1938-11-28

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.

FESTIVE FARE The answer

Now's The Time To Plan Christmas Menus

man in Chains,"

N artificial Christmas tree, makes

of the

trep its own chape when a little is

lb, shredded suct. 24lb. Barbadocs sugar.

Tib, stoned raising,

lb, currants,

ib. sultan33.

410.

Goz. pret,

dutes.

finely grated carrot, Gu. blanched almonds.

Grated rint and juice of 1 lemon. Grated rind and juler of 1 orange. 3 tablespoonfuls treacle or ayrup. G-8 Cou

cupa fless may be used). nutmeg.

4 teaspoonful salt.

rum or brandy (optional). 1 teaspoonful mixed spice. About pint milk to mix to a soft

is an

an apple

-whether it's a sweet, a souffle,

jam or even wine you want

11.

FOR many years, the tradi- Aost attractive Baish to the Fional Christmas dish has led me dicfore adding de- been roast or boiled turkey, corations of this Itind, however, be stuffed with sausage meat anil sure to let the ieing set quite firmly, garnished, with Bausages. In or the ornament will sink in and

T the moment, the cook to advantage and make a souffle ol pldon days, this was known by poil the effeel.

When making lelast, one

ing apple seems to pre-

Make a puree from a pound and the picturesque name of "Aller- most ustial faults is to get 11 100 consistency.

moist. 1 must be stit enough to Prepare the ingredients the day sent more problems than a half of apples, and flavour it lo taste with lemon juice and sugor. Stly whip the whites of three There is, for instance, the eggs, and stir this lightly into the 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, duck, or a large roasting chicken effective designs with the aid of the chop dates and pert, blanch almonds question of the stewed apple puree.

also and cut up raisins. Put all the dry which dissolves into froth be Put into a souffle dish, and bake! ure, of course, available to the icing puinp. This point is

iring is to be put on to the white ed carrot, flavourings, etc. for a small family, but even 80, foundations. turkey is still first favourite; the only change from year to about a fortnight hence--when year being the choice of differ- must be taken out and leed.

For those who have not yet made Cnt "trimmings," including aluf-

their cakes here are two excellent soft.) inga, sauces, and garnishes.

reelpen!

PAINS

AFTER EATING

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Sausage Stuffing

Old English Cake

Beat the

sugar, and serve pastry

erks well and add the treacle, lemon some people a great deal more castor 12121 orange juice, together with than it worries me, because ugers with the souffle. brandy and milk, and mix thorough some of the best-flavoured cook-Boiled for jam

(if the tronete

Put the

mixture

very

into

firm.

sible nature. it in a saucepan to make itng apples are of a highly collap

A double saucepan is the best greased basins, and steam for 10 hours ir utensil for cooking your apples possible. Then, when cold, store in as unbrokenly as possible. a cool, dry place until required, and re-steam on the required day for Stewed for a sweet three hours.

white sanice,

An execlient stuffing can be made This is a plain cake made, with with 1lb. of pork sausages ut in

inch lengths, lightly browned in a 14b. of flour, into which Goz. of little fal, and mixed with 1 table- lard and doz. of butter are rubbed. spoonful of chopped onion, I tea- Add another b. of Bour mixed with spoonful of mixed herbs, and 2 or 3 une teaspoonful of taking powder brandy satter, or brandy butter.

raising.

in milk or water and well pressel.

serve

chit

Slir three whole

Then

well.

Serve with sweet

the least

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THE problem of how to make

apple Jam with

stesuming the fruit first. amount of boiling is best solved by Ilon. Mr. B. IL Dodwellton, Mr. A. L. Shields Canton

Peel and core the apples, cut them until in slices, and steam them fender.

Then put them into the preserving PUT some water in the bottom

compartment of the pan and Pan, allowing ib. Demerara sugar,

and the juice and grated bring this to the boil.

half a lemon to each pound of Put no water in the upper com-

The busy housewife will and one

fuls of granulated sugar. Then add two cold sweels a great help dur-partment, but put in two tablespoon apples.

the holiday season,

Moka Custard

makes an

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excellent

cold

sweet.

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pleasant,

Bring to the boil, and continue to

a pound of apples which have been boil, surring all the time until the neeled, cored, and cut in halves or Jum sets when tested. quarters according to their size.

Soaked for wine

APPLE WINE IS

JPOH JOHONE KODE

BRANCHES:--

handfuls of bread, previously soaked and lb, of brown sugar,

14. Stuff the bird with the mixture finely chopped dates, 1. of cur-

rants, and 1⁄4lb, of finely chopped in aur-

peel. candied mixed before roasting.

with rounded with fried sausages wrap makten

Sprinkle over them another two 1 pint beaten up with a Inte over ped in thin shers of bacon,

mixture in croquettes of milk. Pour the Alternatively, suusage

refreshing drink. make an appotining tarnish for ronst greased in line with paper and To every pint of milk allow 21% to tablespoonfuls of sugar, close the lid

apples after

after they have been cook-

See the apples without peeling Skin the sausages, pre- bake for about 24 hours or a little oz. of plain chocolate and 4 table down tightly, and take a look at the

them to KUALA LUMPUR viously browned in a inttle fut, and longer, in a muterate oven at frat spoonfuls ( sinulls contentea-ing for about half an hour.

When spoonful of vanilla esscue,

be or coring them, and put Occasional

should glances mix with sufficient the breadcrumbs and then in a slow oven.

Stir be apples to a gallon of water. Break up the sticks of chocolate given them from then onwards, and soak for a fortnight, allowing Tibs. and thiek white sauce for the mix- cold, put the cake away in

and dissolve them in the coffee, stir- no exact time for cooking enn ture to be firm. When cold, stiape until it is time to leg it.

smooth. Add this, stated because it will entirely de- them every day.

Then strain off the liquor and another traditional Eng- ring till quite into small balls or cork-shopen, roll in flour, coal with yolk of cat and fishs Christmas cake, easily made with the vanilla flavouring, to some pend on the sort of apple used.

tight with self-ruising flour. a breadcrumbs, and fry to

The quan- custard ready mixed, and stir til They may need anything from an pour it on Demerara sugar in a tub, golden colour in a deep pan of hot illes given will make about 71b. slightly thicit. Let stand till cold, hour to an hour and a half. They allowing 3lbs. sugar to each gallon

Iteat 1. of butter to

turkey.

Int.

the t121

Here

consistency. Put

the

mixture

custard sweet

Viennese Pudding

should emerge quite unbroken.

Baked for a souffle

Hair, at the mo-

of liquor. Stir well.

eream and serve in custard glasses.

In three days the liquor should be Another Rood eggs. If roast chicken is to be the prin- with 11h. of sugar, and add f

working well, when it can be poured into cask or jar. Cork lightly until eipal dish on Christmas Day, it is a one at a time, beating continuously.

ccased. goud plan to serve with it an un- Then add 2b, self-raising flour, 1ib.

DIFFERENT way of dealing all sound of hissing has of sultanas, 14b, of currants, 1b, of

with the almost incurably Then bung down tightly. Keep it usunt accessory,

bill chopped dates, and b, of finely Put Boz. of breadcrumbs in a basin fritters Sausage excellently. They are rich enough to shredded mixed candied peel gracht with 12507, of sweet almonds, incly frothy apple is to turn its frothiness for drinking next summer. add favour 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 sultanas. Mix well, The Upward Trenc

G/T moisten with a little sherry make a small bird go a long way.

Tu make them, prick and fry the once into a greased tin and bake for Madeira (or fruit julee, as a sub-

cut into small picers and about 2 hours in a moderate oven, stitute), and cover with 1 pint of ment is brushed up straight from smasages.

If you are wanting an extra good custard. dip a spoonful at a time in good

Decorate a buttered mould with the neck to form a.

on frying batter and fry in a deep pan Christmas pudding, this is the recipe

of curls candled orange peel, cut in strips, Drain thoroughly before to use:

the Lop of the of hot ful

and pour in the mixture. Steam the head. It is brush- serving.

pudding for about 14 hours, turn

from the up out, let stand til quite cold, and

with custard serve

sauce poured cars and forehead 100, to form more over it.

curls

With less this a month to Christ- mis Day, it is quite time the and cake

mudo Christmas stored away to await the day--

Wha

New Hats

Christmas Pudding

b. Kelf-raising four. M. breadcrumbs.

And

TYLES for hots and for har cannot be divided from each other these days. Both are equally important. There is a great revival of elaborately designed and Jaborately trimmed hats of a kind we have not seen or

DANCE

Hair Styles

cap

£d

and

the the These erowi. curls are soft, and cunningly arrang- ed, and the hair, apart from them, is almost entirely unwaved, sintply brushed up sleck-

This hair style

pericet

for

those saucy even- ing hend-dresses favoured just now. It is ideal with] small, tightly curl-1 cd ostrich-feather lips.

is equally suitable

for

per!

now, Edwardian

the

littlef

hats over the

inted brow and bedeck- ed with more fea-

thers in the now fashion a ble

mode of thirty years ago,

The other day, for instance, £ cow two flat sau- cer-like hats, Ult- ed over the brow, which

#mpls

"asited"

to be

worn with this hair style. One head and cars, they are quite a sound was in fine nigger straw, with a big plan for those of us who have to do matebing ostrich feather set at the with a fortnightly shampoo and net, side and falling softly over the front of the brim. The other, in black, had two jade green ostrich tips in front.

The practicality of this up-stand- ing hair style depends, too, very much on the kind of hair you have. Some kinds will stay put, with care- ful night-time pinning and cautious curl-by-curl combing, for duys. With others, one evening

heard of since Edwardian days. Take the newest hats, term of the triumph. tilling over our brows, polsed uirily among our curls, anchored in place by voluminous vells, and even by "Bangs" Are Back Jewelled hatpins.

RCCS the

They give the Edwardian look, and they can be combined with curls or a roll round the neck where the hair, whatever fashion says, has an instinct for settling and saying put.

Page boy styles, after rather an eclipse, have come to the fore again by the Duchess of Kent's adoption of hls long bob with the hair endy curl- ed inwards.

The Edwardian effect of high-plied hair, helped by curls and rolls above the ears, is sometimes continued round the head by means of curls For more practical purposes gener- coming' half-way up the head, a com- Have such hats come aleng 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 hats by trying new tricks with curls and wavest into a roll across the crown of the the very important upward move-

head. Then, "bangs" arc back, ment of the hair round Impossible to any, 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 rerved 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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