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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRU 'RY 27,1936.
STAPLES URPRISES
HAM A TASTY WINTER
DISH®
This Versatile Meat Is Good
In Many Combinations
"For these cold winter days we like to prepare dinner menus that offer not only our favourite ment dish bu other satisfying food combinations
- Surel that have there are 1ew meats more possiblities than ham for the dinner-tha everyone-likes E
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CALAWAIKI HAM
Simmer
s.lets ham seenturous about two ches thick. n su:- elent water to cover, for 20 minutes. Drain and pläre in an oiled bakink pan. Spread top side with mustard and spinkle with brown aug Mask
2 cupcaked dried apriénist
a pu p. Aud
cup white sugar
2 cups quid in which apricots
were cooked
1 cup rushed pineapple and
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mix thoroughly. Pour over ham. Bake covered t hot over 400 4 hours Serves six.
PLANKED HAM WITH SWEET POTATO
1-inch slice smoked ham "Cover ham with Jolling water,"
bring to boting paint. then -simmer for 40 minutes. Drula and place on a ftat
piled plank.
Sprinkle with
4 tablespoons brown sugar
Dot with
ZEL: cloves
Brown
11 a moderate
(350 F for 30 minutes.
Form six mounds of
Oven
cups mashed sweet potatoes. leaving spaces for sly zer- vings of peas. ···
Sprinkle with
Marshmallows
pieces and
CUL
1 cup chopped nuts Arrange
HA smal
12 smail bolled buttered onions
on plank and put back in
ven 15 minutes.
2 cups cooked green peas 12
Ibs.) Garnish with
Parsley.
Makes six servings.
DR. FARQUHAR MACRAL
DEAD
Distinguished Work In West
Of Scotland
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London, Feb. 3. The death occurred yesterday at Newmill, St. Andrews, Mr. Farquhar Macrae, M. B., C.M.. who occupying for many years a pro- minent place in the surgical world and was particularly associated with medical work in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
HAM LOA!
Mix thorough.y
la. ground smoked han
ground lean pork
1 teaspoons.salt
A teaspoon pepper
4
4 teaspoon poultry season 18 tab espoons minced onion
1 tablespoons chopped green
pepper
1 teaspoon minced parsley
1 cup soft bread crumbs, Then add
1 ocaten eg
uni.
cup milk and blend mixture holds together quite We ! '
Form into a loal shape and
pace in loaf pan. Pout
1
1 cup strained tomato.s" ove
Joar. Bake in a moderate oven 350 F.) 1 hours, bast- ng occasionally, Makes six servings.
GYPSY HAM 61-inch silves smoked ham...
Sear La
2 tablespoons fat until fat on ham is browned. Arrange in arge shallow baking dish On the ham place.
1 sliced onion
4-6 tablespoons brown sugai
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups strained tomatoes
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
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Let s'mmer in a moderate oven
350 F) 1 hour." Makes 6 servings,
SPICED BAKED HAM
5 pounds ham
Plunge ham into bolling water and boll 10 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hours. Retain
cup water in which the ham was cooked. Remove rind of ham ond replace on rack in roaster..
Add
1 cup vinegar
4 cupstock..
Sprinkle the fat surface with
teaspoon mustard
teaspoon paprika
Dot, with
15 whole cloves
Sprinkle with
FREEMASONS" ADDRESS
TO THE KING
An Especial Grand Lodge
a
London, Feb. 6.
An Especial Grand Lodge was reid at Freemasons' Hall yester- day, General Sir Francis Davies, Deputy Grand Master, presiding, when
loyal and
dutiful address to the King was voted and resolutions were passed ex- pressing sympathy with Queen Mary and with the Grand Master, He graduated in 1885 at Glas- the Duke of Connaught. The gow University, where he was, a Deputy Grand Master in his distinguished student, and after speech referred particularly to the occupying residential posts in the manifestations of sympathy from Western Infirmary and the Royal 'outside the Empire and laid stress
surgeon,
FAVORITE CAKE RECIPES
COURTESY ROYAL BAKING
POWDER)
FIG CAKE
2 cup shortening
1 cups sugas.
4 egg whites
1 teaspoon lemon extract
3 cups pastry four
teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg :
1 tablespoon molasses
1 cups finely chopped
Boured
Ags,
Cream
shortening; add
sugar
the We'l
one
extract
s owly, beating in Add
unbeuten
gg white; beat well; add emon Sift together flour, baking pow- der and salt. Add a ternately with milk. Fold in remaining To A egg whites, stiffly beaten.
cinnamon, of the mixture add nutmeg. mo asses and figs. Put. Into well-greased rube pan by spoonfuls, alternating light and dark mixturf. Bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees F. about 1 hour.
MARBLE CAKE
1 recipe for Fig Cake
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 squares unsweetened choco-
late
COFFEE CHOCOLATE CAKE
3 squares unsweetened choco-
Jate
cup strong hot coffee
cup white corn syrup
cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
17 cups pastry flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt'
1 recipe Marshmallow filing
and frosting
Meli chocolate with hot affee;
'add corn syrup mixing well unti mixtxure thickens; cool. shortening; beating in
Cream
add well.
s'owly: sugar Add unbeaten
eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vania' Sift together dry ingre- extract. dients: add alternately with cold chocolate mixture to first mixture. Bake in greased 9-in square cake pans in moderate oven at 450 F. about 35 minutes. Put layers together and cover top and sides of cake with frosting Makes 1 two-layer cake. MARSHMALLOW FILLING AND
FROSTING
1 cups granulated sugar
1 cup water.
large marshmallows
2 egg whites
2 teaspoons lemon juice
teaspoon baking powder
Make cake batter, using vanilla extract instead of emon. Add meited and cooled chocolate to
Boil sugar and water to 238 de- of the half the mixture instead
or un syrup spins a Brees F Put and gs. molasses spices.
thread. Add marshmallows, cut into greased tube pan as for Fig
into smal' places: do not stir into Cake. Bake as dicted.
syrup. Pour slowly into stiffly- beaten egg whites, beating until smooth and thick enough to spread without running. Add baking powder and lemon juice.
APPLES STUFFED WITH HAM
Cut in very small pieces.
2 to 4 cups cooked diced ham. Season with
3 teaspoons prepared mustard
3 teaspoons grated onion
cup chopped green pepper Hollow but the inside of
6 large red app es
F with ham mixture
brush with
and
2 tablespoons butter Place apples in a battered cas- serole. Cover and bake in a hour or until apples are ten- F) 1 moderate oven (350°
with- Mashed sweet potatoes
peanuts may be baked same casserole if desired. Makes six servings.
in
cup brow sugar Bake in a moderate oven (350* F.) 1 hours, basting oc- casionally. Makes 10 to 12 servings.
SCOTSMAN'S BRIDE IN SILVER
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Little Attendants At London Wedding
KITCHEN KINKS
IF SOUP IS TOO SALTY
If the soup is too salty, add a couple of slices or more of raw
After potato.
boling
few 2 minutes remove the potato and the soup is not so salty.
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SPICE CONTAINERS
Small mayonaise jars make. fine containers for spices. paint
the tops with quick drying enamel
to match the Etchen colour
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scheme. One can always discern
the amount in each jar readily.
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NO JUICING OUT"
In making fruit or any two- crust pies, make a generous in- cision in the middle of the upper crust and none near the edge arid there is no juicing out.
NO GIGANTIC NAVY FOR JAPAN
Denial Of Reports
Loadan. Feb. 6.
London, Feb. 3.
A report was published yester- The wedding took place at the day (not in The Daily Telegraph) that Japan intended to launch out Savoy Chapel. London, on Saturday on a gigantic naval programm between Mr. Patrick Small Keir immediately after the end of the Balfour younger son of the late Mr. London Naval Conference trem Frank Balfour, of Kindrogan, Blair-which she withdrew last month. gowrie, Perthshire, and Mrs Frank In well-informed quarters the re- Balfour, and Miss Lila Camilla port was dismissed as tendentious Spicer, only daughter of Mr and Mr
fiction. Basti Spicer, of Avalon, Purley, Sur-
rey.
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The Rev, Maurice Sidebotham of-
clated, and with the bridegroom, as his best man was Mr. Frands
Balfour.
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Hospital for Sick Children, Glas on the reference in the Virginian gow, he went to Leeds to assist House of Delegates to the sym- Mayo Robson, the distinguished pathy which the "daughters of
for England" felt
the
Mother 'On bis return to Glasgow Dr. Collntry. Macre joined the staf of the Later in the afternoon, a meet- Western Infirmary and later wasing of Grand Chapter was held, appointed surgeon to the Victoria when the Earl of Harewood, Pro Infrmary, Subsequently he re- Grand Master. and General Bir dreas was arranged with
H turned as surgeon to the Western Francis Davies were installed in Infirmary, where he served until their respective offices in Grand retiring several years ago and Chapter. taking up residence in St. An-
drews.
His duties were not yet frished, He outstanding abilites' ag a however, as he was appointed in-
aurgeon were recognised by his
to
several
the!
The
puffed full above the elbows and a long skirt which moulded the figure
It is pointed out that Japan s already spending neary ha her revenue on armaments, She could not possibly finance a new build-
ing programme of the magnitud: indicated, for the battleships alone would cost at least £10.000.000 each.
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grown-up
The bride arrived with her father, who gave her away, and her sim- ple dress was of stiver and ivory brocade woven in an unusual design flowers. They carried baskets All- of miniature palm leaves.
ed with scarlet carnations. 3leeves Miss Jill Shaw and Miss Dorothy
Harding were the two attendants, and their dresses of Ivory moire taffeta were fashioned on similar lines to the birdal gown, SILVER LEAVES
except that the rounded necklines and cuts to their sleeves were Her tulle vell was held in place edged with petals of the moire, Halo headdresses of silver petals bearls. Her bouquet was composed completed their tollettes, and they of white carnations and Hes of carried bouquets of scarlet carna- the valley.
arid made a short rounded train ai the back,
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spector of examinations in surgery appointments as surgeon to the by an antique coronet of seed and dental surgery for the Gene- City of Glasgow Fever Hospitals rai Medical Council, a post which and to Ayr County Hospital. occupied him for two years. In 1034 he was appointed secretary and inspector in surgery to the Medical Council of India, for whom he carried through valu- able work, but when his health began to fall he returned home in the spring of last year.
Dr. Macrae also made valuable contributions
terature of surgery.,
The funeral will take place on and Wednesday at St. Andrews. there will be a service at midday in All Saints' Church.
tions.
Miss Jul Sidebotham and Miss After the ceremony Mrs. Spicer 3111 Mansel,. two little girls, looked held the reception at the Savoy most attractive in their short Hotel, and later in the day the frocks of deep cream met, ashed bride and bridegroom left for Scot- with ivory moire and worn with tand, where they are spending wreaths of small silver leaves and their honeymoon.
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LIPTON'S TEA
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TEA HINTS
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There is nothing easier than to make tea well-except to make So here are some hints on how to make the best of it.
it badly.
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BUYING TEA. Tea is the cheapest and most economical drink in the world. From one pound of good tea you can brew as many as 2 0 caps. And it pays in the long run to buy good tea because it is more economical to use, and the difference between the cost of one cup of poor tea But there is all the and one cup of good tes is so infinitesimally small as not to matter. difference in the flavour and it is the flavour that is really the luxury that everyone can now afford.
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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 a 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
1. COFFEE & COCOADLANTERS CEYLON
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"CHOICEST PURE CEYLONTEA
ERSALITY MET
Nothing compares with an ordinary brown This should be carefully cleaned, not just riased, When cleaning don't forget the spout; a small
MEASURE THE QUANTITY OF TEA CAREFULLY." "One teaspoon. ful per person and one for the pot" is a sound old-fashioned rule that has never been beaten. But if good ten is used thero is no need to allow "one for the pot," unlada very strong tea is, wanted, for good tez is more economical than cheap tea.
tea
USE ONLY FRESHLY BOILED WATER. Take care to warm the pot thoroughly before putting in the 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 of hard water:
ALLOW FOUR MINUTES FOR INFUSION. Pour freshly boiled water on to the leaves until the tea-pot is full, but don't pour out the tea into cups until you have allowed it to stand for at least foar minutes. The lid, of course, should be put back as soon as the water is poured
YELLOW LABEL into the pot, and then the whole should
be covered with a cosy. Don't forget that tea should never be allowed to "staw." If it is allowed to stand, too long ten loses all its virtua'and its flavour.