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PARTY RECIPES

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TAVE you kept to the well-fried favourites, the traditional Christ. mas recipes?

There are few things to which each country, in its own way, attaches more tradition than to the Christ-'

But without mas menu. breaking violently with tradition. wouldn't some thing dew, perhaps an idea from abroad, add spica to the occasion?

Try, for cosmopolitan flavour, some of the following con- tinental and American ideas. Be braye about your originp}|ly— silek to the original names.

ITALY

ZABAGLIONE,

unusual sherry based drink. For two portions you will need:

ert* yolks

1-2 tablespoons fugar

2 half ergsheilfals sherry (or

Marsala or Madeira)

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CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952.

CHRISTMAS AT HOME

Juice.

and one or two cupfuls of fruit- light dough, and enclose bran- died raisins or raisins and citron in centro of each, when shaping For. something Atla into small boils. Let them stand different to round off a meal, until light. Then, fry in hot, take another leaf from

the deep fat (300-370 F.) for Danish housewife's cookery about three minutes, drain and book and try CITRONFROM- roll in powdered sugar white AGE. For six people you will warm. Boak in rum and serve need:

with whipped cream.

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CECH

On Sugar

11⁄2 lemons

7

leaves of gelatino

one cupful of water whipped cream

SCOTLAND

Culinary export from Scot- land goes by the name, typical enough, of Scotch Mist

AMERICA

Nuts are always o welcome addition to the party table. Try SPICED NUTS, the American way. Take the following gredients:

1⁄4 lb nuts

in-.

1 cup fine granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

For

2 tablespoons cinnamon

น

this sweet, you will need:

dot, macaroon

-1 teaspoon singer

14 teaspoon palmer

dgs, sponge fingers

7

pink and green colopring

* pint cream

1 liqueur glase maraschino

1 tablespoon water

1 egg white

CHRISTMAS STOLLEN CAKE:

500 gramms plain four

Z desserispoons baking

powder

300 gramma sufor

2 exp

1 teaspoon rum favouring teaspoon vanilla casence 4-6 drops almond essence

pinch grated nutmeg plach ground cloves 125 gramms butter (or fat)

50 gramms suet

125 grammas sullanas

125 gramma raisins

125 gramma almonds or ker-

nels. .40 gramms mixed prel

icing sugar

white (dry)

250 Eramms

cheeso

butter, for decoration. Mix flour and baking powder and sleve on to a board. Minko hele in centre, and put in sugar, eggs and favourings. Mix into

dough.

of dough On top

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Sift sugar, salt and spices to- gether three times. Add water to egg white and beat slightly. maraschino, add Dip nuts in egg white, then rolled cut peel, Mix to fine

in cugur-spice mixture. Cover

Beat yolks until thick, add

place white cheese, butter cut sugar and beat until dissolved.

Into picces, Onuly chopped sult. sultanos, raisins, simonds and Measure sherry in half eggshell

Cruth macaroons and fingers, and warm slightly. Add to

moisten with

on board. Shape into a yolks and beat over barely

half the cream and mix into a simmering water until thicken-

tangle and turn one edge. stiff paste. Whisk remainder wish ed and very light. Turn into

little sugar and flavouring. bottom of small baking pan

with half serving glasses and top with a Divide it, and colour one half mixture, place nuts on

of romaining sugar edge. Grease a tin and

Cover top so the grease either with flour or dash of cinnamon.

the pink, the other green. Put into that they do

not touch each grease-proofed paper: Put dough Another favourite of

cover with remaining on this and bake for 70-80 Italian housewife COTO a forcing bag a good tablespoons E

is

Ather

Bake in very minutes in medium oven. When LETTA ALLA MILANESE (veal ful of cach colour. alternatively sugar mixture.

slow oven (250 F) for about 2 cooked, paint with melted butter cutlets dipped in whipped eggs and place over pyramid. Do-

corate according to taste.

hours. Remove from oven and and decorate with icing sugar, smothered with bread crumbs

shake excoss sugar from nuts. Eat as cake or current, loaf.. and fried).

THICK PEPPER CAKE: 1315 gramms of dark treaclo

125 gramms of sugar

FRANCE

from

Two suggestions

the French housewife's

party fare: MARQUISETTE and BUCHE AUX MARRONS.

For MARQUISETTE you WIL need:

4 ox ground simond. *

4 oz icing or pister sugar

4o grated chocolate

1 esp

Mixed together with the egg

into

a thick paste. Break off pieces the size of a walnut, and roll into balls in cocoa powder. Leave to cool in a cool place for an hour or so.

And for BUCHE AUX MARRONSI

134 Ibs chestnuts

4

of sugar

of chocolate

of butter (or other fat)

Boil chestnuts, peel and sieve them. Melt butter, sugar and Mix them together

chocointo.

on

3

"with "a"wooden ̈ ̈*: spoon, adding the chestnuts. Pince mixture large sheet of greaseproot paper, roll it up to look like a log. Leave to cool for a day.

from the This recipe comes Lyons district. The Lyonnaiso housewife decorates the log with grated nuts, marks it with a fork so that the outside ra- sembles the bark, and serves it in slices..

DENMARK

To the Danish housewife, po Christmas dinner is completo without a goose prepared in the authentic way, and served with red cabbage and browned toes. Clean the roose well, stuff generously with apples

and prunes. Roast for two or throo hours, according

thin

sugar

in

to size, leaving

the oven door open for the lost. quarter-of-an-hour to allow the akin to get crup. Frepare a tain foffee from margarine and frying pan and put boiled potatoes in; keep tuming until the toffee covers cach potato. The red cabbage: should be cooked, for about two

hours, In A special mixtura consisting of two ounces of margarine, one-ounce of sugar, a tablespoon of vinegar

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GERMANY

Here are recipe9 IoT two

for

festive favourite with the Dutch. Mako Gufficient dough for two dozen cakes which the German house. sweet rolls (normal recipe, with wife traditionally bakes yeast). Cut off small pieces of Christmast

-and now for a drink

TAVERYONE drinks a Christmas toast Arid practically everyone drinks more than a single toast of Christmas time. This is the season of "cark-popping", and time when there are so many feverish searches for the corkscrew, the occasion when familles toost familles across continents, across the world. The season of good cheer.

2 tablespoons lard

1 teaspoon ground cloves

pinch of round ginger

pinch of white pepper

60 gramms mixed peel

1 teaspoon almond flavour-

. Ing +

lemon flavouring to taste

500 gramms plain flour

1 dessertspoon baking pow.

der

.6 tablespoons milk

few almonds for decoration Put treacle, sugar and lard altogether and mell When nearly cold str. in flavour- ings (cinnamon, cloves, gin-. ger, pepper, almond, lemon). Sur in flour and baking powder

alternatively with milk and mixed peel to make a dough. Spread dough on to a

a.tcased baking tin with tablespoon dipped in milk. Dough should

The modern cocktail habit before dinner and lunch has survived trial, and is here to stay. The reason is that up-be one inch think, Mark Into petising, but not dangerous, cocktails are now-the-most- popular. Here is one, but do not judge it too harshly by its name. It is the "Blue Devil" cocktail, and nobody need fear

It:

60% dry gin. 25% lime juice.

25% maraschino, and one dash of blime vegetable extract Shako well and strain into the cocktail glass.

Lime juice guards against any possible ill effects, helps the digestion, and gives protection with its alkaline salta against Indigestion. Limo juice contains Vitamins A, B and C.

At some stage of the festivities you will need to serve a punch or a fruit cup, Recipe for a Tropical Punch in an follower

2 wineglasses rum

a fow "petals" of thin lemon rind!

1 wineglass syrup

Ja pint crushed ice

2

a little grated nutmeg.

To make syrup: take a pint water, 1⁄2 lb lump sugar_(or smaller quantities if desired) and flavouring essence. Dis- solve sugar in water, bring to bolt when dissolved, simmer for four minutes. Shake all above ingredients together and serve at once.

If you prefer a non-alcoholic drink; trý Snow Cocktail. Vpint strained orange juice

pint

strained grapefruit Julco

2. heaped tablespoons sugar

pint water crushed ice

large tumbler crushed ico

2 unbeaten egg whites.

Dissolve sugar in water, bring to boll, simmer for Ave minutes, Chill," Add fruit juices, place in a screw top jar with fee and egg whites, and shake well for five minutes.

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th knife-do not cut decorate with almonds. Bake for 20-25 minutes in medium oven. This cake may be leed.

Note: 550 gramms—approx 1 lb.

SWEDEN

What informal party tablo is complete without canapes? Try · some of these Swedish sugges- tions, on small places of loant cut

into

different shapes. mayonnaise; and leeks; ham, apple

Shrimps caviar

and

and cherries; cucumber and

liver

vate olives: roasted veal, cucumber, meat-jelly and tomatoes. Decorate with pars- ley or dill..

And don't forget the children. Try "Creolo Bananas" for them. Peel bananas, divide lengthwise and cut anth strip in half. Soak sections in a Kttle rum

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