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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Cooking to please
by Alex Simmons
Run out of snack ideas?
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Here are four to solve the problem
7HAT can I make for a snack? That's the ery often with a note of desperation to it which can be heard in many a kitchen these days.
For There's no doubt that the snuck fad has qught on. His the most sensible way I know of filling in that gap between meals, or of rounding off the day.
So here just four ideas which,, 1 hope," will save you bruch head-scratching.
Bacon and tomato wraps
Have forge mushrooms, 2 tomakes and 2 all rashers of struky boren for each person. Altri wabung the mushrooms, peel of the skin, Next blanch and remove the skin from the
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Wrap the bacon around the tomatoes and place each weige- ped tomato
top of DA up- turned mushu bons. Finally, 1 the mushroom Haik a51 topa vať the tact.
Parsley garnish
With cocktail stick skewer the upright stalk to the murde ruoin, so that everything to instal tustelher securely,
ar-
ters.
Sume
Place cach prepareil fupto in a buttered casserole cikl ranging them neatly, und bake in a moderate oven 375 degrees 1 or repulo 5 for 18
Meanwhile, creamier potatoes in Batter and egg yolk as the aelative When you told the dich Tron (za oven pip
ereamed
prepare
tatoes around each individual dainty using a piping bag and star tuba.
Put the dish back in the oven and bake the wraps until potatues are nire
il
the golden
HUNGARY
Dobos Torte: whisk together
4 oz. of sugar and 4 uz of cut and you have a fairly stiff f. Then gently neki 4 oz, of test, platu fuur, foking it in- the mixture.
Grense a lightly fear three baking trays non pour a third of the mixture into spreading the top evenly with n Jake the sponge palette knife.
in moderate oven for between thưve and six minutes,
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To make
a chocolate cream, mix 4 oz. of sugar with 1 oz. of
water and boil it until you have cool then stir in 4 egg yolks and,
thick, syrupy Buid
afterwards, 4 oz, of dark, melt-
a chrointe. Cream butter lightly and add the cho-
colate mixture to it.
listens in on Europe
Veronica Papworth
Papworth and comes up with her
own plan for peace
HOW I SLEEP ALL MY CARES AWAY
US
It all started when
one of the waiters
in a Paris hotel slipped
a small box into my hand
The Cox and Box relationship of the famites across the court- yard finally defented me.
Oh, the noise!
ISED as I am to the of dawn chorus
There on the fifth floor with and the sun balcony, two copies, a owls housekeeper and a large black
and blowing chiffon curtains.
cat dwelt behind cross-drapet. mit-
the chocolate
Cut the sponge into six par- inistre a sandwich Wiling Put more chucolate un bott: the
colour. Then garnish with hope tons, atid ped parsley.
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Before serving, ent out some 3-inch virves of bread from thri silves. Dig these roun beaten rk with a little mill added. Then try the brend hot for
1,ift ench
carefuls savoury from the dish and out it on round of bread. Serve
very }
Lighter still
Mushrooms on toast ate even
Bihter than the previous recipe, Wash and skin & oz of nitish Pours and cook them in 3 causes of butter, Kerguing the hil on the p
for Carter achel bae
her saucepan, melt n eve of Buter. Then tince of Hour and cook at to dominates without wn- ing or rulouring it in any way. The time for and thr ale
salt, pepper -pint of cream, ant a lush of mace. Stir all! The mixture becomes thick,
Finally, udd the mushrutas, Incitelling the tries to the sauce. Serve on small routs of tast.
Chopped bacon
Palito cake rolls: This is an
excellent supper dish and well worth moiting. Coolt and nash
LADYLUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
AQUARIUS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10
(January 21- YOUR JACKY COLOUR:
February 19: A very plea- sant family gathering will leave you with the wish to arrange such meetings more often. PISCES (February 20-March | 20): Recent training wil you to tackle a joi equip which not long ago would have been beyond your
DRAVITY.
If this is your birthday, Inak out for MAUVE. ought to bring you trek.
it
10p and sides, and then Errunge small halves of walnuts and eberries as decoration.
of pandades the mix through 2 ugers of four, 1 Gamer of butter mul et Rull out this paste for at 14-inch thickness and tnt
intre rounds. 'The 1 k medium-sized pagan will for this job.
mat
front
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greele, browning them at both Fry tie, rottals on a grensed
skies.
Cing 4 outres baron, etthees
sausage n 22 Tanners で rusian tgether and I'v them gently, Then arket two beaten eggs. Mix the ingredient ti Better.
Put the filling into the fried cakes and then roll teen tip. Sprinkle same breaderemies and Brate cheese over the top each cake and place the miler Ha triter to brown. Serve hot,
Golden brown
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Mince led pancakes; Peet anal whop 2 ounces of onion. Fry them gently in 1 oz. of butter then add 4 ounce of four and cook until they
are golden brown.
to the call of the at bedtime, I toss turn long after night in any city.
I have hung out of hotel windows and yawned at the down in practically every capital in Europe.
Not a 1 can always 1:1- paint the noise. Sometimes it's the general BUZZ-as in Athens.
Rome is deafening. Madrid merely hums, Nearer north. indivifuni nalsex are distinguishable.
Enchanted
Take Paris, for example. Nu -you take it. A couple of weeks ago 'e but 1.
A stew hotel-new to ine, that bet breaking with antiquity,
for Louistin sormething-or- other race lived there just planeet me on arrival.
So many lace-like, wrought from balenies giving on 2017 enchanted courtyard.~ Too like French Bm set to be true!
How right was. Sow Irs tuits de this particu- ar piece of Paree the walls were paper-thin. The whole place might have been "nocked up." in cardboard.
The Nound of next-door Plumbing-of water released t 2 am to find its own level- was Niagara.
of earb door
Add 1 dessertspoor of tomato ennserve, then gradually add half a pint of stock. Bring the mixture to the buil, stirring all By time, ther acid-b minced beef, salt and pepper in brought me from my lied before
fade, and a pinel ul Simmer for 20 minutes.
uf
Juke.
Make a pancake latter from
4 ounces of flottur, 1 vitit, by-pitil
of milk and salt to taste, and enok the pancakes in the hernal way.
between the pancakes. Roll Divide the ment Alling liberal-
then up and serve hot.
London Sxpress Service).
JACOBY .. BRIDGE
ARIES (March 21-April 19: Do you open the South friend.
Overcome your extreme
sensitivity
If you bid one sunde
with two spades or just one when dealing spade" with a person who lacks only you are ultra-conservative. finer feelings. TAURUS (April 20-May 201; spade contract will be reached Strangely enough, the four- Werk & careless youngster after a one-spade opening be- that damage through neglti- cause, even though North will gence may cause as much pass, East will reopen and give harm as deliberate wrong. South chance to make up for
is initat underbi doing GEMINI (May 21-June 21:
Playing at four spades, South
A great deal of tact will be ruits the second club and goes required when dealing with right after the heart suit. Ho older person of the rats the third heart I dummy opposite sex.
le clear up that suit and leads CANCER (June 22-July 21): a rump.
The unexpected visit of an At this point it is essential old friend from abroad will that he Anesse. The Anesse upset your previously Inid loses to the queen, and West plans for the week.
lends a third club.
LEO (July 22-August 211: Many players will trump thin Don't delay action by wait-club without stopping to think ing for help which may be of the possible
consequences
a little too late in coming. and 45 result will lose the
VIRGO
(August
September 22: Avoid unk- ing a half-hearted promise for the weekend which you are very doubtful of being able to keep. LIBRA
29-
(September October 22): Make an effort to break away
All old tradition which is beginning to hamper your efficiency.
SCORPIO (October
November 21): You can't afford to reject constructive criticism given you by a Весной оf far wider ex-
perience. SAGITTARIUS
(November 22-December 21): A holiday flirtation will soon fizzle out and leave no lasting regrets on either site. CAPRICORN (December 22. January 201: Boo't be foo proud to accept a lavish gift, even though you are not in a position to reciprocate.
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four club is led, South en rur la dummy, get back to hand with the ace of diamonds and plek up the rest of West's
land because West will be left with the long trump.
There Is a known as throwing a user HI!
standard play trumps. loser that will guard against the tour-one trump break
South discards his Jackc of diamonds which Js going to "be
*CARD Senacke,
Q-The bidding has been: North
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East
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You, South, hold:
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What do you do?
A-Bid either three or four apades. The oboles depends on Just how conservativa a bidder Jour partner b.
TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner opena no spade. After two passes West reopens with two hearts and your partner and East pass. What do you do now?
Answer TomoSTOW
The slam
morning.
Easy on the pocket
I never set eyes on anything but the extremities of any of them- plump. beringed hand or two sun-tanned legs beneath a sunshade-but I reconstructed Der yes thus,
Monsieur and Madame Cox rose at four-thirty, fresh air fiends. Testaurateurs, bird- watchers! I'll never know.)
With a swish and a erash, the shutters were dung back and the radio blared loud enough to bent its ttle valves out.
Merry clinkings of coffee pot against lid heruided the rattling of china. Cat-calls (trou, minok, minou) lore the alt.
By five o'clock they were of und sway.
I pictured the housekeeper dementedly shutting shutters, whipping off
sheets. fuldig clothes into closels, doping the vat and generally ubliterating all signs of the Coxes. fler deadline was a to six.
and
longed baths, clinked glasses in a final rightcap (health salts?), crashed the shutters
together the time a knocking on my door ogal and were fast asleep by
carly tea and croissant, announced the arrival of my
Wan-faced sighed to the waiter: "Your night noises are killing me.
Ah! Peace!
That evening with a truly Parisian flourish, a slight bow and a carefully cupped hand he produced the answer to woes: "Tight you will sleep like a bebe," and he handed me a small, fat box. Inside rested
24 miniature snowballs the colour of candy Moss-EAR PLUGS.
Its
The carriage rings
with their voices
"Shelt
we have the window raised a bt?"
Take train journeys to town, for example, and who among us commutera, has not suffered from over-hatted females off for * day's shopping yet stricken to you." with verbal Mysteria at tle prospect?
The railway carriage rings At midnight I followed the with their voices. instructions
for "less "You're sure this L our malades"
**}g; metallurgistes"
ouvriers trein?** "hes lotel- "Oh, it will be nice won't lectuelsalia, that's
mel
11?"
I warmed them in my hands moulded them to a slight point, und jammed them in my cars.
All night { knew perfect
pence.
The lives of the Coxes and quarter Boxes no longer concerned me, Then i waN Ch
They might never have existed. Munsleur Yet my debt to them is great. Mindane BUN returned) (Were they night club enter- Through ther I have dis- tainers, welfare workers, good covered the delights of n stleat time Charles? I wondered.) world-when teant it.
With a song, a dance und a I do not joke at deafness but bubbling stream of badinage to be cut off from all noise is they rollicked around, Inok pro- uccassionally, bliss.
It's up
the
"I don'! mind, dear. "I was only thinking of smuts."
"Yes. How kind of you. Thank you-up a bil" some poor bowler-hatted cipher struggles with the strap.
"Is that too much for you, dear. Down? if you wouldn't mind?"
"Thank you so much."
"And thought I'd try for a two-plece. In blue, except do seem to have had such a run on blue. But Charlie dotes on nares are it was married in blue, you but...
rather
know 30 off....
than launch
"Well, an I was saying dear, Ell broadening
And so on.
E
Eerie
"Well, what I always say blue's safe. But you were nut thinking of anything farmi were you, because
At sach times I rejoice as I rench for my ear-plugs. Dear "More of a picated effect. My tomilles Cox and Box. I love hips, you know........”
you!
My plugs have also trans- "Still, they don't cut pleats formed my home life.
the way they used to....
CHILDREN'S CORNER
An Interesting Trip
-Everybody In Playroom Goes To Long Ago-
By MAX TRELL
For the girl who wants to MR SLOCUM,
"I never eat dinner," said "Txidly. I'm stuffed with saw-
the Railroad dust,
add a topical touch rather Conductor, waved his lan-
MR
aboard! All
than buy a whole new ward-tern up and down and shouted, "What robe, look for accessories "AU with the same flavour ------ furry caps. furry muffs, cupes and stoles,
Indoor or outdoor stole of eluummen and white checks, bubble edged. In brushed wool, £4 18%,
Rupert and the Secret Path-36
Listesing anxiously the two pale hear somebody enter the room below. "We're trappedt 1" whispers Dingo, looking Trightened. “Nor yet, breathes Rapart. don't know we're here. And anyway, he can't squerre through that litle space, Let's have a kök
at those trees growing across the epen wall. They cross slowly and ulently and look out. "We might get our this way mutters Singa softly. The entrance faces the other way so he wouldn't see un but could we possibly do it quietly enough?"
ALL RIGHTS AKEBAYAR
about you. Young usked aboard Man?"
Mrs Cuckoo, several times. "All aboard for looking at the Small-Sized Long Ago!"
Wouden Indian.
Suppose you're going to tell me you're of wood. not hungry because you're made
al-
All the Passengers were ready inside the train. They stuck their heads Out of The window and shouted to Mr Slo- citn:
"Let's go, Mr Slocum! Let's grunted. go to Long Ago."
Started rolling
Then Mr Slocum
shut the
Hiawatha, who was sitting on the Door of the train with s blanket oveT his head. only
"I can't understand Indian talk," said Mrs Cuckoo.
Here Mary Jane, the Raz Doll, tasked General Tin, the Tin what kind of a place
doors. He sounded a blast on Soldier,
the whistic
of the locomotive. Long Ago was.
The next second the train was "I've never rolling along. elackety-clack, elickety-click, clackety-clack.
Now Mr Slocum wasn't the usual kind
of Railway Con- ductor. And the raliway trala
explained.
been there," she
Tin's explanation
"It's full of things that used
to be but aren't any more," re- wasn't the usual kind of rail- plied General Tin. way train. And the Passengers Just then, they went through weren't the kind of Passengers a tong, dark tunnet. When they you usually ECC оп railway came out Into the sunshine an trains.
Mr Slocum staud only four inches tall and he was made of rubber,
the other akte, shouted:
Mr
Slocum
"Long Ago All off!" Everybody got off the train. What stronge things there see in the country of
The railway traits was a toy were to
and it run on tracks at the foot Long Ago! There were Ladles
of the bookcase,
Passonger list
wearing bonnets and hooped klets. There were Men wear- Jog salin elothes and silk stockings and wigs and swords, the following: there were Knart seemed to be made of dry g7058. had rools that
The railway Passengers were The houses
and Hoold, the Shadow Chii-
Bren with the Turned-About
Names, and Mr Punch and his
Thatched roofs
wife Judy, who were Puppets. "They're called
thatched
OR
There were Teddy, the Stuffed roofs," said Judy to Knarf and Bear, and Hiawatha, the Small- Hanid, "They're very pretty. Sized Wooden Indian, and Miss don't you think? And they krep Gloria Doll and Mary-Jane who out the rain just as well was o ing Doli.
other kinds of roofs."
"Only the Birds build nesta There were also General Tin, In them," sold Mrs Cuckoo, the Tin Soldier, and a Plastle "Ten u'etock, everylandy: Teu Duck who didn't have a
name o'clock!"
and snall wooden Dird who kept telling Everybody What Mr time it was
Teddy and General Tin and i
Punch visited the zoo bi because sho was Long Ago, There they saw an Men Cnekoo and she lived in enormous Lizard called a Dino- side the clock that hung on the aur. They BAW Filed that wall just over the bookcase.
"Italf-post nine," Mrs Cuckoo Rad to Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. whom she found herself aliting next to in the railway car. du hope we get to Long Ago before dinner-timo,"
looked like Snakes, and Snakes that looked like Birds.
But the Plastic Duck paddled on a lake in Long Ago that was exaelly like. the lake of Here And Now.
And that was the end of the trip to Long Ago.
*All aboard for Long Ago!" aliouted Mr. Blocum.
Jets may fly overhead and all hell may be let loose below. Yet 1, with my little Ross-filled eers, remain sport.
It is in this strange, velvet- lined slightly eerie world that I get down to what is known to my proud family #B my "scribbling."
"Excuse me, madam. there's a lady at the door selling flags
for.
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"Sorry, I can't hear. I've got [any pluga in."
"Listen, this is urgent. Con you lend me five bob for..."
"I can't hear, I've got mu plugs in."
"There's a gentleman on the phone wants to know... "I've got my plugs in,”
So for nobody has shouted back: "Well, take the flaming things out and answer."
But I fear it is only a matter of time.
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