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STAPLES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936.
SURPRISES
GOOD RECIPES FOR A
SUPPER PARTY
CORNISH PASTIES
Cornish pastles will always prove popular, either for plenics or sup-
per.
This is my way of making them, so, Cornish readers, forgive me if it is not quite in agreement with yours.
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Ingredients: 11b. shortcrust, minced, steak for cold meat can be used up), three medium-sized raw polatoes, one teaspoonful of chop- pea onion, sajt, pepper and a little cold water.
Chop the peeled potatoes into dice, and mix with the minced beef, bnion and seasoring, adting a little water to bind.
Roll the shortcrust out thinly, and cut into rounds with a tea- plato. Put a tablespoonful of the meat mixture in the centre, damp the edges, fold over and plach to- gether.
Brush the tops over with egg volk, place on a baking sheet, and bake in a fairly hot oven for three- quarters of an hour.
SQUAB PIES
These ples are tasty and inex-, pensive. The ingredients are: lib. neck of
mutton, 2 medium-sized unions, if apples, seasoning, two -tablespoonfuls of mushroom ket-
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Joint the mutton into cutlets ...and arrange ir a buttered dish. Sprinkle with pepper, salt and plach of mint, then cover with sliced onions and apples.
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Pour over pint of Bisto grafy, if you haven't any stock, then cook
gently for 1 hours. Remove the dish from the oven. take out the bones and mix "well,
Line small patty tins with short- crust, half-fill with the meat mix- ture, then bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes Mark 6.
CRAB AU GRATIN
Crab fresh or tinned goes well in this tasty dish,
Melt a nut of butter in a pan, stir in a tablespoonful of chop- ped mushrooms and chopped onion, and fry lightly. Add a cup- ful of milk or fish stock, a dessert- spoonful of chopped parsley. per- per, salt and the crab.
When heated through, pour into a buttered ple-dish, sprinkle, with grated cheese and breadcrumbs, and dot with butter. Leave in a fairly hot oven until the crumbs are browned. Decorate with chop- ped parsley.
ROLLED SANDWICHES
T Take 5cme crab sandwiches when you go picnicking.
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Cut some bread very thin, then pound the butter with the flaked crab and seasoning, including a pinch of chopped parsley and taw drops of anchovy essence.
Remove the crust from the bread, and spread with the butter Roll up and. and crab mixture. tle with a sprig of watercresa.
SALAION SURPRISE
A tin of salmon is a good stand- uy and makes this popular dish. Remove the skin and small bones Irom the salmon, then make the Dsh.
Add a little chopped pars- ley, a few drops of lemon juice, salt and pepper, the yolks of two eggs and a cupful of white sauce. Pour lato a greased dish, fold in the stiffly whisked whites of the eggs, then bake in 'a slow oven for half an hour.
SARDINE-EGGS Another idea for a quick lunch is sardine eggs.,
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Hard boil as many eggs as requir- ed. remove the shells and cut the eggs lengthwise, Remove the yolks and pound each separately with a boned sardine, a knob of butter, pepper and salt, a pinch of chopped parsley.
SUGGESTIONS FOR SWEETS
CHERRY TRIFLE
and small port.ons of orange from which the skin has been removed. A
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Cherry tr.fe is interesting. ring sponge cake should be bought or baked. Cut it across in halves or thirds and spread with cherry jam, from which stones have been removed. Boak with shetry fruit Juice, and when gott pour over enough custard to cover it When cold cover che cake with cream, whipped with white of egg stiff froth, favoured with leing sugar and vanila essence and coloured pale pink with car- mine, Stick in It halves of blanched aimonds which have been cooked a faint brown in the oven. Lastly, all the centre with
or bottled cherries. tinned
Boll the syrup with extra sugar and sume lemon juice until it is thick. and pour it over the cherries.
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PINEAPPLE WHIP Pineapple whip. is a simple but deckclous sweet Put some crush- ed pineapple at the bottom of individual glasses. Make a pint three- pineapple Jelly with only quarters of a pint of water. Let i get cold, and when beginning to set whisk with an egg whisk until and serve on a lettuce leaf, gar-thick and creamy. Then stir in thoroughly a cupful of whipped cream, tinned cream, or evaporat- ed milk. favoured to taste. the glasses with this, and when set put a few pieces of crystallised pineapple on top.
Fill the eggs with the mixture
nished with rings of skinned to- matoes and chopped parsley. Serve with rolls and butter.
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SPEEDY PUDDING This light pudding will cook while the Arst course is being served,
Ingredients: Two eggs, their weight in sugar, flour, bulter and ground rice, a little milk and rasp berry Jam. Butter a piedish and spread with raspberry jam. Cream the butter and sugar, add, the beaten eggs, and lastly the dry ingredients.
Mix well, then pour into the ple- dish and bake in a fairly hot oven for twenty minutes.
CIDER CUP
Now to: a good thirst quencher for a family party. Cider Cup al- ways meets with approval.
Pour a quart bottle of sweet cider into a bowl, stir in the juice of a lemon and a tiny scraping of the rind.
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Next, add four orange sections, some slices, of apple and lemon, a few grapes,
some slices of cucumber.
Lastly, pour over two bottles of soda water and leave in a very cold place for an hour to impart the favour of the fruits
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term of years 52, period charged for one year to Christmas, arrears at Christmas, 1855, £15 8s. 10 d., charged for 1856, £20 11s. 10d., re- ceived in the year 1856, £30 17s. 9d., arrears at Christmas, 1856, £5
Over 300 Years Of 24.”
Book-Keeping
The accounts for the Corpora- tion of London, for the year end- eq March, bave been published The volume is the 303rd of the series extant-1833 to 1935.
A consolidated · balance-sheet shows the total operations of the Corporation. Liabilities stand at £17,258,759, Total assets appear at £9,536,800, and general balances at 27,721,058.
The preceding volumes of this vast account aré preserved in the vaults of the Guildhall
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OLD-TIME ENTRIES Salaries have risen in sympathy. 1720 Bir William Thomach. | Knight, the Recorder, was paid £80, being one year's salary for services rendered. His deputy was paid £40, and the Chamberlain £50.
In 1856 the "Principal. Clerk to the Sitting Justices, per order of the Court of Aldermen," wag päid £400 per annum, his assistant $300, and the City Marshal: €500 Last year the Clerk to the Lord Mayor was paid £1,250 and his aasistant £750. The Recorder was paid £3,000.
In comparison with the present- Among interesting entries to be day totals of the City accounts, the found in these volumes are the old figures appear Lilliputian. following: "To Neville Brown, "in In 1687 the "total of debts" or lieu of providing him with boots, Habilities were at £41,756 05. 91d., | £5." "Uniforms: for Marshal £23 "Money leat out was £21,722 | —forˆ cocked hat for ditto, £4 45." 65. âd., “Finés and Sales" £400 10s,, ' That was in 1843.
ORANGE SOUFFLES Orange souffles are a little more complicated to prepare but are a delicious sweet for special oc- casions. Put the grated rind of two oranges into a double boiler with the juice of four oranges and half a lemon. Add tour ounces of Castor sudgar and the yolks of four eggs. Whisk together until thick and creamy, then pour into a basin and let it get cold. Stir into one and a half teacups of whipped cream Or evaporated milk. then strain into it half an ounce of geistine which has been dissolved in a teacupful of water. Let it get cold and, 'when just beginning to set, fold in the whites of the four eggs whisked to a stiff froth. Put into paber cases to set and decorate with whipped cream
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Here is an interesting way of serving ground-rice mould, NEX two ounces of ground rice 'to a smooth paste with some mik taken out of a pint Boll the res of the milk with a heaped table- spoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt, pour on to the rice. and stir. well. Return to the pan and cook gently for ten minutes, stirring all the time. Flavour with a few drops of orange-flower water and vaniltà essence. colour with car- mine, and pour into a border
When set, turn out care- mould. fully and all the centre with stew-. ed, tinned, or bottled fruit.
MARSHMALLOWS
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unusual and simple sweet is made with the aid of marshmal- lows. Grease a ple-dish and line with sponge cakes which have been cut in silces and spread with apricot jam. Pour over some hot custard Cover the top with sliced marshmallows. Bake in a mode-
rate oven for about half an hour when the marshmallows should be beginning to brown. Let It get cold before serving
COFFEE MOULDS
coffee
Here is a simple made mould. Dissolve half an ounce of powdered gelatine in half a pint of strong, black coffee. Boll half a pint of milk with a pinch 'ol Let milk and coffee castor sgar. cool, then m x them together. Add a few drops of vanilla essence. Strain into
a wetted mould and leave to set. Tum out ond de- corate with whipped cream. Some- of the milk can be replaced by cream, or a larger proportion of milk than coffee may be used. In very hot weather slightly more gelatine may be needed
Finally, here is a milk jelly. Put half a pint packet of straw- berry and half a pint packet of raspberry jelly into a bowl. Pour over half a pint of very hot water and stir until dissolved. Let it get cold. then stir in s'owly and carfully half a pint of milk. Pul in individual glasses to set, and top with cream.
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The immensity of Sheridan Gib- ney's task can best be gauged from the fact that the "Anthony Ad- verse" film embraces 98 roles, of
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"Anthony Adverse," 15 a screen Remember, everyone of those 18 version of the longest best-seller had to be supplied with, diolague novel since Charles Dickens's days. ||ritting to his ur
Authored by Henry Allen, a ticular character and płumpish, bespectacled American kina calculated to advance or 47, who used to get a lying the development of the plot. Lit- writing out advertisements for a tle wonder Glbagy had to labour gramophone company, it runs to 12 hours a day for five months on 1,224 pages. Everybody, of course, the jobi predicted failure for it on that ac count. Instead, it evoked a public demand that had the printers and publishers working a 24-hour day.
The writing of the screen var son was consigned to 30-year-old Sheridan Gibney, who also used to be an advertisement copy-writer. Gibney plunged into the 1,224 pages, and five months later emer- ged with a scenario which tells the story of Anthony -Adverse in two hours 20 minutes..
Henry Allen Insisted on seeing the script before a camera turn ed. He knew of the melancholy fate meted out by Hollywood: to other novels. Gibnex'a trembling as he dispatched, the script to Al- len is easily understood.
The script Enished, the burden or translating it to the screen in the form of acceptable entertain ment was placed upon the stocky shoulders of Mervyn Le Roy, now one of Hollywood's most brillant directors, but only a few years ago just a plano act in a cabaret.
Maybe it's just a little incredible that a famous novel can be made into a good film by an ex-adver- tisement writer and an ex-cabaret planist until you remember that the novel's author also sprang from the same valley of obsecurity. In that typical situation you have the glamour which inevitably goes with-pleture-making.
So far we have confined For even allowing for Holly.ves to the beltnd-the-scenes an- wood's well-known pranks, famous gle of "Anthony Adverse." The op- writers sre notoriously hard to posite angle is, perhaps, more ex- please. Theodore Dreiser threa-citing, since it presents Fredric tened legal thunder when he BAW
March as Anthony Adverse, sup- the screen veralon of "An Ame- rutted by Olivia de Havilland,
couldn't dfag Ernest Hemingway George Stone, and Claude Rains, to "Farewell To Arms." And our own Bernard Shaw is not given to particularly, loud cheers for the ffim industry,
"Rent Farms" £4,059 12%, 6d...”Änd In 1720, there was paid the Rt. there is Resting In Cash £5,974 Hon. Thorold, Knt, Lord Mayor, fs. 4jd.
for the provision of wine for the Rents have risen precipitously. | year of his Mayoralty €80, newь-- In 1728 the rent paid by the "In-papers and pamphlets, £31 10s, habitants of St. Clements Danes Parish without Temple. Bar for a Wharfe and Stairs by them, rented at the Thames Side near Bomerset Place--4d." In some instances, for what appeared to be substantial -property the payment was marked
dayn simply as "One Peppercorn"cember to 14th March, 1835, Per rican Tragedy." Spanish bulls Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn,
fur wax herrings and, sturgeons due at Michaelmas, £5 68, 8d.”
In 1838: "To Frederick Marriot, Smith, the like for providing a wraught iron hand-rall with pil lars, &c., and fixing it in the Court of Aldermen Room from 14th De-
A hundred and fifteen years later order 7th June, 1836, 198, 8d.” rents had risen considerably. Here "Sheriffs Fines, 1794. Received 18 Richard L. Jones's account: of Francis Ruddle, Esquire, Citizen "Three houses, Nos. 5, 4, and 7, and Clothmaker, his fine for re- "Gear-street, near the Minories, fusing to serve the office of Sheriff
lessee Eliza Marin Hodges, com- being nominated thereto by Paul mencement of lease midn. 1844, | Le Mostnier, Lord Mayor,'' £400,"
But with Sheridan Gibney's. ren- dering of "Anthony" Adverse", the
PARTY
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Swatow, Oct. 11. China's National Day, October 10, celebrated in a quiet but solemn way. In response to the previous request the display of the National Flag was most evident.
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A stroll undertaken by your cor- respondent revealed the fact that from almost every household or building the national flag was uttering in the wind, dying either from the roof top or the verandah. nag was visible, and it was nice From every nook and corner &
to see patches of red and blue from far and near. I have never seen such a display of dags here before.
Although a general holiday, it was marked by the absence of a public celcbration. Joy-rides-the
a form of holiday-making-
were not so conspicuous as in past. years, probably due to bad times being experienced. The Customs: oursel-Hagstaff was gally beflagged, aiso the Seamen's Union, Overseas Association and the Club of the...] Customs Chinese Staff, At night. these places were beautifully illu- minated, likewise the variour gov. ernment offices and police stations,
The story traces the life and loves of Anthony Adverse from his birth in the Italian Alpa in 1776 to some thirty years later, when Napoleon at dr him on in iri- portant mission to America.
LUNCHEON PARTY
An official luncheon party was given by the Mayor, Mr. Chan Tang Cheng, at the Municipality, at which were present members of the Consular Body and other off- cials. The absence of the British Conent was much regretted, he
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being unable to attend on account. ing the able interpreter. of court mourning. There were Salad, the Consul for France and also present the new Japanese also Senior Consul, replied on be Consul, Mr. Yamasaki, and some half of the Consuls to the toast officers from the Japanese warship. proposed by Mr. §. O. Au, the The Mayer proposed the toast to manager of the Bank of Communi- the Head of China, Mr. W. F. Tong cations which is establishing "w
the local Balt Commissioner) be Branch Office here.