HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936.
STAPLESURPRISES
FOOD FOR THE
NOT-SO-WELL
BACON AND PRUNE FOR YOUR NOTE
ROLLS
Svak four large prunes in half
a pint of water and then cook them slowly till they are soft. Re- Persons in poor health should, spoons flour, add half pint milk move the stones and stu the never be persuaded into taking and stir till it boils. Remove the prunes with a mixture made by more food than they require. for the shredded meat from a sma}}} beating together one ounce of but-
saucepan, frum the Are and add.
BOOK
BANANA FRITTERS
Make, a batter with three ounces of flour. a pinch of salt, the yolk ter. half a teaspoonful of thick of an egg. and enough milk to cream, and 血 little desiccated make a fairly thick batter (about coconut. Fry four rashers of half a teacupful). Beat well and
let 1 stand for an hour or When required cut the
it is not what is eaten but what i boiled chicken with pepper and is digested that helps a patient sait to taste. Grease a bowl of In convalescence. Give "little"
pryrex dish, pour in the creamed chicken and place the bowl in a pan of water and steam for about bacon and four small croutons of an hour. Serve with thin slices of
bread Then roll a stuffed 'prune buttered toast.
in each rusher and serve very hot on the croutons.
food and. often is a rule that should be observed when tempting the not-So-well, for what is eaten readily does more good than dou- ble the quantity eaten with dis- gust.
Appearances help greatly in stimulating and sharpening up- petites so make the rivalld's food as nourishing as possible and serve it in an attractive and picasing way.
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EGG-JELLY
Grate a little rind from half-a- lemon into saucepan and add two eggs beaten up with two ounces sugar and the juice of two lemons making the mixture up to orie pint with cold water. Whisk up over the fire il "almost" bolling point is reached, then remove and stir in three-quarters of an ounce of powdered gelatine till it is all dissolved. Strain into small moulds or glasses arid place on ice till re-
The following recipes will be found valuable in the sick room and help to tempt the not-so-welt i quired.
POACHED FISH
SHERRY WHEY
To one pint of milk add a vine- glass of sherry and boil until the curds separate, strain through a musiin into a jug and serve either hot or iced. The curds aru very indigestible and must not be used. I liked the whey may be sweeten- ed a little.
JUNKET
Take a filet of pomfret and at- ter washing and Wiping it dry. sprinkle one side of it with pepper and salt and squeeze of lemon Julcé and roll up the piece, tie with cotton or shewer and place in a small greased fire-proof dish, pour over a cupful of milk and dot with an ounce of butter. Cover the dish with grease-proof paper and other cook in a very
Hrut two cups milk to lukewarm slow oven ur over a saucepan of
in a double boller, add two table- boiling water. To serve lift the
spoons sugar and any flavouring. Ash on to a plate. thicken the milk with a teaspoonful of blend-solved.
and stir until the sugar is dis- ed cornflour, add a little chopped net mixed
Stir in two teaspoons ren- parsley and pour over.
in a little lukewarm water and pour the mixture into a dish from which the junket is to be served. Allow to get cool and Arm. May be served with stewed fruit or cream.
CHICKEN CREAM Melt one tablespoon butter in a pan, stir in one and half table
For
For refreshment, for nourishment, for Vitality and Radiant Health, for Summer Happiness, Drink delicious
OVALTINE
Cold
8APRIL
had
TO AMUSE THE CHILDREN
For a children's party supper or garden picnic the following egg dishes will be popular:-
EGG APPLES Hard cook 1 egg to each child. Shell While warm,
carefully manipulate into the shape of a small round apple, pressing down at stem and blossom ends. Insert 1 clove for blossom end, and.
a sprig of parsley for stem
Colour the egg carefully with a small brush and food colouring to resemble apples.
HUMPTY DUMPTY EGGS
Dip hard-cooked
eggs from which shell has been removed in mayonnaise to which a little liquid gelatine has been added, to make it,firm.
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Then decorate with cut olives or pickles to form funny faces.
OVALTINE greatly improves Milk
Because
Ovaltine has special properties which. "when added to milk
make the milk much more nourishing Moreover, Ovaltine® transforms milk into a deliciously palatable and com pletely digestible beverage
*OVALTINE* Cold is now served in the leading Cafes and Restaurants.
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bananas into quarters, lengthways and ac- ross, and sprinkle them with cas- tor sugar and lemon juice. Whisk the white of the egg to a stiff froth and fold
Into the batter.
Cover the bananas with batter, and drop into deep, bolling fat. After the first few seconds fry rather slowly until golden brown. "Drain thoroughly and pile on a dish, pa- per. Serve with castor sugar and slices of lemon.
VANILLA SUGAR
Vanilla sugar is used for sprink- ling on sweet fritters, and sweet- meats, and is made by chopping six vanilla beans finely and pound- Ing them into a mortar with half a pound of loaf sugar. Then ruby both through a wire sieve and re- pound what will not pass through the steve. Put the whole into a clean. dry. bottle and keep tight- ly corked, or the sugar will lose its flavour. Cinnamon
sugar which may be used for coating doughnuts. is made in the same way, using four sticks of cinnamon Instead of the vanilla beans.
VANILLA COFFEE
Put into a saucepan half a pint of cold water, one tablespoonful of freshly ground coffee, and a pinch of salt. Bring to the boil and sim- mer. fur three minutes, Take the pan of the fire and sprinkle in a little cold water to settle the grounds, and leave for five minutes. Then strain the coffee into a jug and add a few drops of vanilia essence. Put half a pint of milk into the pan and place it oyer a moderate leat. Whisk the milk until it is hot and frothy, but do not allow it to boll. Then add the coffee to the milk in the pan and reheat for a minute. This quantity makes three cupúls of coffee.
CUCUMBER HINTS
Cut your cucumber from the end farthest from the stalk.
If you have a plece of cucum- ber you want to "keep fresh, put the Stalk end in a mug or jug of water.
When making cucumber sand- wiches DON'T salt the cucumber as it hardens it and makes it tough to eat. Instead, salt the butter! you 'spread.
CREAM SAUCE
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HEAT
AND
HUMIDITY HEADACHES
ON'T let Headaches lower your powers of resistance. Two or three DON'T
'ASPRO' Tablets, taken with a drink of water, will banish most Head- aches in a few minutes. It's a mistake to think that because it's hot and humid you must endure a Headache. Even the most healthy suffer at times: beat, sun-glare, humidity and sleeplessness all help to reduce physical resis- tance, with the result that a Headache attacks you. 'ASPRO' will quickly clean it up before it has time to sap your vitality, make you listless, irritable, nervy and out of sorts. 'ASPRO' relieves in a perfectly soothing way, and is not harmful, because it is a pure medicine, containing no questionable or dangerous antidotes. Keep 'ASPRO' in the house to check Colds. Influenza, Rheumatism, Dengue. Neuritis, etc. It is safe insurance against everyday summer ills; it gives quick, certain relief and does not harm the heart.
'ASPRO'
GIVES RELIEF IN 5 to 10 MINUTES
Home Helps
Harriet Hillard makes a de cious salad by diag halves of either fresh or en aned peaches with a date and nut paste. Miss Hillard will next be seen is "Count Pete."
A can of cream of mushroom soup, "unthinned can be cooked down for mustiroom sauce, suggestm Barbara Stanwyck. RKO Radio Pic tures atar. whose uezt picture will be The Bride Walks Out"
Tart red cherries make delicious preserves to serve with bot breads a rast, says Lila Lee, featured player in the HKO Radio produc flog. "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford.”
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Pulsives to be scalloped should
be sliced thin, saya Stefi Duna, fen- tured feminine lead to the Pioneer musical, “Dancing Pirate."
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If ouluna are pared under water, they will not irritate the eyes or banda, suggests Joan Davis comédi- enue, who will be aeca in "Banker Bean."
Baking powder doughs should be handled as little as possible. Baya Margaret Callahan, whose'next film will be "The Last Outlaw."
For a colorful table, Ginger Rogera servos baffet suppers in Langerine-colored bowls on dark blue lines. The young danclug and Binging star will next be seen with Fred Astaire In "Never Gonna Bance."
Crusty loaves of French bread may be warmed by placing them in the oven in their brown paper wrappera, saya Molly Lamont. This bread is particularly delicious to serve with one-diab meals, asserta this Alm player who has a rola in "Mary of Scotland," in which Kath- „Arine Hepburn and Fredric March
are co-starred
To make apple and celery anled a new way, finely shred the ingred?- ents, suggests Erin O'Brien-Moore, who is currently playing an im portast role in the RKO Radio ple ture. "The Ex-Mrs Bradford." -
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Add chopped mushrooms to the.. meat mixture prepared for stud Peppers, suggests Stefl Duna. fea tured feminino lead in the Plancer musical. "Dancing Pirata”
stributors.
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Sift
DOUGHNUTS
4 cups flour, measure and slit
twice with
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon cinnamon
i teaspoon nutmeg. Eeat
2 eggs slightly, add
wei
1 cup sugar "and b.end
Add dry ingredients. alternate- ly with combined
1 cup milk
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CANADA'S RAILWAY CENTENARY
FROM 16 MILES TO 42,000 MILES
Ottawa, Canada. This year marks the centenary of the construction of Canada's first railway line.
2 tablespoons melted fat and
teaspoon vanilla. Add su- cient flour to handle, keeping It was only sixteen miles in dough as sort as possible. Roll length and ran between Laprairie lightly to inch thick: cul- and St. Johns, Quebec. By 1846, a cut with floured cutter. Fr decade later, the railway mileage. in
deep fat (365°) three in Canada had grown to 54 miles. minutes. turning frequently. It was not until 1851 that one Drain on absorbent paper. hundred miles had been built. Krep in covered `jar.
CINNAMON BUNS
Dissolve
1 to 2 yeast cakes and
2 tablespoons sugar in
3 cups flour.
By 1875 the mileage had grown to 4.804 and at the turn of the century there were 17,657 miles of track' in operation.
There followed a period of ad- mitted over-expansion and to-day the total mileage exceeds 42,000. of which 22,000 miles belong to the Canadian National Railways.
A
2 cups lukewarm milk; add
Beat until per- factly smooth. Let rise in a warm place until double inches operating on the tiny railway The two original passenger coa-
bulk. Add
2 tablespoons
with
4 tablespons fat
sugar. creamed
1 teaspoon salt and
between Laprairie and St, Johns have grown to more than 7,000. adapted for days and nights of continuous travel, while the few.
to about 200,000.
2 tablespoons honey; slowly add original freight cars have grown
enough flour, to make a mo derately stiff dough. Kread. Let rise. Roll to inch thickness, Brush, with butter. sprinke with mixture of to 1 cup brown sugar
I teaspoon cinnamon
cup currants
cup raisins. Roli as for jelly
In a statement issued in honour of the centenary, the Dominion Minister of Transport (Mr. Howe) pays tribute to the part played by the railway in Canada's deve- lopment.
"Without the railway to
give
widely distributed provinces, the effect to the confederation of our roll and cut in 2-inch lengths.Dominion could not have made
Arrange, cut side down, in pie
pans lined with mixture of 1 cup brown sugar and 2 tablespoons melted butter. When light, bake in moderatz oven (400) about 20 minutes.
Sift
PLAIN MUFFINS
2 cups flour, measure and sift
twice with
4 teaspoons baking powder
cup sugar..
teaspoon salt, Mix 1 egg
progress as a nation, our trade and commerce could not have expanded as they have nor could the great Canadian prairies have been settled. Notwithstanding the great and continuing cost of the railways to Canada, the plain truth is that the country, owes a great debt to the railways."
A certain general, known for his strict insistence upon implicit obedience, met a soldier carrying a steaming kettle from the camp cockhouse.
"Here, you," he ordered, "let me taste that."
Make a cream sauce of 2 table- spoons butter, or any other fat or oil may be used, 2 tablespoons flour and 1 cup.warza milk, plus a dash of salt. This is done by first melting the butter in a saucepan over the flame, rubbing in the flour to a smooth paste and hav- ing a very gentle flame. Add the scalded milk real slowly. Stir con- stantly to prevent lumping. When all the milk has been added, con- tinue to stir and cook a few minutes so that the flour, is not "raw." To the cream sauce add vegetables and cheese also the crumbs. By "very fine" crumbs is meant the type of fine crumb ob- The village blacksmith
was a tained by putting crusts of dry cockney Engilshman with a sense bread through the food grinder. of humour. One day a customer! Blend all and place in well greas- called and asked his price for ed casserole. Bake covered in mo- welding a piece of iron, a very derate oven (35b, F.) about 20 small job, and went into detall by j minutes. To vary—almost any asking the smith how he arrived The smith replied: "W'en gits other left-over vegetables may be at his charges; whether he charge me job done, Ht looks hit hover, you?" he roared? suggested. Also if your family,ised for the time consumed, or had and charges, hail that my con- "No, sir,, That's what I was fond of cheese, this ingredient flat ates for the different jobs, zelence will hallow. Then Hi shuta! tryin' to tell you. It's disinfectant, may be increased.
etc.
1 cup milk
cup melted
batter together and combine with dry ingre- alents. Fill oiled muffin tins two-thirds full. Bake 'n ma- deraely hot oven (400) 15 to 20 minutes for small muffins; 25 to 30 for large muffins, Yield: 24 small muffins.
my eyes, and doubles hit."
"But, sir, it isn't
"Don't give me any buts." Get spoon!"
"Very good, sir.”
The soldier doabled back to the cockhouse and fetched one,
The general helped himself to a spoonful of the liquid and imme- diately spat it out.
"You don't call that soup. do