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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.

"Where Did You Learn to MAKE IT ?"

FISH CURRY SOUP.

This is both economical and sim- pie to make. Almost any kind of white fish can be used for it.

Brown two onions in a little butter, then add four sliced toma toes, a bouquet of mixed herbs, little parsley and one or two bay- leaves. Cook for a few minutes, then add 2 pints of water, on heaped tablespoonful of curry now der, and a little, salt.

Bring to the boil, add the fish cut in small pieces, and cook till' tender.

HAM MOUSSE.

Mince six ounces of raw ham and pound it with two tablespoonfuls

FRUIT DRINKS AND SOME OTHER HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

BE ORIGINAL WITH YOUR SALADS.

There are endless possibilities for the mushrooms, and mix well with originality in concocting salads a whatever dressing you prefer. Sea. soon as you have rid yourself of son well and add a little sugar if conventional ideas as to what a you like. salad should be composed of.

then

Fill up the apple cases with the You must possess the mind of an salad. Shred the rest of the lettu inventor to produce something reca and placa in a basin, then pour ally original, for an inventor over a little more dressing. never minds experimenting until Place a little of this mixed salad he finda what he seeks. Have on each individual plate, courage and you will and your place the filled apple on it. Ar salads will soon to jooked upon aj range A few sprigs of frahly the surprise item in the menu. drained, watercress around cach apple, then pipe a little, savoury cream on top of each, a

PRUNE SALAD.

CHEESE AND ORANGE SALAD.

Cook four ounces of prunes till soft. Remove the stones and sub! stitute blanched almonds in theirf places. Have one "hard" boiled egg

Have you ever tried cream cheese sieved. One tomato and a few] with aranga alices mixed with sprigs of either water-creas or mushredded lettuce and mustard and stard and cress.

Arrange the salad in the bowl according to taste. Use either a French dressing or mayonnaise

Various people have asked about, one of my readers have been wrest-preferred. fruit drisks, a few of the best andling vainly. I think this is most most generally useful are:

Summer Punch.

probably due to the fact that tho potatoes used were not sufficiently mealy. The waxy kind 'are quite You can make an excellent fruit

impossible for this purpose. punch with any fruit that is in

Cook the potatoes, drain them season and without wine like this:very carefully, and rub them thro-

Choose ripe peaches or apricots,ugh a sieve, oranges, apples, bauanas, pine- Allow a quarter of a pound of apples or grapes, prepare themi ac- lotr and two or three ounces of cording to their nature, and place butter or dripping to a quarter of them at the bottom of a large jug, a pound of potatoes. Sieve the Pour over them a teaspoonful of four into a basin and rub in the lemon juice, the rind of a lemon | cut very finely, and some grona-Fat until there are no lumps left- dine syrup. Let this stand in a cool place for an hour and add gin ger ale, and, if possible, a lump of ice just before serving.

Lemon and Cucumber.

The nicest lemonade is made with the juice and very finely cut yel low rind of the lemons, loaf sugar to taste, and boiling water: but

this takes some thing to cool,

If you are in a hurry you can make a refreshing lemon drink with two ounces citric acid and one pound of loaf sugar on which you have sprinkled half a ten- spoonful of essence of lemon. Pound these well together, pour boiling water on "to melt them and add about a gallon of cold water. A few slices of cucumber improve both the appearance and flavour of the drink,

Orange Crush.

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Add the potatoes and a generous pinch of salt, Add just enough milk to bind it all together, or, if you prefer it, use the yolk of an egg mixed with some milk. It is most important not to make the pastry too moist.

Flour both the pastry board and the rolling-pin very thoroughly and roll out at once. This pastry will not keep at all, so it should be used on the same day that it is made.

SALADE BEAUCAIRE, One pound of good sized Jona than apples. Two tablespoons of finely shredded lettuce. One table spoon of cream and three button mushrooms. Whipped savoury cream for garnishing. Some water cress and seasonings.

crass served with mayonnaise, or French dressing?

This salad looks delightful i served in the halved orange skins on beds of shredded lettuce, SALAD OF SUMMER FRUITS.

Take three or four kinds of sur- mer fruits. Place a layer of each fruit separately in the bowl then cover with mayonnaise dressing, repeat for each layer of fruit, keeping back a few of each kind to See the apples are rosy ones and decorate the top with. wall polished, Cus a round in the The various fruits obtainable top of each apple and carefully re both of the tinned and fresh va- move all the pulp. Chop the in rieties provide plenty of scope for side of the apple up together with original blending.

VARIOUS WAYS

WITH EGGS..

TEMPTING THE BREAKFAST APPETITE.

There are many unusual ways of from the top (where the stem is), cooking the breakfast egg, which scoop out the inside and sprinkle looks at us so forbiddingly when the case with salt and pepper. fried and so dully whon boiled. Now break an egg into each to- Try scrambled eggs varied either mnto, add a little moro seasoning. by adding chopped ham or tongue some chopped parsley and if you or flaked cold fish, such as smoked can, some mushrooms finely chop naddock or kipper, before cooking. ped. Put a dab of butter on top Or scramble eggs plainly, and of each; and bake in a slow oven then put on to little pieces of but for about twenty minutes, so that the yolks of the eggs are still soft tered toast spread with bloater, when the dish is served.. a pint of treacle or syrup. two kipper, or anchovy paste, with any three large chopped cold meat or peas left over tablespoonfule salt, onions, IL dessertspoonful curry powder, a tablespoonful mustard, from the night before, first tossed

Green Tomato Pickle,

Green tomatoes pickle well. For two quarts of these you will need one quart of vinegar, quarter of

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Popular With Children.

One last suggestion is Bird's half a teaspoonful mixed spice, in a little butter to warm them. Nests, whoch should be popular and half a teaspoonful cayenne

Cold eggs, bard-boiled, can be the children. From some slices of pepper.

filled with all sorts of pleasant of brend about, an inch thick cut inches or KÓ stuffings, for instance any of the out rounds three additions described above, which cross. Make these into rings by are pounded up with the yolk, cutting out their centres with a moistened if necessary with a smaller cutter, and fry them a the milk or cream, and filled into golden brown in butler. tho halves of the white, usually out lengthwise.

For orange crush you eat tho or anges in half and remove the cores

Wipe the tomatoes, stalk them with a sharp knife. They are then and cut them into as thin slices as peeled very carefully so that no possible. Sprinkle them with the white skin remains on the fruit, salt and let them stand for twen and the orange pulp is placed inty-four hours. Peal and slice the

basin. Sprinkle it with sugar, onions, also very thinly. pour on boiling water in the pro portions of two tablespoonfuls to each orange, and let it stand till next day.

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Potato Pastry.

Making potato pastry items to be a problem with which more than

and add a few drops of carmine and the stiffy, whipped whites of three eggs.

Turn into a mould that has been of brown gravy, two tablespoonfuls well greased and sprinkled with of sherry (optional), a teaspoonful finely chopped parsley, and steam of meat extract, and the yolks of for twenty minutes. Turn out and four eggs. Pass through a Blevej serve with a good brown sauce.

"We

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be sure

it's made

with

PURICO

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in 14 lb. tins,

mustard, and allspice inte a sauce. Put the vinegar, curry powder, man, and heat, till they nearly bail,

Place them in a flat dish, break an egg into each, pour over a lit A very simple and original do tle milk, sprinkle lightly with mato dish is one called Eggs Wa- chopped parsley and, if you like For this you want a it so early in the morning, a little Add the tomatoes,

and shington. onions, cayenne pepper, and cook for five large, not too ripe tomato for each chopped onion, and bake in the

a quarter oven till the eggs are set. minutes. Pour into bottles or jars person. Cub off about and cover.

LEMON RICE.

Simmer for about hour-until of U creamy consistency-2 table- spoonfuls of rice, a pint of milk, and 2 oz. of sugar. Add the yolk of an egg, the finely-grated rind of

a lemon, and bake in the oven. Whip the egg-white with a little sugar and add the juice of half the Tomon.

Pile this on top of the pudding and replace it in the oven until the meringue is pale brown and firm.

OYSTERS THAT LIVE IN BUSHES.

Oysters live in bushes in Japan, twigs.

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Does that statement make you want! After three years the bushes are to smile! But it's true. These taken out and the young oysters oysters do not have wings, nor, do are broken off and laid down in they sing or build nests as you the shallows increase în size. might suppose, for these bushes are

In Japan, oysters are not consi-

not growing along the shores of

under

muzd

the sea but are oarefully arranged dered a delicacy but are raised to the salty water for the produce pearls Into the four- spat-ns young oysters are called i year-old oyster shell is inserted a tiny sphere and you may be sur to grow 01. Oyster raising is a large indus. Prised to learn that the tiny

spheres are made from try in Japan. It has passed from shells taken from the Missouri ! the hands of the fiaberman to those River. Beven year later many of of the oyster culturist,

these bits of shell have become Great cars in taken to find, ex-beautiful pearls because

of the actly the right place for the oys layers and layers of secretion which ter bed, for it must only be of a the oyster has thrown about "it,

certain depth, and the water must Women are preferred to men for not he too cold. Oysters do not the work of pear! diving as they thrive where the grounds com can remain under water longer. and is deposited, and or where Their time varito da they do to

mud

The water around the southern' part of the main island of Japan

three minutes although

POUR LES PETITS.

Joséphine & ut souroulle n'est ay under as long as that are de tout sauvago, Il aime bien rule,

is particularly suited to orato During the pear! season, which culture, and here the Japanese,

who have such success in raising is from May to December, as many the silk worm, are peculiarly sucas-five hundred girls are employed

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(Translation, to-morrow.).

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SINGING SAND.

When you are st the rea you should always test soume of the elena and perfectly dry sand to see if it is of the so-called musical kind. Take a handful of the sand and let it fall from some height through the fingers

If it is of the musical sort it will will give out a clear note much like a tinkling bell. Binging sanda. are to be found in many parts of the world, and in recent years have! been discovered is quite a lot of p'aces round the British const..

The best musical sands are us ually rather far back on the beach, where the sea does not reach at any rate in the summer. For a long while it was not known why Bome sands were musical and others were not.

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DO YOU KNOW

THAT

Charles H. Ingersoll, the well-

know.n watch manufacturer, still carries the first watch he made 40 years ago?

Peter Esslinger of Chicago recent ly got a state license for his 1905 automobile?

Allen airmen flying over German territory without permission are warned to turn back by means of smoke bomb? One Million dollars a year is spent

in Hollywood to give newcom ors screen tests-epch test aver aging about 80001 Canada has more, rallrond milenge

than any other country in pro portion to population-one file of track for every 23 pso- ple?

to be the gross re rounded Approximately 10,00,00,000 860

of gasoline was used by and of the same size and, as well,

American motorists during when,, all the grains.

perfectly clean, d

1931

If the grains vary in size and are not rounded and still further if there are any soil particles, the sand will never give out tinkl ing sound,

cessful in raising the oyster.to dive for the oysters. In age out of their oyes.

Piles of rock are placed on the these girls range from fourteen to

The Japanese care little for sandy bottom of Gokasho Bay and twenty years. They do not wear pearls, of other jewels but they the surrounding bays Around diving suits, but pajama-like gar find a ready market for them there are arranged circle of stakesments of white cotton. Large gog-abroad where pearle are consider. A to which are attached bundles of gles protect their eyes from the ad open the most beautiful jewels: twigs looking much like bushes. The land water and a white cloth bound And who remembers the oyster, grown oysters are piled upon the racks and their young-the spat that plaint and lowest of crea which are only free, for a few about their heads keeps the hair tures, when garing at the pearl days, attach themselves to the (Continued at foot of next caluma) glowing with living beauty?

V.

The rates for radio programmea

6 p.m. are twice BB high a those during the day f Argentina has deeree which for

bids women working between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.-14 The Chinese li is equal to about tanning process has been delethird of a mile;

loped for the tender aking of Arilficial bluzkès can be placed on New Zealand-goldfish-making a minappios tant, peacken

at possibile for the skins to be

used for evening shoes for wo-

men.

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light;

(Continued, on previous column.)