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STAPLES

LIGHT SUPPER DISHES

Salads of tomato, potato, beet- root, or mixed vegetables make excellent hors d'oevres and are all improved by being prepared before- hand. Tomato salad is particular- ly good if the tomatoes after being peeled and sliced are dressed and served

individual plates on rounds of whole-meal bread.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936.

SURPRISES

FOR A COLD SUPPER

SOUP

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Hot and thirsty players will,en- joy a bowl of cold soup Ürst course.

This is simply made. with good clear stock is a basis. Veal bones, or the stock from a bolled fowl,

and well strained skimmed, is excellent for the pur- pose. The stock should be well | CREAMED FISH AU GRATIN.-favoured. Put the soup in Butter a fireproof dish, prepare B pan With

tablespoon-

Go

and season Allets of Ash, lay them

in dish with a few chopped mush- rooms.

and 2 tablespoonfuls of cream. Put thinly-sliced boiled potatoes on top and Ankh with grated cheese. Bake "In the oven until golden brown.

DEVILLED FISH.--Take a break- tastcupful at cooked and faked fish, season with salt, a teaspoon- ful of chopped onion, and some red pimentos. Add a cupful of good white sauce and put into i buttered fire proof dish. Cover with breadcrumbs and pats și but- ter and brown in a hot oven.

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CASSEROLE OF VEAL. –Take 14 36. of ple-veal, 2 bay leaves, 5 peppercorns, I onion, salt, and tablespoonful of four. Cut the meat into neat pieces, dip these in seasoned flour, and try in dreping onion. Cook for a few minutes and put all ingredients into cas- serole. Cover with bollng water and simmer gently for 24 hours. Stir occasionally. This dish can be re-heated when required.

fu! of semolina and sugar to taste, and simmer for 15 minutes.

FISH

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Eggs For Impromptu VARIETY WITH

Meals

When friends drop in or the family suddenly dectaes that they simply, must eat, eggs, will stand the cook in good stead.

They may be prepared qui.kly and in many appetizing ways.

PLAIN OMELET ́

6 egg yolks

6 tablespoons evaporated milk

teaspoon salt

Few grains pepper

3 aty beaten egg whites Beat the egg yolks until lemon stirring well. Serve as cold as Dos-coloured, add milk, salt and pepper sible.

and fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Pour into a hat buttered frying pan and spread evenly

Cook over a low flame until the bottom golden brown. Then bake in a moderate oven 10 min- utes or until the top is dry and arm Loosen from the pan with 2 bread knife and turn out. Serve at once.

Any white fish, balied, steamed. or baked and allowed to cool, can be made interesting 1 coated with mayonnaise sauce. For this, com bine equal, quantities of thick mayonnaise and stifly whipped cream, adding a little extra. pep- per and salt if required. Then stir in either some chopped capers. "parsley, or" gherkins. Or coat the Ash with the plain sauce and garnish tastefully with slices of cucumber and small pieces of skinned tomato, and serve with a green salad. Or coat with the plain sauce, and arrange a tin of as-

paragus DS, well drained, round

the dish.

STEAK AND POTATO PIE.- Cut some stewing steak into thin slices, dust these with salt, pepper and flour, and roll lightly with a piece of ox kidney inside each one. almost Place in a pie-dish and fill with water.

the Peel and split some potatoes in halves and cover the

meat, letting them overlap. Season and cook in a slow oven for at least 2 hours. Unless this is cooked gently the gravy will re- duce. Re-beat when required.

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FRUIT LOAF

Tested In All Ovens

This fruit loat has stood the test

of being cooked in all kinds of

ovens, and has been handed down

SALADS

CREAMED EGGS 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour Dash of salt

cup evaporated milk diluted with liquid off cooked of

canned vegetables. Melt butter in top,at double boller and blend in the four and salt, Stir the milk and vegetable juice in slowly.. Cook 15 to 20 min- utes stirring often to keep smooth. Add 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped, Heat well and serve on buttered thin dry toast.

SCALLOPED EGGS AND SHRIMP

4 hard cooked eggs 1 cup cooked or canned shrimp

cup buttered crumbs

chopped parsley

Salads are always liked, and i here is one which can be left on the table without deteriorating, as green salads are apt to do. Skin some large tomatoes of falzly equal size and with

a sharp knife cut into six or eight pieces up to three- quarters of the way down, leaving bottom intact. Beat 'some cream cheese with a little made mustard and paprika pepper, form Into balls, and put one in the cen- tre of each tomato. Place a radish On each cream cheese ball and stand each tomato on a piece of sauce. seasoned cucumber. Four over aserole.. top with buttered crumbs little salad cream or hand it and bake in a hot oven for 15 separately. The centres

unt the rumbs are can be minutes or filled with chopped shrimps or prawns mixed with mayonnaise. Another good filling is chopped anchovy or salted herring fillets mixed with chopped apple, sher- kin, and mayonnaise.

1 tablespoon 2 cups medium white sauce Blice hard-cooked eggs, and add with parsley and shrimps to white Pour into well-greased cas-

brown.

FRUIT CAKE

1 lb. flour, i lb, soft sugar, i lb. cach of butter, "currants, sultanas

through 100 years. The recipe was monds and the rind and juice of and raisins 2oz candied peel, 10 passed on 12 years ago and it has one lemon. been made every week since and now it is in a modern Regulo gas cooker, Mark II.

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eggs, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, Finally add 12oz of self-raising First prepare the fruit and line a

1 teaspoon grated nutmeg. flour and sufficient mik to moisten.cake. tin ready for the cake. Put Put into a prepared tin and bake the butter and sugar into a basin. Cream together 60z. butter and 24 hours. This cake improves with and beat to a cream, then add the 70z sugar, add two eggs and a piach keeping, and if wrapped in a cloth

eggs alternately with a spoonful of of salt.

and kept in an airtight tin it will the flour, beating well between Heat well, add 80% cur- rants, 60 sultans, 3oz ground al-keep good indefinitely.

each. Add the fruit at the last with the nutmeg and baking pow der and mix lightly. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and

SULTAN OF SELANGOR GOES

TO ENGLAND

With One Of

His Wives And

em-

MARROW

Stuffed and backed, a marrow is a savoury dish. Peel and halve a large one, and remove the seeds. Böll for ten minutes, then drain.

Mince half a cupful of cold meat, add a cuplul of breadcrumbs, a tea- spoonful of mixed herba, salt and pepper and a little chopped pars- ley. Bind with a beaten egg, then All the cavity in the marrow with the mixture.

Tie the two halves" securely to- gether with tape, then place the marrow in a greased baking tin Brush över with beaten egg, sprin- kle with breadcrumbs and dredge with seasoned flour. Bake for halt an hour in a 'moderate oven

WITH CHEESE

An excellent savoury is made with marrow and cheese.

Peel, seed and see a small mar- row. Piace in a greased fireproof

dish, and sprinkle with bread- crumos. grated cheese, salt and pepper.

Add two skinned tomatoes, Hittle gravy to moisten, then doc with margarine,

Bake in a fairly hot oven unti the marrow is tender. Serve with white sauce gávoured with cheese and chopped parsley.

HOT CURRY

Curry eaters will like marroy cooked this way?

Peel and seed a small marrow. cut it into dice, then simmer with a small onion in a pint of stock until cooked.

Add two teaspoonfuls of curry powder mixed with lemon juice and a sliced onion. Add salt to taste and a small cupful of diced ham, then simmer until well blend- ed. Serve with plainly boiled rice.

CHEESE PASTRY

Cheese pastry can be used for small patiles filled with aspara- gus tips, or other vegetables. It forms adelleious and unusual basle for after-dipner savourles if cut in- to rounds and baked. Or it can be cut strips, baked in a hot oven" and eaten as a savoury with celery. To make cheese pastry, sift four ounces of four, a pinch of salt. and a pinch of cayenne into a bowl. Rub in four ounces of butter and add three ounces of parmesan and one ounce of Cheddar cheese, Ang- ly grated Mix well, and make in- to a dough with the yolk of an egg and a tablespoonful or a Little more of water, Roll out and use.

bake for about 2 hours unti a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake will come out quite clean.

through the British Consular officer who accompanied the party from Singapore the Sultan phasised that his visit la RADIUM SWUNG

OVER PATIENTS controlled by the operator from a

purely medical nature.

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He said that the question of

succession had been 'settled

amicably.

Seven Children me

HIS FIRST VISIT-AND HE IS 73

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New Hospital Safety Device

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His personal Scottish doctor told that there Was nothing radically wrong with the Saltan. but certain treatment and advice

invention for protecting required WES unobtainable in surgeons and operators from ra-. Malaya or in Singapore.

been installed at So he dium rays has had come to England.

Westminster Hospital's radium an-

nexe at Hampstead,

Muffled in hastily-bought

"There is no question of an European clothes against the sudden

he added, "for the opertion." of autumn, but still proudly wearing the yellow Sultan's religion would in any case

English

songkok (not unlike, the

preclude thatë

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Four grammes of radium, the estimated value of which is £30,- forage cap, in shape) which he Looking cold and frail, but in-009 to £40,000, are now at the stone all his countrymen may domitably cheerful the aged Sul- annexe, and two "bombs." incor wear, His Highnem Ala’kddin Sulei- tan walked down the gangway from

un Shah, Sultan of Selangor, set the Cote d'Argent, ready to laugh at porating new ideas in construction tout on English soll at Dover re- anything. He laughed a lot when and manipulation, are in use night cently for the first time in his I greeted him in English.

and day, five days a week, staten. owded 73 years of life.

the "Dally Telegraph.” '. THE REGAL COLOUR

Behind him came his wife, who

He has come to England for

special medical treatment.

His

Owing to the combined power

BOTTLE-SHAPED SAFE

All the necessary movements are

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the patient. He is then able, with a quick movement of the hand, to ensure that the bomb is properly tri place

Each boinb weighs 68lb loaded. They differ in aperture alze: the smaller one has a platinum col- lar, valued at

£225, to prevent "scattering" of rays.

The safe, from which the radium in its container is taken, is a stout. bottle-shaped hollow mass of read, small motor, operated from the weighing 300 cwt. Within it is a switchboard, which lifts the con- tainer into position, and pushes it

Into the heart of the bomb.

The new installation, which has required month of experimental construction in which many eieo-

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POPLAR OASIS FOR YOUTH

Settlement No. 6 And Its Warden

COMPLETE SOCIAL EDUCATION

Among the dingy houses of Po- plar High-street, E., is one with s dark blue front door. Behind the house, trains clatter over points. In the background, crazes on the dockside stand against the sky The cranes are the symbols of Dockland and the building with

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ST. KILDA,

Jane 28. 1932.

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right and the wrong ways to “make | are kimple and friendly, there are up." The girls and the boys will no long addresses.

share, too, in the club's mixed dan- Settlement Number Bix has its ces; if anyone has a radio-gramo- | “house" "competitions. Mr. MacNay phone to spare Settlement Num- | divides the members into Clive and ber Six will welcome it.

AMERICAN FILM MANNERS It is the Warden's wish to teach the boys of Poplet-who, like a many others, too often base" their

ATHLETICS

wolfe Houses-very appropriately, as Robert Clive was an East India and the original merchantmar. home of the Settlement overlook- ed the place whence he sailed.

There is a room for cobbling and .manners on the worst type of Anti-radio repairing. There is a plot of erican flm-to speak and act cour-

ground at the back that 'one day teously in the presence of women: wui be a lawn and garden, No And he desires the girls of Poplar space is wasted; Mr. MacNay trea- to make the best of themselves,

sures every square inch. and, if they must make-up, not to resort to the crudest methods.

The Settlement teaches its mem-

On the notice-boards one reads bers to work hard and

01 cricket, football, ..swimming, play hard. But Mr. MacNay knows that many cycling, netball. There are first- of those who have been working aid classes, with a London County since the early hours of the marn- Council teacher) "dramatics," de- ing want relaxation at night.bating, music. Every day, except the blue door is Dockland Settle- ment Number Six..

There is no compulsion; the mem- one, has a full programme. The bers discipline themselves instinc-exception is Saturday: On Satur Here Mr. Basil R. F. MacNay, the tively, and the result is one of the day Poplar goes to "the pictures" Warden, works on uncommon lines. happlest clubs of its kind. He has been shattering the bad old

and the Bettlement faces the in- Thanks to the influence of Settle-evitable. traditions of Poplar life as effec- ment Number six the Poplar boy Although the need for funds re- have shattered some of the black for the worst sort of "toughness." ment Number Six goes gallantly tively as the house-breakers' picks no longer deserves his reputation stricts some of the work, Settle- walls of High-street, writes a spe- Mr. MacNay took me round the forward. For boys and young men, cial correspondent of" the "Morn-

premises. The

employed or unemployed, between Ing Post."

ment moved there A few 14 and 25, and for girls and women months ago from its former hom, over 17, the house serves in East India Dockroad. The High lantern in the gloom of Dockland. street house had been empty for Here is co-operation; there is un-

¿

new

Settle-

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visit has nothing to do, he assured alone wore a touch of yellow, but of these four grammes, and the trical dificulties have been over- Settlement Number Bix Boon, 'Mr. two years; it was ruinous, dreary; selfish effort; here, too, is broad-

tue, with the vexed question of the Malayan succession, states the "Evening News.”

necessity of restricting any near

only then in the pattern of her approach by surgeons and nurses, scarf.

an entirely new method of auto- The six sons, his daughter, and matic electric control has been de- With him is a party of 25, in the servants sported every other vised. cluding one of his wives, Inche colour of the "rainbow, but not

By this new control, the radium, (Queen) Anjong, six of his sons yellow. That is the special perqu-in its container, can be lifted from their ages range from 43 to 10-alte of the Bultan himselt...

a leaden safe into whichever of the and one daughter. “

Occasionally a" favburite wife two bombs is required and swung adds a touch of this strictly regal into position over the patient. By -SUCCESSION QUESTION

colour to her ensemble without reversing the action. the radium comment, but nobody else, not can be returned to the safe, and The Bultan speaks no English, even the heir to the Throne, must then transferred to the second and my Malayan s as bad.

bub

bomb

SETTLED

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wear it.

metals and special tools, han cost of Poplar will come to a special stable.

one could not have used it as a

minded, yet fim, direction.

Walk through the dark blue door in Poplar. You will forget the en- circling cranes..

Many of the boys and giris, the young men and women, and the mothers of Poplar come now to

come, and the use of expensive MacNay hopes, the grand-fathers

nearly £800.

morning club of their own. Settle-

CANTEEN AND CLUB ROOMS. The arrangement of the radium | ment Number Six may be young: in the container and the general but it is helping in many ways to To-day it is fresh, bright build- physics of the apparatus is the "raise the tone" of Dockland, and I ing, with canteen, recreation-room, work of Dr. E. T. Flint and Dr. to bring fresh Interesta into the girls club-room (curtains here, Wilson, respectively physicist and | lives of those who see the mount- flowers and a minor), a spacious

Some men are born meek; some assistant physicist to the hospital ing cranes for ever on the horizon. gymnasium, a chapel. The chapel acquire it; others get married. The design and constraction were Mr. MacNay is dealing with, one seats 89, it has stained-glass? m the hands of Mr. F. 11. Carling, | modern problem in a modern way. window from a convent · and an That deaf man who played three formerly technical adviser for This autumn, in the newly started exquisite, plaque carved, so it is saxophone and a trombone at a radium work, and of Mr. D. Rễ girls' section, there will be expert sald, by Anton Lang), from Ober- Matlock fair is a fine example of Carling,

talk on beauty culture, and the Ammergau. In the services, which the right man in the right place.