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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.
FESTIVE FARE The answer
Now's The Time To Plan Christmas Menus
OR many years the tradi- AN artificial Christmas tree, makes a most attractive Anish to the tional Christmas dish has
Yuletide coke, Before adding de- been roast or boiled turkey; corations of this kind, however, be stuffed with sausage mest and sure, to let the feing set quito Armly, garnished with sausages. In or the ornament will sink in and olden days, this was known by spoil the effect. the picturesque name of "Alder- man in Chains."
lb, shredded suct. lb. Barbadoce sugar, flb, stoned raisins,
fib. currants,
lb, sultanas,
ib, stoned dates.
Goz.
1 ficly grated carrot. Goz. blanched almonds.
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. Grated rind and juice of 1 orange,
3 tablespoonfuls treacle or syrup. 5-8 eggs (less may be tired).
nutmeg.
34 teaspoonful salt.
gillum or brandy (optional),
I teaspoonful mixed spice.
is
an
an apple
-whether it's a sweet, a souffle,
jam or even wine you want
It
Make a purce froin a pound and
taste with lemon juice and sugar. Sumly whip the whites of three
serve pastry
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T. E. Pearce, Esq.. Chairman.
When making king, one of the
About a pint milk to me to a soft AT the moment, the cook to advantage and make a souffle of most usual faults is to get to conslatency.
ing apple seems to pre- moist. It must be stiff enough to keep its own shape when a little is Prepare the ingredients the day sent more problems than a half of apples, and flavour it to To-day, many alternatives, in dropped from a spoon, otherwise it before the mixture is to be cooked, anything else.. the shape of goose, pheasant, will be found impossible to form any Clean the fruit, stone the raisins, There is, for instance, the eggs, and stir this lightly into the duck, or a large roasting chicken effective designs with the old of the chop dates and peel, blanch almonds question of the stewed apple puree.
This point in also and cut up raisins. Put all the dry
Put into a souffle dish, and bake are, of course, available to the leng pump.
essential to bear in mind it coloured ingredients into a basin. Add grat- which dissolves into froth be- housewife who is only catering leing is to be put on to the white ed carrot, Bavourings, etc. Beat the hind one's back. This worries for twenty minutes, Sprinkle with Reserve Liability of Proprietors $20,000.00 for a small family, but oven 80, foundation.
Cas well and add the treacle, lemon some people a great deal more caster sugar, and turkey is still first favourite;
and orange juice, together with than it worries me, because fingers with the souffle. brandy and milk, and mix thorough some of the best-flavoured cook- Boiled for jam the only change from year to about a fortnight herec when. I ly. (If the trencle, Is
very firm. year being the choice of differ- must be taken out and iced.
sibld naturé. For those who have not yet made Warm It in a saucepan to make it ing apples are of a highly collap ent "trimmings," including stuf.
their enites here are two excellent soft.)
A double saucepan is the best fings, sauces, and garnishes.
recipes:
the mixture into greased basins, and steam for 10 hours if utensil for cooking your apples possible. Then, when cold, store in as unbrokenly as possible. a cool, dry place until required, and An excellent stuffing can be made
This is a plain cake made with re-steam-on the required day for Stewed. for a sweet with 1lb. of pork sausages cut in 14b. of flour, into which 6oz. of three hours. 1inch lengths, lightly browned in a little fat, and mixed with I table- rd and 4oz. of butter are rubbed. spoonful of chopped onion, 1 tea. Add anather b. of flour mixed with spoonful of mixed herbs, and 2 or 3 toonful of baking powder handfuls of bread, previously soaked of brown sugar.
Sausage Stuffing.
Old English Cake
1411. add
raising.
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Put
Moka Custard
an
Han, Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman,
J. K. Bausfeld, Esq. Q. Miskin, Esq. A, H. Compton, Esq. K. 5. Morrison, kes
AGENCIES AND DSANCIERS:
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Bombay Calcutta
HE problem of how to make! THE
apple jam with the least
steaming the fruit first. amount of boiling in best solved by Hon. Mr. B. H. Dodwell Hon. Mr. A. L. Shisks Canton
Peel and core the apples, cut them in slices, and steam them until tender.
a pound of apples which have been boil, stirring all the time until the peeled,
cored, and cut in halves or Jam sets when tested. quarters according to their size.
Then put them into the preserving some water in the bottom PUT Surve with sweet white sauES,
compartment of the pan and pan, allowing b. Demerara sugar. and the juice and grated rind of brandy sauce, or randy butter.
bring this to the boll. The busy housewife will find one Pul no water in the upper com- bait a lemon to such pound of
apples.
Bring to the boil, and continue to is mill or water and well pressed.
fuls of granulated sugar. Then add Stuff the bird with the mixture finely chopped dates, lb, of cur- or two cold sweets a great help dur-partment, but put in two tablespoon-
rants, and h of finely chopped ing the holiday season. before roosting and serve sur- mixed candled prel. Stir
withi three rounded with fried sausages wrap- maisten
whole ped in thin rashers of bacon.
braten up with a little over t pint
makes
execilent cold sweet. Sprinkle over them another two Soaked for wine in 11 Alternatively, satisage croquettes of milk. Pour the mixture
Bined
with paper and every pint of milk allow 21⁄2 to tablespoonfuls of sugar, close the lid tin make an appetising gornish for retust never
Pre
for about 21⁄2 hours or at Ettle 30%. of plain chocolate and 4 table down tightly, and take a look at the
Slice the apples without peeling mederate oven at first spoonfuls of strong coffee and 1 tea-apples after they have been cook-
ing for about half on hour. When spoonful of vanillä essence. Then in a slow oven.
Ocensional
should Blances
be or coring them, and put them given them from then onwards, and soak for a fortnight, allowing Tibs. Le apples to a gallon of water. Stir no exact time for cooking can stated because it will entirely de- them every day.
Then strain off the liquor and pend on the sort of apple used. They may need anything from un pour it on Demerora sugar in a tub, hour to an hour and a half. They allowing 3lbs. sugar to each gallon
of liquor. Stir well. should emerge quite unbrosten.
turkey. Sin the sausages, vlously browned in a little fat, and longer. mix with sufficient fine breadcrumbs
fat.
M
Baked for a souffle
PPLE WINE is # pleasant,
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W. 11. Lock, Esq.,
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In three days the liquor should be working well, when it can be poured into eask or far. Cork lightly until DIFFERENT way of dealing all sound of hissing has ceased. with the almost incurably Then bung down tightly. Keep H
ind thick white sauce for the mix- cold, put the cake away in a tim
Break up the sticks of chocolate ture to be arm. When cold, shape until it is time to fee it.
and dissolve them in the coffee, stir- into small balls or work-shupes, rol Here is another traditional Eng- ring till quite smooth. Add this, in flour, coat with yolk of eng and Hish Christmas cake, easily made with the vanilla flavouring, to some breadcrumbs, and fry to fight with self-raising flour. The quan custard ready mixed, and stir til golden colour in a deep pan of hot tities given will make about 7. slightly thick. Let stand till cold,
Beat 1. of butter to cream and serve in custard glasses. If mast chicken is to be the prin- with 11. of sugar. unct add 8
Another good custard sweet is a time, beating continuously. cipal dish on Christmas Day, It is a une at
Viennese Pudding good plan to serve with it an un- Then add 21b, self-raising flour, 11.
of sultanas, 14lb. of currants, Snusage fritters በኋ the bili chopped dates, and 416, of finely Put oz. of breadcrumbs in a basin, excellently. They are rich enough to rhredded mixed candled peel gradu- with 112oz. of sweet almonds, finely frothy apple is to turn its frothiness for drinking next sumuner. add flavour to the main dish, and, ally, and moisten with a little milk chopped, the grated rind of 1 lemon, being fairly substantial, will help to and brandy (optional) till the right and 2oz. of sulianas. Mix well, The Upward Treni make a small bird go a long way. consistency. Put the mixture at molsten with a little sherry
Hair, at the mo-" To use them, prick and fry the race into a greased tin and bake for Madelen (or fruit juice, as a sub- sausages, cut into small pieces and about 214 hours in a moderate oven, stitute), and cover with 1 pint of meny is brushed dip a spoonful at a time in good If you are wanting an extra good custard. frying batter and try in a deep pan Christmas pudding, this is the recipe
usual accessory.
of hot fat. Drain thoroughly before to use: serving.
With less than a month to Christ- mas Day, it is quite time the Christmas esaltes Why made and stored away to await the day-
Christmas Pudding
lb. self-raising flour.
b. breaderuniks.
New Hats And
STY
QTYLES for hats and for hulr cannot be divided from each other these days. Both are equally important. There is a great revival of elaborately designed and elaborately trimmed hats of a kind we have not seen or
DANCE
of
up straight from Decorate a buttered mould with the neck to form al
of curis on candied orange peel, cut in strips, p
the top of the and pour in the mixture. Steam the head. It is brush padding for about 13 hours, turn
ed up from the out, let stand till quite cold, and
cars and forehead serve with custard Bauce poured over it.
too, to form more curls on the crown. These curls are soft, and cunningly arrang- ed, and the hair, apart from them, is almost entirely unwaved, simply brushed up.....sleck-
This hair style is perfect for those saucy even- ing head-dresses favoured just now. It is ideal with small, tightly curl- ed ed ostrich-feather
Hair Styles
the
in equally sultable
for
little new, peri Edwardian hols the tilted
over
brow and bedeck- ed with more fea- thers in the now
to
fashion a ble
mode of thirty
years ago.
The other day, for Instance,
I
saw two flat. sau- cer-like hats, tilt-
ed over the brow. which
imp 13 "asked". to
this hairstyle.
One head and cars, they are quite a sound worn with was in fine nigger straw, with a big plan for those of us who have to do matching ostrich feather set ot, the with a fortnightly shampoo and set. side and falling softly over the front They give the Edwardian look, and of the brim. The other, in black, they can be combined with curls or a had two jade green ostrich tips in roll round the neck where the hair, front
whatever fashion says, has an instinct for settling and saying put.
The practicality of this up-stand- ing hair style depends, too, very
Page boy styles, after rather an much on the kind of hair you have. eclipse, have come to the fore again --Some kinds will stay put, with care by the Duchess of Kent's adoption of ful-night-time pinning and cautious this long bob with the hair ends curl- curl-by-curl combing, for days. ed inwards. With others, one evening sees the
heard of since Edwardian days. Take the newest hats, term of the triumph. tlling over our brows, poised airily among our curis, anchored in place by voluminous veils, and even by "Bangs" Are Back jewelled hatpins.
the
The Edwardian effect of high-piled hair, helped by curls and rolls above cars, is sometimes continued round the head by means of curls For more practical purposes gener- coming half-way up the head, a com- Have auch hats come along in obedience to the needs ally, there are modifications of this promise not beyond the ordinary wo- of new hair styles? Or do we feel compelled to live up style. The hair can be brushed up man's scope, and one which stresses to our hots by trying new tricks with curls and waves? Into a roll across the crown of the the very important upward move. head. Then, **bargs"** are back, ment of the hair round the cars. Impossible to say, but there it is.
The shops are full of Formed of fairly large curis pinned This upward trend generally is well new kinds of hats, and our hairdressers are recommend invisibly in place above the fore served by the season's hats, which ing us new hair styles,
: head and drawn upwards from fore have acquired a plate-like flatness.
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