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STAPLES

PASTRY FOR THE PIES

SHORT. DUFF AND

FLAKY

First, remember that cool hands: and a cool kitchen are important, Second; dour" should be quite dry and sieved before mixing. If it appears at all dump put it in a warm oven for a few minutes. Baking powder must be used with plain Bour."

Use as little water as possible, for mixing: too much moisture Roll the makes the pastry tough. pastry out on a floured board, with a floured rolling pin, to prevent the paste sticking.

"Experience entned from the fre- quent use of your oven is the best means of testing "temperature, or an oven-thermometer can be used.. -An-eid-Inɛhloried-way to test all oven is to put a piece of writbig paper in the oven. If it curls up in a minute the oven is at the cor rect heat. Here are the recipes to the most used pastries.

LIGHT AND FLAKY Flaky pastry is most liked for mince piles and sausage rolls. Here is the recipe.

lib. self-raising

Ingredients: Hour. 1oz. margarine, or a mixture of half lard and half margarine, pinch of salt, about half pini waler. two trasp. lemon juice.

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Sleve the flour and salt into a mixing bowl, then divide the fat into four equal parts. Rub part into the flour. until very fine, add the lemon juice arid then waler. gradually, and mix to a stiff paste.

Roll out on a floured board to a strip about seven inches long gy

ve inches.

Flake the next portion of fat on to one-third of the pastry strip, "fold into three, gently press the edges together and, roll out again. Repeat with the two remaining portions of fat, then rollout and use as required.

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SURPRISES

This pastry can be used for all kinds of sweet, puffs, as well as Iar the, now popular Bavouries.

The ingredients are: llb. dour, 11b, margarine, half a teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful lemon juice cold. Sieve the flour and salt, make a well in the centre and mix in the water and lemon Juice. Kneal with the bands, as you would for read, then roll out into a long

strip.

Divide the margarine into three qual portions, dip them in very coid water, then roll into flat cakes.

Roll the pastry out, place on one plece of margarine and fold into three. Roll out again, and repeat the process with the two remain-. ing portions of margarine,

Fold and roll five more times, then place in a very cold place for several hours. If liked it can be made the day before it is needed. Immediately before using, roll the pastry out, and bake in a hot oven, Regula mark 10. Great care must be taken not to break the air bubbles when relling out puit-pas- try

To give pastry a really profes slonal look brush the top over with beaten egg white just before it is cooked, then dredge with aleved castor sugar. and return to the even to finish off."

The popular pastry for tarts is short crust. It should be really short and crisp, never taky.

Ingredients: 4lb. margarine or margarine and lard mixed. 11b. stéved self-raising flour for plain flour with the addition of a teá- spoonful of baking powder), pinch of salt. very cold water to mix, Sleve flour and salt (and baking powder if used). Rub the fat in with the tips of the Angers until very fine. Add

the cold

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water (usually about i pint),

Mix with a knife until well blended, then turn on to a cold slab or wooden board dredged with flour. Kread, then roll out one

A hot oven is required for flaky way only until one eight of an pastry. Regulo mark 9.

SPECIAL PUFF.

Puff pastry requires a little more Lime. but it is well worth the extra trouble, as most people appreciate

it.

inch thick. The pastry is then feady for a fairly hot oven, mark B.

FLAN PASTRY

aweeter Many people prefer a pastry for fruit. To make it you

HOME-MADE CANDIES

PECAU CHEWS 2 - cups' sugar 1 cups white

corn syrup cup light

brown sugar.

1 tall cad evape-

rated milk

1 cup creami

pound butter...

1 cup water

Stir, cooking to 246 degrees F. Renove from stove, Add salt and

1 pounds pecan meats. Drop on bustered pans.

COFFEE FONDANT Take 21 pounds of sugar, ti eups boiling water. cup of ground coffee. Heat the coffee and water to the bolling point, boll for 5 minutes, then strain through e double cheese cloth. Add the sugar, to the Coffee infusion and i teaspoon cream of tartar. Bol to the soft ball stage when tested in cold water and pour out on a ightly oiled slab or platter. When cool enough' to handle stir with a woeden spoon until creamy, then knead until smooth. Set away for 24 hours in a bowl well covered with waxed paper. Now the fondant is ready to make into patties by melting over hot water: made into bonbons and decorated with a nut or cherry or chopped fruit and nuts may be added and form into small bricks silce and wrap in alled paper.

Maple fondant may be made in the same way using 11 pounds of maple. sugar, 14 pounds granulated sugar. 1 cup boiling water and i teaspoon cream of tartar. Work and ripen as for plain fondant.

FUDGE ROLLS

On

Pat out a piece of chocolate fudge 4 x 6 inches and inch thick. top of this place a piece of fondant the same thickness and shape only

Inch smaller. Roll like a Jelly roll. Chill. When hard cut in Inch slices.

need lb. flout, 40z, margarine, two teaspoonfuls..caster sugar, the yolk of an egg, cold water. Siege the flour and sugar, rub the margarine with finger tips unt very fine.

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FOR CHOCOLA

LOVERS

These two sweets, culled from an old-fashioned recipe book of the late Nineteenth Century, strike rather an unusual note for choco- tate.. and are given here" for chocolate-lovers

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CHOCOLATE PANCAKES Make a batter with two ounces flour, two tablespoonfuls of mlik, two egg-whites and four Pgg-yolks beaten separately, a tab- lespoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Beat well with a couple of tablespocufuls of cream, and make some very thin pancakes with it; frying them on one side only. Lay them as done on a

plate: with the uncooked side uppermost, and grate over each enough chocolate to cover the surface entirely. Roll the pancakes up. sprinkle them with sugar and lay- them on a buttered tin. Put this in a moderate oven and bake them for twenty minutes...

CHOCOLATE FRITTERS Grate two ounces of unsweetened chocolate and bell it for a few minutes with half a pint of milk and an ounce and a half of castor sugar. Let it get cool, then add the beaten yolks of three eggs. and half an ounce of ground rice mixed with the chocolate milk.

Let these just simmer without boiling. then pour cut on a 'dish. When it is cold again, cut it into rounds two mches in diameter. (It will be about an inch and a half thick.)

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Beat up a couple of yalks or egg on a plate, and grate finely some bread or cake crumbs. Egg- and-crumb the rounds, being very careful in handling them and pressing. un plenty of crumbs.

Have some butter bolling in a fryingpan, put in the rounda, iry them golden on both sides, drain and dry them and serve them sprinkled with a little icing sugar.

Ambrose Heath.

Stir in the egg yolk, and suficient cold water to form a stiff dough.· Turn on to a floured board, and roll to about F-Inch thick. Bake in a fairly hot oven: Regulo 6.

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TON OF PUDDING COMPLAINTS SECURE | LONE CHINESE PLANE TO QUELL POLITICAL

Montreal- a tiny kitchen of a dining car parked in the yards at Montreal Chief Chef Tommy 'Gear la cooking à ton of plum pud- ding for the dining car service of the Canadian National Railways. Supplied with two assistants, he is following a 300-year-old recipe. His ingredients include 403 pounds of breadcrumbs; 250 pounds of chopped suet; 100 pounds of flour: -250 pounds of sultanas, raisins and currants; 100 pounds of mixed peel; six pounds each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg; the juice and rind of 35 dozen lemons, and 1200 ounces of Buid seasoning.

AQUARIUM HOBBY WANES

WHITE HOUSE GUEST NEW DEAL AT LUNCH

Washington. This is a story of a man who didn't like what he got to eat at the White House. complained, and was served broll- ed chicken.

On Nov. 1. Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commis- sien went over to the executive mansion with a headful of agures and a stout appetite.

EVADES PURSUERS

Bankow Air Raid Thrill; Golfers' Experience

Jonn

Hankow, Jan. 5. Thrilling attempts by a Chinese plane to evade Japanese purault planes was witnessed by thousands of onlookers during yesterday's air raid.

The Chinese machine, riddled with bullets, manoeuvred cleverly in an endeavour to shake off the attackers, but eventually it crash

Peiping-Hankow railway. The

ACTIVITIES

French Concession Expulsion Move

Shanghai, Jan. 5. Residents in the French Con- ccasion Indulging in political activity which may be considered detrimental to internal peace in the French administered area, will in future be expelled from the Concession, the China Press learns.

This act on the part of the. French authorities sets no pre- cedent as expulsion from the area

Agenta:-DODWELL & Co., Lrn, obtainable at all Chemists and Drug Stores. Three Packings: 6'4 11's, 27′e.

MOBILE UNITS” HAVE EX-COMMUNIST HEAD

Shanghai, Jan. 5.. General "Kung Ko-cheng, for- merly commander" of the 16th Communist Army, was recently

He conferred with the Pre- sident's son and secretary, James. When they finished, young Roose-ed on to a farm house west of the is said to be a normal procedure appointed by the National Com-

velt invited his visitor to stay for Lunch.

After the meal a reporter asked Mr. Kennedy how he liked his Junch.

"All right." he said, "but I believe I could do better at my house.",

„Time passed, and at the end of

pilot was killed.

against undesirable elements.

The present determination of One anti-aircraft shell fell in a the French authorities to quell all street in front of Reuter's office, political activities is taken in view slightly injuring two Chinese. The of the present emergency, Four. miselle struck the macadamised Russians, suspected of taking part roadway a few feet from a comin in activities of a political nature have been ordered to leave the containing a corpse which was be-

Concession.- Bessler burial.

It is easier to find fancy nah to-day than fish fanciers. As a another conference Mr. Kennedying taken away from the city for result, the tropical fish aquarium...) got, another. luncheon invitation. as a hobby is on the decling” in | the eastern part of North America," but interest in the hobby is in- creasing in Great Britain, Austraila Germany and California,

This was explained by William I. Innes, Philadelphia, Judge of the tropical fish section at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto and an authority as a tropical fish fancler in an address to members of the Toronto Aquarium Society: In his opinion the turn will come too for Canada, and the eastern states.

..

Guppies, swordtails platys, moons and other types of miniature trop cal fish are now being bred by only

about half the number of fanciers as was the case'a few years ago, he continued, giving as reasons over-production and lack of a sumcient market;

It is possible to breed fish faster than to develop an interest in the hobby, and this resulted in a drop in prices, which in turn destroyed the interest at would-be fanciers, as there is not the same thrill in owning fish, worth 20 cents as when it is sold for $2.

The

telephone between the executive offices and the presiden- tial section tinkled.

"Mr. Kennedy," said a voice to the kitchen, will stay for lunch" "What," naked the kitchen. "docs he want to cat?"

"Oh, scrambled egga, I suppose,” replied the executive voice.

The culinary department didn't' seem convinced.

"Ask him," ventured the cook, "If broiled chicken: wil, be all right."

The story is that not only was the chicken all right, but it was a

Kennedy received, big, browned, juicy half which Mr.

As soon as the alarm waR SOUND- ed, the comin was dumped into the roadway.

A bomb, which was intended for the Hankow aerodrome, struck and destroyed a shop which for- merly belonged to a Japanese.

A

COULD NOT PUTT

mission for Military Affairs to take charge of the operations of all mobile units in North China, ac-

cording to Chinese reports.

General Kung, who surrendered to the Government in 1934 left Hanków on December 31 to assume his new post..

Reuter.

CHUFU TAKEN

JAPANESE KILL INFANTS

Holocaust In Kashing

The killing of 86 orphan children, in addition td scores of civi- llans and the wounding of foreign missionaries in Keshing by Japan- ese airmen.. is an act that is typical of the kind of warfare being waged by the Nipponese on the warfronts of China to-day.

Kashing, which is a railway town between Shanghai and Hang- chow, became the objective of the Japanese forces soon after their landing on the north shore of Hanzchow Bay, While the main body. of troops swept northward, one column was detailed to attack Ka- shing, an important stronghold on the Chinese line of defence at the time, stretching from Xiangyin, through Wush and Boochow, to Halyen. Japanese airmen opened the offensive on the railway town; with a view to paving the way for the land forces, and the result took a ghastly toll in juvenile lives.

BABIES BURIED

Foreign sisters of mercy and missionaries rendered herolc assis tance daring and immediately after the prolonged air raid.

Of the Chinese mites that were blasted out of existence, 20 were young girls who had sought shelter in a sandbagged redoubt, but a missile, destined for anti-aircraft batteries a few hundred yards away, fell in the doorway. At the same time, The Cradle, housing, tiny tots, was also struck by another bomb, and 60 little orphans were buried beneath masonry when the building collapsed.

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Feiping, Jan. 4. TSINPU CONCENTRATION

The Japanese have captured Hankow, Jan. 5. Chufu, the birth place of Con- Bheltered beneath a French tag, the Lazarist Beminary and the-- Chinese forces on the Tientsin-fuctus, three hundred miles south Convent of Carmelits Bisters emerged from the holocaust of fire Pakow railway are concentrating of Tientaln.

without loss of human life, but the Bisters of Charity, in charge of at Hauchowfù, the junction of the It is believed that Duke Kung an orphanage, received the brunt of the aerial attack which claimed Tientsin-Pukow and the Lunghai Ter Chang. the 150th lineal des- the lives of 88 of their little charges, ranging from babies to youngs The story of a golfer who had to railways, preparatory to fighting cendant of Confucius, WAR inters of about 15 years of age. Many others were injured, including remove a plece of shrapnel off the on the Lunghat line, according to Chufu at the time." He is reported the Bisters themselves. green before he could putt was Chinese reports.

to have been offered the Throne told by an enthusiastic player, Meanwhile Japanese forces, of China by the Japanese who Mr. Kenneth Foot, Hankow re- pushing rapidly southward along visited him in August but decliner, presentative of the Manufacturers the Tientsin-Pukow line, captured declaring that he never sought Life Insurance Company.

Tawenkow and Chutu. -Chinese worldly: power. troops had already evacuated Yen-Reuter;' chowfu, the last important city in southern Shantung and Japanese at the Hankow Race Club,

forces were expected to enter the The funeral will take place to city early yesterday morning—. day of the two foreign airmen who, were killed when their plane

TSINGTAO OFFICIALS Overheard whilst engaged in crashed while taking off from the

Hankow, Jan. 5, Christmas shopping:

Hankow aerodrome,

Mr. Sheng Hung-lich, Mayor of "How long have you had your One, the pilot was killed In-Taingtao, Mr. Ko · Kwang-ting. | posed by Dr, HH, Kung, President | the Slaters at last managed to charter a small junk. Only the injur- eye-lashes?”” ·

stantly, and the other

managing-director of the Kiaotal of the Yuan and concurrently ed could be accommodated in this craft, and the: Blsters had,, per- "Oh, nearly three mouths, and seriously Infured that he died Railway, and the Tsingtao Garri Minister of Finance, was designed force, to trust the boatman to deliver his pitiful wad safely. They they're almost as good as new," later from his wounds. The plane son Commander, have arrived at to relieve the heavy burden and then gathered their flock of older, children, and set out to make the

Would this solve the problem of | burst into flames and was destroy- Chuchen in southern Shantung, distress of the common people journey on foot. what to give to Grandpa? A nice ed':'

by motor, car ---

| victimized by the warmi pair of white bushy ones

Reuter

Bouter,

Central News.

Even if it is the White House, there's nothing like kicking.

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Mr. Fuct, who was doing nine holes, picked up several fragments of sharpnel from the golf course

Was

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With the piteous cries of wounded infants filling the air, the EXEMPT FROM LAND TAX

Sisters of Charity and Carmelite order worked frantically to release Chungking, Jan. 6: At a meeting the victims, separating the dead from the injured. Then came the of the Executive Yuan here yester-task of transporting them to Hangchow, the nearest city where me- day, it was decided to free all war-'| dical aid could be obtained, aa-Kashing lacked the necessary foci- torn areas from the payment of Uttes. To transport, them, by foot was out of the question, and the land tax.

only other remaining means was) by the waterways, the This measure which was pro- Precious time was lost, and many dículties encountered before

To this day it is not known whether the fateful junk reached its destination, and the Bisters, too, have not been heard of since...