THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936...
A pair of scissors & a little patience
On the small figure you see an office frock, Made in good stuff, it will go a long way yet, but maybe you're tired of it. Here's how to give
it a new start,
Cut away the sleeves, collar, and a complete panel from the front of the bodice as far as the waist.
Wear it over a white piqué blouse with short stand-up sleeves, and it will be light enough for warm days.
HESTER VALENTINE tells you how to
Lunch in
Austria
T
- AT HOME
HE Austrians, like
water. You
may
the Germans, usually think this sounds start lunch with a very The parsley entre. but the
good soup. Here is a popu- mount of stock
lar favourite:-
Brain soup
you see tins it intu quiten ranny slowly for halt an hom
Meanwhile, wash a calf's brain pigs or sheep's will do equally well) pour boiling water on to it,
MELT 102. butter in a leave it to snak for a minute and.
simmering
saucepan and stir in remove the skin.
At the end of the half-hour ne two tablespoonsful of flour and
finely the brain to the soup and go on a heaped teaspoon of
10-15 minutes. Remove chopped parsley.
the brain. chop it up finely, nut When the ingredients are well return to the soup, which mixed (do not let the fur brown), ready. Add a little milk or cream pour in gradually 1 pints stock or just before serving.
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Fried spring chicken
THIS is
П
Herrings!
SAYS
AMBROSE
HEATH
THE Herring Industry at Home has
always been a mystery to me, and
I daresay to many others. Ever since the war, when a great part of the European inarkot for these fialies dia- appeared and was never recovered, we have heard of enormous supplies being sacrificed because there was no demand for them.
Millions of herrings were caught; and millions thrown back into the sen or left to stink on the shore because our own people would not buy them. We have been told that many homes are too snobbish to buy so commoni u fish ta contention that seems scarcely bellevable), and that herrings aro not popular because they make their pre- | Hence, when heing cooked, to very noticeable in small hounes and flats.
cannot believe this. My own private belief is that people don't ent in many herrings na they should be cause they don't know enough ways to cook them and are sick of those they do.
ME Herring Book, published for
THE
Make some pieces of buttered toast and place on each first a plece of crisply-trial strenky bacon cut to the samo uize, and Anish with a ponched soft horring's roe, dusted with a le cayenne pepper.
Herringe a la Francaise
This is a grander way of cooking them quite a respectable dish for a fish course at dinner!
Have herring fillets and soft roen, Senson the fillets with salt and pupper, a touch of nutmeg and s Mittle lemon-Juice, sprinkle thens with
finely chopped parsley, and roll them up
the roes insile them. Now wrap each up in buttered paper, twisting the ends tightly to Kether, place then in a buttered baking dish, and bake them in n moderate oven until the papers puff out. Take the papers. off to serve them. And just.ono dish for invalidis.
Baked Herrings with Egg
Have the Ash filleted, roll up each #illet, keeping the roes for another dish. Lightly. dust the Allets with Ball nud pepper, and put them each in a small buttered dish.
For each bent up half a yolk of ver with a gill of milk, pour this round the fish, and bake in a mode rate oven until the custard is set. Sprinkle on serving with finely- chopped parsley.
free distribution by the Horring Boys' And Girls' Corner Learn to Swim Well-No. 6
Industry Board, should bring the herring, the floater, the red herring nd the kipper, quickly back into favour, Written by that experienced culinary journalist, Wrench, it contains, you would Mrs. Stanley expect, many words of wisdom (in- eluding bystructions for Alleling raw herrings) and close on a hundred re-
cipes,
Let me see if I cannot whet your interest by quoting a fow,
Boiled Herrings
Clean and scale the fish (one for vach person), beheal, but do not bone them. Haye rendy a saucepan of rold water and add, for each fish, a ten- spoonful of vinegar and half a ten- spoonful of salt. Bring to the buil. put in the herrings, bring to the boil again and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes, according to the size of the fal. Drain well ant
Kerve with parsley or instard sauce. These herrings are also good when cold."
Speldered Herrings
Scale and clean the fish, remove the hends and tails and backbone. Lay them on a dish, dust Chem with enyenne, squeeze leman jules aver, put a nut af beef dripping on each and grill them.. Serve with cut lemon. Bloater Fritters
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very typical
Split open the blonters and remove Viennese dish entled Buck the flesh in Jong Allets. Beat toge- handi. Get a young chicken: it ether one egg with enough flour and not necessarily be a three months' milk for a batter, and stir into it old poussin. A 3-ib bird is, in my few tablespoonfuls of grated cheese.
into opinion, preferable. Joint it
Divide the fillets into convenient five or six pieces and remove the pieces, din then in the batter, and akin.
fry a golden brown in deep fat.
Well season the pieces with salt abil pepper, dip them into a beaten eng rult then in breadcrumbs, and fry in hot, clear fat in a fry- ing-pan
Turn the pieces vo' as to brown them on both sides, then cover the pan and let the chicken simmer 10-20-minutes- (according-to-weight of bird) on a low fame.
If you just fry it brown without simmering, the flesh will not be cooked through, With backhand you should cat a good-
Linz jam tart
THIS is how to make one of the famous Austriun "Tortes." This one comes from the town of Linz, on the Danube.
First of all you want to blanch
in cold Suza, almonds (put them water, bring to the boil and remove their skins), then brown them well on a tin in the oven, and finally crush them to a powder in a mortar or with a rolling-plu.
Having done all that, you cream Jozs. butter (3 of Iard and 2 of butter will do perfectly) with 24ozs. augar, work in ball-teaspoon cin- namon, half-teaspoon grated nutmeg, half-teaspoon powdered clove, two egg yolks, and finally just over 2ozs.
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Knead the mixture lightly with your hands and leave it to cool on a marble slab or, a plate for half an hour.
Line a fan ring and baking sheet with the pastry and fill it with a generous layer of raspberry Jam. which you cover with a crisscross of pastry (as for an ordinary jam tart). Bake for one hour in a slow oven and eat it cold.
SALESMAN SAM
Kipper Scramble
Place the kippers in a frying pan, eover them with water, bring to the boll very slowly and simmer for five minutes. Remove the flesh from the bones and fake it up.
Herring Roe Savoury.
Make some scrambled egg, and just before it is done stir in the warmed kipper flakes. Serve on buttered toast, profernbly for breakfast. in which CASC the cooking and flaking of the kippers can be done overnight,
Tunnel Swimming
get one or more friends
RY tunnel swimming, it is great
fun.
to stand shoulder deep, with lega spread widely apart. Then you take a surface dive," with, eyes open of course, and swim clean between the legs. Don't touch if you can help it. When you have had a turn stand up yourself, and let your friend have a try.
For swimming under water you should use breast-stroke.
Con
you "stand stil" in deep water?
It is treading water bal lets you do this. There are two ways of doing it, and you can choose which seems to come more easily. The armis work the same in each, so' begin with that. Swim along, breast- stroke, then stop, and bend the arms in front of the citest, making short in and out paddling movements in
front of the chest. Keep the flat palms facing down all the time, and press down with the hands,
Your legs will have dropped, 20 that you are upright in the water, and you work them in ordinary breast-stroke fashion, though rather quicker and with no pauses. You will find yourself staying up easily, with the chin on the surface.
In the second sert of treading water the legs work up and dowii exactly as if you were guaning up- stairs.
HOW an AEROPLANE WORKS
us illustration showa the position of the yarious parts that have been described in this A series and how they are combined together to
duce a modern aeron-
capable of very high speeds over long dis tances. with the maxi
safety.
of
The airscrewa (A) can be seen, with together the engines (B) that drive them roundi, these being in this ex- ample, fixed to the the front edges of wings.
The slope or "Rake"
B
No. 3.
The Modern ·
Aeroplane
pilot steers the machine and makes it rise or fall as he sits in the cockpit, which is in the front part of the aeroplane at F
The black part of the
and camber of these wings (C), machine between the wings and the which enable the machine to keep tail is called the fuselage. It in. in the air, is also clear.
nade up of a framework of wood
D is the rudder and E the cle- or metal covered with fabric like vator by which, as explained, the the wings and tail.
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ON A WHEELBARROW!
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MR CASE
"SOMEWHERE
IN TOWN
TO
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If He Had Only Known
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may be mysterious.
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me a true saying-ten twice in one moming, you
It's a famour home of mu-
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15 Though backward, the artist in the Cathedral city is in good time.
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vegetable.
17 Restrict in a severe form.
Came in great demand in a soup-kitchen.
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29 Given dawn for comfort on
cold night.
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Do
by the way?
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these Orientals take cream,
25 Philosopher,
20 Offers made for locomotives
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2 Think with some spirit.
3 Give 'em to the little one for
a class symbol.
4 Brer
Rabbit gets stuck, and "she say nothing at all" (two words, 3, 4).
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keepers.
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quate, still
7 Put pressure on the bats to
have a game (two words, G, 7). 8 Nice hum-it pays (anng.). 10 Applies the closure.
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all ice
14 Even hungry lion, having made lis kill will leave this,
18 City of Canada.;
10 Just a few words which you
may consider stiff.
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a great inclination to
25 What Andrews took for links.
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