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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.'
WOMANSENSE AT CHRISTMAS
Yuletide Feasting
THE festival of Christmus is
inseparably associated with feasting. Even in the most- modest of our homes, this is accomplished by A certnin amount of ceremony, of joyful planning and preparation. Now, if ever, come porfect meals. Food must be something as extra special as the occasion.
Here are two special suggestions for tasty Christmas fenating:
HOLIDAY COOKIES Preparation Ume: 36 min. - (3-4 honrx ckling time)
21⁄2 cupe
1⁄2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
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3 lib.
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almonds
ground
uifted, en- riched our
tap. baking pow.
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up. Kalt
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Tap, nutmeg
REAM ·butler or margarine, atlet sugar guadually and continue to cream unlB Bght. Add eggs, citron. and almonds and mix thoroughly. Sift together remaining dry gredients. Add to the first and mix well.
IN- mixture Chall
thoroughly (overnight if possible). Itoll D dough Inch thick on a lightly floured board. Cut into shapes with fancy cookie cutters and put a tra- spoon of date filling made as follows between pairs of cookies,
Combine cup chopped dates, cup corn syrup and 3.tbs, water, Cook over a low fame until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and add 1⁄2 cup finely-chopped nuts. Chill Press edges of cookies together and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a moderately hot oven 375 F for 10-12 minutes,
Makes 2
doz. filled cookies.
130 cal. per cookle
Source of vitamin A, B complex.
CHRISTMAS COFFEE CAKE
Preparation time: 14 hrs.
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
A CHAN
4 cups fled,
riched Bour
THE BIRD
COOKING TIMES for turkey
or goose.
(8-10lb.) 2-3 hrs, (10-1lb.) 31⁄2-4 hrs.
CHICKEN. —Nowadays it is niwnys safer to steain or boil even roasting fowl before
A small blid, needs pur's boiling, followed by a further - hour's ronst- Ing.
A bolling fowl will need 2 to 3 hours on a low flame to make i tender. Keep the pan covered, and turn the fowl at half-time.
GOOSE-GREASE, ~ A medium-sized goose should pro- vide you with about 1⁄2 lb. of valuable clear dripping. Here Is how to get it, and how to pre- vent the goose from being too fulty.
Start it cooking breast down, In one inch deep holling water. When has been cooking 3-15 hows in a moderate oven, r It over.
With a sharp-pronged fork prick the skin frequently-don'! let the fork go into the flesh- while the bird Continues cook.
to
Pay special attention to the fol. between the body and legs and wings.
The surplus fat will qoze out. It should be removed before you make your Aravy.
To test whether your bird is clone, take the leg bone and move the joint between thigh and body you'll then be able to feel just how tender the bird
15.
ether the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture.
Beat batter after each addition titil smooth. Ark raisins, dates, orange peel, citron and almond Bavour aut mix well. Pour into a grensed 9 inch tube pan and bake In a moderats oven 350" for hour. Remove cuite.
e.from pan and while still warm
frost with ichng made as follows: Add 2 tbs of hot water to cup sifted confectioners sutor and mix well. Add 14 tep. aimond almond flavour and 1⁄4 cup blanched
almonds, sliced and toasted.
cup raisins & cup
chopped clates en-cup chopped, candles mange peel
4 tsp. baking pow-end chopped
dor,
1 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
CRE
CREAM
citron
1 tsp.
lavour
shortening.
sugar
gradually and heat until light. Beat in egg ode at a time. Sift to-
Christina's diamand
ring...
She's Engaged!
LET'S DECORATE
SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING INEXPENSIVE
DECORATIONS FOR HONGKONG HOMES
the Seasons for kindling the fire of hospitality in the
halt and the genial fire of charity in the heart" Washington Irving.
Christmas is the greatest day of the year-it is universal, ageless and joyous. It is 11 homely time and it's joy is created by the good spirit of
within individual
a people household. Christmas decora. tions should reflect the spirit and originality of the family within each home.
Original decorations are easy and fun to make. They are simple and the whole family from the youngest to the oldest can help. The result will be gay and original.
This year. Hongkong has two de. corating problema: Beenuse of the reforestation plans, few pine hourths and frees are available. The high price of store-bought decorations make decorating expensive.
Here are some easily made url- ginal suggestions which can be made inexpensively with crepe paper, glue, and a few pine twigs which may be picked off the ground beneath the trees.
thread.
011
of
time and effort. In just half in hour, you can make the house look Hay.
BALLOON FATHER CHRISTMAS INGREDIENTS: red balloon; white and blue water colours; red erepe paper; white paper; cotton
wool.
a
the ribbon tie a large bow, pre-. ferably over cluster of bells. Iang diagonally along banister or wall.
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Thi
CANDY STRIPED CANE INGREDIENTS: one ordinary crook- furate a balloon and paint eyes in ett enne; red and white crepe white and blue. Make an adjoining paper. moustache and beard of cotton wool, Wind cane with alternate leaving a hole for the mouth. Glue meh stripes or red and white paper. n the balloon. With a small bit of Thek down firmly at boll entia. red crepe paper, make a nose and Adl a bow of red crepe paper. glue on. Place one tuft of cotton makes festive decoration for a wallj above each eye for eyebrows. Out
ut or the front door. crepe paper, make a hat and stick on top. A tuft of cotton can' the gined to the peak of the can. INGREDIENTS: two
ellver Christ- Make ears out of white paper and mas free balls; a bit of red wool, stick on.
ke-spectacles, hair etc.
Add any additions you black crayon, small plece of bluck-
of red
The best glue to use for this is The plastic balloon-blowing glue which can be found almost any where along Des Voeux or Queen's Road,
SNOW MAN
"
Fasten the two silver balls to- gether by winding the two necks together with cotton thread. Gluc appiled to the thread will help Lo keep the balls in place. Tie a
bow of red yarn around the neek of the balls. This is the now man's tie, On the top ball, draw in eye, nose and mouth with black crayon. Draw paper; in buttons on the lower ball. Make Smalt a black hat out of paper and glue on head. Hang on Christmas tree or trees in use for table ciccoration.
CHRISTMAS TREES FOR THE MANTEL INGREDIENTS: stiff green
red paper or cloth bows. pièces of wood. different sizes out of the stiff green
Christmas Cut simple
paper. Tie red bows around the tree. wood and Insert stem of tree.
Cut a slit in a small piece of These make very effective mantel- plece decorations.
SNOW FLAKES INGREDIENTS: white paper.
the
CHRISTMAS STREAMERS
Cut
a square plece of paper. INGREDIENTS:
the two far corners of the triangle Fold into a triangle. Take one of red, green and white crepe paper;
needle and
and fold to the middle of the opposite edge of the side. of the BERRY BRANCH Cut strips of red and white paper
dead paper facing you. Fold the second
far corner back ncross branch, well shaped: about 20 side of the paper. Make sure that the buck three inch widths. Lay one end NGREDIENTS: one large of the red strip on top of and at
large red Christmas tree balls, ght angles to one end of the green strip. Fold the
Clean branch. Leave in natural points are even with the edge green strip
of the paper to which
they were top of the red
Then state or, if desired, paint white or folded. strip.
Now fold the complete fold the
Hung, the red balls on the paper in halt. Cut along the folded silver. red strip оп Lop Source of vitamins A, B complex. the entire lengths of the strips have
the green strip. Repeat this until ends of the branch.
eilge of the paper in any design you This produces the effect of
ke. When you are finished, unfold been falled. Take a needle
of spray
Klistening and Blunt
red the paper and you will have a snow a festive flake. thread and sew through the middle Christmas berries and Is of the three inch square package; place.
decoration to hang above the tire- + Do not cut the thread. Pull one end
out until it is ex- of the streamer fended as
as long as
Fasten as desired. the two ends of the thread at each end of the streamer. This thread.
Serves 10-12
430 cal. per serving
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keeps the twisted streamer in place, and it can be safely hung without danger of slipping.
Streumers are especially effective
in
BELLS FOR THE BANISTERS INGREDIENTS: five or six large red paper bells, available almost every stationery shop in Hongkong and Kowloon. A lurge sliver or white paper or cloth ribbon.
Tie bells along the silver ribbon
to decorate a large room with little at odd intervals. At one end of
The Real
saw
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS isn't a Laplander at all, and never a reindeer in his life. Actually he was a Greek bishop, Nicholas of Myra, who lived in the fourth century, He was both generous and shy. and hate to be thanked for the presents le was continually making to those in need..
Once he climbed to a roof top and dropped a purse of gold down the chimney so that he would not be seen. The money. instead of falling in the fire, lodged in a child's stocking that had been trung up to dry on the martelpiece.
daughters, and for this reason they could never have sultable husbands. One night a bag of colna was tossed In at his window. The next night the net was repented. But on the third night the father watched, and the anonymous glver was detected. The Jolly bishop stood with the third bag of coins in his hand. The father was
very proud, and he wouldn't accept the money. The good bishop begged the poor man to accept the gifts and use them for his daughters' dowrics, requesting that his name never be revealed. At last the father accepted the money for his daughters, but he couldn't keep the name of the gen- crous bishop a secret.
The tradition of St. Nicholas in America was spread by German That is the origin of stocking and Scandinavidh settlers, and in- hanging. Whenever unexpected gifts troduced from there to England at came from unknown sources they the end of the eighteenth century. were attributed to St. Nicholas. His name. became corrupted to Children loved St. Nicholas, and Santa Claus. His gown of scarlet, trudged along beside him 08 he trimmed with white fur, is a Swiss travelled the dusty roads of the idea. Lycin countryside bringing fruit and candy to the sick and needs.
One of many stories. told of his goodness concerns a poor and honest man, and his three good and beauti- ful daughters. The father was un- happy, for poverty prevented his giv- ing the customary dowries to his
It is thought that St. Nicholas died about 345 A. D. and for thirty days following his festival day his genial spirit roams the earth, Alling the hearts of mankind with love and generosity. He gave his gifts with- out the thought of return--the true spirit of St. Nicholas and Christmas.
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