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Now they are so cheap

and good you

might experiment with

STUFFED TOMATOES

by

HESTER. VALENTINE

chopped cooked mushrooms. For vegetarians you can leave out the meat, use plenty of mushrooms, and perhaps a few left-over vegetables: carrota, peas, french beans, potatoes Xmash them well and use lesa

TOMATOES are at their cheapest now, because bread).

they ripen out of doors.

Nothing is more delicious than skilfully stuffed tomatoes, either as a course on their own or as an accom- paniment to a meat dish.

Rumanian Farce

ALLOW flat tablespoonful

of rice to each tomato.

Make

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1038

Running Commentary

A

+++++++++++||||||||-+-Ek grey dress, made of some sturdy silky material. It is four years old.

by the

MOTHER OF FOUR

After Clive was born. (he was my third baby in four years) I couldn't get my weight down, and my slater, who is always anxious that I should be well-dressed, had this frock run -If up by a little dress-maker.

There's so much of it: a long scarf

RE you wery tired or only modritly tired?" collar, cross-over revers, a beil, a full asked Baby Clice as I plonked him in the bath.

swinging skirt, and leg-of-mutton sleeves: it was intended to have a

"I'm very tired,” I said impatiently as I swung slimming effect. I think my name for it is sa uppropriate; in it I can face anything or anybody.

Max in after him.

"You're not worn out, are you?" asked Max anxiously. Two

worried looking little boys raised a grubby face at each end of First party Anxiety the bath; in between them was a yacht, a barge, and two row- ing boats.

LAST werk Max and Clive

went to their first party. I

I pulled myself together and laughed. "Of course, I'm not got all hot and bothered over their worn out, only a bit tired and hot. Now, which shall we have, clothes, for it was a big party at a posh house and they haven't any Goldylocks or Cinderella?"

party clothes,

up

left-overs into Meat Pasties

A

Make an ordinary brown roux with a little garlic chopped extremely fine. Then add stock or water and burgundy; a small wineglassful will be enough.

Boil the rice in milk or stock, with a sharp knife. To-day, therefore, I shall give you a few ideas for mix it with chopped onion, farces. They can be so dull (the usual breadcrumbs and herbs, cooked mushrooms, grat- grated cheese), and they can, with a little intelligence, ed cheese, and chopped cooked be so exciting.

bacon.

with Season and moisten

tomato ketchup.

50

"Free Bears," they both shouted, Max Indignantly refused to wear. off we went. "Once upon a a pair of Leslie's six-year-old crcom ilme.. ."

serge trousers: he said they were "soppy."

So they both wore their After the children were all in best grey ones, and I got up at six bed I thought a lot about this in- o'clock and ironed their blouses. cident. It seemed all wrong to me: Max wore a plain blue blouse match- two little boys, only four and five- ing his eyes: he really has got lovely and-a-bit, wondering if their mother blue eyes.

was worn out.

It won't do to Fuss

Clive wore Alan's old party blouse,

a white silk one with tiny frills. He was a bit doubtful about frills, but I persuaded him that it was all right: THE fact is that like most in any case I hadn't been able to get working mothers I have too the grass stains out of his blue much to do: cooking, washing, house- blouse.

work and mending for all of us ex- I took them to the house and asked haust me and I have no time or the parlourmald If it was a Birthday. energy to enjoy myself with the party.

children.

NY kind of meat will do for these pasties-beef, mutton,

When she said no, just an ordi- veal, liver, rabbit or a mixture of all of them.

But I'm not going on like that: nary summer party, I tucked under I want the children to have a my arm the parcel I'd brought along, Tidy up the meat and cut off any fat, then dice it serene, happy mother, and I must just in case: it was a new book I've not let myself deteriorate into an been saving for Max's birthday, s0 overworked, nervy, irritable woman. I was very glad to be able to bring

It home again, I won't fuss about the house, just I was afraid Clive would be shy concentrate on keeping it healthily and have to be sent home. It's a clean and comfortable, no more. wise mother that knows her own After all, what does it matter if there child. He arrived home triumphant- are fingermarks on the doors? They ly in a car at 0.30, half an hour after get higher every year. I have the scheduled Ume. known house-proud women who He had a cyroscopic top and an make their families lives. a hell by enormous balloon; Max had a yacht pursuing their menfolk with ash- and a balloon, too. They both cald. trays, keeping the best room locked they'd had a super time, and when because the chair covers have just was the next party? been washed and if they're sat on

You may add anything else that you think would taste nice; such & addition п

a little chopped Fill mushroom

small or parsley, a and pinch of cinnamon, a drop or two oven chopped prune ore all to the good. of chuincy ketchup or a finely

are

A farce to the cook should be skinned tomatoes (from which little one of the most interesting hard centres have been re- tomatoes with mixture things in all cookery to make, moved), simmer for five min- bake in slow to medium It is elastic and can be varied utes, then add 3oz. finely chop for half an hour. according to the power of her ped cooked meat (beef, veal, imagination and the contents of mutton, chicken, duck. lean ham Egg Farce her larder. It is handy for or sausage meat), 3oz. bread- using up scraps.

crumbs or bread soaked in To prepare tomatoes for stuf- stock; two finely chopped cloves fing, choose rather large ones. of garlic, tablespoonful of They must be properly ripe but chopped parsley, and dessert cook. When ready with

cracked spoonful absolutely firm. No

of other chopped scrambled skins, please.

herbs. Season with salt, pep- plenty of chopped chives. With a sharp pointed knife per, and a little grated nutmeg. Nut and Apple Farce slice off the top (stalk end) of Stir the mixture over the fire each tomato, scoop out the tough for a few minutes, then trans-

FILL drained

uncooked centre and all the seeds, sprinkle fer it to a basin. Add two egg

tomatoes with cold the inside with salt and stand up yolks and fill up your tomatoes, diced-cooked potatoes,-apples,

WHEN the tomatoes

well drained put their in the oven for half an hour to

mixed

egga

with

When you have the sauce tast- ing us you like, add the meat. Sür over the fire till the meat is warmed. There should be just enough sauce |

to make the meat into a fairly st!!T and glorified kind of mince.

SENTRY ATTACKS DIPLOMAT

Japanese

they'll be spoilt. And they call these When bedtime Comes

|rooms "sitting-rooms.”

"Woman's Work"

I

REMEMBER thirty years ago

LESLIE, having attained the dimity of twelve years,

stays up a bit later than the others. You would like to see the three

poring over a woman's week- little boys saying their prayers. their clean,, ly paper-I used to read everything They lie in bed with

Japanese Apology For Incident Make some pastry, roll it out, cut it into rounds about the size

NANKING INCIDENT of saucer, put one to two table-

I could get hold of. For months it shining faces and smoothly brushed spoonfuls of the meat mixture in

Shanghai, Jan. 21. the middle of each round, damp

ran a picture series called "Woman's hair, each with a golliwog, Teddy Mr. John B. Allison, Third Secre- Work In Never Done," depicting the Bear, or Bunty alongside. lightly round the edge with a wetted

They screw up their eyes and clasp Anger-fold the pastry over in half tary, who is in charge of the Unit- thousand and one little jobs in

their hands together. As I stand at and pat the wetted edges together. ed States Embassy at Nanking, was woman's working day.

by assaulted yesterday

the foot of Alan's bed, swaying with Make a pattern with your thumb sentry, The Japanese authorities But they didn't include one of my exhaustion, my volee unconsciously (or with a spoon handle) round the

are trying to reach a local settle the cloakroom after the children have dren copy me obediently, ment,

washed their hands.

"Please God, bless dear Mummy and Daddy, and all kind friends Mr. Alison reported the matter to

Please And I've never forgotten the ex- and relations. the State Department at Washing-

God, take pressive les ton.

of three serials: care of me, and all other Bitle The Japanese version of the incl-Under Her Husband's Thumb," boys and girls, and keep mo zafe well and happy and strong. dent, which is the only one avall-Take Back Your Ring," "That's My and able, says that Mr. Ailson tried to Child." Nice reading for a child of Thank you for all my nice thing: enter a Chinese house despite the five. sentry's objection and that the sen-

side down on a sieve for half an Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and and roughly chopped hazel nute edge and bake the pasties in"a"brink.have apologised_for_the incident and regular jobs-washing the soap in stresses certain words and the chil-

hour to let the water drain away, a few drops of oil, and bake in mixed with mayonnaise. Serve

The seeds and pulp can

be a slow to medium oven for half as salad with cold meat. added to your stockpot or used

to make tomato sauce.

hour. Finish an grill.

under the Or, as an alternative salad fill tomatoes with picked Above quantities enough to shrimps, a little diced cooked potato, shredded lettuce mixed BROWN two mediumsized stuff ten large tomatoes.

Provencal Farce

chopped onions in half The farce is always improved gill olive oil. Add two chopped by the addition

ISAKO'S

and

of

with mayonnaise or sour cream.

oven for from twenty minutes to half]

an hour, till the pastry is cooked. -and here's a recipe for Steak & Kidney Pie

try manhandled him in order to pre-Tale of a Dress

Now try to think out a few Buy two pounds of shin of beer vent him entering the premises.

some more farces for yourselves.

GREAT CIRCUS

MENAGERIE

Opons Monday, 31st January, 1938.

Chinese New Year Day

3 SHOWS DAILY

AT

1 P.M., 5 P.M. & 9 P.M.

Location: Mongkok, junction of Shanghai & Arran St.

opposite Kowloon Fire station.

All Busses from the Star Ferry running along Nathan Rd, except No. 3

pass the Circus.

ADMISSION:

BOX SEAT

1st CLASS

$2.20 1.50

Including Tax

2nd CLASS

1.10

3rd CLASS

.75

Childron Half-Prico

CARPET CALLERY GALLERY

.45 .20

The Circus consists of 60 European Artists, 35 horses, 8 Elephants, New Artists, new acts, new Bailot, Ona Hongkong Lady will be during the lion act with the trainer in the cago,

The famous big menagerie consisting of 150 wild animals will be open from

9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Admission: 10c, adults. Children, Half-price, Take your Kiddies to the Zoo there will never.be for a long time in Hong- kong such a big Menagerie as (sako's.

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

necessary and

Reuter.

and half a pound of ox or pig's kidney-it makes no odds which, and SHANGHAI INCIDENTS pig's is cheaper.

Cut off, and where

Shanghal, Jon. 27. In the Conditions

countryside crape off, skin and gristle remove fat. Cut the meat and kid- around Shanghai appear to bo ney up into pieces and roll each deteriorating owing to the activities plece in peppered and salled flour. of isolated bands of Chinese and the Put the ment in a casserole and continued excesses of Japanese. cover with water. Put in the oven A lorry arrived in Shanghal to- and cook at a very low heat.

day with the bodies of 25 Japanese

Cook the meat" for five hours. It soldiers who had been ambushed and should cook so slowly that the killed between Shanghai and Soo- liquid just bubbles slowly when hot. chow.

The point about this slow cooking Two Japanese soldiers to-day shot is that it gives the meat and gravy and fatally wounded n Chinese an excellent taste without the gravy farmer, seriously injuring another, bolling away and without the meat who tried to help a Chinese woman falling apart.

being abducted by Japanese just joutside the French Concession bound-

ary.

At the end of the five hours the which Japanese soldiers broke into There has also been a case in meat should be firm and the gravy Briton's Union Jack bellagged thick. You can tell from the taste and look of the gravy when the forced the servants to hand over, at house qutside the perimeter and meat is ready, Until it is properly cooked the gravy will be thinnish the point of the bayonet, their

month's wages, paid by the owner Router.

and will taste as if it needed a lot. of salt. Do not be misled into adding salt, for this seeming taste- lessness cooks out.

Put the meat and enough of the gravy in a ple-dish, cover with

There will be pastry, and bake. gravy lefi over, and this can be served separately or be used on some other occasion in another dish.

Are You Short Tempered? Do you lose your temper easily?-- a broken shoe-face, a missing bulton, can be most aggravating, especially fit you are in a hurry, but if you lose your temper over such trivial matters it is very probable that your sysler is upset through constipation, and if such is the case, all that is usually needed quickly to set matters right

| is a dose of Pinketics,

These tiny, pink sugar-coated, laxative pills, are mild yet thorough in action; as gently nature they cleanse the food tract, aid digestion, activate the liver, banish biliousness, rollove sick headache, elear the skin, case piles; in short, 'Pinkettes keep you happy and well · From chemists everywhore.

PINKETTES

Keep You Cheery and Well.

The Socioty asks for $30,000

In 1938 to continue and ex~. torid its work for the sick and destitute children of this Colony. |HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

and

my good food, my warm bed, my clothes, and my toys. Please” God, make me a good boy

mako Clive's bruise better. Amen." THE children like me to change And as I close the nursery door, my frock for the afternoon, after exchanging "Good night and and usually I wear what Mox calls God bless you," Baby Cilve always my "dy" dress, but I always call it calls out, "Lie on your back and you "the dreadnought." It is on elephant won't hurt your nosel"

JANUARY PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

F937 (I Don't Like. F.T.

(Doh-dc-oh-doh. F.T.

F930 (You Can't Swing a Love Song. FT.

(Moanin' the Blues, Blues.

NAT GONELLA'S ORCHESTRA.* F040 (Moonlight on the Waterfall. FT.

(My Cabin of Dreams.

F.T. F939 (Little Old Lady Se

SF.T.

(In the Mission by Seo. F.T.

BILLY THORBURN'S ORCHESTRA. F030 (You Made Me Love You. F.T.

(Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go.

HARRY ROY'S TIGER RAGAMUFFINS. F042 (Dance Time. No. 1. The Waltz,

FT

Selection of Popular Old Time Tunes,

F041 (Moon. Got' in My Eyes. FT.

(It's the Natural Thing To Do, Q.3.

F043 (Afraid To Dream. QS.

(Sympathy, Waltz. (Jennette MacDonald's new Film "Firefly") VICTOR SILVESTER ORCHESTRA,

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY, Marina House, 19 Queen's Road C. Tol. 24648.

$1 TIFFINS

at-

Jimmy's

Also A la Carte China Bldg., Hongkong.

.Hankow Rd., Kowloon.