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THE CHINA MAIK, KATURDAY, DECEMBER §

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CHRISTMAS AT HOME

International Holiday Fare

WANT a change in your Christmas fare? Then come on a dinner table tour round the Continent to see what's good.

Turkey? Most countries have it. Lots of other things, too. This is how they're unde

AUSTRIA

STUFFED PAPRIKAS WITH

RICE:

1

for large green or red sweet peppers, 1 cupful or rice, onion, 2 or 3 tomatoes, 1/2 plust sour cream, goose dripping. slock water, salt.

Cut the top off the paprikas and remove the seeds. Cut one

or two of them into strips. Cook in hat goose dripping with the chopped onion, the peeled tomatoes und the rice, which should be moistened with #tle water or stock. Cook till the rice is soft, mix in the sour cream and simmer for 5 minu tes, stirring well. Stuff the paprika with the mixture and Serve with rice.

CARDINAL:-

Rub

skin

By CYNTHIA ROBB

sugar, ʼn iltile lemon juice, sliced fresh fruit and whipped cream.

When

Bake the apples till very soft, remove peel and cure, and rub the pulp through a aleve, quite cold, add this pulp gradually to the whites of ces beaten to a very stiff snow with the sugar and lemon juice. Put on a triass dish and garnish with

Bilces of trut and whipped

cream.

ITALY

FRIED CHICKEN

FLORENTINE:-

3

4

tablespoons olive oil tablespoons lemon juice tenspoon Fait

2

teaspoon pepper

teaspoons chopped parsley.

Madeira, oil, a little malt, a pinch of mixed spices and. 1ot Disolve yeast in milk.

them stand in this while the Add to pork fat la being prepared. mixture alternately with sifted flour. Mix dough

Cut the fat in small piecES, well. Cover pound in a mortar, and warm and set aside in warm place algky. Then run through a until double its bulk Then dove, with the pounded peelings toss on floured board and add from the truffles. Now put in citron, raisins. Knead until smooth. Cut In half. Mouldsaucepan, on a slow fire and, Into

when it is just melted, add the loaves ridi put in two

pans. Cover with a ***

truffles and sauce. Mix well grease loaf

When cold and heavy towel and set aside until and remove. double in bulk. Brush with stuff the turkey with the beaten egg.

mixture. Roest the turkoy, basting with melted butter or

Bake in moderate oven (350) 012 for an hour, or until it is gold brown and shrinka from the sides of the pan. Remove from

SPAIN

the oven and cool in puns. KIDNEYS JAUTES WITH Scrve with or without butter with coffee or wine.

FRANCE

3 b. frying chicken, cut into TRUFFLED TURKEY:-

pieces

cups flour

egg lightly beaten

11⁄2 cups olive oil for trying

Make

for

SHERRY...

A [ow lamb's kidneys, 1 tumbler of sherry, a little lard, 1 teaspoon of chopped parsley, small triangular croutons of fried bread, salt and

and pepper. Remove the fat and skin from Maybe We should include the kidneys, slice them and cut turkey after all but the way in small pieces. Cook on # the French cook it.

brisk are in a little lard, sca Truffed turkey is a famous soning with salt dish served at the Reveillon, In 3 to minutes remove from

drain on i col

And

pepper.

colander.

Put the sherry in a frying pan

marinade of all, lemon juice, salt, pepper and the supper after Christmas Mid- pen and parsley. Pour over chicken in night Mass.

casserole and let stand ubout 1 lbs. of lump about 2 hours, turning occasion- sugar well with organg

One turkey, weighing about and reduce by hair. Cook the and put in bowl with

8 lb. after trusting, 14 7b of kidneys in this sauce for a few tally. Then take chicken out of

dry well, flour pork Lat, 2 lb. of truffles, 4 juice of 2 oranges, a cupful of marinade,

sprinkle with chopped parslby, pineapple julge, a bottle of thoroughly, dip into beaten egg tablespoons of brandy. 3 of white wine, and half a bottle and fry in deep olive oil for Madira. 2 tablespoons of salad and garnish with the croutons. of champagn ive and serve about 15 minutes. Serves four. oil, a sprig of thyme, 1 email boyleaf, EL pinch of mixed splecs, salt and pepper.

oold.

GERMANY

STUFFED GOOSE'S NECK:-

Remove the fat from the in- side of the goose's neck without piercing the skin and stuff the Beck with: one finely chopped goose liver. 1⁄2 lb. of uncooked park, breadcrumbs, 1 egr, salt and pepper, all well mixed to- gether, Sew each end of the nock up and fry in goose fat to a light brown colour. Serve cold. cari in slices,

HUNGARY

PORKOLT CHICKEN:----

1 chicken, jointed: 2 or 3 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 or 2 large onions, 2 or 3 pimientos, I tablespoon of paprika, salt and a alttle water,

Sprinkle the joints of chicken with salt and let stand for 2 or hours, Fry the chopped onion in a little lard and, when slightly browned, mixed in the tomato puree and season with salt and paprika. Put In the

chicken, brown, add a little water, and simmer 2311 the chicken is tender. Garnish with sliced and previously cooked pimientos.

WITCHES' FROTH:-

2 lbs. of apples, the white of 2 or 3 eggs. 8 tablespoons of

SWITZERLAND

SWISS ALMOND PASTE:—

pound blanched almonds, 1⁄2 pound fine sugar, 3 egg yolks, tablespoon ruse water, 1 tablespoon Kirsch.

1

Wash and peel the trumics,

minutes. Put on a hot dish,

KNITTING AND CROCHET SERIES

if fresh. (Tinned truffics are three of the largest ones, cut in crochel ready for use). Take two or There are no knitting and

patterna

On Today's thin slices, and allp under the page, as this is a special Christ- okin of the breast of the bird, mas issue. Both series, how- Cut the remaining truffles in ever, will resume their regular Make sure almonds are very quarters. Put them in a basin appearance on Page 12 as from

snail pieces, or salad bowl, with the brandy, next Saturday, dry. Cut into Grind together almonds and unger. Gradually udd rosc water and Kirsch. Grind again. Place in a bowl and blend in eng yoiles, one at a time. Deat upul smooth. Store in airlight Jar and use nceded. It Imakes picasont pastry filling. and is soft enough to decorato cokos.

NORWAY

CHRISTMAS CAKE:---

A rich fruit bread -- without which no table is complete at Christinas.

1

Make The Children's

Party A Success

you're in for it again!

Sonquered by tradition,

by the need to return & score

of invitations, or butter, 2 whole

cup sugar, 11⁄2 lb. softened

egg simply by the persuasive yolks,

eggs, 2

ones tablespoon ground genius of your little cardamon, 2 ounces yeast, 1 cup when they're out to get lukewarm milk, 1 pound sifted something you've agreed to four, 1 cup chopped citron, 1 cup seedless raisins,

Beat sugar

and butter In

give another children's party.

large bowl, until well blended. A children's party is Beat eggs and cardamon and either a wow or a flop-no add to the sugar and butter halfway house, Having

Spiced Hot Drinks For Your Guests

By Alice Denhoff

CERVE spicy drinks, cinnamon and grating of nutmeg aromatic, steaming, for Add to 2 qts, sweet cider, and simmer for 10 min. Strain the real, hearty holiday through cheesecloth and reheat. spirit, the ideal accompani- Serve at once. Serves 4.to 0. ment for fruit cake, or

Hot Punch Bowl next, to serve cookies.

10 to 12.

♫

given in

28 my life mother, one flop and five wows I claim to know the secret of the thing. . You must treat it as a military operation. Dragoon your little guests.

What shall we do now?” are the words, of doom.

.

PERFECT YOUR · PLANS many days before the day. (You üre Montgomery, and this is Alamein.)

assault to stick at 5,00-tea won't spin out for more than half an hour. Young children are too excited to esst much; older goes gobble,

At 8,00 comes the main enter- tainment and it had better be good. If you are rich and "lazy" you will have a conjurer, pup- pet show or film show-de- initely a film show for children

meant offers of aunts, gude they are sir.

CHOOSE YOUR STAFF for over six, their youth and strength.

Don't fall into the trap of Hot Spiced Nectar Punch Mix in large saucepan, and let For a party of 24 children forgetting that children mature.. is a good choice, the recipe simmer for 10 min., 1 gallon you will need four to six adults The children who were tickled. sweet cider, 11⁄2 lb. brown sugar, who know they have come to pink by a conjurer when they to serve 4 to 6.

6-in. stick

cinnamon, 1⁄2 tsp work, Turn, down the woll- were Ave will die of enmal xipw Combine 8 2-inch sticks salt, one blade mace, thap, each

whole cloves, whole allspice, Z mothers and granules, who want cinnamon, 2 tsp. whole thep, crystalled ginger? cloves, tbsp. allspice, 4 pieces mace, 1% water and tsp. grated lemon rind in a saucepan. Boll 10 min.

Remove from 'fire and

to watch the fun. Having to be At 5.45 a lot should haapan. polita to them is a distractión - Trays hould come on, with the you can't afford.

ice-cream. More trays should

Your helpers must know your come on with a present for each time-table, and stick to it. guest. And the door-bell-should For a 3.45 to 6.00 pm. party, I start ringing as parents come to suggest 4.30 tea, 8.00 entertain collect. ment or games, 5.45 ice cream.

TIME YOUR PARTY to the Offer the parents sherry and strain. Measure one c. of Strain and add grapefruit last spilt second: Personally, I cherry only. I once found my this spice infusion and add julce from 2 10-oz. tins and also think a short, sharp

husband mixing a different gla to & c. apricot nectar, few. orange julee, Reheat but better than a three-hour test of drink for each perent, which graine. salt, thep. lemon do not boll Punch should be Juice and 2 thep, granulated sugar, mixing well.

Reheat to servE.

ved steaming hot. Grape-Cherry Mull is easy to make, yet differant and delight

endurance,

Remember

Darty th

is

meant he was perfecily useles ldren for getting taxis. children,

that unlike adults, always arrive early. You should all be ready. |with hair brushed; ribbons Mod, ]etc....... 16 ̧'minutes in advance.

We always give each guest a

BEI DE

ANGEL YOUR FOOD SUPPLIES

To serve 4 to 6, heat # tap. esch powdered cloves, cinnu- balloon on arrival (some Cam-, ready by 2 o'clock at the latest, made and nutmeg, 2 tbsp sugarmanders prefer to give things on And keep the food simple, and tap, cherry flavoured gelatin departure) set 3814 pärcent

to 2 c. water. When bolling, extra to allow for burstag

034 ona qt. grupo julce,

Between zero hour and

Spoed deparing guests with a has children

fg Bglay: Nightony. Stan they aril

# greperult jalve into young,

Break melam-alias bumps

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