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STAPLE
TAPLES
DELICIOUS VEGETABLES
Unusual Recipes.
FOOD
SURPRISES
Here are some new ways with er knend paste with the hands on. vegetables and other recipes Try them, they are delicious.
CREAMED CARROTS Scrape carrots," leaving chok. Bol slowly till tender, in salted: water. Drau and slice thinly. Make i cup white sauce, add salt and pinch cayenne. then carrots. Reheat and serve sprinkled with parstey.
a pastry board sprinkled with icing Sugar Colour and favour." Roll small pieces into balls and press Into various shaped moulds.
TOMATO JAM-
Six pounds tomatoes. 3 lb. sugar, pineapple. 1 os. citric acid.
Custard, Blancmange, Gelatine
Custards, to be palatable and have a velvety texture, should be baked at the lowest possible degree of heat and cooked in in- dividual custard, cups since it is difficult to serve a custard attractively when it has been baked in one large dish, Baked. custards consist of milk, eggs, sugar, salt and seasoning. They may be flavoured with vanilla," nutmeg, caramel or chocolate.
1 cups cold mik
1 tablespoon' tapioca
2 tablespoons sugar
1
If one follows these instructions are the same, However, this custard earefully. also those given for requires longer cooking and the Skin tomatoes and cut up ping-blancmange. tapioca cream and thickening agent is mixed in the apple. Put pineapple in separate gelatine, one will have no difficulty beginning with the rup of cold dish, and tomatoes in a pan, and in obtaining
ง smooth velvety milk. PARSNIP FRITTERS
tet stand for a few hours. Then texture in making these desserts. epe parsnips and out into drain all water off, and put all to-
These dishes, which are so exquisite, Abre Cok in salted water til gether pineapple and tomatoes, when well made, may If too much tender, then drain Dip parsnips and let simmer." Add sugar gradu- cornflour, tapicea or gelatine, is In erg and breadcrumbs, fry tillally, boil until it turns a nice redased, become tough and leathery. Kolden brown and serve that with colour. Be careful not to burn. parsley sprigs.
Add altric acid fast just before tak ing at
OTHELLON Cake Mixture: 2 eggs. 3.cz, hix "teaspoon each of sugar and salt.rarsing four, 3 oz. castor sugar." few mint leaves and a dash of pep- Falling 1 oz plain chocolate. DET Bol in a saucepan of water I gill erenni. vanilla essence. for half-hours
JUGGED PEAS
Put shelled peas into jar with lid, 1 tablespoon butter, 1
BAKED ASPARAGUS Cut 5 hard-b-jed eggs in naives lengthwise plan in baking dish and cover with asparagus tips eut Inte small pieces. Pour 1 cups white sauce over, dot with buttered crumbs and bake in a moderate evek k brown,
4-
art
A
Care and accurate measuring is necessary in making these desserts. Blancmange and, tupioca cream will always be creamy and have a feathery texture
the right ameunt of cornflour or taploca is used When the creams are cooked they should be slowly folded into the beaten egy whites. then thoroughly chilled before serving. Blancmange
1 cups of liquid
1
tablespoon coflour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egk
Speck of salt
teaspoon vanila
Speck salt
1 teaspoon vanilia,
Mix tapioca with 1 cup cold muk, place in double boiler and cook for 15 minutes surring it occasionally. Mix sugar and salt together, dis- solve with. 1 cup cold. milk, add yolk of egg. Mix well; then add slowly to the hot taploca in double
beller. Stir well, then remove from are and add vanilla. Beat white of tght; slowly fold Into the tapioca mixture; then place in wet moulds and chili thoroughly betore serving.
Gelatines
Gelatines enter into the prepara-
leig 1 lb icing sugar. 1 oz. plain chocolate. 3 dessertspoons
coffee, 3 strong
dessertspoons water, vanilla flavouring, cochineal: For these little cakes. one or two cake tins. trays of very shallow
base,
needed. with circular Grease sparingly.
Break eggs. add sugar, and whisk DEVILLED BEETROOT riti think and creamy. Sift flour Heat together 2 tablespoons but- ento paper. then sift again by de- Place i cup milk in double boiler. tion of many desserts, salads, and ter, 3 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tea-grees on top of whisked eggs. fold-Mix cornstarch, sugar and salteas dishes. The only value in ahoon dry mustard. 1 tablespooning in lightly. Drop small tea-together. Dissolve these with cup using this substance is because it thopped parsley and a good punch sprontul into each tin and bake milk: add yolk of egg and vanila: as the capacity to solidify a given of pepper Add 2 cups of onlied slowly about 8 to 10 minutes Mix- Shen stir well into the mixture.mount of uld. It also helps in rying the appearance of desserts her root, cal inte enbes. Heat 10 ture should make about 24. small Slowly add this to the scalded milk made with milk, cream, egg mbutes.
and cook 5 minutes stirring con
fruit juices. CELERY AND TOMATOES
For the filing, whisk cream, addstantly. Remove from fire. Beat B2 stleks elery, drain. then finely-grated chocolate. flavour white of egg until stiff but not dry.
with vanilla. Spread flat sides of cakes and put them together in pairs moulding them to circular shapes
fry for a few minutes in 2 table Abous butter, add 1 cup stock. 2 large tomatoes. llced, pepper and salt. Boll, stirring otten. Put celery on hot dish. pour sauce over it. and sirve bordened with boiled row.
COFFEE MARZIPAN One pound loaf sugar, i gill water, inch cream of tartar. 2
cakes.
Teing
Divide icing sugar into equal portions and put in separate basins.
Then slowly fold into the custard mixture Pour into moulds which have heer rinsed in cold water: then chill. Blancmange may favoured with vanilla, caramel, or chocolat
One square melted chocolate
or
The rule for making gelatine dishes is simple and accurate Mistakes need not occur if one follows it exactly. The formula 'may be varied in many ways by using different flavours and also by add- ing milk, eggs or cream to im crease the food value.
Grate chocolate and put in small surred into the blancmange beforest in boiling water. pan, add coffee, and stir till dis-the while is added will be
Gelatine is soluble, in cold water,
Gelatine should not be placed
ball, as this destroys its gelatinous qualities.
erg-whites, colouring and flavour-solved, cool slightly, and add to sufficient to favour this amount of over direct fame and allowed to
ing to taste
Boil sugar and water in suce- pan, add cream tartar and boil mixture to 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Reinove pan from the fire, and add
one portion of sugar only. Mix to smooth, thick coating consistency. adding more coffee if necessary. Coat half of cakes carefully.
To other portion of sugar stir in
2 egg-whites not, whisked Place 2 or 3 dessertspoons hot water.
castard
above
Orange blancmange is made by. following the
#rections using 1 cup of orange jufée instead of the milk, and dissolving the conficur and sugar with 1 cup) cold water Two or three drops of lemon juice should be used in place
To Make A Gelatine Base
1 tablespoon gélatine
tablespoons cold liquid (milk or water)
Ia pun again on the fire, and cook | Mavour with vanilla, and colour bale shade with cochineal Coat
ther half of cakes with pink icing. vanilla in the brange blanc-
1 4. minutes. stirring gently
for metuntime.
Torn paste on to a sigh or dish... When set. decorate chocolate and work with a wooden spoon un- sakes with trails of pink icing, and il cool enough to handle. Place rice versa. For the tralls beat up raste in a bowl and pound, it well.left-over icing, put into teing bag. using a
little leing sużar if sticky. and force through piping tube.
A. R. P.
Vehicles
marge. Tapioca Cream
Tapioca cream is made somewhat Hke blancmange. The proportions
an onjunction with the Eagle Engineering Company, Limited, nf Warwick, Thornycroft are new able to offer their Municipal Vehicles with Air Raid Precaution equip ment. Alternative schemes are available to sult highway lorries, refuse collectors, galley of cesspit emptiers, and general purpose vehicles, and brief particulars of these schemes are set out below:-
In the case of Thornycroft Muni- cipal vehicles employed on high- way work and fitted with a plat- form body with or without de- tachable sides, we recommend a lockers. A high-pressure water jet | areas where the water mains self-contained equipment with a for final washing is available,
dank capacity of from 750 to 1,250
vehicle concerned.
An A.R.P. (Thornycroft) Vehicle.
maximum
have been damaged, or "the link
nected to suction hose to draw
•
rup scalded liquid (milk, fruit juice of meat brothi
Spock salt
Flavouring or seasoning
cold water. Let stand about 3 min- Dissolve gelatine in 4 tablespoons
utes Bring liquid to scalding point, add seasoning or flavouring. Remove from fre, add dissolved gelatine to scalded liquid, Stir well, then place in pan of ice water. When partly jellied, add whipped eream or beaten egg whites, d fruit, meat or vegetables, accord- ing to recipe used.
The mixture should be partly jellled before the solids are added otherwise the gelatine will consist of a layer of solid materials and In preparing aspic jelly or fruits. vegetables or meat dishes, the aspic should be highly seasoned. When using cold meat or fish stock which kis partly jellled, the amount of gelatine used in preparing the pic base should be slightly re- duced
The Juice of 1 lemon la sufficient to flavour 1 cup of lemon aspic Jelly.
Street Washing. Four detach can be employed as an auxillary self-aligning ball bearing and u gallons according to the size fable Ash-tall jets are mounted un-fire-fighting unit. The drive for universal coupling on to the pump. The tank can (der the tank for this purpose. the fire pump is by means of a When not in use, the drive shaft, be used for fire.1ghting, street
Street Watering. Three sprink-chain and sprocket gear connected by withdrawing one pin, can be watering and washing and gas de-
extension shaft from the
swung round through the universal contamination, and is cylindricaller jets are fitted at the rear of to an.
power take-off on the chassis gear joint and attached to the chassis in shape with Hfting eyes front the tank and give a
box, and this pump can be con frame in a protected position. And rear to enable it to be quickly spread of 80,
Fire Fighting: Two 50 lengths water from an outside source as
The equipment provided in this lifted in and out of the body. A
case includes a 12' 6" length of centrifugal pump delivers 250 gal- of 2)" canvas hose, complete with well as to supply water under pres-armoured delivery hose for alling lons of water per minute against couplings and nozzle are provided.
sure for fire-fighting purposes.
the tank, two 50 lengths of canvas head of 90 when running at 2.400 Additionally, there is a hose reel
It will be appreciated that this hose with couplings and 1” nozzle, r.p.m. The pump can deliver direct accommodating 60 of " hose with from the tank through the sprink-nowle to give a solid jet or ad-equipment can be supplied with and two 12 6 lengths of armour- lers, fire hose or washing jets, as justable spray with quick action new vehicles or it can equally welled suction hose complete with
be supplied for refuse collection couplings and strainer. well as to the small hose or moni- control.
It will be appreciated that the tor. The tank can be filed from a Other Items Included comprise vehicles up to about 10 cubic yards
feature of this equipment is that hydrant, or water can be pumped two 12.6 lengths of 3" diameter capacity already in use.
For fitting tc
type of it can easily be fitted to existing | the tank from an outside suction hose complete with unions Tre The auxiliary enging for and a 6-volt, 80-amp. lighting set, Thornycroft vehicle as an emer-vehicles and will not interfere with driving the pump is the well-known together with 2 cwis, of bleaching gency fire-fighting outat, we re; the general working of the vehicle Ford 8 h.. model with an electric powder in 4 lb. air-tight contain- commend the Eagle triction-drive when carrying goods under normal
ers, and a set of tools including equipment, which consists of a peace time conditions. spades, picks, buckets and brushes. galvanized "rectangular tank with
into
any
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1939.
It's EASY to Catch COLD or FLU
when TRAVELLING
'ASPRO
WILL PROTECT
PROTECT YOU.
GERMS are no respecters of persons. Wherever you travel you cannot tell the moment you are likely to catch a cold—or even the 'Flu. The proved protection is 'ASPRO.' At" the slightest sign of sneezing—sore. throat-feverishness, etc., take ‘ASPRO' according to the directions in the packet. Quick relief is assured, because 'ASPRO' expels the body posons through the pores of the skin, and, therefore, restores one to normal' health by eliminating such poisons and not suppressing them. Furthermore, 'ASPRO' is safe, sure and certain-it neither harms the heart nor stomach,
conforms to the standard of purity laid down by e British Pharmacopoeia-the guiding authority of the medical profession.
BUY A PACKET TO-DAY FOR PROOF.
|
STAUNCH BE- LIEVER IN *ASPRO' NOW.. SCEPTICAL AT FIRST!
23 Roseberry St.,
Roselle, N.S.W.
Dear Sira,"
I thank ASPRO Tablets for wawling off Influenza from my little bay, aged nine, as well as myself, when my whic, who was then an unbeliever in them, res fused to take them, and finished upp bospital with double pneu mania, while, we were getting colds, but stopped them with
ASPRO and nothing else.
Hy wile inn staunch advocate for their use, now, and takes "ASPRO" 11" the frat sign of a Bold. Wishing "ASPRO and their inventor all the good luck they deserve.---! am,
RADIO
Your thankfully,
· (5ga) L WILLIAMS,
Always Keep 'ASPRO' in the' Home for: -
Headache Rheumatism Sleeplessness Toothache Sore Throat Neuralgia Hay Fever Feverishness Irritability Temperature
Influenza
Earache Colds Malaria
Sciatica Gout
Lumbago
Dengue
Asthma
Neuritis
Alcoholic. After Effects
ASPRO' Gives Great Relief to Women when
Depressed
13F/34.
Stubborn Cold Goes PROOF!
6 Hammer Street,
Williamstown, Dear Sir,
1 thank you for your kind interest in directing me to the Cerlain way to tfect a cure to the beaty COLD with which i had been burtling for three weeks, " during which time I had tried to many other infalible remedies. On Thursday last 1 carried out your advice to the letter, and i could hardly believe the fact that on Saturday morning i woke up! with no Cold fell, nor did T cough through the sight so I had the habit of doing Al- though I have med "ASPRO with excelent remita for in relieving HEADACHES, can say positively and with vary much appreciation, that your kar surance that 'ASPRO" would break up a Cold or the "Pia in 34 houri H. the directions were properly observed, has been con elusively proven.
been
Youve feltbinity, (54) Wm. G. MURCHISON.
Three 'ASPROʻTablets and Hot Lemon Drink WILL SMASHа COLD FLU ATTACK in ONE NIGHT
Agents – DODWELL & 10. Læ», obtainable at all Chemists and Drug Stores Thr»» Packing: 5's, 11's -27′s.
Covered Bundle Joe Loss and His VEATHER REPORT Orchestra with Vocal Refrain. Fox-Trot-Everything Stops For Tea (Alm'Come out of the Pan- try'-Jack Hylton's Orchestra with
PROGRAMME
* (Continued from Page 3) 6.30 p.m. Relay of a commentary on the launching of the T.S.MV. "Breconshire" by Lady Northcote from the Talkoo Dockyard, Hong- kong. Followed by Speeches by His Excellency The Governor and Others.
Vocal Refrain.
HONGKONG ROYAL
OBSERVATORY
Barometer (at sea level, 30.07 ins.
10 a.m., February 1.
Temperature, 63 F. 9.15 p.m. London Relay World Humidity, 89 per cent. Affairs.
Wind Direction, East.. Wind Force (Beaufort), 8.
A talk by R. V. Hodson.
68 F.
9.30 p.m. London Relay-The Temperature; maximum yesterday. News
9.50 pm: Songs by Paul Robeson Temperature: minimum last night. (Bass).
60 F. 7.30 p.m. Musical Comedy Selec- Roll Up Sailorman, (tilm 'Big Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th tions..
Fella); I Don't Know What's
to-day, 0.02 ins. "Music In The Air-Selection Wrong (Dyrenforth and Anseli) Total rainfall since January 1, Hammarstein 2nd and Keral | You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things
1:12 Ins. New Mayfair Orchestra.
(0lm Big Fella')-with Orchestra Against an average of 1.27 ins. 7.38 p.m. Closing local Stockcond. by Eric Ansell..
Sunset to-night, 6.12 p.m. Quotations.
10.00 p.m. London Relay Ship-Sunrise to-morrow, 7.03 3..
4 pm.. February I.
7.40 p.m. Studio-Z.B.W. Orches wreck.
tri..
.
A newspaper play for broadcast- Barometer at sea level), 29.95. 1. Russian Walta Fantasia ing by Robert Barr. Produced by Temperature, 64, "Around the Volga" (Bor-Laurence Gillam. Characters: Jack-Humidity, 83. cherto).
son, News Editor, Dally Gazette: Wind Direction, East. 2. Barcarolle (Tosti).
Donaldson, Local Correspondent: | Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. 3. Sagra al Villaggio (Cerri). Rowlands, Shipping Correspondent: Maximum temperature, 67. 8.00 p.m. Local Time Signal, Bill, Chlef Sub, Smith; Brown: Minimum temperature, 60. Weather Report and Announce- Bryson; Baird; Thomas and Davies. Rainfall, nil.
ments.
8.03 p.m.
Studio ---Z.B.W.
chestra.
Reporters on the Daily Gazette. Or- Ted, 8ports Writer, Mrs. Davies. sister of Captain Davies, Mrs. Sten- 4. Elegy Canto Triste "Maison, a girl of seventeen, A Land-
Yezzi).
5. Serenata Bolero
gutti).
6. Alequinade Sulte
neure).
lady. The action takes places in
morning, (Marthe editorial rooms of
newspaper between the second and (Caza-final editions, while a 'news 'Cash'
(a) Marche, (b) Gavotte, Segucdule, (d) Serenade Orientale, (e) Scherzo, (D) Carilion.
Days of
HONG KONG TIDE TABLI From 2 to 8 Feb. 1939
HIGH WATER.
Week.
Bong Koog
3 Standard
LOW WATER,
Hong
Heigat
Kong
Standard
Time
Height.
Time.
h, m.
h. m.
Thur 2
08 45
4 162 16
19 24
·1249. 137
8
09 20
0257
90 TA 8 0
13 49
4
1010
100%
0338
21 22
8 0
13:40
10 42
150
0414
22 w
22 10
15 30
11 385 3
0451
22 597 5 11 575 5 23479
16 18
21
05
20
1.0
17 08
26
06 59.
18
1234
17 82 6
Beaven-
af á stilpwreck is being built into (c) a front page story.
10.35 p.m. Dance Music. Fox-Trot-Quicker Than You 8.30 p.mL London Relay "At Can Say Jack Robinson; The Star Fri The Black Dog."
And The Rose-Roy Fox and His
Sat. Refrain Mr. Wilkes at home, in his own Orchestra with Vocal starter.
We claim that the equipment can | bar-parlour. Presented by 8. E. Waltz-A Beautiful Lady In Blue-San. 6 The operator's seat at the rear
Marlo Harp' Lorenzi and His of the tank accommodates four. For Thornycroft Refuse Collec-lifting eyes on each side so that it be mounted and taken off in a Revolds and Pascoe Thornton.
9.00 p.m. Dance Music.
Rhythmics. Fox-Trot-She Shall Mon, ruen, and in front of this sent all tion Vehicles of the end-loading can be quickly lifted in and out of matter of half an hour and, in ad-
Fox-Trot F'd Love To Take Or- Have Music (from the alm); Do the controls, valves, and gauges are type with box body we recommend any type of commercial body. The dition to use by Municipal Authorl-
Tace, A.R.P. equipment in the form of a centrifugal pump in this case is ties, the outfit is equally suitable ders From You (film 'Shipmates The Runaround (film 'She shall mounted on, a dashboard,
Blow Fox-Trot I'd have musle)-Jack Hylton's Or Wed The "equipment Included in this galvanized tank of either 500 gal-mounted to the chassis frame and for large minufacturing firms, who Forever');
Listen To Your Eyes chestra with Vocal Refrain. Fox- outfit consists of the following:--- lans or 750 gallons capacity, ac-the drive is by friction off one of will undoubtedly wish to equip Rather
(nim 'Shipmates Forever) -Trot-Cling To Me; Slow Fox-Trot Gar Decontamination. A gravity cording to the size of the machine, the rear wheel tyres. This drive some of their transport with an water supply is arranged for as concerned This tank, which can consists of a small pulley which is auxiliary fire-fighting appliance as well as scrubbing tools and bleach-be rolled into the body, is intended engaged by means of a handle and a precaution against fire and, gas ing powder accommodated in side either for carrying drinking water screw and the drive shaft has a invasion of their own premises.
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Jncaves Renard and His With All My Heart (film Her Pete; Tango-Eayana Orchestra, Fox-Trot My Bha Master's Voice')--The BBC. Dance) Mantovani and Ills, Orchestra with dow's Where My Sweetheart Used Orchestra directed by Henry Hall Vocal Chorus, -',
Close down. To Be: Slow Fox-TrotStar Dust with Vocal Chorus, Rumba-Cuban
11.00. p.m.
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