1937-02-11 — Page 2

i!

STAPLES

OMELETTES Make A Chocolate

Plain And Varied

Cake

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937.

SURPRISES

SPONGE PUDDINGS |

For four or five people, take two exes and their weight in butter, castor sugar, and self-raising flour. Warm the butter slightly and beat it to a cream:

Whisk the eggs until light and frothy, add them to the butter, und beat until thoroughly mixed. Sift in the sugar and mix it in

Take one egg and its weight in Separate the yolks and whites of self-raising flour, sugar and but three eggs Beat the yolks with let. Put the butter into a basin. a tablespoonful of water, pepper warm it near the fire, and work and salt to taste. Whisk the it to a cream with the sugar, us- whites of the eggs to a stiff frothing a wooden spoon. Whisk the and fold Featly into the yolks. egg well, ther beat it into the but- Melt a small piece of butter in an ter and sugar. Take two heaped ¦ well.

unsweetened omelet pan, pour in the egg mixtablespoonful of ture. When the bottom is just cocoa, make it into a thick paste set, put the omelet pan under the with milk, and mix it with the grill to set the top. Alternative other Ingredients. Now sift in the ly as the underneath sets, it can four, Hittle by little, and add a be lousened with a knife and some very little milk, if necessary. to of the liquid on top allowed to run make a thick paste. underneath to set. This method is best when the omelet is to be folded over.

KIDNEY AND TOMATO OMELET

Melt some butter in a separate frying-pan, and put in two kidneys cut into tiny pieces, also two chop

tomatoes. Season ped skinned with pepper and salt and fry gently until cooked. Turn the mixture into the centre of a plain omelet and fold over. The kidney should

be cooked first.

VINNAN HADDOCK' OMELET

Shred some cooked finnan had dock. season with pepper and make it very hot in some butter. Put in a plain omelet and fold over,

HAM OMELET

Put two ounces of cooked ham through the mincer, add a little chopped parsley, mlr with the un- cooked egg, and cook as usual.

GREEN PEEPER OMELET Remove the seeds from a green chillie put into boiling water, and boll for five minutes. Drain well. shop up and fry in butter for ten minutes. Put on the cooked omelet and fold over.

ASPARAGUS OMELET

Chop some tinned asparagus, add to the omelet mixture, and cook in the usual way.

{

2

Have the flour dried and alted with a pinch of salt, and sift it in lightly without beating again. a lemon Add the grated rind of and a few drops of almond essence. mixture between Divide the small greased moulds and steam for half an hour.

about

It led, the moulds can be put in a dish of boiling water in the oven, the water to come two-thirds of the way up the sides of the moulds. Or they can be baked in greased cups in a fairly hot oven for fifteen to twenty min-

utes.

Have ready a cake tin, lined with greaseproof paper, and pour the mixture into this. The tin should be about half to three-quarters full to allow the cake to rise. Put into hot oven and bake for about three-quarters of RA hour. larger cake will take more time.

When quite cold, ice the cake: Melt a plece of butter the size of a walnut, add half a pound of icing sugar rolled till there are no lumps in it, and two tablespoonful of cocoa. Mix well and stir in authouring, milk, Orange, tangere or clent boiling water to form a thick almond are alternative favours. paste which can be spread on the top and sides of the cake. Pour the whole of the icing on to the cake, and spread it over the sides with a knife.

Here is a recipe for a ground rice cake which will not be dry and which gets beautifully moist with keeping. It is not an extravagant recipe and makes a good-sized fa- mily cake.. The recipe is of York- shire origin."

Ingredients-6oz ground rice, Goz flour. ib. butter or margarine 1b castor sugar, 3 eggs, 14 teaspoon- Tuis baking powder. vanilla flav

Grease a cake tin and line with greased paper, standing well abova the sides of the tin. Bleve together four, ground rice and baking pow- der. Beat sugar and fat to a cream. The next stage is very im- portant. Stir in each "egg very quickly, and get the first well bea- next. ten in before adding the When all are added, Yold in the

together with ground rice and other ingredients.

required.

a

little milk as

Add a teaspoonful of favouring and mix all together lightly. Put into the prepared tin and bake in a moderately hot oven for about 1 tr 1 hours. (Regulo "4").

There is only one OVALTINE The Supreme Beverage for Health

FOOD

OVA ITINE

***

Long experience proves that 20valtine' is without equal for giving and maintaining robust health, normal nerves and abundant vitality.

'Ovaltine' is an original prod. uct scientifically prepared by exclusive processes from the highest qualities of malt, milk and eggs. Although imita- tions are made to look like 'Ovaltine' there are very important differences.

Ovaltine' does not contain any household Sugar, Furthermore it does not contain Starch. Nor does it contain chocolate, or a large percentage of Cocoa,

Quality always tells

insist

on 'OVALTINE'

French Peasant Soup

Slice up and try lightly in a lit- tle butter two carrots, two onions. two leeks, two tomátões, two pota- Put in toes and a small turrip. with them à few parsley, stalk, one clove, a few coarsely pounded peppercorns and salt and moisten with sufficient hot water to give you enough soup after bolling for about an hour. When the soup is done rub through a sleve. Here water is preferable to stock as it preserves the freshness of the vegetables and because of that freshness I hesitate to suggest that you should bind this delicious soup, as some do, with cream or cream and egg. It is really much better as it is, and that is very good

Indeed.

HAM SOUFFLE

This is much easier to make than it sounds. It is much improved by the addition of a. generous amount of paprika pepper.

Make a white sauce with two ounces of butter, an ounce of flour and a gill of milk. When cool, season with salt pepper and a pinch of nutmeg and add two yolks of egy Pound half lean. a pound of cooked,

mariced ham, add it to the sauce and pass through a wire steve..

Whisk the whites of the eggs very stiffly, adding a third if you can and fold them lightly into the sieved mixture. Prit the mixture into

a prepared wuffle case and steam gently for an hour. Or you can bakr the souffle if you wish, but that will take only about half the

Kime.

How Sir Austen

WHY SUFFER FROM

HEADACHES SLEEPLESSNESS IRRITABILITY

When ASPRO'

WILL PROTECT YOU.

THESE are nervous complaints that quickly yield to the soothing influence of ASPRO

So many thousands of people have proved it--if you have not proved it for yourself. you will generally find that your friends can tell you that 'ASPRO' definitely does banish. headaches in a few minutes brings sweet sleep to the sleepless and soothes away your inita- bility quickly and effectively. So why suffer? ASPRO does its work without harming. the heart or the stomach. The time has passed when it was necessary to take dangerous drugs and narcotics for these irritating complaints. ASPRO is safe, sure and effective in action-you can take it anywhere at any time. The fact that after ingestion in the system "ASPRO' is an anti-pyretic or fever-reducer an anti-periodica germicide — an internal antiseptic and a solvent of Uric Acid. makes it one of the most useful medicines ever given to mankind. Its purity and efficienty is vouched for by doctors and nurses all over the world.

Try "ASPRO"to-day

and BANISH PAIN and NERVINESS

Apia —GODWELL & CO., LTD. Obtainable at all Chendiéta and Drar stores. „Throa. Packings 1.5′′m. 10′s, 27′′».

Life In Desolate Madrid

As the evacuation proceeds slow- ly, as the number of motor-cars in the streets steadily drops, as wheel after wheel of the Administration, rolls away, life in the capital seems to told up on itself. Madrid has

"Got Up China become a backwater. It is no long-

China Society: Speeches

Percy

place where er the

initiative originates. The hum of activity- has departed from the Ministries. as it has from many great houses now used for purposes for which they were never meant, One won- ders what takes place behind s0 many "closed. blinds.

Two ex-Cabinet Ministers spoke at the China Society dinner last month. They were Sir Busten Chamberlain

and Lord Eustace

Lord Eustace coined the phrase of the evening. "It is every bit as dificult,” he said. "for the Chi- nese student to and England in London as for the English clerk to find China in Shanghal"

Both drew out the similarities between the two peoples. Again Lord Eustace was the more ept-awept up, grammatic. He asserted that the Chinese and the English resembled each other in being internationally larticulate..

On the other hand, Sir Austen was able to do more than stress the respective traditions which characterised alike the British and

the Chinese.

As an ex-Foreign Minlater, he confessed that, when he went to the Foreign Office he knew no more about China, than any other intelligent Eriglishman He con fided that it took him two years of hard reading to make up his mind on the policy which should govern our mutual relations.

As the Chinese Minister had pre- viously referred to him as a firm friend of China and the Chinese, his patience was clearly well worth while.

"Dai. Nippon".

The vogue for countries chang- ing the names by which they are known to the rest of the world seems to be spreading, v

The ruins caused by bomb and shell are in many places being steadily repaired. Hardly has a shell fallen before the labour of clearing the debris begins. Almost as quickly in some cases as the human victims are picked up and removed to hospital the stones are dragged to one side and the glass The quantity of pow- dered glass scattered about tucked between cobble-stones is so great that at night dark streets become shining rivers under the reflection

articles can be ultimately reduced to a size that will get into a stove.

LH7

The Memory Of Burns

Sir William M'Kechnie At Dunfermline

"Scotland needs the guidance and inspiration of Burns in the accomplishment of her national destiny." said

Sir

William

THE DONKEY'S QUEUE Life has been simplified. It i not a case of Hving to eat but of eating to live. Never have the ap- petites of large families, been so insatiable to worried mothers. To be or not to be?-that is the ques- tion now; se a start is made early M'Kechnie, formerly secretary of and little notice is taken of risk the Scottish Education Depart trom shell or bomb, as new sites ment, when proposing the toast are carefully reconnoltred for the of "The Immortal Memory" possibilities they may offer. The the annual dinner of the Dun- ratloning methods of the authori- fermline United Burns Club in the ties are sufficiently inadequate to Masonic Hall. Dunfermline, last "Scotland knows it." he added. make personal foraging a necessity, month but the ingenious enterprise of numble merchanta here comes to "and will go on cherishing his memory and reading his poems She will the rescue,

at

From remote parts of the city, and singing his songs. where mysterious distributions taka never forget the honour and affec- place, emerge rickety donkey-carts, tion she owes him." heavily laden with cases and sacks Burns. Sir William continued, of vegetables and fruits. As they revealed Scotland to herself, and go a procession forms behind. It made her something different is, in fact, an ambulating queue, from and greater than what he very like a funeral, but with deadly found her. He painted the picture intent on the part of the followers of the Scotland of his day, and of the noon. It la weird experience to consume the contents of the put his country in the forefront of to walk down one. With the life cart. It looks as if the moke were European literature. departed from the Ministers, with, dragging cart and queue together closed churches and emptying with all their cares combined, and streets pockmarked with burnt-out it. Is the most familiar sight in the ruins or battered walls, Madrid's streets of Madrid to-day. monumental character has taken The inordinate honking of mo

a somewhat funereal aspect, tor-car horns used to be the most enhanced by regular-spaced sai familiar sound, but now deeper or cophagillke barricades built of blue shriller noises rend the air-the granite cobbles

scream of hells, the crash of shrapnel, and the whistle of the bombe-though few get enough to hear the latter and live to tell the tale.

on

It is by no means a dead city, however. In fact, life teams on all sides... Washing waves on balconlés or on strings from tree to tree. All day long old men, women, girls, or boys on the pavements are chop. chop-chopping wood for kindling. It is surprising what a variety of

JUDICIAL REFORMS IN AMERICA

"เ

near

quiet. To-day everything was There was no fighting and no shelling. To-night the hidden.

moon

PLENARY SESSION AT NANKING

is

Cult Without Parallel Some people had regretted that not better educated. Burns was He was really a highly educated man. He was widey read in Eng- fish literature, and he knew French authors also, Sir William agreed with those who thought Buras might have been hampered and hot help by a University education.

The cult of Burns dinners pre- sented a most interesting pheno- menon, without parallel elsewhere. No poet seemed to have won the ear and heart of his fellow-coun- trymen just in the way Burns had done. No doubt that was due to the directness and intimacy of his appeal. He got it right across!" as they said nowadays.

Burps could not be called the poet's poet as Spencer was; he had none of the mysticism or obscurity of many of our poets; Nanking, Feb. 9,

he was practically never, or Frominent military leaders leav-seldom, artificial. He was untram-

Washington, Feb. 3. Despite the storms of protest throughout the country, coming

New ing for Nanking to attend the plen-meiled by any idea that he be- from such papers as the Persia became, Iran a year or so

York Times, President F Dary session of the Central Execu- longed to any particular school. ago, while the Free State is en Roosevelt is reported to be deter

tive Committee include General For the most part he was simply pouring out with wonderful art. couraging a movement for calling mined to press on with his judi-

Han Fu-chu, Governor of Shan thoughts and feelings that were tung. Ho Cheng-chuan, Comman-bone of his bone and flesh of his vur own thoughts and feelings, to der of Bandit Suppression forces Desh, but that are sumciently near in Shansi, and. Chiang. Po-chenbe readily intelligible to us.

Ireland Elre.

for Mr. voted for а

The latest to indicate a forth-cial reforms.

The Washington Herald, edito coming change 1 Japan. Most geographers are familiar with the rally, goes so far as to say that Japanese name for the country, when the people voted Nippon. Now, apparently, Japan Roosevelt they 1s to call herself Dai Nippon, Great dictator, "and now they are going personal representative of General are going Chiang Kai-shek who will all ar- Japan, a name which is already to get one." being used in the titles of a num President Roosoosevelt however, ber of big new firms and trusts. remains unperturbed. He has sum

of the Dai Nippon will fatter national ioned the Chairman pride in two respects. It will place senate and House Judiciary Com- Japan en the same footing as mittees to lunch to discuss means Creat Britain adjectivally and of obtaining early congressional above her in alphabetical lists of action on his proposals for re- nations at such functions as the form in the Supreme Court.-

Neuter. Olymple Games.

rive at the capital on February 12, General Shang Chen, Governor "of Homan, will arrive on February 13,

General Sung Cheh-yuan, Chair- man or the Hopel-Chahar Political -Council is also expected to at

tend.

Reuter.

Flood Relief Funds

Washington, Feb. 9, Congress has passed a $850,000,000 relief and deficiency bill which will provide funds for flood relief work-

Reuter,