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THE TABLE
[T'S got down
to the feet. Attach a marshmallow
very pleasant, subject of head by means of a toothpick holiday table decorations.
neck. "Blondes" have the top of the heads dipped Into
Food fixings that form part light corn syrup, and then. of the centrepiece OT-PCTVO into toasted coconut,
na place cards are conducive
to good cheer and merriment.
Make not just plain pop-
Ure thin-skinned oranges coin balls, but fancy affairs for place carda. Tle a crepe with nutmeat
bonnet on
the trea
In their In- wrap in cello- cach, or nanda, then paper
foec. phane and do with ribbons lo frame paper frill Make eyes by cutting out to
or place in strategic places. 100
oval pieces of white clusters at paper, and fixing to orange Dissolve 2 c. sugar and c with blue thumb tacks, used dark corn syrup for cyc-pupils Cut mouth hot
in 1 water; cook slowly, to 260 F. of red paper and nix with without stirring
Add tsp a tiny red thumb tack or (firm ball stage). map pln. A little Upstick vanilla, tbsp, vinegar and rubbed into the "cheoks" will isp. salt. Cook to 204 F. (or simulate the
rosy until a solid but not britue glow. Cut eyebrows or hair ball is formed in cold water), by cutting strips from suit-
ably
nx
the
nrober
coloured paper, and
**chin."
While syrup in cooking,
on
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BOARD
Gifts THIS CHRISTMAS
Revlon
CHRISTMAS DINNERS FROM NEW
SIX
"M
DIFFERENT
ADAME, I am de-
lighted
COUNTRIES
By Ida Bailey Allen with our
plan of giving in thia column for six days, Christmas dinners from six different countries," said the Chef, "I am sure our readers will get some good suggestions for their own holiday entertaining."
artichokes are boiled and served hot, two on a plate, with a small side dish of the sauce in which the leaves and dipped by hand. The turkey is dono, as you say, to a furn, and plump with chest- nut stuffing, which, by the way, originated in France.
Turkey Stuffing
"Let's start with a French Christmas dinner, Chef." Shell and cook 158. tresh
"Very good, Madame. I chestnuts and
cut in quarter would like to give a menu Add b. sausage meat, I cup grated fresh breadcrumbs and 1 that might be served in a fine restaurant or in a well-teaspoon salt. This is enough to
stuk a 12mb, bird. to-do home in the city."
That chestnut stuffing must bo delicious,
Chef,
but supposing chestnuts are unavailable,"
"In that case, Madame, I sug- gest our readers boil until barely tender, a pound of carbanza beans, what is known also as the chick
lek peas, and use them in- stead.
Cysters-on-the-Half Shell French Roll Artichokes with Lemon Bullor or Hollandaise
Roast Turkey Chestnut Stuffing
Braised Celery Tossed Green Salad French Dressing Macaroon Ice-Cream
Petits FourA Demi Tans
1
3
cups
Bitter Sweet Chocolato. Teing Into a quart-sized' double boller measure 4 tablespoons butter or
bitter chocolate. Melt over hot work in 1 cup light brown sugar margarine and 4 squares grated
Then
the and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bent and
remove from water. add 2 eggs. Sift together enriched flour, 1⁄4 teaspoon bake heat, and 4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup tioner's sugar, 2/3 cup light ing soda and 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, and 2 tablespoons alfled confoc Work into the first mixture cream or undiluted evaporated Form into n roll 2 inches thick. Wrap in waxed papar. Chill un- milk and 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla, til firm and slice thin. Place on Beat with a hand egg beater un an olled baking sheet and bake til thick. In a
a moderate oven; 875 F. for 7 or unlil browned minutes,
dozen. around the edges. Makes 5 "Would there be any special Christmas table decorations?"
"Oui, Madame. Throughout France oven in the poorest homes there is a Christmas diu- ner centre-piece of a long nar row cake mada to resemble a This Is enlled la
with straight pină, crisp 5 qt, popped corn in
rough log. When syrup is cook- Place name of guest on card, oven. which is propped up under ed, remove popped corn from (it should be piping Youngstern, oven
such hot) and sprinkle 11⁄2 especially, delight in
nutmeet pechn
top. gestures.
PUUT
lightly over Byrup Have plenty of Christmas popcom ad nut mixture, **elven" on hand to express turning alightly with wooden Rub cooking Dil the holiday spirit. Use a spoon, pulled ng for the body, lightly on hands and press
with together
Arm, Insert A wite through the balls
of the palms Cover light cupping
dates to shape.
top and the bottom.
the wire
with pitted
for the arms and legs, and
with raisins for hands and
Alice Denhoff
Cordinis
"Champagne might be served throughout от vintage wines You notice, Madame, there is no soup in this dinner. They want to save all the room, possible for the Christchan foods.
"The oysters are usually eaten with a little sprinkle of juice-no special sauce. Tho
PRIZEWINNING RECIPES
FOR HOLIDAY FEASTING
ERE are some recipes rants, 2-3 oz of candied prei !! are still warm pour over each a
holiday feasting you have any home-made.
Ho
which have been awarded prizes in recent contests.
A RAISED PIE
(To bo oaten cold),
For the crust-lb of flour, cooking fat, pinch of YB of sait, pint of hot water.
For the Filling-1 small tin of enumre ment, also 1 of loom
BAUSAKO
П
Add salt to the flour; CTERI
little thin water icing.
This recipe has been chosen for a extreme simplicity.
the yeast with the sugar and DELICIOUS PORK BRAWN mix in the warm milk. Pour into well in the flour and work a little of the flour into the liquid. Sentier some of the flour down over the top of the liquid, cover the bowl with a cloth and leave warm, but not hot, place for in
20 minuten
"La giace, or ice-cream, is the usual dessert for the holiday. In a retaurant it would be served aliced. In the more elegant homes it would be shaped into balla and served in Individual
Ice silver compotes and the lee
it would be sprinkled very
k with thick
macaroon crumba Always
the petits fours (little accompany is; and they cakes) Include the famous French brown edge butter wafers. Per hapa our renders would like this retipo, oul?”
buche de Nool', or the Yule log This cake is ordered weeks in advance from the baker. It is a rolled, creamy filled, sponge
The
and red is of two colours, ! cake, made very light.
cavered with bitter sweet chocolate leing, green. This cake
the a log. In mid- rough bark
prend on so it resembles the die on top are pieces of coloured giaceed fruits, arranged to FO- dessert Ume, At present flames. the mother alices this cake, favourite Noel carol" while the family sings their
"What a beautiful ceremony1 I am sure our readers will want Brown Edge Cookies the recipe for this "bucho
Noel'."
Cream 1 cup butter or mar Karine until BofL Gradually
STOCKING IDEAS
Yule Log Cake
de
This consists of three parts: Sponge roll cake, cooked cream alling and bitter-sweet chocolate
icing.
Trick Of The Chef
To remove the shells from chestnuts, cut two silts in each; place under the broiler 5 min
Shells and linings utes. Cool. peel off together,
[Note: The other five Christ- menus will appear next week.]
THINK
OF DRINKS
WHATEVER
kind of
Christmas party you
are planning you must now think seriously about liquid refreshments from hot punch to begin with to a cup of soup at the end.
You had better begin now to Even collect the ingredients. such easy-to-get things Ilice
and grapefruit orange
ad tu disappear towards Christmas. If you see a tin of janeapple juice, buy it-there is nothing more refreshing,
Juice
les per bones and rinds: Children love eating them down vanilla and a teaspoon salt. Sift H party punch for your teen-
two leaves of dried sage; salt; black pepper, water to cover.
Bring bones and rinds to the boil, removo scum, add season-
for simmer ings, and
three hours, until ony ment falls from the bones and the rindas ara, like jelly.
Now add the fat well allrred n fork until creamy over with 2 dried exga, 1
the dried re and the fresh or of dessertspoonfult,
powdered
constituted egg well whippexi gelatine, I ment cube, tescupful Knead in well,
Chop meat and rinds small, then add fruit
pour all into a wetted basin or of whom water.
Reconstituto the ска and and peel.
mould and put aside to get cold. a stift bake in egg-cupa until the egg
Leave to stand for one hour, When cold it should be Melt the fat in the hot covered, in a warm place, Shapo Jelly. is pet.
mould and water and pour into the middle into anall round bung with Turn out of the of the flour with the salt
decorate with parsley. A nice foured hands, leave covered for
for finish by Incading 15 minutes, then bake in a hot breakfast dish Christmas well then
a smooth with the hands to form a
Cut off a third for the dough.
and linen mall cake tin- lid with the pastry.
Str
Mix all the sausage meat to- Kother and press in half, then the CEE, putting two halves to- rether to look like a whole egg. then put in the rest of the cau
oven for 18 minutes. While they morning.
A tangerine,
Sponge Roll Cake: Bea! 3 egg | PARTY PUNCH Brightly coloured sugar mice, light. Add 1 cup sugar and mix.
(non-alcoholic) TERE 1s round plece of Stir cup teaspoon
to the string.
together 1 cup cake flour, 1 teange guests. The quantities will n bright red
spoon cream of tartar and
servo 50, but can be reduced apple, and few nuts shelled and scant 4 teaspoon baking soda. for smaller parties.
Take
1 pints thin syrup, strung on a piece of coloured Beat slowly into the mixture. string.
Oll and flour a large dripping 1 pints boiling water, 1⁄4 cup pan or jelly roll pan about 10 in. tea
orange (dry), 1 pints
lemon squash, Spread in the batter squash, pint X 11 in.
pincapple pinist
Juice Bake in a hot oven, 400 F. until 12 made, in the
light brown on top nad done or grapefruit, quash, 14 quarts
alo, elices throughout, about 25 minutes ginger
of orange, cherries Turn on to a pastry board dusted Maraschino
OT any thickly with sifted powdered su- other available fruit.
Put the syrup Into a largo gar. Cut off edges and roll.
bowl. Make the tea with, the boiling water, allow to steep, then strain Into ingredients and add them. Serve very cold,
A gay-coloured rubber ball. A spinning top.
Plece of soap shape of a Teddy Bear.
Box of tiny crackers for B doll's house.
Little gold mesh bags filed with chocolate money wrapped up in gold and silver paper:
Chocolate smoking pet-you can get a pipe, cigarettes, and cigars done up in a box.
From Your Kitchen
Gifts From
knife. Do not knead.
Cut in touching
cut-side
down
"נ
rage meat. Put on the lid press-y matter, whether they half; roll each piece into oblong apart, in an oiled shallow pan.
To Put Together: Spread with thick · enoked cream Alling, or use recipe for prepared vani- la pudding made according to directions on the package, add- ing an extra 2
tablespoons milk.
FRUIT PUNCH
sugar, 1 whole cloves, 2
and bake in low oven for 11⁄2 appreciate Christmas gifts each with
mixture; c. brown sugar, about 20 min.
Divide in equal parts; colour TAKE I pint grapefruit juice, 1 pint pineapple Juice, 1 one part green, the other red with a few drops of vegetable quart cider, 2-30% colouring. In spreading on to the teaspoonful cake put on alternately I luble-sticks cinnamon
coloured siling, Put all these Ingredients into #poonful
a pan; bring to the boil-and }· are rich or not-so-rich, shape duck. Brush gen- Cover and let rise again in a then toonful red colour.
from draft, ed Alling. Roll up and place
fold
Jerve hot. ing the edges closely together,
with melted mar- warm place, free
side down to chill. Then cover and decorate with left-over or whether they are men, erously
in size, about i putry cuttings. Brush with egg women or children, they all garine or butter, and sprinkle until doubled
half of the foliow- hr. Bake in a hot oven, 425 F.
with bitter-sweet chocolate lc- ing, roughing it with the back of hours, at Regulo 4.
of home-made food, beauti- 1 tsp. cinnamon, 4 c. raisins,
aspoon to look like the bark of warm, brush the a tree. While still
Decorate the top with Dissolve the meat cubo
eftron and and attrac- 2 tbsp. cut-up
with plata candied cranber- tops
In different icing, and
sliced gumdrops gelatine in the warm water and fully prepared
pieces of cut Next roll up decorate with 2
"gamer**. citron and 1 small red candy to colours to represent ench picco lengthwise into a
Makes 16 to Serve on a platter, garnish with of tight roll. Cut each roll into simulate holly.
holly or greens.
und
pour this through a hole in the tively wrapped.
id. Any kind of meat can be lised.
LINCOLNSHIRE FRUMITY
This is a famous old Linecla- elish. Ebire Christmas supper Few people can use the tradi- tional whent, but pearl barley makes a very good frumity.
Place one breakfastcupful of ofther wheat or pearl barley to In a stewing Jar quite soft in the
son. next day, let it stew
A
Christmas-minded
1bsp. cui-up
cherrics. ries or
2
cer's wife
1 met during the eight 1" pleces. Place not quite 20 rolls. war, lived at six different Army posts in one year. During each-
economised sojourn, she
nut- ficiently on sugar to put up-4 of glass of jam or jelly mado with local frult.
As gifts for neighbours, my far over-
mother used to make pans of it set until
Christmas
sweet
rolls, big family, p oz panful for a large Add 2 oz over
panful for the just- The rolla came hot teaspoonful married.
the
of sultanas, 1 oz of curtanta, 2 smaller
oz of sugar, a
of ground cinnamon, a grating and fragrant from the oven
Often
How Cocktails
Became Popular
ON saftspoonful of salt day before Christmas. of nutmeg,
Str
let me help frost Then into and decorate them.
a small teaspoon
N Christmas Eve, many the Hungarta Restaurant
years ago, a
young London. in a pint of milk and 2 she would custard pow tablespoonfuls of
Simmer all together in a shining in pans they went. A cavalry officer róde pan, stirring occasionally, until quick wrapping in white shelf through the snow-covered then streets of a little American (cellophane was it boils. It is then ready to cat
tter.
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
paper,
an inventor's dream), red cord village with a magnificent to tle, a sprig of pine from
for the Christmas fighting cock under his arm. the
woods
in
Cacno.
1/8 gin of mouth
DEVONSHME OUP
cold cup. Take 4 tablespoon- HR, if you prefer it, is n fuls sugar, a little water to dis solve.
Juice of 2 oranges. 4 glasses sherry, 2 glasses gin, 3 quarts clder, siphon roda.
Combine all these ingredients and add ice to chill.
RUM PUNCH
TAKE 4oz loaf sugar, 1 lemon OF lime,, orange, 3 pints boiling water, 1 pint Jamaica rum, pint brandy, pinch of grated nutmeg.
Rub the sugar on to the rinds of the lemon (or lime) and orange. Dissolve the sugar in the boiling water, add the rum- brandy and nutmeg and serve Italian Ver-piping hot.
Stir up with a spoon, strain | HOT CIDER FUNCH Into A
and cocktail glass, squeeze lemon peel on top.
The next cocirtali is named after a well known from miro in the southern part of Cuba.
DAIQUIRI
PALM BREEZE *Rum. Lemon Hart Juice of half a fresh limo 1/8 Yellow Chartreuse, Garnier
de Creme 1/6 Cusenter
Dash of Grenadine Shake well with crushed leo The cock had been lost by and drink with froth on.
village inn, the squire of the
as proud of it as ho Or you might try this cock- who was was of his beautiful daughter-tail, which gets its name from Weary of searching the country the high-velocity shells of the round, the squire sware that Great War-all one heard was like to give the, man who brought the cock a whiz and the explosion of the with a punch. Perhaps you'd
Řemember that thin back alive would be allowed to shell immediately afterwards. cookies break easily, but drop-marry his daughter. ped or ball-shaped cookies carry and keep well.
this Christ-
Three teacupfuls of bread-touch, and off we children This cock still has worship- crumbs; 1 teacupful of self- went to deliver the friendly pers the world over. raising flour; 3 tencupfuls of gifta I'm sure your neigh- dried fruit including prunes, Įbours would enjoy gitta of: stoned and cul up; 2 teaspoon home-made rolia fuls of mixed spice, 2 inblemas. Pack them in aluminium or in a bread spoonfuls of dried egg, 2 table or glass pano spoonfuls of sugar, 3 oz of shred-basket for an enduring present ded suct or other fat, 2 table- spoonfuls of golden syrup if
You
can spare it, 1 tablespoonful of cookies. marmalade, prepared household milk.
Prepare all the fruit and mix all the dry ingredients in a bas- in Heat the syrup and mar malade slightly and add. Stir in sufficient milk to molalen. Steam in a wall greased pudding basin
tard.
CHRISTMAS MORNING BUNS
Christmas Sweet Rolls :
Dissolve 1 pkg.
Scald
and
WHIZ BANG
2
dashes of Grenadine
2 dashes of Absinthe -1/6 gill of French
2/0 g of Bacardi 1/6 gill of fresh lime fulce Sweeten with Grenadine Shake well and strain into a cocktall glass
And now hero is a cocktail It was intro- duced at Deauville in 1931 after Dempsey's victory over Carpentier.
DEMPSEY COCKTAIL Fill the shaker half full of broken lee and add:
2 dashes of Absintho 1 teaspoonful of Grenadine
1/6 gil of Gin
When the officer entered the Joy, Inn, the squire, full of
FXII A glass half full of produced drinks 60 that all broken ice, and add: nign wast the tall of the cock.
2.Dashes of Orange Bit- either daughter,
by accident, or from excitement at ter fast-rising the
sight of
future**** her for six houra, Servo with cus-dry yeast as directed on the husband,
mixed whisky,
of Calvados mik vermouth, bitters
Ice package.
Shake wall and strain into add c. sugar and 3 tbsp. together. Everyone was de-, mouth
until luke lighted with
corkctall glass. shortening. Cool
2/0 Bill of Scotch Whisky this concoction,
By this time you ought to be WUXIL Then beat in 1 2. and it was christened on the
Sür well and strain into a
fueling on top of: the world, Add gifted all-purpose flour.
spot "Cocktail"
cocktail glass, Banceze lemon and so, hoping that you are not Cumberland is noted for ito
the yeast mixture and 1 well-
Since then the cocktail cult and strain into a cocktai gius there already, our last choice sweet and apicy good things, and
beaten egg. Next add 2 c. the sender of this recipe says sified all-purpose flour, or has spread to every comer of
The Chinese word Mecholung in the Paradiso Cocktail. "As long as I can remember, we enough to make a soft dough, the globe, and there are literal means: "fre eating devil"
ALL PARADISE COCKTAIL have had these buns for break-
Knead quickly and lightly un-ly thousands of recipes that the Perhaps you will agree that fast on Christmas morning
"amatour?" til smooth and elastic,
cart try,
the guaranteed spirit-raiser for One B. of warm flour.
Place in an oiled bowl twice Christmas season is the "Palm of warm milk, salt, 1 oz of yeast, 2 tablespoon- the alke, of the dough. Cover Urecte. With this cocktail, gar, 4 oz of margaring or lard, 2 and set in a warm place free fuls of castor or granulated su from, draughts, Lot rise 12 hrs. AC, Davidge of the Ritz Hotel, London, became champion of eggs, or the equivalent in dried or until doubled in bulk. Then this Jamaica Rum Cocktail, down with a Competition of 1049, held at the dough egg, B. oz of sultanas, 2 oz of cur- *cut.
plat
teaspoonful of
4
3 quarts elder, TAKE
OrsingCB, cloves to taste, lump sugar to taste, pini rum or whisky.
Put the elder in a saucepan. Rub the sugar over the oranges and then stick cloves in them. Add to the elder. Cover and bring to the boil. Boil for p few minutes, then add the rum or whisky and serve very hot from a punch bowl
STIRNUP CUP ·
you see any tomato soup
in your grocer's, buy a few tins and save yourself the work of making soup. Or you may prefer turtle soup? There is some of this about, too.
cut
If you have had a turkey up the bones and cover them with cold water. Add in onton For two, a carrot, a parsley
root, and pepper
tit. Cover
and
and cook gently until the remaining meat on the bones will all come of. Strain into another
*Season saucepari further, if necessary and serve. Then you can moko a quick rofix of a walnut of margarine
and a tablespoonful plain flour. Crumble and stir into simmer Ing stock. (To make this quick rout, simply
work the
this, cocktalk was, well named Fill the skaker halt fall of margarine and flour, together.)
MEEHOLUNG
1dash of Orange Bitters 1/4 igil of Sted: Gin varit of Ko mouth
broken Ice and add:
1/0 gill of Orange Julto 1/0 gil of Apricot brandy 1/0 gill of Gin Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.
Also you can make
onion
soup, chopping the onions fairly ine. It is n good soup and onions are said to ward off chilis
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