1937-10-29 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 29, 1937

GIVE A CARNIVAL TOUCH TO ECONOMY MEALS

Just because you have only a little money to spend, is no reason why you should permit your meals to be- come drab and uninteresting. Follow the examples of the youngsters at Carnival time, who evolve the gayest and most interesting of costumes from inexpensive material

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One of the easiest ways to give your meals a "carnival touch” is by serving, desserts that are brightly coloured. Gelatin now comes în a variety of sparkling colours, and really fascinating desserts can made by combining two different flavours of contrasting colours, and moulding them in alternate layers. Packaged gelatin is so inexpensive that a really gorgeous looking dessert can be made at a cost of only a few cents, and its preparation re- quires almost no cooking skill.

The next time you find your meals getting monotonous, try the follow- ing colourful recipes. They are guaranteed to brighten up even the drabbest table.

Orange Charlotte

1 package Royal Gelatin Dessert

(orange flavour)

1 cup boiling water

1/8 teaspoon salt.

2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup orange juice

Pulp from 2 oranges drained from juice

1 cup cream or evaporated milk,

.whipped

Read the accompanying article and learn to make this attractiv fooking Orange Charlotte

MENUS FOR EVERY DAY

Many housewives of experience have adopted the excellent plan of keeping a record of their menus day by day. Not every woman has had foresight, opportunity or even the time to do this on a systematic basis, and the White Watson Menu and Recipe Book (published for the English Universities Press by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, price 5s should prove an invaluable ally in the task of successful housekeeping.

Menus and recipes for every meal, from breakfast on Jan. 1 to supper on Dec. 31, have been pre- pared by Evelyne White and Jes- sie R. Watson. The joint authors

DON'T BRIBE YOUR CHILD explain in a concise preface that

these seasonal menus have been planned with great care, with the

something done without putting any idea of providing variety, and that "If you'll be a good boy and stop thought or personal effort into it. Afall the recipes have been tested in that crying, I give you some bribe, is a time-saver.

an ordinary kitchen. money for a toffee apple," pleads If crying makes Frank's mother Here, for instance, are the lun Frank's mother.

nervous and she doesn't care what cheon, dinner and also the high a happens so it stops, the bribe is tea and supper menus for to-day.

successful

The tears may stop for such bribe is enticing. But if Frank had had a real reason for crying, then a

toffee apple would not remove it

LUNCHEON

Fish Pie.

Pudding.

DINNER Consomme Royale,

Roast Veal Cabbage, Baked

Potatoes. Russian Pudding: When high tea and supper are

former meal served, the suggestion for the

is tettuce and ra dishes and custard tarts, and for supper Welsh rabbit and open jam tart

The weakness of her success is that while sweets or fruit may suffice If he had no reason, he will have to-day, to-morrow Frank will demand Dissolve Royal Quick-Setting discovered the monetary value of the bicycle he was told he could not Stewed Fruit Gelatin in boiling water. All the

being a nuisance. Hereafter he'll have, or the picnic which his mother salt and sugar. Add the orange not ask for treats directly, but is in no mood to promote." juice. Chill until it begins to

acquire them by the subtle threat. In a word, Frank has learned that thicken. Whip until frothy. Then to Give me a toffee apple or Tll for bigger and better cries he can fold in the fruit and cream. Pour into moulds and chill until firm. Decorate with small moulds of the clear orange gelatin as shown above illustration. Serves 10.

Cherry Carmencita

1 package Royal Gelatin Dessert,

(cherry flavour)

1 cup boiling water

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Bribes advertise to a child more

get bigger and better rewards.

Some way these easy tricks have in plainly than words that his behav-boomerangs which in the end make four has his mother on the run. Had them of greater nuisance value she ignored his tears, in the very than the behaviour they were in- nature of things they would have tended to correct. stopped

1 cup cold water or canned cherry

juice

Fresh or canned sweet cherries

Had there been a cause for them. such as hunger, fatigue, aggravation because his rights were ignored, or his efforts to play met constant

Dissolve Royal Quick-Setting failure, then these situations should

Gelatin in boiling water. "Add have earned his mother's earnest at- cold water or cherry juice.

Pour tention. Then why the bribe and into moulds. Chill until firm. what purpose did it serve? Unmould and garnish with whole Actually, bribes have no justifiable cherries and a few sprigs of fresh place in good child training. They mint. Serves 6.

are tools by which a mother gets

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