THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.
This is
the time when
it's useful to know
M
How to get on with
children
OST of us like to dress or hair or hands never
think that we are
a
success
come
amiss in making a good impression.
with Choosing a Gift
children; this is the season
You may want to take the
child a present. Be sure
of the year when we are put that your gift is of the kind that to the test.
works. Monetary value is of te importance to any child, and aesthe- Somebody once said children tic taste doesn't matter until a child is about 12 or 13 years of age.
and dogs were the test of a Don't, then, give something that looks man's character. With the first nice, but give something that the any parent will agree; with the child can manipulate.
soconut rather depends on the dog.
few facts. Chlidren to day much prefer frult to cakes and they like small quantities of helpings-at a party.
Little Individual jellies with fruit salad, oranges pected- and quartered and arranged in patterns with a cherry in the middle are remembered by children with great pleasure when large, expensive iced cakes are for- gotten. See also that in an easily accessible place there is an unlimited
SNACKS
Prawn Relish
Cut thin rounds of brown bread 14in. In diameter and spreid with finely chopped or minced shelled prawns made into a paste with a little butler, lemon juice, one small chill pepper (the "bird” variety), and
pinch of salt. ́.
Cream Cheese Pats ་་ Work some Pommel cheeRO or any cream cheese with a Hitle butter, seasoning with salt and a few chopped capers. Itall into small balli, the size of a marble, and coat with paprika. Put, on ice or in a cold place till quite firm and set. Berve ench pat skewered on a cherry stick.
AUSTRALIAN
SOUFFLES
Hot Savory Souffles
Fish Souffle
Ingredients: 1 gill white sauce, 2 eggs, salt and cayenne, squeeze of lemon Julee, some white cooked fish, about i eunful
Method: Remove bones and skin from the fish and break it up finely. Make a thick sauce by melting 1 dessertspoon butter in saucepan, add 1 dessertspoon of flour. mix well, then add I gill milk. Cook well for 3 minutes then add beaten egg yolks slowly, heating well all the me; Stir over fre for 1 minute without bolling, add the fish, and when fairly cool, fold in the stiffly-beaten whites. and Pour into prepared mould cover steam, according to Instructions for hat about 30 minutes. Turn on to a dish, and send to table immediately with a suitable fish sauce such 03 oyster or anchovy sauce,
Cheese Souflé Ingredients: 24 tablespoons flour.
4ozs. 3 eggs, 14 pinta
dry milk, rated cheese, salt and cayenne.
Method: Beat yolks of eggs well, add a very little of the milk, and add the cheese to this. Mix the four to a of the smooth parle with a little milk, then neat the remainder of the milk. Stir the four moistened into the mixture is smooth and creamy and Gradually the flour quite cooked. add the egg and cheese mixture, slir- ring all the time. Cook without boil- ing until the cheese is fully melted. Romove from the fire and allow to cool Fold the stimy beaten whites of eggs into the mixture, Pound into a prepared mould and stand in a dish of hot water. Bake in a fairly hot oven. Serve immediately it is cooked,
For the very young take beads to thread, craft games to make, colour- ed bricks to build, and so on-not Children can discern good; bad, large dolls and stuffed animals to or indifferent intentions in an adult please your own eyes. For the next within five minutes of first meeting ige take such things as
the hot milk, and cook until niniature bore you to tears, but even the tough- supply of cool fruit drinks complete them. They know at once if you greenhouses with
go-to-the-cinema-once-a-week with large numbers of straws. are trying to impress, trying to "play packets of seeds which will grow, child will enjoy these games, so go young." or just tryist to keep them chemical outfits, needlework sets, ahead and get them organised. Read to Them quiet at any cost.
See that every child in the room child's heart is, treated fairly. There are always IF you are a week-end guest
some who will
front, push to the
How to Behave
WHEN YOU
etc.
The one way to a
tiny Dois and est
is to give it a gift that will supply but if you appeal to them they will nephews and nieces in bed, assist you may read to your are meeting interesting occupation for a long take it quite happily and you will with their bath if you are invited, children for the first time keep that in mind when you gull be popular. time, shake heads and say, "How do want to be a success. you do?" just as you would to an Give your present to the child If you are an uncle you may make and visit them with an carly morning adult. If you want to kiss thern, when you are alone or
just with just as much an idiot of yourself as apple if this is allowed. You must kisa either check head, and please the parents. Just put it casually you like in the way of dressing up not enter their rooms when they are do not expect them to kiss you down and say, "This is for you. I as long as it is part of a game that not there, look through their toy there's no reason why they should, hope you will like it. Don't insist the children may join in. If you are cupboards, or compare their be-
on having it opened then and here, a pretty young aunt, you may not haviour with that of other children. Dún't gush over them ar take
For some strange reason children Perhaps you remember how em- don't like seeing mothers and aunts you know. personal, Battering remarks about barrassing it is to have them in front of others. Don't say parcels in public and express
open
Im looking hideous or doing silly things. how big they are, or
mall mediate and suitable thanks-well, bear and carry the children around with a child you would not do will they are, any of those foolish chiki can feel embarrassed too.
how
remarks which many adults consider
are correct in front of the very Points about Playing young. Trest them as you would
your dearest friend,
10
An uncle may be a wild and woolly
on his back; an aunt may not.
A final hint: Say and do nothing
a new adult acquaintones, and do please try to talk to them and not at them. It is safer to ignore a child than to gush over it, and it is best upon
times, to to be truthful of all
even help to advise over party over your own oge if you are asked
these it.
COME time or other you will
be called upon
Tips about Food
to
play
If you are called
If the child is shy, put it at its with children. There are two points food and drinks, remember ease at once by asking it to do some here. First, children are very con- small job for you, such as show_you_ventional-and-old-fashioned about where to leave your hat or lake you games; second, they have a sense of to see the nursery." You needn't fair play so highly developed that no chatter sill the time, as children don't adult can possibly understand its im mind silences at all-in fact, they portance. Also their sense of humour prefer them to incessant small tallt. is entirely different from ours..
You anay flatter a child when you' All old favourites such as musical are alone with it if your flattery is chairs, drop the, handkerchief, hide genuine and sensible, as the child and, seck, oranges and lemons never will like it. Remarks on a child's full to please children.
They may
SNACKS for Six O'clock
By Countess Morphy "Appetisers" for cocktail, or sherry parties should be light, dainty and very, tasty, and easy to handle. Here are a few suggestions for some qasily prepared. and novel tit- bits.
Anchovy Fingers
Parties
Salt Caraway Sticks
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Cream 2oz. of butter with the yolk of 2 eggs, add toz. of flour, 1 tablespoonful of warm water, a little less than oz. of yeast dissolved in Roll out some puff pastry very a little warm milk, ond, 1 heaped ten- thinly and cut in strips 214in. long spoonful of salt. Beat the mixture and just over in, wide. On each till smooth. Stand in a warm place put a strip of boned anchovy (in afl) for several hours till the mixture and roll the pastry tightly around has risen to double the original 11, damping the edges, so that the volume. Roll out thinly, cut into edges are firmly stuck together, strips, and roll into the shape of a Brush over with beaten yolk of egg thin pencil. Cut into 3in. lengths. and bake in a brisk oven till the Fat these on a buttered baking-sheet Rachelle Hudson, 20th-Century-. pastry is a light golden colour, and let stand again for 30 minutes..
Brush over with yolks of egg, sprinkle Fox Star, using Max Factor's
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Tunny Fish Sandwiches with salt and caraway seed and bake to a light golden colour in a moderate
This is a most tasty "open" oven.
aandwich. With a 1. cake-cut- ter, cut out thin rounds of bread. Spread with a layer of tunny sh worked into a paste with a little but
Paprica Biscuits
These are made in the same
ter and chopped capers. Decorate manner as the devilled biscuits, but
capers.
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with a neatly arranged pattern with small plain unflavoured bir-
cults, using paprika (the mild Hun garian variety) instead of : curry powder.
Cocktail Sausages
Mince some cooked ham, bath. Devilled Biscuits
fat and lean, mix' it.in a basin with
Butter lightly some small plein a small amount only of fine bread- cheese biscuits celery-flavoured bls. crumbs and very thick cold white cults are the best to use for this, sauce. Season highly with cayenne mprinkle with curry powder, and a pepper, shape into small sausages little salt and cook in a little hot about 135In. long, coat with flour, butter, basting with the butter till beaten egg, and fine white bread- the blacuits are lighly browned. Put crumbs, and fry lightly in butter. on a piece of paper to drain, ond Let stand tili cold and skewer, each when cold arrange nently on a small 'with a cherry slick..
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There are still some who do not, and you may be amongst therr. Try the Odol way-just a few splashes of Odol, the famous liqui t antiseptic dentifrico, in a half tumblerful of water will thoroughly cleansa and purify the whole mouth, penetrating all cracks and crevices in and between the tooth, permeating the gums and lining membrane, and exerting ifs antisoplic and
·refreshing 'powers, not only during the few mo ments while being used, but for hours after. It is this tasting affact that gives to „Odolisors" the absoluto assurance that their mouths aro permanently protected from tho bacteria and processes of fermentation
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Chicken Souffle Ingredients: 1 cups white meat of a chicken, minced finely, 1⁄2 cup butter, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, pinch cayen- ae. 1 cup white spuce, 2 CHES.
Methad: Pound the minced chic- ken and the butter together add salt, cayenne, and sauce, having the bowl standing in hot water while mixing Allow to cool, then stir in first the well-beaten yolks then the stifly beaten whites of eggs. Pour into a prepared souffle mould and bake for about 15 to 20 minutes. Serve 8813 Immediately with a well-flavoured -brown-or- tomato sauce,
-Spinach Souffic
This is an excellent method of serving left-over coolted spinach. To cach cupful of prepared cold spinach allow
CEK. Separate white and yolk, and beat separately. Stir yolks into the spinach, flavour with salt and pepper and stir over the fire until the yolk is cooked. Allow to cool, then fold in the stifly beaten whites. Pour into individus) moulds, bait Aling them. Stand in 趕 dish of water and bake in a fairly quick oven 10 minutes. Serve at once.
Children's Colds.
How to Avold Complications. Simple colds, If neglected, quickly lead to serious troubles. At this time of year, cepecially, wise mothers watch their children carefully for the first signs of a cold, and prompt measures for relief generally avert any serious developments.
A safe and effective remedy which mothers should have always at hand is Baby's Own Tablets, for a mild laxative gently to cleanse the intes- ines is the Arst step to take in correcting a cold.
on eminent the tablets contain no oplate, narcotic or other harmful drug; they are pleasant in taste, which eliminates the fuss 80 often associated with administering medi- cine to children.
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