1941-05-21 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

THE ODDS

to

If words and prelimin- ary actions mean any- thing-which they do not always to Japanese statesmen--the time is ripe for a further word of warning to Japan before she commits herself a course from which there can be no with- drawal. The strength of her ties with the Axis have in the last two or three days been ostenta- tiously advertised, Mr. Matsuoka has been res- ponsible for further threats, and the anti-Bri- tish campaign has been revived. The attacks on Britain concentrate upor the allegation that the restrictions imposed upon supplies to Japan are deliberate attempt to strangle the economic life: of Japan. It is well- known, of course, that those restrictions are those rendered necessary by (a) our own priority of need and (b) by thej open hostility of Japan. which makes no attempt to disguise her efforts to supply Britain's enemiesh ife that a nation which has in fact bern especially rich in the with raw materials which, ques genus of ports and wits and engaged as we are in alas famous for the dash of its set- life and death struggle, we are determined must be cut off.

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BOYS WILL BE BOYS!

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Obeisance To Pudding To Pudding

It one of the oddities of Erg,- t

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By

Ivor Brown

Young

the

ous hint of the city's carnivores,

hear

Welsh they're serving Habibit instead of meat on Lwo days a week." The tone in which he ginged out this appalling news „auggested that darkest might had talen upon Irwell's hanks and that chaos had come again to all the Chorions, whether on Med-

and cheese more and more ding: le and less after their meat

lock or cum Hardy. Doubtless the Victorian gentleman had a swerter

The famous house is providing some robust puddings to All in tooth and an ampler capacity. Torners. Now, I taney, some chop- dine off chops and roly-poy pud-tallen men, who disdained of old ding with avidity' was the happy the solid allure of a Baked Albert habit of the "pushing

Roll, may have beenne eager ad- particle in "Patière." Chops diets of that massive and glutin- Mute the plural-and roly-poly.

bus confection. Such are the re- The self-indulgent wretch

sults of "wars, horrid wars." may even have had cheese as well. He There can, while any ingredients would not have deemed himself to remain, be no difficulty about have dined without some sugary supply of British puddings, Our atul farinaceous "follow" to his native cookery books abound with heal The American of to-day names and notions of puddings, su fains our Victorian tradition with the courtly and consequential and usually adds to the meal dish, names as well as with the comic of his midday meat a substantial and plebeian ones. Who could not slab of "pir," possibly heaped be impressed by a pudding called with ice-rem as well. It is not Sir Watkin, which seems to sing that he eats more, but he has the from the menu, like any Gilbertian peer. "Bow, bow (as well as sweeter taste and tacks our inter- est in cheese and savouries.

stodge). ye lower middle classes?" This addiction to "pie" and | Who, on the other hand, could not similar kickshaws was surely wilt-be impressed by the humility of ing in British middle-class life. "Amy's Crumb Ple?" On The men had lost the craving for august side are Queen's, Cabinet. cakes and milky dishes, and the and Diplomat; on the commoners women, since they were slimming. bill of fare are the Roly-poly and viewed the succulence of steam- the Spotted Dog. ed suet or the layer of pastry and Pudding began, it is true, in a the jug of cream with horrifled | meaty way. It was the happy ag- alarm; reluctantly, perhaps, but gregation of the butcher's bits and the less resolutely, they pleces, nothing so magnificent as averted the watering mouth. The steak and kidney, but more of the taste for a savoury and astringent haggis kind--and has not haggis article was overcoming the ap- been accurately as well as wittily petite for rich and lush refresh- described as "all of the sheep ex- ment. Pudding was more and cept the mutton?" But later on more left to the nursery. Its pudding achieved its progress

the

foot likes in think of ilf chiefly as lethargie and solid, trusty lai ponderous, The eighteenth-cen They idea of a sturdy but slow John Bull was allowed to obscure The new note that has he memory of the Elizabethan; lately appeared in Japan-allors who, in their lighter craft ese official comment and with rumbler faculties, had outuaturus red the heavy galleons in the inspired Press, that of the dulley-mindert Don,

So the nobom of the beevish these restrictions, which

Bizton ant of the gullant but do not prevent ample sup-pudden-headed heavy-weight he- plies of

gan to win the general assent. necessary materials for her own use! Salad and eggs and lighter fair Tune the Itahan spark"> reaching Japan, are so

gular. vexatious as to justify ag-

if I take Dan Congreve | Fight, gressive action against Britain, powerfully sug- Puthing and beef make Bri-

tons fight. gests that the develop-] ment of a new crisis may To what extent this rhyme not

At Prior's forecast the rival dietaries be far off.

in North Africa, 1941, is uncer- the moment, the ob-tuin. Only those who have dined jective may possibly not in the desert know the menu, but if General Wavell's army has in- involve anything more deed been regaled with pudding serious than futile and beer, these articles appear to afford no obstacle to extreme attempt at intimida-mobility, nor do they hamper a tion. It arises from knack of mixing the temper of a Prince Rupert with the speed of the complaints of Japan-a Rolls-Royce.

note At any rate, on the home ground ese industrial leaders, who

pudding has recovered its position are pressing strongly for on the national diet sheet. Britons abandonment of the dan- lately were tending to cat pud- gerous allegiance to the Axis, in the sense that

lights to the Tokyo hopes to calm the perous future for Japan suavity as well as its bulk had be- from the liver and

I do not say fruit and sugar. It became, in the can only be assured by come the enemy. Japanese business world

a righteous judg-majestic English of the Oxford maintaining friendly re- ment. Many despised ingredients English Dictionary, by frightening Britain

lations and free inter- of the pudding tribe, ilke tapioca, [ a preparation of food of a soft into a reversal of policy.

have a distinctive, subtle, and by or moderately firm consistency course with the demo- no means sickly flavour. But they in which the ingredients, animal It should be broad cracies.

or vegetable, are either mingled in a farinaceous basis or are en-" enough hint tó a Japan There seems to be some nothing needs more perfect pre- closed in a farinaceous crust, thinking for herself and impression in Tokyo that

and cooked by bolling or steam- But now, with cheese so scarce not a subservient tool of the United States would and with many

ing. Preparations of butter, milk. other elements and eggs, rice, sago, and other Hitler, that if it can stand aside, a neutral of a savoury scarcely more com- farinaceous substances, suitably

in

pudding reasserts suggested,

seasoned and cooked by baking, all spectator. It is true that claim. If there be no meat course are now also called puddings. seriousness, that the in-America will not be will- to precede and no "closing rites"

of cheese thereafter but only some You may gather from that how significant pain inflicted ingly provoked; any more trifling Allet of fish, then pudding posterior, and even inferior, are by British trade restric- than will the British Em- in the grand manner is of ob- the puddings abominably known tions, do injury to Japan-pire. But Washington's be cold. The poor man

vlous value, especially if the wind as "sweets." For my part I re- of old fuse utterly to apply the word ese economy, her plight warnings have been ex-might cosset himself with pudding "sweet" to anything but confec would

tlonery. Let fruit be fruit and pic be increased not plicit and continuous and

ple. Spotted Dog, Sir Watkin, tenfold but a hundred-have only been intensi-

Baked Albert Roll-are these monsters and notables to be fold should she have in-fied by recent develop-

fobbed off with the petty title clination towards pro- ments. Japan must take

of "sweet?" Here's outrage indeed." "Sweets" to the sweet, but not to voking an open conflict. her choice with a shrewd Not long ago, far up in the Pen- the sensible. If we are going back Trade figures tell the notion on what the odds nines, I heard a Manchester man, to pudden, let the dull thud of that whose thoughts ran deeply on tremendous title be properly re- plain story that a pros- of American entry will be. nutritive matters, say of a fam-

be

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that this was

won a bad name at school, where they were often vilely cooked, and

paration than a milk pudding.

mon, the

only on Sunday:

its

One sold dish his weekday meal

affords, An added pudding solemnis'd

the Lord's,

zalun Punk -- aroma cdr Pel mant

garded and preserved.