1940-06-19 — Page 4

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1940.

COOKERY HINTS

7ITH dates and stewing

WIT

STARCHY FOODS

and other

figs make some date and fig jam. Stone a pound of dates, if necessary, cut them up small, and put them into a preserving pan with a pound of figs, also cut up FOR diet safety we must bilberries, blackberries email, a gill of water, and choose the right foods.

Making The Jolly the juice of a lemon. Boil to Once the necessary body- Hulled whent used to be bought gether til soft. Then add abulklers and "protectives" are at the corn merchants, but pearl

included in the menu, we can barley can be used instead. fuel-up with "Trankly energy times amount of

Wash the barley, cover with four water and gently foods and the cheaper make stew, either on side of stove or in weight calories.

slow oven, all day until the grains

pint of orange jelly dissolved in half-a-pint of hot water. Boil for another ten minutes, pour into warm jars and cover. As it contains no sugar, this jam will not keep very long.

To reduce the amount of sugar re- quired in rhubarb jam, use a pound of figs and a quarter of a pound candled lemon peel to four pounds each of rhubarb and preserving sugar. rhubarb Into ineli strips, Cut the chop the peel and figs Anely, and put all into a preserving pan with three tablespoonfuls of water. Boll slowly for un Jour.

untit the Jam Ülkens.

or

Ham With Pineapple SELECT a thick slice of hat. Trim

I and remove surplus fat.

water

Sook

in cold water half an hour. Drain five fresh and simmer in minutes. Strain of water. Remove Place th moderate to a baking cluf. Oven In brown slightly. After five minutes arrange quartered sliers of shleed pineapple about the ham and leave them to brown delleately in the Jat When the meat is cooked rund: both it and the pineapple are

fruits.

We choose cereals for starch, burst and form the jelly. Set up but certain kinds offer nourish temporarily in pots and it is ready ment, too, and "home growns" like for savoury or sweet oatmeal also throw in a little fat. Here is a Frumenty Supper Dish The thing to remember is to use as a guide to its possibilities. Place thin sandwiches of stale brend and them "whole," or else processed so There is no foss by milling out the cheese In buttered plo-dish. Pour helpful huslis. Wholemeal, brown over thin Frumenty of stewed barley rice, pat barley and other whole and milk-enough to cover-and sonk grains yield useful minerals as well for at least one hour, Add tinned as Vitamins B1 and B2,

Frumenty

Have you heard of "Frumenty"? Up North they are great on it, but

RICE

1 cup flour, 1⁄2 teaspoonful baking powder, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful syrup. Mix with rice-add little more milk necessary. Drop spoon- fuls on to hot greased gridille, Turn and sprinkle with sugar..

American Coconut Cookies

tomatoes and a grated onion, senson, After bolling for 15 minutes Add top with knobs of margarine and some vinegar, paprika (sweet rose 1 cup each processed oats, flour bake in modernte

oven for 30 paprikat), a teaspoonful of four to and coconut, cup butter, and 1 minutes."

thicken, some sugar to taste. Serve cup sugar, 1 dessertspoonful syrup, with 'rice.

2 exgs, 2 tablespoonfuls milk, Method for cooking rice. Put rice heaped teaspoonful baking powder. for generations This ald English When it comes to eeing out meat in saucepan with one inch of water Cream butter, wheaten farmhouse dish has figured in in more serious meals, remember over it, salt and a teaspoonful of eggs, and other ingredients. Roll sugar, ndd beaten county rookery. In Yorkshire now mucaroni. You can get whole-meal murgarine. Boil two, minites on the out and cut. Bake in hot oven U01 they are making it of barley as you macarons for this, but either way it gas and put in a moderate oven to erisp, 20 minuter. cannot get berry wheat. That there is a good accompaniment.

finish. Rlee should then be perfect- are whent offels containing bran and the ter husk which would be help-

ful with the barley.

Macaroni Pie (Norwegian)

ly soft, but stry and not mashy.”

To stock the cake tin use Scottish Ideas for oatmeal-in oat and wheat biscuits, coconut ຄກຝ out

FOR SUMMER ROOMS

Why not set your clock back to Four four persons; 11⁄2 lb. mpcaroni, the early seventeenth century and a 1b, boiled bacon or corned beef, The word comes 1-2 eggs. Break annearon! In one ake Frumenty" tempting brown, pour over it a cunt us as Fermenty of Somer- inch pieres, add them to boiling of pioripple syrup. Cook gently t. Friety of Monmouth, Fromity bacon stock or salted water, boil 15 cookies as well as a rice griddle cake WASII clothes for summer rooms

very well. Mix recipe. muutes. Serve ham on warm plat-f Suffolk, Frummety of Yorkshire, minutes. Drain

121 hulled wheat dierd bacon and beaten eggs, some ler, range pineapple about it and but they alt

stewed to a jelly.

salt and pepper and the macoroni pour sauce over 11.

Until quite revent tener country in a bowl, Fill a well greased pie- warnen stood in cam munitets selling itish and bake in a moderate oven

Rice Griddle Cakes

idea that is belog stressed by some stores. They are showing

curtains bedspreads

and ate of dressing table covers is the same To pint of boiled rice add material, all sold to be as washable Minted Pineapple

your little daughter's gingham few hours. Bent 1 tablespoonful rompers. The same fabrics come by DD a few drops of mint extracts of Rags Jelly, in winter frumenty till nicely brown and all the tree vet pint of milk. Let stand all night or us Are the pineapple with file with at milk, egis,

margarine with I tablespoonful the yard and there are summer rugs sugar. To this odd beaten egg, then in matching colours. syrup. Add bits of pineapple and: wise made by adding milk and rum simmer anti coloured. Serve hot or; to the Jelly. coded with hunb.

spont

Plain Custard

Filled Tomato With Rico (Hungarian)

The maten runk will find barley 1th. fenatues (not too small), - 14 | Jelly_fromenly invaluable for use to 1b, minced veal, 11⁄2 lb. unpolished!

ups, sutures and rebeating Dette rice, Boll 1 tablespoonful of rice in

IX 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 tea- | tvers, thus giving the fuenlly, from water till soft. Cut one slice off flour and a few grains | Brakfast to buffel-supper" full food- each tomate, take the soft parts out salt. Beat 2 PER yolks slightly; addį value from barley or wheat offals' carefully with a armall spoon, M11)

The children with veal, bolled rice, salt 1 cups milk; combier with dry in- in appetising ways, gredients Cook over hot water un- will fall for Frunenty when made a pepper to taste. The tomatoes are *31 Mightly thickened.

Arink stirring cold

with sweetened later Constantly. Chill. Serves 4.

on, served

Cheer

BUTTONHOLE OF

ORGANDY ROSES

The to muke: a

Jew moments,

Materials.

yard colen gandy: safety plu.

sinali

Cut the organdy in half from sel- vedge to selvedge

and rofl one edge

of each strip be. tween the inger

and thumb so that

julerit

and

fruit then placed in a saucepan with the with maree, and some water round them.

up your frock

the

raw edge is completely concealed.

this

BEAD

NECKLACE

Time to make;

two hours.

Materials; 39

glass

tubes the original uses silver atel four

shades ot blue: 105

dark blue beads; 70

light blue beads; blue muerame string for threading.

Needless to say.

All these items can be supplied in a packet. The be sure your hands are perfectly clean when you do glass tubes are curtain beads. You could also use bam- bon curtain beads, mixing them with dark brown and Begin to make the flower by winding the material green, or whatever colour scheine you fancy.

Abbreviations: db, dark blue; L.b.. light blue.. round and round, fairly tightly at first, and with the

Commence by threading 14 d.b. beads on about 271. rolled edge facing the centre. wind it more loosely by making box pleats about on in. of string. Leaving a good end, tie a knot before. inch apart along the unrolled edge. Make another rose and after these 14 beads, then thread 38 d.b. bends and in the same way. Sew only and attach both to the leave the end of string. safety plu.

bhara

After about five turns.

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Take another length of thread and pass it through

Re-

For another buttonhole you could have the edge of the first 14 beads then thread a lb. bead, a tube and a the organdy strip picofed, or trimmed with very L. head, pass the thread back through the tube and

[ate!.

the 1.b. bead and then through the following d.b. bead

(in this ease the Ofteenth).

bent 1 times, then continue in same. way but threading two beads before the tube (Uree times), then three beads (twice), four bends (twice),

For Dry Skin Daring Transparency

Frilly blouses with embroidery or five beads (once). Girls with dry, sensitive slein | lave details are making their appear- Now repent the above in reverse should niccustom themselves to using ance in the stores. One has only to order until you have threaded all the a light foundation of the creamy los see the dresses fashioned after Gane 30 tubes. Knot the two threads to- tion type. It will protect the skin With the Wind or lona Massey's gether and using both thread the 14 Iron weather changes or too much costumes in Balalaika to be reminded end beads and knot gain. Bun, give a certain ainount of lubrica-how dramatic ortrady can be. Pa- Finish off each end by sewing on

It a fashion of tion and keep the makeup Intact for quin

a longer period.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition

June - September, 1940.

Two Silver Trophies Awarded

ILFORD LTD.

by

for the best and second-best entries,

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prizes in each of the four Sections.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION ONE

General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.

SECTION TWO

Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50, SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

SECTION FOUR (Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who Each will be required to make a declaration to this effect. entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1The Competition is conßned ex- clusively to amatour photo- grapher.

2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade permitted to compete,

The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Kraphs in each Bection

Each cairy must be accompanied by e form which will be published during the period of the Com

be petition, and which must pasted on back of entry.

The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Talegraph.

5-All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony at Hongkong. Photographs which have been, already entered in ather Competitions are eligible 0-No responsiblity will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.

7-All entries to bo nither black, sepin, or toned pictures, and muKÝ to mounted. Coloured photo- Eraphs are ineligible.

-Pleturen submitted in sepia tones ahould be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. 9. No picture to entered in more

than one Section.

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30.--Mounis to be only while or croRIA, mauit be of one of the following sizes:-19×12, 15X20.

11. No correspondence will be entered Into in connection with the Com- petition.

12--Members of the Stars of the Nongker.g Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permillied to compete.

-The decision of the Judges shali

be final.

14-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, enizies will be ratumed to competitors on application at The Telegraph offices within seven dinys.

SECTION

ENTRY FORM

NAME

---,;

ADDRESS

Please use block letters and poate this on back of each Entry in. Sections 1, 2 and 3