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STAPLES SURPRISES

MACARONI DISHES FOR A CHANGE A Famous Lobster

and

FOR LUNCH OR SUPPER

Dish

Here are recipes for two attrac- tive American dishes:

LOBSTER A L'AMERICAINE

1

THEY ALL LIKE

BUNS

egy. 1 teacupful milk, 20. candied

For school lunch or family tea these buns are sure to be popular. Macaroni, spaghetti, and vermu- (luncheon dish. Boll four ounces of

Ingredients: +1. self-raising cell are among the most nutat-vermicell in milk well seasoned,

flour. 4oz caster sugar, phach of tious of the starchy, foods. They then drain and chop it up. - Mea

One live lobster weighing about salt, 40, butter or margarine, 1 In gluten-that is the sure the Liquid and make up to Be rich

3 tablespoonfuls Buch of body-building part of four-and three-quarters of a breakfastcupful 14 lb., are exally digested. Allied with if necessary. Melt an ounce of demi-glace sauce and tomato pures, eltron peel. such foods as eggs, milk, butter butter and stir into it an ounce 2 anely chopped shallots, 1 tea- well and a quarter of four. Add the spoonful chopped parsley, i pint cherse they make balanced and inexpensive meals liquid gradually, and stir well un-white wine; 1 small glass brandy,best until creamy. Add the egg

until it which car also. If necessary. take til boiling. Then cook the place of meat and Ash. Here tegins to leave the sides of the pan. Remove from the heat and are some recipes.

Sput the lobster, and break into stir in the vermicelli, three table- Bull spoonfuls of grated cheese, more sections. Keep the coral. Fry the reasoning, a finely chopped hard-places of lobster in a deep pan with boiled egg, a little made mustard, 1 oz of butter and the salad o and the yolk of an egg. Mix well till sheli is red and fish arm and turn on to a wet plate to cool. Then shape into rissoles, dip in the

"

Spaghetti with onion sauce is a Your way of cooking it. six ounces of spaghetti in salted water until soft, then drain well Stice two large onions thinly and try in a little butter unul soft and just turning brown, then remove the Blend a good tablespoonful writé

of the egg and seasoned

of flour with the butter and gra- breadcrumbs, and fry golden brown.

seasoning, 40% butter, 2 table- spoonfuls all.

Beat butter with a wooden spoon until soft, then add sugar, and

and beat again.

**

Beat in the sifted flour, salt, and the citron peel cut samall. Add milk and mix.

Turn into greased bun tins, and bake in a moderate oven for 15 mirates-mark 5.

Strain off the fat and add to it

ROCKY FAVOURITES" These rock cakes are favourites. shallots, parsley, wines, puree and sauce Cover and place in 8

Ingredients: lb. sifted floured, moderate oven for 20 minutes. 4lb. butter. 50%, currants, 1 tag, 1 dually add three quarters of a pint Drain well and decorate with pars-Add chopped coral and seasoning, teasp baking powder, in sugar

for 2 or and summer

3 minutes. 1oz glace cherries, 1 tablespoonful Strain, then reheat without boiling. of candied peel, and the rind of

Stir in 3 oz butter in small pieces, half a lemon

Sift flour with baking DOWET and pour sauce over the lobster

ley.

Vermicelli also makes a delicious of ver- pudding. Boll an ounce

milcell in a pint of milk, seasoned

of milk or a mixture of milk and the liquid the spaghetti was cooked! In. When bolling and smooth, add pepper salt, a pinch of cayenne. snd the onions, Cover and simmer with a little salt, until soft. Then gently for fifteen minutes. Stir in stir in a heaped tablespoonful of (which previously has been shelled and pinch of salt. Rub in butter. the spaghetti and bring to the boilgugar, a tablespoonful of butter, aand kept hot). Serve sprinkled with In there is any avaliable, substitute few drops of vanilia essence, and chopped parsley. wane thick gravy for part of the the beater yolks of two eggs. Stir milk: this flavour.

DEMI-GLACK SAUCE Half pint gives tt a delicious well, but do not boll again. Re-gravy from roast meat, gilt brown

move from the heat and coon sauce, & sirall glass: sherry. PIMENTOS

lightly. Whisk the whites of the

Reduce gravy to half its original This savoury dish is out of the eggs to a very stiff froth and fold

it, add ace and sherry

ordinary. A small tin of pimentos will be necessary. Drain the pi- mento. thuroughly and chop them up. Po four" ounces of macaroni

lightly in. Bake in a buttered dish in a moderate oven until just firm

top.

or spaghetti, drain it well. Chon CARROT CASSEROLE

an onion and fry until soft in

butter. Mix together the macaroni,

Scrape and slice some carrots in

onion, and a. teacupful each of circles into a casserole, femoving

Bell up, skinr and strain.

The wines may be omitted from the lobster satice if economy has to be considered.*

BONGKONG ROYAL OBSERVATORY

grated cheese and fine brear-any abrous pieces. Add plenty of WEATHER REPORT crumbs. Season with pepper, salt, butter and seasoning and cook over gas stirring frequently. ..and cayenne, and bind together fire or

with a beaten egg. Press into a When half-cooked dredge with add two tablespoonfuls of

10 am. March 8. roll with floured hands, and dip in flour beaten egg and seasoned hrean-Burgundy and sprinkle with seed-

Cover and cook in the Barometer (at sea level), 29.94 ins. crumbs. Bake in hot oven in a less raisins, greased dish unti necly browned, oven until raising have become Temperature, 85 F. or try in boiling fat and drain well plump and stock is reduced and Humidity, 90 per cent. "This should be served with a thick tomato sauce which incidentally, great improvement to many macaroni diabes. Skin a pound of cooking tomatoes. Put into a sauce- pen without any water, and with follows.

creamy.

."

SULTANA - PUDDING

Wind Direction, East.

A light pudding is made as Temperature: minimum last night,

four Cream together

63 F three Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th

to-day, 0.05 ins.

a' small onion stuck with a couple ounces of margarine and

and tried Add sugar, washed currants, minced peel, chopped cherries, and grated lemon rind.

Bix with well-beaten egg, add- ing milk li recessary. Put on a greased baking sheet in rough jumps, well apart. Bake in a hot reduce heat, oven at first, then

baking the cakes for twenty to thirty minutes.

Cool on a cake rack after sprink- Bing with caster sugar.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE

From 8 to 13 Mar. 1939

HIGH WATER.

7 Days of

Week.

Dale of

Mooth.

Height

LOW WATER:

Bong

Kong

Standard Time

Height

Bong

Kong

Standard

Time.

Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. Temperature: maximum yesterday,

68 F....

b. m.

b. u.

Tanz. g

1145 3

05 19

17:54

Fri.

10

0038

0847 125

12:18

10 3

1845

Bati 11

01 31

14·8

0814

3.0

1255

61: 1943

rutal rainfall since January 1

1.18 ins.

..

Sun 12

Mon. 13

14 THOM

Wed. 18

02 40

42 0842

13 39

160

21 13

-04 17

13 9

14 35

07 01 2249

18 06:

17 24

15 91

Wind Force (Beaufort), 5.

of claves, also a bay leaf: Simmer ounces of sugar. Beat in two eggs a thick pulp, thoroughly. Sift eight ounces of gently until it is stirring so that it does not stick. self-raising flour with a pinch of

add to the rest, with Against an average of, 3.38 ins. Remove the outon and the bay leaf, salt and stir in a tablespoonful of butter; enough milk to make a mixture Sunset to-night, 629 p.m.

a level dessertspoonful of sugar, which is

soft but does no. rum, sunrise" to-morrow, 6.38 a.m. and pepper and salt to taste. If Add the grated mind of a lekkon too thick, add a little milk, cream, and or-stock

· VERMICELLI

three ounces of sultanas,

4 p.in., March 9. Cover with greased paper" and Barometer (at sea level), 29,84, steamy for an hour and a half. Temperature, 67. These vermicelli rissoles should Serve with custard; sweet white Humidity, 86. be tried as a savoury supper or sauce, or jam sauce.

Wind Direction, East..

Maximum temperature, 10

Minimum temperature, 63. Rainfall, 0.00.

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