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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937.
STAPLESURPRISES
THREE SOUPS COLD FAVOURITES ORIGINAL SALADS
SAVOURY GALANTINE This galantine can be made the day before. A slice or two with salad and cold new potatoes makes an appetising meal.
Potato Soup-Peel and dice a pound of potatoes, a large onion, and one or two outside pieces of celery: Melt a little butter, add the vegetables, cover and cook for a few minutes, shaking the pan often. Add a quart of white stock, six pepper-corns, a blade of mace. salt and pepper, and simmer slow-meat. ly for an hour. Rub through a steve. Add a breakfastcuptul of milk and a little cream, and re- heat.
Oxtail Soup-Have an oxtati cut into small joints, dip in seasoned flour, and brown all over in drip ping. Remove the pleces,, then fry' a sliced carret.-turnip, onion, and a sick of celery. Add to the meat, together with two cloves.. a bay leaf, a blade of mace, pepper, salt, and three pints of water. Simmer gently for not less than three hours, then strain off the stock. Thicken it with one or two table- spoonfuls of cornflour, and boll for another five minutes. Remove some of the pieces of meat from the bones and add to the soup. The rest of the bones and meat can be put into the stockpot.
Remove skin and gristle from 21b. lean beef. then mince the
Add flb. seasoned sausage meat, a teaspoonful of powdered sage, salt, pepper, two, cuptuls of bread- crumbs, then bind together with two beaten eggs. A amali chopped onion may be added if the flavour is liked.
Shape into a long roll, and tie in a scalded and foured cloth. Plunge into boiling water and boll gently for two hours,
1.
Remove the cloth, leave until cold, then glaze. If it is to be
pressed, place between two plates before glazing.
MAKING. THE GLAZE
the boil, stir into the flour and salt, then knead
until a light dough is formed. Place. this on
a doured board and leave for five minutes to cool. Roll out, and "cut into rounds and shape into hollow pics. The pastry must be at the correct temperature. It should be warm- ed if it is too cold. otherwise the ple will crack.
Fill the pieces with the veal and ham mixture, add the sliced hard boiled egg, then pour in a little jelly stock, Damp the edges, then cover with a 1d of pastry.
Pinch the edges together, brush over with beaten egg, and make a slit in the pastry 50 that the steam can escape.
Bake in a fairly hot oven for half an hour. Reguló mark .5. When cooked pour in a little more stock to which gélatine has been added
Crab
The glaze is made by reducing brown stock until very thick An- other way is to dissolve a meat cube in half a cupful of hot water." ¦ change then to add a little gelatine. When dissolved, brush the glaze over the meat and leave to dry.
VEAL & HAM
Tomato Soup.-Melt a piece 01 butter, and add a chopped onion, a piece of celery, and a quarter of a pound of diced ham. Simmer for a few minutes, then add two pounds of sliced tomatoes, a pint and a half of stock, a bay leaf, a teaspoonful of peppercorns, a little pepper and salt, and a teaspoon ful of sugar.
Simmer until soft. then rub through a hair steve, Biend an ounce of cornflour with a little milk, make up to three quarters of a pint, and add to the soup, with a small pinch of bicar- bonate of soda. Boll together for Ave minutes, stirring well. Serve very hot, with toast or fried bread, milk. Bring the lard and milk to
Ham and veal ples are always appreciated. They are extra i savoury split open and spread with tomato ketchup.
You will require 1lb. lean veal, 6oz. ham, one hard boiled egg. & teaspoonful of chopped parsley. seasoning, and i-pint white stock to which loz. gelatine has been addeo,
For the crust the ingredients are: 40s, lard, lib. flour, a good pinch of salt and eight tablespoonfuls of
"
TASTY CRAB
salad
makes a tasty
Arrange some
freshly washed watercress and some shredded lettuce and sliced cucumber in a salad bowl,
Arrange the meats 3-4 crabs on lettuce and watercress.
PORK CHOP SUEY,
1 lbs. Lean Pork "
1 bunch Celery
3 large Onions
2 Bouillon Cubes
19.cupa Warm Water
2 tablespoons Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Molasses
2 tablespoons Cornstarch.
Cut ment, celery and oulons into
small pieces. Cook meat slowly in
a little fat for five minutes, then add celery. Cover pan and cook
Each should be cooked in a for five minutes. Add onions and separate pan of water." This pre-cook another five minutes, keeping serves the colour and individual lid on the pan, flavour,
When the vegetables are soft, but whole, strain away the water, then let the cold water tap run over them for a moment or two. They will then look much clearer
in colour.
Gut into small pieces and mix carefully with salad cream.
AMERICAN SALADS
in
Dissolve the bouillon cubes warm water, add the soy sauce, Į molasses and the cornstarch mix- ed with a little cold water. Mix all well and pour over the mixture in the pan. Add salt and pepper, and let simmer until the meat is tender. Time in cooking 14 hours.
Serve individual bowls of rice. to which the chop suey is added ius desired and seasoned to taste
GINGERBREAD
If you see an American begin to with soy sauce, salt and pepper.. make u anlad, sit up and take i notice. See what goes in. There are sure to be things you'd never thought of putting together. Yet they do "go," and the result will be a truly delicious salad full of surprising new flavours.
But, why wait for a lead? There's no rea800 why you shouldn't try out an American
salad for yourself one of these days, Here's a very simple one."
Take out the quarters of hulf a grapefruit (the tinned kind would do quite well if you haven't a fresh one) and arrange them on lettuce leaves. Add-one or two preserved gs and serve with salad dressing.
TOMATO & CUCUMBER
A nice gingerbread, which keeps well, is made as follows:-Put four ounces of butter into a saucepan and let it melt without boiling. treacle and half golden syrup) Add a teacupful, of treacle (or half
and stir together over a low heat nine ounces of plain flour, four until well mixed. Sift together
pinch of salt, one and a half tea- Ounces of soft brown sugar, a spoonfuls of ground ginger, and half a teaspoonful each of ground cloves, clanammon, and mace. Add the melted butter and treacle to A refreshing salad is made with
the tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber.
nour, then dissolve a "tea- spoonful of blearbonate of soda in Wash, then dry the lettuce in a
a teacupful of boiling water, stir Serve with salad dressing and clean cloth, and shred it with the rolls and butter.
Into the other ingredients, and Angers, do not cut it with a knife. beat thorough'v. Beat in two Arrange the lettuce in a bowl large eggs, add three ounces of which has been rubbed with a cut chopped stem or glace ginger, and onlon, then arrange a border of put the mixture at once into a thinly-sliced cucumber, and place shallow tin (a Yorkshire pudding a few skinned and cut tomatoes tin is just right) which has been here and there.
lined with greased paper. Bake Garnish with watercress, green in a moderate oven for thirty-five peas and a sliced, hard boiled egg. to forty minutes.
tomatoes.
and
Garnish with sliced slices of hard-boiled eggs. chopped parsley.
MIXED VEGETABLE SALAD Now, before any further re- cipes for salads, please remem per that almost any vegetable can be used in a salad-pieces of cook- ed cauliflower, carrot, turnip, as well as peas and beans,
Germany's 63 New Warships FOUR YEARS
i
BUILDING SPURT ALL OVER WORLD
A spurt in naval “building all. Germany's naval buliding at the
TO REBUILD
M
#
MENAI BRIDGE
over the world is shown by the present time is thus considerably Spanning A "Wind
more than 35 per cent. of the Bri- tish naval building. Under the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement the Geiman Navy is. limited to 35 per cent. of the Bri-
Return of Fleets, published by the Stationery Office, which gives the numbers and types of ships built, building and projected for the seven major naval. Powers-The British Empire, the United States,tish Navy, Japan; France, Italy, the Soviet Another advantage possessed by Union, and Germany.
Germany is that she has very few There are 42 more warships ships over the age limits compared building among these Powers than with the number of obsolete ships was the case when the last return in the British Navy. The return. was issued. Moreover, a number shows that while there are only of new ships have been added to seven over-age ships in the Ger- the fleets, although this has been man Navy, there are 119 over-age numerically offset by the scrap-ships in the naval forces of the ping of obsolete tonnage.
British Empire.
Funnel"
Aga Khan Weighed In Gold
recounted
the
and worth £22,773 were presented various Ismallia institutions and
Ingots of gold weighing 3,200oz. | children, ·and
Since taking Kalzana
headaches vanished
my
My NERVES are much STEADIER than they were
before"
uritan Mr. N. L., Cape Town, S.AZ
Kalzana is a remark- able food containing no drugs whatsoever.
In hot countries one's diet and the extent to which, one perspires tend to decrease the mineral contents of the body. Many complaints such as irritability, high blood pressure, dizziness, acidity, which are so often ascribed to the climate" are 'due largely to this loss of minerals.
When you do not feel as well as you should, start taking Kalzana tablets. They will soon put you right.
Kalzana
THE MINERAL FOOD FOR BETTER HEALTI Obtainable at all Chemists in table! and Barder laim.
Each bottle contains 75 Tablets. Kalzans is the most economical of at! calcium preparations.
NEW CRISIS IN
JAPAN
Diet Dissolved
Tokyo, March 31. Japan was confronte" with a fresh political crisis this morning when the Emperor, acting on the advice of the Premier, General Hayashi, issued an Ordinance dis- solving the Dlet.
ADDIS ABABA
*MASSACRES
First Official Admission
Home, Mar. 30. The Brat official admission b massacres in Addis Ababa in February, following the attempt made on the feof Marshal Graziani, are made in 271 271- nouncement refuting statements in the British press.
OWN in this Colony." It praised his Highness's part is Indian, Imperial, and world affairs, his championship of the cause of Indians oversea, and described him as a statesman of great sagacity.
The Address was presented in a magnificent gold and ebony casket supported on four ivory and gold
The crisis has arisen, as a resuit elephants, the work of Indian of the decision of the two major craftsmen in Zanzibar. The Act-parties, the Maselto ing Governor placed the ingots of Selyukai, to
and the demand immediate gold on the scales, and after the submission to the Diet, of the re-ly or that they set are to native
weighing was complete the Aga Khan slowly swiveled round on the scales and waved to the mass- ed audience amid an outburst of app'ause.
to the Aga Khan. at Nairobi achievements in East Africa and recently by the Ismailia com- the practical establishment under munity in East Africa when his him of "de facto Clovernment of Highness was ceremonially weigh our ed in a vast temporary wooden pandal holding about 12,000 people which had been erected in the The reconstruction of the Menai grounds of the Aga Khan Club. Suspension Bridge at
A Cost of After having thanked his fol- £228,000, announced by the Minis-lowers for their affection and de- ter of Transport in the House of.votion the Aga Khan accepted the complex road engineering tasks and intimated his Commoha, will be one of the most gold with great joy and pleasure yet undertaken in this country, a during the next five or six years desire that representative of the Post" was informed at the Minis-
"Morning the whole amount with its incre: try of Transport.
ment should be devoted for the benefit of his spiritual children in Qwing to the necessity for keep- ing the bridge open to traffic
Africa. The purposes which his Highness had specially in mind during the whole period of recon- In esimating the extent of the The fact that the two battle-struction, the work is expected to higher specialized education, nur- Included scholarships oversea for drive for larger armaments all over stilps building for the Royal Navy,
extend over four the world it must be remembered H.MS. King George V. and H.M.S.
years. The
sery schools for child welfare, and Menel road bridge is the only road that hips to be authorised under Prince of Wales, are to have 3
Nnk between the island of Anglesey
dispensaries. He then announced the programmes for this year are main armament of 14-inch guna
the names of leading Ismailias and the main and. in ng case included. Nor are the Is
who would form a managing.com confirmed. The two large
Other difficulties are due to the mittee for those purposes ships building or projected by French
under battleships under Cozi
abnormal wind pressures Soviet Russia included.. The re-struction, the Richelleu and Jean perlenced in the Menat Strait, spend wisely so as to get two his, direction and charged them to turn merely states that "Details Bart, are each to mount 15-inch which the bridge spans. The nar- shillingsworth of benefit for every are not available."
guns.
row channel is stated to ach as a The great strides by the Ger
shilling contributed. Bo, apparently, are the Italian "wind funnel" and the engineers man Navy during the "past 14 battleships, Vittorio Veneto and will have to be ready at any stage, months is shown. In December, Littorio. The gun calibre of the
to face winds of more than 100 1935, Germany had 19 ships main armament to be mounted in m.ph. strength. The necessity for completed and 46 under con- Germany's new. 35,000-ton battle- maintaining 100 feet clearance struction or projected. To-day ship is not given.
over the channel precludes the she has 133 warships built and
adoption of any alternative form -63 building or projected.
of design. Moreover, these figures are like, ly to be on the low side, aince the foreign sections of the Return of Fleets is filled in by the foreign naval authorities concerned,
GERMAN GUN ADVANTAGE According to the gures that are given in the Return, Germany now has under, cobstruction and projected, 63 vessels, as follows:
Three capital ships. Two aircraft carriers. Three heavy cruisera mounting
8-inch guns (a type forbid den to us by treaty). Thirty-four destroyers, torpedo
boats, 8cc.
Five small submarines. Twelve minor warships. Four small craft.
The British Empire has 94 ves sela building or projected, as fol- Iowa:
Two capital ships.
Three aircraft carriers.
W
It is interesting to note that British designers are retaining the 4.7-inch gun as the weapon for destroyers in spite of the fact that other nations are mounting larger guns in their destroyers.
REFUGEES ARRIVE IN HOLLAND
ex-
L
heads
GUARDING "THE GOLD
vised Election Law.
The announcement denies that Italian troops Ared ridiscriminate-
Otherwise the parties threatened nuts, except where ammunition. to obstruct passage of important was found. It is admittd that Government Bills.
some foreign business houses were Among the measures threatened forced to close because they car- When the Aga Khan was weigh-by the Diet's Insistence upon com- ried од espionage activities ed in Bombay, in January, 1936,pliance with their demands before against Italy. the amount of gold required to even considering passage is the Cornal d'Italia," reveals that the Virginio Gayda, writing in the counterpoise his Highness cost Iron Industry Bill, 225 135.
This is designed to alleviate the fron shortage in Japan which is are established in most out-of- holding up the armament pre-closed, and all the. Indian em- the-way places in Abyssinia, were
FRENCH FOREIGN
POLICY
Four Main Points To Be Defined
gramme.
Mohamed All chain stores, which
This particular Bill is vigorously ployees expelled because of es sponsored by the fighting services, the tle between British policy of healt
plonage activities. He alleges that GENERAL ELECTION FIXED
Tokyo, Mar. 31.:
The scene in the great teflagged and electrically-lit pandal WAS
penetration and Indian, organisa- very striking. "Thousands of the
tion in these stores was such that Aga Khan's followers sat on mats
The election consequent on the in some districts the brauch on the ground. and there were
dissolution of the Diet has been managers Were British consular hundreds of Europeans, including
Paris, Mar. 30.
ixed for April 30, Cabinet held agents.——— OLDEST OF ITS KIND
Considerable importance is being an emergency meeting at midnight [ Mr. Wade, the Acting Governor, attached to the French Cabinet at which it was decided to warn |———
Reuter. One of the engineer two main
of Departments, Lord tasks will be to replace the sixteen
Francis Scott, and other elected morning. The Foreign Minister. would be sought the event of Premier Hayashi went to the Council which is being held this political parties that dissolution wrought iron chains, which now
members of the Legislative Coun-M. Delhos, is expected to make an their persisting their attitude. Palace and advised the Emp support the bridge with four high of Indian ladies in saris
cli, mingling with colourful groups important pronounciation on for- Overtures made to the parties to dissolve the Diet. tensile steel chains. It is calcu- leaders of the Tamalia community eign policy, touching the following this morning were fruitless and Reuter. labed that the reduction in the in gold turbans and red cloaks four main points: number of chains will appreciably reduce the wind pressure on the bridge.
The carriageways are to be in- Amsterdam, Mar. 30, creased in width from 9 feet to 10 Seventy-four Spanish refugees feet, and in place of the present arrived in Holland and will be in- narrow footpath, two & fent foot terned in the towns of Tulburg | Daths on either side of the bridge. and Eindhoven. The refugees will are to be provided. stay with Dutch families and be allowed complete freedom movement, having given their word of honour not to leave the country.
of
The Dutch Government obtain- ed from the Valencia Government free conduct for the Spaniards who fled to the Duch Legation in
Sixteen cruisers mounting 6-inch Madrid. The Telegraaf," how-
guas...
Thirty-three destroyers.
Fourteen submarines.
Nineteen minor warships, Seven small craft.
ever, states that this promise has
The masonry of the bridge wilt remain substantially as it is now but the archways are to be en- larged and the towers supporting the bridge strengthened.
The Menai Bridge, which was opened in 1828 by the Duke of Wellington, is believed to be the oldest road bridge of its kind.
not been kept. Five refugees, in- Dutch steamer. The sister of Ge cluding the author, Fernando neral Franco is among those who Flores, were arrested at Valencia Bately reached Holland where the refugees embarked on a
Transocean News Service
and
embroidered with gold. Europeen police officers with revolvers and African Askaria with fixed bayo nets guarded the gold on the central green, yellow, and red weighing was conducted. The Be- canopied platforti where the
gum Aga Khan was dressed in a very rich white and gold sari with the Aga Khan's red and green colours and his Highness
wore a gold turban and an unadorned ankle-length red coat,
An address of welcome, present ed on behalf of the All Africa Golden Jubilee Celebration Com mittee, recalled the fact that "in this country your ancestor, the world-renowned Fatimite Caliph. Imam Shah Mustangirbillah of Egypt, celebrated his golden jubilee about 1,000 years ago," mentioned with gradtude the Aga Khan's care" and guidance for bis
pold in London and in that con
The conversations of King Leo- nection the general outlook of the Western Pact discussions:
The situation in Spain and the effective enforcement of the In- ternational Control plan;
The Italo-Yugoslav Agreement and its effect on the central Euro- pean situation; and
CANADA `AND PAN-AMERICAN PEACE PROGRAMME
Washington, Mar, 30.
The party drove to the White House escorted by a troop of cavalry
-1
It is the opinion abroad that the President and the Governor-Gen--
A full state welcome was accord. ed Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, tons and the projected visit of Canada, on the occasion of the eral, to-night, at the White House
Austro-French economic rela- | Vice - Regal representatives in
the Austrian Foreign Secretary, first offcial visit ever paid, by a may discuss Mr. Roosevelt's pall- Transocean News Service. Dr. Guido Schmidt to Paris,
Canadian Governor-General to an American peace programme and
American President"
the coming Imperial Conference. Naval and Marine Guards oi It is pointed out that Canada, Women members of the newly band played the Canadian and Afres agreements, and if President
Honour presented arms, while alone among the American n
Honk remains cutside the Buenos formed Soroptimists' Club of Blackpool are said to be so shy American national anthems, as Roosevelt, desires to extend his they won't address the members. the visitors were greeted at the peace drive beyond the American Yet Kipling nearly stated that railway station by Mr. Cordell nations, the natural bridge is pro "the speeches of the female are Hull, Secretary of State, and Mrs./vided by Canada
more deadly than the male,"
Hall
Beuter.