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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936.

STAPLES SURPRISES

VARIETIES OF GINGER-

BREAD

Gingerbread is a general favou- Į rite and nothing is more tempting for tea. There are so many ways emaking. ht that it need never become monotonous.

MISCELLANEOUS

RECIPES

APPLE AND APRICOT

CHARLOTTE »

INGREDIENTS

SWEET CORN

EASY DISHES FROM AMERICA

Among the good things that. have come to us from America_la sweet corn).

Not only can it be served as a sweet, but, it forms the basis of "nutritious and savoury DLAY dishes.

For instance, Instead of serving mashed potatoes with cold meat, make corn and potato cakes.

LITTLE GINGER CAKES Cream quarter-pound each V. butter and brown sugar. Add two peaten eggs, dredge in four ounces of four to which has been added Six sponge cakes, stewed apples,

cream. Cut half-teaspoonful of baking powder. apricot jam.

each Finely chop three ounces of pre-sponge cake into three pieces, and served ginger and roll in a little line a mould with them, putting a flour, Add to the mixture, turn round piece at the bottom. Then intu saai) buttered tins and bake n put in a layer of stewed apples

moderate oven.

about two inches deep. Over them spread a layer of jam. Fill the

Mix together equal quantities of mould with layers of apple and cold mashed potatoes and sweet Sift a pound of flour and rub in

jam. press town well and put corn. Add a small, chopped onion. Au ounce of butter, Add a teasponge enke over the top.

Cover pepper, salt and a teaspoonful of

"

YORKSHIRE PARKIN

IRISH GINGERBREAD

Take a pound of treacle, half- pound of butter and a gill o: milk, Warm them, to melt the butter. and add hall-pound of brown sugar. Beat four eggs and add these. together with a pound of four in with a teaspoonful o, cream of rortar, a teaspoontul of bicarbonate spoonful of bicarbonate of soda with a plate and let it be pressed mixed herbs. Bind with a beaten of soda disolved in a litle water.

and the same quantity each of down with a weight for some time egg. then form into pear shaped and ball an ocher of ground gin-around ginger, ground cinnamon Turn out, whip the cream sweeten cakes. ger have been mixed Place the

and allspice. Afx in six ounces it and cover the top..

Brush aver with beaten egg, mixture in a buttered pan and

of oatmeal. Warm 1ogether a

sprinkle with browned crumbs and bake in a brisk oven for an hour teacupful o: mik and four ounces

try in deep fat. Drain, and of treacle, and stein - Baki in

sprinkle with chopped parsley. shallow buttered tin lc a mode-

DELICIOUS CHARLOTTTM”, oven.

AMERICAN GINGERBREAD

Warm haf pound of treacle and SIX ounces of butter. Leave to get | partly cool, then add three table- spoonful of cream, half-pound of brown sugar. one ounce di ground ginger and quarter-ounce cinnamon. Stir in gradually two pounds of flour, half-pound each of currants and chopped raisins. Dissolve half-ounce of bicarbonate of soda in half-pint of milk and Beat add, with flour beaten eggs.

until smooth. turn into a shallow buttered tin and bake for one and a half hours in a slow oven.

GINGERBREAD PARKIN

of butter into one and a quarter pounds of flour, add a pound of warmed treacle,

ounces of Six

moist sugar, one

Rub Ave ounces

ource of ground lager, half-pint milk and an ounce of baking powder. Turn the mixture into a flat buttered tin and bake in a slow oven for one and a half hours.

HOW WORLD'S

rat

POTATOES A LA DONNA

INGREDIENTS

PLAIN GINGERBREAD Bear two eggs, add tea ounces of treacle, thrie ounces Branulated About two pounds of "boiled sugar, half-pound of flour, three potatoes, butter, four ounces ounces of meited butter, half-ounce | breadcrumbs, · salt. pepper, One of ground singer, half-teaspoon u onlon.. grated cheese. Butter of ground cloves and the grated (pie dish and sprinkle .t with bread rind of a lemon

Sure the potatoes lato a pinch of bicarbonate

of soda it with a little onion; put a few dissolved in a little water. mix bits of butter we place in a shallow buttered t'n and bake slowly for an hour.

Finally stir in crumbs.

GINGER NUTS

Beat six ounces of butter to a cream. and six ounces of brown

season over, and

with "salt and pepper, and a few more breadcrumbs. Repeat this until the dish is fall; cover the top wtih breadcrumbs and 2 ittle grated cherse. placing little bits of

sugar, two ounces of ground ginutter on the top. Bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes, and. ger, one ounce chopped candled serve in the pledish. peel and a pound of warmed

treacle. Dredge in one arid a half

As a change from plath apple charlotte, try adding sweet corn to the recipe.

Grease a ple-dish and empty in the contents of a tin of sweet com. Cover with a cupful of ap- ples stewed to a pulp, sprinkle with sugar and add a pinch of grated nutmeg and cloves. Cover with stale sponge cake crumbs.

Dot with butter, sprinkle with more sugar and nutmeg, then bake In a moderate oven until browned. Serve with cream.

SYRUP CAKE

The family will welcome syrup corn cake for tea.

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To make this, mix together éoz. plain flour, 4oz. cornmeal, 1 tea-

pounds of flour and kread to a WHOLEMEAL" COOKIES spoonful baking powder and a paste. Roll out on a floured board unt frm mould into nuts and bake these on butterad tins for half an hour.

WOMAN PASSENGERS STORY

One of the women taken off by

Cream a thlid of a cupful of butter, and beat in the yolks 01 two eggs. three-quarters of a cup- ful of milk, and half a teaspoonful of baking-powder, Chop a cúpful of raisins and a cupful of stoned

LARGEST SAILING the lifeboat was Miss Diana Firth, dates, and add these to the mix-

SHIP STRUCK

of Newton Abbot, a school friend the of Mrs. Erikson's, who was

only passenger in the ship. She

said later:

"Capt. Sven Erikson refused to

ture together with two cups of wholemeal flour and a third of a cupful of water. Mix all well to- gether and drop a heaped tea spoonful at a time on a greased

pinch of salt. Add a beaten egg and two tablespoonfuls of syrup with a teaspoonful or lemon juice.

Form into a stiff dough, bake on £ greased baking sheet in a hot oven for 20 to 30 minutes. Regulo oven mark é

UNUSUAL FRITTERS For supper or breakfast corn fritters will meet, with approval.

Sift 402. plain flour, with † tea- spoonful baking powder, season with salt and pepper. Stir in the

Herzogin Cecilie On leave his ship, and his wife, des baking-sheet or on a tie covered watents of a tin of corn, and add

Rocks In Fog

小

AFTER WINNING THE

GRAIN RACE

Oxford B.A. Wife Of

The

Captain On Board

London, April 27.

pite his protests, insisted

maining at his side.

on re-

"This is the first trip I have

made in the barque. I boarded

with greaseproof paper. Bake in

fairly hot oven for ten minutes.

her at Falmouth and we were gister. Her mainmast is bearly

two beaten eggs. Shape, and try. in bolling hot fat; drain and serve..

bound for Ipswich. As far as I 200 feet high, and she has a total NATION'S LACK

know the fog was entirely the canvas spread of 56,000 square cause of the accident.

feet. She has won eight of the grain races.

"Everybody-including the ship's cat-behaved wonderfully. There was no confusion.

were

"When we learned we aground äta treacherous spot famous Finnish barque everybody collected their belong Herzogin Cecilie (3,111 tons), winings and calmly waited for the ner of this year's sailing-ship race with grain from Australa, is lying on the rocks off South," Devon, struck in darkness and fog early on Saturday morning.

She won the race on Thursday when she put in at Falmouth, 88 days out from Port,, Lincoln, South Australia. When she struck, at Hope Cove, near Salcombe, she was on her way up Channel to Ip swich.

Uftboat to appear out of the fog.

"Capt. Erikson had been telling me of his trip from Australia, I believe it was to have been the vessel's last race.

"It was beautiful zalling weather until we ran into fog off Salcombe. I was asleep at the time and was awakened by Mrs. Erikson.

"When she found there was no immediate danger, we both went below and began to pack the men's At 38 in the morning she sent luggage. Although she was du up distress flares, and the Bal-tressed at the beautiful ship going combe lifeboat put out. The boat on the rocks, she was wonderful returned at 10.15 with 22 members in her calm and in the way she of the barquie's crew and a woman went about doing all that was passenger.

HONEYMOON VOYAGE

necessary.

"When I left the ship the first and second holda, were full of

wet"

On her last voyage she crossed the "Line" In 63 days, a remark- ably fine achievement. Had she not been held up by head winds from the Azores she might have cf 83 captured the fleet record days held by the Parma. Her pamage time from Port Lincoln was only three days more.

OF SEAMEN

--:

Threat To Naval Expansion

(BY HECTOR C. BYWATER) London, Apr 25.

A serious situation' threatens to arise the coming expansion of the Fleet Already the service in defcient in man power, and the

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Three Packings: 8'4, 10'5, 27′4,

CONSULAR STAMPS ALLEGED FORGED

SETTLEMENT POLICE INQUIRIES

Shanghai, May 8. Alexander N. Kazachenko, Viadi-

yesterday. The trio, two of whom are Russians, were arrested by de tectives of Louze Station on mispt- clan of counterfeiting passport vises.

The Herzogin Cecille had an exciting, experience in May, 1985, Making her way to Falmouth she was caught off the Lizard in a naval measures necessitated by mir A. Kelt, and Tze Zuh-zien and the Ttap-Abyssinian war have were remanded to next Tuesday, by hurricane and snowstorm, had to heave tô. The storm last- strained its männing resources to the First Epecial District Court, ed 30 hours, and 18 salls were the utmost.

I understand that the eating blown away or torn to shreds

Viscount Bangor, Speaker at the personnel would not suice to Northern Ireland Benate, and hixace even the present reduced

Hon Margaret Navy of a wär footing. daughter, the Ward, spent a holiday in the ship last July. They were accompanied by Lady Frances Cole daughter of thể Earl of Enniskillen, All "signed on" as members of the crew...

Capt. Sven Erikson, the master, water, and the third was very later, after a trip to Finland, Lord leading. They include, a very high Kobe, Japan.

his wife, two officers and three seamen refused to leave the ship.

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FOREIGNER ACCUSED OF LARCENY

Case Adjourned For Further Investigation

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12 Months' Sciatica Stopped in a Fortnight with ⚫ÁSPRO'

27. Marine Pdc..

ST: KILDA;

June 28. 1932

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cashed the cheque for $180,65 made out in Mrs. Wachtel's name, an attempt having been made to Imitate Mrs. Wachtel's signature.

WITNESSES CALLED

Miss Novadakaya confirmed in

HR Police Court yesterday that

she had banded Mr. Mangold a let-

fer containing a cheque made out

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to Mrs. Wachtel asking him to post it to Mrs, Wachtel for her. FORGERY CHARGE

Mrs. Wachtel, who returned" to MAY BE ADDED Shanghai on March 12, said she

LATER

had received no letter from Miss Novadskaya but she had from Mr... Shanghai, May 9, Mangold, who said that the Ameri- Stating that from the morning's | can-Oriental Banking Corporation evidence" a "prima face" case of was paying i per cent. dividend forgery was made against Mr. Al- j and that he would be forwarding Mr. Y. D. Wang, Assistant Muni- bert H. Mangold, charged with the cheque later. Recourse must therefore be had so the merchant service, but here cipal Advocate, said the Police stealing a cheque of $180.65 and The signature on the back of again, according to my informa seized four stamps which were - fraudulently converting the cheque the cheque, which was produced in tion, there is hardly any reserve

tations of those of the Polish com-to his own use, Mr. Gilbert Chat- court, was not hers, Mrs. Wachtel sular service in China, the French terton, counsel for the prosecution, sald. available.

Statistics of unemployment Consulate in Manila, and the asked for an adjournment for one Mr. W. J. Lamneck of the Chase On his retien home three weeks | among seafarers are most mis-

Finnish and Egyptian consulates in week in order that further inves- Bank said that the cheque had As the case may | tigations might be made. The ke- | been eashed Christmas Eve. Bangor said: "I had to obtain my percentage of men who are in no prove to be political in nature, the gistrar, Mr. C. H. Haines, said that They were very busy at the time discharge. As wages I received a sense trained seamen, Actually, I Chinese Police, French Police, and the request was a proper one to and he had not suspected then Finnish mark-about a penny." learnoby $ féw thousand the Special Branch of the Settle- * make an it appeared from the evi- | that there was anything wrong,

genuine seamen are now unem-

ment »Police were informed by dense that someone not neces- with the signature. He expressed. «

•ployed, should trade conditiona Louza detectives of the arrests and sarily the reqused—had committed" | the opinion that Mrs. Wachtel's fustify any subétantial increase in seizure.

forgery and he adjourned the case cheque was probably cashed at the the number of British ships at In order to enable the authori- until 10a.m. on Friday, May 15. same time as Miss Novadskaya's attention to the fact that the com-out he blows his own trumpet, and sea these men would be quickly des to make further inquiries, the

cheque had been. Wu Ko-shang, absorbed.

Court granted the request for a J. L. Winklemada

employed for the past 14 years by As a reservoir of man-power for writ of detention—(N.C.D.N.) It, 15 ́alfeged by the prosecution the compradore of the Chase -the Navy thế merchant service is,

that in December last year Miss Bank, sald that he had written on therefore, quite inadequate A increase in the personnel can be M. N. Novadakaya' handed a letter, the back of the larger cheque well-known shipping" authority further delayed. It may even be containing

la éneqle made out to $195.65. It referred to the total of who has thoroughly investigated necessary to introduce a speca) Mrs. Agnes Wachtel for $160.65 two cheques réceived, at the same the situation declares that the system of short service distinct and "a" Christmas card, to Mr. time. It was his practice, when he vent of war the country would from" the existing method of Mangold. He was asked to send it received more than one cheque, tộ have to choose between an under- special short-service enlistment by registered letter to Mrs. Wach-write down the total amounts on mänhed Navy, ind, at shortage of for five years. 20

'tel, who was then in' Hongkong, | the back of one of the cheques, he

COMPASS TROUBLE

It was a tragic end to the cap- tain's honeymoon voyage, Fils Martin Holgeld, the boatswain, wife was formerly Miss Panela stated that they had some trouble Bourne, a passenger on a previous with the compass during the later voyage They were married at stages of the voyage. Near the Falmouth last October, before the Ham Stone Rock, near Balcombe, Herzogin Cecilie lett for Australia the 'man at the wheel, called his

to take part in the annual grain

Tace.

Mrs. Erikson was a B.A. of Ox- ford and the daughter of the late Sir Ronald Bourne, Secretary of Defence in the Transvasi

pass was swinging, round.

..

"Is Jones musical?” n

"I should say he is. When he's

at home he plays second fiddle.”—

Professor: "One of the minor planeta has eight moons."

Student: "What a place for a song writer!"

My class has had its end-of-the- session written examination (writes

The accused is represented by Mr.

"Before we knew where we, were we were ashore," he added. "We did not see anything before we struck, as the night was foggy and In 1933 she decided to see the dark. world "in an unorthodox way." Late on Saturday night a life- and, accompanied by her mother, line was shot from the cliff to the sailed for Australia in a Norwegian parque and made fast, and, the cargo ship. Her mother travelled breeches buoy apparatus was kept a teacher). One of the questions I. food ships. The statikkes I have On the mercantile side it is On December 23 Miss Novadskaya | said. His evidence concluded the as a passenger, but she secured ready, in case it became necessary gave was: “Tell. In one sentence seery apparently confirm this forepointed out by shipowners that also handed Mr. Mangold a cheque case for the prosecution and the work, as a bosan's mate,

to take off the captain and his. what a newspaper does.” Perhaph cast.

ittle can be done to increase the for $15.20 made out in her name court adjourned until 2.30 pm. Og Later she joined the Herzogin wife and the others who had re- the mast juhinating, reply was Varbus remedies are being can- total of trained seamen until our asking him to cash it for her. On resumption in the afternoon coun-. Cecilfe, took her turn at the wheelmained on board, dow

that of Sammy. (aged ten): "It'sidered by the competent. au- merchant fleet is enarged, and | December 34 he did so, paying the set for the prosecutián asked for 4 The Herzogin Cecilie is the tells you what's won and who's thorities. On the Adiniralty side that is conditional on improved | money to Miss Novadskaya. On further adjournment and this was largest sailing ship on Lloyd's re- murdered."

it is difficut fla: see how a large trade:

the same day it is alleged he also granted. —(NCDN.)

and on the ropes, and in dne course was sent;, alofs,