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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937.

STAPLES URPRISES

VEGETABLE MARROW.

SOUP

Take a young marrow. Peel ad slice the marrow and u larke onton. Cover with water and bull "gently until soit, putting in the onlon about fifteen minutes before the marrow. Drain well and rub through a sieve. Add a pint arid a half of milk and bring to the boll. Work a siäll piece of butter into a dessert-spooniul of Bour and drop this bit by hit into the soup, stirring well. Boll for five minutes and if not thick enough. | add more butter and flour. Sea- son well and pour into soup-cups. Sprinkle each portion with Anely chopped parsly and hand-toasted or tried sippets of bread. A te cream can be stirred in before the soup is served.

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CORNED BEEF HASH Open "a tin of corned beef and x two breakfastcupfuls of it with three breakfastcupfuls eoid chopped boiled potatoes, Sea- son with salt and pepper and put the mixture into a slightly butter- well edfrying-fan Stir unth mixed and put the pan over heat where the hash may brown evenly underneath. An asbestra mat should be used it the dish, is cooked on a gas stove).

low

It will take about three-quarters f an hour if properly done. Then turn it over on to a hot plate and grash with parsley. Add chop- ped parsley to the mixture if you like.

If you like, make your hash with bretrout by adding half as much chopped cooked potatoes.

beetroot

can

Cold roast beef

be sub- stituted for the corned beef, in ither of these hash recipes abo A few spoonfuls of tomato sauce may be added if liked.

SHREDDED. HAM OR BACON

FISH FRITTERS

and other tasty dishes

Those who like tried fish will welcome these appetising fritters for a change.

They are made with 1lb. flaked fish large Makes are best). 5oz. tear, pint milk, one egg. a pinch of salt.

Sieve flour and salt into a basin, add the beaten egg and milk, and beat until smooth. Add the flaked the mixture by "ash, then drop

spoonfuls" into belling hot fat.

Cook until the fritters, are. crisp and brown. Remove with a spoon (one containing holes to allow fat well on to drip through), drain

a hot dish, paper and serve on garnished with sprigs of parsley and thin-slices of lemon.

HERRING IN SAUCE Another dish to try when there's Ash or dinner is herring in sauce. Wash and clean the fish, and dry in a cloth. Mix together a little chopped parsley, salt, pepper and flour, season the herring with this, then grill for ten minutes until etish and brown. Place on paper. on a dish to drain.

Meanwhile, boll a finely chopped onion in half a pint of vinegar Melt 1oz. and water, then strain.

1n 3 margarine' In a pan. stir tablespoonful of four and a little made mustard.

“UPSIDE-DOWN”

CAKES

An American Dessert

Delicacy

cakes.

American housewives are very of serving upside-down" fond

ате neces- cakes. Special tins

for sary

making these

of secret

the tin is rhe a rounded bottom and flared

that 50

the cäke is sides, easy to remove.

These cakes are usually served hot in America a dessert. They are rather sticky and, therefore better eaten with a spoon and fork. To make an upside-down cake, butter is Arst melted in the cake tin, and then sugar is added. The mixture is spread evenly over the bottom of the tin, and fruit arranged care- fully. Then the cake mixture is poured in, and the cake is baked. While hot turn but upside down on the serving plate, and serve at once

Here cream. with whipped

are

sume good recipes.

PRUNE-GINGER-Melt 2 table- spoonfuls of butter in cake in. mix with 4 oz. granulated sugar Stir in a and cupful of water. teaspoonful ground ginger. Sprin- Mix well together then stir in klè cupful of chopped walnuts the onlon liquid and two teaspoon-over the bottom of the tin and ar- tuls of Worcester sauce. Boll for range on top 2 cupfuls of stoned

prunes, cut sides downwards. two or three minutes, stirring con- stantly. ther remove the paper from the dish, and pour the sauce round the herring.

COD STEAKS AND ONIONS Very flavoursome is cod serted with fried onions.

Place the washed and dried cod steaks in a buttered baking tin Sprinkle with lemon juice, ther bake

moderate oven In a twenty minutes.

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For cake mixture cream 20% of butter with 4oz granulated sugar, add cupful molasses 2 beaten eggs. mix well and stir in Boz flour mixed with teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon and 1 teaspoonful blcarbonate of

50da.

Add cupful boiling water, beat well and pour over the prune mix- Meanwhile, slice two large onionsture. Bake in a moderate oven fr and fry in dripping until a golden 1 hour and turn upside down at

brown.

Dish the fish and serve

with a border of fried onions.

HOT SANDWICHES

cnce.

PINEAPPLE.-Melt 3 tablespoon- fuls outter in cake tin, stir in a cupful of brown sugar and spread

Het fish sandwiches are appetis-evenly over the bottom of the tin.

Cut some cold bacon or ham t small strips until you have a breaking.

table- huli tastcupful. Melt spoonful of butter with a third of a breakfastcupful of red-current jelly and add a touch of cayenne pepper. a sherryglass of sherry and the ham: Simmer for five minutes

and serve.

TERRITORIAL

INTEGRITY

Berlin, Oct. 12.

A Belgo-German agreement is

under consideration. It

now

not take the form of a Pact, but an exchange of correspondence.

The relative documents will be published to-morrow, and will con- sist of a German declaration undertaking not to attack Belgium and to respect her territorial in- a "formal tegrity. toether with acknowledgment by Belgium.

Spread thin rounds of toast with dripping. cover with flaked and seasoned cooked fish, sprinkle with parsley, and dot with margarine. Bake in a hot oven, for a few min- utes.

cream

Put a ring of pineapple in the middle, arrange half rings round with a glacé cherry in the middle of each. For the batter 3oz of butter with 6oz of sugar. add 2 well-beaten eggs, then add Form into a sandwich with cupful of milk alternately with

7oz of four sifted with 2 teaspoon fuls of baking powder and a pinch of salt., Flavour with a teaspoon- ful of vanilla. Pour over the pine- moderate apple and bake in a over for 45 minutes.

another plece of toast.

ASSASSINATION OF U.S. CONSUL PROBED

Paris, Oct. 12.

Drained crushed pineapple can be used instead of the sliced pine- Further investigations into the apple, and in this case the cake assassination of the U.S.. Consuls cooled after being turned out, Gener In Beirut, Mr. Theodore

and spread with whipped cream. Marriner, has definitely establish-

Apricots make excellent "upside- ec that the murderer

was an

down cakes, and halved walnuts is sald Armenian, who

to have can be, put between the pieces of crime for purely fruit.

committed the

personal reasons.

To ensure the cake turning out The assassin "declared that the well, a knife or spatula should he refused to run round the edge of the tin, and Consul-General had visa his passport to the United so that all the butter-scoth mix- States, and so he shot Mr. Marture runs over the cake instead of riner just as he was about to leave his car in front of the Con- her sulate-General-

It is understood the German statement will be analogous to the Franco-British declaration of April 24. releasing Belgium from

under obligations

Treaty. Reuter.

the Locarno

SEARCH FOR MISSING SOVIET AIRMEN

London, Oct. 12.. Sir Herbert Wilkins, the famous explorer, has agreed to lead a new search for the missing Soviet airmen who disappeared in August last whilst flying from Moscow to Alaska.

The Soviet authorities, are pur- chasing a plane for Sir Herbert.-

Reuter,

YOUTH INSTITUTIONS TO BE AMALGAMATED

Transocean News Servic

THE PRIME MINISTER TO SPEAK

London, Oct. 12. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, will speak In Man- chester on Thursday next at a banquet to be given by the Cham ber of Commerce. In view of the sternational situation, it is taken for granted in London political circles that the speech will be of considerable importance.— Trautocton News Service.

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT OF "NORDMEER”

Berlin, Oct. 12. The German Lufthansa plane

"Nordmeer" left New York at 4.06 o'clock on Tuesday morning and I arrived at Horta-Azahes at 7.05

c'clock on the same evening.

MALICIOUS

PROPAGANDA

London, Oct. 12

Japanese appeals to encourage

JELLIED

TOMATOES

Served with cold ham. Jeliled tomatoes, combined with green peas and cucumber, make an ideal summer meal,

Cook llb. tomatoes in a little margarine, and, when soft, rub through a sleve. Season with pep- per and salt and chopped mint. Return to the pan, add a cup of cooked green peas, and half a cup- rul of thinly sliced cucumber.

Stir in oz. dissolved gelatine and a teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour into small moulds, previously rinsed out with cold water, then leave to set.

Garnish with a ring of hard- boiled egg. sprinkled with chopped paisley.

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Tasty for Breakfast

Tomato-eggs are a change from bacon for breakfast.

Skin the tomatoes, first plunging then into boiling water for a few moments, then cook in a little mar- garine.

Add a beaten egg, pepper, salt, and

a pinch of parsley, finely chopped. Stir until the egg is cooked, then pour on to hot butter- ed toast.

These savoury fritters also pro- vide a good start to the day.

Cut some large tomatoes late alices, season with pepper and salt, pinch of onion and dry mustard. batter then dip the slices into (have this very thick), then try in a frying basket.

Dumplings and Pie

Tomato dumplings are satisfying and nourishing. Cut a slice from the stalk end of each of six

tomatoes. scoop out the centre, then mix this with mashed potato for boiled rice) and grated cheese. Season with pepper and salt, and refill the tomatoes.

Roll out llb. short crust pastry. and cut into rounds sufficiently large to cover each tomato. Bike in a hot oven for 40 minutes.

WALNUT CARAMEL

2

Put one pound of Jump sug21 into a saucepan with a small tea- cupful or cold water, stir carefully, and allow to boll, when the sugar

has melted. Now add a piece of butter the size of a small egg, cut into pleces. Add also a pinch of cream of tartar, stir, and continue to ball until a little of the syrup hardens at once when tried in cold Trater.

"Have ready some chopped war. nuts, and stir these quickly into the caramel before pouring it into

buttered tin.

Leave to set

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little, then mark it into squares with the back of a knife.

clinging to the pan, leave the tin on top of the cake for a minute or so before removing.

ITALIAN MINISTER TO VIENNA

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Vienna, Oct... 12 The Italian Minister to Vienna,

Neglect of COMMON ILLS MAY MEAN days

of suffering

WHOLE

YHOLE days of suffering, and in many cases

weeks of anxiety and pain can be definitely avoided by the simple action of taking 'ASPRO When people realise what a wonderful medicine ̧tablet 'ASPRO'„is-how it soothes pain-how it reduces feverishness. and how.. after ingestion in the system. being a solvent of uric acid-an in- ternal antiseptic-an anti-pyretic or fever reducer ----and a powerful germicide, it strikes at the cause of numerous complaints. then much suffering will be avoided-much illness prevented.

ASPRO

IS THE SAFE MEDICINE

PLEDGE FOR PEACE

Pres. Roosevelt's Broadcast

Washington, Oct. 12. Broadcasting a "Areside chat" this evening President F. D. Roosevelt explained that Congress had been convened for November 15 in order to avoid a lengthy ses- 'sion next year.

He would ask it immediately to consider important legislation which his recent trip had vinced him the, country needed

at once.

con-

Continuing President Roosevelt said: "It is the President's duty to look ahead and not to allow the country to be deceived by merely temporary prosperity.

"The President must think not only of keeping us out of war to- day, but in the generations to core.

"We want sound and permanent prosperity, which is not built up temporarily at the expense of any section group. We want a 30und and permanent peace, built on a co-operative search by all the nations which want peace.

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TRADE BARRIER President Roosevelt declared that United for the most part, the States in 1937 had been more pros- perous, than for many years, but they had not yet done all that- must be done to make prosperity stable. They intended this winter to prevent a return to the dis- astrous prices in cotton, corn and wheat.'

a true understanding of the situa-Balatar, is shortly to leave his "To carry out this 20th century tion in the Far East and to pre- post. It is declared in informed programme we must give the Gov- vent anti-Japanese movements like circles that this change had long ernment Executive 20th century boycotts, have reached the Prest-been planned and was "not the out-machinery" said the President.

democratic come of conversations between "I recognise that dent of the Association-of British

Transocean News Service.

processes

Chambers of Commerce from the Herr Adolf Hitler and Signor Mus- processes are slower than dicta- President of the Japanese Cham-solini during the latter's recent torial processes, but I refuse to be-

lieve the democratic ber of Commerce, and the Japan-visit to Germany.

need be dangerously slow." sse Economic Federation.

America needed a reduction in foreign trade barriers to improve her foreign markets, added the President, but the country should not overlook the chance of reduc-

These appeals allege malicious and exaggerated propaganda by the Chinese, assert that the

fundamenal policy of the Japan Transmission Of

ese military authorities is to exer- cise the greatest care to prevent unnecessary loss of civilianí and property. especially among the foreigners; deny that

all itves

Television Pictures

in its domestic trade barrier right

away without waiting for treaty. Berlin, Oct. 12 The German Post Office has suc

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CORNISH PASTIES

b. flour, level teaspoonful Royal Baking Pounder. A good pinch of salt. 3-oz. fai. Cold water.

FILLING. I parboiled potato, 1 mali onion. -lb. minced beef or maton. Salt and pepper. A little water.

Sieve the flour, Royal Baking Powder and salt together. Rub in the fat until it is as fine as breadcrumbs, Mix to a stiff paste with the cold water. Cut the piece of paste into two pieces and rollout into two even rounds. Slice the potato, chop the onion finely, mix the veges tables, mear and seasonings together, moistening well with a little cold water. Put half this mixture on each round of pastry. Moisten the edges. Fold over

and press, and turn over with the finger and thumb. Brush over with a little beaten egg. Put on a greased baking tin and bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Continue baking in a moderate oven for another 20 minutes.

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DUKE OF WINDSOR

Visits Nazi Welfare Organisation

Berlin, Oct. 12. The Duke and Duchess of Wind- so visited the central office of the this Nazl. Welfare Organisation morning, where they were met by the Leader of the Labour Front.

Among the interesting exhibits seen was clothing made from wood

any pulp for winter relief.

Japanese submarines have made cessfully transmitted television pic- Referring to. peace President

from ordinary telephoneRoosevelt said, "alootness

war, is not prompted by unaware-

unwarranted attacks on Chinese shipping, and express the convic- tion that there is no reason to doubt that British vested rights and interests in China will be res pected. both At this present critical point of the

The Lufthansa Piane "Nord wind" left Travemuende on Octo- ber 7 and Lisbon on October 8, and therefore at present

Bucharest, Oct. 12. All public and private institu- tions dealing in cultural training and physical. Improvement of the youth are to be amalgamated in- tc one association called "Straha Tarci" that is "Guard of the planes, the Nordwind and the Anglo-Japanese friendship,

STC оп board the documents fervently request the Fatherland." King Carol himself is "Nordmeer

addressees to use fair judgment in

to be supreme commander. The floating air base "Schwabenland" leader of this new institution will

be appointed by the King and be of Cabinet rank,- Transocean News Service

in the port of Horta, while the guiding British public opinion, and landing ship "Friesenland" is. on to endeavour to maintain econo- mic relations between the two service near New York.- Transocean News Service.

countries.

tures over wires.

Later the Duke and Duchess toured the works settlement,

Reuter.

GYPSY LEADER

POISONED

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"The candidate to the Throne of the Rumanian gypsies, "Prince" George Lazurica, died recently in Bucharest poisoned with hemlock, which his political enemies are alleged to have put in his wine.

He recently became an ardent Nazi, and, with a large number of his supporters, joined the "Blue-

shirts," the storm battalion of the National Christian Party, one of Rumania's Fascist organisations.

Some of his opponents who hold Left Wing views decided to get rid of him. Great excitement pre- vails among Rumania's gypsies as a consequence of the murder.

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the

A reinforced cable enables a pic-ness of war. In the world, mu-for example, be one of the possible ture to be sent over a distance of 'tual suspicion of pence must paths to follow in the United 300 miles-

affirmatively be reached for, it States': search for means towards

conduct are injurious to Reuter.

cannot just be wished, it cannot peace throughout the world.

The development of world peace well-being of all nations, Com- just be waited for." In the efforts

mon sense and the intelligence of to find a solution to the Far East is dependent on the acceptance by

America agree with my statement conflict, it is the United States' nations of certain fundamental purpose to co-operate with other decencies in relations with each that America hates war. America signatories in the Nine Power other and ultimately 1 hope that hopes for peace, and therefore Treaty, including China and each nation will accept the fact America actively engages herself

that violations of these rules of in search for peace."-HENTED. Japan. Such co-operation would,

A reply has been sent stating that the messages will receive the fullest consideration.-- Renter.