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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRU 'RY 27,1936.

STAPLES URPRISES

HAM A TASTY WINTER

DISH®

This Versatile Meat Is Good

In Many Combinations

"For these cold winter days we like to prepare dinner menus that offer not only our favourite ment dish bu other satisfying food combinations

- Surel that have there are 1ew meats more possiblities than ham for the dinner-tha everyone-likes E

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CALAWAIKI HAM

Simmer

s.lets ham seenturous about two ches thick. n su:- elent water to cover, for 20 minutes. Drain and pläre in an oiled bakink pan. Spread top side with mustard and spinkle with brown aug Mask

2 cupcaked dried apriénist

a pu p. Aud

cup white sugar

2 cups quid in which apricots

were cooked

1 cup rushed pineapple and

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mix thoroughly. Pour over ham. Bake covered t hot over 400 4 hours Serves six.

PLANKED HAM WITH SWEET POTATO

1-inch slice smoked ham "Cover ham with Jolling water,"

bring to boting paint. then -simmer for 40 minutes. Drula and place on a ftat

piled plank.

Sprinkle with

4 tablespoons brown sugar

Dot with

ZEL: cloves

Brown

11 a moderate

(350 F for 30 minutes.

Form six mounds of

Oven

cups mashed sweet potatoes. leaving spaces for sly zer- vings of peas. ···

Sprinkle with

Marshmallows

pieces and

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1 cup chopped nuts Arrange

HA smal

12 smail bolled buttered onions

on plank and put back in

ven 15 minutes.

2 cups cooked green peas 12

Ibs.) Garnish with

Parsley.

Makes six servings.

DR. FARQUHAR MACRAL

DEAD

Distinguished Work In West

Of Scotland

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London, Feb. 3. The death occurred yesterday at Newmill, St. Andrews, Mr. Farquhar Macrae, M. B., C.M.. who occupying for many years a pro- minent place in the surgical world and was particularly associated with medical work in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.

HAM LOA!

Mix thorough.y

la. ground smoked han

ground lean pork

1 teaspoons.salt

A teaspoon pepper

4

4 teaspoon poultry season 18 tab espoons minced onion

1 tablespoons chopped green

pepper

1 teaspoon minced parsley

1 cup soft bread crumbs, Then add

1 ocaten eg

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cup milk and blend mixture holds together quite We ! '

Form into a loal shape and

pace in loaf pan. Pout

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1 cup strained tomato.s" ove

Joar. Bake in a moderate oven 350 F.) 1 hours, bast- ng occasionally, Makes six servings.

GYPSY HAM 61-inch silves smoked ham...

Sear La

2 tablespoons fat until fat on ham is browned. Arrange in arge shallow baking dish On the ham place.

1 sliced onion

4-6 tablespoons brown sugai

2 tablespoons butter

2 cups strained tomatoes

teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon paprika

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Let s'mmer in a moderate oven

350 F) 1 hour." Makes 6 servings,

SPICED BAKED HAM

5 pounds ham

Plunge ham into bolling water and boll 10 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hours. Retain

cup water in which the ham was cooked. Remove rind of ham ond replace on rack in roaster..

Add

1 cup vinegar

4 cupstock..

Sprinkle the fat surface with

teaspoon mustard

teaspoon paprika

Dot, with

15 whole cloves

Sprinkle with

FREEMASONS" ADDRESS

TO THE KING

An Especial Grand Lodge

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London, Feb. 6.

An Especial Grand Lodge was reid at Freemasons' Hall yester- day, General Sir Francis Davies, Deputy Grand Master, presiding, when

loyal and

dutiful address to the King was voted and resolutions were passed ex- pressing sympathy with Queen Mary and with the Grand Master, He graduated in 1885 at Glas- the Duke of Connaught. The gow University, where he was, a Deputy Grand Master in his distinguished student, and after speech referred particularly to the occupying residential posts in the manifestations of sympathy from Western Infirmary and the Royal 'outside the Empire and laid stress

surgeon,

FAVORITE CAKE RECIPES

COURTESY ROYAL BAKING

POWDER)

FIG CAKE

2 cup shortening

1 cups sugas.

4 egg whites

1 teaspoon lemon extract

3 cups pastry four

teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg :

1 tablespoon molasses

1 cups finely chopped

Boured

Ags,

Cream

shortening; add

sugar

the We'l

one

extract

s owly, beating in Add

unbeuten

gg white; beat well; add emon Sift together flour, baking pow- der and salt. Add a ternately with milk. Fold in remaining To A egg whites, stiffly beaten.

cinnamon, of the mixture add nutmeg. mo asses and figs. Put. Into well-greased rube pan by spoonfuls, alternating light and dark mixturf. Bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees F. about 1 hour.

MARBLE CAKE

1 recipe for Fig Cake

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 squares unsweetened choco-

late

COFFEE CHOCOLATE CAKE

3 squares unsweetened choco-

Jate

cup strong hot coffee

cup white corn syrup

cup shortening

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

17 cups pastry flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

teaspoon salt'

1 recipe Marshmallow filing

and frosting

Meli chocolate with hot affee;

'add corn syrup mixing well unti mixtxure thickens; cool. shortening; beating in

Cream

add well.

s'owly: sugar Add unbeaten

eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vania' Sift together dry ingre- extract. dients: add alternately with cold chocolate mixture to first mixture. Bake in greased 9-in square cake pans in moderate oven at 450 F. about 35 minutes. Put layers together and cover top and sides of cake with frosting Makes 1 two-layer cake. MARSHMALLOW FILLING AND

FROSTING

1 cups granulated sugar

1 cup water.

large marshmallows

2 egg whites

2 teaspoons lemon juice

teaspoon baking powder

Make cake batter, using vanilla extract instead of emon. Add meited and cooled chocolate to

Boil sugar and water to 238 de- of the half the mixture instead

or un syrup spins a Brees F Put and gs. molasses spices.

thread. Add marshmallows, cut into greased tube pan as for Fig

into smal' places: do not stir into Cake. Bake as dicted.

syrup. Pour slowly into stiffly- beaten egg whites, beating until smooth and thick enough to spread without running. Add baking powder and lemon juice.

APPLES STUFFED WITH HAM

Cut in very small pieces.

2 to 4 cups cooked diced ham. Season with

3 teaspoons prepared mustard

3 teaspoons grated onion

cup chopped green pepper Hollow but the inside of

6 large red app es

F with ham mixture

brush with

and

2 tablespoons butter Place apples in a battered cas- serole. Cover and bake in a hour or until apples are ten- F) 1 moderate oven (350°

with- Mashed sweet potatoes

peanuts may be baked same casserole if desired. Makes six servings.

in

cup brow sugar Bake in a moderate oven (350* F.) 1 hours, basting oc- casionally. Makes 10 to 12 servings.

SCOTSMAN'S BRIDE IN SILVER

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Little Attendants At London Wedding

KITCHEN KINKS

IF SOUP IS TOO SALTY

If the soup is too salty, add a couple of slices or more of raw

After potato.

boling

few 2 minutes remove the potato and the soup is not so salty.

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SPICE CONTAINERS

Small mayonaise jars make. fine containers for spices. paint

the tops with quick drying enamel

to match the Etchen colour

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scheme. One can always discern

the amount in each jar readily.

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NO JUICING OUT"

In making fruit or any two- crust pies, make a generous in- cision in the middle of the upper crust and none near the edge arid there is no juicing out.

NO GIGANTIC NAVY FOR JAPAN

Denial Of Reports

Loadan. Feb. 6.

London, Feb. 3.

A report was published yester- The wedding took place at the day (not in The Daily Telegraph) that Japan intended to launch out Savoy Chapel. London, on Saturday on a gigantic naval programm between Mr. Patrick Small Keir immediately after the end of the Balfour younger son of the late Mr. London Naval Conference trem Frank Balfour, of Kindrogan, Blair-which she withdrew last month. gowrie, Perthshire, and Mrs Frank In well-informed quarters the re- Balfour, and Miss Lila Camilla port was dismissed as tendentious Spicer, only daughter of Mr and Mr

fiction. Basti Spicer, of Avalon, Purley, Sur-

rey.

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The Rev, Maurice Sidebotham of-

clated, and with the bridegroom, as his best man was Mr. Frands

Balfour.

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Hospital for Sick Children, Glas on the reference in the Virginian gow, he went to Leeds to assist House of Delegates to the sym- Mayo Robson, the distinguished pathy which the "daughters of

for England" felt

the

Mother 'On bis return to Glasgow Dr. Collntry. Macre joined the staf of the Later in the afternoon, a meet- Western Infirmary and later wasing of Grand Chapter was held, appointed surgeon to the Victoria when the Earl of Harewood, Pro Infrmary, Subsequently he re- Grand Master. and General Bir dreas was arranged with

H turned as surgeon to the Western Francis Davies were installed in Infirmary, where he served until their respective offices in Grand retiring several years ago and Chapter. taking up residence in St. An-

drews.

His duties were not yet frished, He outstanding abilites' ag a however, as he was appointed in-

aurgeon were recognised by his

to

several

the!

The

puffed full above the elbows and a long skirt which moulded the figure

It is pointed out that Japan s already spending neary ha her revenue on armaments, She could not possibly finance a new build-

ing programme of the magnitud: indicated, for the battleships alone would cost at least £10.000.000 each.

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grown-up

The bride arrived with her father, who gave her away, and her sim- ple dress was of stiver and ivory brocade woven in an unusual design flowers. They carried baskets All- of miniature palm leaves.

ed with scarlet carnations. 3leeves Miss Jill Shaw and Miss Dorothy

Harding were the two attendants, and their dresses of Ivory moire taffeta were fashioned on similar lines to the birdal gown, SILVER LEAVES

except that the rounded necklines and cuts to their sleeves were Her tulle vell was held in place edged with petals of the moire, Halo headdresses of silver petals bearls. Her bouquet was composed completed their tollettes, and they of white carnations and Hes of carried bouquets of scarlet carna- the valley.

arid made a short rounded train ai the back,

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spector of examinations in surgery appointments as surgeon to the by an antique coronet of seed and dental surgery for the Gene- City of Glasgow Fever Hospitals rai Medical Council, a post which and to Ayr County Hospital. occupied him for two years. In 1034 he was appointed secretary and inspector in surgery to the Medical Council of India, for whom he carried through valu- able work, but when his health began to fall he returned home in the spring of last year.

Dr. Macrae also made valuable contributions

terature of surgery.,

The funeral will take place on and Wednesday at St. Andrews. there will be a service at midday in All Saints' Church.

tions.

Miss Jul Sidebotham and Miss After the ceremony Mrs. Spicer 3111 Mansel,. two little girls, looked held the reception at the Savoy most attractive in their short Hotel, and later in the day the frocks of deep cream met, ashed bride and bridegroom left for Scot- with ivory moire and worn with tand, where they are spending wreaths of small silver leaves and their honeymoon.

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LIPTON'S TEA

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TEA HINTS

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There is nothing easier than to make tea well-except to make So here are some hints on how to make the best of it.

it badly.

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BUYING TEA. Tea is the cheapest and most economical drink in the world. From one pound of good tea you can brew as many as 2 0 caps. And it pays in the long run to buy good tea because it is more economical to use, and the difference between the cost of one cup of poor tea But there is all the and one cup of good tes is so infinitesimally small as not to matter. difference in the flavour and it is the flavour that is really the luxury that everyone can now afford.

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STORE TEA IN AN AIR-TIGHT CONTAINER. Tea loses its flavour if it is exposed to the air for long, especially in a moist climate. It ought to be kept in a caddy, or in a glass jar with a screw top, or in clean tin.

USE THE RIGHT KIND OF TEA-POT earthenware tea-pot for making good tea.

to remove all stains and dried after use. brush will come in handy for this.

LIPTONS

1. COFFEE & COCOADLANTERS CEYLON

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"CHOICEST PURE CEYLONTEA

ERSALITY MET

Nothing compares with an ordinary brown This should be carefully cleaned, not just riased, When cleaning don't forget the spout; a small

MEASURE THE QUANTITY OF TEA CAREFULLY." "One teaspoon. ful per person and one for the pot" is a sound old-fashioned rule that has never been beaten. But if good ten is used thero is no need to allow "one for the pot," unlada very strong tea is, wanted, for good tez is more economical than cheap tea.

tea

USE ONLY FRESHLY BOILED WATER. Take care to warm the pot thoroughly before putting in the Then pour on freshly boiled water-not water that has been allowed to simmer. Better tea will be made if the kettle is kept free from the lime or chalk deposits of hard water:

ALLOW FOUR MINUTES FOR INFUSION. Pour freshly boiled water on to the leaves until the tea-pot is full, but don't pour out the tea into cups until you have allowed it to stand for at least foar minutes. The lid, of course, should be put back as soon as the water is poured

YELLOW LABEL into the pot, and then the whole should

be covered with a cosy. Don't forget that tea should never be allowed to "staw." If it is allowed to stand, too long ten loses all its virtua'and its flavour.