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LTHOUGH there are excellent and reliable brands of mincomeat to be bought ready made in the shops, some home-makers like to pre- pare a small quantity so that they can proudly claim to have made it themselves, along with the plum puddings and other festive faro.
I am giving to-day various mince- meat recipes which include econo- mieni mixtures, as well as one for vegetarians.
First, a tried and trusty recipe for a rich, spicy mincement.
Ingredients are: llb. shredded Duct, 11b. currants, washed and plcked over, 11b. necdiess or stoned and quartered raising, lib. sharp apples, lb. candled peel, llb. sul- tanas, llb. granulated sugar, two lemons, 1 saltapoonful salt, i tea- spoonful ground cloves, à tea- spoonful of mixed spice, 3oz. glacé cherries, 2oz. blanched and chopped almonds, a wineglassful of brandy.
Peel, core and chop the apples, quar. ter the raisins, grate the lenon rind and strain the juice, cat the cherries Into quarters, and blanch and chop the almozida,
Mix all the ingredients together, then add the brandy and stir well
Press into glass jars cover closely. and store in a cool, dry place for one month before using.
Economical Mixture
If you are wanting a more econ. elenl recipe, here it is,
Ingredients: 1lb. apples, ib. atiredded suet, lb. currants, washed and picked. 116. maistas, atoned if necessary, and chopped, b. sultanas, doz. shredded mixed candled peel, jib, sugar, the rind and juice of a lemon, Joz. grated carrot, teasp, each of ground cinnin mon, clover and nutmeg. 1 tablesp. of gånger wine, 1 anitap, of salt.
Mix all the ingredienta well together, press closely into jara, make airtiglil, and store in a cool, dry place.
Good Keeper
Mlacement to so good that it in calen throughout the year instead of being kept as a Christmas speciality. This recipe will keep well.
Ingredients: 71b, cooking apples, 3lb. shredded sunt. lb. Demerara sugar. 10, chopped raisins, 1lb. washed cur- rants, Goz candled poel, 2oz. gincé cherries, 2oz. blanched almonds, a good pinch of salt. 1 teasp, of ground cinna ACT, } tCasp. grated nutinek. i tens. each of ground cloves and mixed spice, 3 tablespa, of brandy.
Hanch and chop the nuts, add the cored and chopped apples, and minced peel, atir in the shredded suet. then add the remaining ingredients. Lastly stir in the brandy. Press intu
The Tyranny
Of New Things
T
HERE is always a sense of ex- hilaration about acquiring some-
thing new, but very soon this plen- still greater seasc sure gives way to
of anxiety, If the new possession is our own, or of exasperation if it be- lengs to someone else.
A new suite comes into the house, With what watchful care does the owner regard it, ever on the look- out for the smallest sign of misuse!! "Look isn't that annoying? A scratch on the sideboard already, and a hot-water mark on the table.! Surely with new things people might be more careful!"
With new things-yes, that is the rub. As long as we remember that the things are new they give us little pleasure.
"For goodness' sake be careful with your coffee. There are two stains already on the arm 1 of new chair." "If you burn a my new chintzes with that cigarelte, I'll never forgive you-and just lool: at the nsh you've dropped on the new carpet!"
that in
hote
This sort of thing is all right with the family, but when a visitor, re- clining very much at ease, crumples the new cushions Into a thousand creases one must hold one's peace,! while thoughts far from friendly seethe in one's head.
If, shortly after the new dinner- service or lea-set arrives, a plate orị saucer is broken or a cup cracked, desolation descends on the owner. "It simply spoils the whole set," she says, and all pleasure in the new pos- session is spolled with it..
Afraid of the Weather ...
Similarly with a new dress, new shoes, and a new bat. We look at our new hat and say, "I hardly like to wear it to-day, it looks so like rain" so on goes the old hat to our Jaler mortification. Or if we decide to risk it and a few drops of raiu do descend on the new head-gear the skies might just us well have fullen while they were about it.
Yes, it
it is delightful
to acquire something new, but the fact is that few of us find any real enjoyment in until the precious artlele ceases to
it,
be new. Or, as a shrewd young
they
friend expressed it, "New things are no good to you if you forget that they are new."
Men long
ngo
discovered the decep- tion of the new possession. Not only for reasons of greater comfort do prefer the battered hat and the shapeless Jacket. They know by ex- perience gained from their mothers, and daughters, tho awful tyranny of new things. It la women who guard new possesalons as if they werd treasures. To BOMO women spois, stains, and scratches. bring lamentation and woe.
Let us
Wives,
us acquire as many new things! as we can afford, but let us enjoy them
without this constant pre- occupation. Let us remember that wear and tear on furniture or on a garment is much less serious than wear and tear on our nerves. Let us forget on soon as possible that a: new possession is really new.
F. A. C.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MINCEMEAT
COOKING
CHRISTMAS,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,
Rich and Spicy
By Mrs. BARDELL
Mix woll to blend the various flavours bofore prossing into jars.
pats and seal. To ensure keeping. slore the mincement in a cool, dry place.
For Vegetarians
There's no reason why vegetariana ahould be deprived of the spley favour of mincemeat. Here is a recipe speci- ally for them.
Ingredients: 1lb. appics,
zib. curranta, lib, raisina, lib. butter, melted, 4oz. shredded candied peel, 2 Icthons, 2 orangea, toz chopped prunes, 40%. chopped figs, lb. caster sugar, 2 grated carrots, teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and mace, i plat brandy and 1oz, chopped auts. Pare, core and chop the apples
finely, add the washed and dried currants, chopped raisins, chopped pranes and figs, finely shredded can- died peel, a pinch of salt.
Add the grated rinds and the juice of the lemons and the juice only of the oranges,
shredded suet Joz. ground almonds, jozi mixed spice, half a nutmeg grated, the juice of one lemon and two oranges.
Mix all the ingredients well together and use the next day.
Refreshing Lemon
This mincemeat has a refreshing lemon Blavour which makes it popular with many folk.
Ingredients: lib, apples, lb. shredded suet lib. currants, lb. Bugar. Joz. citron peel, 2oz. candled peel, oz. awcet aimonds, four lemons, sultanas. teaspoonful mixed spice, half a nutmeg, grated, one tablespoon- ful of brandy.
40%.
Pard the lemons, squeeze out the juice, boll the rinds untu tender then rub througli o hair sieve.
Add the finely chopped apples, lemon Juice, shredded suct, sugar, currants. citron peel and candled pert, finely shredded, spice, sultanas, nuts and a pinch of salt.
Blir in the brandy and mix well with a large wooden spoon. Press into jars and seal tightly,
Varying the Flavour
There are other ways of varying the flavour of mincemeat if you like some- thing different.
Try adding a little extra ground cloves, for instance, er nutmeg. Ma.co is an excellent flavouring, but few people use it.
Stir in the grated carrot. Forest Fires Inexpensive
sugar, salt. spices and chopped nuts.
Mix well, then stir in the melted Press into pots butter and brandy. and seal as for jam.
Hasty Recipe
Now for a mincemeat which can be made the day before required.
Ingredients: lb. each of minced apples, chopped raisins, currants. sultanas, mixed
and pect, sugar
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In the rich and elegant manner of the era of chandellers, Monet has designed chandeller jewelry worn above with a strapless evening gown, dellcately face-topped. Reminiscent of the era too, is the coiffure with 'curls piled high on the head.
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Fantasies Of
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nro gelting far less simple, and some of the shoes aeen at the collections looked almost Incredible. Mannequins in one of the Paris houses the other day were
about with hobbling
a Alightly worried air, in shoes which looked Bke clogs, with soles three inches thick and heels nearly six inches from the ground.
Everybody was surprised at the sight of evening dresses which could literally be turned Inside out by un- doing a string, reversing a coloured over-dress to show its dark lining, and re-tying the string at the back, then doing the same with a kind of over-bodies. So
mannequin entered the room wearing a flowered crepe gown, and left it, in deepest black.
Should this iden be popular 11 would set men a problem for, if a woman can enter a ballroom wear- ing n frock in one colour, and leave it in a dress of totally different colour, her escort is kely to have some difficulty in recognising her. Net Victorian Bonnets
After seeing Victorian bonnets in net for evening wear, Red beneath the chin with good old-fashioned airings, nothing much can surprise me, not even those evening dresses with top cut just like old-fashioned eatin stays, complete with frills, and day frocks with the figures 1830 en- crusted on the collars, thus dating
them for ever.
Pink finger-tips on black gloves, look strange, and strike a new note. The lace industry is jubilant be- cause dressmakers are using thou- anda of yards of real Isce, and the artinetal flower
trade is hoping that the enormous bouquets used on suits and evening dresses alike will bring them prosperity in the coming season. Jackels and suits are shorter, skirts are very short and slim in line, and
almost imperceptibly widened. Many
aon.
belts are dyed to match the suit, and they are slightly wider than last sen- Slitches are varled, but always firm and non-stretch; the effects of woven cloques are amazingly weave. like in appearance.
Two-piece suits are stressed for every occasion: a full-length two- piece cocktail dress of dull silk-knit is perfect for cool evening.
Interest is being given to the backs f dresses and Jackets, and
and consider- abic attention is paid to encrusted work. Embroidery makes its appear
the once In
form of lacquered collars and pockets. applications upon
small black ensemble seen has and a small an original embroidered design of umbrellas side of the skirt. This is carried out and raindrops upon the
in shiny thread, while the umbrella motifs which form pockets upon the Jacket are appliqued with American
cloth.
Youthful Styles
When a frock is said to be "youth- ful it means that it gives the wearer
the appearance of youth. It means
the same sort of thing that is to be by youthful colouring, so
fister med
often
of the beauty parlourg "ew methods
No more Battering thing can be said of the woman who has passed the years of youth than that her gown, her costume, her hat make her #look so young." At the same time the mature woman is not to be taken in by the youthful frock when she [cols" that It is meant for the young Birl.
Youth may wear accentuated lines with far more composure than her more adult sister. The skirt may be shorter, there may be more pleats, there may be mod gathers, For the figure of youth is one to which the mode is readily
youth adopted, and need not adopt herself to the mode. If a anug hipline is the rule, a girl It may accentuate this line; while one of older years must guard against, possibility of betraying a contour that confirms her years: In every detail of ine youth applies the literal rules of dressing and destin
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Space Saving
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THE problem of space saving in a
small one-room flat has been solved by a London house designer who has combined radio, telephone, writing desk, and table lamp all in one piece of furniture which folds neatly against the wall when not in
usc.
The telephone is not quite tucked away. The designer claims that it is sumelently attractive to be featured as part of the furniture, so it stands half concealed on a litle ledge at "talking
level."
A novel idea is that pulling out this "telephone ledge” preparatory to using the phone automatically swil- thes off the radio, and (if one wishes). turns on the table lamp. Inciden tally, the telephone employed is one of the new type with a small writing pad built in to the base.
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