NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

DISPLAY AT THE COOKERY EXHIBITION. DUCHESS OF YORK’S INTEREST. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 19. Housewives and others looking for instruction are finding much to interest them at the Cookery and Food Exhibition, now ‘being held at Holland Park Hall. The occasion is a suitable one for bringing New Zealand produce to the notice of the public, and the New Zealand stand is the largest among those of the dominions and colonies. The Universal Cookery and Food Association is not a new society. It was founded so far back as 1885, and in 1892 it was registered under Act of Parliament. Annual exhibitions are held, and one may see everything in connection wi the preparation, cooking, and serving of food —from costly ad luxurious creations to the humblest of dishes. School children may be seen preparing simple menus, and teachers demonstrating household and artisan cookery. Hospital and invalid dietary find a place in the display. Cooks from the navy show how wholesome food is prepared for the sailors, and army cooks show how their everyday work is done. Anyone who has a good food to advertise or kitchen apparatus to call attention to has a stand in the exhibition. It is interesting to learn that the winner of the championship for the best bread uses dried milk from New Zealand. This is Mr Edward Page, a baker of Aylesbury. Buckinghamshire, who also won the gold medal for crusty Coin: bread, the silver medal for tin loaf, and the bronze medal for cottage bread. In all his bread he uses the New Zealand dried pnlk, and attention is called to this fact at the New Zealand stand. The New Zealand exhibit is well arranged. The centrepiece is a painting of a New Zealand farm. Below this is a patch of artificial grass, with models of sheep and cows. A row of butter boxes is above half a dozen excellent New Zealand cheeses. On the left are tins of dried milk, articles made from casein, tinned rock lobsters, toheroas, whitebait, tongues, beef, and rabbits. Specimens of kauri gum, seeds, and ironsand are also to be seen. On the right is an exhibition of honey, Glaxo, tinned fruit, leather, flax, and skins. DUCHESS AT NEW ZEALAND STAND. Butter is being sold in 2oz cartons, and a very good trade there is. The Duchess of York took a carton away with her, and since then there has been a great demand for the butter. The Duchess spent a considerable time at the New Zealand stand. She had seen the butter made at the factories in the Dominion, she told Miss Bccrc, the attendant. She displayed great interest in the honey, too. New Zealand illustrated papers were to he seen on a table. It was perhaps natural that they contained the pictures illustrating the royal tour in the Dominion. The Duchess spent some time looking at the pictures which showed her fishing in the Tongariro River and those relating to the children's display at Auckland. “I shall never forget the 'living flag’ at Auckland,” she said. "It was perfectly wonderful.” She regretted not having been able to see the Southern Lakes. Among the exhibits are two wax models of New Zealand lamb. The excellence of these models, has been referred to before. During this exhibition an cxbutchcr admired the carcasses with an expert's eye. "I was apprenticed to the trade,” 1m said. ” I would like to have the job of cutting up that carcass, is simply beautiful.” Needless to sav, ' was not told that his dexterity in dissection would be somewhat discounted 1 the toughness of the wax.