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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1936. .
Cakes and
Cookies
W
INTER time offers many little opportu- nities for tea-time entertaining, and many of us like to bring out our own cakes instead of the usual assortment from the pastry- cook's round the corner.
I am not a great eater of cakes myself (in which I differ from Sarah), but here are one or two tint
T have found irresistible.
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients- 4lb. flour,
4.
butter, lb, enstor sugar, 2 ekka,
E
How the PERFECT
LADY
ENGAGEMENTS
NGAGEMENTS, weddings, christenings. . three days of extraordinary importance in any person's life... occasions when it's really helpful to know exactly "what's done.'
When he gets 'engaged, a young man
30z, grated chocolate, mlik, 1 k should at once tell his fiancee's father; he spoonful baking powder,
Cream the sugar with the butter, and add the yolks of the eggs. Then add the chocolate
dissolved in
ttle warm milk. Stir in the flour by degrees until well mixed, then fold in lightly the sumy whisked CER whites and the baking powder.
This cake will take about an hour
In a moderate oven.
Orange Cake
Ingredients.b. flour, 4lb. ras for Figur 4lb. butter. 2 rum, 2 aranges, 1 teaspoonfal baking pow-}
der.
should do this before he tells any one else
at all. He should then tell his own tantly,
The man's parents should write to the girl and invite her to meet them or stay with them and they shutaki Rish
write or call on the girl's parents. No first move is expected from the girl's family at all,
·Never congratulate girl on her
| engagement. Congratuate the man, and just wish the girl every happle
Croam the sugar with the butter, then add the eggs one at a time real heat well. Now add the stained | Juice and fuely grated rinds of the oranges, a gradually stir in the l fouf which you have sleved with the baking powder.
Bake us before in a moderate oven for an hour.
Sand Cake
ib.
2 whole ground
ness.
Arranging the Wedding
[NVITATIONS to a wedding are always sent otal by the
bride's parents,
They should be sent out Abou three weeks before the
behaves at
WEDDINGS
Never congratulate a gid on her engage- ment-just wish her happiness.
The bride takes the groom's left arm gong down the aisle.
The baby is held during the first part of the christening by its godmother,”
There are no particularly important rules about the wording nowattays; most of the strict ruirs on that point
wedding, have been relaxed,
Name Chart JULIETTE
Symbol:
A maiden weaning to her lover,
mus name expresses
atreni: of mind and a brave
Ingredients.7oz. extrflts", Vienna four, or very fine flour, butter. Goz. caster sugar, CEKS and I white. J417, almonds, 1 teaspoonful finely-grated courageous nature. lemon rind, the Julee of half a lemon, First clarify the butter and let at set slightly, when you must wld the sugar and beat tratil ht 7x1 creamy. Then beat in the egg yolks, add the almonds with the lemon Juice and rind, and finally the two flours sleved together. Now whisk the three whites of eg very stifly and add them very lightly-Indeed. will vibrate to your personality.
Pour the mixture into a flat, well- buttered
cake tin which has been Bightly lined with cuke-crumbs and
Saturday your lucky day, and the second hour before Sunrise and The third hour after sunset hold the most promise, and the 8th day of tune if your name is Juliette. the most will bring you ford for-
Your lucky colours are grey and adornment, and combine purple. Make use of them in your
then in your schemes of decoration. They
For your Jewels vævár garnēls and you will never lack true and devoted friends.
bake in a moderate oven for about Your lucky number is 8 and your 35 to 10 minutes.
flower is the snowdrop.
Letters of a
The F. gets the "dithers?
Modern Young.
0
POEM
O
THE BARGAIN
My true love both my heart, and
i have his,
Bu just exchange, estar for another
given.
I hold his dear, ant value Je
cannot miss,
There never was a belter bargain
driven;
My tra
le hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart in me keeps hua and
me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and
senses guides;
·
He loves my heart, for once it
-was his own,
I cherish his because in me it
éclas
My true love hath my heart and
I have his.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Married
In these letters from Christine to her mother other modern
Meanwhile, 1 "young-marrieds" will find Ideas an) hin's which will help them in the started on the fish. running of their own homes.
I curled four Allets
For Christine, together with her husband, Tom, and young Michael, of sole into indi- their three-years-old son, and the Family Help, have domestic adven- vidual battered' tures that lead to many new discov ·ries.
glass ovenware
My Dear,
and his wife.
topped each with a Maraschino dishes; then 1 cherry.
seasoned them
Thank heaven that's over-1 mean the dinner party for Tom's talpan I firmly believe that the compli- with salt and pep- ments Mrs. Huimphries paid me per poured afterwards were due to my goose white sauce over, The amah is always worse than berry creams. So I tell you how and finished with useless on these occasions she gets they were made. a curious ailment which she calls the
a good sprinkling "dithers"—so I decided to do it all
I stewed 1lb. of the fruit in very of grated Parme- myself and cool; an "oven racal".
san cheese. These This was the menu:
Grapefruit Maraschino Fillets of Sole Mornay
Veal Cutlets en Casserole with Tomatoes and New Carrots Buttered New Potatoes Gooseberry Creaine
And this is how I did it.
I pared two grapefrult, sprinkled them with a little caster sugar and lelt them to soak, covered with a glassful of maraschino.
Hitle water with sugar to sweeten, only take 15 min- made it into a puree, and when cold, utes to cock in a stirred in a clll of whipped cream, good oven. At the bottom of four glasses I put a
little crumbled sponge cake, cover-
PAT
CHRISTENINGS
The responsibilities for the wed- ding itself test between bridegroom and bride's parents. The bridegroom
makes all legal arrangements for the wedding, whether is to be by ape- rini heener, church banns or before a registrar. The cost, which varies from £30 for a special licence to 75. Gid, in a register öffler, is met by the bridestroom.
Any decorations, choral services or special arrangements in church are paid for by the bride's parents, an also is the car to take her to and from the ceremony.
arrives in the correct period during which the christening should take place. Invitations to a few intimate friends can be sent two weeks before the date.
A boy should have two godfathers and un godmother-v sirl, two god- mothers and one Rofather. God- 10 RIVE parents only me expecu u gifts to' the baby and also a gratulty to lie baby's nurse.
The baby is held during the Orst part of the crrenjony by its god- mother and in handed by her to the derryman in due course.
to the
A gift is usually
Riven clergyman, either a present in silver (not of silver) or if he is not known to the parents a cheque to be de- volevi to the parish. TAG PICTPYmun should be invited back to the christ- ening party, The baby need not ap- pear at nå at its christening party.
Leaving it
to the Men
I'
in safe rule for the perfect tady to observe that on ni official
she should leave gccasions things to the men of her family.
In the case of bereavement, for in- stence the need do nothing except send flowers or write a note of cons dolence. It is not even necessary for a woman to attend!
a funeral it
At a church wedding guests shoulti arrive at least lifteen minutes before the time rcntioned on the invitation card, The bridegroom's friends should sit on the right of the aisle. the bride's
her on the left, with another in the front pew on the out-
free.
Arrival at the Church
THE bride, on arriving at the
she does not wish to.
That does not mean that she should know nothing about the correct be-
haviour, as a woman should always be able to assist her husband, tiance, or brothers on points of etiquette,
church walks up the aisle on her father's right arm and meets her ¦ KIWI groom; who will step forward 'and stand on her right side,
When the ceremony begins the bride should hand her bouquet to her. chief bridesmaid, or if she has none to her mother, and should remove her left glove.
Fees for the wedding ure settled immediately after the ceremony by the best mun.
When the ceremony is concluded,' bride and bridegroom walk down the centre aisle of the church-the bride talking her groom's left arm. They get in their car and leave for the re- ception before the ather guests.
On arriving at the reception rooms bride and bridegroom take up their
KIW DDTEPOLIS
places near the entrance and await See the KIWI trade mark on
guests, with whom they will shake hands.
every tin of shoo polish you
The custom of sending tiny boxes buy. It is a
guarantee of
of wedding cake is still followed and finest quality polish.
it should be done by the bride's
parents as soon after the wedding as
possible.
If it's a boy
-or a Girl:
THE Correct procedure for
christenines hus not altered
KIWI
Agents:
at all in the last fifty years. From W. R. Loxley & Co. (China), Ltd, one to three months after the baby
* We did aw
impromptu waltz.
Dinner was a great success, and beauty specialist saved me from des-
ed it with the purce; and sprinkled atter, it was all over and Mr. and pair. She gave me what she calls a with pistachio nuts.
Mrs. Humphries had gone, Tom reducing lolign. All I had to do, she The veal cutlets 1 fried lightly be seized me and gave me a hug and said, was to put it in and allow it to fore, putting them into a casserole said, "You're wonderful, darling", with four whole tomatoes, about a and we did an impromptu waltz dry.' I did, with great zeal and dozen whole new carrols, spoonful of chopped onion, and an- round the hall. other of mixed herba, a sprinkling
made with ment extract.
a ten-
I felt very pleased with the world
of pepper and salt, and a little gravy for two days, and after that I had a Then I divided the fruit into four Then I put the Ild on and left the frightful shock. My dear, I am get-
anxiety, And It is really working. Thai niee clean line under my chin seems to be reappearing again, thank heaven.
tall glasses, chilled them for a very cutlets to cook in a slow oven for ting a double chin. The discovery The Angel is begging me to come ahort time in the refrigerator and about 1 hours.
shook me a bit, but, luckily, my pet and play, so au revoir for a few days,
GOODBYE
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