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STAPLES

Noodle Ring

With Creamed Chicken

1 lb. noodles 3 eggs

cup Carnation Milk diluted with cup water

} tablespoon Worcestershire sauce Dash of salt and pepper

2 tablespoons catsup

cup grated cheese

Cook the noodles and drain, Beat eggs well. Combine with other ingredients. Add to noodles and pour into buttered ring mold Set in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven (350°F.) for 45 minutes. onto a large platter and all the center with creamed chickeri.

Unmold carefully

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CHICKEN IN TOMATO SAUCE

VEAL STEW ·

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937.

SURPRISES

Salt pork, pound, Veal breast. 2 pounds, Salt, 2 teaspoons Peas,

1 cup. Green pepper, Flour, 2

tablespoons.

1. Cut salt pork into cubes and

fry until lightly browned.

2. Ada veal cut in small pieces,

and brown,

3. Cuter with water (about 6 cups). add salt and cover closely. Simmer for 2 hours.

4. Add peas "and green pepper.

chopped.

5. Thicken the gravy' with four-

stirred into a little cold water.

Pumpkin Cream Pie

What 趄 pie! Its creamy- smooth Alling has a most unusual, buttery-rich flavor, Won't you make it from this tested recipe?

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Pumpkin Cream Ple

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 teaspoon cinnamon

teaspoon nutmeg

teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon cloves

teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

Boeuf Gros Sei

Bolled beef is a dish which either

commends itself very strongly or

not at all. "Boeut gros sel," on the other hand, has a general at- traction, and is a favourite dish whether it is treated in the French way and served with gherkins and coarse salt crystals or whether it is italianised with a pleasant little piquant sauce in "which chopped egg. herbs. and vinegar gure, "Boeuf gros sel" is, of course, "nothing without, the soup that follows the next day. This is really the vital part of the beef and it makes a soup which is beyond compare both as to flavour and as to goodness. The beef must be simmered as slowly as possible so that it does not become a shred. It should be so tender, when cup sugar. cornstarch. finished, that any little streaks of 3 cups chicken stock or Car- spices and salt together. Stir in gristle in it become soft and pala-

nation Milk, undiluted.

muk and pumpkin. Cook 20 table. It should be cut in rather minutes, over boiling water, stir thick, chunky slices. Anything left ring frequently. Remove from over can be allowed to grow cold heat and stir rito alightly-beaten and be served the next day with egg yolks. Return to heat and the soup made from the liquor in COOK 2 minutes longer, stirring which the beef was bolled. With constantly. Cool, Pour into the cold beef some mayonnaise baked pastry shell. Beat egg sauce Cazi be served. preferably whites until stiff, Fold in re- made the day before so that it has maining cup sugar. Spread on. time to thicken. Some people

Creamed Chicken

One 4 or 5lb. chicken, cooked

until tender

3 tablespoons finely cut celery

3 tablespoons finely chopped

green pepper.

I tablespoon finely cut parsley Salt to taste

cup butter or chicken fat

4 tablespoons flour

I cups mushrooms. canned or

fresh, fried in butter

cup of pimiento, cut in thin strips,.

2 egg yolks Paprika

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Have a fowl or large chicken cut into joints. Dip all over in sea- soned flour and fry in a little but- ter until golden brown. Then brown slightly crie of two onions. a carrot, and a stick of two of celery and put on the chicken. Season well. Cut a pound and a half of cooking tomatoes into quarters and put into a sauce-pan with hal a cupful of water; stew After chicken is cooked. remove for a few minutes until soft, with meat from bones and cut in a siteed onion, then rub through cubes. Fry the celery and green a sieve after removing the onion. pepper in the bottom of a pan The sauce should be fairly thick: with a little of the chicken fat, If it is too thin baft it up with a Heat the butter, add the flour and teaspoonful of cornflour. "Season stir until blended. Add stock or with salt, caverne, and mace. then milk and cook until thickened, stir- pour over the chicken. Cover ring constantly. Add chicken, tightly, and cook in a slow oven celery, green pepper, mushrooms, until the chicken is tender." It | pimiento and parsley. Just before can be cooked in a saucepan if a serving, add the yolks of the eggs low heat is kept. This dish is good mixed with some of the mixture. served with a border of boiled

spaghetti.

CHOP SUEY

Here is the genuine Chinese ro- cipe for the famous chop suey which Americans have taken up as

a favourite dian.

Breast meat from uncooked chicken, 1 tablespoon butter, cup

1 cup cooked or canned pump-

kin

2 eggs, separated

Mix 3

For

top of ple. Bake in slow oven serve mayonnaise eggs with the (300° F. 15 minutes, or untu cold beef. For this purpose the brown. Makes one 9-inch pie.

mayonnaise should be made with a fair amount of vinegar and must- Pumpkin-Orange Cream ard so that it has a good deal of Ple, ado F cup orange marmal-sting to it, which is toned down lade to the cooled Alling just by the hard egg-yolk with which before pouring into the baked it is mixed. This, together with shell, Cover with meringue and the cold beef, makes a palatable back as directed above.

dish.

Morocco Chocolate Cake

Season with salt and paprika..23 cups sifted Cake Flour

Pour this into the center of the noodle ring. Over the chicken, sprinkle tiny bits of pimiento and a generous dash of paprika, and over

the hoodle ring finely cut, green pepper. Onion cups filled with buttered carrots, bits of eran- berry marmalade and parsley can be used for garmishes. Serves A.

celery. 6 small mushrooms; 1 cup RAISIN GINGERBREAD

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chicken stock. 2 tablespoons cold water, teaspoon sugar, 2 tea- cup melted butter, 1 cup brown spoons Shoyu sauce, † green pep- sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon per. 1 teaspoon cornflour, i onton. | carbonate of soda, 2 teaspoons Remove the breast meat from an cinnamon, 2 teaspoons ground uncooked chicken and cut in stripa | ginger. 1 teaspoon mixed spice, 2 one inch long. Melt butter, add | tablespoons treacle, 1 cup raisins, the chicken and cook two minutes; i egg, and 1 cup milk, Sift the then add the celery cut in thin flour, salt, and spices into a basin,' slices cross-wise, onion peeled and and add the raisins and sugar. sliced and the mushroomms sliced. Make a well in. the centre" and Cook ave minutes, add stock, su- pour in the melted butter, beaten 'gar, Shoyu sauce. green pepper cut in strips, and the cornflour diluted with cold water. Bring to the boll- ing point and let simmer till the meat is tender. Serves tour.

BRITISH INCOME ¦

FROM ABROAD

egg, treacle" and milk and mix lightly into the dry ingredients. Put into a shallow cape tin lined with greased paper, and bake for 45 minutes in a moderate oven.

MISSIONARY FORMER CHINA

£35,000,000 Increase un hospital recently. He was a

Last Year

Britain's net income from abroad last year rose by £35,000,000 to £230,000,000 the highest figure since 1930, states the "Dafly. Tele- graph."

Estimates of the totals given in the "Board of Trade Journal"

show that:

1 teaspoon Royal baking powder

teaspoon soda

teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar

3 eggs, well beaten

4 squares Unsweetened Chocolate, melted e

:

I teaspoon vanila

'cup butter or other shorten- 1 cup water

ing.

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt. and sift three times. Cream butter; add sugar gradually, creaming well. Add eggs and beat thoroughly; add chocolate. Blend, Add flour, alternately, with water, in small amounts, beating after each addition. Add vanilla. Bake in two greas ed 9-inch layer pans in moderate oven. (350 F.) 30 minutes, or until done. Spread Raisin Nut Morocco Frosting between layers and on top and sids of cake,

· Raisin Nut Morocco Frosting Mix well in top of double boller: 2. unbeaten egg whites, 1 cups granulated sugar, cup firmly packed "brown sugar, and 6 tablespoons water,

Place over rapidly boiling water, beat constantly with rotary egg beater, and cook 7 minutes, or until frosting will stand 11 peaks. Remove from boiling water; add, 1 cup cut raisins, 1 cup broken walnut meats, teaspoon grated lemon rind. Then fold in carefully, but thoroughly, or square Baker's Un- sweetened Chocolate, melted, and spread on cake.

(All measurements are legel)"

ROYAL AIR FORCE EMPIRE

Parachute Duty Pay

It has been decided that, with,

"PREFERENCE”

TO JAPAN

effect from January 1, 1937, duty Barriers To British

The Rev. Alfred 8ills, general secretary of the Hibernian Church Missionary Society, died in à Dub-

missionary at Klenning in China pay at the rate of 3d. a day may for many years and made an un-

be issued to aircrafthands, group successful attempt to save two

V, below the rank of corporal, who women missionaries. Miss Eleanor have passed satisfactorily a courab Harrison and Miss Edith Nettle the care, packing, and main- ton. who were captured and held tenance of parachutes to ransom by Chinese Communists employed in assisting the parachute officer, states *Times"

in 1930,

While negotiations were in. pro- gress for the release of the women

Goods

Great Britain cannot negotiate and Are with a part of the British Empire. unit Other countries can. Japan is at

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the belief that the up and down

tendency of trade would disappear.

EXPORTS

The recent recovery had shown British Trade Balance:

the possibilities of energizing the home market and staging a mea sure of domestic prosperity, more or less regardless of international conditions and oversea trade. This

deter-

Prices And Wages

Mr. Colin . Campbell devoted a considerable part of his speech at the annual meeting of the Nation- position of Britain's trade balance. al Provincial Bank recently to the

Mr. Campbell said that the targe increase in Britain's visible im- porte, as compared with that of Exports, during 1936, had naturally caused a certain amount or un- easiness, since it was generally as-

the value of her invisible exports

Sir Harold Bellman, speaking at the annual dinner of the Pen-hd other points suggested that zance Chamber of Commerce last we should neglect nu factor which month, said that it had been sug-promised any niltigation of the downward plunge of the trade cycle. gested that recovery In trade and industry had been made possible | We should seek to avoid the ex- largely by the rearmament pro-tremes of pessimism in a slump and gramme and the housing "boom." of optimism in a "boom." Instead While rearmament had been a we should, especially in a slump. factor within limits, it was pos- pian and organize with a sible to exaggerate its influence,mination to try for ourselves what sumed that the improvement in It had been calculated that re- were the posabilities of, our mar- cent rearmament expenditure, in-get, without too readily imitating cluding a generous allowance for other people's despairing attitude could not be sufficient to counter-

balance it. consequential expenditure, hardly This 'should not be undertaken That

Improvement. without careful technical prepara-must be substantial and might amounted to five per cent of the

tion and without a realistic out- fairly be expected to continue. national Income, and had thus been a relatively minor influence

"Any fear." he said, "that we in recent industrial progress. The

are living on our capital to any aspect of rearmament that was

great extent can easily be ex- perhaps most disquieting was that

aggerated.""" manufacturers. being fully pre- occupied by the need of the home market, would lose grip on their this oversea markets, and once foothold had been lost, it was ex-

tremely difficult to recover under modern conditions...

Local authorities were likely to be building on a considerable scale

during the next few years, and al-

though England might be within measurable distance of some re- duction of output of houses built by private enterprise, it seemed unlikely that a precipitous decline, with a great disorganization of the Industry. would take place.

AVOIDING EXTREMES

the

and

however,

He thought it natural, in view or exchange restrictions, for British Industry to pay less attention to overseas markets.

"MUST NOT NEGLECT CUSTOMERS ABROAD"

100k. It imposed a heavy oblign- tion on individual initiative leadership, but this should Mot deter a leader who was worth his name. A slump should be recog-

Referring to the rise in com- nized as a great opportunity for modity prices, Mr. Campbell said personal leadership.

that if the movement were to go It would be a welcome move it so far as to cause a considerable effect could be given to the Mae-Increase in the cost of living, fol- millan Committee's recommenda-lowed by a rapid advance in wages, tion that the Bank of England Britain might be faced with a sert-

provide should

authoritative ous rise in the cost of production. kuidance regarding the signific-

"We can only hope," he went on, and of changes in Bank rate and that it will be possible to adjust similarly lighten

business prices and wages to avoid any such man's darkness on other points. result." We could not, 'he added, afford ob- scurantism in any

part of our economic machine in these days. It should be possible so to arrange some considerable part of public "But it will be unfortunate.". në works expenditure that it did not added, "If British industry is temp aggravate the technical difficulties ted to neglect opportunities for in- There was a general expectation encountered during a "boom," and creasing Ita connections abroad... the present negotiating a trade agree that business activity would be gave such economic stimulus as it and even to allow old connections. ment direct with Burma. Great well maintained during the pre- could during a slump. He did not to be lost, perhaps for all time. Britain is compelled to negotiate sent year, the speaker went on. It support the claims of the extreme was recognized, however, that the planners, but some intelligent co- on payment of £5.000 they were ployment on these duties (limited with India and Burma jointly. killed. Bome soldiers led by a to

made to serve unit) The Commons heard about this rate of recovery might slow down. Ordination on these lines could be

a useful purpose, This problem of Britain's export former Communist attacked the should be confined to

in peculiar state of affairs recently

The outlook for. 1937 was good. trade was also discussed by Mr. G. kidnappers, who thought they had group V, but duty pay. will not be from Mr. Butler, Under Secretary

but beyond that there was an ele-P, Dewhurst, in his address to the been betrayed by the negotiating admissible for airmen of trades in for India. He explained a series Conservatives found this un- ment of doubt. By taking thought shareholders of Williams Deacon's other groups who are so employed of Orders regulating trade between favourable treatment of Great Bri- and planning ahead within rea- Bank, at the annual meeting. in or for aircrafthands in receipt of India and Burms under the new tain within the British Empire dis-sonable limits, however, we might Manchester other duty pay, such as mates, self-governing

of quieting. Sir Henry Page Croft, do something to minimize any im- those two parts of the British Em-denouncing the "almost penal pending recession in business ac-solved, he said, but a definite step pire.

duties" against British goods in tivity.

forward had been taken during the There is free trade bétween In the Indian and Burmese market,

past year towards freeing inter- dla and Burma. According to Mr. wanted to know why this coun-

national trade, from its many re £349,000,000. Including the "belief that the open door is much "C" "E" and "P" for advance-Butler, duties on United Kingdom try should not at least have been

strictions, which might markaz viable" trade items, this deficit the wisest policy for trade. You ment to flight lieutenant

goods entering India and Burma¦ represented at the conference be-

new era in international economic have direct evidence of the fact squadron leader in the general must remain at their present levels tween. Burma and Japan,

relations. He was referring to the that we welcome foreign goods duties and equipment branches, unless they can be modified by Mr. Brocklebank put the Lanca-

tripartite monetary agreement, into the country.”

for all candidates from home negotiation with India and Burma shire objection in 2 sentence.

Mr. Dewhurst thought that the Referring to his recent visit to commands will be held from Tues-Jointly.

-“Burmese and Indian duties on Japan's largest radio receiving rise in prices of agricultural pro- British goods are tied together for station has been formally induce, which, in so far as it affect- a period of three years." There augurated at Ono. For the time ed the purchasing power of the could be no separate arrangement being, the station will receive ex-producing countries. might also be to lower them even if Burma soclusively messages addressed to of material assistance to Britain in Japan from Shanghai and Tientain, regaining its exporting position to but its facilities will become avail- those markets, so long as the pre- able this autumn for communica-sent remunerative nature of her tions with 25 countries, including domestic trade did not lead her to England, Germany, France, Po- neglect the requirements of her land, Siam and Syria.

customers abroad.

Income from shipping rose by £20,000,000 to £95,000,000, and

Income from overseas Invest- ments by £15,000,000 £195,000,000. Because of the advance in her overseas Income, Britain has been. able to finance the huge rise in im- ports inst year without disturbing materially her balance of payments with other countries,

'messenger.

broad-based we certainly cannot support 40,000,000 of people in The excess of merchandise im- these islands. 'ports over exports in 1936 Was

is reduced to £19,000,000,

"Credit Best In Europe"

This deficit was described by Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade as "absolutely neg-. Ligible."

Speaking at a National Liberal Club luncheon, he said that Bri- tain had now the best credit in Europe not in the world.

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the United States. Mr. Runcimanday to Friday, March 18 to 19, at Yet Mr. Butler told members declared: "The time is rapidly the following stations:-Alder that trade negotiations are at coming which we ahall be able to grove, Andover, Catterick, Farn-present proceeding between Japan say, I hope, to the Secretary of borough, state for the United States, We candidates from the Air Ministry. agreement had been secured. al desired. T

Gosport, Hendon (for and Burma, He understood that agree with you that the best thing Hendon and Northolt only). Hen- though he was not aware of its The curious consolation held out "We are paying our way as we

that could happen to the world is low. Leuchars, Manston, Peter- nature. "I can only hope," he add-in reply by the Under Secretary go, welcoming the goods of the

to have a free exchange of co borough, and Sealand, and in the ed comfortingly, "that when mem- for India was that India or Burma. world into the country," he added. modities and services. We have, "Our international trade le the very by our national policy. opened the aircraft carriers Courageous and bezs see the agreement they will might and it in their interests to

Furious. essence of our being. Unless it is

not find it unsatisfactory."

terrainate this arrangement.

door to these commodities."..

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