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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

A Christmas Cook's Tour THAT HOLIDAY Round Britain

SK

By CYNTHIA ROBB

anyone

Overseas

what itong huracan

Christmas dinner and back comes the answer: "roast Lurkey, plum pudding. mince pies."

2 tablespoonfuls

jam

raspberry

2 oz ground almonds

2 oz castor sugar

2 oz butter or margarine

CKK

Almond essence

;

Cream buiter and sugar until white and fluffy, stir in ски

That's right. Christmas dinner is a British institu- add almonds and few drops Lion which survives wars 'essence and bent well. Lino a and changes of government at dish with pastry, place

good byer i

of jurn at the bottom, and anything you can

spread mixture Bightly on top. think of.

Bake in a quick over for about half an hour.

But 's only half the answer. Or half the menu.

Two ounces of fine bread- crumbs may be substituted for

and a Scot ground almonds

ittle more almond casence added.

At Christmas and the Now Year, a Briton may be Dating black bun in Edinburgh: a Cornishman savouring Cornish splits in Truro; or a Welshman Citing Derffro cakes in Anglesey, If you want to add variety your festive fare, come on a ecok's tour round Britain.

Berkshire

COFFEE CREAM:

pint milk

sugar to taste

gill strong black coffee oz gelatine vanilla

Staffordshire

SYLLABUB: Syllabub is the Staffordshire name for a tad tional sweet always served during the Christmans festivities. be served separately, or It can us 4 surce for Chris Urns pudding. give it zip.

to it a

от

If you want to take a large bowl and add one pint cream or evaporated ping of elder and a wineglassful

mik

of tranly, sweeten to taste and grale in

little nutmeg. Then pour in rome fresh warn milk from a jug held very high over

the bowl so that a froth is famed, and serve at onet,

prefer it plain, try this уси 130-year-old recipe. Mix together three punces of caster sugar and

erind the juice and grated

of pint two lemons, add one

of tream, whip all together. Put In glasses and stand all night.

Whip the cream or evaporated milk until very thick. Add milk und gelatine disolved in coffee. Sweeten to taste and add vanilia, When thickening, turn Into muld, and when set, decorate with cherries and angelico.

Cheshire

RUM SAUCE: Chrisunas pud- ding. For this you will need: yolks of 2 eggs, 1 gili water. 1 tablespoonful sugar, i wine- glussful rum, I leanan.

Beat 13 the egg yolks with thu

Add sugar.

the wwler, strained Juice of the lemon and the rum. Sar over a very gentle beat til the sauce thickens.

Don't let it boil.

Cornwall

CORNISH SPLITS:

1 lb four

uz butter

oz yeast

oz castor sugar

K

pint tepid milk

teaspoonful of salt

Crean yeast and sugar unt

If

Wales

BERFFRO CAKES:

1 oz sugar

2 oz butter

3 uz BIX

Mix well, by hand, roll out fairly thin and cut into rounds. In Anglesey. where Beritro cakes originated, they mako čách round with a scallop shell, Bake in a moderate ovca and sprinkle

with sugar,

of

Scotland

HANGOVER

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

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MY research staff, which to find it. The tree lights blew is supposed to come the fuses, and the outside lights up with idens, suggestions you ran out of gift wrappings, wouldn't stay on the evergreens, and little helps to keep this or sealed up a package without column from going dry, has the card inside, or wrapped two been unable to find any packages so much alike you thing about holiday fatigue. Pete and which to Cousin Mar- No statistica. No research. gery, and had to undo them Just the helpful rote: "You again and look inside-only to know all about holiday find that your guesa would have bem right if you had dared rely fatigue."

on it.

Maybe I do, at that. And so do you.

couldn't tril which went to Uñčle

On the last day of school, little Mary came home from the entertainment wearing the wrong For at least six weeks, now, galoshes, and Jimmy cried be Christmas. preparations have enuse one of the big boys took been going on. You have been his souvenir away from him. racking your brains about what

At last, on

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to get Aunt Clothilde, who bas All in nl, it's been a merry are many recipes, but this is a everything and in interested in whirl, up to now.

you sink Into but would be offended Christmas Eve, typical one.

favourite chair, you forgot her. The shopping your

stretch 1 lb flour

crowds

have

been bbutter or margarine

growing your legs out in front of you, and denser and less and less imbued breathe a deep sigh, Everything 1⁄4 lb sugar

(praferably with that Christmas

spirit The is ready. vastor)

salespeople have been growing Knead butter and sugar or mor

more and more surly, or can it boat them to a cream; work in be that you have been becoming

Increasingly dimeult? gradually,

you shop, the more your temper shortens and your shopping Ust doesn't.

make a stiff dough. Roll out thinly. Grease a large cake-un and line it evenly with the paste, retaining enough to cover the top. Trim the edges, put the mixture in, and make the surface

flot and smooth. Moisten the edges of the pastry

flour with cold water and flatten on the round top. Make all secure

Tako neat.

skewer and make four holes right down to the bottom of the cake, Prick all over with a fork, brush with and bako in a beaten egg, moderate even for about four hours.

and

a

adding

squeeze of lemon juice. When all the flour is smoothly worked in, press the dough out into a round about inch thick; or press out and cut into rounds or oblongs. Prick all over with a fork and bake in slow oven till palo golden brown. Short SHORTBREAD

another bread may be cut while hot or traditional Scottish cake. There broffen later.

The more

When

Relax on Noel

But tomorrow is Christmas--- and what a day that will be. Ex- eltement and fatigue will mako You the children Impossible. have invited too many guests for dinner. You hardly see how you can make the grade.

The children have been at you for weeks, about when are we going to buy the tree, or when are we going to set it up?

A tense, excited holiday is a is Grandma coming? Can I go problem Indeed. But A uttlo over to Bill's Christmas Eve? judicious management may take

of the con Come in my room while I show some of the edgo you what I bought Daddy (or fusion. The kids will get up Μοπι). I've run out of money early

open presents you and I've still got presenta to buy. can't stop them. But you don't have to complicate matters by insisting on

to

normal routines. This can be a day when things

Ingenious Gift Happens Every Year of

Wrapping Ideas

By ELEANOR ROSS

dinner

Then there's the Christmas footer way. CXCOD card list. Shall we continue to that mother will need help

This is preparations. send cards to the Doaks's--they n haven't sent to us for three years day to take it easy, avola pros

But if we don't and they other way when there are miner here sures and excitement, look the now, do-how red our

will be faces

Mirritations. And

Try to get small

·we never answered the per- sonal note that was on the children to nap or rest in the

and afternoon. Wumpkins' eard laat greeting we must write a special

Est, lightly, even of the mag- on theirs this year.

Will we nificent Christmas dinner, Quiet-

T takes time, it takes sequins along the sticky side have enough cards, and shall wo ly spirit away much of the be pleased send them unsealed and save sweets and candy, to reappear at ingenuity, plus plenty of the tape. You'll BLACK BUN: Here is Scot-

and amazed how castly they postage a lot of ours came that a later

when it will not of effort and bright Ideas, adhere to the tape. Try using way last year?

date, land's

And Junior and add to an already abnormal diet, GWD festive coke Hogmanay (December 31). for pretty gift wrapping. sequins of various colours to get Sis, who promised to help with and when there is less excite= Wash and dry two pounds But for so many of us, it is a lovely, shimmering effect. the addressing, had dates or ment. If calm prevails, fatigue of currants, Stone two pounds

Once you let your think of all something,

your imagination homework or writer's cramp or is minimised, and appetites aro curbed; it is not necessary for go, you'll big blue raisins, Blanch and one of the great joys of the

The tree base got misplaced, the whole family to be sick on liquid, then add mlik, Sieve the chop half a pound of almonds happy season, and one wo sorts of decorations along these

Chop half a pound of mixed would not willingly forgo, les Absorbent cotton gives a and it took two whole evenings the day after Christmas, candied peel. "Sift a pound of To

to the tape; dried the recipient, the nowy look

parsley flakes give the look of Christmas greensl

Coloured toothpicks, pasted in pretty designs, and cutout letters and pictures from magazines can all be pressed into service.

For instance, ne up coloured toothpicks crossways along the length of green package and Tun a strip of matching green tape down the centre of them,

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flour and sall into a basin, Melt the butter. Add milk and no

four and mix with It four beautiful wrapping is part salt with the butter to the flour, and mix into a smooth dough.

ounces of sugar, half an ounce of the gift itself, for it is of ground cloves or cinnamon, Let the dough rise

round part of the giver, an extra cool

half un ounce of place for 45 minutes. Then ginger, a teaspoonful of Jamaica boken of love and affection. shups into balls and bake in a floured baking tin in a hot oven black pepper, and small

pepper, half a teaspoonful Here are some wrapping ideas

téa- [that you may find interesting. for 15 to 20 minutes. Spilt the de

Add to balls,

COLOURFUL SEQUINS cover them with butter poonful of bakin-soda.

these the prepared fruits, Add and serve hot; or let them cool

just enough butter, milk or

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and serve with jam, cream or besten eg, with a tablespoon. All through the year, we

golden syrup.

Derbyshire

BAKEWELL TART:

â oz short crust pastry Filling:

mixture.

ful of brandy, to moisten the collect hatboxes, for we've found Caloured fountain straws, pref- Whey make grand containers for erably the transparent variety, Make a paste by lightly rub-gifts, and lend themselves to all look pretty when placed under bing half a pound of butter in- Borts

of decoration. So you holiday tapes on gift packages, to a pound of flour and mixing around, cover

have an old square hatbox two sides of it in quickly sufficient water

with black paper, two with silver or red, the lid with another colour. Cut out Christmas ball elegantly wrapped package, weHOULD shapes from coloured paper and find that white and gold are and lovely. Wrop Above each always smart

Decorating The Children's Party

to

WHITE AND GOLD

Moving into the realm of the

Atle-

The SANTA CLAUS MYTH

By Garry C. Myers, Ph.D.

We encourage. and sistors. They had very convictions about the the young child

to strong

mattor. But in my very early years, I believed in Santa Claus, anyway. Nobody could

glue these to sides, but several box in white mode peper, Loop bolleve in Santa Claus? bat Perth's hope

B

Of course, we should.

Santa Claus is a deep-

my

ima-

from building him in Keep ma since I wanted to share

Santa

fsida esen of the holes, the all comers and fisken with tape. ydra ends in a bow on top of To top of box, glus a gold tinsel

joys of my playmates........ Hotbox, #o that boor is opened posette and a guid Christmas tree

who con

condemn by

Just uning yarn how use ormations Chondrops can be seated figure in Western

on to

to hold, ornament if it culture. The imagination of Claus argue that the child, on disillusioned, will sup- the child under six takes to becoming

his parents deliberately, de- celyed him.

There are some his cases when parents and teachers matter try to force Santa Cirus on the child long his experience

exelung sequins, showy as can be,

tape,

For

TOLIDAY time is party stuffed with cotton balting, and a strip of transpar Apply see man's gift, wing box in old St Nick very naturally. Hime, especially so

for treated to a pretty good paint sticky side up, down the length brown suede paper the across children, Of course it does with a nice wig and beard of you wish, fastening the tape of gold ustin ribbon, along length fairyland. And no

job of Santa's red-checked face, of the box, and across, too, width, near top, with flat, band Santa is the king of take quite ☐ bit of extra white cotton, the whole thing armly underneath with short with gold Unsel ribbon, Decorate how matter-of-fact we un- and develd ent make him un- work, time and effort to do topped off by a red velvet cap, strips of the stuff. Next, add the with small gilded pine cones. imaginative adults may be, able to cept Santa Claus

The figure was up a children's party right, fur-trimmed. but surely it is worth what placed just inside the door, then

later moved near the tree. is really a labour of love. What takes place in a child's Near the big tree you might tree or two place a smaller

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in

The Teacher's Problem Of course, the teacher has

Now About Money Gifts to moundly, completely. world is part of its founds bright with edible decorations HERE'S HA need to be she'll feel very important when other creatures he, creates big problem. She would do well

hampered by persona, believes in fairyland, dwarfs and gnomes and

himself,

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to omit Santa Claus suggestions above the kindergarten age. If

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tion for the future and the ruch

coy about the best used later for private as popcorn balls, candy

treasures to be kept under lock basis for memories that canes, strings of gundrops and, gift for many people is

and key.

Encourage Imagination

a child asked her if Santa Clau For the college girl or the $15.00 will be joyous or sad, or lite cellophane bars filled with money.

în șal, she might be tactful to -brightly-coloured Christmas can- While it is an impersonal gift, young careerist, there are several

est to the child that he *sk Over the years I have written onts about the matter. 25.00 even resentful. So let's get dy and mits: Place: these fairly peak, is om te besutinkt ware of malding the welcome

parents busy and plan a party that low and attach them loosely so graced and dramatleed is divors east a charming gift. Here again, tals column, I've urged parents his

A few years after each of our 8.50 will add up to good times that even the littlest quest can, ways, a

Kas pretty OUR BODY be di parte to All the mind of the preschool children was- disillusioned, 25.00 for everybody young and have the fun of detaching tho First of all, the bills should be carry all, la nice

ho felt "Covert:berzzah in It/child with Zarzis ok fancy and to goodies from the tree. And bank-new, old.

When encourage him to weave such we asked each in turn

we had harmed) lim by having 35,00

treat the big tree to some extra

Atling inclister bil bright touches, for the guests,

We did this with our Glignonõua, garters, with a bill 10.50

Including

ing brisally-coloured toys

linked into bose, or pinarent, is three children, and they have us we had not and added that i

thirteen grand, his own children would have or other little Quinis, that 10.50

children, talcen, right off the,leng, and include a silv awarded da prized, without des damo, or

Invitations should be pont out to litilas triends 'and. pityinstes 5.00 and the should be special if tracting from the main tros Ai

only little whilth, corrispondenso decorations. 4.00 cards bedecked * with ho

scals are

1.00 white red

4,50 10:00 of stood

tached to: would gird p the old tikin OND

litilo

24.00 think

15.00 won't be

Loca

from

8.00 CRU

you

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When the tabled

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mother: 'sure-fire; mice, we've done so with rule, each of Santa Claus: ́ by and by ds,ho

da in u Ultië te white, chil or red

with timming these children has begun queas had and that is exactly what

rio lako tioning the Santaj mythi around happened, as it turned o

the of five or six When he

Tooked up

at they parent and ve

asked if Benta Claus Wik; a

person, he was calmly answered,

Unfortunately,

Pressures

we Ne, but we have been playing pressure have tele

fron Santa Clar

lecem that he is Then we went on

ould

playing Santa Claus as long as

wishek, therekfior,

any older chila, un "know

Bostoned was always

Claus Santa