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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1954.

Christmas At Home

Why Not Combine The Traditional Fare With The Exotic?

A Global Selection Of Christmas Recipes

By JOAN ERSKINE

food Christmas,

presente B

Ingredientes 2 Ibe apples, whites of 2- or 3 eggs, o fable- spoons sugar, little lemon juice, fresh frull, whipped cream.

A usually problem. Do you keep to silced

new

the time-honoured recipen that have served you 80 Method: Bake the appies uil well in the past, or do you very soft, remove the peel and experiment recklessly, and core and rub the pulp through a sleve. When qulie cold, Bild try out

ideas? We

this pulp gradually to would suggest this year a whites of egg beaten to a very compromise. Without aban- stiff snow, to which the sugar

have Lemon Julco doning your favourite and Christmas recipes complete added. Put on a glass dish and garnish with slicts of fresh ly, turn to other countries frult and whipped cream. for inspiration, and intro- duce a lttle variety into the festive fare.

The majority below, collected

of the recipes from reliable

friends all over the world, are for sweet palates, and are "easy and quick to prepare.

Italy

"FIGLIATA":

arwoes

Sweden

GRADDYAFFLER

boen

(Swedish waffles): Whip 1 pint of sour cream ill quite stiff and add 3 cups of flour. gradually, 2 of melted butter and 1 gül water-in Sweden the equiva- lent mo

of snow is used and this is said to improve tho waffles.

uncle Pour a

on the mixture

well-greased and hot waffle iron and cook to brown. Serve with

amount

PIZZA

This excellent

consiste of short-crust rolled out thinly. sprinkled or brushed over with a golden honey and strewn with chopped sugar or jam. walnuts and hazel nuts, chopped

candied peel and mixed spies.

It is then rolled up to form

a

Denmark

of the

RISENGROD (Rice porridge):

water

leng sausage, and this is twist id. of rice, 4 pins of milk, ed into a spiral and baked in

butter, cream, beer, cinnamon, moderate oven for 30 minutes salt. Put the rice (previously till is of golden colour.

washed

cold In

And scalded with boiling water) in the bolling milk, Stir well and simmer for

Season one hour. with a little salt and add thick

Austria

SARDELL IN MUSCHELN (Anchovies in shells): This is a

ier.

pounded

sweat

in each plate, a little beer, sugar and clana-

very special hors-d'oeuvre, cream just before serving. This made by creaming 6 ozs. but is calen with a lump of cold

then adding the yolks of butter four

eggs, a Low anchovies, 11⁄2 oza, grated Par-

cheere, chopped chives, mon. finally the white of egz And beaten to a stift froth. The mix- rcollop shells and cocked in a hot oven

mezua

ture is put on

ter minuten.

Hungary

for

BOSZORKANÝHAB (Witches'

froth):

and sturdy limbs

America

CREOLE COOKIES:

Ingredients:

12 oz. plain flour

Festive Decorations With

A Difference

LAVERY year it's the same

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By Joan O'Sullivan

mirror

way suddenly it's Christmas! And there's

centrepiece on a table hardly time to do half the and in front of a wall mirror things that must be done and you'll have triplo decora before the holiday. "Half tions thanks to the reflections. dough. Roll out on a flourod

For the centrepiece, make a board Ull about an eighth of anthe things" include some

3-inch festive decorations for your title Christmas tree by shaping inch thick. Cut with a

IB- chicken wire into a 12 to cutter into biscuits. Brush with home.

inch high cond, remains of the

into SVE

aluminium with

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Wrap the cone Insert

fail.

berries

a few sprigs of holly, spruce or other

days left in which to hurry greens, and trim with

Merry and small ornaments.

which icarpoon of golden boen maines has syrup beatcan, and sprinde with

and make FL chopped

Sot the nuts and chopped up

bowl filled #luxcr. Beke in a

tree in a shallow moderate Christmas!

with oven for

minutes. This

coloured - Christmas tree amant should make about 30 Consider the outside of ornaments. cookies.

the house first. Of course you'll want a gay decora- tion for the front door.

You can make an attrac- tive spray by tying to

COFFEE SYRUP: Ingredients:

4 tablespoons

ground of vacuum-packed coffee pint

Water

very

4 tablespoons brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Method: Infuse the coffee- and water by your usual method carefully, Dnd stwin it making sure no

по grounda pasa through, into a clean saucepan. Add the brown sugar and bring to the boil; let it simmer for two minutes. Remove from the heat, add vanilla and allow the mixture to ecol. Then pour it off into a bottle, cork it and store in the refrigerator or very cool pince un required.

Greece

KOURABIEDES: (Grock shortbread) (Popular through- out Greece and eaten on all festive occasions), Cream 1⁄2 lb. butter, work in gradually 1 lb. flour, lb. icing sugar and

of baking teaspoon

powder. Work thoroughly, roll out and divide into pieces 2 inches wide and about 3 inches long. Bake in a slow oven for hour without browning. When done, dip in icing sugar, being careful that each piece is eventy coated.

Morocco

BANANA

3 lovet teaspoons baking lengthwiec,

powder

U ozs. margarine

4 002. sugar

1

tabicspoon coffee syrup

(recipe follows)

1⁄4 teaspoon vanila

Pinch of salt

Houghly chopped nuts and

ginger or raisins

2 egg

Golden syrup (or molasses if available)

Method: Beat the margarine and lugar to a cream. Add the well-beaten eggs (keeping back hald An

to brush over *** cookies lator) vanilla and coffes cyrup, Then mix in flour, which has been edited with the baking powder and

ilqueur,

The

HOLIDAY GIFT wrap tape can be applied to burned out electric bulbs to make novel ornaments.

sat-

Candles enhance table tings, too. For something really sparkling, use apples as candle holders. Core out the centre of the apple. Spray the apple with gold, copper or bronze enamel, and whlie the enamel is still wot, sprinkle with gold wink. Insert a coloured candle and place your apple on a bed of huckleberry, bir magnodum leaves, which have been sprayed and sprinkled with wink.

PUNCH is

Д

AN APPLE. #prayed sold, a glittering and novel holder for: a glowing green Christ»

maa candia,

Josephine Terry fills your

Punch Bowl

favourite

Christmas drink. To add variety to your list of drinks, here are some re- cipes:

HOT CIDER PUNCH Ingredients!"-1 quart citer; 1 pint water; 1 level teaspoon ground ginger or cloves,

Mix cider and water. Surin FRITTERS:

the spices with a little of the bananas are peeled, cut into

liquid, and add the rest, slowly, and cooked in They are then dipped gether a few pine branches irrig. Heat in covered, pan.

Task for sweetness, and if In a good trying batter, flavour-

sime liqueur in hung with burned-out elec-necessary add a little sugar, but ed with the

mar-tric light bulbs, which look make sure it la completely dis which the bananas were inated, sprinkled with bread-quite festive when. you solved before serving. crumbs and fried in hot fut to dreas them up with strips a golden colour,

COLD CIDER PUNCH Ingredients: 1 quart older; z pint soda water (plain water will do, but not io tell); 34 pint bottled or tinned fruit with Juice.

of holiday gift-wrap tape. Arabia

The cellophane tape comes FOUJA DJEDJAD (Apples in green and red Yuletide stuffed with chicken): Cut a

It sticks easily patterns. slice from the top of an apple to the glass and enables remove the core, but without plercing the other side of the you to create all kinds of Mix cider and indt, cover, fruit and carefully scoop out

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HOT RUM PUNOH

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Ingredients: 2 parts dark rum; 2 parts lemon squash; I pari . red wine (optional); 3 parts water; 1⁄2 teaspoon, mizsed spice or cinnamon to every. pint mixture.

Honey, BUTUP or sugar to toate, porta ak Mix of liquids. Sprinkto aplos findly over liquid. · Heat in a covered pan..

COLD RUM PUNON Ingredients: 2 parts darke rum, I part, orange squash; 1" part water; one-third part". Ume cordial; a few dasker bisters (optional)!

Mix together and dir well to blend.

· CIDER SPECIAL

Ingredients: 1 quart older; 1 bottle white “wina; -1 wine bottle full of water; bolitéd or tinned fruit (up to 4 pint).

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Soak frulf in eldor for at lekat

Can- hour, pours in: other;}£-..

some of the interior. Fill with pretty designs. Finish off leave to stand for at least an and your spray with a satin-hour. Add soda water just be-

[fore serving: chopped breast of chicken

gredients and taste for sweeten..... a few cloves. Sprinkle with like-bow and you're set.

If nigar is added, dhat Bigar, brown broadcrumbs, Your table must reflect the Taste for sweetening and, if "îng. moisten with a little fat and holiday season-and-mirrots are necessary, add a little honey or dissolve completely in a littio salt, until the whole is a stiff bake in the ovan.

la mire way to do this. Place a | syrup,

hot watery

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