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HONG "ONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936.

STAPLES URPRISES

A CAKE MIXTURE

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Those who bake their own cakes will and it useful to have at least one cake which can be produced quickly without reference to recipe books or hies of cuttings. The foundation mixtures should be committed

and the to memory, cake can then be varied according to taste and the state of the store cupboard.

A good rich cake is made from 802. of self-raising flour for Boz, of plain flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder, 6oz. of butter (or 3oz. of butler and 3 oz. of margar- ine), 8oz. of castor sugar, a pinch of salt, and tour eggs. The cake should be made in the usual way: slit and dry the tour. Cream to- gether butter and sugar, without olling: add the eggs and a little of the flour and beat thoroughly. Sift In the rest of the flour.. and mix thoroughly but without further beating. One of the egg. can be replaced by milk or some other liquid in the form of flavouring. The cake can be baked in two sandwich tins in a fairly quick oven for about half an hour, or it can be baked in one tin for an hour and a quar- ter, or longer if it contains much fruit.

STEAMED PUDDINGS SPICED RHUBARB

A correspondent writes: Recently

I have made severely steamed pud-)

a few drops of vanilla essence, Cof-dings that do not contain eggs fee cake: Replace one of the eggs with coffee essence, and sandwich with coffee butter icing. Date and Add half a pound of nut cake: choppede dates, 2oz. of chopped walnuts, and a teaspoonful of mix- ed spice. roughly.

Bake slowly and tho-

Rich fruit cake! Add 4 oz. each of currants, sultanas, and chopped raisins, 2 oz, each of chopped of grated candied peel. chopped blanched almonds, and halved cherries and the grated rind of half a lemon.

Bake this cake

such as date pudding and ginger pudding-and though they tasted quite nice, they had a pasty feeling in the mouth. Could you tell me what this is due to?

Perhaps you are not cooking your this steamed puddings enough; would account for the pasty feel- ing you mention, Steaming is an excellent way of cooking, but it Is most important that the water Be of the boil, as should never otherwise all cooking ceases. I you all up the saucepan during the process, always use absolutely boll-

water...

for about two and a half hours in

moderate oven, reducing the hearing later.

PLAIN FRUIT CAKE

Plain fruitcake: Add 602. currants and a little grated nur- meg. Orange cake: Add the grated rind of afi orange and replace ope of the eggs by orange juice. Seed cake: Add an ounce, of caraway seeds and a few drops of vanilla essence, Rice cake; Replace 3oz. of the flour by rice flour. Walnut cake: Add 3oz, of chopped "walnuts and a little vanilla essence.

Almond cake: Replace 2 oz. of the flour by ground almonds and From this foundation can be add a few drops of almond essence, made a great variety of cakes. Here Rose cake: Add half a teaspoonful are some suggestions:-Ginger of rose water and 2 oz of crystal- cake: Replace one of the eggs by sed rose leaves. Violet cake: Add ginger syrup and add oz. of chap-| a litle violet essence. 2oz of cry- ped stem ginger. Cherry cake: Add | stallised violets and loz. of chopped the grated rind of a lemon and 4oz. ot glace cherries eut In halves Chocolate cake. Replace ijoz of flour by chocolate powder and add

GRAPEFRUIT SPONGE".

A delicious light sweet for the

invalid.

Dissolve loz. gelatine in a little boiling water, then stir in the pulp of two grapefruit and one orange. Add sugar to taste and a few drops

angelica, or alternatively, keep the cake, plain and ice and decorate the cake with the violets and an- gelica afterwards.

SPICE BISCUITS.

Cream together four ounces of butter and four ounces of castor sugar. Add a large beaten egg and beat well. Sift together eight oun- ces of plain flour, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoonful of mixed spice. Sift this gradually into the butter

and sugar to make a stiff dough

RASPBERRY PUDDING

This will be the "children's fu- vourlie pudding. Ingredients: Two eggs, their weight in sugar butter, plain flour and ground rice, i tea- spoonful of baking powder, milk, raspberry jam.

Beat eggs and butter together, then add the stoved, dry ingre- dients and a little milk to blend.

Spread a greased ple-dish with raspberry jam, then pour in the mixture. Bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes.

Sprinkle with caster sugar and serve with raspberry jara sauce.

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KIDNEYS ON TOAST

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A pinch of spice makes all the difference to the favour of early rhubarb. Try spiced rhubarb tart.

Line a shallow dish with pastry, sprinkle with sugar, and dot with butter. Fill with rhubarb cut into equal lengths, sprinkle with sugar and a pinch of mixed spice, cinna mon and cloves.

Add a teaspoonful.of grated le- mon rind and a little of the juice. Dot with butter, then cover with a pastry top.

Decorate: brush over with white of egg, and sprinkle with caster sugar. Bake in a fairly hot oveti for 40 minutes.

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FRUIT MOULD

A pretty sweet made with rosy rhubarb is this tempting mould.

Clean (don't peel) and cut into rhubarb. thea put pieces 1b. this into a saucepan with flu. sugar, the rind of a lemon, and wa- ter to cover. Cook until soft, then strain of the juice, and, if neces- sary, add water to make up 1 pluts of iquid.

Mix two well heaped tablespoons- ful of cornflour to a paste, with some of the juice, boil the remain- der, then pour over the cornflour. stirring well. Return to the sauce- pan, and cook and stir for two minutes.

Add some of the rhubarb pleces, pour into a mould and leave tu set.

RHUBARB LOGS"

Pretty and seasonable are rhu- barb logs, made with the rosy for- ced rhubarb.

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Prepare 1b shorterust pastry, MAIL NEWS FROM HOME

roll it out thinly, and cut into strips, 4 in. by 2 in. Brush over the white of an egg, then arrange

Mr. Baldwin spent a, busy half on each strip a small stick of rau-hour yesterday deputising in the barb a little smaller than the Das House. In the absence at Geneva

Get one or two sheep's kidneys. for each person Trim them and slice them rather thinly; season well with salt and pepper. Heat some butter in a frying pan, and cut the kidneys with a little chopped onion and parsley. Fry slowly for about five minutes, turn- ina often. Add a tablespoonful of flour, and gradually a large cupful

try. Sprinkle with caster sugar or of gravy and a tablespoonful 'of

brst roll the rhubarb in this." tomato or mushroom ketchup. Stir

Fold the pastry over, seal the until boiling, remove the kidney to the toast, and boil the gravy until edges by plaching went together, then bake in a hot oven-Regulo 7 it is thick enough to pour on the toast without running on. Berve-for fifteen minutes. Serve hot

with cream or custard.

of maraschino syrup. Whisk well. | A few drops of milk may be requir- | very hot. then add the stiffly whisked whites of two eggs. Pour into a mould and leave to set.

Turn out and decorate with chopped pistachio nuts, or blanched almonds.

ed, but the paste should be kept stif. Roll out thinly on a floured board and cut into shapes. Put a blanched almond or a glace cherry on each biscult and bake in a mo- derate oven for ten to fifteen min- utes.

BRITISH STRENGTH IN DESTROYERS

REDUCED FEES | BRITANNIA MAY | REQUEST TO RETAIN

FOR DEGREES

BE SUNK

M.A. Plan Opposed | End Of King George's

"At Oxford

PROBLEM OF POORER STUDENTS

Oxford, May 20.

A proposal to reduce the fees payable by graduates of Oxford University who wish to take their degree of Master of Arts was oppos- ed in Congregation at Oxford this

afternoon.

The Censor of St. Catherine's Society, the Rev. V. J. K. Brook, introduced a Statute to this effect, but Mr. Russell Melggs, Fellow of Keble, gave notice that when the Statute came before Congregation again he would oppose it.

Mr. Brook said it was desirable that as many graduates as possible should take their Master of Arts degree.

"Eitherto," he continued, "for many graduates the only possible advantage cf keeping their names on the books is a sentimental one. The expense of doing so has been out of all proportion to the sen- timental advantage derived.

"At present, taking a Master of Arta degree costs 212, and there- after £1 a year-or a composition fee of £10 to keep one's name on

the books. Under the proposed statute there will be a consider. -able reduction. Instead of paying £12 for a degree, there will be a fee of £5, and thereafter no dues or composition fees.

Famous Yacht

TO BE TOWED INTO THE CHANNEL

Cowes, May 20, The King's famous racing yacht Britannia will in all probability be towed out into the deep water of the English Channel and sunk. She will not, as has been anticipated, be broken up.

At present she is laid up here. The sinking will be effected during the summer.

Major Heckstall-Smith, Yacht- ing Correspondent, writes: It Would seem a suitable ending to the grand old Britannia's career that she should be buried at sea near the scene of many of her greatest victories,

The late King told me last year that she would never race again. King George said that he would never own any other racing yacht as long as he lived, but that he would never part with Britannia.

The Britannia was designed and bulit in Scotland. She salled her first race in the month of May, 43 years ago, 1893, when she was own- ed by King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, and her last un- der King George V., in 1935,

considerably the poorer student, to whom professionally a Master of Arts degree was most important. Mr. Meiggs did not agree that COMPENSATION SUGGESTED the poorer student would benefit. "Naturally the University can- He declared that, some colleges would have to meet the extru 'ex- not afford to do, that without some compensation, and it is suggested pense by increasing their dues to that the terminal dues of under-undergraduates, -graduates should be raised- from

21 10s to 22."

Mr. Brook suggested that the new arrangement would beneat

Many undergraduates already found it dimeult to make ends meet, and these would be adversely affected.

40,000 OVER-AGE TONNAGE

London, May 20. The United States and Japanese Governments have under conside- ration a request from Great Bri- tain to be allowed to retain 40,000 tons of over-age destroyers. The British Government have also ask ed for a re-arrangement of cruiser categories.

By Part 3 of the London Naval Treaty of 1930, which was signed only by the British Commonwealth of Nations, the United States, and Japan, total destroyer tonnages were limited. to 150.000 each for the British and American Navies, and 105,500 for the Japanese; Ac- cording to "Returns of Flects" of December last (Command Paper 5028) the British destroyer ton- nage at the end of this year will amount to some 100,000 tons under age. If age and 95,000 tons over the "escalator clause" of the 1830 Treaty were not invoked the Bri- tish Navy would have to scrap no less than 45,000 tons of over-age destroyers before the end of this year.

When this obligation was under- taken in 1930 it was hoped that the Disarmament Conference then

laid down or projected in Europe since 1930. This fact and the ex-

DUKE OF RICHMOND'S ESTATE

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of both Mr. Eden and Lord Cran- borne he had more than 20 Foreign Office questions to deal with, writes a correspondent,

Supplementaries poured especially about Abyssinia. Mr. Baldwin gave longer extempore re- plies thun spokesmen of the Foreign Office usually do on"these occasions. But all his remarks were the height of diplomatic dis-

cretion.

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manufacture of titanium tetrachloride, a Liquid which fumes on contact · with Ramsay MacDonald is equally ad-water. It provides the dulckest amant in the matter of a peerage. and most efficacious sinoke-screen He has refused a peerage at least for battleships.

SINGAPORE once, and his friends say that the

BASE only honour to which he has ever

INCONGRUTTIES aspired is that of the

To the citizen of London it may Merit.

seem incongruous that a country WOULD WINSTON-ACCEFT? :

which adjoins the Singapore Base Mr Churchill would creat R should be supplying the Japanese sensation. If he ever accepted a Fleet with the potential means of peerage, and there are several invisibility. other eminent figures in the House. Malaya supplies the Japanese of commons who are known to with other sinews of war. Japan sub- have had opportunities of going to has no iron. She obtains a the House of Lords, but have de-atantial part of her needs from a clined to take advantage of them. concession in Johore, only a few miles north of the base. Last year NEW INDIAN GOVERNOR?

Japan took 1,500,000 tons of iron from this concession.

Miss Wilkinson--presumably: after having read my note on Fri- day-wanted to know why the | To-day's announcement that cruiser which took the Negus to Sir George Cunningham is resign- Palestine had not been available ing his post as member of the Ex- Owner Of Goodwood to take him on to London.

ecutive Council of the North-west Mr. Baldwin promptly retorted Frontier Province requires some that if she wanted cruisers aval-explanation. able for such work she would have

HIT BY HEAVY TAXATION

London, May 14. The Duke of Richmond, Len- nox and Gordon, of Goodwood. Chichester, Sussex, owner of Goodwood racecourse and large estätes in England and Scotland. has left unsettled estate worth

£17,450, £10,111 net.

to vote for a larger Navy.

THE "L.N.U.'S" OWN -

There is a difference between re- signing and retiring Sir George. who was private secretary to Lord In his replies about Abyssinia | Irwin during his whole period as the Prime Minister employed an Viceroy, is coming home on long unusual pronunciation for the leave. capital. The BBC. has taught us all to say Addis Ababa with the accent un the first syllable and a short "a."

Mr. Baliwin

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She has a second concession in Trengganu, another Malay State: This is expected to yield about 1, 600,000 tons a year.

HONOURS TO ORDER Here is a story about one of the singers in the present Covent Gar den season. On arriving at a smail town where he was billed to sing he found only his agent at the It is almost certain that when he station to meet him. This did not "Where." returns it will be as Governor of suit his majesty at all the North-west Province.

he indignantly asked, "aze the Two facts strengthen this fore-mayor and the town band? Un- pronounced it cast. Sir Ralph Grinth, the pre-less I have a proper reception. I re- Ababa. with the accent distribut-; sent Governor, retires next year fuse to sing." Hurried consulta- Probate of his will has beeri

ed over the last two syllables, 23 granted to his widow and his son.

in "Baa-bas, black sheep." He left his property to his son.

Parliamentary rules about the The Duke," who inherited £297.-use of members' names were brok- 000 from his father in 1928, was

en by Cmdr. Bower as question originally one of the largest land- time yesterday, owners in the country. Goodwood He suggested that to supplement Castle the guard at our Legation at Addis should were once on his estates which Ababa the Government covered 286,500 acres.

send out detachments of Attlee's Large parts of his land were Artillery. Dalton's Dragoons and sold, however, because of heavy the Lansbury Lancers. - taxation and death duties on his father's estate.

Racecourse and Gordon

PICTURES SOLD

In 1930 he sold a number of famous pictures which had hung in Goodwood House for genera- tons, so as to avoid dismissing any of his employees.

A year later h's Goodwood es- tate, including the racecourse,” be-

THE KING AS MUSICIAN I Hear that the King has become Patron of the Royal Amateur Or-" chestral Society. He thus follows the precedent set by his father both and grandfather. who were patrons of the society.

The King's own musical tastes' are eclectic. He likes the very new as expressed in "jazz." He is also

pending would bring about "sut- came a private company, of which a lover of the bagpipes, which re- stantial limitation in davies not he was permanent government tain the qualities of the most austere and primitive art. In affected by the Treaty. That hope | director. was not fulfilled, and there have In January last year heavy music of the intervening periods been continuous substantial in-taxation forced him to sell the he evinces less. Interest. creases in those navies-over 70 | 45,000-acre estate of Glénaor in

The "Royal Amateur," which is submarines, for instance, thave been | Ecotland.

severely classical in its approach to music, has been, rayal since it was founded by the Duke of Edinburgh 52 years ago. perience of the measures necessary service, and it is Intended to re-

PEERAGES DECLINED in the Mediterranean emergency táin these to the amount of 40,000

The Gladstonian tradition among are no doubt the reasons for Mr.tons, Thus only some 6,000 tons Baldwin's statement last Wednes- would actually be scrapped. In statesmen of refusing a peerage is day that the Government are in this case the United States and particularly strong to-day.

Austen Chamberlain has more communication with other Cav-Japan will also have the right un- ernments with a view to increas-der the 1930 Treaty to retain, than once declined the offer of a ing the British allowance of des- should they desire to do so, enough peerage, and Mr. Lloyd George is troyer tonnage..

overage destroyers to bring their credited with the resolution. made Many of the over-age destroyer's totals op to 190,000 tons and 142,000 years ago that he will never be- which would have been scrapped tans 'respectively at the end of this come a member of the House of Lords. It is known, too, that Mr. this year are still capable of useful year.

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Sir George Cunningham has spent nearly all of his 28 years in India on the Frontier,

RUGGER INTERNATIONAL Sir George Cunningham is best known in this country as the for- mer Rugger captain of Oxford and Scotland.

At Oxford ine took a first and in 1909, the year of his captaincy, the Oxford Rugger team, then full of internationals, won the largest vic- tory ever recorded in the varsity match,

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tions, "Get back into the train," said the agent. "Go on to the next town and catch the next train back. There's plenty of time." The great singer did so, and on his re- turn an hour or so later found; to his well-simulated astonishment and pleasure, that the mayor and town band and half the town were there to greet him. The scene of the story is laid in Italy.

PARLIAMENTARY GOLFERS Good humoured levity has some- times been applied to Parlia- Sir George is Low and his mentary golf, but it reaches fair and makes plc- hair is turning grey, but he still club standard wins local tennis tournaments inturesque occasion when the West- India.

minster players meet in annual These He is quiet and reserved in man- battle on Walton Heath.

are for from senile mer, neither smokes per drinks. He legislators was brought up at St. Andrews, fellows, judged by the number of In proportion to where his father was pointed out close finishes.

as a model for young golfers, and numbers it appears that the Li- has himself.played once or twice berals are the better golfers, Lady in the amateur championship. He Astor was not at her best yester- is a godson of the late Andrew day with the clubs, but otherwise Lang.

was her true self, maintaining a A SMOKY BUSINESS

vigorous court martial on her On Saturday I referred to the lapses. Sir John Simon, "upon dificulties of the infant ted indus-whom the mantle of the late Lord another Balfour has fallen as a distingui- try of Malaya. There is product of that rich and fertile shed statesman who constantly as- country which fa rapidly develop suages the cares of State on the ing an export trade.

links, passed easily into the third This is imenite, of which tens of round. He was practising for ar thousands of tons are to be found bour in the morning, and at six in the slag-heaps of Malaya's fin o'clock I noticed him setting out for more. Sir John Improves stez- mines.

Hitherto the product has been dily, and his tee-shot should pres neglected. In 1934 the total exportent no terrors when he plays him- to all countries was only 50 tons. self into office as captain of the Last year Japan took 2500 tons Royal and: Ancient Cinh In the

autumn, from one State alone.