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FOOD & CENÉRAL
STAPLESURPRISES
STARRED RECIPES
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Roast Pigeon. Truss the pigeons, and "cook slowly for five minutes, and cover the breast with pieces. Fill the cases with the mixture; of fat bacon. Cook in a hot oven and bake until heated through, basting Allow 4 rashers of bacon to every for about half-an-hour frequently. Lift off the bacon and b. liver. allow the breasts to brown slightly.
Devilled Sardines. Boil Drain off the fat from the pan, and fry piceces of bread in it until crisp potatoes, mash with butter and a Place a bird on each piece of little mix, and shape into small bread, and garnish the dish with cases. Brush over with beaten egg. the cabbage salad, made as follows; and place on: a lightly-buttered -Shred the heart of a frm rab-fire-proof dish. Bone and skin the bage very finely, and chill in sardines, mash with a little batter, covered dish to keep crisp. Meit rome made mustard, a few drops 4 teaspoonful red-currant jelly, of lime juice, and a fow browned and add it to two tablespoonfuls bread crumbs. The mixture should thick mayonnaise, with a few drops not be too dry, and may be soften- of enchineal to improve the colour. ed with more butter if necessary. Toss the cabbage in this unit! nicely coated, and pile it up round the rage of the rush with the birds in the centre
SOUP - PIPING HOT
A Luncheon Favourite
If you want a real mid-day, top of each soup plate with finely
pick-me-up try serving soup as a chopped celery, standard part of your mid-day meal
CREAM OF CHEESE SOUP
2 tbsp. granulated tapioca
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2. tbsp. finely chopped carrots.
Cups milk
+
2 tbsp. butter
cup grated American cheese
2 tbsp. chopped celery
BLACK BEAN SOUP
.
4 qus, beet stock.
i pt. black beins
1 tbsp. catsup
1 glass port wine
tsp. ploves
1 tsp. nutmey
2 hard balled eggs
1 lemon
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. four
1 tbsp chopped parsley.
Salt and pepper to taste. Combine tapioca, salt, pepper,
Wash beans. Scat overnight in Add a pinch of cayenne if liked. onion, carrots, celery and milk in cold water. Cook until tender in double boller and place water and press through a colan- Pile up in the potato cases, and up of Lake in a quick oven until lightly over boiling water 10 minutes, der. Add the beer stock, spices
frequently. Add butter. browned. Serve in the dish they stirring
and catsup and boll for half an unt hout. The add the wine. Put were baked in, sprinkling a little cheese, parsley and cook
through a Ane sleve. Make x Tomato Soup. Cut 1lb. tomatoes chopped parsley on top of each just cheese is melted.
CHICKEN AND CELERY SOUP brown roux of the flour and butter Into quarters, and fry in a saucepan before sending to table,
Combine 1 can of condensed, and pour the soup into it. Boll for with a tablespoonful butter.. twe tablespoonfuls Bombay onions Sponge-cake pudding. Cut a chicken noodle soup and 1 can of 10 minutes more. In the meantime chopped fairly small, and a season-stale sponge cake into 3 slices right condensed celery
soup. Add
2 hard boll the eggs and slice them, ing of pepper and salt. When the across Spread one piece with some cans of water. Heat thoroughly. Slice the temon very fine. Season
boil. Serve and garnish the soup to taste with salt. tomatoes begin to soften, pour in strawberries (tinned fruit), sprin- Do not
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a pint of warm water, and bring, kle with sugar, cover with another
JELLIED MEAT STEW
An Old Favourite
Doughnuts and
to the bu, then cover, and allow piece, spread with fruit as' before, to simmer for an hour, or until and place the third piece of cake) the tomatoes are well broken up. on top. Arrange the cake on a Mash them against the sides of the clsh that can be put into the oven pan with a wooden spoon, then the bottom half of an entree dish puss through a sieve, Mix a level does very well, but the top half
Any left-over meat and sausages dessertspoonful dour with a little usually has a handle-fitting which may be used but this jelly is far cold water until smooth, pour on right be damaged by the heat better when made of 1b. minced the strained tomato, and bring to, Flavour some of the syrup from the beef stewed with one onion-well the boll again, adding a little sugar tin with a little sherry, and pour plerced with fork before putting modern method of preparation. tr bring out the favour. Stand 11 over carefully to molate the into stew--and one teaspoonful
a basin in a pan of boiling water, roke slightly. Chill thoroughly. each of salt, white pepper, sugar pour in quarter of a pint of cream, Prepare well-heaten whites of eggs and dry mustard. and gradually pour the soup on to sweetened with castor sugar, and
Prepare in a separate pan about
It, stirring all the time. Serve at spread this mixture all over the five leaves of gelatine. Melt them cake, decorating the top and edges, in required heat with half a lemon by piping some of it round, place squeezed in the water.
once!
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Pork Chops. with Pineapple. Cook in a very cuick oven to set the When this is ready pour a little the chops, and place in a covered meringue and very lightly brown carefully with
a spoon into a By dish to keep het. Cut fairly thick it and serve immediately. slices from a pineapple, and fry in placing the dish in a baking tin mould, large enough to hold all in- gredients, so that a thin layer is the rat left over from trying the with several folds of paper under-formed all over it. chops, first :emoving the centieneath, the pudding is kept quite On to this sprinkle chopped core of the fruit. Tlace a chop on cold, while the meringue is just parsley or cut shapes in sliced .cach slice of pineapple, and pour, warm,
over a thick brown gravy, slightly favoured with pineapple juice. Sprinkle some chopped parsley over the gravy.
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Liver Patties. Make some pastry cases, with flaky pastry, about 2
PRUNE CAKÈ
This recipe is by an American cook and it is very good.
beetroot and stick these on to mould. When this is cold and set pour into the mould all the stew. mixing it with the rest of the melted gelatins. Stand to get cold. Cut slice of encumber, cold pota-
.
Molasses Cookies
Here are old-time sweets with a
They have only one disadvantage
they go "like hot cakes” |
MOLASSES REFRIGERATOR
COOKIES
14 cups butter
1 tsp. vanilla
11⁄2 cups Armly packed ́browni.
..sugar
eup molasses
1 egz.
6 cups sifted all-purpose Bour
3 tsp. baking powder
#tsp. suda
1 tsp. salt!
Cream shortening and vanilia. Add sugar gradually and beat fin- Two cupfuis flour. 1 cupfuls toes and beetroot. Slightly melt tal creamy. Add molasses and egg. sugar, 1 cupful stewed prunes surface of felly and place alices in blend well; then stir in sifted inches diameter, and 1 inches deep. mashed anely, 3 egg yolks, i tea-jelly. Again set mould to cool, but dry Ingredients. When thor. Chop the liver in small pieces, spoonful cinnamon, ceaspoonful with its surface on a suitable dish. oughly mixed, form into 4 rolls 9 and cut up some streaky bacon in cloves, teaspoonful allspice, & When required put hot cloth [inc..es long and 1 to 11⁄2 inches in short lengths, fry until crisp. and teaspoonful nutmeg. 1 teaspoonful keep hot while the liver is being baking powder, 1 teaspoonful bax-round the mould til jelly slips diameter. Wrap in waxed paper fried in the bacon fat. When ing soda, 1 căptul prune juice, s down on to the dish. This is an and chill When ready
excellent lunch or plenie dish. nearly cooked stir in a Httle Яour, tablespoonfuls melted and stir well until the Hver is coat-cupful English walnuts.
butter,
to bake
slice off as many cookies as desired |4 Inch thick. Place † inch apart on
ed with it, then add the bacon, Put in all the ingredients before Note-In American cookery the ungreased baking sheets and bake seasoning of pepper and salt, and making, then stir as little as posal-" cupful" referred to is the pt. in moderately hot oven 12 to 15 dash of tomato sauce. Add ble. Bake in layers and use the marked measuring cup found in all minutes. Remove from sheets at enough milk to soften the flour, whites of eggs for frosting.
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NO MORE ILLITERATES IN CHINA AFTER 1941
CHUNGKING, Mar. 14 (Central)—Adult
illiteracy will
be banished from China after 1941, according to the latest de- cision of the Ministry of Education,
kitchens.
once.
THE SERVICES
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GOODENOUGH PRIZF
T. J. N. Hken, lent to RAN. (un- dated)
Fayr, Cam-N. T. P. Cooper, lenAL,
The Goodenough Memorial Prize for to NZ. BA, as Naval Sec. and Mets- 1938 has been awarded to Sub-Leu- ber of the Naval Board: A. T. Phil-
Ups to Vernon (March 3).
Prie to the war, China was carry | Ministry will appoint a director to tenant T. G. Bentley, RN of HMS.
Lt.Cdr.-C. R. V. Pugh, to Presi ing cut a "universal. educational each province to direct and super-Colne. shery protection gunboat. programme, which aimed at teach-vise the
educational This is probably the arst time in the dent for duty inside Admiralty (March long history of this prize that it has 1). J. H Dale, to Cumberland March been gamed by an ex-officer of the 7); JM Rosland, to Sussex (March
tuniversal
ing the nation's 192,000,000 liter-activities. ates below 45 years old to read and The wartime curriculum will con- Royal Naval Reserve.
LtCdr. D.-H. V. Pell LDS, to write before 1942. In view of the sist mainly of courses that have a The Goodenough Prize was mastitut war, the "dead-line" has to be bearing on national defence and ed in memory of Commodore J. G. President for course (March 7.
Lta-P. H. W. McMaster, to Cum- Goodenough, who died on service on shortened. The date for the fulfil- anti-aggression. Instruction
the Australian Station in 1875, and ia berland (undated); H H Brasher, o ment of the programme is now set patristic singing, public health, awarded annually to the sub-lieu-Douglas (March 21: M. Buist to Vic- at nunt later than the spring of 1911. hir-taid precautions and current tenant who passes the best examinatory for RNE. (March 14); F. A. According to statisties of the events will be particularly stressed tion in punnery, provided he has also Woodward, to Coventry (March 15.
taken a first-class certificate to sas- Ministry of Education, in 1936 when Each student is required to learn manship. the original mass eficational pro-at least 1,200 Chinese characters SOUND FILM
APPARATUS The distribution to the Fleet of nim was launched, China's during the two months. gramme adult literates then numbered
projectors and sound reproduction Text-books are prepared and equipment as a service fiting will be 200,000,000, or nearly half of the
Cistributed to every provtace nade, during the next few montha entire population. Since then
Ministry
1938, which will undertake the supply of The Royal Naval Film Corporation, shout 10,000,000 persons have been by the edurated. The present task of the wings alone received 3,000,000 ohms to seagoing ships, is now being Ministry, therefore, is to educate coples from the Ministry in addi- constituted the remaining 190,000,000 adults. tion to a cash subsidy. Throughout China to-day tree education. is given to 45,000,000 children
NEW ZEALAND SECRETARY Paymaster Commander N. T. P.
· ADULT EDUCATION
Cooper has been tent for three years Last year over 1,500,000 students to the New Zealand Government for
services as Naval Secretary and Mem graduated from the various und ber of the Naval Board, in succession versal adult education classes in to Paymaster Captain E. L. Totten OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC....
this province where, according to ham. OBE. He relieved in the Oncials of the Ministry are optimistic that the rast programine the latest official report, there are Vernon, torpedo school, by Paymaster Commander A.. T. Phillips. from the now only 1,800,000 iterates out of cruiser Colombo. can be completed within two years. Their scheme is to switch the place a total population of over 12,000,000. NAVAL AD.C. TO THE KING time Tour-month anti-literacy
adult
Surgn. Lts (D).-D L. Goodridge, LDS to Victory for R.M. Infirmary (March 9); 1. B. Inverdale, LEA, to Ganges (March 27).
Sub-Lta, (A-A F. Adii, B. Pater- son, to Victory for Gosport.
Ca Gunner (T)-H T. Baker, to Caledon (undated).
Cd. Engr.-J. Rankine, to Pia-
Schoolmaster (CWO)—A. J. Mc«- Gregor, to Ganges (Feb. 20).
Gunners (T)-W. Casey, to Juno (March 4).
minge (March 7)..
PROMOTIONS
Lia-3. C. Cookburn. (F/LL., BAF.), A... H. Carslaw, F. W. B. Edwards, to rank of L-Odr. (seny Match 1).
Lt. (Retd.) E. Evans, M.B.E., DBO. to rank of Lt.Cdr. (retd) (seny. Peb. 25)
Cd Gunner (Retd.).-A. Bethell, to rank of Lt. (retd) (seny. April 1 1987)
Wt. Elect.-P. G. Harvey,,A. F. Ca2
1938
RETIREMENTS
Lts.-J. T. Pollock, J. Exton, placed on the Red List (March.2 and 3'res- pectively),
Ca. Gunner.-P. W. Darbini, placed on the Retd. List (March 5).
The provincial authorities have retain H. M. Burrough, R.N., has been
The Admiralty announce that Cap
classes into two-month courses/cently, mobilised 6,000 teachers to Aubointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp. to Tell, to rank of Od. Elect. (acy. Dec.
completely eradicate. Lliteracy the King, from February 22. In suc. 1, which mean, more intensified work
cession to Captain J. H, Godfrey, OB In a shotter period, Every year four there in the next twelve months.
P.N. who has been promoted to flag such classes will be held in quick The popularization of
rank
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS succession as compared with only education will not in any way con-{**
The following appointraents two before the war, No holidays fict with the nation's conscription will be given to the students, who law. The Ministry will not interfere made by the Admiralty.
Cora. J. C. Halaman to President must study for two hours daily, with the recruiting, officers in for dirty balde Admiralty (March 7, Every district governthent has been drafting men for service, but it re- instructed by the Ministry to place, ndres them to set aside two hours the enforcement of inane education a day in the training camps, for the above all other wartime duties. The recruits i read and write.
are
A. C. Stanford, to President for duby inside Admiralty (April 4): G. E. Col- Boys, to President for duty inside Ar- miralty (April (1), W. LG. Adams to Amphion, in command - (May 2:
THE ARMY
DUTY IN LONDON The 2nd Battalim The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Shórn-
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