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Table

in the

very best

tradition

at the touch of a switch the camp fire glows

decoration

7,

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Cake

Icing

SOME

ZOME one is very shortly going to ask me what makes the icing smooth on cakes. Some one always does at this time of the year. The answer is-practice."

So, if the Christmas cake represents your sole efort at leing during the pear, don't be disappointed if you fail to achieve the uncanny smoothness of the confectioner.

Any jibes at the inequalities of your effort can ba atified by pretending that you were attempting a snows- cape, and that ridges in it are artistie snowdrifts.

But first comes the almond paste. Mir together 1lb. ground almonds, b. fine sugar, and tho juice of half

a lemon, and make them into a stiff poste with an cgp. Add more while of egy if necessary.

Sprinkle your board with cornfloi P to prevent sticking and roll out the paste to the thickness you desire. Then cover the cake evenly with it. Put the cake aside until the next day.

For the icing you will need 1b. icing sugar, the juice of a lemon, and the whites of two eggs.

Pass the sugar through a hair steve, and work it with the egg-whites and lemon juice to a cream with a wooden spoon, Beat it for a quarter of an

hour.

Spread it as smoothly as possible over the cake with a flexible knife.

The subsequent decorations can serve two purposes. They can either be used as simple ornaments, or be cunningly placed to conceal any flaws on the surface.

Wing Lee

Wing Lee's cart is full of colour When he piles his trade: Orange, gold and green, unfold Like some rich brocade.

Vegetable prices vary. Wing Leo never docs. Never hurries, never worries, Never makes a fuss,

Centuries of calm behind him And his horse before. Wing Lee, imperturbably, Goes from door to door.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1987.

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STORMY

WEATHER!

H

You

can

make

home for a

few

Cents

ERE is a decoration for your New Year table that

it at

1.

Get three fairly straight

sticks half inch thick, 30ins.

tong. Bore holes diu. from top in rach. Thread a plece of soft wire through the holes.

Close the sticks together, A.bind them round the neck,

and fasten off.

Cut three pieces of tape of equal length-about 10ins.

or 18ina. long. Fix one end of two

is gay, original and quite casy to make. The great pieces to the base of each leg of the point about it is that it lights up, looks warm and tripod with a drawing pin.

glowing.

.

Get a bowl (one used for growing bulbs in will do);

When it is finished and the light switched on it will give youl wire it tightly round the neck and fuster off. Connect three suspension the effect of a camp fire glowing in the centre of your table.

It is cheap to make. By comparing the picture with the in- wires. If the bowl has no tip at the atructions, step by step, you will easily see how to do it. These top, wire it, round base. few points may help you,

on hook,

a short piece of wire or chain

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Some other little drinks

W

E are not going be kept in a cool place, but not, of course, in the refrigerator. A tem- highbrow parature of 55 deg, will suit them

to be about wines. Christmas is no time to be

very well.

A few hours before the meal red wines should be stood in a plea-

santly warmed mom in order that

Mouton Rothschild they may take on this temperature,

That, and no more.

5. Suspend from neck of tripod highbrow about anything. Crac The length given for the sticks for the tripod is only a sug- gested one; any length that suits your particular table will do, with a hook at the end. Hang bowl kers and

hardly go together. as long as all three sticks are the same length. The same applies

The first thing to be rid of is that Put an electric bulb fr to the length of the pieces of tape. You can arrange this to suit

curious idea iliat a wine must be holder on a saucer and cover expensive to be good. the space you have on your table for the base of the tripod (but it with a glass bowl. Don't let the

jagain the length of each piece bowl press on the bulb.

If you only wish to spend a few shillings upon wines, tell any good of tape must be the same).

wine merchant so. and he will Put bowl and bulb in the always help you to spend them wise-

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BOOT POLISH

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Arrange the holly leaves as you ke. It's # good idea to twine them up the legs of the tripod.

7.

centre of tripod base, Cut.

a triangle of orange crepe paper 3ins.

ly.

You can put one or two small figures larger than tripod base. Cover the No need for so Many

whole base with paper. Fold in Father Christmas, fairies and elves edges at tape. -round the fire as well,

01.

soup,

A wine which has almost been

allowed to boil in front of the fire or which has been plunged into a bucket of water which would un- inge a lobster, might just as well be allowed to boll away altogether. Not too Cold

wines WHITE

WH

should be served cold, but not, if THE days when a differ you please, ice-cold. THE

Since it is almost Impossible to ent wine was served with

wines without n corkscrew Fill the bowl with fruit and Then distribute small twigs over each course of the meal are gone. Leve crackers, or small presents for your the crepe paper, trim the edge teith And there is no particular reason this is obviously a most important

weapon. guests, wrapped up In brightly holly. Plug the light in and switch why they should return.

See that it is not one of those coloured paper.

All that one asks for any good corkscrews which merely screw into dinner is a glass of sherry with the the cork and then pull out ogain, a claret, burgundy, cham leaving the cork in status quo. A pagne or still white wine with the corkscrew with flat, grooved spitals main body of the meal, port ma is a most effective kind. deira with the dessert, and a good

Be careful not to screw it too for Brandy to follow with the coffee.

in, so that it dislodges fragments of To reduce that number, one can cork into the wine. dispense with both the sherry and

When removing the cork from a the brandy, and, I even the port champagne botile, don't catch hold Victor Silvester Orch. Is to be omitted also, then let a good of the corks and try to screw it out burgundy come on with the roast of the bottle. Always turn the bot- Victor Silvester Orch.and de duty for the rest of the meal, tle round the cork.

including the dessert.

RECORDS FOR YOUR NEW YEAR PARTY

|F003—Quicksilver. F.T.

Cat and Mouse. F.T. F850-11 Looks Like Rain, F.T.

........Kuster & His Piano Orch.

.....Eddie Carroll Orch.

You're Looking for Romance. F.T. F856-El Payaso Del Corazon. Tango,

Le Tus Carezze, Tango.

F855—In an Old Cathedral Town. S.F.T.

I Saw a Ship A-sailing. Swing Step,

F854-Smile When You Say Goodbye, Q.8.

Greatest Mistake, Waltz.

F852-AR God's Chillum. Q.5.

He Ain'l Got Rhythm. · F.T. F850-This Year's Kisser. F.T......

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm,

Seo the KIWI trade mark on F831-You're Laughing at Me. F.T.

every tin of shoo polish you

buy. It อ guarantee

finest quality polish.

KIWI

Agents:

Blumming in Park' Avenue,

of F831-Tondle-oo. F.T.

Take Another Guess. F.T.

F828-I'm Gonna Kiss Mysel. F.T.

Poor Robinson Crusoe. FT.

F803 Sweetest Music. 8.F.T.

Bedtime Musle. (Medley),

Vicior Silvester Orcli. Where facilities for keeping wines He will advise You

are not good, the best thing to do A AS I have already men-

Nat Gonella Orch.

Harry Roy's Orch. Ilarry Ray's Orch.

.Nat Gonella Orch.

..Nat Gonella Oreli.

..Maurice Winnick's Orch.

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Tel. 24648,

Is to let the wine merchant keep

tioned. you cannot do them for you until a few days be better than trust a good wine mer- fore they are needed. But not chant. Tell him whether you like until a few hours before they are your wine white, red, gist, full, to be uncorked. A rousing journey dry, medium or what-not. He will nt the last moment will unsettle any indicate the sorts most likely to suit

wine,

Look out for Crust

you,

Beware of a wines with non- descript Inbelo from dubious

IF you have bought any port, sources.

burgundy or claret which If it is vintage wines which you has "crust" in the bottle, the wine are seeking, go for the 20's in merchant will be pleased to decant champagne, the 19' 23 and 20% them into fresh bottlen.

In burgundy, and the '00's, '12's and And it is a very good idea to let '20's in port. him do it. You will thus be spared Finally, since a render has asked direction to port any anxiety about the wine becom- mo in which

Ing muddy through mishandling. should be passed round, I can only Until a few hours before they are reply, "From left to right, and as wanted for table, the wines should often as possible."

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