1961-11-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

JEAN

PICTURE by LIDBROOKE

To put

a feather

in your

cap..

THIS I

#nood.

What

is a snood? It is the most feathery, wearable, packable, practicet hat in- vented for long time.

All it conalate of je a strip of fight wool covered with feathers (ses the sketch above). You put it over your head and tle the ends under your hair at the back, or under your chin la tront.

For packing, just roll it up Into a long space-saving

sausage.

in red, belge, moss green. black or white, guarantee its irresistibility.

-(London Express Service).

COOKING COLUMN

Pare

BY HELEN BURKE

DON'T LET THE FRUIT SPOIL

IF you make your own

Christmas cake, pud- ding and mincemeat, it

is a good idea to get the

job behind you before

the third week in

THE

CAKE

and sugar Cream the butter and together, then beat in the treacle & Folden syrup, Beat together the eggs sherry (or tea) and vanilla essence and mix them into the creamed mixture, alternately with the fours, sifted with the sult and spice. N

Add the remaining ingredients

November, because, as Fears and which, from my car but do not over-mb. If you have

respondence, I know that many the Christmas season readers like. advances, there will be The ingredients

bulter plenty to do.

1 tablespoon black treacle (for e

As regards the cake, the time between now and "The Day" will give it time to mature and for the fruit to lend its perfume to it.

The new suason's dried fruits

ones, been

should now be obtainable. suggest buying packaged which have already cleaned. These fruits, bought in bulk, may be a little dry and, perhaps, not too clean.

Buy in packs

Several days before making a cake turn them into a colander, lower it into the sink filled with cold water, let it rest for minute or two, then lift it out and into the water several times to dislodge any dust.

This

applies to currants, sultanas and seedless raisins, but not to seeded ones which would not only become water-logged but would also lose much of their flavour.

Drain the washed fruit thoroughly, then spread it on a Hinen cloth and, from time to time, roll about in it. Such treatment ensures that the trull is not moist but well plumped

Lip

The

cake recipe

The reason why a Christmas caite is so often dry is that the fruit itself has been. Instead

of contributing moisture to the cake, too dry fruit detracts from

it.

Here is the Christmas Cake recipe which I have used for

an electric mixer, use it only to cream the bitter and sugar, thes Boz. soft brown sugar, hand as the batter must not be mix in the other ingredients by

are 8oz.

a dark cake) or golden syrup,

o ever-beaten. It should be fairly

u

large or 5 standard-size eggs, stiff so that, when a spoonful is to 4 tablespoons sheme or Lace up and given a little jerk, strained cold

an it will fall easily. tea, teaspoon vanilla essence 4oz. self-raising Turn this batter into the pre- flour, Goz. plain flour,

4ter-pared tin and level it off, La # spoon salt, spice, a pinch each of ground a gentle tap on the table to 10 minutes, then give teaspoon mixed rest for cinnamon and grated nutmeg,

KIM settle the mixture. 120%. (haif

Currants, 120z sultanas Plazo the tin just below the them chopped), centre of slow oven (300 Goz. stoned or seedless raisins, degrees Fahr. or gas mark 1) and 20%.. chopped peel, 2oz. ground bake it for 3% to 44 hours, but almonds, 2oz. quartered glace est it after 3 hours. cherries and the grated rind of 16 lemon.

A good way is to draw the cake far enough cut of the oven Have ready a buttered and to allow you to listen to it. If the floured tin, 8 to 9 Inches in slightest hissing comes from it, diameter, or line it with two return it to the oven for the full thicknesses of buttered grease- time. proof paper,

-(London Express Serv

Service).

Rupert and the Popweed-25

Rupert tries to pull himself together. Who ca earth are those wild men ?" he think. "I feel no safer with them than: 1 did with the Seaserpent. And where am I? I was pushed s far that this must be the middle of the island. Hello, there's a

ALL RIGHTS

little light up there. Insure men what's causing it." He climbs to the space and gives a gaspi,“ l'un right through the island,” he murmurk

This is the other Ride "Hi, litle bear, where are you?" calls a voice suddenly, and young boy appears beside him.

RESERVED

AND GIRLS MAGAZI

Punch's "Pony"

-Puppet Learns To Ride A Grasshopper-

By MAX TRELL

4T INCLE PUNCH,"

said Hanid. the Shadow Girl with the Turned-About Name, "when you were a small Buy-" Uncle Punch suddenly raised his hand to stop Hanid from saying anything more. He was sitting in his rocking chair the window.

"Did

by

"Well," said Uncle Punch, "I was so small that could lean on a toothpick. I could eat my dinner on a button. I could sleep in a peanut shell."

"You certainly werc sinail, all right," agreed Hanid.

"One day," said Mr Punch, "ny Father came home.

Punch,' he said to me, 'I've Eot a present for you, my say something Puppy-Boy." wrong?" Hanid asked, startled.

"You certainly did," said Uncle Punch. "I must remind you that while there was a time when I was quite a bit smaller than I am now, there never was

a time when I was a Boy."

"But you were smail, weren't you asked Hanid.

"Yes, indeed." said Uncle

Punch

called

"Then what were you when you were small?"

Uncle Punch explained that

he was, as everyone knew by this time, or should know they didn't, a Puppet,

Called "Puppy**

"And that means," he

said, "that when I was young I was * Puppy."

"A Puppy is a Dog" cried Haŭld:

Uncle Punch frowned. "Dogs have no right to

use be said. that name,"

Hanid asked what small Dogs should be called if they couldn't be called Puppies,

"All Dogs," answered Uncle

Tomed grosshopper "He was carrying something in the palm of his hand. It was

Uncle Punch smlled.

95

Henry, the Grasshopper, threw Punch off his back.

through the air than any Puppy like me had ever had before.'

vaulting and zooming

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): A business opportunity which may in- volve a brief absence from home will be well worth the temporary inconveni-

ence.

PISCES (February 20-March 20): You would please your family more than you realise by arranging to spend more weekends at home. ARIES (March 21-April 19): A prospective employer may be sufficiently im- pressed with your persona- lity to overlook your com parative lack

of experi-

ence.

JACOBY BRIDGE

a beautiful green and brown Grasshopper. My Father told me FOB the last 25 or 30 years that it was time that I learned most leading bridge players

Grasshopper- in this how to do some

country have either back riding."

shunned four-card innjor suit "But how could you ever learn openings entirely or only · bid to ride on Grasshopper's them when there was no other back?" asked Hanid.

convenient bid.

Certainly the une club open- "First I had to tame Hearying by North a convenient That

was the name I gave my bid and it was no problem for Grasshopper. I tamed him by South to wind up at six hearts. feeding him

fresh clover leaf Actually, there was a problem. sprinkled with molasses and He thought about bidding honey.

seven! "In the meantime, my Mother West opened spade and had made a tiny saddle out of located the queen of spades for dis- the end of a glove. My father South. He drew trumps, made a pair of stirrups out of carded one of dummy's dia- a bent pin."

monds on his long spade and "What did you use for a har-made all the tricks,

There was considerable mess?" asked Hanid,

3

NORTH (D) AA34 ❤AQ 107 +0.6

WEST 4683.

VA

+ K 10 8'3 4QJ978

K1054

SOUTH

AK 1082

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EAST

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Both sides vulnerable

East

North

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Fass

dis-

❤

5

PAS

"I used brown thread," sald cussion at the table about wha- "Finally, one ther or not the other North-South Uncle Punch. afternoon, at the end of June, pair would reach seven hearts,

led Henry into the garden be hind our house. I climbed on ¥4CARD Senseķ♦| his back.

"should bo called Gidder, Henry! I cried.";

happened?" Harid wanted to know

cochlea."

Hanid looked doubtful about this name. She said she hoped that small Dogs would-like-it....... "And now," said Uncle Punch, what was it you start- ed to ask in the beginning?".

was going to ask you," said Hantd, whether when

vito ride?!?

what

Strange look

She was sure that something exciting had happened when Uncle. Punch Arat climbed on for a strange look had suddenly Henry, the Grasshopper's back,

come into Uncle Punch's face... you had "He threw me off his back.", Puppy're right back on again I wasn't said Uncle Punch, but I climbed

you

plied Unico Punch, I was going to tot Henry keep me much too small for a Pony. I from riding on his back. After

· Bouth “@West TPas Pass

Fass.. 4 NT

5NT. Pass

Fass Part

Pass Pass Y

Opening lead

At the

but

Q-The bidding has been: North ⠀ Kist South

no one imagined what

West

Rotually happened.

Paus"

other table North

Pass

playing six hearts.

the four of diamonds

lost the diamond

You Bouth; hold: ART, WE 185:6043 M3954

What do you do? ma An exr pariner is trying to

Keith Euro

off the bat

Zuessed, the

up going dow

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