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STAPLES

SPAGHETTI AND SALT PORK.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937,

SURPRISES

CREAMED CUCUMBERS

3 medium size cucumbers.

2 tbsp. fat

1 cup milk

1

tbsp. four

tsp. salt

Few grains pepper

Peel..cucumbers and cut in one- inch stripa. Remove the seedy

One pound of spaghetti and half a pound of streaky salt pork will be enough for four people. Cut the pork into cubes about an inch square and brown over a quick fire in a saucepan. Do not fry the pork, just frizzle the out-portion. Cook in bo'ling salted side. Take out of saucepan and put aside. Sift a little flour into the hot fat and brown over a quick fire. Add about a cup of hot water and bring to the botl. Put pork back into saucepan. cover and let It simmer till the spaghetti 13 ready.

Bring some water to the boil. salt It lavishly, then add the spaghetti and boll until tender. Drain, turn the spaghetti Into the same saucepan as the bacon stew. stir well, and serve very hot.

If you use soya sauce, add it to the bacon stew, and omit the salt In the water used for cooking the spaghetti.

"PIQUANT "TOMATO

SALAD

medium-size tomatoes

1 tbsp. chopped parsley

pound American cheese, or

water until tender; drain. Heat fat, add four, salt and pepper. Add milk gradually and cook over bot water, Add cucumbers

on each serving.

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PEACH DESSERT

1 No. 21 can peaches

cup brown' sugar

tap. nutmeg

1 tsp. Angostura bittera

Whites 4 eggs

+ tsp. salt

4 tbp. sugar

cup chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts or Brazil nuts),

Cream Of Vegetable Soup

2 medium alze potatoes (peeled

and diced)

2 small onione, chopped.

1 cups chopped watercress

1 cups chopped lettuce

2 medium carrots aliced

2 stalks celery, chopped 1 bay leaf

4 cups boiling water

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4 tbsp. butter

Pour peaches with syrup into greased baking dish. Sprinkle with brown sugar, Angostura bitters stirring constantly... and nutmeg. Add salt to egg

and heat thor-whites and oughly. Sprinkle a little paprika form when beater is lited from beat till peaks will

the bowl. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating constantly. Spread on peaches in baking dish or place 2 tablespoon on each peach half. Sprinkle with the chopped nuts. Place in a moderate oven until meringue is firm and browned-lightly. Remove from oven and serve warm or allow to cool and chill in the refrigerator. whipped cream may be added if

MACAROON PUDDING

2 cakes cream cheese

1 cup dried macaroon crumbs Dash of salt

cupgrated pineapple, drained Mix cheese, pineapple and salt. Line a dish with waxed paper and sprinkle cub macaroon crumbs in bottom: cover with cheese mix- ture and sprinkle with the re- maining crumbs. Place in the re- frigerator overnight. squares to serve:

Cut In

CUCUMBER SALAD CHINESE STYLE

4 hard-cooked eggs, sliced

This is really cucumber zind Put the tomatoes in bolling salad, something crisper and more water for a moment to loosen exciting than the usual kind. Peel skins. Peel and put in ice box to

a cucumber with short downward chill. With a sharp knife make strokes of the knife, taking off a parallel cuts from the top almost good deal of the flesh with the to the

bottom of the tomates, skin. Dress being careful not to sever the sec-vinegar and salt or with the Chi- the peelings with tions In the cuts thus made in- nese dressing given above. The sert very thin slices of cheese or inner section of the cucumber.can egs. Arrange on crisp lettuce and be sifced and used för ordinary sprinkle with parsley. Serve with English cucumber salad. This is piquant dressing.

a very economical idea.

HONG KONG (SELANGOR) RUBBER

Satisfactory Results

The Twenty-fifth Annual Gene- ral Meeting of Hong Kong (Belan- gor) Rubber, Limited, was held re- cently at 7. Martin's Lane, Lon-. don, É.C.

the air to some extent on funda- mentals, but it is impossible at this juncture to form any idea as to the incidence of the tax on a company such as ours. ·

CASTLEFIELD (KLANG)

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INTEREST

Castlefield

destred.

PINEAPPLE AND

CUCUMBER SALAD

2 tbsp. gelatine

cup cold water

1 cup boiling water

+ cup sugar

tsp. salt

cup vinegar

Juice of lemon

1 cup diced cucumber

1 cup shredded pineapple

cup mayonnaise

i cup cream, whipped Paprika

Soak gelatine in cold water for

water. 5 minutes, then dissolve in boiling Add sugar, salt, vinegar and lemon juice. Let cool When mixture begins to thicken stir in cucumber and pineapple and pour into molds. Chill thoroughly.

SLUMP MAY FOLLOW

Shipowner Warns Government

1 tbsp, four

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. pepper

3 cups evaporated milk 2 tsp. chopped parsley 2 egg yolks Place in saucepan. add boiling water, vegetables and bay leaf

cover and cook over low naine till vegetables are soft. Remove from heat, press through sleve keep hot. Melt butter in top of and double boiler, blend in flour, add salt, pepper and milk. Cook 15 minutes. stirring constantly. Add parsley and pour this white sauce over the vegetable puree.

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PINEAPPLE DELIGHT

1 cup canned crushed pineapple 1 cup marshmallows

1 cup whipped cream

1 cup macaroons

1 cup dates

Mix pineapple with marahmal lows, quartered, macaroon crum- bled and dates pitted and cut in small pieces. Let stand for several hours in refrigerator. Then fold in whipped cream and chill again. ¡Serve in sherbet glasses and top

with maraching cherry.

Unmold on lettuce leaves and garnish with mayonnaise to which whipped cream has been added, Sprinkle with paprika

FRUIT IN SEASON

THIS WEEK

Grape fruit is in season now, and large shipments arrive every week. Another fruit which can be got this month is the avacado pear (known locally as the alaguido pear) This fruit is much liked by- |some people. The beat way of serving is to cut it across the top (like a boiled egg) mix the pulo with a little milk and a lot of 'sugar, and add' a few drops of sherry, or if preferred substitute a little orange juice for the sherry. The pulp should then be piled in- to the rind of the fruit which can be placed in an egg or custard- cup.

Mangosteens can still be found in some of the shops. The season for the fruit is nearly over, and it is apt to be amall, but it is still sweet and full of favour. Beautiful "oranges are on sale everywhere, and quite a number of small sized mangoes are displayed. This fruit also will soon be over, and is best pulped

year... for ice-cream at this time of

PEPPER AND

GRAPEFRUIT SALAD

8 green peppers 1 grapefruit...

+ cup celery

cup chopped walnut kernels Mayonnaise

Cut slices from stem ends of peppers and remove seeds. Peel grapefruit and cut in sections, then into small pieces. Cut-celery into small pieces. Mix grapefruit, celery and walnuts. Fill peppers. with this mixture, and cover with mayonnaise. Garnish with walnut kernels.

PIQUANT DRESSING

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. sugar

tsp. paprika

+ cup vinegar

1 cup olive oll

tsp. mustard

1/9 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

2 drops Tabasco sauce

Fut ingredients in glass jar and ahake thoroughly.

New Bowler Shocks The

New Zealanders

What about it, England? Here's a new bowler forcing himself, to the front. And we've got some Tests on this summer. You've heard all about Jones-just starting his first tions they would be seriously ham-season as a professional with Cla- pered, declared Mr. E. H. Watts, morgan, of course. But look what chairman of the Britain Steamship he's done to New Zealand Company, at the company's annual writes a correspondent in the meeting at Southern House, Can- "Daily Mirror."

Street, London, states the "Bulletin."

reached a level higher than even Although shipping freights had

If shipowners were called upon During the past year we acquire pay National Defence Contribu- Mr. W. Arthur Addinsell, the ed interest in chairman of the company, sald in (Klang) Rubber Estate, Limited. the course of his address: We The opportunity arose of applying shall be in general agreement that for shares in a new issue, by that the results of the past year's work company, and 46,800 shares of ing were highly satisfactory. The each, at 3s. per share were allot profit from rubber amounted to ted. This holding was subsequent- £3,371 as compared with £1.116ly reduced by the sale of 23,300 in the previous year; the receipts shares or one-half-with the re- from tin tribute rose from £8,893|sult that at this date we are re- to $18,818, and dividends on talning a like number, which shareholdings in the two tin com- stand in the company's, books. at paples (Hong Kong and Killing about 1a. 6d. per share. The pre- hall) rose from £1,751 to £3.744. sent market price of Castlefield In the aggregate the net profit for shares is 58. to 58. 3d. the year advanced from £11,861 The value of our shareholding in to £25,734, and in consequence the two tin companies on the bas's your directors recommend the pay-of the latest Stock Exchange ment of a final dividend which quotations is approximately 255,- will make a total of 45 per cent. 043. for the year, as compared with 25 per cent. "for the previous financial period.

The company therefore in an eminently sound financial position. I look forward with confidence to The recommendation that £1,000 meeting you a year hence and pre- should be transferred to income-senting for your approval a report. tax reserve needs no explanation, and accounts showing still further and it is also proposed to transfer improvement, both as regards pro- a like suta to special cultivation fitz earned and their partial dis- reserve account.

tribution by way of dividend.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS CAPITAL PLAN

for

now,

At Cardia Jones, took alx wickets 41 runs. His Agures for the match were ten for 94. The last Ave New Zealand wickets fell for the most optimistic had anticipat-31, and Jones took three of them ed, uncertainty had been created at a cost of nye runa. by the Chancellor's National De- fence Contribution proposals. I shipowners were subjected to the new tax they would be seriously hampered in their efforts to re- establish the industry.

"Inevitably a new slump will follow this boom, and it is safe to predict that if unprotected, the British mercantile marine will once more "enter a slump with 'less money in reserve than many of its competitors and emerge re- latively weaker.

*Therefore, let us not forget the nightmare of the still recent past. The present position is not one which either the Government, the Empire, or shipowners can regard with complacency.

"In these good times, let all parties press forward to inaugu- rate an energetic and comprehen-

scoreboard along by 40 in twenty minutes.

"A WEALTH

of HEALTH"

I mean to

press with all my "heart that your Kalzana has given "wonderful results in my, little girl, who was ailing for some

time, writes a grateful mother.

If your

Child is ailing then give it Kalzana

If any of your children are delicate and irrit able, suffer from delayed teething and weak bones, it is more than probable that a lack of minerals is the cause of the trouble.

Give your children Kalzana tablets or powder for a few weeks and you will soon see the difference in their health. It strengthens the cells of blood, body and nerves, increases, the power of resistance and makes bones strong, and teeth white and healthy.

Give Kalzana to the grown-up members of your family, and they, too, will enjoy continual good health."

Kalzana

THE MINERAL FOOD FOR BETTER HEALTH Obtainable at all Chemists in tollet and powder form.

Each bottle contains 75 Tabista. Kalzana is the most economical of all

-calcium preparatoins.

LEISURELY

SAILING IN

Aims

he said "I'm thinking of a 50-ft. Mizzen-stays"L.” VA

When asked if the South Sea islands are really as beautiful as

SOUTH SEAS they are supposed to be, he said

"Yes they are beautiful, but there is so much sameness about them that we were often sorry to see

the best part of the cruise, he said.

Of Fahnestock land Being out in the yacht was

Party

Duller work at Northampton. where the game was drawn. Nor- carrying their score from 44 for thants were over three hours in

two to 151 all out. They led by 15 to take first innings points. Leices-TWO YEARS THROUGH tershire made no

attempt to get

the 167 to win in the two hours allowed. Jupp went in at the fall of the third Northants wicket, and was last out. Fifty-one of the runs

were his.

Sussex sprinted home at Lord's

Overnight Middlesex wanted 242 to

It was Maurice Tate's first outing this season, and he was in form. Began with six maiden overs and anished with three wickets for 19 runs.

TROPIC ISLES

The romantic

dream of the

many who would like to sail leisurely in a private yacht among the beautiful islands of the South,

Seas has been realized by a small party which has just spent two-

and-a-half years in the tropics, lettering among the jewels of the Pacific seeking to absorb social, economic and scientific facts..

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BECALMED THIRTEEN DAYS

What bothered the party much more than storms and gales were the doldrums. Heavy gales they could handle, but they were help- less when becalmed. For thirteen. days they lay in a hot sun without a breath of air to stir the sails) and at other times all they could do was to ride up and down with the current.

Rare specimens of flora and fauna they collected have been sent to the American Museum of

Natural History and other selenit- fc homes in the United States." The little expedition, which set out from New York on January 1,

In Vanda Leva Island, of the Fifi: 1935, in a 65-1t. schooner of 77 group, the party discovered relics tons, was headed by Mesars. Bruce of an extinct culture in the form and Sheridan Fahnestock, two of remnants. They also did some Just as easy for Notts against young Americans Surrey. Only 40 runs were requir: family. No tyros at navigation, group and sent some fine pearls to of wealthy peari, diving in the Cook Islands ed when play began, so it was free they learned to sail in various members of their families in the day for a thousand spectators at sorts of craft in Long Island sound United Staten. Trent Bridge. No further loss and and along the Atlantic seaboard. Notts won by six

The Tourists couldn't stand up win and had six wickets standing to that sort of thing. Despite a plucky effort by Moloney for 85, Half an hour after the start the they were all out for 190. That were all out for 77. Last five went meant 88 for Glamorgan to win, for 39, So Sussex won by 210. and they did with six wickets to spare. New Zealand's first defeat.

Gloucestershire beat Somerset by nine wickets at Taunton. This is how they did it; Hammond six for 28. Gloucester needing 26 to win, and Barnett 6, 4, 4, 4. 2 in one over Over to Old Trafford, where the fight was at its grimmest. Paynter defed Yorkshire for five and a quarter hours. Verity just as dogged. He bowled nearly all the time, had only 43 runs scored off him in forty-five overs, and captured "four wickets.

from AndreWS.

Paynter got 86 and helped Wat son to put on 74 for the third part-

Mr. Sheridan Fahnestock, cap-

LORD Fahnestock, told a reporter of

the in entomology An Englishinaz,

Mr. Sheridan Fahnestock, captain of the yacht, la devoted to tain of the ship, smiled pleasantly studies and research on marine while his mother, Mrs. Bruce life, while his brother is interested"

AMUSING SLIP

FAVOURABLE PROSPECTS With regard to the current year, on the quota allowance at present fixed, approximately 341,7001b. cạn 'be exported, which is an increase of some 70,000lb. on last year's

sive shipping policy, which a when nership Lancashire all out for 107 "Don't Put All Black Women crop Agure. There is every in-

the alump does overtake us, will and Yorkshire got the 35 needed Following the publication re-enable the British shipping indus-to win by ten wickets. dication that we shall secure a cently of the plans for the exten- try to hold its own." higher average price, so that we sive "development of Imperial air can look forward to a further ex-mail services over a 15-year period,

Dansion in the net profits from Imperial Airways is now taking ORDERED BY SMELL rubber

steps to increase its capital. Meet

sanction an increase in the capital from £1,000,000 to £5,000,000, by the creation of 4,000,000 new £1 shares, and to make the conse quential alteration in the articles of association

The amount to be received byings are convened for June 18 to way of tin tribute will certainly not be less than for the past year, and the interim dividends already declared by the tin companies we are interested in show an advance on those paid for the correspond ing period.

UNA

It therefore seems certain that the total result for the current year will show a growth of pro- nts" and with this knowledge your minds will at once turn to the devastating National Defence "Contribution proposals of the

Chancellor of the Exchequer,

The text of the Finance Bill published on Monday last clears

e

Nothing is eald in the circulars, now issued, as to the company's intentions regarding the issue of the new shares though it will be recalled that the chairman, Bir Eric Geddes, has on more than one occasion mentioned that an issue would be needed. The new shares to be created can be issued at the discretion of the board subject to the Air Minister's approval:/

How Professor Punishes Failed Students

St. Paul, Minnesota. Infuriated by the poor answers

HAMPSHIRE'S FIRST

Good for Hampshire. First win. hampton. Bright cricket here. Best Kent by 11 runs at Bou Something happening all the time. Especially when Levett and Wyatt got together late in the Kent innings, and rattled the

In One Basket?!

"North-China Daily News" of how Mr. Dennis Paleston, who is still

she had found herself leaping with the party, is a bird specialist around the world since the begin- and painter of wild life.

ning of the cruise the herself

spent a good deal of time on the little yacht in the tropics.

ONLY MISHAF

The only mishap they ever had

Mra. Bruce Fahnestock and her was to lose a spar. Asked if they The Earl of Clarendon, former son are leaving Shanghat for Pel- had ever been aground or any-

African Club at the Bavoy Hotel, spend some time in the north to as was rocaced us the cruise Governor-General of South Africa, ping where they will join Mr. thing like that, Mr. Fahnestock who was the guest of the South Bruce Fahnestock Jr. They will said they were not that sort of London, recently, told a story recover from malaria in their sys crew was reduced as the cruise against himself.

tema. The long years in the progressed as all members of the He said that he was speaking in tropies were not without their party proper were interchangeable Afrikaans at Paarl, near Cape

drawbacks.

at the various navigating posts. Town, and tried to warn his ag

The schooner was sold recently

There is no such thing a dience of the danger of putting in Manila and the brothers are beachcomber anymore in the South in one basket now arranging to have another Sex Islands. People who go down "Actually, I told them not to put boat built which will take them thinking they can live on bread- all their black women in one bas- through the Indian Ocean towards fruit or on the natives, and that ket,” he said.

New York Beyond the

dhan they cannot, Mr. Fahnestock con- Ocean, they are

tinned. To get to the islands in a steamer, you have to have a

Tip ticket he sdded that, unless one is able more around freely in EDEN

the South Beas are not uch fun, quickly growing mono- tonous..

to his eximination papers, Proar liberally sprinkled with attar all their eggs in one basket, fessor Madigan, head of the de- of roses partment of physics at St. Thomas College, has exacted an ingenious revenge

He was so disgusted that he de- cided that mere marks were in- adequate to express his feelings

were placed in a jar which gave. Papers not quite up to standard

gen sulphidel a off the rotten egy odour of hydro-

The worst papers were placed in a jár impregnated with the ex tremely offensive odour given on by

So he placed the examination papers in three large jara batorio acid r

Papers of students who passed the examination were placed in a

Students had to delve in the three lars to find their papers.

blems, he said, "I am one of those about what course they wal

Speaking of South Africa's pro-

who believe that wisdom and We have statesmanship will prevail and put Africa, that in the long run, the Union, board," said Mr. Bh will rise friumphantly over all tock Asked what problem.

ssel the next one