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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938.

STAPLES SURPRISES

SUBSTANTIAL DISHES

When the air is crisp and sharp and strong winds blow. the menu must be designed to provide plenty

of heat and energy. Plan your meals to do this and you will go

a long way toward assuring winter health for your family.

Try these meat dishes and des- serts-all on the "hearty" ske- they are delicious and satisfying.

CASSEROLE OF REEF

2 cups cooked beet

1

cup carrot

1

green pepper

8 small onions

1

stalk celery

1

cup

1

tsp. salt..

tap. pepper

tomatoes

2 tbsp. four

1

cup stock or one

cup water and 1

bouillon cube or tsp. concentrated meat extract

1 cups potato

balls or tubes

2 tbsp. fat

1.

cup canned string bearis

Put in casserole beer or other cooked meat, cut in inch pieces carrots cut in small dice, pepper cut in fine atrips with the seeds discarded-onions

1

2

tsp., minced onion tbsp. minced. parsley

+1

2 tbsp. chopped

green pepper

+ tsp. poultry seasoning

1 tsp. pepper

Mix all ingredients thoroughly and pack in a loaf pan or baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven for f hour. At meal time remove troni pan and slice.

BARBECUED SPARERIBS

3 to 4 lbs. spareribs

2 onions, aliced

2 tbsp. vinegar

2 tbsp. Worcester-

shire sauce

1 tbsp. salt

1 tsp. red pepper

1 tsp. paprika »

tsp. black pepper

1 tsp. chili powder

1-oz. bottle

catsup-

cup water

Select meaty spareribs and cut in pieces. alowirig 2 to each por- tion. Sprinkle with salt and pep- per. Place in roaster and cover

with sliced onions. Put over this the remaining ingredients made into a sauce. Cover, and put in a moderate oven for 14 hours. Baste pected. celery | occasionally, turning the spareribs cut in small pleces and stock or water in which boullion cube or

meat extract has been dissolved. Cover, put in oven and bake 1 hour- or until carrots and onions are tender. Add potato and cock 20 minutes. Add fat, melted, and browned with flour, stirring until well mixed. Then add string beans, cover and cook 15 minutes. Serve from casserole dish.

CROWN ROAST OF SPARERIRS

once or twice. Remove the cover

from the roaster the last 15 min utes of baking and brown the ribs,

CHUCK POT ROAST

4 lb. plece of chuck. boned and tied

2 tbsp. shortening

1

tbsp. salt

3

tbsp. four

tsD: pepper

1

medium onion,

sliced

1 cup diced carrots

cup chopped celery

1 cup water 2 bay leaves

Have the butcher le a two- pound plece of spareribs In a crown shape. Stand upright in a glass baking dish: All the cavity with a mixture of 2 cups of cooked Use a heavy east iron or alumi- rice. 2 cups bread crumbs, cup num kettle for cooking the roast. raisins, a minced carrot and onion. Place the shortening in the kettle 3 tablespoons shortening, a half and heat until melted. Wipe of teaspoon sage and salt arid pepper the meat with a damp cloth and to taste. Bake in a slow oven un-rub the entire surface with the til well browned. Serve with saut-salt and pepper. Place the roast ed pineapple slices.

In the kettle and brown on all sides in the melted shortening. Add vegetables. water and bay leaves. Cover and cook over low beat for about 3 hours or until the meat is tender. Turn roast once,

twice during cooking, Serve with additional vegetables.

BAKED HAM LOAF

1

lb. uncooked

ground häm

lb. uncooked

31

ground veal,

2

cups soft bread

crumbs..

Dr

THICKENING SOUPS AND SAUCES

OT

Puddings for Dessert Unusual Vegetable

If You want a dessert that will appeal to every age and taste--try pudding. Especially such delicious puddings as are suggested here.

INDIAN PUDDING

5 cups milk, scalded

cup corn meal

cup molasses

1

tsp. salt

1 tsp. ginger

Dash of cinnamon

Dash of nutmeg

Pour milk slowly onto corn meal.

Cook over het water 20 minutes. Add molasses, salt and spices. Turn into a greased baking dish and bake 2 hours in a slow oven.

TAPIOCA CREAM

1 cup minute

taploca

A

cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1

or 2 egg yolks

4 cups milk

1

or 2 whites.

stiffly beaten

1 tsp. flavouring Combine taploca, sugar, salt, egg yolk and milk in top of double boller and stir enough to break egg rollk. Place over rapidly bolling water, bring to scalding point and

minutes. Remove cook 5

from bolling water and fold A small amount into egg white; add to re- maining tapioca mixture And blend. Coal-mixture thickens as it cools. When slightly cool add flavouring.. and chill. Serve. In sherbet glasses with a "garnish of Jelly.

APPLE PUDDING

Core and slice 4 large apples and add 1 cup sugar. Alternate the fruit with bread cubes, toast- ed in a buttered casserole, having a top layer of bread. Dot with 1 cup of butter. Pour on 1 cups canned unsweetened pineapple

julce. Bake.

CARROT JAM

to

Dishes

Do You sometimes wonder how serve familiar vegetables so that they will seem diferent and more appealing? If so try these new tricks,

TOMATO AND PEANUT CASSEROLE

2 tgga

cup milk

8 slices brena

14 cups salted

peanuts, ground Ane

3 cups canned

tomatoes.

4 tsp. salt

2 tsp. pepper.

3 tbsp. butter

Beat the eggs slightly and add the milk. Dip the bread in the egg and milk mixture, then in the ground peanuts. Arrange a layer of bread in an olled casserole. Pour half the tomatoes (seasoned with the salt and pepper) over the bread slices. Dot with half the butter. Arrange the rest of the

bread in second layer. Add the rest of the tomatoes, det with the remaining butter and sprinkle with the last of the chopped peanuts. Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes

ONION SHORTCAKE

2

tups flour

4

tps. baking

powder

tsp. salt

24

cups onions,

sliced thin

4 tbsp. shortening

to cups milk

1 tbsp. salt

2 tbsp. fat.

1

egg. slightly

-beaten

1 cup milk

1

Mix and aft four, baking pow- der and salt. Cut shortening in with knives or rub in with Anger tips. Add milk slowly; mix to a soft dough. Flatten in a greased To each pound of carrots use a square pan to -inch thickness. pound of preserving sugar, two Melt fat, add onions and salt. Julcy lemons, and an ounce of Cook to a delicate brown. Cool blanched; shredded älmoads. Bell and spread over the baking pow- the carrot's until enough to be der dough. Beat egg, add milk, pressed through a sieve, or pre- pour over onions. Make in a very preferably, steam them. Put into hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. Cut in

BANANA JAM

a preserving pan with the rind squares and serve at once. and juice of the lemons, the sugar. and almonds, Bring to the boil and simmer for about half an hour, until thick, theri pot. If the flavour of ginger is wanted use half an

ounce of braised root ginger to each pound of carrots, breaking It Up well and tying 11

a smail muslin bag.

1.

WAYS WITH BEETROOT

This vegetable adds such a plea- sant flavour to many dishes, and can be served with hot meats as well as cold.

richness and is more suitable for sauces, the others being better for soups, where richness is provided

PICKLED BEETROOT by other ingredients. Cream makes a rich thickening of delightful also good with hot white meats.

Tasty with any cold meat and davour, smooth to the palate. The

"Wash the beetroots carefully, tak cream made with a cream-making ing care not to break the skin. machine is excellent for this pur-Place in bolling salted water and pose; so also are tinned cream and unsweetened condensed milk, skins can be removed easily.

simmer for 1 hours, or until the

Have the sauce or soup cooked be-

and and

One of the commonest of' culin- The simplest way to thicker. ary operations, binding or thick-liquids is by the addition of com- enng Df sauces and soups, is flour. arrowroot ground rice, often the most

unsuccessful. semolina, or ground barley Sauces are too thick or too thin; oatmeal, The butter and flour they are not smooth to the taste; method, however, gives more the butter has oiled or the sauce has cardled. All these, may be avoided if a few rules are observed. When thickening with flour. cornflour, barley, or other cereal the starch must be thoroughly enoked. The busy cock tends to shorten this process. but even powdered cereals should be sim- mered for ten to fifteen minutes after the sauce, soup, or

gravy comes to the boil. To shorten this process at the time of cooking the thickening or "roux" can be made beforehand and will keep for a fairly long time I poured into -clean, hot jars and fastened down. Use equal.quantities of butter and flour. Melt the butter without of tiny pieces and stir in one by bmwning, leave for a minute or one, whisking well all the time. two, and pour off carefully into a The butter does not then become saucepan, leaving any sediment behind. Shake in the flour' gra- dually from a sleve, stirring all the time.

BROWN AND WHITE

If a brown, thickening is wanted stir over a heat strong enough to turn the four a good brown in ten minutes,” taking care not to burn it. It is then ready. If a white

thickening is wanted cook over so

low a heat that it does not turn

colour. It is useful to have both,

tore adding it, then add gradually and stir well in. Sometimes a recipe will call for the addition of butter and flour at the end. In

this case the butter and four must be first mixed together until no flour can be seen. Then break

olled.

YOLK OF EGG

slice thinly, pack into Jars Allow to cool, then skin

cover with cold vinegar.

SPICED VINEGAR This is how the spiced vinegar for pickling is made.

To a dozen large bananas use oranges and four, lemons, the the pulp and juice of four large grated rind of two of the oranges and lemons, and twelve unces bf sugar to each pound of banana, weighed after skinning. Put the fruit juice, rind, sliced bananas, and sugar into a preserving pan. Let the sugar dissolve and then bring.. to the boil. Simmer for forty-five minutes.

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SINGAPORE PLAN FOR NEW HOTEL

be

Plans for a magnificent twelve-, and Sons, provide for the ground in the Naval Reserve can volun-storeyed hotel to stand on the site Door of the hotel to be occupied The Admiralty made a call for singapore have already been drawn teer for transfer to the active list of the present Adelphi Hotel in by arcade shops which will estab- lish a new fashion and shopping volunteers last year, and in the by a Arm of architects in Shang- centre. result 120 of the applications were hal, acting on the instructions of The hotel lounge, entrance, din- approved, and almost all the new a group of financiers now in Paris. ing-rooms, officers are now in seagoing ap-

grill-rooms will The building is to cost $3,000,000 | placed on the first floor. pointments.

and, according to the plans, will Above will be the ballroom and The Navy is in need of young contain 250 bedrooms, three ban-banqueting-rooms, with the roof- manders, and the merchant ser-roof-garden. Heutenants and lieutenant com-queting-rooms, à ballroom and a garden and staff quarters situated vice

over the first floor lounge. officers who transfer are Inquiries in Bingapore recently warned that there is little revealed that as far as it is known likelihood that they will, save in the proposal to erect this hotel is exceptional circumstances, rise to still open, although nothing has the rank of commander or higher. been learned from the promoters of They will be retired at 43. This the scheme for some time. provision was much criticised by the mercantile officers associa- tions, but it does not appear to have affected the readiness of the

The Navy is establishing its own corps of photographers. Seamen ratings will be eligible to volunteer for the new branch and can rise to chief petty officer photographer with, pay at a maximum of 98. 6d. a day. Twenty-four volunteers a year will be entered in the branch. They will receive special instruction for about ave months at the new naval photographic school at Whale Island and three months in a sea-going target Ingredients: 1 pint white vine-ship. Bar, or malt vinegar, 4oz. each of

use of photography for mace, all-ice, cinnamon, and naval purposes is largely con- cloves, 5 peppercorns. Tie the nected with gunnery problems. A spices in a muslin bag, add the cinema record of the fall of shells vinegar and bring the liquor just from each salvo la of considerable to the boil

value to the gunnery experts, and Remove from the heat and in-work of this kind has been done month, and the first batch will fuse for 1 hour, strain and use.

for some years past, but only on & small scale. Now all capital March 1 ships, aircraft-carriers, and cruis- ers are to carry one or two established photographers as part of the complement, and the amis!! craft employed on target service Pile some sliced cooked potatoes are to have a corps of six photo- in the centre, then sprinkle with graphic specialists attached to finely-chopped parsley.

SALAD FOR SUPPER Served with cold meat, it makes this more appetising.

Arrange in a salad bowl the slices of beetroot, arranging them to overlap each other closely.

onion raw

Yolk of egg mankes a nourishing and pleasing thickening for cer- tain soups and sauces.” This is possibly the most difficult of all thickenings. If the egg is not put into the quld when it is at boll- ingpoint it will taste raw and will not thicken. If, on other hand, the liquid is bolled after the egg is added it will curdle and decome most unpleasant. The best way is 'the brown for brown gravies, sau- to dilute the egg yolks with a little

Serve with salad cream. ces, and soups, and the white for

cream, milk, or some of the sauce

Well-clean the beetroots, cut into white sauces, and soups. When re- or, soup, beating well together, pieces and boft for four hours. quired a dessertspoonful of the

and having the liquid hot, not Strain the liquor and to each thickening will, as a rule, be found boiling. Then add to the boiling Ballon add a handful of hups. the correct quantity, to thicken sauce, and immediately remove

Boil for one hour and when luke-ing half a pint of liquid, although this from the heat. Put back over a warm work with a little. brewer's varies slightly according to what very low heat and stir again until yeast. Cover and leave for 24 is being made, The. liquid must be the mixture is thick and smooth, hours, skim and bottle. gradually, and thoroughly mixed taking great care not to boll.

young men to transfer. The first

of the new applicants will" go before selection board next

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be required to join for duty on

NEW BULGARIAN ENVOY

Minister in Berne.

M. Simeon Rades, Bulgarian Minister in London, is to be trans- and them,

ferred to Brussels shortly. He will The institution of the new be succeeded by M. Nicolas Momt-

present branch means à farther change chilom, at

Bulgarian in naval uniform. In addition to the badges on the arm which are already so confusing to the layman, we shall see sailors bear- a gold badge of a camera, crown or star above it, ac- cording to their rating, and be- tore many years are past we shall will be eligible for promotion to have the new rank of "photo-commissioned photographer," and grapher lleutenant" in the Navy so, as with other ratings, to final List, as the men in the branch | retirement as an officer.

with the thickening first, and it When the eggs are added the double saucepan or in a bad should then be brought to the boll, aizture may be thickened in a standing in simmering water.

The change is being made at the request of M. Radeff, who has felt obliged on purely family grounds to seek a transfer to a less exacting post..

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The promoters left for Paris last year with the hope of floating a compány to raise money.

Shanghai architects, Messrs. Keys The plans, according to the

DEATH FROM WET

SAGO GAS

Separate bathrooms and veran- dahs are planned for each of the 250 bedroomIA.

The hotel is 12 floors in height but, it is stated, it is so planned that by allowing for receding facades, the question of height un- der the Singapore Municipal by- laws will be provided for.

The facade is designed in a modern Spanish manner.

PEACE IN NANTAO

Shanghai, Feb. 1. At the Singapore Coroner's in- The Japanese army spokesman quiry recently into the death of announced, at the Press Con- four Chinese, who were gassed on

ference this morning, that popula- a tongkang loaded with sago off tion of Nantao at present ix 5,000, Beach-road. medical evidence plus 2,200 in the Jacquinot zone.

The spokesman stated that showed that death was due to asphyxiation from a lung irritant shops have been reopened and

peace and order prevalla.(Re- and gas polsoning..

A tongkang loaded with sago' ter), Boar in bulk and carrying a crew

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of eight men arrived from Inboard two men were dead when dragiri

brought on deck. The other two The crew remained on deck, but died, some hours later in hospital. three days later four men went The dead were Ang Chow Toh below to get some supplies and | (22), Ang Cheng Blok (23), Ang were overcome by polsonous fumes. | Llan (28) `and Ang Ngáh (62).

Hearing groans coming from below one of the men on deck Bashed an electric torch down the hold and saw four men lying there. An alarm was raised and when the police and ambulance came of

The taikong of the vessel cald that it rained during the, vÖYAKO. and although the hold was covered with bamboo matting the ago, got a little wet.

The Inquiry was adjourned, -