STAPLES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937.
SURPRISES
PIE DELECTABLE AND TEMPTING
If you are one of those people who feel that the ple is the one and only really satisfying dessert-
diet for no dlet-you'll welcome such a fascinating, array of sugges- tions as are presented here.
RIBBON PIE DARK LAYER
2 squares unsweetened chocolate.
1 cup milk.
cup sugar.
1 cup sugar.
1 tablespoons cornstarch.
teaspoon salt.
teaspoon vanilla.
1 baked 9-inch pie shell.
LIGHT LAYER
1 egg yolk, slightly beaten.
cup sugar.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon granulated gelati
2 cups milk.'
egg white, spicy beaten
'I teaspoon vanilla.
cup cream, whipped..
Add the chocolate to the milk and heat in a double boller, When chocolate is melted beat with rot- ary egg beater until blended, Com- ' bine the sugar, cornstarch and salt; add gradually to the cho colate mixture, stirring constantly then continue cooking 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Add vanilla and cool. Turn trito pleshell, Com- bine the egg yolk, sugar, salt and milk and cook in a double boller 5 to 7 minutes or until scalded, stirring constantly. Remove from are and add gelatin, stirring until dissolved. Chill. When slightly thickened fold in egg white and vanilia. Spread over chocolate layer in pie shell.
APPLE SAUCE PIE PLAIN PASTRY
2 cups apple sauce,
3 tablespoons brown sugar.
Few grains salt.
1 teaspoon nutmeg.
1 teaspoon cinnamon,
1 cup raisins.
Mix apple sauce, brown sugar. cinnamon, nutmeg salt and raisins together. Pour into unbaked ple shell. Roll out extra pastry thin and cut in strips fuch wide and 10 to 12 inches long and place on top of the pie, lattice fashion. Press 'the pastry together and press with the fingers to make a fancy edge. Bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes and then reduce the heat for about 15 minutes or until the crust has become a delicate brown.
TRADE RELATIONS WITH JAPAN The Textile Quota System
At the dinner given by the Federation of British Industries
BUTTERMILK PIE ORANGE PASTRY
1 cup sugar.
3 tablespoons flour."
teaspoon salt.
3 eggs.
2 cups bulter-milk,
4 tablespoons butter melted.
To make orange pastry, use, or- ange juice instead of water and make plain pastry, adding tea spoon grated orange rind and tablespoon sugar. Lise to line a 10-inch pie pan. To make the Alling mix augar and four, adding egg yolks and butter-milk and then the melted butter Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and pour in pastry lined pan. Place in a hot oven. Reduce the heat, and
bake 45 minutes.
LEMON PRUNE PIE
cup sugar.
4 tablespoons uour.
1 teaspoonsalt,
3 egg yolks beaten.
1 cup water.
1 lemon juice and rind.
3 egg whites,
2 tablespoons butter.
Baked ple shell.
I cup cooked prunes, stoned.
cup chopped walnuts,
6 tablespoons sugar. Combine sugar, flour. salt and egg yolks. Add water. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, un- til thick. Add justice na rind of lemon and butter. Pour into ple shell. Cut prunes in pieces and pieces and place on top. Sprinkle with walnuts. Cover with a mer- ingue made by heating & table- spoons of sugar into stimy beaten egg whites,' Bake in a moderate oven about 20 minutes or until
a delicate brown.
CARAMEL PIE FILLING cup sugar.
2 cups milk.
2 eggs.
1 tablespoon, four.”
i teaspoon salt,
VERSATILE
SALMON
There are many ways to serve salmon-and since it is an econo- mical food, the wise housewife will include it often on her menu
STUFFED SALMON
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CROQUETTES Combine 2 cups canned salmon with 2 cups thick well-seasoned. white sauce, press mixture around! 6 hard-boiled eggs. Roll in crumbs, dip in egg. then in crumbs. Fry in deep fat. Serve cut in halves
SALMON SOUFFLE cup milk
cup soft crumbs
1 lb. can salmon
1 tsp. salt
Few grains pepper
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
Chocolate and Walnut Cake
Ingredients: 24 oz chocolate, 3 os. butter, 3 oz. sugar, 3 eggs, 5 oz. plain flour, 1 level teaspoonful dak- ing powder, salt. For the icing: 2 OZ. chocolate, ib. icing sugar;"
nnt of butter.
vanilla essence, walnuts.
HAPPY
Cut the chocolate small, and leave to soften in warm place.
Heat milk, add crumbs, let | Cream butter and sugar, adding
stand for a few minutes.
Com-softened chocolate. Add eggs one.
bine with the flaked salmon, salt, at a time and beat.
and pepper
beaten- egg yolks. Fold In the stiffly beaten
egg whites, Pour in a greased bak- Ing dish and bake in a moderate oven about 45 minutes.
SALMON LOAF WITH BAKED CUCUMBER CUPS
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Stir in lightly the sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Put mix- ture Into a greased and paper- lined tin, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. Regulo mark 4.
When cold coat with chocolate Drain 2 cups salmon, remove, Icing and decorate with halved skin and bones. Pour 1 cup me. walnuts To make the icing. dium thick white sauce
over soften" the chocolate put the icing well-beater eggs. stirring con-sugar into a basin, and pour in a stantly. Combine with salmon.little bolling water. Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. teaspoon salt, few grains pepper and 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Fol din 2 cups.. soft bread crumbs. Grease amall joaf arrange sliced oilves and pimento од bottom and sides. Pour in salmon mixture. Bake in moder- ate oven. Bake stuffed cucum- ber cups at same time with a little water or stock."
BREAD CRUMB CRUST
$ cup softened butter.
2 tablespoons sugar.
pan,
Carmelize cup of the sugar by stirring it in a pan over moderate heat until it is rhelted and a light 1 cup fine dry breadcrumbs. brown. Gradually pour this syrup into the milk and heat until the
Dry 6 slices of bread slowly, in-
caramel dissolves. Beat eggs, add
side or on top of oven. Place them
remaining sugar,
In a heavy bag and roll or run flour and salt through the food chopper. Bift and stir this into the first mix- ture. Cook until thick. Pour fill with the butter and
and measure. Mix the crumbs sugar and ing into crumb crust and bake 20
pat firmly against the sides and minutes at 375 degrees.
bottom of a well buttered "ple pan.
500-YEAR-OLD ARMOUR
A 500-years-old suit of French armour has arrived at Cape Town on its journey to London where, it is. understood, it is to be sold by auction...
recently in the Hall of the Mer- The suit has remained quite cers Company, to the Japan Eco-Beneath its breastplate is an in- Intact through the centuries. nomic Mission. Lord Barnby pro- posed the health of the Mission, seription in the writing of the recalling the visit of the FBI period "Manufacture Royale de Mission to Japan in 1934, of which Chattelerault 1427," indicating that he was the leader. Mr Kadono
it belonged to the Joan of Arc leader of the Japan Mission, re-
perlod... plied,
TATE GALLERY EXTENSION
The King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the sculpture exten- sion to the Tate Gallery, given to the nation by Lord Duveen at a coat of £100.000.
The Majesties were welcomed by the Chairman of the Trustees, Bir Evan Charteris, and the Director and Keeper, Mr. J. B. Manson.
The King, declaring the exten- sion open, said:--
The armour was brought to
"Every week of the year thou-. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, pro-
South Africa from Scotland 70
sands come here to enjoy the posing "Anglo-Japanese
years ago. It was part of the Cecil beauty of the works of art that Trade Relations," said that when he was
Rhodes collection for many years. adorn these walls. It must surely In Japan he found that the United
Then it was bought by Mr. Robert be a source of pride and satisfac Kingdom was frequently critized McNee Talt, the present owner. tion to us all to. remember that as creating or inspiring dinculties "I" belleve I am right in saying this noble building owes its origin for Japan, He really did not it is probably the only complete to private generosity, and that in think that such criticisms were suit of this period in South Africa
the last forty years benefactors borne out by the facts. The trade at present," Mr. Talt said in an
have always been ready to sub- interview. exchanges of the United Kingdom with Japan gave Japan a very
"It was Luilt for a typical French-scope.
scribe towards the extension of its favourable balance.
of the period, short and The main difficulty related to textiles. The broad in build. The joints are effect of unregulated competition made in lobster tall fashion and had been so severe that, we had
the whole sult is a splendid exam- had to resort to the quota system.ple of workmanship. The French But we did so only after efforts to had a system of rolling their steel arrive at an understanding, had plates, while the British used an proved fruitless, and we then fix-" anvil.”
ed those quotas on aa fal? a basis
as possible, giving Japan, an as-
MULTI
Add chocolate, and few drops of vanilla essence: then mix, adding boiling water if necessary, until smooth. Lastly, stir in nut of but- ter,
If ked, the cake may be cut across and a layer of chocolate filling placed between. This is made by creaming together 8 oz. icing sugar and 4 oz. butter, then adding 3 oz softened chocolate.
IN SEASON THIS
WEEK
When the dog-days arrive it is hard to find something fresh to eat. Fruit is always nice, though, and several attractions can be found this week.
Persimmons have arrived, but I don't buy them yet. Not worth while, they are small and hard, and not good eating, but there is a fresh lot of mangosteens in the Colony. Very late in the year, but they are delicious all the even if they are not as big as be fore,
same
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PRINCESSES CALL MOTHER TO
WINDOW
For several minutes the little So delighted, were the two Prin-family group stood together at the cesses recently by a display given second-floor window in a wing
overlooking the courtyard. Loquats too are in, and have in the courtyard of Holyroodhouse then, after the band had played their admirers. Personally, we by the Scots Guards that they the National Anthem and loquata except preserve them in Guardsmen, never know what to do with brought their mother to watch the Guards were leaving the square, the royal mother and daughters sugar as a crystalised fruit, but there are other ways of serving
disappeared.
Famous them.
very
the
in the brilliant morning sunshine While the 'notables were arriving
soldiers, statesmen, Big and beautiful green striped Princess Elizabeth and Princess the brilliant company which at- for the first levee of the royal visit"| Judges, and clergymen were among watermelons are in season, and Margaret could be seen at a win-tended the Palace for the levee,
nice
tool Pumpkins of dow carefully watching the rapidly and the portico was an ever-chang- "Lord" Duveen has supplement- gigantic size can be alleed and changing display of bright-colouring spectacle of tartan, red, and ed the splendid gift which he cooked 18 a vegetable. Eithered uniforms.
black and white as the distinguish- made eleven years ago, so that steamed, or fried, or made into
ed men arrived. through his munificence we now American Pumpkin Pie. work of British and Foreign moderned, and excellent this week. Pre- have in London a home where the And grape-fruit is largely stock sculptors can be worthily shown. sumably a fresh shipment is in Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that these Sculpture Galleries are the friest in the world."
£1,200 FOR GREEN JASPER VASE
Once Sold For £380
When the famous Hope Marbles
Ancient
Ceremony
As the clock on the Palace of Holyroodhouse chimed softly at: 10.45 on a recent morning the doors of the west drawing-room were thrown open. On the threshold stood three figures. In the centre. Brigadier-General J. D. Houlson- Craufurd in the full-dress uniform> of the Royal Company of Archers, held-a large, solid-silver basin in his hands.
His brother, Mr. A. J. Houlson- When most of the 700 dis-
Craufurd, carried a silver ewer of rose water, and his seven-year- tinguished Scotsmen attending the company of the Scots Guards with levee had entered the Palace nobles were present, and among shirt and Craufurd-tartan Kilt, "Almost all the great Scottish old son, in sparkling white silk
bands entered the square and
the others were representatives of held in his hands a white linen paraded before the Palace.
the services, the Scottish Judges napkin and law officers of the Crown, of At a word of command the trio marched swiftly across the room towards the King, his Scottish Queen, and the little Princesses an age-old custom was being ob- served
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The two Princesses could be seen | the Church, and of many other Free sittings we advertised by standing together eagerly discuss- { public bodies. an Aberdeen photographer. We ing the perfectly disciplined more understand that this was about ments of the long lines of giants, the only time he had managed to and then suddenly the two little persuade some of his clients to girls disappeared. " look pleasant,
sured share of an expanding mar-ese exports to China had been ex- ket. He believed that it was in panding, and He believed that this the interests of Japan to work out development could be carried much some arrangement which would further if a better understanding avoid excessive competition in this could be reached between China feld, and he still hoped that some and Japan. He much hoped that arrangement might be arrived at it might be possible to atmooth which might "enable quotas to be away the difficulties still existing replaced to the mutual advantage between those two countries, as it of both countries.
was in the interests of both Japan He had been recently in China and Great Britain to cooperate in
commissioned the French artist to see 11 anything could be done restoring a strong, peaceful, and were sold at Christie's in 1917 the Morel, in 1855, to carry into effect. to restore a more stable financial prosperous China. He endorsed late Viscount Cowdray gave the In 1017 this fetched £380.2 economic position. Only by mak- the hope recently expressed by the ing China more prosperous could Foreign Secretary that at a very we hope to improve trade with early date it might be possible to China, and the country, likely to begin the examination of concrete gain most from the more, prosper proposals for a better ordering of Dus state of things in China was Anglo-Japanese relations. Japan. The trade Agures during The Japanese Ambassador re- the past year showed how Japan plied.
heroic sum of £7.140 for the huge
statue of Pallas Athene. Re-otter- sun paid the enhanced sum of Recently, at Christie's, Mr. Jullus ed in 1933 it dropped to only £200 £1,200 for it, A decorative garni
A very different story has to be ture of Attings for a writing table, told of the modern green Jasper designed in Siberian green fade by vase, with a group of St. George the St. Petersburg court artificer and the Dragon, which Henry Carl Faberge, realised 420 (Amory Thomas Hope designed himself and in a sale totalling over £6,300.
In a few seconds they reappear ed, and it was seen that they were accompanied by the Queen, dress ed in out-door attire and ap parently ready to leave for the graduation ceremony.
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Perhaps the one to whom the ceremony must have seemed the strangest contrast was the vener able Earl of Strathmore, who as he left must have compared the regal figure he had just seen with that shy young man who not so many years ago went to ancient Glamis to ask the hand of the Earl's daughter.
The service which was about to be performed had its origin at the time of James V
Rose water was poured into the basin and the King dipped in his hands. The napkin was given to His Majesty. His hands were -dried, and the ceremony was over.
this sum 2444,400 is to be spent during the current financial year..
two 23,000-ton aircraft carriers un- Vickers-Armstrongs already have der construction, the Illustrious at Barrow and the Victorious at
£3,000,000 NAVY ORDER The ship is to be laid down at the
firm's yard at Barrow-in-Furness.
tain detalls, the Admiralty has de-aircraft-carriers authorised under Bubject to the settlement of cer The Indomitable is one of two cided to entrust the construction the 1937 Navy Estimates. She is of HM. aircraft carrier Indomit to be a ship of 23,000 tons, and her able to Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. cost will exceed £3,000,000. Of Walker-on-Tyne