STAPLES
SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS
VEAL AND HAM MOUSSE
1 tbsp. gelatine
2 tbsp. cold water
1 cup chopped cooked veal
cup chopped cooked ham
cup celery
1 tsp. paprika
2 tbsp. minced parsley
ter.
cup cream
Sprinkle gelatin over cold wa- ter and dissolve over boiling wa- Mix veal, ham, celery, pap- rika and minced parsley. Whip the cream, add the dissolved gel- atin, and told into the meat mux-. ture. Pour into Individual molds or one large mold which has beer aipped into cold water. Chill. Serve on crisp lettuce with may-
Garnish onnaise.
with stuffed olives and sweet gherkins.
SHOULDER OF LAMB
WITH MUSHROOMS
Cut off the excess fat from 3 pounds of lamb shoulder, or neck. Brown It In 3 table- cut for stew. spoons of shortening, add 3 table- spoons of flour and shake until the flour is absorbed. Then add
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cup minced onion, 1 silce lemon. sult and pepper to taste. Lalt, add cup dried mushrooms that have been soaked. for several hours in 2 cups of water. Cover the meat with this water and add more if needed. "Cook very slowly until the lamb is tender, adding
the mushrooms the last hour of
cooking
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LAMB STEW WITH 'MUSH. ROOM DUMPLINGS
pounds forequarter lamb cut in pieces
1 cup sliced onions
carrots
3 cups boiling water
2 tbsp. chopped parsley
water:
Roll lamb in seasoned four: brown with onions in hot fat in a kettle. Add carrots and boiling simmer slowly about 2 hours. Make mushroom dum- pling as directed below. Remove .stew to hot platter and surround with dumplings and sprinkle with parsley.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937.
SURPRISES
SWEDISH MEAT BALLS
2 pounds ground round steak
1 pound ground pork steak
2. beaten egga
1
cup mashed potatoes
1
cup dry bread crumbs
teaspoon brown sugar
cup milk
1 teaspoons salt
teaspoon pepper
teaspoon ginger teaspoon nutmeg
teaspoon cloves
RAISIN STUFFED VEAL
BIRDS
1 pounds veal round cut thin
cup seedless raisins
4 cups dry bread crumbs
1-3 cup finely chopped onion
teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon sage
Pepper
1 cup stock or I bouillon cube
.
In 1 cup of water
Cut the veal
small into
pleces about 3 .or .4 -inches square. Combine the raisins, crumbs, salt, onion, sage, pep- per and stock and mix thor- oughly. On cach piece of veal place а Spoonful of dressing MIX the above ingredients to
as much as can be rolled. Roll make a soft mixture that can barely be
and fasten together with tooth- handled. Form into small balls and roll in dour. picks. Fry the rolls until brown Fry on ali aldes in
small In 2 frying рад with Just
enough fat to prevent burning.
teaspoon all-spice
amount of. hot fat until brown. Pour 1 pins of cream over the meat balls. Cover and let sim- mer slowly until the meat very tender. about 30 minutes. The meat balls may also covered and placed in to bake for about 40 minutes.
is
be
the oven
CROWN ROAST OF LAMB
SAVORY MEAT LOAF
generous doah
2
ROAST SHOULDER OF PORK
44 pounds. pork shoulder
2 cups soft bread crumbs
2 cups chopped apples
teaspoon thyme -
1 teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper
i chopped onion
tablespoons fat
4
1 cup boiling water
the
for
Have the butcher bone shoulder, leaving a pocket stuffing. Mix crumbs. apples, thyme, pepper and salt together. Wipe meat with a clean damp cloth. Brown onlon in fat, add to crumb mixture with bolling water. Mix well. Pack stuffing in shoulder pocket. Fasten edges with skewers. Place in a roasting pan and sprinkle with salt and Pepper. Bake in a moderate oven about 24 hours or until tender..
MUSHROOM DUMPLINGS
1 cup four
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
cup condensed mushroom
soup
3 tbsps. water
Sift dry ingredients; add "soup
EMERGENCY
PUDDING
Slice one ог more bananas. sprinkle with castor sugar and lemon Julce, and leave while the batter mixture is made. Put a dessertspoonful of butter A warm place to melt. Sift Ave ounces of self-raising flour into a bowl with quarter of a teaspoonful of salt and a dessertspoonful of sugar, Beat an egg with a table- spoonful of milk and add the melted butter. Beat this with the flour, adding extra milk to make a stiff batter.
Stir in the banarin. Drop spoonfuls into a pan of bell- Ing fat (the banana should be coated with the batter) and Drain cook until golden brown. thoroughly, sift castor augar over. and serve at once. Raisins, cur-
·rants, or sultanas which have had boiling water poured over them and stood for ten minutes, then drained, can be used instead of banana.
COFFEE CAKE
For this recipe you need 1 scant cup of butter, 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of four. 3 eggs, à of a cup of milk. 2 oz. or almonds, blanched and chopped, 1 teaspochful of baking powder. 1 tablespoon each of melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Beat the eggs well, cream the butter and sugar, then add the eggs and the milk gradual-
the ly. Lastly add
flour and baklag powder, which have been previously mixed. MIX well to-
and water to make a soft dough. |gether, pour into a greased flat
2 Drop by spoonfuls into bolling baking dish, sprinkle almonds on
stew and cook 10 minutes without raising, cover.
To 2 pounds of beef and 1 to- pound fresh pork ground gether add i teaspoon salt,
of pepper, eggs slightly beaten
and 1
small onion well minced. Add
9 cups bread crumbs, and mols- Have the butcher cut 8 ribs from
ten them with + cup milk. backbone and
tomato cúp
ketchup Sprinkle Add
4 to 6 pounds rib roast Salt and pepper
each side of the
fasten into
} crown.
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cubes of bread. rack in open a cup down in will keep its hot oven for 15
slices 10%
AUSTRALIAN
SHORTBREAD
roast with salt and pepper. To and } teaspoon pt Worcester- prevent scorching cover end of shire sauce. Shape into a loaf each rib with
and place in
a roasting pan. Place meat on
Half a pound of rolled oats, i Arrange 8 roaster and press
bacoa Foz of brown sugar, lb. of butter, center so roast
across the top. Bake in a hota tablespoonsfuis of golden syrup. shape. Sear in a
oven 13 hours, basting occa- teaspoonful of salt. Cream the minutes.
sionally with cup water. Make butter and the sugar, add the warmed syrup. and work in the a sauce to serve over the meat
oats and salt until well blended. by thickening the liquid left in
Put the mixture into 3 amail. the pan slightly.
greased Yorkshire pudding tin, pressing it into position. Bake in a moderate oven for half to three- quarters of an hour until it is golden brown; cut into strips and leave in the tin until cold. If it is moved while hot the cakes are Hable to crumble.
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1.
If desired the meat. roaf' may
Reduce heat to moderate, tak- Ing 11 hours for a 6-pound roast. Add a cup of hot water to pre- vent drippings from scorching. Serve on platter with center of Toast Alled with new bolled pota- toes sprinkled with minced parsley. be placed on a rack and cooked Remove bread cubes and cover In a covered baking dish on top ribs with paper frills. Surround of the stove. This steams the with boiled or baked whole car-
meat and gives a moist delicious rots,
leaf.
GUN POWER
The Standard Of Naval Strength
[By SIR HERBERT RUSSELL, in the "United Services Review").
The gun is the primary Weapon of naval warfare, a truism which may be extended 10 all warfare. Other methods of destruction or disablement are supplementary or subsidiary, A fighting navy is a fleet of gun-armed slips. Gun power is the easiest criterion 15 standard of combatant strength.
B
By the brief formula of tons and guns we compare the sea power of the various nations
heard so much once upon a time
- distinction which seems to nave quite vanished now.
Like all popular formulae, this cour. was the conception of the one serves a general, sketchy pur"material school." of which we pose. but requires a tremendous amount of qualification before it can be regarded as even an ap- proxmate standard. For gun The idea was that "to build a power is a relative term and not
ship to beat the enemy" she must to be accurately assessed by any be bigger, heavler, more weightily difference in comparative figures armed, and. In fact, superior in alone. We must not overlook the every detail to anything that had implification for which it stands gone before. As an elementary a superiority of hitting power principle this is all right, but it is which may be expected to assert apt to become unreasoning. The itself in action.
principal competitors themselves This reflection is rather sug-realized this when they halled with gested by the recent refusal of the
a sense of relief the proposal to Japanese Government to accept hold an international conference the limit of 14 inches for naval
at Washington to set a definite gun calibre agreed upon at the check to the size of Bghting ships last London Naval Conference and and the calibre of their arma- by the statement of the First Lord ments. of the Admiralty that we should Gunpower being the primary adhere to this agreement what and essential asset of the fighting ever any other Power might do. ship nobody would seriously at- In other words, the British Ad-tempt to deny the advantage of miralty evidently regard a 14in. gun power, With this reservation. gun. throwing a projectlic of some however so long only as that 1,500lb. in weight, as quite ade-superiority can be definitely em- quale to accomplishing theployed. At Coronel the British destructive functions of any night. ships were smothered by the ing ship. Actually Lord Monseil superior gun power (and superior (who was First Lord during the gunnery) of the two German London Naval Conference) made It heavy-armoured cruisers. At the clear that the Admiralty would Falklands the two German heavy have been satisfied with a smaller armoured cruisers were anothered gun had it proved possible to
by the superior gun power of the convert, the other sea Powers to a similar view:
FETISH OF SIZE·
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two British battle-cruisers.
LONG RANGE VALUE Here in each case was a de- Naval competition-rivalry-race claive example of the advantage of armaments-call it what you of bigger Weapons. But I, venture will-is rather apt to make a to auggest that it was an ad- retish, of mere "bigness." This, of
vantage of greater range very
much more than of disparity of "smashing power." At Coronel
Adml. Cradock came into action with two 9.2tr guns against the sixteen 8.2in. guns mounted by von Spee's ships. The German guns shot rather farther than the British guns, and when the 9.2in. weapons of the Good Hope had been silenced it became simply a murderous target practice for the "crack" shooting ships of the Ger- man Navy,
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The position was reversed at the Falklands. The 12ln, guns of the British battle-cruisers could shoot farther than the 8.21n. guns of the German heavy-armoured cruisers. The high standard of marksman- Ship in the enemy ships was, of no
the top, and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. While it is still hot, turn it out, brush over with melted butter, and sprinkle the sugar.
CINNAMON BISCUITS
02.
To make these appetising bis- cults the ingredients are 6 flour, half a teaspoon cinnamon, 3 oz. butter, 2 oz. sugar and 1 egg. First cream the butter and sugar. add the yolk of an egg, and mix well. To this add the flour and cinnamon and mix into a stift dough. Roll out very thin. and cut into small round biscuits. Put the biscuits on to a tray which has been previously greased, and bake in a moderate oven for about 10 minutes. When they are cold, put together with a very little jam, and Ice the tops with (cing made from the whites of eggs and icing sugar.
SIGNOR MUSSOLINI AND ·
MR. EDEN
An Imaginary Conversation On Control Of The Press
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(By C. R. V. Coutts in the London "Morning Post.").
Mr. Eden: Can't we come to some
head of any foreign State or Govern- plan to stop these attacks on Eng- ment. Why do the sacred principles land in the Italian Press which are
of democracy allow you thus to
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avail under such a disability; all doing so much harm to the re-control the spoken word, something cheek by jowl with a man claiming which they don't seem to under-
that the British vessels had to do was to keep out of range and pound their opponents. What was the consequence?. The damage to the Invincible and Inflexible was so slight that after returning to Port Stanley and completing with COL they were ready again instant action.
for
and
victory has by no means been a
matter of the mast formidable projectiles.
lations between the two countries? quite ephemeral, whereas they
Signor Mussolini:
don't allow you to control the tar I certainly agree that we can manage to
more dangerous printed word? stop the attacks in the Press of
Mr. Eden: Quite a fair point, but both countries it would be a good I am afraid I should be merely thing. Please tell me what you wasting your time in discussing it would propose to do to stop the As a practical man I am bound to insults to Italy in the English tell you that it is entirely out of Press, and I will, promise to go the question to expect the present more than half-way to meet you House of Commons to grant by with regard to my own, people. legislation such power to control the Press as you suggest. We must face the facts as they are.
the
the
Instructions
there was a howl of rage at the words are said about England in- mere possibility that a member the whole of the Italian Press of the Italian Royal Family should run the risk of sitting, as you say,
which suffers from some complex about Fascism, the elements of to rule the country of which our stand, is to be free to vomit forth. King is now the Emperor. But the its insults not only against the point I wish to make is that I head of the Italian State, but also. was quite powerless to stop this against the courage and discipline attitude, and had eventually to cancel the plan to send a special Eden, even if I were willing to of our soldiers and sailors. No, Mr. Royal envoy.
adopt so lop-sided and unfair a Another point I wish you to proposal, I am sure the pubic understand is this. It is quite true that sometimes the comments in itself far more strongly than in opinion in Italy would express our Press on foreign affairs are the incident I referred to just now directly inspired by my Govern and would force my band in no ment. I even write them myself timer
facts. What is the definite proposal which to you. But now let us deal with
you make to me?
Mr. Eden: My proposal is that
So long as increase of range, was entirely a matter of increase of calibre the argument for the still
Mr. Eden: I am afraid the two bigger gun was unanswerable. But
cases are not parallel. We know when science had reached, well passed, the extreme limits of
that you control the Italian Press, Signor Mussolin!: Ah, I see this occasionally-you will remember Mr. Eden: Then you can do. and, we therefore ship to ship visibility-which is
assume that is another of the advantages of that I am a journalist by profes-nothing to help us? about 12 miles from the average every vicious and very often untrue your Parliamentary system---But don. But that doesn't mean that
Signor Mussolini: I did not say attack on England is made with perhaps I had better explain every article on foreign politics is that. I think I can show my great aluttude of a control, platform- this particular argument began to
direct approval either o: my own position. It 13 quite necessarily inspired by my Govern-desire for better relations by un- lose its point. In its place was yourself personally or at any rate true that I control the Italian ment. As they are frequently in dertaking in the Arst place that substituted the contention of the of members of your Government. Press" in so far that they character that should be obvious
for the present there should be no superior destructive qualities of the Now in England the position ta obey heavier projectile thrown by the entirely different. We regard the issue from time to time. But this
officially, and in the second place more attacks on England inspired
does not, of course, mean that bigger gun. Yet in naval warfare freedom of the Press as an essen-
I am prepared to make a public tial part of our Parliamentary
or my Government are responsible
announcement that my Govern- democracy. We can, therefore, no for every word that appears in it, as I am sure, you are anxious ment deprecates attacks on friend- more stop the criticisms of Italy, the Italian papers. There is a very to promote better relations between ly nations, that any references to however much we may regret wide field in which our papers our countries in the future, you England which may appear in the them, than we can stop similar refect the public opinion of Italy. should exercise the powers which future are made entirely on the attacks on, say, the Prime Minister Let me give you an example. you admit you have to prevent responsibility of the editors of the or myself as Foreign Secretary.
Some little time before your further attacks on England. If I papers concerned, but that I can- Coronation it was announced that had the same powers as you have not demand the cessation of such an official Invitation was being I would endeavour to do likewise attacks until the responsible. En- sent to the man whom you still in my country. But as I have glish papers cease to make similar Abyssinia to send a special envoy powera nor can I possibly obtain to do this if you and the head of acknowledge as the Emperor of already told you I haven't got any attacks on us. I should be prepared
your Government would announce with the fullest publicity that you? deplore the attacks made on us. Signor Mussolini: Ha! This is. and that you appeal in the in- to prevent anything being said tative. Throughout the country 1 suppose, an example of your terests of international peace that which might give offence to the order that nothing but friendly famous Eriglish fair play! I am to they should cease in the ruture.
WAR-TIME LESSONS At Tsushima the Russians had a definite superiority in heavy gun
At Jutland power.
we had an overwhelming superiority in heavy tactical conditions of that great gun power. Admitting that the
withdrawing battle denled our capital ships adequate opportunity for employing this superiority, yet the fact remains that the much
lighter artillery of the Germans inflicted a great deal more damage on our ships at long ranges than (Continued on Page 11.)
SACRED PRINCIPLES
Bignor Mussolial: I find the mentary democracy very difficult sacred principles of your Parlia-
to understand. I am told that for to the Coronation. In order to do them. centuries you have had a thorough-honour to your King my King had ly efficient censorship of stage intended to send a member of his plays which is extremely careful own family as a special represen-
FAIR PLAY!