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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1953,

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Christmas At Home

New Recipes

To Garnish

CE

The Old

By CYNTHIA ROBB

HRISTMAS cookery is an Institution. Tradi tion and universal love of festive fare have conspired to make it so.

But most of us who pre- pare, the traditional Christ- mas dishes like to have some new recipe to garnish the old.

2 oz. fat

8 oz., chopped onion

6 oz. rice

1 pint stocke

LET'S PUT UP THE DECORATIONS

By Shirley Lowe

7HY ́not make this a base, and the contre thickness

the contr

Nothing cheers up a dark Q THE OUT FESTOON is mado room quite so much as from four inches of a oric-

another.

Cut orange rinds into basket brilliantly coloured decora- colour fold and two inches of shapes and all with- diced pear, tions. banana, sections of grapefruit, The best material for peeled white grapes, a dash of making decorations is crope paper. It comes in a variety

2 oz. chopped cooked mush port and caster sugar. Top with

a crystallised cherry.

rooms, liver or tomatoes

2 oz. grated cheese

A traditional Christmas cake

of colours.

You can make these five de- corations in just a few hours.

Make a series of cuts a little more than hal-

way across both.

All you need is a large, sharp

crepe folds the closer the cata the pair of scissors, some paper, and a helper.

botter. Lay the two folds to YOU will need a half fold --- gether, dull sides uppermost, a packet-for THE FRINGE. hammer one end to wall, and Open out

to its entire length loosely twist, And fold In half long-ways.

FOR THE RUCHED FES- 111⁄2 dessertspoons castor Euger Starting from cui enda refold 4 TOON you will need two inches of two folds in contrast- ing colours.

vanilla essence

Use a thick frying pan and fry the onion in the fat until it begins to brown. Add the rice And lds year, with the Royal und cook for three minutes is CHOCOLATE RIPPLE CAKE. Tour pollighting New Zealand longer. Add a quarter of the For this you will need:

1b. chocolate ripple biscuits and Australia around Chistmas stock and cook for 16-20 minutes

pint cream time, people will want to have or until the rice is tender, "down adding

the rest of the stock some party ideas from

Au the stock under"

Here are some suggestions should be absorbed by this tune. the cooked mushroom?, culled from Australian and New Add Zealand friends accustomed to liver or tomatoes a few minutes spending Christmas in mid- before serving. They should be

fried in a little fat.

Serve the summer weather.

grated Cheere separately, to be sprinkled on at table.

·

To start the fealivities, here is a recipe for CURRIED TURKEY. 3 cups diced cooked turkey

cup minced onion

1 large cooking apple

4

1-1

2 good tablespoons flour

fat tablespoons

ans curry teaspoons

powder 11⁄2 cups milk mixed with turkey, gravy or stock if

available

Salt and popper

1 teaspoon gelutine

walnuts

cherries

gelatine and п drop essence to the cream

Add of vanil and whip it till very suit. Put the biscuits together in a long

line, with a generous spread of in the same grooves as before, cream between each one. Place leaving a margin. Make a series them on a dish, and cover thick-of cuts right across the fold to ly and entirely with cream.just past the margin. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts Twist each cut plece separately

slices of between for and decorato with

Anger and shake out, and separate the crystallized cherry.

For the sweet-tooth in the family, try this reclpo MARSHMALLOW ICE CREAM.

12 marshmallows

1 cup hot milk

1 cup cold milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

An unusual CAKE FILLING strands, Loop

over

thumb,

Ruche the edges by crimping between finger and thumb. to Place the two lengths back

the decoration back-shiny side to shiny side- a picture, fireplace, or hammer one end to the wall and

with corner

cluster

of twist loosely. balloons.

cako

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is made from honey and chopped- walnuts: Spread a layer with thick honey and sprinkle it liberally with chopped Cover with another layer, and ice, if desired.

4 tablespoons powdered milk walnuts.

a few drops of cochineal

Cut up the marshmallows and

Peel and dice the apple. Melt the fat and cook the upple, onion and turkey in it for ghout f

Afteen minutes until the apple and. onion are tender. Remove from stir them into the cupful of hot the stove and blend in the flour, milk until they dissolve. Add salt and curry powder. Add the vanilla and allow to stand

If you are looking for a good liquid and stir constantly until until the milk beging to cool and drink for those who don't thickened. Allow to cook a

a thicken. Stir the cold milk and ice cocktail, try "PRUDENCE minutes over powdered milis together, then CUP further fifteen

Test for correst beat both mixtures vigorously gentle heat.

Serve with seasoning.

hot together. Colour A delicate buttered toast and thin slices of shade of pink, cool in the ice lemon.

trny for one hour, then remove and beat again. Freeze until Arm and serve with chocolate sauce or crushed raspberries.

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1 large Un pineapple cubes 12 oranges

cup maraschino cherries

2 quarts water

3 cups sugar

THE DEANSTALK is an un- 5 FILLED with balloons, THE NET is an excellent idea for . usual and fascinating idea. a party. You will need half a fold, open- ed out, and then rolled around

Taking a fold or half-fold, an ordinary broomstick to form

Dull

back

thickness of 'n tube.

Pull out tho stick, flatten the tube, and make two parallel cuts down the centre to halfway. Point the tips of the cut ends, then armly take hold of the two in

Boll sugar with one quar. water for dight minutes. When cold, add to it the juice from the pineapple, juice of eight oranged and one quart cold water. Set on ice. Slice the remaining four oranges MG thinly possible. Pince in a bowl. Add side thicknesses of crepe at the

cups pineapple cubes and the cherries. Pour the liquid over and serve.

two

Or LIME FROST.

For every two helpings pour one while of egg, one pint of inned chilled pineapple Juice and two tablespoons of lime Juice cordial into a large screw- top.jar.or.cosittail shaker. Sür well, then adjust the lid and shake vigorously until tha ingredients are frothy.

- For new ways of serving

one

crepe. Make a series of cuts

In wide to within lin, before the cingle fold. Now open ...*** other fold, and cut between the -

cute to within an

inch

of the second opened fold,

Shake out the net, all it with balloons, and suspend it from the ceiling with a length string or thread. AND THIS IS HOW THEY'LL LOOK

To rektore balloons fust pull the thread..

About the Drinks

coffee try ICED BRAZILIAN +++********** By Bruce Blunt` ++++

COFFEE.

1 cup liquid chocolate

1 pints chilled milk

3 cups strong black, coffee Mix the ingredients and add sugar if desired. Serve in tall glansce with topping of chocolate ice cream or stifty- whipped white of egg favoured

with vanilla.

2

· Or TURKISH COFFEE.

HERE

are a few sug- pint oach of whisky, gin, and

gestions for your rum, one thinly sliced lemon, Christmas drinks. For

the white wine cup: mix ar to taste, a pinch each of Iwo liqueur glasses of marCS- ground cinnamon, cloves and

chino, one bottle of white wine, nutmeg. desscrispoonful of sugar, one

liqueur glass of Curacao. Add Put all ingredients into a large soda water, Decorate with pine- pan and bring nearly to boiling apple and orange alices, add point. Strain into a bowl; add lumps of ice.

a few slices of fresh lemon, and

As rum is cally the most serve. abundant spirit this Christmas, 1 oz. Anely ground coffee and wo will pass on to a Rum Sour. the same amount of sugar for Juice of half, a lemon, dosiert- each cup of water. Boil it in a spoonful of sugar, one measuré covered saucepan and allow to of rum. Shake well and

pour cool. Boll it up again, cool it into medium-sized glasses. Add and boil. it yet again. Before squirt of soda wider. cerving, throw a dessertspoon- ful of cold water Into the saucepan to settle the grounds. Use, small cups for Turkish coffee and no milk.

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FOR the hot punch:

ale,

mix a quart, of old

pint bail-

FOR the claret cup: mix

one liqueur gius of maraschino, one bottle of claret, two liqueur glasses

of Curacao, two tablespoonfuls of nitar. Add soda water as desired.

Decorate with alices of orange

ing water, ¿quarter, and pineapple, add lumps of ice.

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