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STAPLES SURPRISES

CAKE-MAKING AT HOME

Milk Scones are easly made, and the following recipe will be found quite simple:-

1 lb. dr.

1 oz castor sugar,

1 saltspoonful salt,

3 ozs. batter.

2 teaspoonfuls baking

powder, plat milk (about))

quick Method-Scones require a oven and this should be prepared before mixing commences, as the quicker they are put in and baked,

Various Scones

onto a wire trag to cool. When a fork, and cook on the girdle; cool enough to handle, split open

turning over as each side becomes

and butter, and serve immediately. nicely crisp. Place at once in the If the cones have to be made napkin on the hot dish, and serve some time before they are served with butter. These scones ure very they may be reheated in the oven (nutritious, and may be given to for about Ave minutes-placing children" without fear of their them on a clean sheet of white causing indigestion. Most children paper in a baking tin; but they enjoy them with thick gravy, and are best served direct from the they are oven, as described above.

SULTANA SCONES

FOOD

FOR BRIGHTER BREAKFASTS

These dishes will help to break the monotony of the breakfast

JAM MAKING

HINTS FOR

BEGINNERS Use heavy thick pans, and choose a pan larger than one gen- erally needs. Then there is plenty of room for the jam to boll up and bubble without cverboiling.

Never rely on guesswork, always weigh and measure.

Stir with a wooden spoon skim when necessary.

and

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1938. -PAGE 3

JAPANESE HARASSED BY

-GUERILLAS IN HOPEI

The united front formed by Chinese guerillas and trained peasants who are giving the Japanese war-wagers no end of trouble everywhere in China has drawn to its fold even the people in Eastern Hopei.

For five years, the people of Eastern Hopel, which flanks Man- churia, have suffered Japanese tyrrany as subjects of a puppet regime.

FISH DISHES

BAKED IN PASTRY

This ple should be very popular

But in their hearts, they have remained loyal subjects of China. How ardently though secretly had they cheered and celebrated the release of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his Bian captivity during December, 1938!

Never over-bolt after the sugar is added, test by putting a little of the jam on a cold plate or

in your family. saucer; if it sets, then pot the jamesh, i pint anchory sauce, 100

Ingredients: 4oz. rice, 1lb. white

The ardent patriotism for China immediately. If it does not set, rough puff pastry.

and rebellion against the Japan- then continue bolling until it does

Cook the rice in salted water ese warlords of these citizens of set.

until tender, drain off the water China, oppressed for five years, are Pots should be perfectly dry and and use it to make the sauce. now bursting. With their fellow I slice of bacon per person, the cupboard in which they are Arrange the fish, cut into pieces, countrymer elsewhere throughout

menu-

PANCAKES AND BACON

cgg. 6 oz, margarine, 4 ozs. fleur,stored, should be cool and dry-rice and sauce in layers in a pie North China they have arisen in

pinch of salt, i pt, milk. Have the bacon cut as thin as

nover warm, steamy or damp.

If the cupboard is warm the jam

mouldy.

dish.

an organization known as Eastern Cover with rough puff pastry, Hopel Branch of the North China

delicious" served with your grocer can manage, and bake will ferment, if damp it will go decorate with pieces of pastry cut/People's Anti-Japan Military and

it in the oven while you cook the Pancakes over hot plate or g ring.

Make the pancake batter the

Seal the pots with either cello.

ed both sides with white of egz. phane or parchment paper brush-

into the shape of fish.

Bake in a hot oven. for 45 minutes.

Political Federation...

minced meat, chicken, etc. as a change from potatoes prepared in

That organization was inaugur» The above recipe may be used, other ways. As a tea time delicacy

ated at a recent mass meeting at the better they will be. If you are with the addition of 3 oz. sultanas / they are, of course, best eaten with night before. Beat the egg. make:

To make the white sauce melt which eleven out of the twelve dis- and a little finely chopped peel,

a hole in the flour and add the egg

a nut of margarine in a saucepan.tricts or prefectures forming what both of which should be added im- |·

and milk to make a stiff paste.per or haddock to the eggs. not stir in a tablespoonful of flour, has been known as the Luantung mediately after the sugar has been

Beat until the paste becomes forgetting haddock to the eggs, not add the milk, stir until smooth Demilitarized Zone were represen- mixed in. All other directions are These are sometimes also known smooth, and gradually add the forgetting the seasoning and but-and boul for a few minutes, stirring ted. Among them were remnants of

using a gas oven, light the gas and turn it on three-quarter full frat of all, and then collect all materials and grease the baking time before commencing to mix. Sleve the flour. salt, and baking powder to- gether, turn to a basia, and butter, and rub it into the flour with the tips of the fingers.

the same.

It is not generally known that the "first milk" of the coconut can quite well take the place of cow's milk for scones and many varieties Now add the sugar, and blend of cakes where milk is given in the thoroughly. Mix to a fairly stim recipe. It must be the thick milk. dough with the milk, using a large however, and it should be first krilfe for mixing. Turn onto a strained through a piece of fine" foured board and knead very light-muslin, to remove any particles of ly until it forms a smooth ball. grated nut there may be. Roll out to the desired thickness, and cut into neat triangular shapes with a sharp knife, or into rounds.

POTATO SCONES

butter.

SCOTCH SCONES

as Drop Scones and are made, as follows:-

millk and salt. Beat again for about 5 minutes, then. cover with

ter

à lbs. flour, 1 egs.

1 tablespoonful sugar.

1 teaspoonful salt,

teaspoonful each of

bi-car-

a clean cloth and leave to stand for the night.

In the morning, heat the butter in the frying pan till it is hot but

SAVOURY SAUSAGES Cooked sausages, hard boiled eggs. seasoning pt brown gravy, butter, a little bread. Slice the bread and toast it, then

not browned. then pour in just butter fairly generously. Arrange

the former Peace

all the time. Add two teaspoonfuls

Preservation of anchovy essence and blend Corps, landowners, holders and thoroughly.

tenants, miners and other la- bourers. HIGH TEA PIE

The farmers in the Luantung Demilitarized Zone are known to tie in possession of 138,573 licensed

Ingredients: 1lb. cooked fish, pint parsley sauce, lib. mashed

banate of soda and cream of enough batter to cover the bottom/slices of sausage and hard-boiled Potatoes, 1oz. butter, pepper, salt rifles. while unlicensed rifles that

tartar,

1 teacupful milk.

and browned bread-crumbs.

have gone from the hands of the Remove any bones and skin from tafer" or bandits into the bands

number.

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of the frying pan. Cook till it be- egg on each piece of toast, and comes Arm (usually in about 2 place the pieces of toast in a cas-. minutes), then turn with a broad serole or baking dish, Season the the fish and flake. Mix the is of the villagers and peasants are bladed knife or toss. about a minute to complete the pour round the toasts, then po mashed potatoes and small pieces The electric

It will take brown gravy quite generously and with the sauce, season and place estimated to

In a greased dish. Cover with These are cooked on a very hot

cooking. after which it should be the casserole and its contents into with a pastry cutter. Place in the girdle, lightly dusted with flour.gradually. and mix to a smooth served with the bacon on a very

moderate oven to heat, Serve and should be served on a hot dish

Sprinkle with browned crumbs, Tangshan," on very hot plates. covered with a folded serviette:

Here is an idea for a noval fruit and bake for twenty minutes in uprisings were staged everywhere dish for breakfast:

well-greased tins, and prick in two or three places with a fork. Turn the gas down to half, and put the tins on the bottom shelf for the Arst five minutes, when they will be seen to have risen nicely.

. 1 lb. cooked potatoes, mashed very smoothly so that all lumps are removed,

lb. flour.

I saltspoonful salt,

Beat the sugar, egg, and salt to- gether, add half of the milk, and continue beating until the mixture is light and frothy. Add flour paste. Finally, add the rest of the

hot plate.

EGG IN ORANGES Here is the latest idea in egg

milk mixed with the soda and cream of tartar, blending them quickly and thoroughly. Brush the girdle over lightly with but-cookery-and it's quick. delicious

BAKED BANANAS

of butter.

A hot oven.

Brother

have doubled that

wire at Lutai,

station rallway

were cut Sporadic

Dear

throughout the eleven districts of FISH AND TOMATOES Eastern Hopel by the guerillas, 1 banana per person, 2 oz.

These combine to make a very "bandita" to the Japanese. ter, when it is quite hot, and dook and laboursaving. Cut the tops) butter, lemon juice, sugar.

tasty dish.

Thus, the farmers in the Luan- desired, they may then be

the scones on it, pouring the mix-off as many oranges as there are Skin the bananas and cat in Ingredients: 1lb. white fish, 2oz. tung Demilitarized Zone who have lightly brushed over with well-

1 teaspoonful baking powder, ture on a tablespoonful at a time, people at breakfast, and remove half lengthwise. Place in a but. breadcrumbs, pint milk, 103, for five years suffered from the beaten egg, and placed on the mid- 1 oz. batter,

and turning them ever to brown most of the pulp and, of course, tered reproof dish. In a separate margarine, lb. tomatoes, a little Japanese or their allles, the real dle shelf to complete the cooking About, a tablespoonful milk. nicely on both sides. These scones the pipa. Allow one egg to each saucepan, melt together the but-chopped parsley.

bandits, now have their day of and brown on top. but this is not

Steve four, salt, and baking are delicious served with jaggery orange, with a small piece of butter, sugar and lemon juice, and Wash and dry the fish, put it revenge! (China Information really necessary, and if done it powder together, rub in the butter syrup, honey, or a thin syrup made ter and pepper and salt. Break pour half the mixture per the into a fireproof dish, cover with Committee.) must be done quickly without re- with the tips of the fingers, and by mixing any kind of jam with the egg into the orange well, and bananas in the baking dish. Cook crumbs, season and pour over the moving the tins from the oven. add the potatoes. Blend thorough- a little boiling water heating, and butter and bake in a moderate in a slow oven for 20 minutes, add milk. Add the margarine in small skinned and sliced tomatoes on Continue cooking on the middle 13. and add milk if the paste seems then straining through a coarse oven for about 15 minutes.

ing the remainder of the butter. pieces. cover with ล piece of the top and return to the oven shelf until the scanes are lightly to be diy. Turn onto a floured muslin or net strainer.

Granish with parsley.

lemon juice and sugar as the mols- greased paper and cook in a for ten minutes. browned on top-about Afteen board, and roll out fairly, thin. An iron frying pan makes a good

ture is soaked up by the bananas.moderate oven for half an hour. Garnish with chopped parsley minutes in all-and then turn out Cut into neat shapes, prick with 'substitute for a girdle.

Remove the paper, arrange the and serve with mashed potatoes.

It is also quite a good idea to add the faked remains of any kip-

Serve from the baking dish.

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