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Wednesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 21, 1938.
IT'S FANCY DRESS!
1! you liko original costumos copy Miss Superstition, She is
sure to create a stir of intorest of a fancy dress poil.
SUPPER
SWEETS
HETHER you're having a
W party of just a few friends
in for a quiet evening, these easy-to-eat sweets will be much appreciated.
Chocolate mould. for instance. 13 a sure favourite, especially if each guest has a small one minde is an individual fancy shape.
It is made with 1 pint milk, 2 table- spoonfuls coroflour, oz. sugar. Joz chocolate powder, or a grated penny bar, a few drops of vanilla essence,
Mix the cornflour and chocolate with
a little of the cold milk to form a smooth paste, boil the remainder of the milk with the sugar, add the cornflour mixture, and continue to boil and stir for two minutes
Btir in the vanilla essener, pour Into
a wet mould, and leave Lo set.
Turn
out and sprinkle with desiccated
coconut or chopped almonds.
These Should Win
a Prize
Says MARY GRACE
A young lady from Wales in her national dress will cause heads to turn.
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OTHERS дго driven nearly distracted at this time of year by, on one side, a small con who an- nouncea: "Mother I have to be a cowboy in the school piny." and on the other by ten-year-old Ann'a pleading tones: "I want to go na the Fairy Queca to Joan's purty."
FOODS
MEN
PREFER
OBSERVERS were asked recently
to note what business men in restaurants choose for their midday ment. The favourite dishes turned out to be roast beef and two vege- tables, fried fish and chips, and suct pudding.
Housewives, probably, will not be surprised at this result. Years of experience in "feeding the brute" have shown them that he distrusts Innovations. Give a man something "dashing" In the vegetarian line
Patterned for you to-day are four instead of the roast Joint he is ex- fancy dresses that you can make up pecting and he will demand. "What- at home. Let's take the Belishnever is this?" Then he will either Beacon Arst.
leave it or calt with an wir of The suit is composed of alternate martyrdom, necording to how badly, stripes of blick and white sateen ur
cotton fabric with orange headdress, or how well, he has The boy could carry a short thin up!
been brought
pole bound with red, green and am-1 Where some men are concerned it Ler fabric to represent traffic lights.
A red triangle, the thirty-miles-Is not
even necessary to produce
an-hour sign, as well as that indicat-something completely out of the
Ing a school, could be utilised.
ordinary to excite suspicion and dis-
A voile dress could be used for the approval. Messenger of Peace. Cut the bodice magyar shape and thread silver rib-
One has only to cook a familiar
bon down the front, crossing over to food a new way. For example, a tie at back.
wife who took a lot of trouble to Wings are made from thin silver
Imore tasty tissu from the sixpenny store, and make a piece of stealt wired at the edge. A coronet or than usual by adding a new sort of fver leaves mounted on cardboard forcemeat was asked by an ungrate for the hair and the word Peace em-fut husband, "Why on earth can't we broidered in silver thread down the'
have honest' meat?"
front.
Now to describe the two grown-up! Women Like a Change costumes. "Superstitions," is an ex-| cellent choice.
Women, on the whole, lake more
You require a dress of green salven Kindly to changes of diet. Forsaking with various superstitions cut out of the habits of our grandmothers, we silver or coloured paper.
are
For instance, it is supposed to be have grape frult, oranges, or bananas unlucky to see the new moon through at breakfast Ume, and turn a dis- twigs or
or through glass: crossed dainful eye on the man of the house ladders, cracked mirrors, consuming rashers of bacon and egg. unurky 19, binck cats, horseshoes.
some of the more common. For lunch or dinner we welcome Wear a close-fitting cap or bandeau French dishes of the omelette and with a reversed horseshoe or cres-souffle kind though we may not care cent moon in front,
to go to the trouble of preparing For the Welsh costume. An old them when
cal WC
at home, and shoulder shawl can be brought out generally we prefer light sweets. for this dress.
were
The frock is of dark woollent At a women's college the caterers fabric with full sleeves of white found that, even in winter, stewed urgandle or muslin. A large check-fruit, fruit tarts, jellies, and similar inore popular thun ed gingham apron is worn over it dishes Over the frilled white mob cap is steamed puddings of the Buet variety. the usual high-crowned black hät.
Steamed and haked sponge puddings, rice, and toploen were inoderately popular. Puddings of the brend variety nearly always "hung fire."
Tastes Agree
Care With LIPSTICK
Here it seems the tastes of the sexes for once agree. At one of the men's colleges at an English Univer- sily recently a one-night strike was PPLY your lipstick with care and held as a gesture of protest against
precision. One application of the too-frequent appearance the indelible variety should
be queen's pudding, sometimes called sufficient for a whole day provided it "queen of puddings." Among pud- is put on correctly in the first place. dings of lis kind it surely deserves
Pay
on account of its as much as you can for your the title, if only lipstick and give yourself an extra puffy gold-brown-and-white "rnor." minute or two for its application | But It appeals more to the eye, it when you are getting ready for your seems, than to the modern palate. daily round.
W. B.
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RECIPES
FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK
BEEF LOAF
lib. minced beef, 4lb. Jat bacon (minced), lb, breadcrumbs, 2 tomatoes, 1 cpp.
MIX
TIX Die ment and breadcrumbs well, skin and cut the tomatoes, mixture,
and add them to
moisten with the egg.
Put the mixture into a'stone jar! and steam for about two hours. Serve cold with salad.
CHEESE AND
PARSNIP SAVOURY
21b. parsnips, 14th. grated cheese, 1oz. butter or margarine, 2 cup. I teaspoonful mixed mustard.
PREPARE the parsnips, cut lato
small plece and boll in salted water unill iender. Drain and mash with the cheese and butter or mar- garine.
Lastly, add the eggs, well beaten. Buke in a buttered ple dish in a brisk oven until nicely browned.
This makes a tasty hot dish. If preferred, it can be eaten cold with salád,
One-Minute Hint
DIPECLAY and water made into
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Brother and sister go as Safety First and the
Messenger of Peace. Two popular and
topical figures.
SCHOOL
Honey Fillings Improving The
NUMBER of delicious Alings for sandwiches, spongecakes, and tarts can be made with honey as a basis. For example, it can be used with mashed banana, proportions as desired.
Honey and walnut sandwiches are a treat, particularly if malted bread Is used,
Spread the honey on first, chop the walnuts finely, and sprinkle them
over.
Honey mixed with ground almonds makes another good filling.
Ginger honey is particularly tasty in tarts and Victoria sandwiches. Add ten drops of essence of ginger an two ounces of chopped crystal- lised ginger to one pound of thick honey.
Those who find honey too sweet pasie will remove stains often like it better il a few drops of
Leave on for 24 lemon juice' are added. from wallpaper.
W. n. Joure and then brush of lolitly.
Colour Of Food
IE colour of rhubarb is Improved And the syrup sweeter and richer
if a few cubes of red jelly are added with the sugar.
A teaspoonful of lemon juice added to the cooking water improves the colour of bolled rice.
To make boiled white fish whiter, rub it over before cooking with a cut lemon.
To improve. the colour of enkes of the Madeira variety, add a dessert- spoonful of golden syrup to the creamed butter and sugar,
Add the same quantity of black treacle to Dundee and plum cake mixtures.
W. B.
Try a new
STUFFING for the
sausage - meat stuffing is the most popular
ALTHOUGH
one for turkey, there are many other tasty stuffings which make a pleasant change and are neither difficult to prepare nor expensive.
Chestnut Stuffing
TURKEY
little grated lemon rind, season with pepper, and bind with 1 or 2 enss.
Bread Stuffing
Use 4 or 5 good handfuls of soft bread, or mure, according to the size This is somewhat different from of the bird. Soak in milk for a few the usual one. Chop and mince 4lb. minutes, then break up the bread, of lean veal and Vib. of lean pork, put in a saucepan and, over a slow with the turkey liver, and brown fire, mix in a little white sauce.
about ht lightly in butter, with chopped mixed Then
Bot. of chopped herbs, pinch of nutmeg, salt and cooked ham, 2 or 3 chopped cooked Bind with 1 or 2 whole mushrooms (when available), 1 pepper.
ggs, mix thoroughly and remove small chopped cooked onton, 3 tea- from the fire. Then add about 2 spoonfuls of parsley, and seacon
salt and pepper. Stir dozen roasted chestnuts, peeled and with
to skinned. A good sauce serve simmer for about 10 minutes. with a turkey stuffed in this manner
Livor Stuffing
Is
Chestnut Sauce
and
1
This is much better made with Put 11⁄2lb. of chemuts in a sauce- lb. of chicken livers, but, as these pan, cover with cold water, and bring are not always obtainable, 1lb. of to the boit. Let them boil for 1 calves liver can be used instead. minute. Then peel and skin them, Chop or mince the liver and brown a saucepan with a small in butter, ndding 3 or 4 handfuls of put them atlek of shredded celery, 1 lump of bread previously soaked in milk or
or water and well squeezed. Add with stock and cover Buxar water. Bring to the boll and sim. tablespoonful of chopped onion, a mer il the chestnuts are tender, little parsley, and season highly with Then rub them through a sleve, put salt and pepper. them back in a saucepan, and thin this puree with a little boiling stock. oz. of Just before serving, add butter, divided in small pieces.
Chestnut-Bacon Stuffing
Stuffing a l'Expagnolo
Chop & or B pork sausagen, 1⁄2lb. of
(previously soaked
and prunes stoned), the same quantity of dried apricots (also soaked), Goz. of chop-
Cook lb. of peoled and skinned ped nuts, lib. of chestnuts, lb.. of
| chosinuts, as indicated In recipe for lean ham, and cook all in a little
Attractive Gifts
at the TREASURE SHIP
THE TREASURE SHIP has a wide selection of appropriate gifts which are sure to be greatly. appreciated. Let us help you.
JAEGER PRAM SETS HAND KNIT JACKETS CUDDLESOME TOYS
for wee ones
RATTLES & BEADS
OTTERBURN RUGS
LAN AIR-CELL BLANKETS CAIRN'S COSY BLANKETS
PLAY PEN RUGS SUNNY SMILE
BREAKFAST SETS MICKEY MOUSE
MEALTIME SETS SNOW WHITE BROOCHES HARRINGTON'S COODS
atc., atc.
THE TREASURE SHIP
At
3rd Flr. Pedder Bldg. (opp. H.K. Hotel). Tel. 34232
Christmas Time
For family and close friends.
a portrait of yourself or your children is the most personal -the most appreciated of all gifts.
Make an appointmont To-day
Tel. No. 24310.
THE MING YUEN STUDIO
chestnut anuce, rub them through a lard, seasoning with herbs, salt and sieve, and mix with 41b. of chopped pepper, and moistening with a wine-, Queen's Road C. (3rd Floor); opposite Dairy Farm's Fountain, Q'u Nd, C. cooked bacon, 2oz. of breadcrumbs, a glassful of sherry.
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