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STAPLES

MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms baked in milk is a. simple but attactive dish suitable

for

Butter supper.

apie-dish liberally "and sprinkle it thickly with breadcrubs. Cove: the bottom of the dish with small, peeled, whole mushrooms. Sprin- kle them with pepper and salt and put a small piece of butter on rach, Cover with breadcrumbs, and All up the dish in this way. The top layer should be brend- crumbs mixed with finely grated cheese. Put pieces of batter over the top. Pour in carefully enough mlik to cover the mushrooms, but not the last layer of crumbs. Bakë in a moderate over for about an hour.

MUSHROOM FLAN "

A mushroom Bun is always ap preciated. Line a tan case with pastry, and bake in the usual way in a hot oven, filling it with crusts and let the pastry cool slightly. While it is cooking pre- pare some mushrooms, and toss them in butter for Ave minutes. Season well with pepper and salt. barely cover with milk, and cook slowly until soft. Drain the mush rooms and put them in the dan case.. Pour the liquid on to a beaten egg. stir over a low, heat until thick. and then pour over the mushrooms. This can be served hot or cold,

. STUFFED

MARMALADE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937,

SURPRISES

Here is a recipe for sweet orange marmalade. Take as many juice oranges as required, wash them,

THE COOLING SWEETS TO MAKE

Beets

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can be prepared in and cut them in quarters. Remove variety of ways and should fre- the pips and tle these in à muslinquently be included in the menu. bag. Weigh the frult, and to every Their bright red colour adds a pound use a quart of water. Shred pretty touch to the table and their favour is generally liked. They are the frult Anely with a sharp knife.

easily obtainable from the market, cutting straight through pulp and skin and using all of it Put into

bowl with the water and pips and leave to stand for twenty-four hours. Then simmer gently an to the peel is soft and almost transparent; this will take about three hours: Do not let much water boll away. To every pint allow a pound of preserving sugar. Let it stand for a further few hours if possible before boiling with the sugar, though this is not absolutely essential.

When ready

STEWED BEETS

Scrape and slice beets that have been bolled until tender. Have ready in a stewing pan a plece of butter rolled in four, some finely chopped onion and parsley, a little vinegar. sait and pepper. Let the beets simmer in this for a quarter of an hour shaking the..contents of the pan frequently and adding

little water if necessary,,

JELLIED BEETS

Boll until tender, peel and quar- ter small beets. Arrange a bow!

which has been rinsed in cold for the sugar put, the pulp into water. Pour over the tecta a the preserving pan and let it boil dressing made by cooking together lor two minutes. Have the sugar half "a cup of vinegar, three- father hot and add it slowly, let-fourths of a cup of water three ung it dissolve between each ad- dition. Then boll quickly until it 'sets when tested, which will be in

about half an hour pips in all the time, as these give a good flavour. Pot while. very

hot.

Keep the

SUGAR TOP BUNS

·Boil together cup sugar, } cup butter, and about one cup of water. Set aside to cool. Sift into a basin two teaspoons baking powder, and add cup of sultanas. Mix all to soft dough with the liquid. Lastly add one well-beaten egg with a lew drops of essence of lemon. Put dessertspoonsful on a greased oven tray, sprinkle the tops with sugar and bake about 15 minutes. They should rise and crack on top, and

beautifully light. The secret is to have the dough very

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tablespoons of arrow-root" mols- tened in cold water, and five table- spoons of granulated sugar. Cook the dressing until clear and thick. Let it chill for several hours after pouring over the beets. Have ready a bed of lettuce on a serving plate and invert the bowl -mould upon this. Serve with

salad dressing.

or

BEET SOUPS Grate five medium sized bolled beets. Add the pulp to a pint of stock and a pint of milk Heat and thicken with a tablespoon of four and a tablespoon of butter rubbed together to a smooth paste. |

and Season with salt

pepper. Serve hot with croutons made by dicing stale bread, and browning it in the oven, or with crackers.

Apricot Cream

A delicious sweet for Sunday

supper.

When large mushrooms arc available, they should be stuffed to make a savoury "luncheon or supper dish. Any 83.voury iD- gredients in the pantry can be used to make the stuffing. Here is a simple vegetarian stuffing. To a dozen large mushrooms use a capful of breadcrumbs, a desserts- poonful each of chopped parsley and onion. The onion should be Dartly cooked in butter for a few minutes, together with the pars- ley and the chopped mushroom stalks. And the breadcrums, plenty of seasoning, and milk enough to moisten Put the mushrooms on dish. well-greased fireproof

Strain the juice from a tin of divide the stuffing between them put a plece of butter on each, and

As each plece browns remove it to apricots and sieve the fruit. Dis. cover the dish tightly. Cook for a casserole. Fry a sliced onion in solve 1oz. gelatine in the juice of about a quarter of an hour in a the fat and pût it with the half a lemon and a few drops of moderate oven. For a more sub-chicken. Put half to one pound of warm water, then add 2oz, 'sugar.' stantial stuffing add some sausage peeled mushrooms in salted water Whisk pint of cream until meat or minced ham or chicken. to soak. Put an ounce of corn- thick, then stir all together (the flour in with the butter, and two fruit and juice should be nearly CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM

Lastly, add the stiffly cupfuls of stock, and stir until cold).

egs. DouT Here is a delicious dish in which bolling. Add some gravy brown-whisked white of an a chicken plays as important aing and pour over the chicken, into a mould and leave to set part as the mushrooms. Have the Put in two or three rashers of When set, turn out and decor- chicken cut into joints by the bacon, cover, and cook slowly for ate with three halved apricots poulterer. Remove the skin from a coulpe of hours. Put in the and planched almonds. these and fry them in butter untii mushrooms and cook for another golden brown, turning frequently, half-hour.

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Age Of A Leaf Told} By Electric Shocks

Quickest Response. In "Adult" Life

The successive ages of a feat have been followed

by the Bose Institute at Calcutta, under the direction of Bir J. C. Bose, as ac- curately as Shakespeare depicted the seven ages of man.

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FUDGE.-Take two cups brown sugar, two-thirds of a cup of milk, and some butter, the siza of a walnut. Stir all together until dissolved and boll for three min- utes, or until a drop bardens in cold water. Remove from stove and beat until a thick cream. Pour in buttered pan and cat in small pieces.

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COCOA FUDGE-Cook pialn fudge as above, and when ready to remare from stove, beat in two tablespoonfuls of cocoa and beat as plain fudge.

PULLING TOFFEE.--Take` one pound of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one-half cup of water and butter the size of an egg. Boll over a hot. fire until it hardens when dropped in cold water. Pour on a greased platter. When coël pull all light.

TOFFEÈ-Take three cups of vinegar, one-half cup of water and butter the size of a walnut. Boil without stirring until it hardens when dropped in cold water. Flav- our and pour at once in buttered pany.

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CHOCOLATE FUDGE.-Two cups granulated sugar and two cups of brown sugar, one cup of milk, but- ter the size of an egg, one-half a ten cent cake of unsweetened chocolate grated. Boil until it hardens in cold water. Remove from the stove. Stir in half a cup of chopped walnuts and one teaspoon vanilla. Beat until it stiffens. Pour into buttered tins and mark off in squares.

CHOCOLATE CARMEL 5.~One pound sugar, one-quarter pound of butter, three ounces of unsweeten- ed chocolate (grated) and one dea- sertspoon of vinegar. Put the sugar in a pan and add just enough water to dissolve it. Add the butter, chocolate and vinegar. Boll, stirring often until it becomes thick and hardens in water. Pour on a buttered pan. Cut in squares when cool..

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BEETROOT CHUTNEY

Ingredients:-3 lb. beetroot, 3 Spanish onions, one lemon, lb. sugar, 1 lb. apples, teaspoonful of ground ginger, une teaspoontul, of salt, 1 pint of vinegar.

Bol the beetroot for 12 hours. then peel, and when cold, cut into cubes. Chop the apples and boil for, half an hour in as little water as possible. Put all into a preserving pan, and boil slowly for half an hour, allow to cool, then pot and tle down.

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SCIENCE

Lecture At The Y.M.C.A.

Mr. Frank Bell, C.S.B., member of the Board of Lectureship

Boston, Mass., delivered 3 lecture on "Christian Science" at the YMCA, last week when a large gathering attended.

The Basque "command has called of the Bernese Alps." Nine motor * of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, upon the best troops in an effort cara with the Puyal company made to stem the advance. Some strate- their way to Lauterbrunnen, where gically important positions have a special car of the Wengern been retaken by the Nationalists Alpine Railway was boarded. After whose warships...again, carried out a short stop at Scheldegg, the a

severe bombardment of the famous Jungfrau Mountain Rall- Cantabrian coast to day. Bad way took the party to the summit The "reaction time" of leaves to weather on the other hand hinder- station, where a visit was made to an outside stimulus quickens when cd air operations.

the Alpine research institute- Transocean News Service.

they are young as does that of a ¦ TransoceanTM News Service. child; then they reach their quick-

est and best level, corresponding

with the prime of adult life; and time on a series of leaves of differ at last they slow down in their reaction towards the insensitive- ness of death.

The experiments leading to this discovery are reported in the anti- ual "Transactions" of the Institute (Longmans. 188.). They were made by giving electric shocks to minosa leaves....

ent ages.

Other tests made at the Boss Institute show that there is a "critical température," up to which

STRIKE THREAT IN DENMARK

Below we give the sixth instal-”, move, und have our being” in God, ' ment of Mr. Bell's talk:-

in infinite Spirit, revealed a state Christian healing is becoming of mind through which healing less mysterious to those who see, inspiration would naturally radi as men are Increasingly seeing, ate to those who were suffering that so-called material objects are from the discordant effects of the objects in senst or thought, not belief that man lives in the un- outside of thought or sense, and likeness of Spirit, namely, in the that this is true of the individual flesh.

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object called, a physical per- In the nineteenth century lived son and of the aggregated | ʼn woman whose love for God was object called a person's affairs, so pure and true that she gladly Modern discovery and invention accepted the divine. commission to reveal a distinct trend away fromi declare to this age the oirnipre- the breathing rate of plants ste strike of from 70 to 80 thousand the so-called substantial qualities consequent unreality of whatever Denmark is threatened with a many long-entrenched beliefs in sence of God's goodness and the dily increases. Above this terrTM perature, which is the same in workers, mainly in

This

Saturday.

Copenhagen, April “6.

the metal, of materiality. Liberated thought is unlike the goodness of God. summer and winter, the breathing building and printing trades, is being prepared to accept Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy could not have discovered the Science of Chris- rose in rate falla rapidly. At a tempera-

new crisis

con-Eddy's teaching, that "There is no the employers re-te, truth, intelligence, nor sub-tianity had she not been willing Other scientists, it is pointed out, ture only a few degrees higher, the sequence of have made records of the breath- the plant ceases to breathe and fusal to grant a demanded instance in matter. All is Infinite truly to follow him of whom The ultimatum] Mind and its infinite manifesta- it was prophetically said, "Ha ing rate of wheat and barley fea- winter, the breathing rate falls ra crease in wage.

trade unions expires on tion, for God is-All-in-all" (Sclehce shall not judge after the sight ves at different stages of growth. pidly. At a temperature only a few of the

and Health, p. 468).

of his eyes, neither. TETOVA The mimosa leaf offers the great degrees higher, the plant ceases to

Bt. Paul did not require а after the Trunsoccan News Service.

hearing of Jata advantage that it has a conducting breathe and dies.

laboratory in order to be convinced ears!... and he shall smite the tisene along which an electric The well-known desire of grow-

that the flesh, materiality, "can-earth with the rod of his mauth.” shock is transmitted to a "mobile ing plants to turns towards the

not inherit the kingdom of God," A mere theory of Christianity. centre." A shock causes the learlight is enhanced If illumination is

that is, hág no place in reality. He might arm the goodness of God to droop.

intermittent rather than contin-

was sufficiently Christian to see, and seek to ignore appearances to that there could be no essential the contrary. The actual Science reality in that which does not con- of Christianity must not only sa form to the simple logic that the sert the goodness of God, but must creation of a good creator is good "snite the earth" in proof of God's It was this Christian purity of goodness, teaching its adherents thought which enabled Paul to be. how to reverse the suggestions "of a distinguished healer of the sick, physical sense, which otherwise after the manner of his great would deny that the cause of res- Master. His emphatle reminder tolity is either wise or good. the Athenians that "we live, and

(To be continued)

OLD IN 13 DAYS

The eficiency of the mimosa lear

improves up to the age of 13 to 18

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LIFE LOST THROUGH TERROR

An oll stove in her room catch ing fire so terrified Mrs. Mary From now on, till the fear of war Mettan, aged 89, Bloomsbury days from the appearance of the is banished finally from earth, all street, WC, that she climed out bud. It then falls into middle age the economic activities of the of a window on to a narrow cop and senility. The same conclusion country Governmental and pri- ing and fell 40ft. to her death. is reached whether the measure-vate should be reviewed from the The fire was a trifling one, and ments are made at different times standpoint of better preparedness | was put out with a bucket of on a single leaf, or at the same for war Sir William Beveridge. water.