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FOOD
Cake-Making At Home SAVOURIES FOR BEANS IN THE
WEST INDIES CAKE,
8 ozs. four.
1 heaped
powder.
teaspoonful baking
3 ozs, soft brown sugar.
4 075. butter.
1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon, 2 eggs.
ill each, strong black coffee and golden syrup or molasses, Beat the augár and butter to a cream, grinding the grains against the sides of the bowi to break them down during the process.
Junbearable to the palm of the hand when placed against the side.
Sleve flour, ginger, spice, and soda together, and mix with the and oatmeal, in a bowl. sugar Make a well in the centre, and pour in the syrup mixture. Str until all are thoroughly blended. working the four down from the sides during mixing.
ALL OCCASIONS
BAKING POWDER
BISCUITS
2 cups bread Bour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 tbsp. cold fat
2 tsp. sugar
+
cup Carnation Milk cup water
Sift dry ingredients, rub in shortening with finger tips or cut. SPANISH WAY
in with two knives. Add Car- Peppers, onion, garlic, cheese, nation diluted with the water and olive oil and chili powder are prime mix to soft dough. Toss on slightly ingredients of the following recipe floured board. roil or pat out to for lima beans-3o you know in-3 inch thickness, and cut stantly, of course, that these are a biscuit cutter. Brush top with thin la Espagnole. You'll like them, be layer of melted fat. Bake in a hot "the day hot or cold.
A batch of recipes. for various types of savouries to serve as a final course to a meal and others for sapper is given below.
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STUFFED APPLES "Peel and core some good cooking apples. fill cavities with sausage meat mixed with a few fine bread- crumbs, bake with bastings of but- ter.
The stiff paste thus formed
CREAMED HADDOCK should be divided into as even portions as possible-It will make ingredients: 40z, cooked smoked from sixteen to twenty, according haddocks, cayenne, 14oz. butter, mon and baking powder three to size desired. Dust the hands sill cream, two olives. fried bread. times, and keep aside while the with sieved flour, and roll each
Sleve the flour with the cinna-
Remove all skin and bones from syrup is warmed in a slow are un portion into a ball. place on the fish and flake it finely. Melt til it is thin. Whisk the eggs greased baking-tin. allowing good the butter, add the fish and a thoroughly, and pour over them space between each, and flatten pinch
When quite cold. store in a tin
Here's what goes into the dish:- 2jc, dried limas
4 tsp. salt
1c. minced onion
1. minced green
|
pepper
pected small
clove garlic min- ced
6 tbsp. salad or
olive oil
jc. seedless raisins
of cayerne. Then stir in
1j
tsp. chill pow- der
the stoned olives cut into rings.
Dish on a lace paper on a hot dish. and serve hot. Garnish the dish
the syrup, whisking all together slightly by pressing down onto the the cream. Make hot, but do not let tin. Place half an almond in the the mixture boli. Pile it or slices until well blended.
of fried bread and garnish with Now add the flour mixture to the centre of each, and bake in creamed butter and sugar. gradual-moderate-to-quick oven for about ly stirring it in, and adding the fteen minutes. syrup and eggs alternately to keep the mixture moist, until all has with a well-fitting lid, putting a been used up. Do not beat after sheet of tissue paper between each layer. They should be packed thus as 800N as they are cold, otherwise there is a tendency for them to lose their crispness.
beginning to add the four. Last of all, add the cold coffee, stir thoroughly, and turn into a greas ed tin. Bake in a moderate oven.
I liked, this mixture may be baked in two sandwich-cake tins, and when cold, may be put to- gether with a cream made by beating together 2 ozs. butter and four ozs. aleved icing sugar, until thick and creamy, flavour with a desert-spoonful rum.
This is a delicious cake, which keeps moist for several days.
GINGER PARKINS
34 ozs. medium oatmeal,
4 ozs. black treacle.
3
02s, butter.
1 oz, caster sugar.
3
v24. flour.
1 heaped teaspoonful
ginger.
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ground
1 level teaspoonful mixed spice. 1 heaped saltspoonful bi-carbo-
nate of soda,
COCONUT ROCK BUNS
4 cza, butter, ·
4 ozs. caster sugar.
8 cza, Cour.
2 ozs. desiccated coconut,
2 level teaspoonfuls baking pow
der,
Yolks of 2, and white of 1 egg. A few drops vanilla essence. Beat the butter and sugar to a
cream, add the well-beaten eggs. and beat all together until the mixture la thick and smooth. Steve the flour and baking powder. to- gether, mix in the coconut, and
with parsley.
1 tbsp. cornnour lic. cold water 1jc. grated cheese And you prepare it thus:- Soak the dried ilmas overnight in water to cover; drain, cover with
with
(450°F) oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 14 biscuits Emer- gency Biscuits are made by using the same recipe, changing the | liquid to } cup Carnation and i cup Drop by spoonstul onto a greased tin and bake.
water.
COFFEE FLAVOURING
In the use of coffee as a flavour- ing the average cook is often not very
delicious successful. Yet cakes, sweets and puddings can be pre-
made with coffee" as the
dominant flavour.
The principal reason for failure is that the coffee is allowed to cool
with the grounds at in. Coffee CHEESE AND POTATO FUDDING water and cook with 3 tsp. of salt
for flavouring should be made Rub a fireproof dish with onion. for 45 min. or until tender; drain. exactly as for drinking, but strong- er. and poured off from the butter it and sift breadcrumbs Meanwhile, saute the onion, green lightly over. Slice some cold bolled pepper, garlic and 1 tsp. of the Sounds to cool potatoes into this, place a few bita salt In the oll until delicately Concentrated coffee may be used cf butter over, a seasoning of pep-brown. Wash the raisins in hot for making coffee 'ices and sweets. per and salt and a few bread-water.
For this a special' coffee syrup can
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14
(crumbs and grated cheese. Repeat Mix chili powder and cornflour. be very easily made, and if it is this until the dish is full, then and add the cold water a little at put in an airtight bottle it will keep cover with breadcrumbs to which a time, stirring until smooth. Add for an indefinite time. has been added one-fourth of the with the raisins to the sauteed Here is the recipe: Allow 3oz. nf quantity of grated cheese. Bake vegetables; cook 3 min. og until coffee to 1 pint of water. Make in for 20 minutes in a quick oven. thickened.
the usual way, clear and strain. Add the limas and ic, of thehen add jlb. of sugar, bring to cheese; pour into a li-qt, casserole, bolling and boil for three minutes. Top with the remaining ic. of the Pour while still boiling into a cheese. and bake in a hot oven uf sterilised bottle. Sea! and use as 400 deg. F. for 20 min. Serves 6, required. To serve 2 or 3, make half this
CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP
1 tin of tomato soup
STUFFED HERRINGS
Ingredients; 4 "herrings.
Large tin of Carnation Milk add. a little at a time. until all Heat the milk and the tomato recipe. have been used up. Lastly, add soup separately, watching carefully
breadcrumbs, parsley finely chop- the flavouring, and place in rough to prevent scorching. When both
ped, onion. berbs and lemon juice. heaps on a baking tin which has are piping hot (not bolling) and
Season well, with salt and pepper been greased and dusted out with you are ready to serve, pour the flour. Place on the lowest shelf of hot tomato into the hot Carnation
and add the butter melted; divide 402. the stuffing between the herrings, a quick oven and bake for five and serve immediately. To ayold minutes, then sprinkle the tops of urdling, be sure to pour the tomato breadcrumbs. 1 teaspoon chopped spread over the inside and close A little the fish; using small skewers; melt Warm the treacle and butter in each bun with a little desiccated into the milk instead of vice versa. parsley. 1. small onion.
not combine the tomato and mixed herbs, teaspoon lemon a very little fat in a frying pan a small saucepan over a gentle coconut, and return to the middle Do heat, until they are melted and shelf of the oven, reducing the milk until ready to serve as these juice, loz. butter, salt and pepper. and fry the fish carefully for 15
Split the herrings down the back minutes, turning thoroughly blended without mak-heat after the first three minutes. should be heated separately. This
prevent ing them really hot. The pan Bake until a rich golden brown. makes a thick and delicious soup, and take out the large bone. then Use only enough fat to
and dry them; mix the them burning. Serve very hot. should never be so hot as to be Cool on a wire cake rack.
A few halved almonds-one for
each bun.
BLOOD TESTS
Japanese Expert's Beliefs
WHY LORD CROMER
IN RETIRING
•
The Earl of Cromer, who on July is relinquishing the office of Lord Chamberlain, an appointment which includes the duties of Chief
Serves 4.
TRADITION OF THE KITCHENERS
wash
once or twice.
ITALY PACT BREAKS] NEW DIRECTOR
"VICIOUS CIRCLE"
Addressing the 1912 Club recent- ly, Sir Arnold Wilson. MP, for Hitchin, said that the Prime. Min-
The hope that a family tradister had far more support in the
his
A question was asked in the Examiner of Plays, explained to tion should be carried on by House of Commons recently about guests" at a luncheon of the Lon- grandson is contained in the will don Theatre Council recently the of Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, blood xroup classifications as
who became second Earl when his throwing light on paternity gro-reason for his retirement.
brother lost his life in 11.M.S.
blems.
ed in various countries.
Hampshire In 1916.
OF TATE GALLERY
Mr. J.K.M. Rothenstein
country for his agreement with Italy than was indkated even by the large majority in the Commons.
Mr. Chamberlain had broken the vicious circle in which Mr. Eden
The Lords Commissioners had involved himself and had thus the Treasury have appointed Mr. enabled Britain once more to play. K. M. Rothenstein, Director of a diruified part in European poli-the City Art Galleries and Ruskin Museum, Sheffield, to be Director
tics.
of
"I am retiring, not for reasons of ill-health which have been at- Whatever evidence may have
Earl Kitchener, who died at tributed to me," he said, "but be- been secured in that particular field of inquiry, general scientific cause I have reaced the ripe age Hoeys Bridge, Kenya, left estate in-
of 60, when I thought it a good Great Britain valued at £320. opinion remains exceedingly. scep-
He directed that the sum of tical about certain other blood thing for a young King and Queen
He hoped that further azree and Keeper of the Tate Gallery, tests which are being recommend-to have young people around them. £10.000, advanced to relieve his
son of his marriage agreement, ments would follow between Italy in succession to Mr. J. B. Manson, "When I do retire I shall always should be paid to Lady Broome, anand France. but they were un-who has retired. The position have the most affectionate remem-that the sum of £8,000 should be
kely to be, auccessful until the carries a salary of £1,161 a year. For example. Dr Tsunemasa
brance of the kindness I have re-devoted under his wife's wili as/French Government had a man at Aragaki, the medical expert at-
ceived from managers, actors and tached to the Japanese Foreign actresses and everybody else." Office, is a strong-bellever in the
The appointment of the Earl "of Immensely superior qualities of the Clarendon as Lord Cromer's auc- "O" type of blood, and if he is
cessor has already been announced. successful in persuading his Gov- Lord Clarendon is 60. ernment to give him his head rin one whose veins do not contain
therein directed.
my
its head as strong as Mr. Cham- berlain and with the same amount of public support.
the
Mr. Rothenstein, who is 38, is
eldest son
of Sir William the Rothenstein,
founder and Principal of the Royal College of Art.
The bulk, of his property he left to his two younger grandchildren attaining the age of 25 years, [stating: "I hope
younger The body of the late General
In 1932 he was appointed Direc- grandson will go into either the Wang Ming-chang. Division Comtor of the City Art Gallery at Navy or the Army. I direct that mander of Szechuan forces, who Leeds, and at the end of the fol- that particular variety will be ad-Aragaki's blood tests may get a should he pass for either the Navy was killed in action at Tenghalen. lowing year was invited to shet- mitted into the country's foreign tria
or Woolwich £100 a year is to be was discovered and sent, up to held as the City's first Art Direc service in future:
But scientific opinion is so far paid to him."
Szechuan for burial. On ita. ar-tor. no ́more convinced of the validity The grandmother of the Hon. rival, over 40,000 people gathered Dr. Aragaki insists that the
of the Aragaki theories than pub-Charles Kitchener said to a feat the Tsao Tien Men Jetty to "O" qualities have been shown by lic opinion in this country is of the porter today: "Charles is still at mourn over the loss of this herole tests to indicate calmness, strength blue blood" standard as applied Winchester, and he is going to join warrior and General Ho Kuo- of will. gentleness, and self-con-to our own diplomatists,
Beginning from May 28, the his brother, the present Earl, at kuang personally offered sacrifices Chungking Air Defence Headquar- .fidence.
Another important blood test- Trinity College, Cambridge, this on the river bank. On the follow- tera started the collection of funds the alcoholle test for drunkenness, autumn.
ing day a grand memorial service from the gentry and wealthy mer- 4-though given considerable sup- "I rather think it is too late for was held in the Chamber of Com-chants for air defences." Japan has been worried, it seems, port in Germany and Sweden, re-him to join the Navy now, and it merce and was attended by repre- over the disproportionate amount ceatly elicited from Professor J. Es a question of waiting to see sentatives from the various circles. of ill-health suffered by her diplow. MacFall, of Liverpool Univer-what the young man thinks him- His blood-stained coat with seven Mrs. J. A. M.. Marjoribanks, wife matists abroad and vexed by the sity, the blunt opinion that the self about the Army as a career. bullet holes was also brought back of the Acting British Consul in high costs of medical treatment; evidence on the subject was "non-He is a great strapping boy Bft., 3in. for burial beside the tower of Hankow, is leaving for Hong Kong It is therefore thought that Dr. sense.".
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Wong Kiang Lou in Chengtu, In the middle of this month.
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