To-night is Father Christmas's night
This Will Trick Them
than in a frying pan, as is so often i
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The process of frying is apt to exorelse the devil, and the resultant dish will be 100 mildly angelle to bo Interesting.
CAN you make a sixpence jump from under a shilling in a wine-glass
and change places with the larger coin? It may sound impossibile, but Last farewell to blow as hard as you enn on to the shilling, a trifle to one side, and you will find that the smaller coin will soon appear on top.
Keep Them Laughing
THIS is a jolly gume for a party, because every one can join in. All that
you will require for it is a glant beacon penell.
To start the game a ring is formed by the players, one of whom holds the beacon in his hand. Then some one plays a tune on the piano, and during this the beacon is passed from player to player in turn, all round the ring. Whoever is holding the beacon when the music stops must leave the ring. The player who remains at the end is the winner.
Home Page Cook
tells
you do with
TH
what to
the Turkey
Those who have been steadfastly loyal to the fragmentary fowl could make a blanquette of turkey for a final gesture of farewell.
Slice off the remaining meat thinly and put it aside. Break up the bones and put them into a stewpan with an onion cut into ringa, some Ican bacon cut into dice, and a bouquet of paraley, thyme, and bay leaf,
Just cover them with water simmer gently for an hour.
Salt, pepper and
and
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LAST MINUTE IDEAS FOR STOCKINGS
HRISTMAS stockings are greedy beasts.
Not
content with the mere size of a leg, they stretch and bulge and demand last-minute rushings off, in
your Father Christmas habit, to the shops.
to bursting point, so it is better to have a small one crammed. than Half the thrill of a stocking is that first glance at it, gorged ja big one baggy.
Here are a few help-the-parent last-minute fill-ups, costing Less than half a crown are those grated Nutmeg 18. or less (mostly less).
little face cream containers that look Domestic Uttle girls will like a like a lipstick but screw out cream. Then strain off the liquor and pour
dress material, largo For Ave shillings, a pair of stockings, It on to a white roux made with equal length of quantities of four and butter. Bring enough to make their favourite doll face powder (if you know which this to the ball and let it boil for five amart summer sulting, folded up kind and colour she likes), an orchid with a crense down the middle, just minutes, stirring all the time.
Take it off the fire and put Info it the way the big shops sell it for Pay (she is bound to be going to a the meat acasoned with salt, pepper, grown-ups, and tied up with a bit lot of pariles), a handsome lipstick.
☆☆ and a litte grated nutmeg. Let the of baby-ribbon, put in meat heat gently through in this, but that is worn out will look fine, pressed (Probably a corner off somethingt be careful not to let boll.
LEFTOVERS
HE remnants of Christmas week parties will be with us on Saturday, and that lingering Bird of Time, the Turkey, will provide you with а post-Christmas
worry.
If you adopt
drastic Measures
How shall one dispose of the remains? The most quick and thorough way is, of course, to bury it in the garden, but this is not strictly economical.
Whatever drastic measures may be
should taken the legs
never be abandoned with the rest. They are much too good to miss when they are devilled.
This can be mild
please, but it should always be mix- ed and inserted in the meat some hours buforo it is wantert for cook-
Triangles of
Toast
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box.
Or a small ball of bright wool with B pair of not-too-pointed needles, to
live in them there are gramophone For people who have homes and
records, those tremendous boxes of matches (they are grand, because from the bed you can strike them with one hard just by leaning over), decanter labels, a cheese.
Mix the yolk of an egg with three knit a doll jumper. Or heads, ready To help the imagination gel to inblespoonfuls of strung, or with twine for stringing work ink of the kind of Things cream, and when them (if I remember rightly it ie they already own. Maybe you could always more fun to have things you give them some films for their home the meat 18
cinema apparatus, a collar for the can do, not merely look at). thoroughly hot, etir
Miniature sels of furniture dog (if it is the centre of the home), the cream into the arranged in a match-box cost a penny some plonts for the window boxes, u or so. For 4d, you can get some bits rug for the car, a seat for the garden Well, all this time I've been try- ing to keep my mind off those men
"sauce.
As soon us it begins to thicken, of wood that build up into an ale- (summer sometimes comes), scrve the blanquelle on a dish, plane. garnished with triangles of toast,
The main ingredients (worked into Cooking your
a paste with butter) ner salt, white pepper, curry powder, mustard and cayenne.
Additional flavouring, euch as Worcester sauce, chutney, or mush- room powder
be added as desired,
can
You can't make it
too Hot
I see no point in experimenting with this dish at all unless the result
more than a little devilish, and ang can scarcely make the paste too hot to the taste beforehand because it ul- ways loses pungency by cooking.
Scare the bird's legs deeply in a number of places, introduce plenty of the devil into the cuts, and spread the rest.all over the surface.
Cook under the grill for about ten minutes, not forgetting to turn more than once.
or Ferocious Frying casts out
The devilling preparation can be “left to individual taste, and can be mude as mild or ferocious as you
the Devil "If no grill is available "it is better to heat the legs in the oven rather
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I should have bought presents for Sweets huddled up In violently and can't think of a thing to give coloured revers are always word them. It is always more casy to make-weight: so are fruits, especially suggest presents for other people's own Gooseye The Il-cheer, passion friends, so if you help me I'll help If the skeleton in your cupboard fruits, pomegranates. It is always you,
can be fun to find you can eat something happens to be a
goose, it
which looks unlikely. dressed as follows for its last ap- pearance.
I
Cut an onion Into rings and fry it in an ounce of butter in a stewpon until it turns to a good brown without becoming black,
Add a pint of water, the bones of the goose, a seasoning of salt and pepper, a bouquet of parsley, lemon, thyme and bay leaf, and a glass, of port
Dovish girls and boys usually like Not many men will say "No" to à # sixpenny torch, smart, penell, bottle of something to drink.
Cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco in sharpeners, rubbers anything they can show off at school.
the raw are also pretty sure, so long Then you can always fall back. as you know what your smoking on puzzler (the kind you volunteer friends like, So are pocket-books, to "show how," and fidget with until, note-cases, studs, mufflers (keep them by the time you do it the child has reasonably gloomy). lost interest and gone away). .
It I were socks, I'd like those that stay up of their own accord (elastic threads interwoven in the tops), Apart from the stocking problem, but perhaps a man would prefer a to-day is the day you find that bit pair of suspenders. Then there are
all all those pocket gadgets, knives, Simmer gently for three-quarters of your presents list which you had smart key rings, pencils.
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For motorists I saw some maps of an hour, strala off the gravy of nine who lives in the country and thicken it, and heat the goose meat despises all things childish could done up in leather cases with a trans- through in it without allowing to probably do with a bow and arrow, parent cover so that they could be folded about and fingered without boil. Serve with sippets of toast and or some slugs for his gun. any remains of the stufig heated
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There need be no ill-effects after Christmas in
the Nursery
already on tiptoe with excitement over CHILDREN are
Christmas. Excitement, over-eating and less sleep than usual may have their reactions in the nursery, unless you make a few plans beforehand.
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- The old-fashioned.remedy of nasty cooling doses on Boxling Day eve is now no longer recommended by doctors-Instead, more attention is paid to nursery, regime over the whole period. A great many tummy disturb. ances are due to excitement and noise, pure and simple, not to over-eating-
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Excitement starts at dawn on Christmas morning, when parcels are unwrapped in the half dark, small people forget slippers and dressing- gowns, and a general unusualness reigns. Breakfast on Christmas morning should be extremely light, and as near the ordinary hour-my 9am-12 possible.
Cold or hot milk, whichever is preferred, with prunes or baked apple, is the most perfect beginning, and nothing else need be eaten at all. Don't give bacon, egg, or cereal, and if the milk goes down and two large prunes forget everything else.
Christmas dinner will, I imagine, come in the middle of the day in the nursery. Very little harm can possibly ensue.from either roast turkey or chicken and vegetables. It is a good idea, however, to follow the Con- twental habit of giving a green salad-just a little with the first course.
Green salads are one of the best ways of supplying sufficient mineral to keep the blood in healthy condition, and healthy blood means no risk of catching cold in cot,
Christmas pudding-just a small taste, please for it is rarely liked by the nursery folk. Dessert as much as you like, but don't mix the fruite --It-they-aro-of-a-very-acid.nature...............
The great danger at Christmas to children is, of course, too many sweetmeals in between meals. You the same. A very light breakfast and should really be firm about this. a very restful morning-let them Christmas ten will again be a time ulcen as late as they will. Some fun of great excitement, with crackers, out of doors before lunch and a light etc. Try to keep as much stuffiness lunch. They will eat lots of for- out of the diet ne possible. Give bidden things at the party, so it milk to drink and just a plece of doesn't matter if the lunch is Ught Christmas coke.
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On returning from the party at If the children are older and need night, warm milk and straight to bed.../ supper, give them a very lightly cooked egg or a bit of steamed fish, Don't feed children' up for or easily digested cheeses, And a Christmas to ward off future trouble, Utile more salad.
rather feed them down. The modern There may be a party on Boxing child is not nearly so interested in Day, so the regime should again be Christmas food na wa Imagine.
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