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STAPLES

MUSHROOM TARTS

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These tarts make an unusual supper dish First, prepare. the pastry cases by rolling out some short pastry thinly and ning ratty tins with it. Haif all with rice or peas and bake in a hot oven" until golden browh; remove the rite. Cut up the mushrooms 101 large and saute them lightly in butter. Season them and add a cuptu of milk to half a pound of mushrooms. Simmer until soft then thicken the Iquid with corn- Bour. The sauce should be thick so that it does not sink through the pastry cases Almost A thu patties with the mushroom mix

ture and out back into the oven theat. These can be made much quicker than Vol-auvents with puff pastry, yet are very good. even quicker method Is to c.cam or evaporated milk instead

ef milk and com-flour.

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EGGLESS CAKE

An

lise

Sometimes a cake without eggs is required. Here" is a recipe for a fruit cake. Sift together eight Ounces of flour. four ounces of ground rice, and a pinch of salt. Rub in four ounces of butter, then add five ourdes of soft. brown

sugar, four ources of sultanas.

four ounces of currants, the grated

quickly to the rest of the ingre- dients. Beat well, put into a lined and greased tin. and bake in a noderate oven for about an hour and the re-quarters, reducing the Leat towards the end.

Boil

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936.

SURPRISES

THE WAY TO

MAKE

GOOD CAKES

11.

MANCHESTER PUDDING

of..

tablespoonsful three bread crumbs in

hait u pint of

previously milk which has been flavoured with vanilla or lemon peel. Add to it. when off the boll. the yolks of two eggs, a plece of butter the 5% of an egg. and eight lumps of sugar. Put a layer nt any rich jam at the bottom of a ple-dish. then pour in the mixture and bake in a moderate Whip' up oven for half an hour. the two whites stiffly and fold in four. our.cer of castor

sugar. Spread this over the top of the pudding, dredge with castor suga

and return to the oven for a fex minutes till the meringue is set.

WITH BANANAS

!

Here is

delicious pudding which will prove popular with the family, for is Bling without 's toogy-and it is quite cheap

to make,

Banana Pudding.—Ingredients:--- 3 bananas 2, dessertspoonfuls semo- Una, 1 packet custard power, 1 pint milk. 2 oz. sugar.

SARDINE RAREBIT

THESE MAY BE NEW TO YOU

Pound sardine ment to a paste. To a cup of meat add half'a tea- spoon of lemon juice, a dash of salt two tablespoons ní crated

Serve slim "fingers of Dutch, or cheese and one tablespoon of thick Cheddar, cheese with fruit salad. cream. Toast narrow strips of With hot roast lamb make bread on one side. spread the sar-

change by cutting red currant dine mixture on the untoastedly into small cubes and sprink- side, cover with a matching striping each cube with finely chopped of bread and place in a hot oven mint, while the sauce is being made.

For the sauce, beat the yolks of

H

A

Baked apples are specially good in the centre space made removing. the core is filled with orange mar- malade. or with raspberry jaro Bake in a shallow pan with very Ittle water in hot oven.

two eggs, add six tablespoons of telted butter and one-eighth of a tablespoon of extract of beet. Tlace over a fire until it begins to

of salt and a dash thicken and add half a teaspoon

Bacon toast is nice for supper. of papriku. Pour this over the toasted sand-

and can be prepared ready for wiches that have been kept hetreating up any time in advance

Mix four or five ounces of flour Serve with quarters In the oven.

with a quarter cupful of bacon fât, of lemon. With this serve olives.

poured from the pan in. which colery, Angers of raw carrot and

several slices of bacon have been For dessert pickled beets. canned plums and raisin cake that

cooked until crisp. Make flour has been toasted and buttered.

and fat into a smooth paste und add two cupsful of milk, a dust of pepper. and a pinch of celery salt. Cut the cooked bacon into small pieces and stir into the creamed sauce. Serve on hot dry toast.

serve

LIGHT FRUIT CAKE

While rich, the following cake is

Rice with chicken is best cooked not indigestible as the heavier in a double saucepan, When the fruit..cakes tend to be. Beat to

rice is almost cooked put

i B cream four ounces of

castor ounce of butter, a teaspootiful, of six ounces of butter. nesugar, half a cupful of raisins sugar and Beat in the yolks of four eggs, and stoned and split and a quarter cup beat thoroughly.

together each Sift tour ounces of self-raising four two.cunces cf ground rice. and a pinch of salt, and beat thorough- Add a few Mix the semolina and custardly into the mixture. powder in a basin with dessert- droops of almond essence, a table- ounces spoonfuls of milk taken out of the spoonful of sherty, two

an ounce pint. Put the remainder of the glacé cherries, and

each of angelica and candled peel saucepan with the

Whisk the whites of cut finely. three eggs to a stiff froth and told lightly into the mixture. Put into

and

rind of half a lemon, and a good pinch each of ground nutmeg.. cloves, mace, ginger, and cinnamon Warm halt a phat of milk and pour it on a teaspoonful of bicar- bonate of soda. Add hall a ten-milk into a spoonful of lemon juice, then add Sugar and bring to the boll. While still boiling pour into the semo- lina and custard mixture, stir well. Peturn to the pan and simmer for 5 minutes or unl the semolina is cooked, stirring all the time. Mash the balanus and add. 10 the mixturË, which is then ready to serve.

Bananas. by the way, are one of the most "energy-giving" of fruits, for when they ripen the pulp, becomes, converted into fruit sugar or catural glucose.. They need not be fully ripe when you or other meat. Melt a tablespoon-buy them; all traces of green will ful of butter, add a scant table-disappear from their skins after spoonful of flour, and sur together.

they have been kept in a warm

SAVOURY TOASTS

This is an excellent way of using up scraps of ham, tongue chicken.

Slowly add a breakfastcupful of room for a day or two.

and cook until smooth. Add drstertspoonful of tomato

mushroom

or

other

ketchup" or Favoury sauce, and pepper and salt Spread on slices o hot toast. if necessary. Cook for five' min-Have ready, a hard-boiled egiz.. utes, stiming all the time, then While hot, grate a little of it, over put in the meat and bring to each slice of it over each slice of boiling point but do not cook, toast.

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Only 50 Years Since Official

Secrets Were Protected

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The Official Secrets Act WOS

London, June 14. Legislation LU guard against sufficiently comprehensive to bring leakages of official secrets was in outsiders, for any person who

or assists a instituted less than 50 years ago, counsels'

person te Up till then the British Govern- commit an offence under the Act ment had been content with the 19 deemed to be as guilty as if ordinary law against larceny to

he had

committed the principal protect against the stealing of official documents.

act.

A KING'S REPLY

cake-tin l'ned with greased paper, and bake in a fairly hot oven for forty to Afty minutes.

DRIED FIG JAM

The following recipe for dries 5g "Jam will be found particularly useful at this time of the year when stocks of Jam made from fresh fruit are running low. Wash stem and chop finely one pound cf dried figs and soak overnight In one pint of water to which the juice of one, and a half lemons has been added. Place in a pre- serving pan, bring to the boil, and allow to simmer until the fruit is The add three pounds

tender.

MR. BATES'S OFFER TO REPAY Underwriters May Not Accept

ADVICE FROM MR. CROCKER

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London, June 14. Underwriters concerned in the Budget insurances are to meet in the library at Lloyd's at 3.30 p.m. to-day to discuss the situation arising from the decision of Mr. There are many unsigned trea- Alfred Bates" to refund the money A great programme of

aaval ties known to officials which are paid to him in connection with expansion was launched in that put away among the Foreign these insurances, writes a-corre year, and secrecy had to be main-Office archives. They are never spondent. tained. Successive governments disclosed.

The Oficial Becrets

Act Was

passed in 1889.

ין

then for a

had seen a number of wars and Only QUCC, it is said, has campaigns in the eleven years treaty been mislaid, and before, including the Russo-Tur- Britain had foot the bli kish, Afghan, Zululand, the Boer, costly minor war. Egypt and the Sudan, and they Eighty years ago there were relled on the adelity of their negotiations with Ashanti, and officials.

draft treaty was sent to the ring. Until, a year previous; the terms Through some mistake, the king of an Anglo-Russian Treaty had returned it direct to the Foreign 'been disclosed beforehand, their Office, and, with other documents,

trust in officials had rarely been It was faithfully stowed away. misplaced.

A special edition of a London evening paper. "The Globe," gave all the particulars of the Anglo Russian Treaty before they reach ed Parliament, and anticipated the "confidential" messages to Minis ters and the forthcoming state- ment in the House

The Tribunal reported that it was to Mr. Bates and to' Bir Alfred Butt, M.P.. that Mr. Thomas had made unauthorised disclosures..

The cover which Mr. Bates, effected was for £12,500, distribut-i ed as follows:-

£4,500 through Alfred Ward & Company,

£4,000, through Belisha & Co., £1,000 through C. T. Bowring & Co., and

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of sultanas, and chopped almonds. Cook all again until rice is quite tender. Cut a bolled chicken into small joints and slices. plle these in the centre of hot dish and surround with the rice mixture.

MAYONNAISE DRESSING

To two raw egg yolks add one- ralf teaspoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, one-quarter tea- spoon paprika, one-eighth tea- spoon mustard, Beat, thoroughly. Add three tablespoons cider vine-

add two cups salad oil, drop by gar and beat aga Gradually

arop at arst,, beatlar it in until the mixture is creamy.

rf sugar and mix well. Stir con- stantly before and while bolling. and allow to bol until the pre- serve sets when tested on a co'd plate. Pot and store ina cool, dry, alry place.

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MORE PAY FOR CIVIL SERVANTS.

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London, June 14.

WRECKED

SAFETY

Don't Risk

WRECKING YOUR HEALTH

او

When Headaches, Pain, Colds, 'Flu or numerous other minor ailments attack you, you need quick and speedy relief. Don't take chances. Play safe with medicine. Avoid any risk of dangerous after effects on your system by refusing to countenance medicaments containing powerful drugs, narcotics and potent nostrums. You can obtain quick and speedy relief with 'ASPRO.' It is pure medicine and conforms to the standard of purity laid down by the British Pharmacopoeia (the guiding authority of the Medical Profession). Furthermore, "ASPRO' neither harms the hear nor stomach, "ASPRO has proved its safe and speedy action by positive results for over 18 years.

'ASPRO'

Is SAFE BECAUSE IT IS PURE

HE SENT KING GEORGE

TO BED

TALES OF SIR PERTAB SINGH, GENTLEMAN OF THE EMPIRE

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(Special Air Mall Service)

London, June, 14. -King George was once told by a thing of the kind may have hap- man to go to bed-indeed some-

pened on more than one occasion. The daring man was, Maharajah Sir Pertab Singh, and the incid- ent--or incidents-took place when he was alde-de-camp to his Maj és- tye during his two visits to India.

Should the King sit up too late with a heavy day before him, one of the staff might say: "The King has an early start, Fertab, he ought to get a night's rest; tell

"

Sir Pertáb, or so men said, would go to the King and say: "King! King! I thinking sleeping."

Whether or not the King went to bed is not disclosed by Lieutenant General Sir George MacMunn, who tells this story in "The Indian States and Princes" (Messrs. Jar-

An agreement" adding £100,000 year to the pay of 31,000 Civil Sor. vants h. been reached with the Treasury and signed on their be- half by the Civil Service Clerical roids, 188.) Association.

Thé agreciment Covers clerical workers, and is retrospective from May 1. It provides for:-

An extended maximum of 123, a week as against the present 57%. a week for about 10,000 writing as- sistants.

An extended maximum of £350 for male clerical officers as against £337, and of £262 as against £253 for women clerical officers,

Sir George describes Sir Pertab as "the first gentleman, in the highest and idealised meaning of that word, in the British Empire."

In illustration, he rècords, an ac- tion by the Maharajah when a Bri-

tish officer was killed in an accid- ent away in the wilds of Rajputana and there were only three English- men present to bear the body.

No high caste Hindu could do.. The total affected by this change such a thing, for the dead are a is 24,000,

The estimated cost of the in-pollution, especially an allen body. crease, is £100,000 for the first fin- It remained to find someone of an ancial year, rising to £250,000, and outcast tribe to whom, nothing is then declining to a figure below pollution. £100,000,

When Sir Pertab saw the diff- culty he, knowing that chivalry and high-thinking came before even the Hindu conception of life and the Almighty, stepped forth to share the burden.

The decision to hold the meeting was made by the underwriters in view of the complexity of the legal position arising out of Mi. Bates's

To Hindú minds the action was. action in offering the money back. almost unthinkable and great be--

Mr. Neville Dixey, chairman ofyond men's power of doing. ¡Lloyd's, stated yesterday that the question of whether or not the money was to be accepted rested

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entirely with the underwriters. A certain popular footballer had 23,000 through Barclay's Bank, Uncertain about, their legal posts all players do an off day, who acted as agents.

tion, the underwriters decided to when he could do nothing right. The premiums amounted to take legal opinion.

The crowd demonstrated its dis £1,750.

pleasure, and his fellow players looked at him askance, but he bore it all stofcally.

The Government, tiring of the king's apparently dilatory met hods, started a campaign against him and won. Later it was found that he had done, all that was To-day's meeting, will be address originally required. The docu-ed by Mr, W. C. Crocker, the solict ment, which had. with the grea- tor who conducted Investigations test care, been put away in the for the Committee of Lloyd's be treaty cupboard, was brought to fore the Budget Tribunal's Inquiry light.

began.

For the Besch Fill your thermos. flask with *Oraltina' Gold which has all the energy-giving qüu<ltles

of.

Ovaltine in a

most daileiousza 1 refreshing form.

Make certain that your light Summer meals are complete in nutritive value by drinking a glass of delicious OVALTINE with them

There is only ONE OVALTINE'

MARLENE DIETRICH'S

DAUGHTER

To Study In London

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London, June 14.

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EARL OF ATHLONE

New Colonel Of The Life Guards

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London, 'June 14.

I Hear that Maria Bieber, the The King has approved the up- daughter of Marlene Dietrichy18 1-cintment of Col. (honorary coming to England for the com- Major-Gen) the Earl of Athlone pletion of her education, writes aan Colonel of the Life Guards in correspondent.

succession to the "late Field- One insurer received a letter from

Her mother in private. llte Frau Marshal Viscount Allenby, the underwriters yesterday, saying

Sieber-is anxious for her to have Lord Athlone, who 15 Queen that they were taking advice about

what she calls. a "cosmopolitan" Mary's brother, is 62. He was for: their posltioip They offered him The Anal blow fell, however, education, and arrangements have, seven years Governor-General. «f! an opportunity to refund the when he left the ground at the end been made for Maria to come to South Africa, 2012 15 Chancellor of money before they took action. of the game. A grubby urchiní, a boarding school near London London University," A writer: in, the Foreign Office

Mr. Bates asked me to deny a who had been hangfrig round the When she has completed her He is also Colonel of the Tah was suspected and prosecuted, A The Post Office. secrets have I understand that the under-report that there has been a split, players entrance sidled up to him latest n'm Miss Dietrich will bring Queen's Own Hussars, Honorary charge of stealing the document long been protected, and the sanc-writers will afterwards receive the between himself and Mr. Harold and thrust a piece of paper into her daughter over to England. Colonel of the University of Lon- falled. and tax there was no law tity of telegrams has been con guidance of the Committee of Eves, the solicitor who was con- his hand.

When she returns to Hollywood don contingent of the Senior ngainst disclosure alone; the Bow- trolled as long as that part of the Lloyd's, The Committee in the cerned in the Budget Insurance

Eremist

he said sadly,fter the London visit the will be Division, Omcers Training, Corpe. street magistrate discharged the service has been conducted by the first place advised them to pay the transactions. Our relationship re- "there's" vore blinkin autogrart parting from Maria for the first and Governor and Constable, of

Government.

maina unaltered," he assured me back

time slace the child was born.

Windsor Castle. “

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