1938-11-03 — Page 25

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER

3,

1938.

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You can't Hurry CURRY

'F' properly cooked, what is more appetising on a cool

day than a plate of curry and rico?

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Important things to remember aro; Use Patna rice -the curry must not be watery. Each grain of rice must be separato and dry.

And you can't make curry in a hurry. Blow simmering is absolutely necessary. Quick cooking means leathery meat,

Cooking the Rice

Wash the Patna rice well in plenty of cold water, then put it into a pan of boiling water, to which a little lemon juice and a dexterispoonful of salt have been added.

Dal until the grains of rice have swollen hut are still fem and unbroken. Then turn the rice into a strainer and hold under the running cold-water tap, ahaking all the time.

Return the rice to the saucepan and stand in a warm place to heat through. Berve in a separate dish.

Savoury Curried Murtan

A savoury dinner to be served with mashed potatoes and Krean vegetables. Ingredients: lib. lean mutton, 1 dessert-

spoonful curry powder, 1 teaspoon-

ful of sweet chutney, or marma- Jade. I tablespoonful of desiccated coconut, 1 large apple, one onion. the Juice of half a lemon, 2oz. butter or margarine, half pline of stock, and a heaped teaspoonful of flour, cup of milk.

Cut the mutton into small pieces, About the size of a walnut, tall them in our with a little galt. Soak the coconut in a cuplul at boiling milk. and mince the apple and the onion.

Melt the butter or the margarine in the frying pan, put in the meat, apple. onion and curry powder, and fry unti well browned. Turn into a sauterpan, stir in the chutney, the strained coco- nut milk and the lemon juice,

Add half a pint of stock, a teassioun. ful of browning thicken with itle

Rich, brown, spicy, served

In a snotay rice border.

cornflour, then simmer gently for one hour. Serve with a dab of hot boiled rice and some chulney,

Mixed Vegetables

Vegetable curry is very appetising. Ingredients: 1 turnip, 1 carrot, 1 par- snip, a few peas, some lentils which have been previously soaked, 1 apple. 1 onion, 1 tablespoonful of sweet chut- ney or marmalade, a dessertspoonful cornflour 1 tablespoonful of soaked coconut in hall a capful of boiling milk. 1. margarine, and vegetable stock. 1 teaspoonful surry powder,

marmit foam and a lemon,

Is your wish

coming true?

IF you happen to be one of the unlucky card players, maybe you'd get some fun out of playing a little game by yourself on the side.

You may not know it, but each card in the pack is supposed to have a meaning of its own.

MOST

[OST methods of fortune-telling by cards require a knowledge of the meaning of every card in the puck-or, at any rate, thirty-two of them.

Hero's one that doesn't, although it can be used only to determ- ine a single question or wish. Take a pack of cards and as you do so make your wish (montally of course) or ask your question, then throw out the cards under seven of each suit. Now get some one to shuffle the remaining thirty-two cardka and then hand them back

to you.

The cards having been shuffled, you deal out thir- toen, face up. wards, inke

and

ake out the

aces (if any).

The

remain-

der of the pack, includ- ing

what are

left of the

thirteen, are

then gathered up, reshuffled, and a further thirteen cards

are dealt out,

is

This process

repraled

three times.

I aces

لله

four Haven't by

appeared

then the wish

will not come

true,

or the answar to your question is "No." The

that

idea

the the acts came out the better

quicker

the with be ing fulfilled.

the chance of

***

-says Mrs. BARDELL ·

Ball the vegetables, except the onion. in euclent water for half an hour. then strain off the liquor, keeping it fur stock and cut the vegetables into dice.

Fry them with the chopped onion, apple and curry powder in the hot butter

untli or inargazine

well frowned. Put all into a saucepan, add the chutney, strained coconut milk, lemon juice and a tablespoonful of sultann.

Next blend the comfour with milk, add 2 teaspoonfuls el marmite, à pint of vegetable stock or the vegetable fiquid, then simmer for one buur. Serve with boiled rice.

Green Tomato Sauce

And now for a savoury sauce which is good to serve with any curry.

Ingredienta: Tib, green tomatoes, Zib. apples, pacted and cored, lb, sliced onions, i̟lb, salt, 1 teaspoonful cayenne, # cloves, 3 blades of mace, 2 teaspoon- fuis celery seed, 1}ib, Demerara stigar, 1) pints vinegar.

Method: Slice the apples, tomatoes and onions, mix with the sugar, salt. apices, etc. Pour the vinegar over them.

Boll gently until the sauce is thick and dark, Ïtub through a hair steve, adding more vinegar if required.

Reboll and boifle,

Not-So-Hot Curry

Brown in this the onion, stle in curry powder. flour, stock and apple, simmer Rently for half an hour. Cut three of the liard-boiled eggs in halves. Strain the curry sauce, add salt, lemon juice and chutnicy, and reheat the eggs in The muce. Pour into a dish, cut up the remaining egg into small pieces and use as a garnish together with the parsley.

Berve with a burder of rice.

Hot Mixed Chutney

Some people prefer to omit any chutney from their curry recipe and only serve the chutney separately.

Ingredients: 21b. enen of marrow, apples, tomatoen, onlona and unripe plums, 2b sugar. 3oz salt. 2 pinta vinegar, ib. dites, lib. hultanas, 2oz. mustard seed. 1oz. each of cloves and chillies and a pinch of pepper. ioz. ginger. 4oz. crystallised ginger.

Cook the appies in a very little water, sprinkle the prepared marrow. tomatoes, onions and plums lightly with salt, and leave overnight.

Next day, strain and cook with the appies, spices' and vinegar gently for three to four hours, adding more vine- gar as required.

Str in the sugar, ginger, sul- tanas, and stoned and chopped dates, bring to the boll, stirring all the time.

FRUITY

Flavours

Savoury

SAUCES

and continue, stirring and bolling for twenty minutes. Pour into pots; tie down when cold and store In a dry place,

Extra Fiery Flavour

A friend who has lived in India gave me this recipe.

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Ingredients: 1jlb. lenu mut:06. onions, 4 tomatoes, a tablespoonfuls of curry powder, Joz, butter or margarine. the juice of a lemon, à plut cold water. the milk of a coconut, or 2 tablespoon- tult of desiccated coconut soaked in a cupful of milk, a breakfast cupful of brown gravy, a little antt.

Cut up the raw meat into sinall plecçes. sprinkle lightly with salt and flour. Sites up the onions and try them golden brown in the margarine. buller or dripping. Add the meat and fry for 10 minutes.

Stir in the curry powder and the skinned tomatoes, then add the water of coconut milk, and continue to stir for 6 minutes Bimmer until the ment is tender. Add the lemon juice and stir in the gravy, then add the chutney.

Serve with Mango chutney. Canadian Sauce

Another delleious sauce which can be served with curry, stews, or cold mrat or fla

Ingredients: 2b, apples, lb. green tomatoes, a lemons, loz. garlic, 3 glis say, 1 onion, 1lb. brown sugar. Joz anchovica, Joz, red chillles, 13 quarta vinegar, 1oz Mall,

Boy can be made by uolling 1lb. treacle, il salt and pint water for 30 minutes, Birain and bottle.

Chop the onion, tomatoes, apples and lemons, put into a large pan and -cover with vinegar. Add the spices. ted in a muslin bag, and sugar. bolt for 3 hours. Stove, add the Indian soy. and bottle.

Schoolchildren will relish this. Ingredienta: ilb. lean mutton. I ten- spoonful of curry powder, 3 apples, ¿lli

PERSONALITY has never been Try to keep your balance If you maltanas, lib tomatoes, 1 mall onion. sait, & pint of good brown stack, I table rated as highly as it is to-day, have good looks. Don't let vanity spoonful of meat extract, 2 table It is what every woman longs for; make you rely on your looks alone spoonfuls of coconut, a cupful of milk the hall-mark which raises its for to help you through the world. Don't 20% butter. 2 teaspoonfuls of cornflour.ftunate possessor out of the ruck of forget that, sooner or later, looks Bolled rice.

fade. If you Can show lines of and kindliness, the bright Hympathy Some women have moro per eyes of a thoughtful mind, and the sonality than others. They have more tolerance of wide experience when charm and more individuality. Why beauty has gone, you will have is this?

achieved a large measure of success in your personality hunt.. natural. Individuality in Dress

Cultivating Personality

Cat up the meat into very small nieces, roll them in four mixed with ittle l Soak the coconut in the bolling milk and mines the Apples and the onion. Melt the butter in a frying pan, put in the meat, apple, onlom. sultanas, Zomatoes and curry powder, and fry until Browned.

Turn into a saucepan, stir in a spoon. ful of chutney, the strained coconut milk, ducken with the cornflour, then add the meat extract and simmer gently for one hour. Serve with bolled cabbage or beans.

ordinariés.

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First of all, these people with striking personalities They say what they think, they do what they like. I don't mean that

There is another thing in this race sent the they are rude about a friend's new

for publicity which has hat, or that live as they want to.

they are rich enough to

Personality has the intelligent woman, have a chance has world crazy, the quiet woman, and nothing to do with mond

money. It may help. but you

may

be as rich as they never had before. Leave the Croesus and still

wear eccentric clothes because of personality. True,

Be personalities. eccentric you can do eccentric things with the Ingredients: & hard-boiled egga, for money. Paint your house pink, order yourself. It w13 be a welcome relief} margarine, jo CUIT: flour. 1 chopped apple, and a small then keep gold-fish in it.

powder, foz a bath studded with diamonds and to the great majority of men ut least. What hap. You know the saying, "She can wear chopped onion; } pint of stock, a few

clothes like that she can carry them drops of lemon juice, 2 teaspoonfuls Pens? People will talk about you,

and they will laugh at you,

Curried Eggs

Curried eggs are very tasty, and paratively little you may have com- whirligig of fashion to those who can

make a welcome change from meat,

of chutney, 20% rice, salt and parsley to garnish.

Melt the margarino in a raucepan.

Hosiery Hints

[AND-MADE socks of fancy wool HAND

may be given a professional touch by knitting the soles of the feet

Make the Most of Your Good Points

That is just what a strong person- ality can do. She can wear clothes There are

some people born in and subdue them. They become the every generation who are capable of slaves of her individuality. If the

fellow-men. leading their

Don't chose to wear an old sack fled round worry if you are not one of those. with a clothes-line she could carry ph that off too. There is a lesson in are compensations in ob. scurity. One Uting is quite certain. this for all of us who have not got

or ultra-fashionable However hard you try you will never the personality to "carry off" eccen- acquire anybody else's personality. Like your digestion, your character Don't wear anything that does not is with you for the duration of your suit you.

There

and the entire toe in plain wool to life so you might as welt make the

tone.

tric

clothes.

You may never be witty, or clever,

After turning the heel, break off best of it. Now, how are you going or amusing, but at least you can win for yourself the prize of a pleasant the patterned wool, pick up the instep to make the best of it?

Kindness, sympathy,

stitches, join on plain wool, and mit First of all you will resolve to be personality. the soles on two needles, until it is sincere, not only in conversation, helpfulness, mental honesty these two inches from the length required friendship, and business but also will give you personality. for the foot.

sincere to yourself. You must not

not easy.

מי

You

will never

dis

If you can be yourself you will Knit the front of the foot with pretend in private. It is not easy to stand out like a bright light in the

be truthful to yourself. Have you patterned wool on two needles, until

own kloom of a world of copyists. tried to analyse over

your It is the same length as voof and character and appearance as if you will have friends, you will enjoy

your work, you will be content. Break DIT the patterned wool and

someone else? were som

IL is complete the foot on four needles in

Everyone is born with possibilities. When you have succeeded, you can It is plain wool. The sides of the feet start making up your mind which of the to you develop them on should be neatly seamed, and the your good points you are going to the right lines--the personal lines. socks damped and pressed with a underline and which bad ones you develop personality if

One thing is certain.

You will

dry cloth over them.

you are will try to eliminate,

contented. Ambition is one thing. To strengthen the sock in its most

That is constructive. Discontent ur boredom is destructive. Don't waste IT is important to note the and the inquirer begins to conques vulnerable parts, get a reel of match-crested and Sympathetic

order in which the suits rate on the first of his three ques-ing machine silk, and use it with the One fact in obvious. All personali- any more time in wishing to be like wool when knitting the heel and toc. ties are deeply interested in people someone else. Start right away on appear since this gives an indication tions.

before the

This will lengthen the wear consider-and in thought. The people who are the hunt for your own personality, of what must be faced

While he is doing this be selects ably, while preventing the bulk which round them, people they meet, other and when you find it-treat it well. wist can be fulfilled.

three cards at random from the array results when double heels and toes great people in the past. They are, It is the goose which lays Even if all four nees Come out in front of him and places them face are knitted in wool.

As a rule, well read; so widen your golden egg of success. in the first deal, the fact that, say, downwards on the table.

If bought socks are lightly darned Interests, read, discuss, and think. the ace of Spades appears Orst is significant.

Having done that he may then for- with slik on the wrong side before got all about his first problem and being worn their life will be doubled.; Generally speaking, Clubs denote concentrate on his second, at the all-round good fortune, Hearts suc- same time selecting angther seven silk with wool when repairing socks. It is also advisable to use machine .chss in love, Diamonds in money, cards and placing them, an before, Darns thus mode will withstand the

and Spades not a great deal of suc- face downwards on the table. cess anywhere-without

hardest wear, and reduce repairs to a minimum.

hardship,

lot of п

Maybe you will find that a lot of

your friends have more than one

FINALLY, with the third ques-

F tion uppermost in his mind,

burning question on their mind he draws out a further thirteen cards Well, here's an easy way of dealing and places them in n separate heap| with three questions at once, and that should satisfy most people.

alongside the others.

The pack of thirty-two cards 1 All that remains for the Inquirer shuffled by the Inquiring party and to do now is to sit tight and watch cut into three unequal heaps with you turn up the cards in each heap. the left hand.

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