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CHOOSE A SMALL BIRD AND COOK IT THIS WAY
year.
ELECTION is extremely turkey or chicken at this time of important with any kind For this allow one pound of chest- of poultry, but to-day the nuts to a good-sized bird, and boil them thoroughly in their skins first. housewife's task is made Then plunge into cold water and considerably easier, as birds are leave for ten minutes. By that time the skins should Conic off qults carefully graded in all the big castly, including the brown, Abrous shops.
Staleness in turkeys or chlekens shown very little until actually on your plate.
Fine Skin
underskin.
Pound the chestnuts very finely. they are Bind the nuts with a little butter und either cream or eggs. Add salt, pepper, ami a tiny pinch of mustard to flavour, and fill the bird tightly. Your Christmas beef should be Choose birds of time skin-the ten days old; then it will be in real- colour is not so important as they perfect condition. Wing rib and fineness of the pores. Although sirlisin are the most popular joints.
The flesh should be bright red. white-skimmet birds are supposed
to be more tender, with good cook- if it is a very pale red it will be it is at all purple it is stole, and ing a yellow-skinned bird can come fourth.
to the mouth an fender as a peach. Wipe the Joint over with a wet
eaten hot-cold Turkey is best
cloth and then flour thoroughly will turkey having a tendency to last four in which you have inixed salt rather Bkc tough multon. Don't then, buy too large a bird. I'd pepper in your dredger."
Cook in a deep dish with a good safe to allow two
two to Liree
free sized knob of butter on top as well pounds of waste in reckoning your as any beef dripplus you may have. size of bird-an eight-pound turkey Buste all joints frequently unless for six people, a ten-pound turkey you are using a cover. for seven or eight people,
Serve with batter pudding and at The best possible way to cook least two vegetables. bath turkey and chicken is in a covered aluminium baking dish with ventilator top. You are then saved ali besting troubles, and need not touch the bird until half an hour before serving, when you dish or
the ventilator
wide.
and so on.
Vip your bird over with a clean cloth wrong out 131 Warni water.
Use small, neat wooden skewers to
Watch Your' Windows
festen up the stuffing, and be rather MANY modern houses have such
delightful broad window-stils
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UCH a rush I've had." The manageress of a dressmaking establish- ment sald to mo- whilst I was being fitted for a new dress.
"I'm going to be married on New Year's Eve. Wo've got the house, what about you giving a hand with the furnishing?" she whispered in her best wheedling Volce.
"Right," sald, "that's casy. You'll spend the afternoon at the Woman's Fair with mc. Every- thing you want you will find there under one roof.
"But mind," I said, as later on we "No fun and went into Olympia.
You can come . games this afternoon. back later with your young man and enjoy the fun of the fair, but to-day it's serious business.
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AB you are going to con- tinue your business for n time you want a house that will prnc- tically run itself, and there will be no better servant than electricity."
In the Pavillon devoted to electrical equipment we found all that was worth while in stoves and lighting, heating and labour-saving.
Wait a minute for colour schemes,"
I salt. First you want help about the workshop of the house, so let'a absorb. some of the detalls in the model health and cleanliness klichen." We then looked round for the howest Ideas in labour-saving. One of the nicest things about modern times and
edges of the volumés seen from out- side, they do not look their best.
In the kitchen, where the colour scheme is green and white, a white window sill with n tubby green vase kept filled with the cottage garden type of flower looks effective.
extravagant with the butter you use that they deserve to be well dressed. for busting.
Window sills lend a great deal of On this important occasion you should allow yourself from to character to a room if the house-
1b. of butter in which to cook the wife has taste and Ingerulty. bird. Melt the butter in a mall In a house seen recently every saucepan aux pour it over the bird room possessed its window ledge and just before it goes in the oven. If each was differently dressed to sull you wish a crisp skin to the bird the individual need of the room.
The lounge, for instance-a large flour, pepper and suit the bird
blue room overlooking a busy street, lightly before pouring on the butter, and therefore having net curtains
Cook slowly in a "moderate oven, Increasing the heat for the brown it across the windows-had a tall cream vase in the centre of the sill Ing process of the inst half-hour, hed with delphiniums to match the one of those delightful flower rings A dining-room recently seen had All 15 minutes' cooking per pound colour scheme, flanked by a pair of holding short-stemmed flowers on its of bird, plus the extra half-hour at squat vares of a pale shade of blue, broad sill, and on each of the smaller each Alled with a small posy of plak clues-It was a bay window-a small and blue flowers, The effect was one to match led with a similar plensing against the mistiness of the colour scheme of flowers. net curtains.
Windows are so prominent a part WHAT you stuff your birds
Books, by the way, should be put of any room that it pays to make with is entirely a question on window ledges where they do not them altractive it taste and sim- of your individual palate. A chest show from outside. Placed in unplicity are the keynote. nut stußing is excellent with either curtained windows with only the!
the end.
Stuffings
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The first thing I noticed about the new Hotpoint electric cabinet washing machine is that the enamelled top is Just the right height to use ne an extra table, and beautifully cool for
Bo the pastry making.
washing machine is a useful plece of furniture and does not waste floor space.
Opened up, the cabinet reveals an cficient washing machine which is as easy to use. ta a vacuum cleaner. The wringer, which stows away in a cup board in the base of the cabinet, nd- justs its tension automatically to the material going through, and the soft upper roller is kind to buttons and press study.
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You can choose a vacuum cleaner to suit your own particular needs on the Gobiln stand. If you have lante carpeta or fitted carpela, the sweeper Lype of cleaner is usually satisfactory. I noticed that the Goblin "Mon- arch." A vibrator-sweeper cleaner which gently beats all embedded dust and grit out of the carpets, is made in a sensible size so that it is not too bulky to stow away in a cupboard.
If you have heavy curtains, picture rails and so on to keep clean, the cylin der type cleaner is probably the best type for you, because it has a good range of accessories for dealing with all the odd corners about the house.
The carpet nozzle of the Goblin "Clean Sweep" cylinder cleaner, I noticed, has an agitator device for picking up cottons.
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that I made a spécial note of a new automatic polisher on another stand. You can use this with a long handle for Boom or in short one for furnl ture.
It carries its own supply of wax. which is nutomatically aprend over the door surface, and for polishing you siệp a polishing cap over the base. The standard medel 'coats 78, d.
"As you usually forget to wind your watch up." I remarked, "what about that clock which plugs into a controlled A.C. maina and goes on and on with- out stopping? 'Or you can have a self- contained battery unit which won't need another thought for 800 days. A faithful servont that is never absent, Dever later"
Wo watched a new miniature electric grlier frying bacon and grilling Welsh Rabbit on a plate, and a girl moving grease stains from 's silky fabric with a dab of powder and a little water.
And several coal cookers were work- Ing just as they would in your own kitchen!,
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«MARPETS," exclaimed my dressmaker friend. "I need guidance about these.**-
"There's bur:object lesson,” I said. as we gazed at a lovely range of self- coloured ones on The Times Furnish-
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ing stand. "Self-colours you have agreed upon right through, the house, cxcept in the dining-room-where a well-covered pattern helps to obliterate footmarka round the table and stains from apllis by the aldrboard,
"Pawn belge the fashionable underfoot colour at the moment. You can have a pinky tons or a yellowy one, according to your scheme."
"A man needs feeding," she said,. "Let's go up to the food gallery,"
We lingered here sampling_Lil-bits both sweet and savoury. They all fasted no fresh and good, whilch set me thinking that it was time to start ordering extra supplies for Christmaa. Soup is a grand stand-by for all times, and on the Heinz stand we found the full range, of, cream' and meat EԱ318,
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of each one is due to the fact that each oup is prepared from its own special Ingredienta Rich cream is the basis
of all the crenin soups, and nutritious cute of ́ment are used for the meat varieties.
"We have left the mothercraft sec- tion until last," I said, "as that seems to be the most important of all."
"Maybe." my friend mid, with a tiny amiic. But that department can wait for the time being. There's a time for everything!"
CUSTOMS TARIFFS
Drastic Restrictions In North China
Shanghai, Dec, 22. Reports are freely circulating in usuntly, well-informed circles in Tientsin, according to a report from that city, that a number of changes in Customs tariffs for North China are at present under consideration.
It is understood that last month Die Pelping
ping Provisional Government authorities drew up a list of items the importation of which was pro- posed to restrict drustically. The list is said to comprise 95 numbered sections, including luxuries,
The Germon Chamber of Com- merce reports that it bus obtained an advance jist which, it is stated, would later be made available to other im- porters,
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The authorities in close touch with the Provisional Government denied the reports when they were
first circulated, and since the announce- ment of the American credit loan to the Chinese Government and the re- ported impending British loan, re- ports of a a revision of the Customs tarifs have begun to circulate with greater persistency. Rumours go as | far na to suggest that there will be a probibition on the import of all but Japanese goods into North China.
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None of these reports or rumours can be confirmed, but it is #eneral Impression here that Hnal intentions of the Provisional Government have not yet crystalised. Imports Inlo Tientsin have in- creased heavily during recent months and Customs revenue has rocketed. The increases are generally believed to indicate, firstly, that goods are again reaching consumers In Interior, secondly, that Importers in- treased their stocks owing to fears of extreme restrictions' against im- ports, and, thirdly, uncertainty over the currency situation resulted in goods being hoarded in preference 40 cash-Reuter,
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The Customs auiorities state that officially they have received no in- formation to that effect and that no defaite ban and been imposed so far but they add that they are aware that import restrictions are to be tightened up considerably in the near future.
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