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Don't Forget.

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When one thinks of the hun- dreds of little things which the has to re- average housewife member, we can readily forgive If she forgets and understand occasionally. However, every Deça good housewife hates forgetting things, for it usually Ларреля that she forgets something which upsets things rather badly-as well as herself! Here are a few hints about the things you may forget if you are not very care- ful.

• Be sure you have plenty of condensed mlite--both sweet and unsweetened--in the house as well as some tinned or bottled

cream.

.

Q Do not get too much bread in. People

at eat less bread Christmas time than any other time in the year. Average your usual supply, and allow about two loaves extra, and you will And you will not be bravely try- ing to cat stale bread for the next fortnight.

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Make certain that your gas cooker is in perfect order. is not П postcard

it

If Or

telephone call to the company will soon put matters right. Remember that the earlier you can get your cooking done an Christmas Day, the easier it will be to do.

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Get all the cooking you can done on Christmas Eve, to leave the oven free for the turkey. Do make sure that you have a pan bly enough for the turkey.

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• Have plenty of stamps, scaling wax, spare greeting cards and small change.

For Christmas Cocktails

CHRISTMAS

CZASIE AIR SHARESIZARON KAROSÉRE ARE All

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950.

AT HOME

Wonderful Excuse

For An

■HRISTMAS presents us with a wonderful excuse to indulge in an orgy of eating and drinking. Steam- ing bowls of punch, a profusion of sweetmeats, ico- cold cocktails, and blazing plum-puddings fill our thoughts. Whether we celebrate in style, or quietly at home with the family, new recipes are tried out, new drinks concocted, and a gluttonous time is bad by all,

In the words of an old drinking song:

"This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good

old times

Of joyous days and jolly nights and Merry Christ-

mas chimes

They were a free and jovial race, but honest, brave

and true

Orgy

WELCOME STRANGER COCKTAIL

16

Grenadine

16

Orango Juloo

Shake well and cocktail glasses.

otrain into

36

Lemon Juice

Gin

34

Cederland's Swedish Punch

16

Brandy

Amuse yourselves with the following variations

on a well-known theme:

Juice of 4 Temon

12 Dry Gin

Cherry Brandy

The Juice of 14 orange That dipped their ladle in the punch when this The juice of 1⁄4 lemon old howl was new,"

Here are two favourite punch recipes:

1 qt. Brandy

SINGAPORE SLING

Shake well medium sized glass

and straina

into and fill

with soda water. lump of ice.

Add one

TEXAS FIZZ

Shake well, strain médium sized glasa

Into

and fill

1 teaspoonful powdered sugar with syphon soda water.

1 glass of dry gin

MANHATTAN COOLER

1⁄2 tablespoon powdered sugar Shake well and strain, into Juleo of 1 lemon

long tumbler. Fill with poda water and decorate with slices 1 glass Calvados

of fruit in ocason.

BOMBAY PUNCH

Stir

the genily. Surround Punch bowl with cracked ice and decorate with fruits in season.

SANTA CRUZ RUM DAISY Use small Bar Glass

1 qt. Sherry

4 pt. Maraschino

nt Orange Curacao

4 qts. Champagne

2 qis. Carbonated Water

GLASGOW FUNCH

Melt lump sugar in cold water, with the fulee of a couple of lemons, and pass through a fine hair strafner. This is the sherbert and must be well mingled. Then add old Jamales rum -one part of rum to five of sherbert. Cut a couple of limes In two and run each section rapidly round the edge of the jug or bowl. gently squeezing in some of the delicate acid. This done, the punch is made. Imbibe freely.

rather 16

sophisticated more

existence. Earliest reference to the cocktail in print comes from an Ameri- can periodical called "The Balance," dated May 13th, 1806. It says "Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bliters-il is vulgarly called bittered sting and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion.”

Here are some stimulating, and rellable, recipes:

Cocktalis icad

CHARLES COCKTAIL

(Now becoming popular again because it is the only known authentic Jacobite cocktail--and Prin- cess Elizabeth's two children, Princess Anne and Prince Charles both`bear Jacobite names—the firat |Royal children to do so for generations).

1 dash Angostura Bitters Stir well and strain into cock- 14 Italian Vermouth

tail glass.

1/ Brandy

DAMN-THE-WEATHER COCKTAIL

3

dashes Curacao Orange Jules

Italian Vermouth

Dry Gin

Shake well and strain inlo cocktail glasses.

THUNDERCLAP COCKTAIL

Thoroughly shake up 2 glasses of Brandy, 2 of Gln, and 2 of Whiskey. Serve! To the six people. Then run for your life,

CHINESE COCKTAIL

3

dash Angostura bitters

dashes Maraschino

3 dashes Curacao

Grenadine

39 Jamaica rum

SPANISHTOWN

5 glasses Rum

1 dessertspoon Curacao

Shake well and strain into cocktail glasses.

COCKTAIL

Pour into shaker, add a large quantity of ice and shake thoroughly. Grate Q little

nutmeg over each glass and

herve.

ARTISTS (SPECIAL) COCKTAIL

3 or 4 dashes Gomme Syrup 2 or 3 dashes Maruschino or

Curacao

Julee of small lemon

1 wineglas Santa Cruz Rum

of chaved Fin glass full ice. Shake thoroughly. Strain into a large cocktail gings and fill up with Seltzer or Apol- linaris water.

SOUTHERN MINT JULEP

4 sprigs Fresh mint.

4 tablespoon Powdered Suror.

1 glass of Bourbon, Bye, or Canadian Club Whisky.

Use long tumbler and crush the mint leaves and dissolved sunt lightly together. Add spirits and fill glass with cracked lee; stir gently until glass is frosted. Decorate on top with three sprigs of mint.

And to really enliven the party

A BLUE BLAZER

Uso 2 large silver-plated mugs with handies 1 Wineglass Scotch whisky,

1 Wiverlass Bolling water.

Put the whisky into one mug and the boiling water into the other. Ignite the whisky with fire and while blazing, mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times from one mug to the other. If well done, this will have the appearance of a continued stream of liquid fire.

Sweeten with one teaspoonful of powdered white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon peel.

The name may not be very classic, but It tastes better than it sounds. Novices should be careful not to scald them- selves. Practise for sometime with cold water throwing from one mug to the other.”

For teenagers here is a non-alcoholic punch:

PARTY PUNCH (FOR FIFTY)

Take 1 pints thin syrup. 131⁄2 pints boiling water, 1⁄4 cup tea, dry. 1 pints orange squash, 14 pint lemon squash, 134 pinta pineapple Joice or grapefruit squash, 1 qts. ginger ale, allees of orange. Maraschino cherries or any other available frult.

Put the syrup into a large bowl. Make the ten with the boiling water, allow to steep, then strain Into the syrup. Mix the remaining Ingredients and add them, Serve very cold.

And to finish the evening-

COFFEE CREOLE

Freshly-made fairly strong coffee. Demerara sugar or coffee crystals. Brandy.

(A recipe from the Artist's Club, Ruc Pigalle, your finest coffee cups. Paris).

Whisky

14 Sherry

16 Lemon Juice

Groselle Syrup

Creme de Cacao Sweet Cream Brandy

Shinke well and strain into cocktail glasses.

PANAMA COCKTAIL

Shake well and cocktail glasses.

strain into

Prepare the coffee and when it is ready to serve, pour into Fill a teaspoon with the sugar and brandy mixed and hold it over a flame (the heater for your vacuum coffee maker or hot- plate la best) until the sugar melts and bubbles with the brandy. Then, while the spoon Istill hot, stir this into the cup of coffee. The spoonfuls of brandy caramel are prepared Individually for each cup, and you will find your guests enjoy making their own.

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STOCKING

TIPS

Christmas stockings will contain DOMO Ingenious novellico this year,

Odd. perapa of cretonne. coloured wrapping and Pratl

been papers have

used for boxes in which to pack that extra sweet something which children ret for Christmas.

But the boxes will leave children guessing for they are shaped like divans, arm chairs, Dovered basketa and Spanish galleons,

The furniture is uphol- stered with creionno-good for dolls' houses after the contents have been exten the galloons have gay yol- low Balls.

Decorations for the nur- sery Christmas cake strike bright note with while dovea un golden rings.

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For trimming you О combine miniature papor Engs with rod, whito and bluo flowering shrubs, rxia-. 'ing from 'a bazo of celled -wire painted white. You 'can Jako Jour choloo bo

BOATDE

while, or

SWEETS

(Without Using Too

Much Sugar

for CHRISTMAS

WITH sugar so expen-

WH

of

sive, there will not be enough to make many those special candies would like

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By HELEN BURKE

the other portion white and flavour with orange. Beat and finish na above.

it will take. If you em spare any TURKISH DELIGHT sultanas, make some sultans clus- you tem, too. Placo Hittle heaps on to have, at greaseproof paper to harden,

are

Christmas; but there certain sweetstuffs you can make that will enable you to "stretch" sugar.

Thero is, for instance, mock mar-

zipan, made with Boya flour 15- stead of ground simonds. Here a a simple recipe for the landtations almond paste or marzipan.

Melt loz. margarine in a table, spoon water. Remove from the fire and add a teaspoon of rafalla DT

and 20%. almond SENTE

BLIKAT.

Return to the lowest possible heat and warm together for a minute. Remove and stir in Zoz, soya flour until well mixed, then knead on board.

It is now ready to turn into:

(1) tiny "potatoes," made by pinch-

For anal children who might find nuts Indigestible, make Choco. inte Com Roughs by melting the chocolate na above and very light- by stirring in an ounce of ready-to- est breakfast Stakes.

TUTTI-FRUTTI

pUT through the mincing machine 141b. dated, Kib. sultanar. 14h, eich apricots and figs, (pres viously soaked for several hours) and Kib, shelled walnuts. Sprinkle a little sugar on a pantry"" board and knead the mixture into Tulti- frutti. Yon into a slender roll, cut into sin. ploces, then roll in icing sugar and condour.

STUFFED DATES

TSE desert dates. Cut all,

lengthwise, in esch, remove

ing off all pieces of the moc- the stone and, to the place slip

the

kery, rolling them between nabing into potato siapes, marking in the eres, and finally rolling them in cocoa; (3) miniature ap- blew and poors modelled to shape and dabbed with diluted red and

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a quarter of a walnut or » email

Rou poll of mock marcipan castor sugar,

MARSHMALLOWS

PUT 102, powdered gelalte into

a pan with pint water, lb, sugar and the Juice of half m lemon. Bring slowly to boiling point, then holl gently for seven minutes stirring three times.

Rinse two deap, plates in cold WALCT. Into one put the merent touch of cochineal and a few drops of vanilla essence. Pour in half the hot mixture and stir to blend colour and flavour.

drop of yel- Into the other put low culinary colouring, a fow drops Iemon essence and loz. chopped blanched almonds. Stir in the re- maining hot syrup and leave both to

When set.

very firm. cut into in hot water, then roll in small squares with a knife duned

Bugar.

FONDANTS

talag

WTIH a very simple, quickly pre-

pared fondant

mixture, you can make a variety of attactive sweets, Mix well together a white of egg, pinch of salt and le teing sugar (rolled and xfeved). Add more sucks, a little at a time, until the mixture is of a nice moulding consistency, then add 3% teaspoon -glycerino.

green culinary colourings, With COSTIN fou, best quality pow- cloven for stall (3) straws dered gelatine in one-eighth

Now divide the 'fondant into berrien, Maped and tinted with pint water, Malt jäib, sugar in one-

several portions-colour and flavour diluted quimary red, with green eighth pint water in a pan, with- them as you like. Knond the colour- holly-loat decoration cut out

Lor out stirrin

then boll for 3-4 Ings and flavourines well in than vol Calyxos.

minutes, still without stirring. Pour aman pinces of the fondant befyroon Another idea is to work a little in a thin stream over the gelating, the palms and place on cornflour- melted chocolate into some of the beatmg 28 TỚU PORT: Bont for 10 sprinkled paper to become firm. "enaraban" and form into balls, minutes. Add a tablespoon orangu A12) another is to prem, halved flavour arʻ.eusesce and continue to Fintien the pieces alightly and walnuts on each side of small beat until thicke and white. Aum. lightly presa a half walnut or rounds.

tuto a large shallow thes, grensod blanched Almond on top of osch- and dusted with cornfiere's

or fuit une pertions of fondant te CHOCOLATE clusters

stuff dated in place of the mock Nort day, remove from the tin marsipan,

or into small, sinaram with fings and dewni and cut into rounds with a cut- Ruggestions · for suffimy odlour- Valkım and multe. Roll in equal amounts of vandie, red mid strawberry, teen corníéur and... siered icingment, and Winteresume it, you like 203. The mixture can be divided frown fawratisle Dendast settle, and maural here Revue inork where along helt befors the favouring a add- devour with pappatotok.

BREAK

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to a dirty large

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