1940-12-19 — Page 91

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940 Bring Up Father

MY DEAR FATHER IS COMING TO SPEND THE WEEK-END WITH US-I TOLD JIGGS TO FIX UP A ROOM FOR HIM SO HE'D BE COMFY AND FEEL AT HOME –

IS THAT WHAT DADDY IS DOING? HE'S BEEN BUSY ALL DAY AT IT- HE JUST WENT OUT

TO GET SOME MORE THINGS -

I'LL JUST TAKE A PEEK AND SEE HOW HE IS GETTING ALONG -

EEK!

Page 11 By George MacManus

Copy 1940, King Peatures Syndicate, fet,

A PAGE FOR WOMEN Christmas Dinner

-this one starts with a flare and ends with a flourish

By Dorothy Greig

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Important as the turkey is for dummer, it is not the whole story by any means. For that's meal which starts with a and ends with a flourish, and we all serve it with our own indivi- dual touches. Here are

mine - a delicious soup and a glorious pudding:

Dinner Menu

"Cream of Chicken and Corn Soup Celery Hearts Stuffed Olives Roast Turkey with Stuffing Cranberry Jelly Oreamed Whale Onions Buttered Green PeAK Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Butter Hot Roll with

"Steamed Frult and Nut Pudding,

Ice Cream Sauce

Coffee

Since an abundant harvest of corn was joyful cause for Thanks- giving on the part of our fore- athers, I like to acknowledge tia act by serving a corn soup for my Christmas dinner:

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"Cream of Chicken and

Corn Soup

4 teaspoons butter

4 teaspoons flour

2 cups milk

2 cams condensed chicken soup 6 tablespoons cooked corn

Melt butter, add flour and cook until frothy. Then add milk and cook until thickened. Add soup and corn and heat, but do not boil. Serves 6-8,

The pudding is the grand climax of the meal. It is dark, rich, fairly bursting with fruits and served with a white froth of a sauce:

"Steamed Fruit and Nut Pudding

with Ice Cream Sauce

3 tablespoons shortening

34 cup sugar

1

1 egg, beaten

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

teaspoon nutmeg

1⁄4 teaspoon cloves

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups chopped figs

34 cup chopped raisins

cup chopped nutmeats

add

Sift flour, then measure, spices, baking powder and baking soda and sift again. Combine the chopped fruits and nutmeats and mix with 4 tablespoons of the flour mixture.

Cream the shortering, add sugar gradually and-cream-well to- 'gether." Add beaten egg and mix: thoroughly. Then add the flour alternately with the soup. Stir until the mixture is smooth. Then fold in the, fruits and nutments. Put in a buttered mould and steam for 2-24-hours.

For Mould: Use Melon Mould, empty coffee or shortering can and fill to within 2 inches of the top. Serves 8-10.

Ice Cream Sauce

1 egg, separated

% cup confectioner's sugar

1⁄4 cup whipping cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat the egg white until stiff, then add the sugar gradually. Stir in the egg yolk. Fold in the whip- ped cream, and add vanilla. Serve, over the slices of Stäbined) Fruit. and Nut-Pudding.

*recipes given

DESSERT SALAD...

refreshing finish

to a meal

by Dorothy Grag.

THIS dessert salad is one of those I blessed two-in-ones that make a woman's fe cheerler. It doubles as salad and dessert.

It is a sparkling jelly imbedded thick with juicy fruit. Bring it to the table well omilled and add: # smooth creamy dressing. If you jell the salad in a fancy mold it is gay to look at as well as being refresh- ingly tonic to eat:

Jellied Cherry and Pineapple Galat

-11⁄2 cups cannot black cherrica

14 cups pineapplo chunin 1/4 cups fruit fülco (pierpple

and cherry) *21⁄2 teaspoon gelatine, aprinidied

on two Lablespoons of water "3"täblespoons" lomon julco:

Removo pits from the cherries. Sprinkle the gelatine on water and lat stand about five minutes. Heat the pineapple juice and pour on gelatine, stirring until dissolved. Then add cherry and lemon juice. Chill until gelatino begins, lo get.. Aud- traits, pour into mold" and place in refrigerator. until Arins Serve with Creath: Uhessé"Tomato Dressing

Cream Cheeza Tomato Dressing.

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