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STAPLES

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP

An Easy Process

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the supposedly

One plicate processes

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of housekeeping

is making cream of tomato soup. I

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5 pound capon

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936.

SURPRISES

CHICKEN

3 teaspoons four

1 teaspoon salt

teaspoon pepper

1 cup water

STORING MEAT

BACON TREATS

STUFFED BACON SLICES

15 slices bacon

dressing

Fresh mest should be stored at 40 degrees F. or less. It should be uncovered, or so loosely covered

3 cups bread crumbs that air may circulate around it.

Make molst bread conclusion, was arrived at Place one heaping teaspoonful on This after observing the rate of increase

one end of slice of Star Bacon; Stuff of bacteria in fresh beet stored in and sew up opening. Place stuff-covered and in uncovered dishes at roll bacon ace around dressing roaster. 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55 degrees F. At and fasten with toothpick or small skewer. Broil turning frequently

5 tablespoons.. butter

Carefully clean chicken.

eci chicken in small

say supposedly complicated be- Sprinkle with four, salt and pep-40 degrees F. the increase in 48 to brown ill-cides, or try in pan cause it seems to me the premise per. Cover and bake 15 minutes hours. was the same in the un-turning to enok evenly on all sides.

is all wrong: Cream of tomato is -no harder to make than a piece of

toast

If you know how. I'm against adding soda. In fact, "it's almost impossible to add soda in amall enough

to... small amount quantities of soup not to ruin the flavour entirely.

The following rule is carefully worked out and produces a dell- ciously smooth cream soup. The method is quite as important as the proportions.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUT Two cups canned tomatoes, 1 small onion 2 teaspoons sugar. 1 teaspoon salt, celery tops, 3 table spoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 cups milk. 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1" tablespoon minced parsley, 8 peppercorns.

Melt one tablespoon butter and

In hol oven. Baste with water and butter. Lower heat and bake

basting 3-1/3 hours,

every 20 minutes.

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STUFFING

cups soft bread, crumbled 3 tablespoons salt pork

1 tablespoon chopped onion

1 tablespoon chopped celery

1 tablespoon clhopped parsley

teaspoon poultry seasoning teaspoon salt

teaspoon paprika

3 tablespoons hot cream! Keat salt pork until a little brown, add and brown onion and celery. Mixing with fork add rest of ingredients Lightly stum fowl.

20 NEW WARSHIPS

add onion, peeled and sliced. Cook TO BE LAID DOWN

over a low fire for five minutes, Add tomatoes, sugar, salt, celery tops and peppercorns. Cover pan and simmer Afteen minutes. Rub

THIS YEAR

through a sieve. In another pan Most To Be Built In

mett remaining butter and stir in four. Slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Season with salt and pepper and bring to the boiling point: Boll one minute, stirring constantly. Take the sauce from the are and add the sifted, tomato pulp which has been kept hot while, the thin white sauce was be- ing made. Be sure to add the to- mato puree to the sauce," NOT the sauce to the puree. Add parsley and serve at chce: This soup will separate or curdle if allowed to stand or if reheated.

Apple up-side-down cake is a good dessert to serve when you have cream of tomato soup and a green salad for luncheon.

QUEEN MARY'S FIRST RECORD

"Docked At Southamp- ton In 25 Minutes

Private Yards

London, March 31. The greatest naval construction programme

basting with the drippings.

BACON MEAT LOAF ib. sliced bacon lb. lean yea

1 lb. lean beer

1 green pepper

2 eggs

1 cup mix....

covered container as it was in half that time in a covered container.

Always remove the paper from meat when it is delivered from the market. Store or a clean plate or in the chill tray immediately be- neath the froster or on the shelf beneath this. "Pork chops or other dry meats should be lightly cover- ed if they are to be stored for more than one day. A slight dry- ing of the surface of the meat does not seriously change its palatabil-; pepper, eggs, milk, and bread ity nor does it allow serious bac- crumbs. Line baking pan or casse- teal development which leads to role with a few strips of wasteful spollage or understrable bacon. Fl with meat mixture. favour change.

Lay remaining strips of bacon

1 cup bread crumbs

Grind the meat with half the bacon. Mix with chopped green

Cooked meat may be covered over the top. Bake in 400° Ft. oven more closely than uncooked. Bac- for 45 minutes. Turn upside down terial increase is hindered by cook-or large platter and garnish with

in and the flavour is somewhat vegetables or mashed potatoes.

Impaired by drying out Ground

meat cooked or uncooked, should

BACON AND TOMATOES Wipe three large firm tomatoes be chilled as quickly as possible,

and cut in halves crosswise. not left exposed to room tempera- sprinkle with salt, pepper and ture. Hamburg steak spolls quick-sugar and place in pan Arrange ly unless kept very cold particu-two or three slices bacon on each larly if the grinder used in the piece of tomato and place in bot butcher shop was not immaculate-oven or under broller until acon

ly clean, and was allowed to re- main at room temperature with meat in it from previous use. «

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which this country THE KING'S 'NEW'

has undertaken since the WFELY will, I learn, be put in hard before the end of the year,

writes a correspondent.

Between now and January the following ships will have been laid down:

2 battleships

5 cruisers,

1 aircraft carrier,

At least 12 destruyers, and

A number of submarines and

sloops..

A further three cruisers are ex- pected to be ordered in the aum-

mer of 1937,

These ships will total at least 175,000 tons and represent a capi- tal outlay of about £35,000,000.

CROWN

May Return To Original Victorian Design

London, April 1.

is crisp. Remove to a hot platter.

WHEN KING EDWARD WENT TO THE WAR"

To Be Treated Like Other Officers

London, Mar. 27. Accounts of King Edward's war experiences in France when he was Prince of Wales are contained in diaries and documents which have been presented by his Ma- ofjesty to the Imperial War Museum.

The Imperial Crown, which the King will wear at his Coronation, may look slightly different from the crown which hundreds thousands of his subjects saw on the coffin at the funeral of King George.

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If the King follows precedent he will make some slight alteration the to it probably to the shape of the

I understand that the bulk of this new tonnage will be contract- built, including at least one battle ship, five cruisers, and all destroyers. The second battleship arches. may go to Portsmouth or Devon- The Crown of England, with port, provided the building, berths Southampton, March 27. in those dockyards are sufficiently The Queen Mary is now lying large and well-founded to take bigh and dry in the King George capital ships of the post-war type. V. graving dock, after the finest When the four super-Hoods- piece of seamanship I have wit- subsequently cancelled-were or nessed, writes a correspondent. dered in 1921 neither Portsmouth Only 2 minutes were occupied nor Devonport had facilities for in the whole operation of docking | bunding them, and all the con- slightly raised, and King George

he mammoth vessel. This is a tracts were placed "Tecord.

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which a monarch is first crowned, is never altered, but the Imperial Crown, which is worn later at the Coronation and on all subsequent state occasions, has already been altered three times since it was made for Queen Victoria.

Edward VII had the arches

VISIT TO TOWER

privately, caused them to be raised These however, were ships of further. This week-end hundreds of | 48,000 ́ ́tons, whereas ..the new "thousands of people will file past battleships will not exceed 35,000

the precipice of steel and admire

tops. her #uperbly modelled hull as she iles on the keel blocks of the -dry-dock.

still

As it is regarded as impracti- FIRST INSTALMENT ONLY

cable to make it higßer still, it la likely that the King's alteration- The orders mentioned above constitute only the first instalment if he decides to make one-will be Commodore Sir Edgar Britten, of the Government's naval pro- start a lowering of the arches who has been in charge of the gramme. This involves the build. towards the original shape. liner since she left the Clyde ear-ing of 25 new cruisers within the Tower since the funeral of King The Crown has been, in, the ller in the week, told me something next five years, besides further George, but shortly before the about the voyage to-day.

battleships and a large nuziber of "The silp is simply marvellous," destroyers, sloops and submarines Coronation it will be made to fit he declared, "perfect in

Klag Edward's head. every- From now on shipyards which thing, and she handles like a specialise in Admiralty thoroughbred.

should be assured of

to watch.

"No attempt has been made to set up a speed record. That may come later when the hull has beeri cleaned and repainted,”

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The gold base will not have to be touched, the small adjustment

King Edward went to France as aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Sir John French in November, 1914.

He remained there until March, 1916, when he was appointed Staf Captain at the beadquarters of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

One of the documents give ä striking indication of King George's desire that his soul should be treated as an ordinary officer.

It is a letter addressed to the Commanding Officer of the Gre- nadier Guards, and is dated Aug. 8, 1914, immediately after King Edward had received his commis- sion in the battalion, It reads:

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London, April 3

London, April 1. The Air Ministry announces that

The Admiraltysta has out important modifications in the grown even the extensive accom- Service uniform of officers and air-modation in the new Admiralty men of the Royal Air Force, which building, and it has been found London, Apr. 2,

was introduced shortly after the necessary to lease a section of Great War, will be made in the Lansdowne House. in Berkeley The Admiralty announce that 23 the following appointment, has been decided upon az a result of

pear future. The changes have Square, to house some of the de- partments. It seems a trifle odd been approved:-

observation and trials which have that the small navy of 1936 should Strickland, O.B.E, R.N., to be Pay-tiency of the personnel will be which costs more than twice as Paymaster Captain Arthur F. shown that the comfort and eff-require a staff to administer it

I have the honour to convey to you his Majesty's commands, which are as follows. That no honours or salutes to which the Prince of Wales is entitled Prince of Wales should be ren- dered to his Royal Highness by the battalion in which he is serving, or by any brigade to which his battalion may be- long.

The King's wish is that the Prince of Wales should be treat- ed exactly as any other officers of the battalion. The letter was signed by Lt. Col.

Privy Purse.

materially enhanced thereby,

master Director-General with the rank of paymaster rear-admiral, saccession to Paymaster Rear- Admiral Bir Heury Woodward, K.C.B., to date July 10, 1936.

Our Naval Correspondent writes: also to be abolished Trousers will 1914. The Naval General Staff The Paymaster Director-General in future be worn on all occasions has swollen out of all knowledge.

much as the vastly larger fleet of The most important change com.

1914, This is, however, the fact. mon to both officers and airmen inside the Admiralty this year, and There are 2,452 people employed. is the abolition of breeches and

the bill for administration is puttees; ofacers field boots are £1,126,844, as against £492,642, D

for

countant branch of the Navy, and | ed-up trousers be allowed. A blue assists the Second Sea Lord (Chief web gaiter has, however, been ap ders, not to mention clerks, to do paymasters, Leutenant comman- use in inclement the thinking for the navy to-day, of Naval Personnel) in the ad-proved ministration of this branch, The weather.

The engineering and ordnance de-. A blue Field Service cap similar partments, too, have grown con- office was created in 1918, in the same year that military titles were in shape to that worn by the siderably.

Corps has been accorded to the medical, account Royal Flying

Two minor activities at White-

contracts will call for the delivery he has only actually inspected it in the collection is a tiny crimsonant, and instructor branches. The adopted for all personnel. It will ball are typical of the tendency to

cember.

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tering on the cover the words,

We had absolutely no anxiety stream of orders, in contrast to probably an eighth or a quarter William Carington, Keeper of the is the professional head of the ac- by all ranks. In no case will turn-It takes 121 admirals, captains. at bringing her into Southampton, the spasmodic ebb and flow or of an inch-will be made by a and the work of Mr. Bowyer, the such work during the past 15 seamstress enlarging or decreasing

IN WOODEN "BOX Clyde pilot, was a pleasure for me years. Several of the firms the white silk lining,

question are already taking steps

The King has seen less of his The diaries and documents are to build up à reserve of skilled

crown than many thousands of his contained in a small wooden box subjects. labour.

He followed the Im-fastened only with a brass hook It is anticipated that the new father's come at the funeral, but

perial Crown as it rested on his and eye,

Among other interesting papers of all types of warships at much once-as Prince of Wales last De-note-book which bears in gold let-first holder was the late Payman be woni regularly on normal duties expansion. This year provision is earlier dates than have been cts- The Uner rounded the Nab from tomary hitherto. The time occu-

ter Rear-Admiral wir John Chap-at Royal Air Force stations and made in the Fatimates for an in- the Channel into Spithead at 5 pied in building cruisers and des- will solve the problem of his dress to that ismed to officers during ed by the late Paymaster Rear-desired. The present round peak- number of charwomen from 128 to It is not known how the King "Field Report, Book." It is similiar / ple, afterwards Secretary of H.Melsewhere, and can be adapted for crease in the number of pensioner- a.m., and anchored off Cowes betrayers may be reduced by as much when he opens Parliament in state the war.

Privy Purse, and he was succeed- use as a flying helmet when 60 messengers from 143 to 181 and the fore 6 am. She was two hours as 25 per cent. earlier than schedule, and thou-

| next' December.

Willam Beresford ed cap is being retained for cere 140. The secretaries department The entries are made in the Admiral Sir sands, of people who had risen

It is an occasion on which nor- | King's neat, small handwriting.

monial and other appropriate oc employs 837 people at a cost of early at Portainouth and Ryde to dreaded Brambles shoal was navi-mally robes and Crown are worn, in pencil. Although they were

Paymaster Captain,Strickland castons. Almen will be supplied £248,812. It is believed that the see her passage up Spithead were gated without difficulty.

but as the King will still be unwritten over 20 years ago, most entered the Service in July, 1899, with an open-neck jacket instead sections to be housed at Lans- too late.

4 At 2.15 pm the Queen Mary crowned he will probably wear the of the words are easily decipher and during the War was paymas of the close-fitting type; with it downe House will be those dealing For six hours while she lay at approached the dock entrance, uniform of one of the Bervices. able.

ter in the battleship Duncan and they will wear a blue-collar and with accounts and with contracts. anchor of Cowes the scene on the and a gasp of awe and adiniration It is expected that an' obiicial The first entry, which is dated in the Arrogant, depot ship at Doblack tle. This is similiar to the water was like a regatta" day, as went up from the waiting crowds. | announcement will shortly be 18- June, 1914, apparently refers to the pleasure craft moved round her, The ship was aimed exactly at sed regarding the arrangements King's participation in Oxford and 'planes dipped in salute over-the centre of the entrance, and at to be made in view of the ban University O.T.C. manoeuvres at head, Bunting fluttered gally 2.25 she was passing between the donment of the Royal Courts this Aldershot, word med dve trom every vessel in sight.

heads with a clearance of emiyyear because of Court mourning Before the next entry, war had Ehortly after noon she began to eight feet on either side. The for King George. -- Afternoon | been declared. Under the date, move up..: Southampton: Water. whole manoeuvre was performed drawing rooms may be held during Aug. 14, 1914, are the words. “Left The narrow channel near the with Bawless précision."

the late autumn.

at 9.45 for Ct. Waxley."

Whyte.

ver. In 1923-27-he was Becretary dress already authorized for ser-

to the Fourth Sea Lord, and in geanta.

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The changes in omers' direse

1928-31 until his promotion to In future officers will wear a will be introduced from May 1, but paymaster captain, accountant blue shirt and semi-ati collar to the order will not be compulsory officer at the RN. College, Dart match The black tie will be re- until September 1. In the case of mouth. He has since served at the tatnéd, but the present stiff white airmen arrangements are being Vernon torpedo salool,

vollar and loft whitsa

will Fuade for new issues to begin Trom RN. Barracks, Chatham.

disappear.

about the latter date.