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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 199

STAPLES SURPRISES

For Brighter Breakfasts

There is до end to the many ways of making breakfasts bright- er and the recipes given below will help the housewife to do so.

SCALLOPED HAM AND EGGS Mince some cooked ham and season with a little tomato sauce, butter a few scatop-shells or moulds and sprinkle thickly with browned breadcrumbs. Beat two eggs slightly, add two tablespoons- ful of milk, one ounce butter and the ham. Mix well and put into the prepared shells. Cover with more breadcrumbs and bake in a moderate oven till brown. Serve piping hot.

SCRAMBLED SAUSAGES Put three pork sausages in hot water and bring gently to the boll, remove and when cool skin

and smash up with a fork. Meit one ounce butter in a frying pan and brown the sausage meat. Break two eggs. in a cup and beat up with half a cupful of mlk and

a dót scramble with

of butter.

add the sausages to the eggs and serve at once hot buttered toast. BAKED EGGS IN TOMATOES Slice off the tops of four large tomatoes and scoop out the cen- tre. Into, each cavity break an an egg. season w.in pepper and salt

small piece and put a butter on top. Have ready four rounds of fried bread covered with a bit of bacon. place in a baking.tin with a tomato on each round and bake for about twenty minutes or fill the tomato is-cook- ed.

CUSTARDS

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Some cooks 'complain true their custards do not turn out succe.5- fully. An egg custard is improved by the addition of a go.d punch of sale should also be flavoured with vanlia, amonɑ, or orange essence, or oy poling come femon rind with the mik; and a baked custard should bave little nutmeg or cinamon sprink- led on the top. A baked custard which is required to set should be made with the whole eggs; but a custard sauce should be cooked in a double saucepan and the yolks of the eggs used only. It is better to use plenty of eggs and let the custard take a shorter ime to set than to use few "eggs and cook it for a long period; it 1s not then so likely to go Pump One whole egg or two folks to quarter of a pint of milk is a good proportion.

Curdling is a "common trouble. To prevent this always heat the milk before adding it to the eggs. Whisk the eggs with the sugar and add the hot milk spoonful by spoonful until it 18 all well mixed with the eggs. the custard is cooked in a double saucepan stir it one way all the time until it thickens.

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It it is steamed in a basin have the water only simmering all the time. If It is baked in the oven. the oven should not be more than 175 deg The best way of baking a custard however, is to place the ple-dish one containing inside another .very hot. but not boiling, water. and have the oven at 325 deg.

Made Aeroplane "And Flew It

ACHIEVEMENT OF AMATEUR GOLFER

Mr. E. H. Chambers, an amateur golfer who lives at Princes Risbo-

rough, has built a "Flying Flea" seroplane without any previous

knowledge or expertence of aero- nautics.

He recently revealed, something of his achievement.

"I built my machine in exactly sixty days at my home," he said.

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Care should be taken to have. enough water In the outer dish to come up to the whole of the cus- tard. A baked custard should not not be left in the oven until it sets hard, especially, if it is to be eaten cold, as it gets leathery. The time to remove it from the oven is when it looks Arm but mwes slightly in the centre when "gently shaken.

" SAUCE A custard sauce is made as fol

four Whisk the yolks of lows. eggs with an ounce of sugar, add three-quarters of split of ho 'milk and favouring to taste. Put into a double saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until thick. Here is a steamed caramel cus- tard.

Put two ounces of lump sugar into a saucepan with a tea-" spoonful of lemon juice and half a teacupful or a little more, of wa- ter. Stir all the time until the Lugar dissolves, then bring to the. bol and cook until the mixture. goes golden brown, but take care not to let it burn. Pour caramel Into a warm tin mould. coat quickly until almost all the mould is covered with a thin layer of it. Beat four eggs with two table- . spoonfuls of castor sugar, pour on a pint of hot milk, and flavour to taste. Put it into the mould. thicknesses of cover with two

and steam very greased paper, gently until-firm, which will be in about forty-five minutes.

For a baked custard grease a ple dish. Heat a pint of mi'k with

An Aged Recluse's

£40,000

"LITTLE WOMAN IN

BLACK" OF NEW JERSEY

Mrs. Ellen Ackerman, the "Little Old Woman in Black," died as she had lived. for many years, entirely alone in an old house at Westwood, New Jersey,

The house in which Mrs. Acker-

man spent the last forty-eight of her eighty-eight years lacked gaa, electricity, water of central heat-

from bare walls and the floors were carpeties.

"I followed the instruction booking. The wallpaper hung-raggedly, fasued by M. Mignot, but made one or two alterations, such as providing more room in the fusel- age to enable me to take a set of golf clubs about with me.

I have atted a Scott Flying Squirrel', engine which gives" 35 miles to the gallon. The machine bas a range of 210 to 220 miles so that with one halt for fuel I could by from my home to Paris

for less than 158,

Mr. Chambers is 46. Ela ma- chine was towed behind his car to Ramsgate Airport as soon as it was ready. Novak

BUTTON ONIONS

At this time of year there al- ways seem to be large quantities of button onions, and many peo- pie wonder what te do with thera. Here are three recipes for using them, a soup, an omelette and a garnish.

-BUTTON ONION SOUP

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This is best if made with stock from chicken's giblets, but a good vegetable stock makes an excel- lent soup 10020

Peel a handful of the little fel- lows, choosing them all the same aize, and fry them lightly in very Httle butter without browning them. Then add a coffee-spoon- ful of sugar and fry on until they are goiden.

Now add a pint and a half of the stock you have chosen, add a little salt and some pepper and bail for a quarter of an nour Serve with croutons of fried bread or potato.

"BUTTON. ONION OMELETTE Boll a handful of button onions, and when they are done drata them and keep them aside. Now make a little thick Mornny sauce (ie, Bechamel favoured with cheese). Fry the onions to a light brown in butter and use this but- ter to fry your omelette.

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FOR YOUR DINNER

PARTY

Banana Dishes

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Grease a ple-dish and allce lengthways star eight bananas into it Sprinkle with two table- spoonfuls of water and one of le- mon juice. Cover thickly with sugar and put at the top of a very hot oven until the sugar browns, A slightly. Serve with cream. variation of this dis is to bake the bananas in a zower-oven-un- til brown. When nearly done add a glass of sherry

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For banana turnovers cut each banana in halves and roll in warm jam. Make some good, aigh: pas- try and roll it out thiny. Cut to At the bananas, fold over. wet the edges, and fasten them down. Bake in a hot oven för about half- an hour. For banana fritters-cut the fruit in halves. then again lengthways into quarters Sprin- kle with sugar, and then pour over a little rum or sherry. 201 with butter and fry in bolling fat until golden brownl

ICING

Many people complain that their water icing becomes “crustz** almost before their cake is iced, While the omelette is being and consequently, if left for a few minutes in an emergency, 15 made, put the onions toto the

"and sauce,

when theome. useless. This can be avoided by lette is done, stuff it with the covering the bow containing the

You have to

As far the sauced onions.

icing with a damp cloth. as possible the bowl should be be, a little more careful than usual when dishing this delicious ome-kept covered even during use, but It is a sure precaution when call- lette.

ed away in an emergency. Most lemon people make orange or water icing by adding flavouring esience, but a far better flavour can be obtained by substituting the juice of the fruit for the water. The juice should be elight- ly warmed before adding it to the slifted sugar.

BUTTON ONIONS FOR GARNISHING

White glazed onions are cooked in white stock, with an ounce of butter added to each half-pint. When they are done, reduce the stock to a glaze and roll the on- lons in it.

some

Brown glazed oniors are cooked in butter only, but you mist add, castor sugar, 50 that the onions cook and brown at the same time. Be careful that they do not burn at the end, for the sugar wil caramelisë quickly.

an ounce and a half of sugar, and the rind of a lemon. Mix with three beaten eggs, strain into the pie-dish sprinkle the top. 'with grated nutmeg: place the dish in apan, of hot water, and bake in the oven until set but not hard.

Transformation, Of Shoreham Beach

“BUNGALOW TOWN" MAY BE WHOLLY CHANGED

Shoreham Beach, which is known As Bungalow Town, may soon be changed beyond recognition.

The Council are now entering in: to provisional contracts with a large number of bungalow owners with a view to buying up their bungalows, pulling them all down, and then turning the beach into lido with bathing huts and cubicles car parks, public shelters, refesh-

ment rooms and so on,

Details of the scheme have not yet been decided, but the Council have approved the scheme in prin- ciple, and the rest depends on the result of the negotiations with the The old lady hardly ever left the bungalow owners and on whether hour except to purchase crullers the Minister of Health will sabe (crisp cakes), of which she was ex-tion the proposals.

Jubilee Bungalow, built in 1807 tremely found. Her last such trip

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on November 21, when she to celebrate Queen Victoria's jabi. bought a dozen of those cakeslee, was only about the sixth to be...

put on the beach. Now there are When next morning a mighbour several hundred bungalows, draw her dady supply of water from the well and entered the house,

he found Mrs. Ackerman dend in the kitchen.

Physicians stated that a heart attack was the cause of death, and the neighbours pointed to the fact that there were only six crullers

There he has made a series of successful experimental fights left without being taught to ty.

In the Early Days built the Jubiles Bungalow, said: Mr. Thomas Lee, whose father In those days it was possible to huy a fine bungalow for well under £100. One could purchase a railway carriage at Shoreham station, for, 271

The carriages were taken arros the river on to the beach, by six

But life was very primitive on

SAVOURY

One. Lay a poached roe or two in the bottom of a small souffle case, or in a tartlet or a barquette, cover with cheese souffle mixture. and bake in the oven as usual.

Two. Line the bottom of your tartier of barquette with a puree made from red herrings' roes, put over them a souffle mixture made with smoked haddock, and bake” in the usual way. Both of these are very strongly recommended,

When Lord Hewart Was A Journalist

THOSE WERE HAPPY DAYS" NEARLY FORTY YEARS AGO

...............

Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, recailed his early newspa- per days when he was the guest of honour at the Ladies' Night at the Press Club.

"Those were happy daya,” he said. "As they say in the Tempie, Once a mortgage, always a mort

gage, so you may say-and I say Once a journalist, always a journalist at least I hope an

"It is now nearly forty-four years since. I first wrote an article in a newspaper office with a amall boy standing by my side to take

have

down every sheet as it was finish-

a nervous operationa But what a delightful life you you call yourselves work- ing journalists. I like the phrase. I never hear the phrase emplased. without askingrself aulettv

journalists? Is it better to be a Who then are the non-working working journalist or a non-work- ing journalist?

"I do not think there is any pro- fession in the world which does its work better than the profession of the working journalist."

Mrs. Ackerman having left no He finds that the wing is inclin-will, the Orphans' Court was made ed to warp a little, so he is now I administrator of the estate. It was going to tow the machine home not until the Court's agents began again and build a new wing to Bu through the house that they and sold to them in pipes, or large Things are vary different now.

discovered in tins, trunks, and other

charge anything up to the beach in those days. People had people serbes tast 100 yards to buy water. It was brought round

or so of water.

The machine, including theing places a fortune of evey barrelt för bé, Bil or for 24 you That has all been done engine has cost him about £135 10 200,000 dollar CE40,000). Thirty dir could get a bucket fall, Railway carriages are construct. He plans to fly in it to fant cousins have appeared to claimThere was no footbridge: leading allowed. All bungalows have to golf courses all over the country.

on to the beach. Ferrymen used to mile of fire-resisting ma

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