix potatoes with milk and sea- sonings. Shape into cakes 2/3- inch thick and roll in flour, Brown in fat melted in frying pan. Cover and cook slowly for
10 minutes...
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QUICK PARTY SWEET
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Place in individual glasses some small chunks of pine-apple, mix- ed with finely chopped preserved ginger. Pile whipped cream on top and eat up a few pink and white marsh-mallows to decorate It.
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NOVEL SALADS
1. Cut the inside of a celery into small pieces. Chop roughly about a dozen walnuts and mix with the celery, Cut up three apples quickly, mix with the other ingredients, and at once cover with the other ingredients, and at once cover with salad dressing to prevent the apples from dis colouring.
"2. Cu up finely the inside of a celery, mix with it a chopped hard-boiled egg, some capers, and abeet-root cut into tiny pieces, Whip a small carton of cream, add peper, salt, and enough le- mon juice to favour it nicely, and mix with the salad. Sprinkle with paprika.
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3. Steam half a pound of pota- foes in their skins, remove skins and cut the potatoes into thick slices. Place in a glass bowl with a in of crab, flaked, and coat with mayonnaise. Arrange slices of tomato all round and decorate
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BEEF STEAK PIE
The inside of the "ple should be prepared first, as it should be bak- ed as soon as the pastry is ready. Four persons will need a pound and a quarter, or a little more, of steak, and a sheep's kidney. Have the steak cut. thinly, and cut it into strips. Cut any fat there may be, and he kidney. into small al pleces. Roll up cach strip steak with a piece of kidney and fat inside, and dip into seasoned each layer. Grate a little onion over the top. Just cover with wa- ter. or preferably stock. Now make the pastry as follows. Sift half a pound of self-raising flour into a bowl with a pinch of salt. Rub in a quarter of a pound of dripping. Mix in half a pound of Make into slaved, cooked potato,
a fairly stiff paste with a beaten £8g and sufficient warm milk. Roll out on a floured board, and cover the top of the ple with it Bake in a hot oven for half an hour, then reduce the heat and cook very slowly for an hour and a half.
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INSTEAD OF BREAD- CRUMBS
When making bread sauce use semolina instead of breadcrumbs, as it is more nourishing and needs no preparation beforehand, Stir two table-spoontals qf semp- Iina into a pint of boiling milk, add onion and the usual season- ings, and let it cook slowly
thick and creamy. Breakfast biscuits, crushed to a fine pow- der, are much superior to ordin- ary whte brescrumbs for coating Ash, making stuffings, or a bread- crumb. pudding. They are easily prepared, and when cooking for an invalid are strongly to be re- commended on account of their lightness and digestibility.
NUT MERINGUES
are
These dainty biscuits can be quickly made in an emergency, provided blanched almonds kept in the store cupboard. For every white of egg two ounces of Icing sugar, ten drops of almond essence, and an ounce of almonds will be required. Shred the al- monds, whisk the egg whites to a stiff froth with a pinch of salt, and add the almond essence and the sugar folding them in care- fully, and whisking the mixture up again. Put in small heaps on a greased baking sheet, cover with the almonds, and bake in cool oven until set.
4. Wash a head of endive, dry it, break it up, and put into a glass bowl. Cut into Buces a hard-bolled with mayonnaise and sprinkle with paprika peper.
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'ASPRO
Quickly Smashes COLD & FLU Attacks
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OFF WITH ‘ASPRO'
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The New Reign
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which King Edward again com- mands.
TRY 'ASPRO' FOR:
HEADACHE TOOTHACHE RHEUMATISM · INFLUENZA SLEEPLESSNESS | HAY FEVER FEVERISHNESS. IRRITABILITY SORE THROAT NEURALGIA TEMPERATURE | EARACHE
COLDS
MALARIA
SCIATICA GOUT
LUMBAGO
DENGUE
ASTHMA
NEURITIS
ALCOHOLIC AFTER
EFFECTS.
"ASERO' GIVES GREAT RELIEF TO WOMEN WHEN DEPRESSED.
can be allen to me." Of not one of our King's has this been more tssentially and vividiš true.. It is a moving and a gracious quality. which gives him magnetism al-
33 the magnetism much. Less than ever is it enough managed with sinewy wisdom and ready, and promises to increase the quality required wary circumspection at every step mattires. Eut also he hears "the Something further, is
At this troubled phase- Els
still sad music of humanity." There Majesty's knowledge of Europe as
must be no mistake about the of the Empire equips him again, to
earnestness This King was taught As none of his subjects has seen aid his Ministers by support and by the War, as we have shown, to
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so much of the world, so none of suggestion, tact and persuasive nok realities In the face, whether HAVOC OF EXPLOSION IN|his statesmen knows so such of ness, in the sphere of policy where
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Longon, Jan.. 28.
grandfather excelled. - King Edward the Seventh came to the to realise his Throne too late deepest desire for the peace of the world as well as for the preserva- tion of the nation and Empire. The supreme tragedy of all time so far was not then to be averted. The shattering tempest broke from lowering skies...
other great countries and Powers his with whom our relations in the years ahead will be more vitally involved than ever. He has visited the United States and has an un- As the result of an explosion as the Craigellachie Hotel, Speyside, affected liking for the kindred and late on Sunday due to a leakage mighty people whose tacit friend- of acetylene gas, with which the ship with Britain is an invisible
are !'premises
lighted. damage asset at least as important for all estimated at well over £1000 was hopes of ultimate world-peace as is uny formal compact or obliga- tion whatever,
caused.
A barman, George Keiro, wnu was investigating the leakage, had a remarkable cape.
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in the social sphere or in that of
national and imperial defence,, or in that of world-anairs,
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He knows that there is much to be done in all these and other con- nections to bring about a right lin- provement of fe for the people
just
London, Jan. 30 Considerable changes are Ex- pected in the organisation of the
at home, and, especially for the Lord Chamberlain's department
rising generation; to re-establish Peanut Butter-Omit chocolate before it is called upon to under-
butter. Add 4 tablespoons
more equal guarantees for the peanut butter, without stirring, be- take the important duty of making arrangements, for the Coronation
Buch forces as were beginning to security of the gate, and for the fore setting aside to cool.
of King Edward VII, next year.
maintenance of British pass beyond man's control when It is considered possible that the
Queen Victoria's successor was laid bonour and influence; to bring There is more still. Our new present Lord Chamberlain,"
In his grave in May. 1810, have abaut a far safer and more stable He had just entered the room Sovereign knows the other part of
order of civilisation. And as he Earl of Cromer, will surrender his
double continent "Bouth reappeared in the world in aspects reels that, there is much.to be done no less formidable, but this time for each of these main things, he office at the end of March. He where the storage tank is situated the
អ៊ង when, without warning, it expio America.
acquisition of has held for nearly 15 years.
they may still be capable of ad desires with his whole heart and The Lord Chamberlain, who used with a report that was heard Spanish, that noble, tongue which justment without another eruption soul and with all his mind and all
a remarkable escape.
is spoken to-day by nearly 10,000.- of devastating violence; and that 000 of people on both sides of the name of The Peace-Maker which is strength to help in the doing. ranking next to the Lord Steward
Was. Ru outstanding Late bestowed for a while and then of the Household, the Earl of
Atlantle, example of his gifts and fair in took away in the case of Edward Shaftesbury, was absent for rea-
dealing with other races. He has the Seventh may.. under God's sons of health from King George'*
Balled the Far Eastern seas and blessing. belong to Edward the funeral
seen Japan. And last, though far Eighth in the lasting memory of from least, he knows all the prin- mankind. cipal peoples, and not a few of the amalier, in Western and Central Europe
Nut-One-half cup of broken nut meats may be added, to fudge. or any of the variations, after
the juice of half a lemon. Suff-beating and just before turning the second dignitary of the Court A window was blown out, and
cient time is allowed, before pour- Into pan. ing off, for the sediment to sink to
the bottom of the pan
Raw Beet Tea is recommended
by many experts as being more
POTATO SALAD
tittle onion
With the Countess of Cromer he
salled for the West Indies last Thursday to convalesce after the slight operation he underwent on Dec. 2. They will be away two! months,
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pieces of the dying glass struck a woman who was walking past the
hotel.ed
the
SMOTHERED IN MASONRY Keiro was smothered in failing masonry, but apart from shock and slight bruises about the head wis unhurt.
Another employet, George Weir, personal attendant to Captain Jardine Whyte, ex-MP for 'North
over them,
then sprinkle with chopped parsley and the inside of a celery, also chop- ped rather inely. Mix all this with miayonnaise and leaves to, stand. for a couple of hours."Ar- In the last 18 months Lord Derby, who is proprietor of the range some mustard and cross in Cromer's duties have been particu- hotel was ascending à staircase at a dish and put the potato mixture larly orierous. In recognition of the time, and was, knocked to the
his arduous work in supervising ground
Cut up some steamed potatoes digestible than the cooked variety and put then in a bowl. Sprinkle as the albumen is retained in a with pepper and soft and grate a soluble and, therefore, easily assi- milated tornu The beef, which must be lean and juicy, should be freed from all skin and fat and finely shredded with + Sikkag nnife. For every ounce of the meat allow a tablespoonful of cold water. Let the meat stand in the water fox two hours. Sprinkle with salt and place a saucer over it. To render it more appetising, serve the quid in a coloured wnie- glass and add a little celery-salt.
on It. Remove skin and bones from some large sardinca, cut them into strips, and arrange them on the salad. Sprinkle with pepper and lemonjukce.
the Silver Jubilee celebrations, he¦ Carpets and linoleum were rais- was awarded the Royal Victorian ed windows, seveal of stained Chain in King Georke's last birth-glass, were, shattered, and day honours 1st
stairway was badly damaged.
the
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KING AND PEOPLE TOGETHER
A GREAT HOPE When we seek to depict some The present disturbed period of what of the making and spirit and world stairs, with all the cum aspiration of a young sovereign plexity and hazard of its questions who is a personality so remark and claims, will become more an- able in his own right, we must ask alous-and dangerous unless it can what characteristics are the mak be improved in time by some con- ing traitent goes structive effort on a large scale. Some effort for rational re-settle-
ment boldly undertaken but yet
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May Heaven uphold him in these Ways and grant that the energies turn these wishes to creative pur of King and people together may
pose and bring them to fruit. To that end he has the animatini
At forty-one he has still in a suffi power of activity and expression. clent cause the gift of enthusiasm, and by feeling it can awake it. That is a preilous gift, and per- haps what the nation most needs. within the Constitution, and while father, he will add a new touch of as vigilantly mindful of it as his and lenders Prince of Wales we have long loved him al- ready As King we grapple him to our hearts snow: