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CULINA D
STAPLES
SUGGESTIONS
(By Helen Broderick).
FOR APPLE SAUCE
Peel, quarter and core about six large apples. Cook in the smallest amount of water possible to pre- vent the trult from burning. Add the
chopped neel of one lemon very fine. Sugar the mixture to
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936.
SURPRISES
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POPULAR FLYING AT A PRICE
"THE FLYING FLEAS” MENACE
London, June 10. Bince "Flying Flens" took to killing experienced pilots, that
SPINACH & THREE PUDDINGS CAKES WITHOUT part o the aeronautical
CHEESE FLAN
A SUPPER SURPRISE
Put surprise Item on the menu for supper and serve this asty spinach and cheese fan.
Line a fan or deep sandwich tin with pastry. Prick the bottom and all with uncooked rice. then
When cold. bake in a hot oven. remove the rice and all with
From this one recipe three different puddings can be made. Sift together two ounces of flour. two level teaspoons of baking powder, two ounces of ground rice, and two ounces of castor sugar: Add the gräted rind of half a lemon. Beat an egg with half a cupful of milk and add two ounces of melted butter. Stir into into the dry ingredients and beat until smooth and light, adding a alittle more milk if necessary. For steamed treacle pudding put two tablespoonfuls of treacle at the 'Apple sauce prepared in
nut of butter. pepper
bottom of a greased basin, pour manner may be served with meats, and salt three fablespoonfuls of in the mixture, tie on a greased an "extra" dish.milk, and a little four to thleken. paper, and steam for an hour and It is an exceptional plece de re-i Pour the mixture
thea half. over
For baked jam pudding sistance when your guests raid the spinach, then bake. In a slow to put a layer of jam at the bottom refrigerator When they return moderate oven until lightly brow- of a ple-dish, spread the mixture from the theatre. Then, try ser-ned. Sprinkle with finely chop- on top, and bake in a fairly hot ving it with fresh bread and but-ped parsley and serve.
oven until golden brown and firm on top. For hot jam sandwich tlas. bake for a few minutes in a hot oven, and put together with
taste. Flavour with ground cin-layer of cooked sp nach.
Beat up and add 2oz. grated
namon,
adessert or as
ter.
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FOR MAYONNAISE
this i
cheese,
1
SAVOARY PIE
Cook the spinach and mix with
You will need: 1 cup vinegart pint white sauce. Pour Inia' jam between. All should be cup water; 1 tablespoon butter; a buttered dish, then add a small served with custard or any good
chopped onion, three or four pudding sauce. tomatoes, and a beaten egg, and
2 eggs. 3 tablespoons sugar; 1 tablespoon flour; teaspoon must ard.
Bring vinegar, water and butter Break the eggs into a to a boil. bowl, adding sugar, flour and mustard, beating until very light, Add this mixture gradually to the hot vinegar, cooking until thick. Then add one-half teaspoon salt,
This makes one pint of mayon- naise, which is unusually fine" for potato or chicken salads.
You can make a delicious dress- - lng for head lettuce by adding to-
mato catsup, diced hard bolled egg and diced celery to the mayon-.. glse. For Fruit salads, beat a little whipped cream or finely graled cream cheese into the ma- yonnaise.
FOR POTATO PANCAKES
Here's a cold winter day recipe which has been in my family for Grate seven, large raw po- years. tatoes very fine. To save my hands, I use gloves ar rubber in- gers. Add a small grated onion and one egg. Beat the mixture well, adding three heaping table- spoons of flour to thicken. Salt the mixture to taste.
WHAT SIR SAMUEL'S RETURN MEANS
London, June-10.
Sir Samuel Hoare returns 38 First Lord of the Admiralty to the Government he left six months
DRO.
He left the Government De cause, as Foreign Secretary, he had taken part in the formulation of the Hoare-Laval plan for peace in Abyssinia. That plan, widely de- erled at the time, would have left Haile Selassie half his kingdom; and saved months of warfare and many lives. To-day, when Str Samuel Hoare comes back. Hallé Belassé Is an exile without a kingdom.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
What does Sir Bamuel's return mean?
It means three things:
a cupful of stock. Cover with a layer of mashed potatoes, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, dot with butter. and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour.
CREAMED FOR INVALIDS Creamed spinach is delicious for invalids and delicate children. Cook the spinach in the..usual way, then rub it carefully through
HOLLANDAISE POTATOES
2 lb. large potatoes
1 teaspoonful parsley 2 oz. butter.
EGGS
Economy, often puts a spoke in the wheel of the hostess' ambi- tions.
com-
munity which distrusted thelr unorthodoxy has called anew for their suppression; that part which thought them of value, as a means of introducing flying to a bigger public, has cried aloud for expert
and it is sometimes con-investigation. venlent to know a few good re- clpes for cakes that need no eggs at all
Between the two the Air Minis- try. In process of answering a ten- year-old outcry by divesting itsel? LANCASHIRE GINGERBREAD
of responsibility for light aero- planes, found itself in the dilem- One pound of flour, one poundma of having to refuse the one of golden syrup
or black treacle. party in order to be consistcht eight ounces of butter, six ounces
and of desiring to refuse the other of Demerara sugar, one teaspoon- in order to avoid being held res
ponsible for aircraft over which it could have no control. By its own
ful of baking powder, a good pinch of salt, and one tablespoonful of marmalade are needed for this.
Melt sugar, butter, and treacle ill crumbly, stir in dry ingredients well sleved, add marmalade, beat well, and bake in two greased, leaf-shaped tins; first in moder- ate oven, and then quite slowly till out clean, for skewer comes a about one and a half hours.
SYRUP SCONES
One pound of self-raising flour, four ounces of butter, two ounces
of sugar, one ounce of saltanas, one tablespoonful of syrup, and one cup of milk are the ingredi- ente. Mix into a dough, roll out, cut in shapes, and bake for twenty minutes in a hot oven
SCOTCH SHORTBREAD You will need fourteen ounces of sleved four, two ounces of ground rice, eight ounces of salt butter
standards ot ́airworthiness the Air Ministry could never have approv- ed a "Flying Flea."
THE LIBERTY ·
Under pressure It agreed to allow. privATS individuals che break liberty "to
their Own "necks," as the Gorell Committee recommended, provided that some protection was afforded to those on. the ground by insurance. against third-party risks. Some hundreds of young men began building "Flying Fleas," and about forty of them have already been accepted by insurance companies and given the freedom of the air. Three of them have since killed their pilots-one the test pilot of the Air League, another a chief
dying instructor of the R.A.F. The percentage of highly skilled pilots among the rest of the Flea" fanciers will be much
Peel the potatoes, and cut into four ounces of castor sugar. Knead lower, and, unless the secret vice.
Why Ovaltine is
unequalled for
ECONOMY
A small tin makes 16 cupfuls of delicious Ovaltine'-the Worlds Supreme Food Beverage
It gives you the Highest Possible Quality at the Lowest Possible Price
Note that Ovaltine' is packed in three sizes: Small size Medium size
9 ozs. Large size 18 ozs.
Compare these weights with imitations. Ovaltine' gives you `more in quantity, more in quality and 'therefore more in value
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air-tight ting
by all Chemists and Store
anne sieve. Add the sieved yolk small balls with a special hollan- the butter and sugar in a basin of the "Flying Flea is discovered MR. J. J. BELL-IRVING
of a hard bolled egg and three tablespoonfuls of cream. Serve on toast.
WITH SWEET CORN.
and as putty.
That danger explains the pres- sure put upon the Air Ministry to inch thick and bake in two well-set a typical "Flying Flea” In its greased cake-tins in a hot oven.
dalse catter. (The best results m soft
then and eradicated the casualty rate are obtained by pressing the cup-gradually work in the dry ingredi- may be notably higher. shaped end hollow side down ents and knead til firm enough wards into a well-rounded surface to shape. Roll out about hal; an of the potato. and then giving A spinach and corn omelette
circular twist in order to cut the makes a satisfying meal. Cook
Steam bottom half of the ball). the seasoned eggs in the usual for 20 to 30 minutes, and serve way. then add the spinach and hot garnished with parsley butter. tablespoonful of chopped tinned corn. Fold over. gamish with anely chopped parsley, then serve.
Fry in hot fat. These cakes are better if made quite thin. On re- moving them from the pan place each on heavy brown paper to absorb the fat, as the cakes, to be good, must be dry and crisp.
created for himself when he knew the right course, to take, but would not take it because I was popular.
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This is made by creaming the butter and adding chopped par-
sley.
EMPIRE AIR TRANSPORT
(Continued from Pare 2)
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The discarded portions of the potatoes can be cooked and mashed or used for potato soup./
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THE KING BECOMES A
'CAPT.-GENERAL’
H.A.C. CUSTOM REVIVED
wind tunnel, and to find without risk what sort of conditions may cause the front wing to stall while the rear wing continues to deve lop "lift and thus to make the aeroplane turn a somersault.
NO SIGN VISIBLE Up to the present the Alr Minis- try has shown no sign of over- coming its shyness. This breed of aeronautical insect has no rea! status It breaks the accepted rules of control, using its rudder for lateral control and its main lifting surface for fore and aft control. It expects its tail to lift more of the total weight than would be expected of any aero- or very high wing loading which
plane of acknowledged ancestry, in normal practice results in
The reasons which might be ad- long and difficult take-off. Where
vanced for its flying efficiently A DASTARDLY DEED
extreme ranges are concerned the
have always been less impressive normal type of aeroplane may even
than the demonstrations of its The body was left lying on the be incapable of taking-off with the
The King, who assumed the title ability to fly. The reasons for the pavements of Downing Street and amount of fuel required. The pur-
of Captain-General and Colonel of vices which some of the type have was damaging to Mr. Baldwin's pose of the Short-Mayo Composite
the Honourable Artillery Com-developed are no easier of sound reputation. When they saw it Bir Aircraft is to overcome this dif-
Dany shortly after his accession, definition, as the variety of theo Samuel's friends said that the faculty by eliminating the take-off *lias signified his intention of re- nes already advanced may show. assassination was a dastardly deed. problem, Briefly, it consiste of a Now Mr. Baldwin has taken the very highly loaded aeroplane body back into the Cabinet Room. which is mounted on top or an- That will make Mr. Baldwin other comparatively lightly loaded himself feel better. It will help aeroplane to form 2 composite dr. Baldwin's supporters to defend aircraft which is capable of tak- him from the charge of sacrificing log-off easily and quickly under an old friend and colleague.
ordinary operating conditions.
It will remove any possibility of hostility to the Government, in or out of Parliament, on the part of an able and trusted man who has the respect of the publle.
The Government's strength is renewed by Sir Samuel's resump tion of office.
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 23.
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in
of the centre of gravity by pilots of different weights, in the In- adequate span of the main wing. in the lack of engine power. But the ways of the "Flying Flea" are no more incalculable than
the
Death Of Well-Known Border Man
London, June 10. The death occurred at his resid-·
House, near ence, Makerstoun
after an ill- Kelso, on Saturday, ness of about three months, of Mr James J. Bell-Irving, in his 77th year.
A son of the late Mr John Bell-Irving, of Whitehili, Dumfries- shire, Mr Bell-Irving spent the ear- Her part of his life in China, being head of the firm of Jardine, Ma- thieson and Co., He was a mem- ber of the Legislative and Execut- tive Councils of Hong Kong, and was chairman and director of numerous public companies.
SAPB14
£54,000 INSTITUTE FOR SEAMEN
NEW LONDON LANDMARK
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 23. The Mission to Seaman's new in- stitute and hostel in Victoria Dock-road, E. the biggest of its kind in the world, was opened by Princess Alice, Countess of Ath- lone, on behall of Queen Mary, yesterday.
The new building is an impas- ing structure of nine storeys," and cost £54,000. It contains sleep- Ing accommodation for 160 ORB- When he returned from China сетя and men, and is equipped he took up residence at Barnard with & concert hall, gymnasium, Castle, Yorkshire, where he resid-
bath- canteen, reading rooms, ed until he acquired the Makers-rooms and showers, a root garden toun Estate in 1920. Since then he and a cinema. took little part in public life, but was very well-known in sporting
The concert hall and gymnasi-
The
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the took
circles. He was the owner of race um with its equipment cost £5.- horses, and was keenly interested 000, and is intended as a memori- al to Lord Jellicoe. To free the in coursing. A good shot and an expert angler, he was also interest-buliding from debt £9.000 is still ed in farming, particularly in Bel- required. ted Galloway cattle.
Over the building an illuminat- Mr Bell-Irving, who was a stewed cross will be visible by night ard at the Carlisle, Edinburgh, and and day from a great distance. It Lanark race fixtures, won his last will symbolise, as the Earl of Ath- race last week, when his filly, Ivy lore, the president of the Mission, Grey, was successful in the Whit said at the ceremony. "the high- suntide Foal Stakes at Manchester est things for which the Institute on Wednesday. He won the An- stands." niversary Handicap at Derby last
Bishop of Stepney. Right Rev. C. E. "Curzon, year with Pink Wings,
Mr Bell-Irving is survived by his part in the proceedings, and after- wife and two daughters, His wife, wards the Bishop of Chelmsford, whom he married in Hong Kong Dr. H. A. Wilson, dedicated the in 1890, was Miss Eva Gertrude church attached to the new in- Piercy of Marchwiel Hall Wrex-stitute. He was assisted by the ham. She took a very active in- Archdeacon of London, the Van terest in public affairs, and is a E. N. Sharpe. member of Roxburgh County "In the reception hall Princess The younger daughter is Alice received the architect of the Council. Mrs Ormrod, who resides with her building, J. G. P. Meaden; Mr. husband in the South of England. George M. Burt, representing the while the elder daughter is Coun- contractors; Alderman Mrs. Bock tess of Lauderdale.
the Deputy Mayor of West Ham; Mr. C. E. Cranfield. Town Clerk; Miss Bald.St. Q. Collins, Mayor-. freakish methods of control and eas of West Ham; Mrs. A. B. Will appear to have, no inexplicable amson, and others. vices.. In
way and another
verting to old custom and being The trouble, it is said, lies in the known simply as Captain-General. amount of tilting movement allow- The Company's first Captain-ed to the front wing in the depth General was James, Duke of York. of the gap between front and rear afterwards James II, and the wings, in the location of the cen- rank was subsequently borne by tre of gravity, in the "disturbance Kings and other members of the Royal Family, until William IV. When the composite aircraft
The Duke of Sussex, who suc has climbed to a safe height, the ceeded King William in the rank, upper component seroplane. is re- was already Colonel of the ELA.C, leased trom the lower in such a and consequently became known manner that the two components as Captain-General and Colonel, opinions which may seek to ex- will separate rapidly in" a vertical as were his successors until King plain them. Scientific experiment plane without the risk of fouling
in the only wind tunnel in Great to take 2 The only other Captain,General Britain big enough or subsequent collision. Once the
would
the be the British Empire is the "Flying Fles" upper component has been released RENEWED STRENGTH
it proceeds on its flight carrying Governor of Jamaica, where this quickest and most satisfactory way With this renewed strength it a load of fuel and a pay load with old military title has been in use of revealing the flaw in design must embark on a new policy, a
which it would be quite incapable since Cromwellian days. The rank and of saving
many youthful policy that will benefit Britain of taking-off by itself. The lower is comparatively common in Spain, necks. The French Air Ministry (1) A good man has got a big without damaging others. Our component returns to the base in where it originated.
has decided to take this course. The University. of Toronto job. For in the present disturbed | Intervention in Abyssinia has been readiness for the launching of an- state of the world the direction disastrous. It has not saved other upper component when re-
carrying out a similar task. The of the Navy is a big job. And that Abyssinia from conquest. It gave | quired.
step that it is hard to obtain the British "Flea" builders may ulti- notwithstanding that of the Fight-Hitler the opportunity for a coup
right perspective to appreciate it mately derive advice from these ing Services the Admiralty is the
but it will doubtless in time come sources, but it will have to be best organised.
the old cry of "perfidious Albion" The particular composite aero- to be regarded as of no less im-adapted to British practice in en- from peoples who bellave it Bri-plane now under construction is of portance than, Rowland Hill's in- gines and materials. An investi- the the marine type which when carry troduction of the Penny Post. His gation at home would be much tain's
to plunge world into war for the sake of ing a load of 1000 lbs. of mall will pleadings when advocating the in-preferable. It might almost be they may take the place of the
neve a range of approximately troduction of that innovation ap-justined as a "safety first" mea-lea. There is one which costs planes, hitherto employed by the their quarrels.
British one-time supporters of 3500 miles, which is suffelent for ply with equal force to the Empire sure in the trame campaign, for about £175 against the £100 for dying clubs, cannot satisfy. One
"Fleas" that are the League have seen this and are the direct North Atlantic crossing air, mall scheme when he wrote most of the
which a home-made "Flea" may For the latest miniature aeroplanes in face of a continuous head wind that its object was not to increase building will probably be flown. be produced. Others which use uses only. 25. 34, worth of fuel and beginning to despair of their idol.
The Bishop of Chichester, one averaging 30 m.ph, and this re- the political power of this or that The temptation of cheap flying in small engines may be bought atoll an hour, or about one-quarter a home-made aeroplane will be £285 or a dttle more, and there of that needed by an engine of of the Armést supporters of Lea-markable performance is achieved party, but to benefit all secta in
and all hard to resist in young men who
are small cabin aeroplanes to be 120-horse power, Economy and gue action against tay, now writes with a total horse-power of only politics and religion;
had at less than £400. Some of the classes, from the highest to the have backed their hopes with a
fascination or building an In his "Diocesan Gazette" that 1280.
lowest. To the rich, as, to the winter of hard work.
the lesser of these may be regard-seroplane at home explain the sanctions should be ended. The Undoubtedly then, when the air-
ed as repiles to the challenge of vogue of the "Flying Flea."". It League of Nations Union to-day is craft replacement programune is less wealthy, it will be acceptable, ARGUMENT GAINS STRENGTH appealing for funds, because, in completed the Empire trunk routes from the increased facilities it will The argument that the move the "Flying Flea." and much of has given impetus to a popular the interest evoked by that species movement and the "Flea" in that the words of the "News Chronicle will be flown by one of the finest offer for their correspondence......ment; if left alone, may dle of its of "the loss of large donations If not the finest fleet of aircraft to afford the means of communi- own uncertainties has gained, may easily be transferred to them. sense may already have yielded its from the class of people with whom in the world, giving a maximum of cation to their distant friends and strength in recent months by the Yet three constructing firms have best service. It would be a mia- the policy of sanctions has been safety, comfort and speed com-relatives fios which they are emergence of a new class of light devoted themselves to the produc- fortune in several senses if it were unpopular."
mensurate with economical opera at present debarred, will give aeroplanes, comparatively cheap to tion, of improved versions of the allowed to exact as its prices the tion.
increased energy to trade, and it buy and quite as. cheap as the Flying Flea" The whole move-lives of those who responded most This 'All Mall by Air Mail pro will be an important step in ge- "Flying Flea" to fly. These are ment reveals a new demand for enthusiastically to its irritant at- ject is such a tremendous forward | neral education:
real aeroplanes which rely on no cheap flying which the light aero-traction.
Lord Monsell, the retiring First Lord, was first-rate. He did his job well and has a long run and good record of public service. There will be general, regret that ho has himself terminated bis brilliant political career.
(2) Sir Samuel Hoare is a friend
of Italy. We are adding to our councils & man whose past per- .formance gives the public reason to hope that conciliation will be a feature of the Government's fu- ture policy.
(3) Sir Samuel Hoare's appoint- ment geto Mr. Baldwin out of trouble. When Bir Samuel resign ed, his friends said that Mr. Bald- win had allowed him to be politi- cally assassinated, and that Mr. Baldwin had done this in order to -escape from difficulties he had
in the Rhineland. It has revived
business
"
Here is clear evidence that the policy Bir Samuel Hoare favoured is now winning general approval.
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