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STAPLES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 9. 1936.
SURPRISES
USING UP COLD FISH
для It is not always easy to estimate the exact amount of fish required far i meal. especially when guests are present, it often happens that quantity of cold fish is left over. As, however, there is no end to the number of dishes which can be made with cold sh there is no need for waste. "
When part oris have been carved of a large nsn like turbot, or a large sole. the bones should be marle into fish stock. Barely cover
the bones with water, add half a chopped carrot, a chopped onion. pepper, salt, a blade of mace, a few pepppercorns, a hay leaf and some parsley.
Simmer gemly for about half an hour, strain and use for fish soups Or sauces. or to pouch or bake further frest: fish dishes.
Here is a dlan which can be mace with any cooked fish. Put a layer of thinly sliced hard-boiled egg at the bottom of a greased
to three-quarters of a pound of fish will be required and it should be well mashed with a fork. Melt he ounce of butter in a saucepan. add an ounce of flour, cook for
a minute or two, then add slowly
teacupful of milk. stir unt!! smooth, and flavour with
pepper and any piquant sauce" desired. suh as achovy essence of mush- Put in the fish and room sauce, mix well then leave to get cold. lastly make into cakes with flour- 20 hands dip In egg and bread- and fry in boiling it. crumbs. Drain well and serve on lace paper.
CUSTARD
Fi and matu... custard 1 both tasty and nourishing. Flake the fish and mix it with half a9 much cooked inuaront cut into small pieces. Fut na greased ple- "dish. Warm half a pint of milk” and pour it over two beater eggs. return to a double saucepan, and cook until It thickens. Season
MUCH MORE
TASTY
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Those who and green leaf vege tables Insipid should try this way. of preparing, them:,
Plk over and wath the greens
thoroughly, and cook until tender. in salted water, usually about 20 m.nutes. Drain in a colander, or by pressing the water aus gently with a fork or spoon. Fry a half cupful of diced bacon til crisp, then add the juice of a lemon, or the, same amount of vinegar, with la teaspoon of
sugar, dash of salt and "pepper,
and an egg beaten thoroughly. Allow this mixture to bol? up a Iew seconds until it thickens, then pour over the dish of greens and mix lightly. Even those folks who think they do not itke greens
will be enthusiastic when they are prepared in this way.
GREEN BEANS And for green beans-We think there is nothing quite so good as "Hoosier style." This method is to
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PINEAPPLE PRESERVES
One pineapple makes quite a lot
of jam and made properly it is as dellelous as anything that can be found in a well-stocked store cupboard.
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Prepare the fruit by cutting of the tops and outer skin, then ahred finely.
To each pound of fruit allow one pound of loaf sugar. the ring. and fulce, of a lemon.
Bring fruit, grated rind and juice gently to the boil, add the warmed sugar, then boll rapidly, stirring all the time. und a tile will set when pested on a cold plate.
Add 1 oz, blanched almonds, pour Into pots and seal immediately,
WITH RHUBARB Combined with rhubarb. pine apple makes an excellent family
Junt.
Ingredients 3 lbs, rhubarb. 1 1. fresh shredded pineapple, 3 lemons,
pint water, 3 lbs. sugar, Wash and cut up the rhubarb.
ple-dish. cover with a layer of well and pour it over the fish and fry a cupful of diced bacon in the add the water, grated lemori rind,
cooked fish which has been fakedy and mixed with a little cream. un- sweetened evaporated milk, or thick white sauce favoured with anchovy essence. Now mash 25 much potato as is required and beat it over a low heat with a lump of butter a little grated cheese, the yolk of an egg. pepper, and salt. Remove from the heat and stir in the white of the egg whisked to a stiff froth. Arrange it over the Ash. brush over with yolk of egg. and bake in a hot oven for a few minutes, or under the grill, until the top is golden brown.
FISH CAKES
Fishcakes made as follows are much lighter than the usual ones made with fish and potatoes. Haf
macaroni. Bake in the oven unt!! it is nicely set but the oven should not be too hot, or the custard will curdle.
Fish patties are good. They are best made with puff pastry, but short, pastry can be used. Bake the pastry cases nrst putting some rice in them to keep them from rising of short pastry, and bak- ink circles for lids. Flake the fish and season it well. then mix it with a little white sauce or cream. the yolk of an egg and its white whisked to à stiff froth. The latter should be folded a lightly. Put some of the fish into each case, put on the ilds and bake in & hot oven for a few minutes. The pastry should be rather lightly baked in the first instance.
Keep that Winter Health this Summer
MAKE 'OVALTINE COLD YOUR DAILY HABIT
Through these long exhausting hot days you must get the maximum nourishment from the lighter meals you eat. A glass of delicious 'Ovaltine Cold makes even the lightest meal complete in health-giving, and energy-creating nourishment.
All Cafes and Restaurants, serve Ovaltine' Cold, the ideal hot weather drink.
For the Beach fill your thermos flask with Ovaltine' Cold, everyone loves 'Ovaltine in this delicious form-so refreshing and sustaining after the bathe.
“There
is only
Ovaltine'
ONE
TAPHIL
kettle in which the beans are to be cooked. When crisp add two table- spoons flour to the fryings and brown as for gravy. Then add # quart of cold water, salt and pep- we, and put in the beans. about two pounds. A little water may have to be added if they need it, as they cook, but when
done they
will be found ready to serve in a rich thick brown sauce, quite different from the flavourless. watery dish one sometimes en- counters. And they are delicious warmed over to the last green bean.
* STUFFED ONIONS.
Onions are such valuable vege- tables that various ways of cook-t Ing them are useful to know. If scalded before use they should never prove indigestible. A supper „dish of cooked onlons may be found efficacious in warding off autumn chills. They may be simply bolled and served with a white sauce, or partly boiled and then baked in the oven for an
and juice and cook until tender. then simmer gently until thick.
Add the shredded pineapple. bring to the boll, then add the sugar. Bell and stir for fifteen minutes, or until a little will set when tested:
DELICIOUS TRIFLE
A delicious trife has a pineappl flavour.
"Cut.ive sponge fingers in halves
and spread with pineapple pre- serve or apricot jam, then arrange in the centre of a bowl. Pour over one dissolved pineapple jelly..
When set, pour over 2 pint custard, flavoured with a few drops of vanilla essence.
Decorate with shredded pine- apple, blanched almonds, strips of angelica and whipped cream,
TRY THESE
EGG BALLS
in butter.
HOW to TAKE
'ASPRO'
FOR
DENGUE
AT the first signs of the dreaded Dengue don't
procrastinate~
Take two to three ‘ASPRO' tablets every two hours until the Fever abates and the pain ceases. 'ASPRO' is the
greatest Fever Antidote ever given to the 'world. No other medicine has its anti-pyretic, anti-periodic and anti- germicidal propensities after ingestion in the system. ASPRO is far inore "effective than quinine and there are no harmful after effects. Make certain that 'ASPRO' is always in the home ready for any emergency.
DENGUE MALARIA and other
FEVERS
ALSO USE ASPRO FOR
Temperature Irritability Lumbago Asthma Rheumatism Toothache Earache Colds Sleeplessness (Hay Fever Malaria Gout
always take ASPRO Feverishness Neuralgia Neuritis Headache according to the Sore Throat Influenza Sciatica Dengue
above DIRECTIONS
Alcoholic After-Effects 'ASPRO' Gives Great Relief to Women When Depressed
Nothing Equals ‘ASPRO' for Dengue & Ezeumatisra
Selby's Estate.
* Desz· Sira,
Ingham, North Queensland.
Having med your ASPRO for Dengue Fever And sino for Rheumatism, I have found that mahing equals ASPRO for relief from pain
1 was very bad the_last week in December, and could not sleep with Rheumatism in my legs. A seighbour called to see me, and she told me that "ASPRO" Tablets were good for pains. I straightaway went to the chemist for a bez of ‘ASPRO, and 1 can truthlally say that I was surprised at the relief pot alter, taking the Brat two “AŠPRO" Tablets—they took away the pain and 1, could sleep of a night. Í took there Tablets a night for four nights, and they relieved me, add now I ame as well as ever.
Your Inithfully. (Sad) (Mr.) FLORRIE LOVE
37F./33.
To make these you require 4 eggs, butter. salt and pepper. Boll the eggs hard. then put them hour and a half, with plenty of into cold water; shell them. take butter; or they may be studed.
off the whites, pound the yolks m For this method boll about six
a mortar with a little butter, salt large onions. Then remove ths and pepper. Form them Into Inner part and all with a stufing small balls, and fry made of any cold minced meat, a Serve on rounds of buttered toast. tablespoonful "of breadcrumbs.
ORANGE FOOL chopped parsley. a little grated lemon peel, and a pinch of mace. This may be made in two ways: Depper. and salt. all bound, to- The strained juice of two oranges gether with an egg well beaten and one lemon may be sweetened The onions may then be baked in and whipped with ball a pint of the oven for forty minutes, being cream until thick serve in glasses. basted with butter or beet drip-It should be made the day before, ping and served when a rich Or an egg may be baeten up with "kolden brown with a good gravy.
the" cream and added to the
London, June 18. sweetened juice, and the mixture A Newspaper attributed the delay. stirred and heated in a double in negotiating the treaty with saucepan until it thickens. It Egypt to the "excessive demands" must not boll. A similar mixture of the British Government's mill- is poured over sponge cakes and tary advisers.
With the call "Orange Fool.". sponge cake this was formerly known as trifle.
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SWEET COURSE
Caramel Sponge
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Four sponge cakes. lb. castor. sukar, juice of a lemon, plat milk, 2 CgKS, 2 tablespoonfuls water
PINEAPPLE FLAN
Put the sugar, lemon juice and water into a small pan.
Heat Make a pastry by rubbing into slowly without stirring, and cook six ounces of four three ounces of until the syrup is light brown and butter. Make a well in the cen- thick. Pour into a mould, stand: ire and stir in a beaten egg yolk cold water until the caramel sets. and sufficient cold water to form a When it is set fill the mould with fairly stiff dough. Roll out into fingers of sponge cake Beat the quarter-inch thickness, on a four- eggs. Mix with milk, pour over ed board, and shape into a round sponge cakes. Cover, with buttered to fit a deep sandwich tin or Dan paper and steam gently Throne ring, Press into shape, then
up with rice or beans to prevent the pastry from rising. Bake in a hot oven for about twenty min- utes. Remove the rice, and when the pastry is cold arrange a slice of pineapple in the centre and triangles of pineapple and either tinned or glace cherries" round Cover with a jelly made from a
hour.
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DID YOU
KNOW THAT-
1:
HARD LINES
Mr. Anthony Eden, questioned in the House of Commons yesterday about this statement, said there was not a word of truth in it, and
'ASPRO' Works Wondera
for Malaria
Gladstond, Queensland...
Genilersen,
think it in ap ia me to let you know how 2 have benefited by "ASPRO." Ever since 1910 ) have been a marito MALARIA FEVER, having contracted asme. ia Rhodesia, German Earl Africa and the Straits Setalement
I came to Australia from the latter cometry. Are reses ago, and for the fires two agh a hit, years w continually in hospita).is Victoria and New South Wales. On arriving in Qovensland, a Event advised me to try 'ASPROZE did, and is basa, wacked wonders. Istat continue to get light attacken of Malaria, but Jind M 1 take a few “ASIīko: Tabless and hot- lemon water, and jestra ieu bauen, 1 km quite 0.5,vagina
fwerkzidn't be without ASPRO" Loe anything and always carry a bat shout, with me, I maʼ thoroughly. recommend them in myone suffering from the "bar""
Mlady
"This testimonist an unsolicited, and you may make
say use of it what you think t
Yours faithfully
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
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KING GEORGE MEMORIAL FUND
London, June 18, While there has been no actual decision as to how contributions to
Lud B HAY-COGHLAN
SEEING THROUGH
THE
CHILD'S EYES
London, June 20, Imagination must, indeed, take the place of knowledge in judging Alms made for children. Those who make them know
what the judges them may have forgotten. child wants, but the adult who
the King George Memorial Fund He must remember he is seeing should be ingathered throughout things which, though familiar to Bcotland, it is understood that so him. are fresh to children, to whom far as cities are concerned appeals visual impression of many of the the cinema may give the arst world's everyday wanders.
the wisdom
that "I may add that I do not think it is in the public interest that such suggestions should be made."
This despite the fact that the newspaper was careful to dissoci-will be made by the respective civic ate the Foreign Office from its heads through the press. There In this connection Dr. Julian charges. This-more remarkable has been certain correspondence Huxley expressed his doubts as to of employing only despite the fact that the news- between Lord Provosts on the sub- paper in question is "The Times."ject, and separate appeals, ir diagrams in the Hungarian film of wireless, and others in the audi- decided upon, will be these are ETTING THE HAND
made almost immediately. With
ence found there was hardly any the launching of an appeal already movement in the French picture. in Aberdeenshire the position of, "The Mountain." M." Benoit Levy, Aberdeen city may be different the director, has shown from that in the other cities. It is Maternelle" great insight into the considered likely that the ral minds of children. But in this pic- Provosts will each remit the con- ture he was content with static tributions they receive direct to the fund of the Lord Mayor in London
EDINBURGH GARDEN PARTIES
The garden party, appeal · has al- ways been particularly strong in
No doubt the newspaper's com- ments were mischievous and des- erved rebuke. But it seems hard that the rebuke should come from Mr. Eden.
For Mr. Eden is biting the hand that fed him. "The Times" has been his stoutest upholder in his difficulties of the past few days.- -... It has fought, almost unaided. the grim rearguard action which covered his retreat from his sane-
in 'La
views and gnored aerial photo- graphy. One felt, too, that a child would have appreciated some figure with which it cou'd identify itself on the mountain it was supposed to be climbing. But children · are
a little gill of the pineapple juice and half i tions polley. And now he gives the Edinburgh as a result of functions not at there shown It would be
When filling jam tarts hot water added to the jam before putting it in the tarts will make them nicer, as the jam will not get hard and lumpy? Putting the jam in when the tarts are half cooked is the better way.
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dressing down.
a pineapple jelly, allowing it to get exhausted troops no medals, but a cold before using. When the felly "set decorate with whipped cream.”
with
roodhouse.
of the kind at the Palace of Holy-invited to attend educational flms instructive If one day adults were
Thers have, of course, been no such gatherings there this given in the presence of some of the
children for whom they are de year, hut two garden parties are'
signed. QUITE TRUE
due to take place in the city this week. One, on Friday, is being A piece of stale crüst
glyen by the Corporation in con- put in the pan in which caull-
Another pupil, whose history is nection with the British Hospitals Stockings (to make wear and flowern or greens are cooked will obviously better than his spelling, Association conference; the offer, keep their colour) Before wearing. take away the disagreeable odour?serts that it was decreed that no on Saturday, is in honour of the black woollen ones, stand for 10 man should be put in goal without USSR. Ambassador and Madam, minutes in boiling water coloured
fair trial." Followers of Amoria: kak Short strips of macaroni put in
tion football, will agree that the Maisky, and is sponsored by the with washing Blut ing custards gives a delightful the top of a fruit ple will prevent statement is perfectly correct, as it Society for Cultural Relations with Havour?
the juice bolling over?"
Cold cooked potatoes and cab- bage are better left uncovered? "
A piece of fresh lemon peel warmed with the milk when mak-
stands,
'the Bortet.
Then you needn't wear them at