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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE. 25, 1936.
SURPRISES
OLD POTATOES IN NEW JACKETS
Savoury Recipes ›
FOR POTATOES A LA PORTU- GAISE, peel some tomatoes and slice them. and parboll "some potatoes, cutting them after- wards in Quarters. Спор up a shallot and fry this with the tomatoes in a half-and-half mix- ture of butter and olive oil. When done, season with salt and pepper and add a cuprul of stock. Now put in the quartered potatoes, and continue to simmer untli they are tender. Serve sprinkled with chop- ped parsley, and if possible a lir- tle tarragon as well.
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FOR POTATOES au beurre noir boti the potatoes in their skins, pect them, slice tacm,and arrange them in a dish. Gärnish thema with fried parsley, and, lastly, pour sonte bluck
them as they come to table. Now from boiled to fried: two unusual re- elpes för potato balls. Boll and mash some potatoes, season them. and add some mixed herbs. Bind this
purce with enough well- Havoured gravy to make it the right consistence, then egg and breadcrumb little balls made with and fry them in deep tat. For the second add a little butter to the mashed potato, season only with finely chopped chives, salt and pepper, and bind with egg- yolk only. Then egg them and Toll them in Anely chopped blanch almonds instead of bread- crumbs. Fy in deep fat as before. They are recommended with chic- ken. By the why, you can also use crushed vermicelli instead of breadcrumbs, which makes change both for croquettes and for rissoles.
BAPES
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POTATOES A LA BYRON ате ruther good, but whether they are named after the poet I do not know. Baxe some potatoes in their jackets, mash them well, season them with salt and pepper, and mix in an ounce and a half of but- ter for every pound of the mashed
potato. Put this patate, in a shal- low fireproof dish, smooth the top. sprinkle It, with plenty of cream and grated chcese, and brown it. quickly. Here is another oven dish of potatoes-from. Normandy this tline. Fry lightly in butter some chopped onion and the white part of leeks. Do not let them brown. Add some finely chopped raw pota- toes, season with salt and pepper.
the oven until the potatoes are moisten with milik, and bake in
one and the top browned, about three-quarters of an hour. Very good with mutton or lamb. Equal- ly good with park duck, or goose is a potato and apple puree. Make, your purees separately, the apple ene being of sourish cooking ap- ples. Then mix them together in the proportion of two-thirds potato to one-third apple Make the puree. in the same manner as an ordinary potato one
you
would
HERE ARE TWO slightly more expensive dishes, both excellent. Boil half a dozen large potatoes in their skins, and when they are cold peel them and cut them into nct 100 small cubes. Put these into a fireproof dish with a couple of ounces of butter and enough cream to cover them. Then just bake in the oven un: the cream 1 nicely browned, and serve their. as hot as you can. It is not dit-
I combine Health with Pleasure ~in a glass of OVALTINE COLD
The delightful Summer Drink
Going bathing to-day? Don't forget to fill "your' thermos flask with 'Ovaltine' Cold,
everyone will ask for more.
Acult nowadays 10. buy black olives: you will want a few for this dish which comes from. France. Mash up, or sieve, two pounds of potatoes that have been baked in their jackets, and mix them with a gill of warm milk, two ounces of grated ruyere cheese. Arteen stoned and finely chopped black olives, and the yolk at an egg. Season with salt and pepper and mix in the stiffly beaten white. Put this mixture into a well-but- tured souffle dish which has been
sprinkled inside with age bread- crumbs and take in a moderate oven for about half an hour. Turri' In out to serve !!. And Just one more dish. with cheese and spinach this time; a la Florentine:
COOK SOME SPINACH en bran- che boll some potatoes in their Skins, "peel them and eut them in thin slices, Put a layer of the spi- mach in a buttered Areproof dish pour a little cream over it (but not too little), then arrange on it the slices of potato, season them with salt and pepper, sprinkle with grated cheese and a little more cream, and bake in a fairly hot oven for a quarter of an hour fo that the top will be browned. This' is a good dish for vegetarians or for Fridays.
The manager of a touring theat- rical company wired to the propri- etor of the theatre in a small town where his company was due to ap-. pear.
"Would like to hold rehearsal next Monday afternoon at three. Have stage manager. carpenter, property man, electrician, and all stage hands present at that hour." Four hours later he received the following reply: "All right. be there."
Good News! 'OVALTINE COLD or Hot
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The ideal hot weather beverage is ‘Ovaltine' Cold. It is wonderfully refreshing and so delicious in taste. In addition it is brimful of the nourishment so necessary to make good the lack of nutriment in the ordinary light summer meals-it is easily digested and helps the digestion of all other foods eaten.
And after shopping, be sure to ask for å glass of 'Ovaltine' Cold. 'It is now served in all hotels and cafes, and is unequalled for restoring flagging energy.
But be sure you get Ovaltine' don't be put off with a substitute. For quality and health-giving value Ovaltine' stands in a class by itself. Reject substitutes
CHEESE FOR
TASTY ECONOMY
No doubt cheese has been talked about time and time again, but
still reigns supreme, in impor- tance in the family budget.
Instead of placing only a strip of bacon over a casserole of can- ned baked beans, grate one-half cup of cheese and sprinkle over the whole and bake it long enough to melt and brown the cheese-the whole family will relish this new change in an old dish.
One of our favourite dishes Is "Cheese Fondue."
Melt
4 tablespoons buiter. Ada 2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon soda
} teaspoon mustard. and pinch of cayenne pepper Beat in a separate bow!
3 egg yolks until lemon colour-
ed. Add
¡ cup mlik. Beat well and combine with the first mix- ture. Add
1 cup grated cheese
4 tablespoons bread crumbs
When well mixed fold in
3 egg whites beaten stiff. Bake in a buttered baking mold standing in a pan of water, for 25 minutes in a moderate
oven
(350°F). Serve in ple -shaped pieces over which has beer. poured creamed tuna, shrimp. ham, or even eggs. and it will be judged 3 favourite. This is delicious with tomato salad for a con- "trasting flavour,
This recipe will serve five gen- erously.
The poached egg out toast for the little folks' lunch is made tempting bby sprinkling grated *cheese over the hot egg and allow-
ing it to melt in before serving.
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Add one fourth of a cup grated cheese to the family baking powder biscuits before rolling and cutting, or to the waffe recipe. The new flavour will prove - #teresting.
Rice can be made, delicious by: Steaming
1 cup rice until tender. Beat.
2 eggs until light. Add"
-1 cup grated cheese
3 cups of milk
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon paprika. Combine the custard with the rice. pour into buttered baking dish, place in a pan of bot water and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven (325o Faren- helt.) Serve hot. This will Take eight moderate vings.
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Cover a pound of tomatoes with boiling water, skin, and slice thick- ly into a well-buttered fireproof dish. Sprinkle with pepper and salt and chopped parsley and cook in the oven, for "fifteen minutes. Without damaging the yolks break one egg for each person over the tomates, ведзор. sprinkle with finely grated cheese, and put small pieces of butter over the top. Put back into a moderate oven until the eggs set.
BEEFSTEAK PIE
1 pounds round steak
2 tablespoons four
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great feast. Then the artile.y soldiers of the Buffs and South and Infantry come on the scene Staffordshire Regiment accom- and
show us how the muzzle panied by the massed dismounted loaders were worked in the days bands, drums, fifes and bugles. of Waterloo, followed by an ex- Then another historical picture, hibition of present-day methods Bruce before Bannockburn, with of leading and firing. Apparently the massed pipes of five regiments
in full dress.
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twenty" movemen necessary to load and fire the old flintlocks of the infantry,
CAVALRY IN ACTION
The cavalry displays have been
Whilst the great pageant show- ing the presentation of the first Prince of "Wales at Carnarvon
a great favourite with the public Castle is being prepared there is In the past, and this year-it may | a short bu very beautiful
dis-
London, June 10, be the last for mechanisation is play of drill with lanterns. The Youth-physical fitness- the ousting the horse the 1st Cavalry effect of seven hundred lights spirit of adventure. 1nese, say Brigade show themselves at work moving and counter-moving ap- the organisers, are the theme of in a scene from the early days of parently "without vix.ble means of this year's Aldershot Tattoo,
the Great War and then let us see support," is uncanny. After the Carnarvon" episode comes the Grand Finale, which has already been mentioned, and so to car or rallway station, bed,
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But it does not in the least mat-them in full ceremonial uniform. ter what those military Merlins of
The kettle drummers and trum- Rushmoor call their magic show. peters of the cavalry reg ments What they give us, and what we provide the music for this item. go, year after year, to be delighted and immediately it is over come and thrilled by are lights, colour, ¡ into the arena again with the music and and the spell of order-mounted bands of six cavally de The Aldershot authorities have ed movement against a fairy back-giments, the dismounted bands of made considerable improvement ground of trees and hills and the twenty-one regiments, and the at Rushmoor this year, and 77.-. blue-black of a soft June night drums, bugles, and fifes of twenty-000 spectators can now be accom- three regiments, together with the modated with seats, In fact, a
a seat. The 1936 edition of this most twelve Tattoo trumpeters and the ticket guarantees wonderful of all pageants is more 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire usual excellent car parking and enchaligting than ever. In the last Regiment bearing torches, There route marking arrangements have of the ten episodes into which, it la no sense in trying to describe been made by the RA.C., and the is divided there are nearly Ave this spectacle because the adjec-route badge system, which has thousand men in the arena at one tives would be all superlatives, been gradually evolved, is now time, In the beams of the great and none would be left to describe practically perfect. Very many searchlights their many coloured the ever-growing crescendo of the miles trom Aldershot visitors by hours and ten minutes of road find the well-known blue and uniform of all periods from the thirteenth century, wink and glit perfectly organised splendour. white pointers, and as "they get ter and scintillate like an Ali Baba,
The ith item is one of those nearer special Constables wave dream of living jewe's strung and set pieces which, though they are them on their way. In ́getting re-strung in ever-changing, ever-never very convincin, are two away from the arena the route
for the backward badges on the moving lines and curves and loops worth seeing and whoris
glance into the history of the miraculously quick sorting Found the four into "the meat, The show starts with the mass-army which they give uz The traffic on to the right roads. The then cut into long strips. Brown en rottle-drummers and trumpeters years we have an episode from Aldershot Tattoo in every parti- 1a hot fat, with celery, onion and of, six cavalry regiments and the the Rangoon River Campaign of cular is a triumph of organisation seasonings. Add water, cover and massed and bugles of infantry re- 1834, when the infantry sespulted The public performances are on simmer until tender (at least an giments of the Eastern and Alder the stockades, supported by the | Thursday, Friday, and Baturday hour), then put into casserole shot Commands showing the his- guns of three ships of the navy. of this week and Tuesday cover with biscuit dough (cut suits tory, and development of the EVE OF BANNOCKBURN
to Saturday next week. The pro- to allow steam to escape). Bake 15: druns from the seventeenth cen- Then comes a physical training - seeds, sausual are to be devoted to to 20 minutes at 125° p
tury Aine hors-d'oeuvre to display by over six hundred young Army charities":
3 tablespoons fat
teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1 large onion, chopped
cup diced celery
1 cup hot water
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