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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936.
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STAPLES SURPRISES
GARNISH ADDS ALLURE
TO MEALS
The plainer and more inexpen- sive" your meal is, the more pains you ought to take to make it look preus.
One of the easiest ways to im prove the appearance of the or- dinarp meat-and-potato meal is to arrange the potatoes or their sub stitute in the form of a border with the meat in the centre and the other vegetables as a garnish on the outside
Mashed potatoes which may be made of Irish or sweet, mashed quash and well cooked rice make good looking borders."
Green's, cabbage and sauerkraut, for instance, present a more in- viting appearance when served either in a molded form or in the form of a border, Arrange in a ring and all the gentre with fluffy mashed potato piled high in ir- regular contour. Surround the border with brown sausage cakes or crisp link" sausage. This saves dishwashing, too, because one ser- ving dish does the work of three. PREPARING MASHED POTATOES To make a mashed potato bor- der. rice or thoroughly mash,po- tatoes. Then, for each two cups of mashed potato add 4 tablespoons milk or cream, 1-2 teaspoon salt and 2 tablespoons melted butter. More milk may be needed to make the potatoes the right conalstency and, of course, the more milk you ean beat into the potatoes the more nourishing they are.
Beat With a slotted spoon untk light
RHUBARB CHARLOTTE
Butier a deep pan or bowl on the outside and place it in the centre of a hot platter or chop plate. Press a mound of prepared pota- toes around the bowl. Then re- move bowl and fill depression with meat or fish or a creamed vege- lable;
Macaroni, spaghetti and noodles make nice borders, too. Fricasseed, hen in a border of poodles with a garnish of candied sweet potatoes is so inviting that one forgets it isn't spring chicken.
Stuffed tomatoes, stuffed pep- pers, glaced and buttered onions, beet marbles and grüléd tomatoes add beauty to any hot main dish.
CHICKEN FRICASSEE
One four pound fowl,"cold water, 2 teaspoons salt, 1-4 teaspoon pep- per,, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 noodles.
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Cut chicken in plêces for serv- trig and put in kettle with cold water to more than cover. Bring to the boiling point and cook slow- ly from two to three hours, adding salt and pepper when half done. Remove from stock to hot platter and drop codles into boiling broth. Cook twenty minutes. Drain from broth and arrange in a bor der around chicken. Stir four to 2 anoth paste with a little cold water and stir into broth from which noodles were drained. Bring to the boiling point, stirring con- stantly, and boll three minutes. Serve in a separate sauce boat.
SARDINE SAVOURIES
intö two: remove
These make excellent little after- Line a buttered ple-dish with dinner savouries. Small pieces of breadcrumbs. Stew some rhubarb puff pastry left over when patties with a little water and flavour with or mince ptes have been made. grated lemon rind. Pour off the can be used. Remove scales from "juice and lay the rhubarb over the divide them
some large sardines and carefully breadcrumbs, Ada. another layer bonca, Sprinkle the sardines with of crumbs and another layer of cayenne and lemon juice, then put rhubarb. Sprinkle the top with the halves together again. Roll breadcrumbs. Then bo.1 up
the out the pastry thinly and cut into juice with three tablespoonfuls of pleces a little over twice as large golden syrup and a lump of butter. as each sardine. Put a sardine on When syrudy pour over the bread each piece. moisten the edges, and fruit. Sprinkle a little brown fasten down, brush over sugar on the top and bake in
beaten egg and bake in a hot oven moderate oven for half an hour. for ten minutes.
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THE TERRITORIALS TASK
London, Mar. 14 For many years the "Territorial Arms has pailently waited and seen in successive Army Estimates only the most meagre provision for its needs, Verbal tributes have of-
ten been no less handsome, though In the circumstarices perhaps less heartfelt than those expressed in the House of Commons yesterday.
could leave
with
these tionary force shores. Yet both anti-aircraft batteries
searchlight com- panies are sadly below their pro- per strength
and
UNUSUAL
CAKES
The family always appreciates' a cake with a new taste, so here are some recipes unusual in favour and certain to find favour.
ARROWROOT INVALID CAKE Light and easily digested, and so most suitable for invalids.
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The Ingredients are:-602. each urrowroot. margarine, Hour, and caster sugar. 3 eggs, about ± plac milk, a teaspoonful of grat- ed lemon rind or a few drops of almond or vanilla essence.
A tea- spoonful of baking powder, if. plain flour is used."
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Sieve the dry ingredients. Cream the margarine well with a wooden spoon until very creamy. Add the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then stir in the dry ingredients and grated lemon rind. or flavouring, Add the stiffly whisked egg whites. then
a prepared tin, and bake for 13 to 2 hours in a moderate oven,
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Cool on a wire rack, and when cold sprinkle with sieved caster sugar.
MADE WITH MARMALADE
This unusual cake will be a plea sant surprise on the tes" table.
Ingredients: 3 eggs, 8 oz, margar- ine, 6 oz. caster sugar, 6 oz. four, three tablespoonfuls of marmal ade, pinch of salt. Beat the mar→ garine and sugar with a wooden spoon, add the eggs very gradually, then stir in the sieved Dour, salt and marmalade.
Pour into a prepared tin and bake in a moderate oven from one
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION
To Take Place On June 23
London, Mar. 28.
It was announced in the "Lon- don Gazette" last night that the King's birthday will be celebrated in London and stations at home and abroad on Tuesday, Jane 23
42nd birthday, next. That date, King Edward's k nearly three weeks later than King George's anniversaries, which fell on June 3.
SCOTCH EGGS.
Scotch eggs are a delicious and ensy dish to make. All that is re- quired are hard bolled eggs and a quarter of a pound of ɛausage- meat for each person. Shell the eggs. and coat them with the sausage-ment, taking care none of the egg is left uncovered (flour the hands well to prevent them from sticking). Roll in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs. Let them stand aside for about an hour to set the eggs and crumbs. Fry in boling fat for five minutes. Put on a dish, garnish with heart of fettuce, radishes, grilled tomatoes. and mashed potatoes. This dish is equally good eaten with plain, bolled rice.
HAM AND EGG CASSEROLE
Three eggs, I 1-2 cups milk, 3 cups finely chopped "ham; 1-2 cup minced celery, 1 tablespoon minced 'parsley. 1-1-2 cups soft bread crumbs, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1 ta- blespoon butter, 1 hard cooked egg.
'Beat
eggs slightly. Add milk, ham, celery, bread crumbe. per and parsley. Mix well and put into a buttered casserole. Dot with bits of butter and bake un-
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covered for forty minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees F). Remove from oven and garnish with hard cooked egg cut in quar- ters and a sprinkling of chopped parsley.
and a quarter to one and a half hours.
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'LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM GILBERT
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been a serious thing, for, at one which his plays were performed. time there were forty-two com- Els cynicism does not ; injure; us panies playing "Pinafore" there, bow, though there are other things so D'Oyly: Carte conceived the idea equally deserving of censure in of sending across a specimen aes- our own day if another Gilbert thete, and with great daring ask-were to arise; ed Wilde if he would go. Els dip It is quite a different matter lomacy concealed the effrontery of when we come to consider another the suggestion, and somehow he element that went to make up the conveyed to Wilde the idea that it
total of Gilbertian humour, was an honour conferred on him sidil in verse, that uncanny mas because of his recently-publishedtery of metre and rhyme that are poems. Wilde went, long hair and the most dazzling feature of his short ousers all complete, and libretti. In this he has Di
no peer,
In London the principal func- tion will be the Trooping of the Colour on Horse Guards Parade, There, as has been already an amazed nounced, King Edward will ride Americans. He took himself ser- at the head of the troops for the lously, but his audiences were first time as Sovereign.
thinking of "Patience" all the The celebrations at naval, mil-time. It was rather a cruel trick Itary, and Air Force stations into play on a superlatively vain clude ceremonial parades, Inman, but it filed the theatre. fantry battalions troop the colour. Once Wilde protested against the and at certain stations Royal sal-caricature, in the play, but in the útes of 21 guns are fired. Ships worst possible way, by trying to of the Navy are dressed over all,
defend what it ridiculed. In one of his lectures he said: -
A MAY CORONATION
London, Mar. 26.
WILDE'S REPLY
his
We might think that we had stumbled on something not quite familiar from une et the gnomic poets, but in Gubert's world the Unes are given fin Patience"), with a commentary that takes all the sentiment out of them:
"True love must single-hearted
De-Exactly 50!
From every selish fancy free-
Exactly so!
No idle thought of gain or joy
A maiden's fancy should em-
ploy..
True love must be without alloy.
Exactly so!
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ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN
Once we enter into this world of Gilbert we know that anything
might happen, except the expect- ed of ordinary life. It is a world in which fairies might appear as a matter of course,
"It seems that she's a fairy From Anderson's library, And I took her for The proprietor
Of a Ladies' Beminary,"
Still no matter how closely we might consider one by one all the excellences of Gilbert's Ubretti, we could not yet say that we had a country
Once you have tasted
a jelly containing the natural juices of tipe fruit you will quickly detect a new and
altogether pleasing flavour. That is why
so many hostessce make a special point of insisting on-
Cerebos
Jelly Crystals
Trade enquiries de: . John D. Huichla
# C... Post Box 43.
opera to a height which it has never reached before or since. It is true that other skilled writers have appeared in the same field since his day, but when we have admired the facile rhyming of Arthur Wimperis, the nimble wit st Dr. Alington and the ingenuity and purgency of A. P. Herbert, we still feel as when we compare E. The official announcement in
V. Lucas with Lamb-Lucas is of this there, are
the "Gazette" stated that the day two main causes, quite apart from
Lamb without the mint muce. the factors-economic, social, and appointed for the celebration of the King's birthday in the case of
"You have heard, I think, a lơw
VERSE SKILL above all financial-which affect
Instead of trying to labour an all Territorial recruiting. One is the Customs and Excise Depart-of you. of two flowers connected
In which quite naturally one ments, and in the case of the of- with the aesthetic movement in explanation of Gilbert's skill in the delay in providing guns,
might confuse a pilot with a pir- Acers and servants of the dock England, and såld (I assure you, j versifying let me refer you to two At last, however, Mr. Dutt Cooper searchlights, and equipment, and
ate, in which a cheap tailor could. has announced certain long-especially the new headquarters companies in England and Nor-erroneously) to be the food or of his songs. One, the Colonel's,
be made Lord High Executioner thern Ireland, sought and long-deferred concès-"necessary to house them; the other
will be Saturday, some aesthetic young men. Well, song in "Patience, typical for no other reason than that he June 27.
let me tell you that the reason example of his patter songs, to- 'sions which ought to produce re- is a mistaken but prevalent idea
was the next due for execution, in we love the ly and the sunflower, pical, satirical and Hudibrastic. which Lord Chancellors sing most sults out of all proportion to their that anti-aircraft work is not ac-
in spite of what Mr. Gilbert may The other 18 the inimitable "I cost. Four especially will be" wel- tire, exciting, or important enough
entertaining songs and Judges tell you, is not for any vegetable Have a Song to Sing, 0,′′ from come-the restoration of the men's for a fit" young man to devote his
solve breach of promise cases by fashion at all. It is because these "The Yeomen of the Guard." bounty in effect to the 1921 level leisure to learning it. The delay
marrying the plantis, in which two lovely flowers are in England of 25; the extension of marriage is discouraging, so Mr. Churchill
The date of the Coronation is the two most perfect models of
there can be republican kings, and" allowance to men between 21 and has pointed out to the serving
members of parliament who are now narrowed down to a day in design, the most naturally adapt 26, irrespective of rank; payment, Territorial, and deterrent to the the first two weeks of May of nexted for decorative art the gaudy
fairies down to the waist, in which of full travelling expenses for nifty would-be recruit. It can Land
can be governed by year. What has governed this de- leanine beauty of the one and the penetrated the secret of their pedespotism tempered by dynam- drills; and the increase from £1 must be
ended. Huzdreds of
cision is the trees in The Mall, precious loveliness of the to £5 of the officers' camp mess-
other culiar charm. They are all com- Ite." in which one is chosen as fit might men, who
have re-
If the Coronation were held any giving, to the artist the most en-plementary to ing allowance.
one another, and These changes, mained with the converted bat later than the middle of May it tire and perfect Joy This: only they, are welded together by that has ruled a theatrical company, to rule a Grand Duchy because he backed by more considerate treat-talions if they had seen algas of would mean that these trees would served to give point to Gilbert's inconsequential drollery which he, and "a man who can do that can ment from employers, should re- greater activity in supplying their
be in full leaf and the view of the song "If You're Anxious for to shared with Edward Lear. When rule anything," in which pictures Heve both subalterns and privates material needs have been lost al- from the financial loss which most ready. Their places will not ease procession from the stands would i Shine,” and America joined Eng-at the beginning of "Princess Ida" can walk out of their frames, and
be completely obstructed.
land. In laughing at the aesthetes we hear:
ghosts come to life-a world in The late King was crowned at and laughing with Gilbert. - Wilde the end of June, but then the came back with short hair and
short in which nothing matters trees were only in their infancy.
but the wit of Gilbert and the mu- and yet we should have to own long trousers, and "Patience":
sic of Sullivan,
ourselves very and exceptions i we, could not whole-heartedly en- I see attached to.it King Gama's- There may be many things in loy a Savoy opera, both words and
legs;
Gilbert, the man, and in his plays
Gilbert and Bullivan came with ly a task worthy of any able-bodied Mall became increasingly poor, un-chief ingredient of Gilbert's hu
But satire is by no means the
From which I gather this corol-that we do not like, especially his the most unexpected of gifts to young man. Only those whose til at the last drive it was difficult mour, and it too is beginning to!
lary
fibing at the Tading charms of the British public. To a nation That that small body must be elderly ladies, and his cruelty that with difficulty can take opera ideas have not advanced beyond to see anything at all.
"date" for the objects of it are the conditions of 1918 will imagine
sometimes; we may as Buluvan seriously they brought opera that. Restaurant and hotel proprie- no longer topical His satumine
We know that we are being did, tire a little of his constant need not, and even cannot, beta- that it can be left to the physical-tors are anxiously pressing the humour was expended on the art transported into the world of ab topsy-turviness: we may smile at kon seriously; they gave us Ught converted into anti-aircraft units: ly unit, or that the danger and Government to settle with the actalities of an age that we con- surdity in which. Cibert resten his pretensions to win fame as a verse and light music, two things one of the London infantry divi-, the war medale will be reserved King the exact date of the Coro demn quite as strongly as he did. eds
serious dramatist rather than as of which our stock was very slight, for those who may be sent over nation, and an official announce. It his setite went too far, and in It is a world in which nothing is a librettist; we may blame him for but most of all they gave them to sea. In any future war the first ment cannot, long, be delayed. shot might well be fired by an
ridiculing false sentiment and going to be taken seriously. If the constant quarrelling with Bulus not separate but united. As the anti-aircraft gunner or the first
shallow enthusiasin and blatant we were to read in an anthology livan and think it mean of his dominant partner for the most re- bomb burst in the London defence Air Force. On these two, working patriotism he became too persist- True love must single-hearted when Sullivan's weakness for
markable partnership in theatrical be,
dukes made Gilbert lampoon them history we fittingly honour Gilbert in unison, we rely to keep other ent a cynie and made dimeult the nations alry navies as far away expression of any noble emotion From "every selfish fancy free,
all the more; we may profess our on the hundredth anniversary of selves not greatly impressed by a his birth A maiden's fancy should employ, type of humour that was intend- True love must be without alloyed for a less sophisticated -age-
of them have hitherto undergone be filed until some means is found as a result of their service. ·
of "reconditioning at least this "Special concern
of the Territorial Arms was inevitably' part expressed in the subsequent de- simultaneously with the. Regular bate, both by private members and Army. by spokesmen of the Government, at the low state of recruiting for
the anti-aircraft units.. Ground defences of this country against
attack from the air are now en- trusted solely to the Territorial Army.
To provide for this vital service tried battalions have been
slos has given place to an anti- aircraft division, and similar changes are to be made in a few months' time in the Midlands and the North. The work of these new formations is highly technical and takes time, as well as teenness and intelligence, to learn. They may be needed at a moment's notice long before any Regular expedi
It was discovered last year, at struck as effective a blow at the the State "drives that King George | aesthetic movements as Don As for the importance of anti-made on the saturdays following Quixote" at the follies of knight aircraft work, the first-line de- the Jubilee, that each time the errantry. fence of home and country is sure visibility from the stands in The
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* "O'ver yonder moüritain's brow Comes a small body, bearing
Gama's arms;
And now I look more closely at:
it, sir.
Game's own,**
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area. An alert mind, a trained body, stendy nerves, keen eyesight, end skilled hands are essential to in the central blue as the safety on the stage, we have to keep in'No idle thought of gain or joy the modern anti-aircraft soldier, of our homes and commerce de- mind the age in which he lived and the quality of the stage on as they are to his comrade in the manda,
THIS CENTENARY
musić.
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