1937-12-02 — Page 3

STAPLES

POPULAR CAKES

Care makes the cook. It's the thought and attention she puts in- to the making of her dishes that assures their success.

This is particularly true of cake. making. It the cake is heavy or dry, if the fruit has fallen to the bottom or the mixture has sunk in the middle, it may be that some of the following rules have been neglect- ed.

1. Ingredients must be carefully weighed: too much or too little n one or another may spoil the cake.

2.

Use good quality flour, scë that it is dry and steve it before us- Ing.

3. Use good fat.

4. Castor. sugar is best for cake making, unless otherwise stated:

5. Wash and dry all fruit, mix with sieved flour to prevent sink-

Cut up glacé cherries. ing.

6. Grease cake tins with un- salted fat and line with greaseproof

paper. For a very rich cake

sprinkle the tin at the bottom and sides with ground rice, to prevent overbrowning.

7. Have the oven ready to re- ceive the cake, "never keep the mixture waiting.*

8: Never all more than three- quarters of the tin.

9. Test the cake by sticking, a skewer into it. If the skewer comes out clean, the cake is done.

10. Avold draughts near the oven, and always open and close an oven doors gently, never bang it, as this will blow a cold current in to the oven.

FAIRIES BASKETS. Ingredients: Three eggs. plnen of salt, 4oz. suugar 4 oz. self-raising Hour 1 tablesppon multed butter, 1

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SURPRISES

Cocoanut or chopped nuts, angelica strips for handles.

Method: Add'sait eggs, whisk lightly, gradually adding the sugar, and continue whisking til mixture is thick and frothy, Stir in lightly the sifted flour and then the melt ed butter. Mix evenly and put' a dessertspoon of the mixture into sach well-buttered basket mould or oval patty pan. Bake in Д moderately hot oven for to 12 minutes. Turn the cooked cakes on to cake cooler and when cold hollow out the centre leaving about half an inch border at the edge, (A grape-fruit or curved-blade knife is suitable for this purpose,) MIX the jam with the boiling water and simmer for a minute. Strain. and brush the edge and sides of the cakes with the jam glaze and

coconut sprinkle each with crushed nuts. Add castor sugar to cream whip till partially thick, and 1 tablespoon crushed strawberries. Fill each basket centre with the mixture, and top each with a stalk- cd whole strawberry. Arrange a long narrow strip of angelica on each basket, to form а small handle.

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Ingredients: Three large ext whites (or four small), 6oz castor sugar, 1 teaspoon cornflour, 1 tea- spoon vinegar, i gill cream (with 1 dessertspoon castor sugar and few drops vanília!. few strawberries blanched shredded almonds crushed nuts.

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Method: Whisk the egg whites to a stim froth. Gradually add the sugar beating. between each addi- tion and then continue whisking till the meringue retains its shape. Fold in the sifted cornflour lightly

1 cream 1 dessertspoon castor and gradually add the vinegar. sugar, pint strawberries. Itable- | Butter a cake, pan (about 8 in. in spoon strawberry jam, 1 tablespoon | diameter or 7 in. square)

and desicated boiling water, i

sprinkle lightly with an even cout-

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Italy Tells China To Sue For Peace

Milan. Dec. 1. The hint that China had better appeal to Japan for peace while she can still get good terms is given in an unsigned article in Signor Mussolini's newspaper Po- polo d'Italia.

Believed to have been written by Duce. the article says that if China still believes in any as- sistance of a collectice character it means she has vowed herself to suicide, for clearly. Japan wil win all her battles and compel China to surrender.

Now that collective, action has again failed all that remains for China is to ask Japan for peace terms which may be less hard than may be thought."

In view of the recent contacts

between Dace and distinguished, Japanese visitors, it is thought this hint may be politically signi-

ficant

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ITALY-MANCHUKUO TRADE PACT

SLAUGHTER OF

ORPHANS

Babies Perish As

Bomb Hits Creche

CATHOLIC SISTERS

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ing of cornflour. Pour meringue mixture into prepared pan, and bake slowly in a very moderate oven till firm and dry (about lệ to 1} hours). Add the castor sugar and vanilla to the cream, whip lightly till thick, place in a cream bag, fitted with a rose pipe, and decorate

cold the

meringue.

Garalsh with hulled whole straw- berries and blanched shredded al- monds or crushed nuts. Suitable.. to serve as a cold sweet. ·

WALNUT CREAM CAKE Ingredients: One breakfast cup butter, 3 large or 4 medlum eggs, 1 level breakfast cup, šugar, 2 level breakfast cups flour. teaspoon" baking powder

of salt, pinch vanilla essence, pint cream, 1 tablespoon castor sugar, cup chopped walnuts.

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Method: Mix the almonds, castor sugar, crumbs, and cocoa together. Add the liqueur to the beaten yolk (and melted chocolate if used) and mix with the dry ingredients, making a smooth paste. Shape into small rolls. Mix the sifted icing sugar, cocoa melted chocolate, and sherry or water to a smooth pouring.con- sistency, and place the basin over hot water to prevent setting. Dip each roll in the liquid icing, and toss in the chocolate sprinkles or Baked chocolate. Place on wax tissues to set and serve each in a paper patty,case.

PEACH BLOSSOM CAKE Ingredients: Half a cup butter, 1 small cup sugar, } cup milk, ił cups self-raising flour, cup corn- flour, pinch of salt, teaspoon vanilla essence. 3 egg whites.

Icing: Four tablespoons icing sugar, 1 teaspogri butter, teaspoon vanilla essence, about 1 tablespoon hot milk. few drops carmine or cochineal, raspberry Jelly crystals.

Method: Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat till creamy. Add the milk, vanilla, and the sift- "ed flour, cornflour, and salt stirring lightly evenly mixed. Whisk the egg whites to a stim froth, fold lightly into the mixture divide into two and colour, one portion pale pink with addition of few drops cochineal. Place alternate spoons-

Method: Cream butter and add 2 cups of sifted flour, beat till creamy and white. Add salt to eggs and whisk lightly, add cup sugar gradually, whisk, and, when thick and frothy add gradually to creamed butter and flour, Mix thoroughly and then stir in extra tablespoon of four sifted with the baking powder. Divide equally be- tween buttered sandwich pans and bake in moderately hot oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Turn out on cake cooler and when cold cut euch cake in halves. Add castor sugar and vanilla to cream and whisk lightly stir in chopped walnuts Spreadful of mixture in a buttered cake halved cake with mixture, also top, and decorate with border of chop- ned walnuts and halved walnuts.

CHOCOLATE LIQUEUR CAKE; Ingredients: Three ounces cake crumbs, 3 oz. castor sugar. 3oz. castor sugar, 3 oz, ground almonds, 1 teaspoon cocoa or 1 tablespoon melted chocolate, 2 tablespoons liqueur or sherry. 1 egg yolk. tablespoons icing sugar, 1 dessert- spoon cocoa or 2 tablespoons melt- ed chocolate, 1 tablespoon sherry

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water, 2 Dz. chocolate spinkles or grated chocolate.

pan (about 7 inches square) and bake in a moderately hot oven for 25 to 40 minutes according to size and thickness of cake. Turn cook- ed cake on to cooler and leave till cold. Add the melted butter to the sifted icing sugar in basin. Add the vanilla and sufficient milk to make # creamy spreading · con- 4sistency. Colour with a few drops

Cables Routed Via Hong Kong

Shanghai, Dec. 1. With radio and telegraph com- munications between Shanghal and inland cities still disrupted, Hong Kong becomes the clearing point for relaying meassages to and from this city.

Operating on an international circult between Hong Kong and A terrible story has been brought Shanghal, the Eastern and Nor- to Shanghai by the French Father thern Padic cable companies are belois and the Italian Father Bon-

carrying a load of incoming and nanatte after a long and round-outgoing domestic messages which about journey on fnot through a bandit-infested countryside.

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Shanghai. Dec, 1.

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The story tells of the destruction

the Catholic Orphanage Kashing on November 15 by Japan- est air bombs which killed 84 Chinese orphans and caused the disappearance of four French and aye Chinese Sisters and 150 re- fugees.

Father Moulds of the Superior Lazarists has taken up the matter with

are being routed through Hong Kong..

Meanwhile the Chinese graph offices remain closed.—” Beuter.

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Chinese Newspapers Suspend Publication

Shanghai, Dec. 1..

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of cochineal if required. Cover the cold cake with icing, and sprinkle lightly with dry (raspberry or red) jelly crystals leave till firmly set before cutting.

HUMANE HELP FOR CHINA

New Dutch Premier's Maiden Speech

The Hague, Nov. 30. a bill is to be tabled to provide humane help for China, announced the new Foreign Minister, Dr. J. Patijn, in a maiden speech in the Lower House of the Netherlands Parliament to-day. He stated that he would continue on the lines ot his predecessor in foreign politics.

All possible conditions of safety would be fulfilled if the Nether- lands inspired the confidence that they would defend themselves at any cost. He emphasised that the Netherlands were wholly free in the matter of armaments, and were not bound by promises or secret treaties.

With regard to the declarations of neutrality by Germany, the position from Belgium, and the Netherlands were in a different

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REGISTRAR QUOTES

SIR WALTER SCOTT

well County Court recently. Walter Scott in a case at Clerken- Mr. Registrar Friend quoted Sir

Government had always held the

He gave judgment, with costs, viewpoint that it should decide for Wallis and Co. (Costumier) whether the passage of foreign Ltd., Chapel-street, Islington, in armies through Dutch territory Four of the remaining Chinese-should be allowed. If the great by Mr. Benjamin Logette, of Field- an action brought against them qwned Chinese newspapers in

Netherlands agree that violation recovery of £3 respecting a two- Powers under obligation to the way-crescent, Highbury; for the of Dutch territory would be a carus bell, the Netherlands Government

piece suit supplied to his wife. cannot object---

the French Ambassador, Mons. M. Nagglar, in an attempt to ascertain the fate of the missing Shanghai have decided to suspend Bisters and refugees. Father, Moulis said that Fathers Delois and Bon-publication if the Japanese insist nanatte reported that the Japanese upon instituting a censorship. bombed the Sisters of Charity Or phanage at Kashing. The Bisters

herded their charges into the dug- outs in the mission grounds, and one bomb, directly hit a creche, killing 60 bables and wounding 'two Chinese Sisters.

Father Moulis added that the Bisters took 150 orphans and elder- people wounded aboard a junk and fled towards the interior, and they had not been heard from

since.

Likely Development After Formal Recognition

Tokyo, Dec. 1. The newspapers expect that Italy's formal recognition of Man chukuo will be followed by the conclusion of a commercial renty between Italy and Manchukuo along the lines of the German-

Father Moulis explained that the Manchukuo. commercial pact.

Italy's export to Manchukuo orphanage had no flag of any kind are far smaller than Manchukuo and was situated close by the home of General Chang Fah-kwel, who exports to Italy; but the news- papers predict that the trade of commanded the Chinese forces in the two countries will be balanced the southern sector. The Carmelite by the Manchukuo purchase of Mission and the Lazarist Seminary nearby, which were fiying French flags, were not bombed-

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aircraft and other goods from Italy.- Reuter.

U.S.S. Augusta Leaving Shanghai

Shanghal, Dec. 1 The U.8.8 Augusta is proceed-. ing to Manila on December 14 and will be replaced by the light crui- ser, Marblehead. It is not known

FEMININE ARMY OF MERCY Shanghai Girls Begin Red Cross Drive

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Following the assumption of control of the censorship office of Shanghai, the Japanese authori the city government of Greater

ties have notified Chinese-owned newspapers that they must sub- mit all news items to censorship before publication.

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NANTAO IS CITY OF CHARRED RUINS Huge Fires Still Burning

Shanghai, Dec. 1 Although Chinese troops evacuat-

ed nearly three weeks ago and

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adding that he considered there BREAD AND BUTTER KING'S PROCTOR AND

Opposing the move, the Chinese newspapers convened a meeting and unanimously decided to close their doors unless the Japane change thetr minds. Simul- taneously a representative called

Mrs. Logette appeared in court All night long fames could be wearing the two-plece suit, and f on Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Secre- tary of the Shanghal Muncipal seen shooting up, freshly kindled said that it did not fit. She men Council, and submitted petitions in many quarters of the Chinese tioned that she had no waist, nego-city, as row upon row of Chinese and that her suspender could be requesting the Council to

seen through the material tlate with the Japanese for the dwellings fed the hungry flames.

The conflagration is believed to "This lady is self-conscious exemption of Chinese newspapers

be of Incendiary origin, Foreign about her figure and is trying to from censorship.

eye-witnesses who visited Nantao, get it out at the expense of the report that this once densely dressmaker,” said counsel for populated Chinese city is rapidly defendants, becoming a blackened, mixes charred ruins, while factories, 'schools and warehouses have most- attractive 'red cross uniformsly been burnt out Beiler. launched a local drive for the Shanghai International Red Cross, The girls are aiming to collect $100,000 during a week...

Nantan is occupied by a Japanese was "a reasonable fit considering garrison, huge fires are

still the price paid. ravaging a wide area.

The outcome of the negotiations la not yet ascertainable.- Heuter.

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London, Nov. 30.

FOR SLIMMING

A National Campaign

NEW DIVORCE LAW

Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., speaking at a recent dinner disclosed that the Divorce Act, which was passed | last session, had the support of the King's, Proctor, Sir Thomas Barnes. "Bir Thomas Barnes." said Mr. Herbert, had a great desire that

the

A national slimming campaign was launched at a luncheon given recently by Sir Charles Higham.

Miss Elizabeth Ann Loring, the

years she had tried different diets. organiser, stated that for four

bill should pass, and gave none of which equalled the "bread throughout unfailing assistance." and butter" diet for economy,

Mr. Herbert, was acknowledging the toast of his health at a dinner simplicity and eficiency.

given in his honour by the Mar- slimming exercises were demon- riage Law Reformy League, and strated. They have been specially"

attended, among arranged so

others. by gir that fat or aged John Simon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Major General Bir Frederick File, persons may perform them with TREADMILL RELIC, FOUND who from 1928 to 1932 was Assis-cut fatigue. Miss Loring and her A slab of stone, dated 1817. re tant Director of Mechanization assetants will demonstrate their cording the installation of a tread- and last year commanded the methods all over the country in Shanghai, Dec. 1. The local campaign is part of a mill "for the beneficial use of con- Canal Brigade in Egypt, has been the coming weeks. The headquar Shanghai witnessed another in-world-wide drive to raise $10.000,-victs" in the old county goal, has appointed Commander of the first ters of the campaign are at Imhof

this morning when -a 000 to aid, refugees in local war been found during reconstruction Anti-Aircraft Division of the Ter-House, New Oxford-street, W, 1. feminine army of mercy, consist- areas.**

work at the County -Hall, Aviez- | vitorial. Army-- bury.

British Wireless Service.

yet whether Vice-Admiral Yarnell | vasion will remain in Shanghal-

Struter.

ing of 500 Chinese girls dressed in Reuter.

nothing but bread and butter. They will have two slices five times daily. A pint of milk may be For three weeks at a time, fol- drunk each day, with occasional lowers of the movement will eat tan and tomato juice as a change.