COOKERY HINTS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937.
STAPLESURPRISES
FRENCH AND ENGLISH
FRYING METHODS
A Cake-Making Query
Two queres from readers that may be of interest to others who read this page are dealt with to- day.
"1. What is the difference be-
tween. French and English Trying? I have seen these terms used a cookery book. Please give me some general hints as my cook frics food vers badly."
To fry food so that it "iserisp and dry it is essential to have the fat hot enough. Bubbles in the tat may be seen long before this stage is reached. and are due "to the presence of water, which bells. as the fat gets hot. When blue smoke can be seen rising from the fat. It is not enough for ordinary purposes-fat should be absolutely still by the time it is hot enough to "use.
There are two methods of frying. French and English.
FRENCH FRYING
COM-
ed on one side and then turned over. so that the other side may brown. This, method is suitable for such fand as eggs, pancakes, etc... or anything not encased i egg and breadcrumbs, or batter; and for floured food. If cooked in the French way the flour spolls the tat. so in this case the English method is more economical.
Whichever method one uses. fried food must be well drained on kitchen paper before it is sent to table.
When egg und bread-crimbing food, dry it or cover thinly with flour, brush over with beaten egg. then cover completely with bread- crumbs. Shake off any surplus crumbs. 2. "What is
cake wrong with a that sinks in the middle while still in the oven?"
There are four possible causes: 1wrong mixing, butter and sugar not having been creamed properly, or flour not mixed in smoothly: (2) too much "raising." causing mixture to rise far too high to be- gin with, and then sink because there was nothing to keep it up:
3 cake having been moved oven before it was quite set; (4), a sudden draught.
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LIGHT LUNCHEON DISHES
This is A delicious savoury omelette. For each person skin one large tomato, cut it up, and put into a saucepan in a table- spoonful of heated butter, together with a little grated onlon: cook until soft In the meantime whisk the yolk of an egg with a little salt and pepper, and a teaspoonful of grated cheese. Whisk the exc white to a stiff froth, and fold into the yolk. Lightly fold the tomatu mixture into this and re- turn all to the saucepan. Cook gently, loosening round the edges to let the liquid run underneath. When the underneath is set out under the grill to brown the top. Turn out on to a hot dish, and serve without delay. It is best måde in a small omelette-pan. with not fewer than two eggs, as If the mixture spreads over the pan too thinly it hardens.
FISH TOAST
REMAINS OF HAM
Any remains of tongue, ham, chicken, or game can be made in- to a savoury breakfast dish with little trouble. Grate it finely and mix with enough "yolk of egg or thick gravy to moisten it well. Season generously and put over a gentle heat until very not, but do not cook. Spinkle with buttered crumbs and a little grated cheese, and put under the grill. Or mix the grated ham with cooked, sieved tomato, well seasoned.
Here is yet another way to use up cold ham. Grate or chop fine- ly some lean ham, season with pepper and a
ittle chutney tomato sauce. Make a sandwich with some irly thin,, crustless bread and butter, and cut into -Angers or triangles. For each person have ready an egg beaten with two tablespoonfuls of milk. well seasoned. Soak the sand- wiches in the egg and milk untu all the liquid has been absorbed. Have ready some hot butter in a lift each sandwich with a ish-slice, cook 111 the butter until the egg sets, turn, and cook the other side, Serve at
nace..
CHERRY BATTER
PUDDING
Fish toast is a simple savoury breakfast diah which can be made
for with the remains of any fish, cach person use three or four ounces of fish. Melt a tablespoon-frying-pan. Carefully ful of butter in a pan, stir in the Ash, finely flaked, add a teusplan- ful of anchovy essence, salt, pep- per, paprika, and a pinch of nutmeg, and a little chopped para- ley. Stir over a low heat until very hot but not boiling. "Pile on well-buttered toast. The success of this lies in its careful season- It should be made very
roes savoury. Herring
with to- matoes should be served on toast, too Use tinned Cr fresh roes. Pul in a dish and pour a little melted butter. Season well. Cover with skinned sliced tomatoes, sea- son with salt, pepper, cayenne,
a little und parsley, pour
and sprinkle with butter over, breadcrumbs. Bake until the to- matoes are soft. If more" con venient. It can be cooked in a deep frying-pan over a low heat, cover-
The French, or deep fat method. Is to be preferred when frying food which has been covered either with egg and breadcrumbs, or batter. For it.
ing: you need a pan deep enough for the food to be pletely covered by hot fat. If you have egg and breadcrumbed what- ever you wish to fry, use a frying basket which fits loosely into the pan. Put the food into the basket and lower it into the fat when hot enough.
Food covered in batter is best cooked without the frying basket. Though far more fat is needed for French frying than for the English method it is not ex- travagant, as with care the fat can
used again and be
again. It should be allowed to cool a little and then strained into a jar.
ENGLISH FRYING
In English frying. only a small quantity of fat is required. and food cooked in it must be brown-
which
How about the cake develops a pit after coming out of the oven? This is a sure sign that it is not cooked through, with the result that the middle, always the last to cook. falls in. To guard against this, test your cakes before The taking them out of the oven. surest test (except in the case of very rich fruit cakes) is to touch the top lightly with your finger-ed with a lid or plate. tip. If the top comes back at once and feels firm, the cake is cooked. To test a rich fruit cake stick 3 warmed steel knitting Needle needle through the centre. should come out absolutely clean 11 cake is cooked.
Restrain Naval And Military Officers Appeals Archbishop Of Canterbury
London, Nov. 5. Every avaimoie seat in the Al- bert Hall was occupied when the Archbishop of Canterbury presided
at a
public meeting of protest against Japan's aggression in China.
Before the meeting, a film en- titled "Bombs Over China," de- picting scenes 11 the war zones was shown...
The Archbishop. said they wel- comed the protests made by the British and United States Govern- ments, but, hitherto, there had
been no opportunity for the mass of ordinary citizens in this coun- try to express what was moving strongly in their hearts and cons- clences.
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After making all allowances for exaggerations inevitable in the dire clrcumstances of the war. there remained only too much cause for our sense of dismay and horror, and, after all, in terms of human suffering, hundreds are as eloquent
as thousands, said Dr. Lang
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*WRITING ON THE WALL"
The Archbishop of Canterbury said he did not personally jala any call to the British Government to act alone without regard to the support of other nations, but they were entitled to ask the govern-
ment. If the protest and appeal were unavalling, to take the lead by letting it be known that they were prepared to act if they can obtain such support from nations as would make action ef- fective and by inviting other na- tions to join them.
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Surely any world-wide protest against these acts in China ought in all honesty, to lead to an equally world-wide protest against the near possibility of their being repeated on a far wider and more awful scale.
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Sift three ounces of flour with a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Gradually add a breakfastcupful of milk, beating well so that lumps do not form. When smooth. stir in two beaten two ounces cgg's and
of sugar. Stir in a tin of drained cherries. Half a greased basin, tie with greased paper, and steam for two hours.
Serve with hot custard
sauce
The picture describes itself. A sequel to ruthless Japanese bombing.
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SECRETS OF LIFE
RAT "ARMY”
FOUGHT IN £10,000 BLAZE
Mathematicians, chemists and
evidently considered treaties RUSH HOUR SPREADS biologiste will combine to probe scraps of paper, and the frightful- ness of war as the hallmark of a
great Power,
Mr. Lloyd George sent a message stating that if civilisation was be saved. aggressors must be made to realise, by combined and definite the more human action among
and peace-loving countries of the world, that barbarism was not a Paying game.
AUDIENCE STIRRED
Vicar Advises "Smile To
Relieve Tension'
The Rev. G. D. Horsley, "Vicar of St. Johns, Upper Norwood, is con- cerned about the rush and strain of modern life having a permanent effect on people, and showing even "Evening in church, states the News." In an appeal to parishion-
era he says..
The audience of 10,000, particu- larly the many Chinese scattered
I notice that people rash out of "Let not the world neglect the thoughout the hall, were stirred by bandwriting on the wall," the Professor Chang Peng Chun's vivid their seats when going up to re- Primate concluded. "We record our description of the horrors in China, Iceive Holy Communion.
was the horror at and emphatic condemna- | A feature of his speech tion of the indisciminate attacks complete absence of attack on the upon civilian non-combatants by Japanese and it was left to Lady the Japanese forces in China and Bonham Cater to give the lead to
demanding urge the British Government to take the audience by
worldwide economic, boycott of the lead in securing such concerted
Japan. action by economic, measures or otherwise as may prevent their continuance."
SCENES DESCRIBED
TOKIO PROTEST Referring to the protest made the Archbishop of Tokio re- garding his presence at the meet- Ing. the Archbishop of Canterbury said: "I must needs have, special relations of friendship with Japan-
Professor Chang ese Christians. I know many of
Peng-chung them are distressed at my being described the scenes in the fighting here this evening. I wonder in- at Tientsin and added that China deed how far they know the facts to-day was aghting as a united 28 they have reached us in this nation. The resistance had proved country. But even between friends,expectedly strong and would surely the conscience cannot be silenced continue. and conscience forbids us to main-
Earl Lytton described the war as toin a silence which might be, being carried on by Japan as an taken to mean acquiescence."
The Primate added: "We make our appeal to the Government and people of Japan to restrain actions of the naval and military com- manders in China and thus vin- dicate their place among civilised nations." Renter
international crime and added the most humillating fact of all in this tragedy was that these, methods against which we are protesting, had not been invented by Japan, but were conted from Europe. The Japanese army was modelled on Prussian lines and the frightfulnes of the Prussian theory. Japan
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That is an example of how the unconscious .rush to catch trains and buses, and the inevitable queue for this or that, can find expression in our behaviour, in church.
There is also a tendency towards far too much unnecessary chatter-
Mr. Herbert Morrison, voicing the ing in church. same demand, wished the Chinese Please go about quietly and say people every success in their re-nothing. You can always smile to sistance of aggression but said it relleve the tension. would be far better that it should it should be made impossible for Japanese aggression to be con tinued.
the secrets of life at this year's meeting of the British Association. Among the subjects on which new knowledge will be disclosed are:
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The architecture of the proteins, the key substances on which all life is build up and which are! necessary, in the form of food, for its maintenance;
The working of heredity; and the largely unexplained manner in which chemical changes take place round the surface of the countless individual cells of which
all Aesh is built up.
test-tube.
Professor J. C. Philip. of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, will open the last-named discussion. It is a field In which co-operation between the laboratory chemist and the biolo- gist is already proving fruitful.
Here, on the cell's surface, It is felt, may lie the secret of the body's power to achieve chemical trans- formations which appear mathe- matically improbable, or which can- not be reproduced in the chemist's
condemantion of the indiscriminate Professor C.. R. Harington, of attacks upon civilian non-comba-University College Hospital Medical tants by Japanese forces and urging School, will discuss how far the the Briish Governmen to take the chemist call hope to unravel the lead in securing concerted action structure of protein; and Dr. D. M. by economile measures or otherwise Wrinch will apply the skill of a to to prevent their continuance mathematician to the same prob-
lem.
$ Professor W. T. Astbury, of Leeds, will tell of his researches into the "What man,"
asked, structure of hair, egg white, and "doesn't like to have an adviser other living forms. behind him?" And the answer to Mr. J. St. L. Philpot, of Oxford, that of course is the man who will describe how chemical mole The meeting passed a resolution wants to play his own hand in his cules-aggregations "of atoma to recording horror and emphatic own way.
form a complex substance-can
Other messages
were received from Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Professor Gil- bert Murray and Mr. Ben Tillett, The last named trusted that dock- ers thoughout the world would stop. Japanese ships "for the only al- ternative at present is that they may have to stop Japanese shells with their bodies as the Chinese are doing now.".
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
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TENANTS AND POLICE STEM THE
"INVADERS"
The spectacle of police and householders keeping an advan- cing "army" of rats at bay provided thrilling scenes at a fire at a forage supply company's premises in Leith recently, where £10,000, damage was caused. Brigades fought the blaze for six hours before it was finally quelled.
The rats left the building as dry grain and drier timber floors roared in a mass of flames. They ran along a flat roof in mass formation, then scrambled into the street, from where they made for adjacent factories and tenement buildings facing the forage building.
Householders who had scrambled out of bed joined with policemen, in the light of gas lamps and lanterns, to slay or divert as many of the rats as possible.
them He
Messra. John Mitchell and Com- pany, and they were responsible for " the early discovery of the fire. The Watchman heard squeaking and scambering. came out into the street to find out what was alarming them, and saw a red glow within the forage building.
The fire spread so quickly that firemaster Peter Methven ordered out all available motor pumps. · At one time there was danger to the Alhambra Picture House, the Very few got into the tenement.
tenements, and several large Little help was obtained from a factories close by. but this was cat which, faced unexpectedly by i averted and the fire confined to one rats when turning a corner. fied wing of the forage premises. in consternation and did not re- It contained expensive machinery and large quantities of oflcake and It was the advance escaping" maize, all of which were destroyed. companies of rats that attracted Three motor lorries, the firm's "feet," were also
turn.
the attention of a night watchman distributing in the sawmills and 'timber yard of destroyed
be, "weighed" by ultra-rapid rota from an aeroplane, at a height of 25,000 feet above the Andes, during tion in a special machine.
AIR FICTURES OF ECLIPSE the eclipse of August this year, In another neld of inquiry, Pro-high altitude flights will certainly fessor J. A. Carroll, of Aberdeen, and a place in future eclipse plans." will discuss the range of informa- The corona sa gigantie globular envelope which, according to these tion which astronomers can now hope to obtain during a total latest photographs, stretches a eclipse of the sun. He travelled to mile deep round the sun. The next Omsk in Siberia to make records opportunity to observe it will be on October 1, 1940, when the track of of the 1936 eclipse.
Judging from the unexpected a total eclipse will cross Colombia./ pictures of the sun's corona taken Brazi and South Africa.