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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

SURPRISES

STAPLES

SOME SAVOURY MEALS GELATINE

And A Real Irish Stew

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Het-Pots and stews have been tomato or two or three mushrooms neglected during the summer, but may be added tö

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now that colder days are here we have a special welcome for them. Meat cooked this way, in a cas- serole, is extra nourishing, too, tor:

flavour.

Improve

NOURISHING IRISH STEW

Here are the correct ingredients: 1b. neck of mutton, 21b," pota-

DESSERTS

In making the following desserts whip Carnation Milk according to directions given

Carnation Milk (undiluted) is

easy to whip if handled properly It does not make as stiff a whip as regular' whipping cream and wili

not "stand up" so well as a gar- nish; otherwise it is most satisfac- tory.

Be sure to have milk, bowl, and

FOOD

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FOR YOUR

COOKERY

NUT BARS

NOTE-BOOK

4 oz. four, fcz. butter, 2 02.

ground almonds, i oz, chopped al- monds. 2 oz. castor sugar, 1 egg yolk, a little apricot jam.

Cream the butter and sugar; add the egg yolk, four and ground al monds. Set in a cool place for one hour. Roll out half on a baking!

all the goodness is either in the foes, four antons, a pint of stock beater chilled very cold (below 50 tin. spread very thinly with Jam, meat or the gravy. Also the tender as the most expensive steak tablespoonful of chopped parsley. refrigerator or in cold

cheaper cuts" of meat become as/or cold water, salt, pepper and sideg... This is easy with an electric | Cover with the other half. Pinch

So first come some hints' on making a good stew,

weather.

sometimes it is advisable to sur-

the edges together, decorate with derate oven. chopped almonds. Bake in mo

Cut into small bars---

and leave in tin to cool.

say 3 ta by 11 in.-while still hot

These bars certainly improve by,

or served at

keeping and prove a useful standby lunch in company with jelly or a

for afternoon tea,

fruit mould.

BATTER SOUFFLE CASES

2 eggs,

with this method of cooking.

Cut the meat into small pieces, should first be chilled on the ice

With ice refrigeration, the talk Although casserole cooking is peel and slice the potatoes and simplicity itself, and boon to onions and reason well with pepper busy mothers, It is a great mistake and salt. But all into a pan with round the bowl with chipped ice and coarse salt while whipping. to think that a stew is just meat the stock or water and bring gently MUK partially frozen does not and vegetables put into a pot and to the boil.

whip well, but will do so when allowed to boil until required. The Remove the scum, then continue thawed. Carnation triples in bulk old saying: "A bolled stew is a to boil gently for 14 hours, skim-when whipped. A small quantity spoiled stew" is very true.

ming as required. Just before whips more easily than a large. If serving add a few drops of Worces-the milk loses fluffiness, it can be ter sauce.

chilled and rewhipped repeatedly. Serve on a hot dish and sprinkle] It will not turn to butter.

If the milk is scalded before chil- with freshly chopped parsley. I liked the stow can be cooked in aling, it whips somewhat stiffer, and casserole in a slow oven for three more readily. To scald. follow either of the following methods: (1) Pour milk into top of double! boller and scald over boiling water. Do not discard Alm or glaze that forms on top: it is very soft and once into bolling fat. The cases breaks up in whipping. (2) Cover will come loose from iron when

can unopened

with cold water, cooked, if not a sharp tap will bring to boil, bell 5 minutes. Sever loosen them. Makes a large quan al cans may be boiled and kept for tity. Keeps a long time in air-

Use lean meat, and, if it is ten- der, dice it and fry it in hot fat on both sides for a minute or two, to seal up the outaides and keep in the juices,

hours.

STEAK AND KIDNEY STEW

If the meat is hard. frying will make it harder, so it must be stew- If you like rich. tasty stews, ed only.

you'll be tempted by steak and Allow a pint of stock or water to kidney casserole. every pound of meat.

MUTTON HOT-POT

Cut up b. steak, skin and cut up 1b bullock's kidney or three or four sheep's kidneys. Roll in flour,

On a cold day, a savoury mutton seasoned with salt, pepper and a

pinch of mixed herbs. hot-pot is warming.

later use."

Cut into pieces 1lb. "meat, peel Fry in dripping until lightly and sitce 3 onions and lb. pota- browned, then remove beef and added stiffness. toes, and cut into rings three car-kidney, stir in half a pint of stock rots. A small white turnip thinly and thicken. sliced adds a unique flavour to the

stew.

Put a layer of meat at the bot- tom of the casserole. then a layer bf vegetables, season with pepper and salt and a pinch of powdered herbs, then sprinkle with flour.

Add another layer of meat and continue in alternate layers of meat and vegetables until the dish is full. Pour in i pint stock or a meat cube dissolved in a cupful of hot water, cover closely and leave in a moderate oven for two hours.

Rep.ace the meat, simmer until cooked, and serve piping hot straight from the pot.

STEWED STEAK

Not-so-tender ateak is appetising | cooked in a casserole.

Cut 1lb. steak into pieces, and fry lightly until browned, but not cooked; fry also a sliced onion and carrot.

Put all into a casserole, add pep- per and salt, three or four mush- rooms and a little stock. Cook for

15

teaspoonful salt, scant i pint milk, pint flour. Mix smooth batter.

One Fairy Iron (these are "solid metal trons with handle, shaped like small souffle case, obtainable at any fronmongers).

Dip iron in hot fat and im- mediately in batter-plunge.

tight tin.

Warm

at

and with chopped

When lemon flavour is accept- able. the following method gives chicken or lobster or ham or mush- Whip milk till rooms, crabs, shrimps, etc., in foamy: add lemon juice slowly. Bechamel sauce or scrambled eggs using 2 tbsp. lemon juice to 1 cup with peas or asparagus-tips, etc. milk: continue whipping until sti. cold with variety of flings as Milk that is cold. but not chilled: above with mayonnaise. may be whipped in this way, but chilling makes the milk stiffer and flurider.

* CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE

1. tbsp. gelatine

2 thap, cold water

1 cup sugar

1 square bitter chocolate

cup water "

-1 cup Carnation MUK, whipped

1 tsp. vanilla

9 lady fingers Balt

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 1938. PAGE-

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ROYAL TOURNAMENT

PROFITS

Major-General Sir Bertram Ser- gison-Brooke and the committee of the Royal Tournament are hand- water, and cup Carnation Milk. Cook until smooth, Remove ing over to the Services charities from fire, add gelatine and stir£14,000, the profit from the per- until disolved. Chill When the Last year the sum allotted was

formances at Olympia this year. į

mixture begins to thicken add the | £15,000.

vanilla and fold in the whipped Carnation. Stir the mixture until

The money will be distributed by

It thickens and then pour it care-the Secretary of State for War in fully into a mould which has been consultation with the Admiralty lined with lady fingers. Chill, and Air Ministry.

When ready to serve remove from Sir Bertram Sergison-Brooke is If you are behind time, partly three-quarters of an hour, then. Soak the gelatine in cold water the mould, cover with whipped vacating the chairmanship and will cook the vegetables before putting thicken the liquor, and serve with for 5 minutes. Melt chocolate Incream and garnish with Maras-under normal procedure be suc- them into the hot-pot. It liked, a mashed potatoes.

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The preliminary work done so far is in itself an achievement of | transport in the face of bad roads, marshes, weak bridges and lack of conveyance.

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EIGHT ROADS DIVERTED

double boiler; add sugar, salt, chino cherries. Serves 6.

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British employers, of German and Austrian maids are faced with a new servant problem. In some cases the girls want 'lo zo home; in others they say they are so happy here that they have no desire to return.”

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|HEART THEORIES Major-General on December 1 is HATRY WILL BE FREE FEBRUARY

REVISED

G.O.C., London District.

possible to diagnose during life f

Athlete's" Disease it existed.

A Bogey

The modern approach to the study of the heart and its ne- tion in health and disease has led to the exploding of many fallacies.

The work of the late Sir James

to

Another still very commonly held belief is that a healthy heart can be injured by mers physical strain or muscular exertion,

Wife Prepares Flat For Financier

the

When Clarence Hstry, financier, leaves Maidstone Jail next February, he will go "“home to a small luxury flat in Mayfair in which his wife bas preserved the appear- ance of the splendour of his existence. former millionaire

He will tread there once again

news that he will be "released - a year „und » half earlier than ex pected has come, too suddenly for us to have made any definite plans.

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"For the moment we are, too happy and excited to give the

tatter sober thought."

The so-called "athlete's heart" is, in fact, a bogey, and the authors fully

Lewis's conten- support The area involved is as hig

A curious situation has arisen in

When Hatry Is living in his tion. the result of 2 Very as Yorkshire-3,719,394 acres, The chief engineer, Mr. R. 6. one household in consequence of

on thick, rich carpets, find solace new home he will probably have wide experience. that "the bur Surveying and estimating were Wilkinson states that in spite of their preference for England. Two Mackenzie, the development of the dens

soft-lighted physiological in imposed by

surroundings, to pass frequently along the top begun eight years ago by the com- such obstacles 550 tons of machin Austrian girls have been employed electro-cardiogram, and more re-acts upon the normal heart, writes a Home correspondent. of Stanhope-gate, W., the short pany's engineers, with Sir Murdoch cry, in pieces weighing up to 20 for some months in a country cently the scope and accuracy with however heavy these burdens The flat and its appointments street in which is his former MacDonald, without recident from Preveza to were asked a few days ago whether heart for

has advised his wife on wil be possible for him to who was responsible tons, have been taken 80 miles house in the Home Counties. They which the X-ray screen can now may be, never injure the heart indicate that Hatry, who while m£70,000 house.

· It works, acting as consultant Con-Belsista.

they wished to return home, and (zpection and measurement, have furious dilatation, and never ex-

the investment of her private drop in there and have a cup of struction is expected to last seven The only means of transport replied In the negative.

all. combiried

revolutionise

income. has lost little of his old tea for it is now leased to a haust the heart's reserve." years.

were two lorries, a tractor and two Since then there have been mys- various old and long-established Again, at one time, every 30-fluancial skill."

frm of caterers by the syndicate de-views about the significance of cer-called heart murmur was regarded The work is in the provinces of caterpillar trailers which had seen sterious telephone messages,

Into these, surroundings he will who bought his home privately Thessaly, Epirus, and Boeotia in considerable service in Macedonia.livered in German to the maids tain heart conditions.

as a serious portent, whereas it is enter penniless, his friends say after it had been withdrawn Greece, and Platania in Crete. Many of the briges on the route themselves, to the effect that" un-

This has been emphasised in a now fully established that very ard, furthermore, burdened by from suction, at £50,550. Rivers are being widened and were of auch Bight construction and less they pack up and depart at brief but very illuminating paper, many of these are of no sigal- debts which have been outstand- deepened, their banks strengthen-in such a bad state that they had once their people in Austris will be published in the "Afitish Medical ficance at all, and indeed, at cering throughout the eight years ed, canals dug, gorges widened, and to be reinforced with heavy tim- "tortured-(Nottingham Guar-Journal" by two experienced car-tain ages and in persons of certain that so far he has spent in

dian). water held up in the hills to be fedber.

prison. down for irrigation.

BSHELL LIVE HERE" His daughter, now aged about

me at the be abolished so as to reduce their twenty-two, greeted fat when I called there.

one cost of production, on the A maid showed me into shand and to enable them to ex- lounge full of beautiful furni-tend their market on the other In other words, the heart is an ture, the walls bony with tapes-says a report to the "Bin Wan

and “FATTY HEART" FALLACY extremely tough

Shanghai has come to be resilient try, the antique mahogany side-Pao.” organ, exceedingly difficult to board decorated with a press regarded as a Japanese occupied area, with the result that genuine Indeed, the authors hold that damage by any ordinary process of bowl of tall nowers. the term "fatty heart" seldom re-life, and with immense reserves and His daughter said: "This is Chinese products are not exempt- presents any such fact, and would powers of compensation even when where my father will come home e from the impost, the report In any case be a condition scarcely it has been injured by disease. to live, I expect, although the states.

Eight road diversions had to be

streamy,

diologists, Dr. J. W. Vinnell and Dr. types of physique, they may almost W. A. R. Thomson.

be regarded as normal.

Finally, in the great majoritý of Thus the belief, so often still The Japanese occupied areas held that shortness of breath in a cases, dizziness and faintness are have had a fine croy of wheat this middle-aged or elderly stont man not indications of a "weak" or They are much At one time it was thought to be year, but the four factories in or woman is probably due to a diseased heart.

neurotic origin.

Thousands of square miles, now built, and sleeper crib bridges con- under water, will be used when re-structed to carry the heavier loads claimed for agriculture. One great across the Louros River and other area is being drained by a tunnel

2 miles long cut through a moun-impossible to complete the trans-Shanghai bave produced hardly "fatty heart" is probably quite more Hkely to be of psycho

tain

Some of the minor work is being sublet to Greek contractors,

Many fateresting civit en- gineering problems are involved, and the completion of the task should

outstanding

be,

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port, as three marshes had to be enough flour to meet the demand erroneous crossed-one nearly £ve miles long, of the metropolis alone. Orders but sleeper and brushwood mat-from outports have had to be tresses overcame the "obstacles. temporarily, suspended. The reason Henry Boot and Bons are now for this is because the Japanese are the only foreign civil engineering buying off the wheat as much as contractors working in Greece,

possible.

In a petition sent to the Minis- try of Economics, local Industria-" lists requested that entrepot taxes upon goods from Shanghai

Crnation

Carnation

- it is sterilized and

Protect the health of your family, use pasteurized and it contains more than twice as much cream as ordinary milk.

CARNATION

"from contented cows

EVAPORATED MILK

Qination