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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937.
SURPRISES
Thought And Care Are Needed In Planning A Menu
In the matter of menu-plariping. I would quite simple to alter the many house wives are far too hap- menu and make a note of it along- hazard in their selection of dishes. side the dish that has been Others who have studied the art | changed, also it is nice to be able and pride themselves on their to refer back to menus and make knowledge Trequently evolve too sure that the same dish is nat Inflexible a system which makes being repeated too often. No the meals monotonbus. They are
guest may actually at a loss too know how to order something original for a dinner party. while their every day meals consist of uninteresting that are seldom enjoyed.
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THE FIRST STEP
The Arst sep therefore in plan ning every day menus should be"; the selection of the meat dish for the day, then the vegetables to go with it, and a suitable soup, dish, or pudding as adjuncts to a good luncheon or dinner, After outlining each menu it is an ex- cellent plan to ask oneself whether the meal is well balanced, that is, do the starchy foods exceed the proteins or vice versa? Has ad- vantage. been taken of foods in season? Salads and green leafy vegetables are at their best during the cold months. and seasonable fowl fish and fruit easily obtain- able and cheaper now than when the weather warms up.
How will the dish look and taste when it is cooked, is it too expen- sive compared with the other part of the meal? Have the children been considered and is the food suitable to their delicate stomachs? What about left overs?
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All these questions should be put and answered by every thrifty house-wife- who
Intercated enough in planning menus to the good of her family. In the In- terests of time and economy it is
not wise to have much left over food. The sight ofga bit of this, or a dab of in the refrigerator to most women is more than useless, and until she can, by experience, learn the exact quantities required for a single dish, it is wiser to buy in small proportions rather than be faced with odds and ends of food.
matter how much a praise one's food it is not wise to take him too seriously and serve a certain dish every time he comes to dinner because he appreciated It on a former occasion. Even with one's own family, does not pay to repeat favourite dishes often.
COFFEE RECIPES
SPICED COFFEE CAKE
coffee essence, 2 level cups flour,
Ingredients-Four ounces butter. | 4 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of
cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 table- | salt, cup chopped nuts. spoons milk, 2 tablespoons coffee Method: Cream the butter and essence, 2 level cups self-raising sugar. Add the beaten egg, coffee flour, pinch of salt, 1 cup mixed essence, sifted four, baking pow- fruit, & teaspoon mixed spice. der, and salt. Mix thoroughly, and Topping. Two tablespoons plain roll thinly on lightly floured flour, I tablespoon brown sugar, 1 board. Cut into rounds or fancy tablespoon butter.
shapes with cuttera or cut into Method: Silt the plain four in- anger lengths with a knife. Brush to a small basin, and rub into it the surface with a little egg or one tablespoon butter and one milk, and sprinkle with chopped tablepoon brown sugar, till the nuts. Put on to buttered baking leave it for sprinkling on the cake 20 minutes, til trisp and pals mixture resembles crumbs, and trays, and bake slowly for about top. Cream the butter and sugar: brown. Store the cold biscuits in gradually add the beaten eggs, an air-tight tin coffee essence, milk, cleaned pre- pared fruit, and the stited flour. COFFEE CREAM OUSTARDS besalt, and spice. Mix evenly, and
Ingredients. put the mixture into a buttered
Two tablespoons ground coffee. I pint milk, 2 table- cakepan. Sprinkle with the pre- pared topping, and bake
spoons sugar, 3 eggs, pinch of salt. In a moderately hot oven from 30 to 50 pint cream, I dessertspoon castor minutes, according to the size of sugar, few drops vanilla essence, the cakepan used, and the consecrystallised cherries, about a des- quent depth of the cake Turn the sertspoon butter. cooked mixture on to a cake cooler
A MENU Once having acquired the method
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It will simple to adjust food to the needs of the family with an eye to nourishment, economy and bulk, as the following menu will prove:-
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'Oxtail Soup'
'Soused Fish' · 'Beef-a-la-Mode"
With Articokes And Rice Potatoes
'Fruit Cream' 'Stuffed Eggs' SOUSED FISH
Pomfret is most suitable for this dish. Fillet a large sized one and put in a shallow saucepan in which a cup of cold water and a table- spoon of vinegar has been placed. Let the fish cook slowly and when quite done remove from the water and drain.
After it is perfectly cold make the souse as follows: Take half a cup of vinegar, add a teaspoon of ground spice and a Slice a green chillie. a garlic. and little galt and bring to the boil.
a bit of green ginger, spread this over the Ash, then pour the vine- gar over and leave for two hours. If chillies and garlic is objected to, minced onions and cayenne may
be substituted.
FRUIT CREAM
Drain the juice from a tin of apricots, put the fruit in a glass dish and cover with the juice after adding to it a wine-glass of sherry and half an ounce of dissolved gelatine. Make a custard with one egg and a cup. of milk, add sugar If possible, try to plan" a week's to taste and pour over the fruit menu in advance and should a when quite cold. Place in the re- change be necessary due to an frigerator, decorate with whipped unexpected guest at a meal, it cream and chopped cherries.
Author "De-Bunks" The Lure.
Of London
'One In Seventy Deaths Is A Suicide
One in every three Londoners dies in a workhouse or A rate-
ulded; hospital. One in every 70 deaths in the county is a suicide.
Three London crimes out of four
are never solved, and four-fiftas
ot stolen property goes unrecover-
ed.
Those are some startling state- ments made by Mr. Robert Sin- clalt in his book, "Metropolitan published recently (Allen Man," and Unwin, 105, 6).
"Metropolitan Man" la an all- round indictment of London. Mr. Sindair accuses "this old and noble city" of being "a disgusting mixture or muddle. pretence. last opportunities, and needless misery."
London, he says, holds a quarter of the population of Britain. Yet It is a hotbed of chronic disease, Its romance and its leadership are shams, and its prosperity is a myth Among his points are:--
Lendon has 365 statutory au- thorities. The poorest third of the county lives more than two people to a room.
SUICIDES
to become quite cold, before stor- ing in an airtight tin.i
MOCHA FILLING
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Method: Put the coffee with the milk into a saucepan; heat slowly to boiling point, and strain off the milk. Whisk the eggs, add the salt, sugar, and the cool strained milk.. Ingredients-Half a pound icing Mix thoroughly, and pour into but- sugar, 2 ozs. butter: 1 tablespoon tered individual reproof dishes. coffee essence or black coffee. 1Dot with butter, and place the teaspoon COLOU 1 dessertspoon) dishes in a baking tin with a little boiling water.
cold water, and bake slowly till the custard is frmly set. Remove from the hot water, and leave to cool Add. the castor sugar and essence to the cream, and whip lightly till just thick enough to adhere to the whisk. Put into a fording bag At- |ted with a rose pipe, "and decorate the top of each cold custard. Top each with a rystallised cherry. and serve cold.
Method: Blend the cocoa smoothly with the bolling water, and mix with the coffee. Cream the butter, and add the sifted icing sugar alternately with the coffee. Beat well to a smooth paste, and spread between the layers of cold cake.
COFFEE FROSTING Ingredients.-Three tablespoons black coffee, cup, sugar, 1 egg white, pinch of cream of tartar.
Method: Gradually stir the coffee and sugar into the unbeaten egg white. Add the cream of tartár, and whisk the mixture over boll- ing water for seven minutes. Re- move from the boiling water; whisk for a few minutes and pour over the cooked cold cake.
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COFFEE NUT BISCUITS Ingredients.Four ounces butter, cup sugar, 1 egg. 1 tablespoon
COFFEE SUNDAE SAUCE Ingredients-One cup sugar 1 cup black coffee, 1 tablespoon but- ter, pinch of salt,****
Method: Put the sugar with the coffee in a small saucepan, and stir over slow heat till the sugar dissolves. Add the butter and salt, and boll without stirring for minutes. Remove from heat; beat Hill cool, and then, chill the mix- ture before serving with ice cream, sundaes, or cold sweets.
The Duke Of Windsor Meets
His Sister
The Duke of Windsor met his fixed. As the train steamed in the sister the Princess Royal, and her Duke anxiously scanned window husband the Earl of Harewood, at after window.
the station when they arrived in Vienna to pay him a visit.
At first he looked for his sister in the wrong coach. Then he turn-
He drove to Vienna from Castle; ed back and made his way through Enzesfeld, accompanied by his the crowds to another coach far- Equerry Major Metcalfe. They ar-ther down the train, where the
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WASHINGTON'S Relics Of Kings And Queens.
ANCESTORS
An exhibition of the intimate
quarter of an hour before Princess wayed to him from a win Duty Call At Sulgrave possessions of royalty in Europe
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during the past 400 years is to be one of London's attractions dur- ing the Coronation season, states the "Daily Telegraph."
One in every 70 deaths in the rived county is a suicide.
the train was due
daw. Mr. Sinclair takes the 10 The Arlberg express, on which The Duke hurried to the door boroughs with greatest overcrowd- the Princess Royal and her hus- and gave her His hand as she step- ing, and holds that the excess of band had a special coach reserved, ped down from the high carriage their death rates over the rate came in exactly on time at 3.20 on the platform. The moment Every patriotic American visiting for the rest of Greater London tap..
she had alighted he put his hands this country pays a duty culi at equal to 2,700 slum-caused deaths All arrangements for their ra- on her shoulders
The Royal Treasures Exhibition, and kissed her a year.
were entirely informal.affectionately on both cheeks.
Sulgrave Manor. ception
Northampton-at 5. Great Stanhope-street, will houses 250,000 people, or more
The London County Council now There were large crowds outside. The Princess Royal, who
shire, from which George Washing-be open from April, 13 to May 15, the station, bowever, and the Duke, wearing a sealskin coat and round ton's immediate ancestors went to of the Westminster Hospital Re- with a possible extenslots, in aid than the whole population of who was wearing, a dark grey suit, black hat, looked flushed Leicester.
is still grey overcoat and bowler hat, was happy as she returned her bru
America in 1658, writes a Home building Fund. But Landon badly short of houses. The human greeted with shouts of "Hoch!" ther's gree:lags.
correspondent. In future, however, growth of Greater London is such the men all raising their hats as that "every year, on an average; a { he drove up. *. town the size of Bath, Lincoln, Southport, Warrington, Barnsley.
''NO POLICE CORDONS
or Stockton-on-Tees, with all its Bowing his acknowledgment, the existing propensities to slums and Duke, entered the station. By his
to
was
and
"The Duke shook hands with Lord Harewood as he followed his wife on to the platform.
bungalow-building, has been request, for the Arst time since his presented to the Princess Royal twelfth-century manor house of sons, such as has never been seen
fung into the London stewpot and left to settle as best it may,"
Provincial immigrants to the Capital in the last five years have been 50,000 a year.
arrival, no police cordons or lines of detectives separated him from the public.
Sir Walford Belby, the British Minister in Vienna, and Lady Selby arrived immediately after the Duke and stood talking to him and Ma- Jor Metcalfe.
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MINISTER PRESENTED Bir Walford and Lady Selby were and her husband by the Duke, and the party then walked along the í platform and entered the former Imperial waiting room, which had been thrown open to them for the occasion.
Among the articles already cho sen for exhibit are:
A pair of Queen Anne Boleyn's slippers, in pink silk covered with gold netting;
A part of the mobe, the cap, and the mittens worn by the baby Queen Elizabeth' at hor christening, and presented by her mother, Anne Boleyn, to oney. of her Maids-of-Honour, 80 en- cestress of Lord Temple, and
A New Testament, covered with silver-corded needlework bound with sequins, given by Queen Elizbath to.. her Cup bearer, Sir Franci Kynaston
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RELICS OF CHARLES I
There are relics of Charles 1. encased in à Grinling. Bibbons frame, and a panel of needlework done by Mary Queen of Scots. An-. other exhibit will be an unusual clock made for Cardinal Henry Benedict, Duke of York and Bishop of Frascall, the last of the Stuarts, whose tomb in St. Peter's. at Rome was erected by George IV.
roy life by Vandyck, Gainsbo
Royal portraits and scenes of
rough and Reynolds will be includ
The organisers of the exhibition the patriotte tourist may pay an-belleve that they will be able to other visit for sentimental reasons, assemble in the eight or nine larke rooms available collection of to Washington Old Hall, in the
pictures. furniture, costumes. county of Durham, in which isjewels and personalia, all with in- incorporated part of the original timate associations with Roval per-
before. The catalogue; containing the. Wessingtona, more remote an- full notes and accounts of the var cestors of the first American tous exhibits, is likely to become a President." A local committee, valuable work of reference. which has the blessing of Mr. R. The chairman of the exhibition THE FATAL LURE
W. Bingam, the American amis Lord Rennell and others sasn About the lure of London, Mr.
Here the chief stationmaster was bassador, is endeavouring to raiac clated with the project are the Sincialr writes that the provinces,
waiting to greet them, and in a funds to restore the old hall and Dowager Viscountess Harcourt, moment they came out to face the adapt the building as a village Lady Violet Benson, Lady Hudson in the mass, can never be imagined
battery of photographers posted by community centre. to say they are inferior to London
the exit from the station.
Mrs. Bernard Freyberg, Bir Cecil "It is as individuals that the pro
Harcourt Smith, Mrs. Cyprian ed vincials are traitors to themselves,tunity of taking pictures of his sis-crowds on the other ade of the As the Royal Party emerged the
The Stars and. Stripes
Webb and Lord Gerald, Wellesley, by their recurring thought, Iter and himself, as they left the road began to cheer loudly. There session
The hall remained in the pos-
SELECTING ARTICLES The Metropolis has twice as
of the Wessingtons, or can only get to London. ...
station. He personally arranged were more shouta of "Eoch! Hoch!" Washingtons, from 1183 until 1376, many policemen, to population, as "We dare not continue to over- with the
Many articles have already been cameramen where the the provinces have, but three look the falseness of the London Royal party should pose.
At the Princess Royal's request when it was sold to the Blaykeston offered for inclusion in the exhibi- there was no official welcome by family, The deed of sale" bears tion and a number of sub-commit London crimes out of four are legend aharmless trick of
Baron Beldi, of the Foreign Of any members of the Austrian Go- the Washington seal of three mal- tees are busy selecting the most never cleared up, four-fifths of sentiment. Its effect is spreading. fice Press Department, took special vernment, although officials of the lets and two bars (commonly call-interesting and artistic stolen-property goes unrecovered, The submissive creed of the Cock pains to ensure that neither Press Foreign Office were present, to ed "three stars and two stripes") them. Appeals are being made to and the proportion of mistaken ney, his cheapjack vocation, his nor cameramen had any difficulties mark the fact that her visit is of George Washington's own coat-of-all those who, have in their pos arrests has risen by 50 per cent in short-sighted philosophy of des- put in their way, N six years. Waste of time through pair, his abdication of government.
arma was also "three stars and session any treasures which have a purely family nature.
two stripes." and it was undoub been in royal ownership in the Prices for admission are to be London trafic congestion 18 es- and the servility of his leisure are
tedly in his honour that America past to communicate with the or- reasonable, with special inexpen timated to cost £25,000,000 a already becoming the standard of
adopted his arms as the basis of ganiser, Mrs. Arthur Croxton, atsive evenings. The exhibition will year.
the urban English."
the national, fag.
22, Grosvenor-place.
be open on Sundays.
Infant mortality is higher in some London localities thân in parts of the listed distressed areas. London's unemployed would more than fill all the London buses at
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The Duke returned the bows of the waiting journalists and photo graphers and promised the latter that they should have full oppor-
So free from formality was the reunion of brother and sister that not even the exact position of the Princess Royal's coach had been
One of the objects of the Prin cess Royal's visit is reported to be discussion with her brother on his future financial position.
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Historie, exhibits of Europeau royalty will occupy 20 per cent. of the exhibition Among them will be's lock of Napoleon's hair,
tharine of Russia. The silver ewer and the christening robe of da
used at the christening of Queen dren's fumiture belonging to the among Mary and her brothers, and chil-
nursery of the last Tsar are among the modern exhibits,
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