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An answer

to your

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1937.

No

Before

you get engaged

O ane can he sued for breach of promise to marry unless he or she made a binding agreement to do so. Something more is needed than a mere pro- posal. "Will you marry me?" or even the volunteered statement. "I promise to marry you."

The law regards these proposals merely There is no contract unless they as offers. are necejded. The peerptance need not be

[ can

shown by Agreement in words ennduct.

One man asked a girl's mother if she would consent to his marrying her daughter. The mother, cald she had no abijection, girl, who was prevent at the time, said noth- For sune time afterwards they behaved couple. It was held that she as an engaged hart by implication consented.

12.

"

• you needn't

say

"Yes" to

mean

Yes

word of the girl herself.. Corrobarotion-- Independent evidence

neetfed.

of some kindi

Direct evidence of third persons that they heard the proposal is naturally rare. Usually something snid or done by the defendant is relled on.

What the defendant sold before the may be sufficient. For instance, Conloned in public timt he hoped to

if he marry her,

Often on admission by the defendant is uned for corroboration. Tids, like an accep taner, need not have been expressed in words,

A girl in her mother's presence accused a man of agreeing to marry her. The mun It was held that this simply said nothing. The

amounted to an admission.

An evasive answer in such circumstances has also been held sufflelent. The law expects any one to deny outright a statement of thint kind if it is not truc. On the other und, nwerely to ignore letters containing that se cusation is not sufficient corroboration,

Bit the reeptance must be unqualified. ." does nat "Yes, if you will do so ami so elinch the bargain. It is a counter-offer, whith proposer in turn est accept or

Thrt, 10, the proposal must be proved. The law requires more evidence that the

Au engagement ring is not essential to a binding agreement to marry. But it would be strong evidence that the parties had agreed to marry.

P E S

O

U

MAN aboard a lug-

ger wants some split it's a supper

pra soup. Or he may

be aboard a yacht.

Being only a flume Page cook, and not a sea-cook. 1 am rather vague about these things.

our

Living in such a vessel must, from the cookery point of view, be rather like living in a falel, or single room, brenuse thes implements at sailor's disposal áre a single-name slove and some sauerpans, He has no clock-pot.

So the instructions which follow may be usef

be usefui

to town-dwellers an Well t

68 seafarers.

Split peas vary considerably

price, but the best are not expensive be used. The

and should always

cheapest are so small and wizenedl that it seems miraculous that any one

ever managed to split them.

I hope that pickled pork is still popular

nt sey.

Leerupe We are

going to use some

in the making of

the soup.

Afterwards, We

shull

it i cat

the ordinary way.

in- itself

"pea soup is meant to

be eater in really

O nothing will be ***

wasted. The pork

vood pintefuls,"

does not take on any overwhelming

flavour of the peas.

A

P

If there is only one Bame available two quarts of water, onion, carrot, take off the soup and quickly ball celery, salt, and pepper.

pork water, because the

The non-possession of a stock-pot

Why Is a London fog kuwn up some

a pea souper? Because it is thick, must now be taken out, rinsed in the is no excuse for not maiting stock And that is exactly what pea soup hot water, and set aside to, be eaten for almost immediate usг. must be, or it is not worth making, roid.

Night in water

SOAK

-Pass the soup through a wire sieve and return it to the saucepan.

Mix half a teaspoonful of black

COAR a pound, of split peas

Pullence, though, is needed, be- cause six or seven hours' simmering- is by no means too long for the stock. Then strain it into a bowl and

in cold water overnight. pepper with a little of the soup, and leave it until next morning.

I they are reasonably well covered stie this into the rest. Re-heat the

by the water, they will have absorb- soup, and if the flavour is liked add Rich Jelly

ed it by morning, Put them into a a pinch of dried mint Just before

with b. sliced onions, serving.

saucepan wit

If

IF it has been made with the and half that quantity each of sliced a wire sieve happens to be miss-

kind of bones which I ing from the kitchen equipment, there have Indleated, the removable of the carrot and celery.

Bring to the boil and simmer for is no necessity to use one. It will layer of fat will reveal a rich, stif two hours. It is apt to frath over only mean that the vegetables are jelly which can be boiled up and when coming to the boil, so keep it left in the soup, and personally, if used for pea or scores of other soups. I were eating it aboard a ship, I "The quantities given in my recipe well stirred.

An asbestos mat between the flame would not care two-pence if they make enough for four good platefuls, And pen soup is, of course, ineunt to and the pun is a great help in sim- were. - mering.

Another way of making this soup be enten in really good platefuls, and At the end of the two hours put would be to buy three-penny worth not in a few spoonfuls like a con- in 2lbs. plekled pork and simmer for of bones (knuckle of beet is excel- somme at the beginning of a dinner. another hour and a half.

lent) and make a stock of them with

TEETH

HAVE SPARKLING WHITE It's no easy when you use Kolyros. Kojy. nos given teeth charm and sparkle won- dorful to see.

Don't forget-Kolynes is most economi- cal. It lasts twien as long as ordinary touthpastes because you use enly half as much. Try the dry brush technique with only a half-inch of Kolynos. You will be.

dolighted with the results.

Economize-bay the, largo taba

KOLYNOS

DENTAL CREAM

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

This soup is a supper in Itself.

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Husband's

Grumble

ACK of variety is due to lack of initiative on the

Lpart of the housewife.

Why, oh, why, Mrs. Luther, do you allow the joint to come up cold Monday after Monday?

There are a hundred appetising ways of dealing with cold meat: hot mutton pics, rissoles, beef nu gratin spring at once to the mind.

I will tell you what to do to get out of the deep and arrow rut into which you have evidently sunk.

In

Make classifled lists of the recipes you know on separate pieces, of paper (one for soup, one for pudding, and so on).. Now make a resolution to try out at least three new dishes every week (five or six, appear in this paper alone), add the popular ones to your lists; forget the others. this way you will rapidly increase your repertoire; cooking will become stimulating pleasure instead of a bore, and your husband's teinper will considerably Improve,

Meanwhile put your new resulullon Into practice right now by trying out the recipes in this article.

liere, Mrs. Thorogood, is a really good thick tomato stap, which wil delight your huband's faddy plate

Eight long years of wedded bliss, Must it always be like this? Colt meat decks the board on

Monday,

Remnant of the joint on Sunday.

"Dammit, hash again!" Tuesday, Cause of weary hours of pat Wednesday, for a special treat, Tomato saree and sausage meat (Sausage never did agree With my queer anatomy). And so it pues day after day, Oh, flester, help we find a way To trince variety

So as to ensure satiety.

I ask in a voice must humble, Please help disperse my husband'a

grumble.

Brown a sliced onion in an ounce. of four of butter. Add anotince ard wrix smooth with a wooden spuun. Now pour in, gradually, one quart of stock (best stock to use, knuckle of veal weil covered with cold water, bring very slowly to boil, simmer two to three hours, pour off stock

ot of flour. into basin. Next morning the

then add minutes, will have turned to jelly, and you brown well, and pour in a pint of can scrape off all the fat with a spoon., stock, Sile until the gravy boils

The Jelly

It is then ready for usmen it finds is

will very soon dissolve

itself in a hot saucepan),

Apricot cream. Here, Mrs. Baker.

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A NEW DRESS?

well, not exactly

Food

Mr.

cheap. unusual, and, delicious sweet with which to templ Let the soup boli. Then add six Baker:- Alleed tornatock, three cloves, a, small Wash 141. dried apricots and then blade of muce, and one little sliced let then soak overnight in water, to carrot. Simmer well for one und a cover. Stew them slowly until very half hours. Strain

ain and thicken with tender. Put through a sieve and al- a tablespoonful of cornflour slacken- low to coul Make halt a pint of ed with

milk.

Drink

to the boil thick custard (half a pint of milk, stirring all the time. Add

to the boil, one ten- tablespoonful of brown sugar and a spoonful sugar, one tablespoonful cus- little crearn just before serving on tard powder.

rook stavly, stirring specal occasions) and the soup is well, until the mixture is thick).

When the custard has cooled a little mix ft with the

the apricot puree and put in double saucepan (or in a bowl Hearts dry up very quickly, Mrs. standing in a saucepan of hot water), Coulter, so after you have washed heat well, stirring occasionally unli

removed the

the tubes

mixture them well and

gets lovely and creamy

made.

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let them stand in cold water for a (if you make your custard from fresh few minutes (have you ever tried s you will need to add a softened this?). This will make ther nice sheet of gelatine),

Next add adessert-spoonful and tender.

Meanwhile prepare a tasty force- lemon juice and sweeten meal stuffing: 1oz. breadcrumbs, Agricol cream must be eaten cold. Foz of finely chopped suct, teaspoon and can be served in glasses like lees fut of chopped parsley, half teaspoon-

ful mixed herbs, a little grated lemon

rind; mix all ingredients together

*

take should

guile

of

to taste.

twenty

and bind with an egg or a little milk. Try making your coffee like this Now remove the hearts from the. (it water, strain well, till them with your minutes): Ileat a coffee pot in the oven (or an ordinary jug), then stand stubing, and sew up the openings.

Their next destination is the bak- it in a saucepan of simmering water

a low flame. Pour in ot which must contain plenty

your

over

Fou

{ings 19th, wat be covered over with Treshly ground coffee and damp with i

a few

dripping a well-greased paper. Cook slowly a few drops of boiling water to make (busting, as you already do, frequent- the grains swell. Allow to stand for Now Ave minutes with the lid on. 1) for three-quarters of anthers uk the required amount of boiling I dare say your hearts get leathery, water very slowly Indeed, because you cook them too quickly, dron Try using a slow oven next time; drops at a time (tedious, but pro- very slow at first, with the heat in- duces the best results). Stir up the creased just a little for the last rains and allow to stand for another Ove minutes before you drink the twenty minutes."

Serve with when the hearts are cooked pour off some dripping from the tin, leaving about a tablespoonful behind, add a little chopped-up onion, cook a few

a nice thick gravy: coffee, and always pour it out through

a strainer.

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