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STAPLES
TOMATO EGGS
Take the required number of tomatoes, allowing one for each person. Dip in boiling water for a few moments. then remove skin. Cut a thick slice from top of each tomato, and with a pointed knife scoop out a good deal of the flesh. taking dare not to break the shell of the tomate. Sprinkle well with pepper and salt, and add just a few grains of sugar,
Mix the tomato scooped out with grated cheese and a little nely minced onion, and relpace a little in each case. Then break in whole egg into each case, sprinkle again with pepper and salt, cover with remaining mixture, place a nut of butter on each, and arrange in a well-buttered casserole dish.
Cover tightly and bake in a moderate oven until the eggs are set and the tomatoes are tender.
· EGGS "AND TOMATOES
Take six eggs, llb tomatoes. 1oz butter, 1 teaspoonful flour, salt and pepper, and a little fat for frying,
Slice the tomatoes and stew un- til tender, and then rub them
WHOLESOME
HONG KONG DALY PRES
SURPRISES
CORNCAKES
that
Among the good things come from America are these wholesome corncakes.
They are quickly made with 402. four.3 oz. cornmeal, 2oz. butter. two eggs, one tablespoonful sugar, a pinch of salt, two level teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, a small cup➡ ful of milk
Mix together the dry ingredients. then add the melted butter, eggs "and milk Blend thoroughly, pour into a shallow, buttered tin, and bake in a hot oven. Regulo mark 6.
With Syrup
These little cakes are equally nice made with ayrup,
The Ingredients are; 8oz. flour, faz commeal, two eggs, a pinch of salt. a heaped teaspoonful baking powder, one tablespoonful of syrup and the juice of half a legion.
MIX together the sifted flour, cornmeal. salt and baking powder. add the heaten eggs, warmed syrup and lemon juice. Form into a fairly stiff dough, place in a greas- ed tin, and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
Sweet Corn Pudding
Americans like this pudding," think you will, too." Pour the con- tenta atin of sweet corn into
through a steve. Knead the but- ter with the flour until they are evenly mixed. Re-heat the toma- toes, and season with salt and pep. per, and add the butter and flour. and stir untif the mixture thic-a buttered ple-dish, add a table- kens. Fry the eggs in dripping, or they may be poached in vinegar and water, and when they are done, place on a hot dish and pour over the puree.
SEMOLINA FINGERS
Prepare a pan of pint of boiling milk and 2oz. semolina, cooking it until really thick. Then add 1oz. butter and 11-202. grated cheese. Season well, add a dash of ground mace, and spread the mixture or. a, wetted plate to form ancat square. Set Armly, divide it into five or six finger shapes, coat evenly in egg and crumb and fry crispy to a golden brown inį deep-fat.
Eaten hot or cold they are equally good but they are most sustaining cold. with watercress, and are "easy to handle.
spoonful of sugar, the grated rind of half a lemon, a beaten egg. and a.cupful of milk
Sprinkle with grated nutmeg. and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.
CURRIED EGG CUTLETS
Boll eggs until hard, then re- move shells and chop fairly finely. Mix with 3 tablespoons fine bread- crumbs, 9 tablespoons grated cheese, 1 teaspoon curry powder. and a little nutmeg. Beat an egg well, and with it bind the mixture. using a little milk if necessary..
Form into cutlets." Dip each 'cut- let in egg and browned bread- crumbs and fry in boiling water until a golden brown.
Drain and serve very hot.
America's Ten Richest Men
Rockefeller The Philanthropist
THE MIDAS TOUCH OF THE MELLONS
One of the many stories credited to President Roosevelt conceros a parting shot of his directed at a well-known steelmaster's associate: 'Go' and tell Schwab," the Pres!- dent is reported to have said, "that he will never make a million a year again."
ed to the family's fabulous hold- ings.
(9) The two Weyerhauser bro- thera, sons of a German Immigrant who slashed his way through an empire of forest land, becoming America's greatest lumber baron.
(10) The two Hartford brothers,
No doubt the story is apocryphal owers of the great Atlantic and
THURSDAY JULY 1, 1937.
Teach Your Cook This
SURE Way To Make
Light, Fluffy Biscuits
The fashion of serving hot breads with luncheon or dinner is growboar in popularity. If your cook has never made them, why not begin with, this simple recipe for biscuits. The pictures will help her to understand the various steps and show her how the biscuits should look. ...?
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Hot biscuite are popular with everyone and they are a real life-saver when unexpected company makes it necessary to “stretch - # meal. Thay are frequently served at buffet suppers, sa an accompaniment to menta- in-asplc, or cold sliced chicken, When served they should be kept covered with a napkin, so that they wil stay piping-hot.
Recipe for Royal Biscuits
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons ROYAL Baking
Powder
té teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon jard
1⁄4 cup cold milk (or half milk and
half water)
2. Measure Royal Baking Powder and salt, and add to four. Butt all dry ingredients together into bowl,
4. Measure milk, add slowly, to dry ingredienta to make soft dough. Toss dough onto slightly Boured board.
6. Cut with floured biscuit cutter. Place on greased pan---čar azark te crusty biscuits, close together f thicker, softer bincolis AU DE- terred.
181ft four ance, measure and put in sitter which has been placed in empty bowl.
3. Measure shortening, add to dry, ingredienta. Using steel fark, mix lightly and thoroughly with dry in- gredients.
5. Pat dough lightly with hands to about 4 inch thick or roll out very lightly with floured rolling pin..
7. Bake in hot oven, 475° F., 12 to 15 minutes.
WHITE SAUCE
Que, pint of milk, gr. half mülk
and half water,
Salt to taste.
One ounce of flour,
One ounce and a half of butter" Melt the butter, in a small pan. mix in the flour, smoothly, and cook for three or four minutes over a slow fre, stirring all the time. It must not be allowed to brown In the least. Add the quid gra- dually, stiring all the time, and then continue to stir over the fire until it bolls and thickens. Season to taste, strain, and it is ready for use.
A VARIATIONS
1. If to serve with meat or poul- try, use half milk and half white stock, or use milk and water and shid a bayleaf and half a small on- lon, and simmer for ten minutes,
2. If to serve with fish, use half milk and brif dah stock, or fish stock stock and water.
3. For parsley sauce, add to, a pint of white sauca one, large tablespoonful of chopped parsley and a half teaspoonful of lemon Juice.
4. For anchovy sauce to serve with fish, add anchovy to taste, being sparing with the salt.
5. For onion sauce, boll three onions till tender, drain, chop them finely and add them to hälf a pint of white sauce.
6. Sweet Melted Butter Sauce.- Add sugar to taste to the founda- tion- sauce.
7. Egg Sauce-Add one chopped hard-boiled egg to half, a plot of white sauce. Season with extra salt and pepper
CHOCOLATE BANANAS
Have you erer tried Chocolate. Bananas?
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Using 10 of plain block „covering" chocolate for every three bananas, melt it down over gentle heat (such as a pan of hot water), then peel and halve the bananas and mount each on a cocktail stock. Coat them when the. choco- tale is ready and lay them to harden va a wire cake rack, and roll up in waxed paper ready for the ration bag.
They are eney to hold by the stem, and peel" gradually like a choice bar.
Vanilla Cream
Scald 2 cups milk in a double boller: Beat 3 egg yolks with a cup sugar and a pinch of salt, then add to the milk. Cook, stir- ring constantly until the mixture
labour confict. Saul became Paul | ANOTHER MILESTONE thickens: Put 14 tablespoons gela- In that year. The younger Rockë- feller, swaying his aging parent. assumed the role of almoner of the fabulous off fortune.
even his
John D Junior, has an deeper religious strain than father. A Baptist, he has dedicat- ed his influence none the less to "the task of emphasing the basic truths common to all denomina- tions" in promoting effective co- operation among Christians of all creeds.
Nevertheless it pins down con- Pacific stores, largest ·retail | against Rooseveltism. It is not veniently the President's redistri- | purveyors of foodstuffs. butist creed.
ANDREW MELLON The Schwab story attributed to Andrew Mellon is a relatively President Roosevelt was told in newcomer to any list of America's 1934. Income returns for that super-rich, but he had long had year showed thirty-three re- the Midas touch, sharing it with cipients of incomes in seven the entire Mellon family, probably figures. In the next year, however, the richest clan that ever Uved the number had gone up to forty- Of Ulster descent, the family OTIE...
have been notable for a cold and Who among the 41-million-a-ruthless efficiency reaching out year men are the ten Croesuses of from banks to all and aluminium, America?
In flity corporations, bearing the Mellon name Andrew's share 'is re- ported to be valued at 2500,000, 000.
After some research and con- sultation I submit the following galaxy of America's wealthiest
-men: «
The old order, in so far as it relates to the benevolent despotism individual oligarchs, still survives in the Fords and the Du Ponts. Both stand rock-like the President's redistributionism that they object to, for no con- cerns approach theirs in the re- wards paid to their employees; it 'is redistributionlam' by law. In their feudal "eyes the only distri bulionism that squares with the American system is redistribu- tionism under their own paternal regis.
Ford is the greatest individualist of them all. He is the lone wolf even in his antipathy to the New Deal,
DU PONTS AND ELEGANCE
ONTS AND Of all America's princes, of In Mellon's record the attribute wealth the Du Fonts are the most of money making is subordinated | elegant. They are descended from to his Treasury post. Nothing the French physiocrat, De can raise a sparkle, in his chilly Nemours. They are the grand 'eyes more than a reference to his 'seigneurs of America. Dukes of
(1) Andrew W. Mellon, (2) Henry and Edsel Ford. (3) The Du Pont dynasty. (4) John D. Rockefeller, jun. (5) William Randolph Hearst. | Secretaryship.
ALMOST UNKNOWN
These are all household names. The rest are hardly known in Amo- rica, let alone to the world at farge. They are:-
As the greatest Delaware they have been called, since Alexander Hamilton's. Among | and in truth this small State the Republicans his financial seems to be their principality, necromancy has become legen- with schools,” hospitals, 'asylums, dary. Others do not share that golf courses, allowing their opinion. While he reduced the existence to Du Pont munificence. public debt by constantly under- Magnificent is Pierre Du Pont'a estimating Government revenues scale of living. Yet he wears the has also kept putting down the in- badge of American simplicity in 1 with peritonitis in his yacht income tax, thereby, according to one of his idiosyncrasies. No the over-savings economists, invit chauffeur of his is uniformed, be- ting the
cause Pierre likes to eat with him during his journeys.
- (6) George F. Baker, New York banker, son of the elder J. P. Morgan's old associate, now lying
the South Seas, where he is taking
his first vacation in thirty-five ing the 1929 crash. ⠀⠀
-years.
(7) Frederick H Prince, Bosto nian railroad magnate, better known in Europe as Master of the Pau Hunt, yachtsman.”
(8) Arthur Curtiss James, a_man' inherited wealth who has add-
“JOHN. D.".
Rockfeller is the philanthropist
IN AVIATION The Imperial Airways service which left Hong Kong on Friday, June 25, played. Its part in another step in the history of Commercial Aviation. For the first time the entry appeared in the ship's Mall Waybills:-
tine into a pan with cup of wa- ter and heat till dissolved, but do not biol; then add to egg and milk mixture.;
ENGINE-ROOM SHORTAGE
Since taking Kalzana
headaches vanished
'my
My NERVES are much STEADIER than they were
before
ritas Mr. H. Li, Capt
"Kalzana is a remark- able food containing no drugs whatsoever.
In hot countries one's diet and the extent to which
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one perspires tend to decrease the mineral contents of the body. Many complaints such as irritability, high blood pressure, dizziness, acidity, which are so often ascribed to the climate" are due largely to this loss of minerals.
you
do
When not feel as well as you should, start taking Kalzana tablets. They will soon put you right.
Kalzana
THE MINERAL FOOD FOR BETTER HEALTH. Obémirable at all Cherniate la tablet and powder form.
Each bottle contains 75 Tablets. · Kalzana'is the most acenomicui
calcium preparatoinsiasa
SUNSPOTS AND RADIO
FADING
Professor Appleton And
FRENCH CABINET
PROPOSALS
Paris, June 29
declaration
Recent Observations
In the statement of policy of the Chautammps Government, read Delivering the annual Bakerian to the Chamber and the Senate, Lecture at the Royal Society, Pro- it is stated that the so called fessor E V. Appleton, of Cam-
"pause" of the former Govern- bridge, dealt with composition of
ment was neither a deadlock nor. the atmosphere at great heights,
a retardment, but the present states the Times." Recent work, Government 71 compelled to
concerning the he said, had shown that our ideas draw up definite plans for activity. height to which This plan provides for progressive. the air extends must be consider-į steps. Many of the reforms at- ably altered, for it could be shown ready planned can be carried out. that the air pressure at a height only after the economic and of 200 miles above the earth was a dnancial, reform has been carried thousand times greater than had o
The Government previously been supposed.
There was some innuence tend then demanded, powers for the ing to spread out the air to great Cabinet, which would enable the heights which, he thought, .could
Government "to curb speculation, "Hong Kong to Durban-i bag.
only be one of two things. Either protect the gold reserves," balance. At Alexandria this bag will be
the higher atmosphere was very the budget and provide adequate placed with the usual ton or so of
hot indeed or else it was composed coverage for treasury transactions malls on the Southbound England
The dearth of ratings in the en- of a light, gas' such as hellum. The Bill introduced reads as to1- to Africa Flying Boat Service. 4gine-room branch of the Royal There were certain objections to lows. days later, having traversed the Navy, coupled with the difficulty of be urged against the helium "The Government is empowered length of the Nile to Kisumu on
attracting competent men to enter theory, but geophysicists did not by a decree approved by the Victoria Nyanza, then swung east direct from the civil workshops of feel entitled to rule it out vet cil of Ministers to take all to the Coast at Mombasa, turning
the country, is causing the Ad-' In connexion with the recent at- aures necessary until Dar-es-Salaam, Mozambique and these days. south again to call at Zanzibar, miralty considerable preoccupation mospheric disturbances caused by 1937, to counteract any
bright eruptions on sunspots, the which are calculated Lorenco Marques, the great Flying
According to the current num-early observations of R. C. Car- the credis, to supress Boat will glide down into the har-
berof "The Naval Engineering rington was observing a group of to further economic bour of Durban.
Review," quite recently "some re-sunspots through his telescope supervise prices balance the This simple routine entry may tired engineer omcers have re- when he noticed two patches of get and the treakory, perhaps help to bring home the ceived appointments on the Re-extremely intense white light. "As- | ever, progress being made in the recruiting Stan and sped North to cording to his own words, he was control, and to protect th organization and acceleration of comb the work-shops." But the so flurried by surprise that he ran supply in the the Empire's Air Services: London trouble here is that the men whom to call someone to witness the ex-
This
The "United Services Review comments:
the Admiralty want for direct en- try as engine-room artificers are just the men whom the private yards and factories so badly need to cope with the heavy pressure of Admiralty work.
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to Durban-8,000 miles-in 61 days,
hibition with him, but on return- ratification soon to be reduced still further
ing was mortifed to find that it of the date of pro The next step will be the transfer
was afterwards discovered that 1.10 "any case at of the Egypt to Australia route to
there was a disturbance or the f ordi Flying Boat Operations, with cor
earth's magnetiam at the precise the Cham responding acceleration of scho-
time of Carrington's observation.
This bill dules. Already wireless and Insuficiency of skilled mecha- Nowadays, almost every observa- ( Senate meteorological services, night land-nical labour is the general plaint tory is busy scanning the sun's change ing equipment, Flying Boat docks, of the firms now engaged in carry disk for these bright eruptions, with etc., are far advanced, the splendid ing out the great rearmament pro-and it is further known that they muni new chvil Airport at Singapore grammes, and this certainly does often cause radio fade-outs at the mocrat being an example of what the not suggest fruitful soll for "comb various Governmenta are doing for ing out" Civil Aviation,
time they are seen, some excellent examples of this connexion hav- ing been noticed during the last
fortnight in work carried out at OFFICIALS Cambridge.
STRANGE ASSORTMENT The problem is really one fime. With the addition of the syndicates supplying other news new Caledonia, establishment a papers, radio stations, moving plc- Rosyth to the Mechanical Train- tures-Hearst uses all these meansing Establishment at Chatham the some few to propagate his sensations, Navy will be able to turn out as join the Na Whatever ideas he purveys are many artificers as it is likely to those of the patrioteers want. But this will take some In his style of living Mr. Hearst years, and in the meantime new rivals the Daponts. He is the ships will be coming into service Lord of San Simeon, named after According to The Naval Engineer- his immense castle in Boutherning Review a curior
the world's is developing to mee
Astrange
The ith member of the gilded in excelsis. Devoted to his re- armament is probably the most California cently deceased father, he was fantastic — William - Randolph great delight to enjoy Independent enough to take issue | Hearst, Here is a Colossus - who hospitality, withal," Mr. with him in 1914, when the senior reaches more Americans daily than Har Rockefeller became involved in any other publiciat. Newspapers, cradition
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