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CHRISTMAS AT HOME

Festive Time For Those

"Extras"

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

THE English Christmas, we are often told, consists in

eating.

T

a piece

of pineapple in each and glass. If you want a cool drink,

serve very cold with ice.

biscuits in and out of hai

milk of breakfastcupful sherry mixed. then arrange on a dish in lavers of biscuits and mixture Fually cost top with remaining mixture, and decorate wah nuts er cherries.

Hot Orange Wine

And, finally, here is a recipe for "Hot Orange Wine,"

as the

I've boltic

Light red wine

But the rest of the world has surely, by Lemon Meringue Pie French make t now, copied England. Everywhere it is the time for little "extras" which for most of the year would be extravagant.

a cheese dish afte

Caplan flavours creap mia the paty fare. in Englis

holiday abroad food and drink, as souvenirs of a pochops whateau at the French or

SWA

Here are a fete suppestions for you, if you would like to Christmas party cooking. try out Rotor of ENT

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SWEETS

Arrange the party sweets al-

dishes. so that tractively in euests can admire them before !sampling

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate

' run butte

CHE

vkpla

I respons

Cocoa

Melt chocolate and butter

top of double burles Add sugar until the sugar is well

and at

Chop up nuts and mix them with all sugar and chocolate powder

Beat white of egg stim And add to nut mixture

rice Around though mature to a paste. Roll out 4 inch thick, using ground rice to

and rolling pin Stamp or cut into leaf shapes. Bake in a slow oven, for about 20-25 minutes.

dust

These will be the cook-hostess, as made la advance cold without any worry

board.

GD: short THISI

pastry

16 corufiour

pint water

jufer und grated

rind of termon

40 Migar

o Matter

2 ppp polks

For the meringue top:

2 cop whites

4 02 super

Glace cherries and

angelica

corate

to de-

Addi

will pastry. Line a pieplate Lind

finishing with a raised flute rin Blend the cornflour and bake. with some of the water, heat the rest and when it is boiling, pour it on to the cornflour, stirring Return to the saucepan, add the lemon juice and boll for 4- invaluable to minutes, stirring constantly. Add lemon rind, they can be sugar, butter and and serred cool slightly and beat in eg last-minute yolks one by one. Pour into the Whisk the egg case.

pastry

Add vanilla and if the Gateau a la Francaise whites very stifly, whisk in a

too dry, add a little

blended mixture

11 shoid j Cream awost enough to log

Bol the bolls.

cocop and plac

candy paper

12 1 into smat

bails th Madividu!

Nutty Leaves

2 hazai suts

almonds

3 oz castor stipur

heaped teaspoon. au chocalate pieder

egy white

4 fifths

rice

www

1 lb ground

1⁄2ib #ponge finger

biscuits

12-

monds

lb butter

b castor sugar

1 egg yolk

pint milk

Sherry

Coffec essence or grated chocolate. nuts or cherries

of the sugar, then teaspoonful fold in remaining sugar. Pile on of the lemon mixture and top 01 bake in a slow oven for about 30 minutes, until the Alling is set, and the meringue crisp to the touch and a pale fawn colour Decorate with glace cherries and angelica and serve cold.

Here is a suggestion for an informal party:

Swiss Fondue

Cream sugar and butter; ada yolk of ugg and beat. Add milk, and ground almonds slowly. Beat until quite smooth. Add coffee essence or grated chocolate. Dip PER

FLORAL

ARRANGEMENTS

By ELEANOR Ross

Cut

PERSON: Jy

02

cheese (Or any other fatty cheese)

2 wineglassca vi

dry white wine

35 oz flour

trandtas

kirsch

Grupere

î oz sugar

2 ranges

Mel sugar in boiling water; add the peel of the two oranges, cover dish, and leave for half an tour.

Remove the peel, add tho juice of the two oranges.

Heat

the wine, and add this liquid to it. Serve hot, with a round of orange in each glass.

N.B.-Warm the glasses first to prevent cracking.

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GEORGE MARRINER is looking after the bar. He says-

PUT A PUNCH

IN IT

The 10 points of hot punches

and drinks are: ...

1-They are stronger than you

think.

-They are less expensive than they taste, because they can take more water than a símilar cold drink.

9

-They make poor

drinkable

wine

-They enliven a mild ale

They stimulate wits send bores to equal rapidity.

5

pf

cheese inlo very tioe slices and place with wine an frying

been pan, which has Jubbed round with garlic. Stir with wooden spoon, making sure mixture does not stick to the bottom.

Mix in the flour and

kirsch slowly; ScaBon with When it is bubbling, it ONE of the great joys of the rice to do a thorough job and pepper. holiday season in many house cuver the whole business. Stones is ready to eat. Serve immediately holds is to make the floral de- or bricks or something equally with white bread cut into small corations а family affair. In heavy should be placed in the pieces. more than one family that we bottom ends of each box pre-

Our Swiss friends tell us to inow, there are regular meet- vent them and the

glass of kirich after- ings at which various ideas are being overturned easily. Perched drink discussed, passed on, or rejected. upon their gift-wrapped bases, wards, to aid the digestion Then, after the final themes these little trees make an effee-

to

trees from

have been chosen, all hands get tive and appropriate frame for DRINKS

to work with Bne results.

Trees

Small cut trees or living ones

in Tubs may be made more dramatic us holiday decorations

а

the door during the day, and even prettier when lightes night.

Berries

A massive arrangement

berries and

at

cones,

with an idea such as the gift branches, box containers. For

good placed on the doorstep is a nice of indicating the holiday showing. use up-ended orange way crates. Cover them with while theme and offering good cheer oilcloth and tie them with broad and the compliments of the sea- red or green ribbon and match- son to passers-by as well as to ing bows. Reinforce the top

nds callers.

of the boxes with other boards Only too often the possibilities or blocks, and bore centre holes of handsome entrance decoration rough them to receive the butt are cadirely neglected excep: of each tree. Or a long wood- for the lone door wreath. So, screw may be worked up through this

year, start

Two drinks which really create the party atmosphere:

Russian Punch

2 bottles of cham-

pagne

I large fresh pine-

appie, peeled and

cut in pieces

1 16 BungT

1 cup kirsch, rum

or cognac

Combine ingredients in large

the holiday alver punch bowl. Touch with Let it burn the top of the box and into the theme at the doorstep, using in a lighted match. base of the trees. The boxes genuity and imagination for the until the punch is hot-a matter need not be covered at the sides containers ay well as for the of a few moments, and pour into punch glasses. There should be towards the house wall, but it urrangements.

sleepi

ind

with

-They should be hat but not

bolling

-They should be served in thielt passes because (as the brat lasts longer; the the glass lasts longes

-They can be made in targe quantities for several soonte ar in sunal quantities for one DEPROTE. Recipes for each worl are given.

9-They use up the ends of bottles because almost ans mixture can be triod-it only pate

to make with the simplest of appli anres, because all that they need is a saucepan and n fug.

10 They are easy

RUM PUNCH

DISSOLVE & Tablespoonfuls of brown

'sugar in i pint of weter slice lemon into is and let it stand for minutes Add a pinch ober at ground sloves, ground cinnamon and grated nutmang,› quart of strong bear and à nini 2 rum, Stir well. nasi Thoroughly in a saucepan and strain Into jur

MULLED CLARET

put a very ordinary bottle of clares

into a saucepan with 6 cloves pinch of nutmeg and a tablespoontul at white suges. Bring almost to bolt- ing point and servo very "not

If the wine is too acie to be drunk normally with comfort add more sugar It me comaany greatly out numbers the bottles you can add i oint of water to each bottle withoul totally destroying the effect A very prdinary battle of part can be used Instead of the clarej

IRISH PUNCH (for one person!

put + teaspoontus sach of none,

and lemon hace into, a tumble sde a wineglassful or trish whiskey fill with hot water and stir well. WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED London Express Bernica,

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