STAPLES
`HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937.
SURPRISES
NEW FASHIONS IN ENTERTAINING
SUCCESSFUL VARIATIONS OF
THE INFORMAL DINNER
A dinner, with cards or music following is one of the most de- lightful forms of entertainment and colour is quite frequently.em- ployed by mudem hostesses t give sparkle tu the occasion. Tinted candles. tablecloth in Li matching shade.
coloured and glassware are quite permissible. Gay, flowered china is set off best by plain crystal. but your candles and dowers and candles might repeat the dominant color note.
AN AROUND-THE-WORD- DINNER
Modern hostesses, however, often prefer to add original touches to the cards-and-music formula. A group of close friends recently arranged 怎 progressive dinner. each hostess serving one course. alter which the guests moved on. I the next home. This could easily be turned into an Around- the-world-dinner by trimming the table with fings of the country you have chosen and serving a typleal national dish.
MENÙ SUGGESTIONS
Cocktails with Ham Biscuits
Served In Living Room). Chicken Boultion Melba Toast Olives Stuffed Celery Sticks
Chicken Pie with Biscuit Squares Diced Carrots
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Watercress Salad with French Dressing
Gold Cakes with Pineapple Ice Dem!-tasse
Candles
HAM BISCUITS
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2 cups flour
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow
der
teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons shortening
1 cup milk
2 cups gruand cooked hain.
4 tablespoons melted butter 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
Sift together flour, baking pow-" der and salt. Add shortening. Mix in weli with fork. Beat, egg | slightly. In measuring cup. Add milk to make cup. Add to first
This dinner table presents a charming picture with its gaily flowered China and crystal candelabra.
HOBBY. DINNERS ARE fun FOR MEN
Hobby Dinners are very amusing. especially when given in a man's honour-your husband's birthday or some similar occasion. A golf dinner is iniversal in its appeal and can be done very effectively. Transform your dinner. table Into a golf course. Use a green crepe paper table cloth and achieve a realistic effect by crumpling tissue paper under it to make hills and valleys. Cut out places here and there
and place mirrors under them to make a water hazard. Write menus on golf score cards and make tiny golf-bags out of brown paper, putting one of two golf pencils in each bag and writ- Ing the name of the guest on it.
NEW WARTIME
1
Make biscuit dough (see recipe
below) adding parsley and carrotts to dry mixture: use water instead of milk. Roll out inch thick. Cut into 2-inch squares., Place en top of mixture in baking dish. Bake in hot oven about 15 min- utes. Serves 8.
ROYAL BISCUITS
2 cups flour.
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow-
der
teaspoon salt.
4 tablespoons shortening
1 cup milk or water
Sift together flour, baking pow- der and salt Add shortening and mix in thoroughly with fork. Add Equid to make soft dough. Turn out on floured, board and lightly until outside looks smooth. Proceed as directed above.
GULD CAKE
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
5 egg yolks
teaspoon extract
COSS
lemon or vanilla
1 cup pastry flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow-
der
teaspoon salt
cup milk
Bugar
Cream shortening: add slowly, beating in well: Add egg yolks and beat until light and ercamy: add flavouring. Sift to- gether flour, baking powder and salt; add alternately with milk to first mixture. Bake in greased square or loaf pan in moderate oven for thirty minutes.
Summer Desserts
Top the meal with a dessert that 1s Bght and fine in texture-one that is not too rich get gives the proper fp of sweetness to the
menu.
PRUNECOT SOUFFLE
cup cooked prunes, seeded cup cooked apricot pulp
1 cup granulated tartar augar
1 tsp. lemnon extract
cup chopped nut meats Whites 3 eggs
itp. cream of tartar
1
HAM MOUSSEE
1 tbsp. gelatinė "-
'cup cold water 14 tbsps. butter 11 tbsps, flour
18p. salt
1 tsp. pepper
7 teaspoon paprika
1 cup milk
2 cups minced ham
2 tbsp. chopped green pepper
1
Up cream
Few drops worcestershire sauce Soak gelatine in, cold. water. Melt buter, add flour and stir"un- Mi smoth. Add milk and season. ings and cook on low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Add dissolved gelatine, remove from heat and cool. Then fold in the ham, green pepper and cream which has been beaten stiff. Pour into a ring mold and place in the refrigerator to chill. Remove from mold and garnish with radish ruses.
LIVER AND VEGETABLE STEW
3 slices bacon
1 pounds beef
liver
12 small onions
I can inushrooms
I cup canned tomatoes
1. can consomme small whole carrots
b medium potatoes,
peeled
1 tbsp. chopped
parsley
Balt and pepper to
taste
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Cut the liver and bacon in small pièces and place in a covered nan. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and bring to a boil. Turn heat very low, cover and cook two hours.
CURRIED VEAL KIDNEYS Brown a chopped onion in but- ter and add to it a good pinch of curry powder to taste. Add 1/6 pint of thickened bouillon and puss through a sleve. Fry the kidneys In butter, having cut them first into small pleces. Stir In the sauce as soon as the kid- neys are 'well cooked. Serve witn Indian Rice prepared as follows:
water
Put the required quantity of rice to boil in cold water and boil 2 tbsp. powered sugar
for 10 minutes, commencing from Add granulated sugar and lem- the moment of boiling. Rinse in on extract to prunes and apricots cold water and place in the oven and beat until sugar is thoroughly for a short time so that each ker- dissolved. Add nuts. Sprinkle water. Have remaining egg whites with cream of tarter and beat unti stiiT. Add pow- dered sugar and continue beat- ing until sugar is blended with the whites. Fold the beaten whites into the fruit mixture and
Roll out about inch mixture. thick. Add melted butter and mustard to the Ham; mix well; sprinkle over the biscuit dough. Press lightly with rolling pin. Roll up as for Jelly roll. Cut into i- inch pieces. Stand on end In greased muffin pans. Bake in hot place in a greased baking dish.
oven about 12 minutes. Makes 13.
CHICKEN FIE WITH BISCUIT
1 recipe for Biscuits (see below 1 tablespoon finely
chopped parsley
4 tablespoons grated raw carrot
Cover fowl with water; cook slowly until tender. Remove skin and bones 11 desired. Thicken gravy: season well; place in a baking dish. Cover with following crust:
the
ULS. NAVAL PLANE
REGULATIONS STRIKES SUBMERGED
WRECKAGE
1
Six Killed
Nanking. Aug. 25: The National Government has promulgated new set of war-time military re- gulations:
Soldiers and officers who ΣΕ treat or surrender without orders. give military secrets to the enemy," commit sabotage involving the destruction of military communi. cations, ships, aerodromes, will be executed.
etc..
.
All persona found guilty of spreading rumours aiming to cause disorder and dissection in the Chi- nese army will also be subject to the death penalty.— Central Newr
New York. Aug. 24. Six were killed and two injured when a United States Navy plane struck submerged wreckage when landing on the sea at San Diego...
Reuter's Bulletin Seruire.
MORE PLANES FOR CANTON
Kwellin, Aug:_25.
Set dis in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes or until firm. Serve with cream or soft custard.
SAUTE PINEAPPLE SURPRISE
Saute drained Pineapple slices
CANNED SPAGHETTI DE LUXE
1 can spaghetti
in tomato sauce
1 small can deviled
ham
tbsp. mushrooms Liquor
cup chopped
"
canned mushrooms
1 tbsp. butter
Heat the spaghetti in the top of & double botler over bolling water. Blend the deviled ham with the
in a half cup brown sugar melt-mushroom liquor and add to the
ed with 3 tablespoons of shorten- spaghetti. Place the mushrooms ing..
and butter in a saucepan and Serve
stale wedges, of
cake cook 5 minutes. Add mushrooms soaked in loganberry juice around and spaghetti. Stir. heat and the pineapple slices.
CROSSING THE ATLANTIC
London, Aug. 24.
serve.
NANKING DENIES CAPTURE OF NANKOW
LUMBAGO
SCIATICA
NEURALGIA
HEADACHES
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Korean Revolutionary Party
Shanghai, Aug. 23.
It is reported that members" of the Korean anti-Japanese revolu- tionary party in Shanghai have addressed a friendly open letter to the Chinese soliciting their bro- therly co-operation and help in their struggle for freedom
from
the yoke of their Japanese .op-
pressors.
They have also circulated pro- paganda amongst the Japanese troops calling upon the country- men in the Japanese army to re- volt and withdraw their support.
It is reported that the activity of the Korean revolutionaries has
created the greatest consternation in the Japanese army and govern- ment cireles
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FIGHTING IN CHINGHAI
Tientsin, Aug. 25.
Shanghai, Aug. 25: Lotlenchen, small town in the Paoshan dis-
The Japanese Military authorities trict near
Woosung. has been announced here to-day that they
Nanking. Aug. 25: Military head- | Chinese Evening Preis. The Pan-American Clipper M
quarters here deny the Japanese left Lisbon for Marseilles to-day,
have captured Nankow. The same source states that the Chinese "are. on a survey fight across the Atlan-
MOTOR CARS DONATED the Ocean by the southern route. firmly holding their ground in spite
Kwelyang. Aug. 25: Owners of The machine is dying via the Bay of repeated Japanese assaults,
The Chinese forces are still firm various bus companies and motor of Biscay. The survey flight on the Mediterranean route has been ly entrenched in the hilly regions car services in Kweiyang have an- at Chuyung Pass, some 15 miles nounced that they will contribute abandoned in view of the Spanish
south of Nankow. Heavy rein-all their vehicles to the Chinese nearly wiped out by fire as a re- are at present engaged in severe War situation.-
forcements have been brought from army now fighting in Shanghalsult of incendiary bombs dropped aghting at Changhal, south of Reuter,
The Japanese. troops the rear in preparation to launch-gainst the Japanese. They have by Japanese planes on the night Tientsin. Ing a counter-attack on the Japan- asked the local authorities to take of August 23 during the attempt opened the attack of the Chinese over the cars and have them sented landing of Japanese reinforce-positions at the Tientsin-Pukow ments in that, viefnity, it was dis-Hallway elte after an arduous closed to-day. -
march in rain-soaked roads.-- Reuter.
NEW CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
DECREE
ese forces in the near future.
It is reported that Chinese forces launched an attack on the Japan ese flanks yesterday, inflicting heavy losses in Japanese killed and wounded. The report further states that many Japanese were
It is learned from semi-official circles that General Ll Tsung-jen,
Nanking, Aug. 25. Commander-in-Chief of the 5th The Central Government to-day Route Army Corps of Kwangat, has promulgates a decree which takes decided to despatch a squadron of effect in war-times The decree taken prisoners.--- 20 machines of the Kwangai Air contains ten clauses. Any one entre Newt Force to Kwangtung to 'strengthen falling to comply with the decrée is the aerial positions in Kwangtung liable to capital punishment, It is also learned that these ma- should he be tried' by Court Mar- chines are prepared to fly to Can-tial and found guilty. Negligence which is calculated to be detri- Mr. Cordell Hall's (Becretary of ton to take up their new positions of duty, disobedience of Instrue- mental to the army or the Nation. *State) plea to China and Japan-shortly.
tions, espionage, sabotage, spread are all included in this Act Renter.
Da-Dao."
PRESIDENT APPROVES
Washington, Aug. 25. President Roosevelt stated to -day-that he had previously read and given a hearty approval of
ing of rumours, or any action
Da-Dao.
to the front
Central News
JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER NEAR HSUCHIACHEN Shanghai, Aug. 25: One of the three Japanese aircraft carriers anchored off Woosung has moved to Hauchlachen, north of Chuan- sha, it is learried here.
"It is believed that the Japanese are planning to-use planen again cover the landing of marines
In that urea.- Central News
The Japanese bombers attacked the town in an attempt to drive the Chinese entrenched there out of their positions.
Beven members of the local fire brigade, who attempted to put out the flames in the centre part of the town. were seriously injured.
Japanese planes flew over Kasning yesterday and dropped bombs, but no damage was done. Central News
THREE, KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
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Rio de Janeiro, Aug, 24. AnArgentine air mail plane crashed in the mountains to-day. The three occupants were killed. Reuter's Bulletin. Service.