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STAPLES

PACK-UP-MEALS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938.

SURPRISES

ECONOMICAL PLAIN CRUST

Good pastry for packed ples. Ingredients: 8oz.. four, Joz: lard, teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt.

BY A HOUSEWIFE

Many housewives, who have to pack up lunches for five or six days a week for a husband to take to work, and for children at school, And it a difficult problem to give them sufficient food to satisfy them until they are home for a high tea.

Here are some recipes that are fairly thick. satisfying and inexpensive.

SANDWICH SUGGESTIONS

I cannot think of anything more unappetising than a dry, tasteless sandwich, so let's begin with a few hints when making sandwiches.

Remove the crusts from the loat and cut into even slices (the crusts can be used in various ways such as in puddings or for browned

crumbs)..

Spread the bread liberally with creamed butter or dripping and vary with soft, savoury Allings. For a change the bread can be lightly toasted on the outside of the sandwich only.

Here are filing varieties.

SAVOURY ROLLS

Cold beef or mutton, shredded or minced and spread, with a little chutney, or with horseradish sauce for beef and mint sauce for mutton.

FRUIT RECIPES

STEWED PRUNES

1. pound prunes

teaspoon salt

A cup sugar

CHICKEN SALAD

Cold cooked chicken, 1 lettuce, 2 tomatoes, a few slices of cucum- ber, 1 hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise sauce. Cut all the meat of the chicken, remove the skin, and cut up the meat in small pieces. Wash,

Prunes must be carefully washed Rub the lard into the flour till and

soaked at least 12 hours. very fine, using tips of figers Cook prunes in water in

which Mix with cold water and roll out they have been soaked. Water dry and shred the lettuce and ar- once, Cut into fairly large rounds, should cover fruit

range round salad bowl. Mix up the chicken with the 'mayonnaise. sauce and put this into the centre of the bowl. Garnish with cucum- ber, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs.

Put tablespoonful of some fuling on one half of each round fold over and seal the edges; bake in a solid shelf. Smaller ones can be made for the children.

Add sugar and salt. Place to covered pan and cook over slow are until boiling point is reached; re- move from fire and keep pan covered until fruit is cold-this causes steam to condense and keeps the fruit plump and soft.

A thinly sliced orange or Some men and children prefer a greatly improves the flavour of meat pasty; it makes a substantial prunes. meal, and remains of any cold! meat can be used up.

SMALL MEAT PASTY

Make the crust just described. roll out on a floured board, ne some small deep patty tins with

it

Mince any cold meat, chicken or ham tinely, add a little chopped union, a chopped hard boiled egg. salt and pepper," and some thick brown gravy.

Mix well, then put a little.of the mixture into each patty tin, damp the edges. cover with a ld of crust, brush over with a little Cold faked Osh, sprinkled with milk, and bake in a moderate a drop or two of anchovy essence oven for twenty minutes. makes a pleasant change. Tinned salmon combined with tomato pulp and seasoning is especially appreciated by the children.

Sardines are very nutritious and are nice mashed with the oil, then spread on brown bread and butter Another satisfying suggestion is corned beef. Shred the meat with a fork, spread a thin layer on the bread and butter, then season with shredded piccalilll or chutney, This is also very good filled into bread rolls

with

SALAD SANDWICHES

The vegetable course must not

bs left out of the "pack-up" meal,

RASPBERRY BUNS

lemon

CHICKEN CASSEROLE

An excellent way of ensuring that an old towl will eat tender.

Joint the bird, fry it in dripping until browned, then put the joints In a glass casserole with two Pour over a pint

Ingredients-lb. flour, soz. but-rashers of bacon. ter 3 oz. sugar. 1 teaspoonful bak-of stock, cover, and heat gently in Ing powder, 1 egg. 4 teaspoonfuls the oven. raspberry jam, a little grated lemon rind.

Meanwhile, fry a sliced onion.

Rub the fat into the flour, add carrot, turnip and three button sugar, baking powder, lemon rind, mushrooms, and, when the chicken and enough milk to mix into a is hot, add to the casserole, season- very suff paste.

ing to taste,

Form into small balls, make a little hole in the centre and All with jam. Cover the jam with the paste, put on a greased baking tin, and bake for twenty minutes. (Hot oven).

Leave for two hours, basting fre- quently. Uncover the casserole, half an hour before dishing, so that the bird gets nicely browned.

SAUSAGE ROLLS

At parties or picnics these always disappear rapidly.

Ingredients: 1b. flaky or rough puff pastry, 11. sausages, i egg.

DRINK QUESTION

Here it is: Chop some cooked banana, orange or tangerine with Children will enjoy an apple, peetroot and a piece of celery and their lunch, or, if possible, the slice two tomatoes. Add salt and strained juice. of "an orange in a pepper, a chopped hard-boiled egg small clean bottle. This can be them into boiling water for #

very little grated onion. diluted with cold water or drunk mintite or Mousten with salad cream, then spread between thin slices of bread

by itself.

and a

und butter.

INSTEAD OF PUDDING ·

now

CHESE FLAVOUR

Skip the sausages after plunginig

two. Season with a pinch of salt and powdered sage, Men will appreciate hot coffee.

and make each into three rolls.

Then

Roll out the pastry and cut into most schools have ап arrangement for supplying joblong shapes, as many as there Sausages are always popular Now for a sweet sandwich to milk. A juicy orange in the lunch are rolls of sausage. Brush the

workers. Fry them, until take the place of pudding.

packet also helps to solve the edges of the pastry with a little nicely browned, and leave until

egg. Wrap a piece of sausage in a Bananas mashed with raspberry, drinks question. cool. Split open lengthwise, and strawberry or apricot jam make a

thin rasher of bacon, then place spread with tomato ketchup, a delicious Alling: Spread them on

on the pastry near the end, and few drops of Worcester sauce for white or brown bread and butter,

Cheese forms an excellent sub-fold the pastry over the sausage. the menfolk. "or а little made sprinkle with Force, then place stitute for meat, as it la nutritious The seal may be either at the mustard. Finch together and put the two halves together.

side or under the sausage. If the inalde a long bread roll spread

is an excellent alling former, pinch the edges together with the sausage dripplrig.

suitable for bread and butter, or with the back of a knife; if the A sweet filling is made by min-to spread on cheese biscuits. Grate latter, make three cuts across the ctag nuts and figs together, and 4oz. cheese, add a tablespoonful of top and brush over with beaten moistening the mixture with aciled butter, salt, and a dusting of egg. very little honey or tinned cream. pepper, a few drops of onion juice For a change you could spread it and a little salad cream. Mix well on sweet biscuits.

and spread liberally.

WHOLEMEAL BISCUITS

P

Elther plain, or chocolate coated these are nourishing and satisfy Ing. They can be wrapped in parchment paper and will travel safely.

NUT AND FIG

and satisfying.

Here

INDIA CONGRESS FRENCH SHIP FIRED HANGCHOW-WUHU

TENSION

Prime Ministers Asked To Remain In Office

New Delhi, Feb. 23..

It is announced that the Gover-

nors of the four provinces con-

ON OFF VALENCIA

Marseilles, Feb. 22.

The French steamer, Prado, was attacked and machine-gunned by a plane 15 miles of Valencia, One of the crew wounded.

OFFENSIVE

Hankow: Feb. 24.

Chinese forces on the south- eastern front., eastern Anhwel and northern Cheklang, are launching

future in an attempt to smash the Japanese line between Hangchow, and Wuhu, according to Chinese. sources.

It is understood a French de-a general offensive in the near stroyer has left Toulon to join the Frado.-(Reuter

The Governors and he had done

Although the Japanese are sald

trolled by the Congress Party have their utmost over the last seven to be holding, Wuhu and Hang-

informed the

Prime

months to work in harmonious co- officially

operation with the Congress Minis- Ministers of the provinces con-ters of both Provinces. cerned that they are unable to ac-

'NO REVERSAL OF POLICY cept the resignation of the Ca- binets.

As regards this particular issue, The Prime Ministers are re- there was no going back on the quested to remain in office until policy of readiness to examine in- dividual cases and to release where an agreement can be reached.

Opinion, among delegates to the no undue risk was involved.

There was, further, no impro- All-India Congress, now being held at Haripura, is that a satisfactory pzlety in the Governors requiring understanding on the question of such individual examination or in release of political prisoners may declining, without It, to accept the now be hoped for.

It

is stated that Mahatma Gandhi's health has suddenly be- come worse and that he may leave Haripura before the end of the Congress session.-(Transoceant).

LINLITHGOW STATEMENT

London, Feb. 22. A statement Issued by the "The action taken was designed Governor-General of India reviews to safeguard the peace and tran- the history of the difficulties quillity of India and, incidentally. which have arisen in the United to uphold the sanctions of law and

• Provinces and Bihar in connection | the orderly 'functioning of the con- with the release of political pri stitutional, machine.

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fere.

Bake in a hot oven, mark 8, for

20 minutes. If very small sauage rolls, bake for only 15 minutes.

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TRAUTMANN EXPLAINS TO GENERALISSIMO

Hankow, Feb. 23.

The circumstances leading to Gertinny's decision to re- cognise Manchukuo are be- lieved to have been explained to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek by Dr. Oscar Trautmann, Ger- man Ambassador to China, in an interview here yesterday afternoon.

H

chow in force, they are believed to have stationed only small gar-

Meanwhile the Chinese For- risons at points between the cities. It is claimed that Chinese troope

eign Office has decided to post- launched an attack on Wuhu on

pone despatch of its intended protest against the German de- February 13 and a drive on Hang- ofter

cision pending a careful study chow on February 16. but

capturing strategle points near the

of the original text of Herr citles

of Hitler's speech. Versions they were compelled to withdraw because of heavy artil- the Fuehrer's speech circulated here showed considerable dif- lery bombardments.

ferencs.(Reuter),

The Chinese high command, it is understood, plans to make the next drive, between Wuhu and Hangchow.

ATTACKING HUCHOW

attacks and provincial divisions for defence positions in the quiet In the Hangchow area, the sector. Chinese are stated to he attacking

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LLOYD GEORGE HITS OUT AT

“FEEBLE GOVERNMENT”

The present chaos in inter- national affairs is blamed on the British Government by Mr. Lloyd

For Fighting Forces George, who hits out in a cable of

Paris Feb. 22.

support sent to Mr. R. R. Stokes. the Labour" candidate in the the Credits to the total of 3,200,000,- | Ipswich by-election, states G00 francs for the purposes of Glasgow Bulletin. Increasing air, land and sex defen- ces, are to be voted.

C.N.A.C. SERVICE

EXPANSION

New Routes May Be Established

"The deplorable state of inter- national aHairs to-day," he says, To cope with phenomenal In- The credits will be divided thus: ["is largely attributable to the crease in passenger traffic on the 1,800,000,000 franca' for the "Air feebleness and hesitancles of uur Hong Kong-Chungking at route, Ministry:

Government since 1931. Action the China National Aviation Cor- 800,000,000 francs for the Navy: when it comes la generally in-poration has announced that an 609,000,000 franca for the Army. adequate, always' belated, and additional plane will be placed on The Navy's share will be utilised never sustained.

the service, making a total of three in the 1938 building programme, "Had we taken a firmer, planes. totalling 58,000 tons, as well as for prompter, and more effective line Trafic both in respect of pas- two 35,000 tons battleships now over

Manchuria, disarmament, sengers and freight has been un- under construction. T

Abyssinia. and non-intervention | usually heavy since, the outbreak The Army's share will be chiefly the militarist dictatorships of the of the present crisis in China," devoted to war material and anti-world would have paid greater especially after the cessation of aircraft. defencca-(Reater.)..

heed to our protests and the Lea-river frame on the Yangtse. CABINET MEETS

gue of Nations would now have -It is learned also that the Cor- Paris, Feb. 22... been a real security for peace. As poration has already placed an The French Cabinet met after it is, the weakness of our Govern-order for a number of new, planes the House of Commons debate and ment has now reduced the League of the Douglas tore. Now air discussed foreign affairs, especially to complete Impotency.

routes will probably be established concerning Anglo-Italian talks-

"In domestic matters it is in- in the country, it is stated, (Reuter)

credible that during a period of prosperity there should be still

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advice of their Ministers.

Finally there was no foundation for the suggestion that the action he had taken was dictated by a desire to undermine the position of the Congress ministers. Neither Huchow on the southern shore Meanwhile the Chinese claim the Governors nor the Governor-with the obpect of threatening that Kwangtoh, midway between General had any desire to inter- the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway,Nanking and. Hangchow, was re- while on the Wuhu sector, the captured on January 30. Normal- Chinese are attempting the capy with a population of 80,000, the ture of Hsuanchen and Kaechun, elty was stated to be without a points on the highway between single Inhabitant when the the cities,

Chinese troops, re-entered, while Central Government farces are not a building had a roof.

Four hundred dead bodies were bearing the brunt of the forth-

Mr. Lucien Colin, representative over 1,800,00 unemployed-nearly coming offensive, as it is intended picked up in the streets and

more than when the agricultural centres are suttering Lord Linlithgow emphasises, that "That action leaves it open to to employ Government troops for among the ruins of the bulldings. of the French Embassy in Hankow. 500,000 the prisoners whose release is in Ministers, in consultation with the

Kwangteh was said to have been has been decorated by the French Unionists first came into power in from this deplorable condition of dispute were, almost without ex- Governors, to pursue a policy at

recaptured without much fighting Foreign Ministry with the "Me 1922, It is still more difficult to things on the land. In the Great the Government War we were nearly starved out, ception, persons convicted of vio- release of prisoners, and they need position which I have described as the Japanese garrison. It is daille de Vermell" in recognition of explain why

should be either so indifferent or and since 1914 our land has lence or of preparation for specific anticipate no difficulty now, any and It is my sincere and earnest alleged, was compelled to with his meritorious service.

so helpless In the face of the deteriorated in fertility. The Gov- acts of violence by normal crimin-more than in the past, in securing hope that it may shortly be pos-draw following Chinese occupation

|decay of agriculture—our greatest crnment's policy is one of unintel al courts, and that to have ac- the friendly and ready co-opera-sible to return to normality and of the highways surrounding the

area containing British coal mines Industry and one of such primary ligent and costly fumbling with quiesced in immediate and discri- tion of the Governors' Individual that in the two provinces most city. (Reuter).

operated by a Pelping syndicate. Importance for the wellbeing and this vital problem." minate release would have been to examination.

concerned the Ministers, in dis- JAPANESE OCCUPY COAL

Chinese troops are misstag at

|security of the country. strike a blow at the root of law "I am glad to think that in no cussion with the Governors, may

REGION !!

Nanghsien in order to prevent

The Government had failed di- and order in India and to threaten quarter is there manifest any dis- and themselves able to

Peiping. Feb. 23. the Japanese from crossing the | "Land is going out of cultivation sastrously in the championship of dangerously peace and good rov-position to extend the area of their interrupted labours-British Japanese troops habe now Yellow River near Loyang-(Rey- yearly, and workers are leaving the all the essentials of human pro-

difficulty beyond the limits of the| Wireless).

reached Kalkingfu, occupying anter).

Boll by the thousands.". Oreát | gress.

'soners,

ernment.

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