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STAPLES
HOT CAKES AND SCONES
Take b. of either plain, rice, or whole-meat flour and sleve it Anely. Then rub into it with the tips of the fingers 2 oz. butter. Add teaspoonful cream of tartar and 'teaspoonful salt; these should be Anely sleved. Mix ull well together and then add milk into it until a fairly moist paste. Sour milk wil do, and is considered preferable by some people. Knead slightly on board and then roll once, cutting gout with round 'cutter and miakiny
about 14 round girdle cakes.
Have a deep frying-pan ready, warmed and sprinkled with warm sitted Bour, Put in cakes and cook over good beat till nicely brown each side--about 10 minutes.
For a sweet flling cut the side of girdle cake open and, with a small spoon, Insert à small quan- tity of whipped cream and half an apricot, drained free from juice. or apricot jam, just allowing filling to show. Dust castor sugar over them before sending worm to table.
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· Anchovy Butiered Filling A delicious little hot cake is made as follows —
Mix together i lb. four, less one tablespoonful, for which substitute tablespoonful grated cheese. Add one teaspoonful baking powder, a pinch of salt and rub in lb. but- ter.
Beat up the yolk of an egg with sufficient milk to make a not too stiff paste. Roll out lightly to about 1 in, thick. and cut into rounds with a small cutter. Bake
cooked cut open and
In a quick oven for 10.15 minutes.
When spread with anchovy butter-an- chovy essence or paste mixed with butter, and a sprinkle of pepper. Put together and serve very hot.
Cherry, Scones Four oz. Hour, 1 oz. butter, 1 tablespoontul castor sugar. į tex-. spoonful cream of tartar, tea- spoonful bicarbonate of soda, 1 egg, a little milk, & cupful coarsely chopped glaçe cherries.
Rub butter Ightly into four, then add the remaining dry. Ingre- dienta Beat and stir in the egg. adding cold milk to make a light dough. Roll out and cut into fin- gers. Bake five minutes each side on a hot griddle or electric hot- plate or in a quick oven for 10
minutes.
Serve hot with butter and cherry Jam
Buttered Apple Cake Ingredients: 1 lb. four, 1 tea- spoons baking powder, 6 oz. but
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SURPRISES
oz. of batter. Peel and core tour large apples, chop finely, and add to four. Mix all together with half-pint milk, and take in a large shallow tin for three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven.
Turn out, split and spread gent rously with butter and sugar. Re place top and return to a cool oven till required.
NEW JAMS
Banana Jain
Peel and weigh some bananas, not too ripe. To every pound of fruit allow twelve ounces of sugar. To every banana allow half a large orange and lemon. Slice the bananas and put into a preserving pan with the pulp and juice of the Spanish Tea Cake
oranges and lemons and thet: This is an old recipe, and has
grated rind and two tablespoonfuls some unusual features. It is de-of water. Bring carefully to the
clous hot or cold.
First make a bread dough with 1 lb. flour, one teaspoonful salt. I oz, yeast and nalf-pint warm milk. Wurm the four, cream yeast, and add milk Stir into four just a por- tion in centre first; leave half- hour; then mix all Aour in and leave to rise half-hour.
Put on floured board. roll out three times, putting 2 oz. butter on in fakes each time, 6 oz. in all. After last rolling sprinkle thickly with 6 oz. crushed lump augar, 2 "oz, ground almonds and lb. chop-
ped lemur and citron peel.
Roll up like a Swiss roll, leave to rise till double its sleze, then bake for 40 minutes in fairly hot oven. Brush with sugar milk and just dry off in oven before serving.
Nut Muffins
Mix together 1 lb. white flour, a lb. wholemeal flour. 4 tablespoon- fuls brown sugar. teaspoonful salt, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, and 2 oz. chopped nuts." Add 4 tablespoonfuls melted butter, and mix into a batter with a beaten egg and half a pint of milk.
Put one tablespoonful of the bat- ter into greased muffin pan. Place half a nut on each muffin, and bake in hot oven from 20 to 25 minutes. Spilt and butter. Serve hot.
FRENCH PANCAKES
Let's think of something out of the ordinary for dinner to-night. Why not French pancakes?
The batter can be mixed in the morning, and it will be all the better for standing. Cover it with a plate.
boll and add the warmed sugar. Boll for about forty minutes, slowly and carefully, until thick.
"Pot Roast
4 pound rump roast
iron
pound suet
+ cup four
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
3 tablespoons minced onions
1 cup diced celery
2 tablespoons minced parsley
1 tablespoon sugar
cup boiling water
Melt suet in large frying pan or Dot; when hot add meat which has been sprinkled with the Brown meat well on all flour. sides. Add rest of ingredients. Cover tightly and simmer 3 hours. Add vegetable.
Vegetables
6 peeled potatoes & peeled carrots
6 peeled turnips
⚫ teaspoon salt
Rhubarb And Almond Jam
Wipe some sticks of fresh red rhubarb, but do not peel. Cut them into cubes. To each pound allow a pound of preserving sugar and two ounces of almonds, blanched and shredded. Put the sugar and rhubarb into a pan, and dissolve the sugar slowly. Then boil quick-tightly and simmer one hour. ty, adding the almonds after ten Carefully remove the meat and minutes. This jam does not set vegetables to serving platter and into a jelly but will go thick and make the gravy. Syrupy when done.
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Date Jam
Break up a pound of stoned dates and put into a preserving pan with half a pint of water, the rind and juice of two lemons, and neat up. Then add a pound of sugar and cook slowly, stirring until it thickens.
Pineapple Jam
often,
This is made with tinned pine- | apple. Cut the pineapple into small pieces and weight. To a pound allow twelve ounces of pre- serving sugar and the rind and juice of a lemon. Boil the pine- juice and rind, and half a cupful apple with its syrup. the lemon
of water very slowly until soft, which will be in about twenty-five boll again until thick." minutes. Add the hot sugar and
savoury
The French housewife cooks her pancakes on saucers in the oven...
be eaten with Jam or Ingredients: 3 ozs. flour, 2 oz. spread, arid the batter left to butter. 2 ozs. caster sugar. Z eggs. stand. about pint milk, a little jam, or grated lemon rind.
sugar, stir in the beaten eggs and
Grease some
saucers, pour an
Sprinkle salt on the vegetables und arrange around meat. Cover
Gravy
4 tablespoons flour 11⁄2 cups bolling water. teaspoon pepper
in the cooking pan; when mixed Add flour to the drippings left
add "rest of ingredients and boll 2 minutes. Serve in small dish or pour over the cooked foods on the serving platter. Garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Fish With MacaroniTM
Here is an interesting dish which can be made with fish left over, or with fish freably. cooked Put the bones, and any other fish Flake the dish and remove bones.
trimmings into a saucepan with an
onion stuck with two or three cloves. Cover with water and bring to the boll. Add salt, then throw in some spaghetti OF macaroni (using half as much as there is fish). Boli until the maca- ron la soft, then drain - off the liquid and keep it. Take out the bones and onion and mix the macaroni with the faked Dish.
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The Earl of Athlone, presiding would follow the example of two recently at the one hundred and subscribers of the society who were seventeenth annual court of gover- now both in their one hundred and nors of the Seaman's Hospital So- fifth year and were still active ciety, held at the May Fair Hotel, supporters. accepted from Miss Elizabeth Grif- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger aths, the daughter of Mr. H. E. Keyes. M.P.. who supported the Griffiths, senior surgeon of one of appeal of the Earl of Athlone, said the society's hospitals, & model of that coastal shipping was improv- HMS. Collingwood, the ship in ing and he believed that the Goy.. which the King served at the Bat- ernment were about to take long Be of Jutland, as a birthday pre-overdue measures to assist the Bri- Cream together the butter ania | equal quantity of the batter into Melt an ounce of butter. add a
sent for Princess Elizabeth from tish Mercantile Marine to compete tablespoonful of flour, and make the governors and friends of the against the heavily subsidized ves- into a sauce with a breakfastcup-society.
sels and navigational laws of cer- ful of the fish and macaront stock. Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, chair- í tain foreign nations. Pour over the fish, cover the top man of the committee of manage- thickly with grated cheese and ment, who submitted the annual breadcrumba, add a little butter report, announced that Lord Lloyd and put in the oven to heat and had tendered his resignation from brown the top.
the chairmanship of the society. a position which he had held for five years, owing to the pressure of work of Imperial importance. A message which Lord Lloyd" had sent from Constantinople was read. Through the generosity of Lord Nuffield there "would be included
ter, four large apples, half-pintsleved flour, then add the slightly mile.
Put four and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Rub in lightly
Try this
warmed milk. Beat until smooth. The grated rind should be stirred in now, if the pancakes are not to
NUT and FRUIT LOAF ·
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pint milk. 3 oz. butter or margarine.
Mix all dry ingredients together. Add nuts and currents. Whisk eggs, add milk and stir into dry ingredients. Melt "butter or margarine and stir into mixture. Pour into two or three greased tins. Bake in moderate oven for 50 minutes to it hours, according to thickness of loaf.
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ench, then bake in a quick oven for about ten minutes. Turn on to sugared paper, spread with warm jam, if this is preferred, and serve at once.
Instead of jam. minced ham can be used as a filling, if you feel more like a savoury dish.
Meteorological Office At
Kai Tack
Admiral Lord Cork and Orrery and Dr. Carmichaet Low, senior physlelan to the Hospital for Tro- pical Diseases, also spoke.
MADRID · AGAIN BOMBARDED
Madrid, May 11. The City was subjected to heavy
In the new Albert Dock Hospital, boinbardment beginning at an which was now being built, a mo- | early hour. Tram service was sus- del fracture clinie, a Teature of pended and people were sheltering which would be that, upon their in underground stations and
When the civil hangar, "öffices | to Kal Tack. The considerable dis-discharge from the wards, patients cellars. Forty were killed and and control tower were erected at tance between the two offices and Kal Tack provision was made for the lack of an Observatory official the accommodation of a meteorn at the aerodrome, has been some logical officer, and the recent in- crease in air trainc has made it what detrimental to meteorolo necessary that one should nowgical efficiency, and it is hopeful that the new arrangement will be be in attendance. On May 18 the office will be occupied by an om-advantageous to all concerned, cer from" the Royal Observatory The meteorological officer wi in order that pilots may have the bo present at the aerodrome benefit of convenient consulta- shortly after 8 a.m. and, the wea- tion on weather matters previously ther being favourable, will im to their departure, and that the mediately proceed to determine communication of meteorological the direction and speed of the, up information to planes in flight per winds, by observing the fight may be expedited in every way of a small balloon, after which. he possible.
A matter of the greatest im-
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THE ARMY
Staff Changes
Colonel E. G. Gidley-Kitchin, who was promoted from the RE In
November and placed on half-pay.". has taken up the appointment of
would be retained under wholetime ever 150 wounded in the bombard- rehabilitation centre. It had been of buildings. obiervation and treatment in the ment which wrecked whole blocks impressed on the board, continued shells mostly of large calibre were Over & hundred
Bir Ion Hamilton Bean, that in-fired from a concealed battery be- pred men, receiving a maximum hind Insurgent lines, The ma- compensation payment of 30a. jority fell in the centre of the city, Assistant Adjutant General at weekly, were often unable to pro- but odd shells crashed on high Southern Command Headquarters, vide themselves with proper or buildings in
succeeds outlying districts Salisbury, Be
Colonel adequate nourishment. It was, carrying away two or three storeys. Sir Joseh Cheyne, M.C., who goes therefore, proposed to include" in Reuter's "Bulletin Service.
to retired pay. the rehabilitation centre a dining- room where these patients would £9,500 was required to complete receive proper nourishment. Only
the Albert Dock Hospital Rebuild had been insiituted by the King Ing Fund Appeal for £50,000 which when, as the Duke of York, he was president of the society.
WANTON FIRING
Colonel A. E. Grasett, D.8.0., Balamanca, May 11. charges Government troops with quarters, York, on the raising of the M.C., becomes Brigadier, General An 'Insurgent communigne staff, at Northern Command Head- wantonly firing on the village de when they had retreated like des R. Swayne, from the lat Rigoitia near
the Sollube range post from G.8.0.1, and Colonel J. Durango, Elbar and Guernica. Battalion, The Royal Northumber
land Fusillers, becomes G.8.0.1, at the staff College, Camberley.
Brigadier W. M. Sutton, D8.0., M.C., Commandant of the loyal Tank Corps Centre, is appointed
Reuter,
to command the new Armoured Fighting Vehicles School.
will assemble all available data from the surface and from the portance to the plot, is the state upper air in the form of a map, of the weather and sky at his der-
which may be consulted by those
The Earl of Athlone, who moved tination and in its vicinity in or concerned in the aerodrome.
the adoption of the report, sald der that he may exercise his Upper-air data have been ob- there was no cause which he would judgement as to the manner oftained at the Royal Observatory advocate. with greater earnestness DIVINE WIND ON approach and landing. At the for many years, but it is felt that and sincerity than that of the beginning of the experimental the vicinity of Kal Tack has char- Seamen's Hospital Society, which
RETURN FLIGHT fights by Imperial Airways, hour-acteristics in the lower levels of cared for the men of the Mercan- ly reports of the weather at Hong the air which probably differ con-
London, May 11, tile Marine in time of accident or "The two Japanese airmen who Kong, Gap Rock and Wagian were | siderably from those near the sickness. The ocean trade routesmada the record flight in the plane TRAINING IN AIR WORK communicated directly from the Royal Observatory, and that they were the very arteries of the Em- "Divine Wind" are leaving Croydon Royal Observatory to the Dora should be ascertained as early as pire, and his services as Governor-
A number of Indian omcers will on a return journey to Tokyo on be seconded from the Indian Army do." With the completion of the possible. The results of the series General of South Africa enabled Friday. They are not attempting to the new Indian Air Force. The installation of radio facilities at of, balloon observations under bim to make that statement with another record but will fly in easy object is to form a reserve of pilota Kal Tack the charge of these com- taken at the Observatory since authority and experience. Raw stages probably taking ten days who also have Army training and munications passed to the Super-1921 are the basis of the upper air materials and the products of our They are carrying personal to spread a knowledge of Air Force intendent and the Royal Observa-forecasts which are now being industries were borne by the sailor Coronation" souvenirs back to work in the Indian Army The tory merely transmits the neces-issued twice daily with consider who also carried our mails, He Japan
officers selected will be seconded sary meteorological information able success.
for four years.
hoped that the younger generation | Reuter's Bulletin Service.