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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1938,
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ART OF MAKING
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SUET PUDDING
Cold
weather makes puddings particularly welcome at dinner- time. Suet puddings of every kind are nearly always à ́good choice, unless the first course has been very heavy, for they are rich in heat and energy-giving foods.
Inexperienced cooks often think there is something very difficult about making suet puddings. Ac tually, they are very simple, espe cially if shredded suet is used, so that there is no possibility of lumps.
The whole secret lies in. long boiling. It is always, wise to give more boiling than the recipe says, rather than err on the hasty" side. Once you have mastered the basic recipe for suet crust, there is no end to the variations you can pro- duce.
As a meat course there is steak and kidney pudding (surely the very best of all meals on a cold winter's day!) and rabbit pudding | (but put in plenty of pickled pork, for it will be insipid). In the North they often make a leek pudding, cutting, the well-washed leeks into "NOT HARMFUL,” DOCTOR
inch lengths before putting them SAYS
into a lined pudding basin, season- "Whether one should smoke or ing well, adding a nut of butter, not is entirely a matter for the in-covering and boiling in the usual dividual,” a leading doctor said. way.
dislike the smoke."
FIRST PUBLIC OFFICE FOR PRINCESS
Princess Elizabeth, heir to our throne, was twelve years old on
"Cigarettes and drink will poison For the pudding course, pride acme people, but if taken in mo-yourself on the number of varia- deration they cannot harm the mations you can evolve, instead of April 21.
jority.
“I have no objection whatever. to women smoking," he said. "In fact, I admire many of them. What
sticking to either apple dumplings or golden, roll. Dates, figs, and prunes all go excellently with suet if they are given sufficiently long
boiling.
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life she took over her first public To mark this milestone in her
office-President of the Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, at Shadwell, in London's East End..
career
Thus the second lady in the land has embarked on a which a nation and an Empire hope will be long and fruitful.
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In this first task she will help in work
which aims at interesting after her. children in, the hospital named
.This blouse with mannish lapels is of cream material patterned in
navy.
WOMAN LION-TAMER. LIVED TO 75
man could nibble a sandwich and smoke a cigarette at the same time
Potato and raisin pudding is an with intriguing grace and ambid-economical dish which may be new exterity?
to you. Service half a pound of "Some girls drink more than is
floury, cooked potatoes, and put in good for them," the doctor con- tinued, "and excessive drink is a rind of a lemon, a pinch of salt, and a basin with 3oz, sugar, the grated bad initiation/ for prospective
3oz. seeded or seedless raisins. motherhood. Perhaps, in view of
Heat 2oz. butter this, drink is to be discouraged.with a teacupful of milk, add the or margarine Fortunately, most modern girls are far too sensible to drink to excess." yolk of an egg (two if possible), HOSTESSES-CRITICISED.- and mix_thoroughly. Then add the Mr. O. A. Piggott, of the Tem- egg white, beaten stiffly, and half a perance Alliance, believes that the teaspoonful baking powder. Mix all popularity of the cocktail party the ingredients well together, turn has caused a widespread tendency into a greased pie-dish, and bake in the royal nursery. Instead, she and Leonda became big-top in the to excessive drinking among wo-in a moderate oven until the pud-joined the other guests at the Cas-circus.
men.
ding has risen well. -
Her birthday was celebrated quietly at Windsor Castle.
CAKE WITH 12 CANDLES
For once she did not breakfast
tle. Later she watched the Chang- ing of the Guard and went for a
ball, her pony. gallop in the Great Park on Snow-
Climax of the day, of course, tea at half-past four in the drawing-room.
green
Mrs. Leonda Pezon, lion tamer and circus star, died in Brussels. on April 23, aged 75. She retired from the cage in 1912.
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Her father was a circus owner and his four children took over the business when he died.
The eldest was killed by à lion
She married Emilien Castenet, acrobat, horseman, bull-fighter, aeronaut, tight-rope walker and lion tamer, and they sat in a ́lions” cage with four lions as the 'priest blessed their wedding.
"A girl is said to be a poor sport if she doesn't drink," he said, "and and it doesn't improve one's suit. the result is that girls are initiated The opposite view was taken by into drinking at an early age. So- a stenographer, who said it. seem- ciety hostesses have much to an-ed extraordinarily selfish for the swer for in this respect. In the in- few people who don't smoke to terests of true womanhood they want the great majority of diners
In the centre of the table at the
They took off in a balloon for should refuse to cater for what is to forgo their cigarette. "Surely
ice-cake with its twelve candles, their honeymoon. really a depraved taste. Alcohol is the wishes of the great majority Over it the Princess presided. A violent storm drove their bal- a destroyer of beauty, of happiness, matter more than the fads of a Two other children sat thrilled loon towards the Mediterranean beside her-Prince Edward of Kent and they were picked up exhausted The manageress of a restaurant, and Princess Margaret.
by a trawler. and a smoker herself, said it was After the tea party the Princess Shortly aftrwards Castenet fell a common occurrence to see young led her guests to a cinema perform-60ft. from the tight-rope and was A prominent business man, said women flicking the ash of a ciga-ance. Chief feature was a colour killed.
of youth, and there is no justifi- few," she said. cation for the widespread increase in drinking among women.”
SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS
he considered that smoking in pub-rette into someone's soup. lic dining places should be. pro- "This sort of thing," she said, “is hibited before it becomes a menace, definitely objectionable, and in any "The two dark spots of a trip case most older women do not abroad," he said, "are the cigarette smoke and they find smoke blown and the jazz band. In America the across from another diner unplea- jazz band is the worst offender. No sant. Although probably 90 per one listens but the moment it be- cent. of people smoke, those who ging every woman tries to shout it don't surely deserve some down. Between the band and the sideration. Young girls are the cigarette smoke a meal 'in America worst offenders.". is a painful experience!”
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· CHOICE OF THE INDIVIDUAL "GOOD MANNERS DYING OUT"Miss Doris Fitton denies Sir "In London the women smoke all John Harris the right of question- through a meal and even in the ing the independence of women. theatres. I used to dread going "I am sure," she said, "that wo- where they congregated. I saw Ro-men don't smoke or drink to excess. bertson Hare in the flesh through A-woman with respect for her the smoke one night. A delightful Tooks and her charm will see that performance, but I had to gargle she does not spoil them by excesses. my throat before I could face my In any case, these things should matutinal rasher next morning, undeniably be the choice of the in- Good manners are dying out among dividual. In moderation smoking women, Some women even comb and drinking can be two of life's their hair in the London theatre, Ipleasant things.”
cartoon.
Save Time
With ICE
Leonda married another acrobat.
Plenty in your refrigerator means you can have ice when you want it. No frosting and defrosting, no time wasted in making your own ice, and no gadget to go wrong.
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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Pure Food Specialists.