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LTHOUGH there are excellent and reliable brands of mincemeat to be bought ready mado 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 fare....
I am giving to-day various mince- meat recipes which include econo- mical mixtures as well as vegetariaris,
one
for
First, a tried and trusty recipe. for a rich, spley mincemeat.
Ingredients are: 1lb. shredded Huet, lib. currants, washed and picked over, 1lb. seedless or stoned and quartered raisins, llb. sharp apples. b. candled peel, 116. sul- tanas. lib. granulated sugar, two lemons, 1 saltspoonful salt, ten- spoonful ground cloves, tea- spoonful of mixed splee, 30%, glacé cherries, 2oz. blanched and chopped almonds, a wineglassful of brandy.
Peel, core and chop the apples, quar, ter the raisins, grate the lemon rind nud strain the juice, cut the cherries tato quarters, and blanch and chop the almonds.
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 *con-
ical recipe, here it is.
Ingredients: 115. apples, lib. shredded suct, alb. currants, washed and picked, fib. raisins, stoned if necessary, and chopped, lb, sultanas, 4oz. shredded mixed candled peel, jib, sugar, the rind and juice of a lemon, Goz. gmted carrot, teasp, each of ground cinna mon, cloves and nutmeg, I tables, of ginger wine, i saliep. of salt.
Mix all the ingredients well together, press closely into jars, make airtight, and store in a cool, dry place.
Good Keeper
Muicemeat is so good that it is caten throughout the year instead of belug kept as n Christmas speciality. This recipe will keep well,
Ingredients: Jib. cooking apples, lb. shredded suct, 1b. Demerara sugar, 1b, chopped raišins, lib. washed eur- rants, Goz. candied peel, Zoz glacé cherries, 2oz. blanched almonds, a good pinch of salt, 1 teasp, of ground cinna montenap, grated nutmeg, à teasp. each of ground cloves and mixed spice, 3 tableaps of brandy.
Blanch and chop the mata, adil the cored and chopped apples, and minced peel, stir in the shredded suet, then add the remaining ingredients. Lastly stir in the brandy. Press inta
The Tyranny
Of New Things
THERE is always a sense of ex- hilaration about acquiring some- thing new, but very soon this plea- sure gives way to a still greater sense 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 walchful care does the owner regard it, ever on the look- out for the smallest sign of misuse!
isn't that annoying? scratch on the sideboard already, ani 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 Bile pleasure. "For goodness' sake careful with your coffee. There are two stains already on the arm of that new choir." "If you burn a hole in my new chintzes with that cigarette, I'll never forgive you-and just look | at the ash you've dropped on the new carpet!"
This sort of thing is all right with the family, but when a visitor, re- clining very much at case, crumples the new cushions into a thousand - creases one must hold one's peace, whlic thoughts far from friendly seethe in one's head.
If, shortly after the new dinner- service or fen-set arrives, a plate or saucer is broken or a cup cracked, desolation descends on the owner. "It simply spoils the whole sei," she says, and all pleasure in the new pos- session is spoiled with 1.
Afraid of the Weather
Similarly with a new dress, new shoes, and a new hat. 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 Ister mortification. Or if we decide to risk and a few drops of rain do descend on the new head-gear the skics might
Ight just as well have fallen while they were about it..
Yes, it Is delightful to
to acquire something new, but the fact is that few of
And
any real enjoyment in it, until the precious article ceases to да a shrewd young friend expressed it. "New things are no good to o you till you forget that
be now. Or,
they are new."
Men long ago discovered the decep tion of the new possession. Not only for reasons of greater comfort do they prefer the battered hat and the shopeless jacket. They know by ex- perience gained from their smothers, wives, and daughters, the
awtui
tyranny of new things. It is women
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MINCEMEAT
CHRISTMAS
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988.
Rich and Spicy
By Mrs. BARDELL
Mix well to blend the various flavours before prossing into jars.
pats and seal. To ensure keeping. store the mincemeat in a cool, dry place.
For Vegetarians
There's no reason why vegetariana should be deprived of the spley favour of mincement. Here is a recipe speci ally for them.
Ingredients: jlb. apples, 21b, currants, 1b. raisins, fib, bulter, melted, 4oz. shredded candied peol, 2 lemons, 2 oranges, 4oz. chopped prunes, 4oz. chopped figs, ib, caster sugar, 2 grated carrots, teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and mace, pint brandy and soz, chopped nuta Pare, core and chop the apples
anely, add the washed and dried currants, chopped raisina, chopped prunes and figs, finely shredded can- died peel, a pinch of salt.
Add the grated rinds and the juice of the lemorts and the Julce only of the oranges. Stir in the grated carrot. sugar, salt, spices and chopped nuts,
Mix well, then stir in the melted butter and brandy. Press into pots and acal as for jam.
Hasty Recipe
Now for a mincemeat which can be made the day before required.
Ingredients: 1b. each of minced apples, chopped raisins, currants. sultanas, mixed peel.. sugar and
shredded Buet. 3oz. ground almonds, joz. mixed spice, half a nutmeg grated, the juice of one lemon and two oranges.
Mix all the ingredients well together nd use the next day.
Refreshing Lemon
This mincemeat has a refreshing lemon flavour which makes it popular with many folk.
Ingredients: 11b, apples, ilb. shredded Buck, 1lb. currants, lb. sugar. 3oz. eltron peel, 2oz. candied peel, 3oz. sweet almonds, four lemons, 40% sultanas, teaspoonful mixed aplce, half a nutmeg, grated, one tablespoon- ful of brandy,
Pare the lemons, squeeze out the Julce, boll the rinds untii tender then rub through a hair aleve.
Add the finely chopped apples, lemon Jutco, shreddedi auct, sugar, currants, ettron peel and candied peel, finely .shredded, spice, sultanas, nuts and a
pinch of sait.
Stir 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 He extra ground claves, for instance, or nutmeg. Maco is an excellent flavouring, but few people use it.
Fantasies Of
Fashion
LOTHES яго getting
far
less
simple, and some of the shoes seen at the collections looked almost incredible. Mannequins in one of the Paris houses the other day were
about with a hobbling
slightly warried air, in shoes which looked three inches like clogs, with soles thick and heels nearly six inches from the ground.
Everybody was surprised at the eight of
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-bodico. So the mannequin entered the room wearing a flowered crepe gown, and left it, in deepest black.
Should this idea be popular it would set men a problem for, if a woman can enter a ballroom wear- ing a frock in one colour, and leave it in a dress of a totally different colour, her escort is licely to have some dificulty in recognising her. Net Victorian Bonnets
After seeing. Victorian bonnets In net for evening wear, tled beneath the chin with good old-fashioned strings, nothing much can surprise me, not even those evening dresses with top cut just Ilke old-fashioned entin stays, complete with frills, and day frocks with the figures 1938 en- crunted on the collars, thus duting them for ever.
Pink finger-tips on black gloves, look strange, and strike a new note. The lace industry is jubliant be- Cause dressmakers are using thou- sands of yards of real lace, and the artlacial flower trade is hoping that
the enormous bouquets used on sults and evening dresses alike will bring them prosperity in the coming season.
Jackets and sults are shorter, skirts
are very "short and slim in Hae, and almost imperceptibly widened. Many belts are dyed to match the sult, and they are slightly wider than last sea-
son.
Stitches are varied, but always firm and non-stretch; the effect of woven cloques are amazingly weave- like in appearance.
Two-piece sults are stressed for every occasion; a full-length two- piece cocktail dress of dull silk-knit fa perfect for a cool evening.
Interest
rest is being given to the backs ent dresses and jackets, and consider-
Forest Fires Inexpensive able attention is paid to encrusted
work. Embroidery makes its
appear- In the form of lacquered and pockets, applications upon collars and a small black ensemble seen has an original embroidered design of umbrellas and raindrops upon the side of the skirt. This is carried out in shiny thread, while the umbrella motifs which form pockets upon the Jacket are appliqued with American cloth.
face Boise City, Idn. The Idaho National Forest service reports forest fires exceedingly cheap this year. Since Jan. 1, there liave been 20 forest fires which destroyed 10.42 acres entailing a loss of $0.40 inereby establishing a rate of 47 cents per fire.
Seven of the fires were caused by lightning.
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In the rich and elegant manner of the era of chandeliers, Monet has designed chandelier jewelry worn above with a strapless evening gown, delicately lace-topped. Reminiscent of the era too, is the coiffure with curls piled high on the head.
who guard new possessions as if they $1 TIFFINS
were treasures. To some women stains, and scratcher
tion and woe.
bring
now, things
Let us acquire as many now.
ta we can afford, but let us enjoy them without this constant pre- bccupation. Let us remember that| wear and tear on furniture, or `on a "garment je much less `seriour than wear and tear on our perver Let (un "forgot" da soon as possible that a, -new-possession is really new,
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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 interpreted by youthful colouring, so often proclaimed by the new methods of the beauty parlours.
No more flattering thing can be said of the woman who has passed the years of youth than that her gown, her costume, her het make her "look so young." At the same time the mature woman is not to be taken in by the youthful frock when she feels that it is meant for the young
1-6outh may wear accentuated lines
with far more compasure than her more adult sistor. The skirt may be shorter, there may be more pleats, there may be mode gathers. For the figure of youth is one to which the mode in readily adopted, and youth need not adopt herself to the mode. If a snug hipline is the rule, a girl may accentuate this line; while one of older years must guard against the possibility of betraying a contour that confirms her years. In every detail of line youth applies the Ilteral rules of dressing and design.
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Space Saving
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
use.
The telephone is not quite tucked away. The designer claims that it is sufficiently attractive to be featured as part of the furniture, so it stands half concealed on a little ledge at "talking level."
A novel Idea is that pulling out this "telephone_ledge" preparatory to using the phone automatically awit- ches off the radio, and (if one wishes) turns on the table lamp. Inelden- tally, the telephone employed is one of the new type with small writing pad built in to the base,
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