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THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER
24, 1988.
YULETIDE FARE
M real reminder of Christ
FOST people have their firat
mas on the day that the good things begin to arrive for mak- ing the puddings and mince- ment.
It is then we shall see the Yuletide speeding-up of the
preparations which the house- wife is already busly planning.
Her cully shopping brings her atto- Early into the Christmas sphere of the enticing displays of the new season's fruits and dainties, the cunningly attractive packings and wide assortment of all kinds of delicacies.
Windows and counters are now taking on a festive look, and the pur- chase of ingredients for the Christ- mus pudding has begun.
Once again In homes this time- honoured item in the Yuletide menu The Is to be an all-Empire dish. dried fruit. the muts, spices and spirits, everything that govy to make be the Chelstons pudding wil chosin with an eye to its place of origin.
Empire Ingredients
For of recent years it has become the custom to go exclusively to home and Empire sources for the font and drink for the great family festivai of the year. The pudding with its wide variety of ingredients coming from the ends of the earth has become an easily recognised symbol of Empire unity.
With something of the same thought in mind many families have Rone one farther and adopted the actual recipe which for generations
in the has been followed
royal household.
Those who have made this experi-
ment in previous years have fount
with RECIPES for an
All-Empire
WIED very item is given the name of the country of origin.
You may like to fake it with you
Christmas Pudding
Juice and nealed ring of 2 lemons. Juice 2 oranges.
A little rum.
This recipe, too. with #little
the result so excellent that most of to the shops. There will be no dim- them will be intending to use the culty in securing the All-Empire in- variation, makes an excellent "pud- royal recipe again this Christmas.
Especially for the benefit, of those
who have yet to try it, here is the recipe as handed down from the 1. tiny of George
The
The ingredients
ure given on
4.
right.
Taking
quantities
will be
these
you
able to make three nor-
mal sized pud-
it-
dings.
The
structions
would expect
first
the
stimple, AS you STRIPL
mix
dry ingredients only when all these are well mixed do you add
moisture.
the
The
whipped froth,
gredients as follows:
klis.
You have only to add 15 of Ith. beef Яuct (Great Britain, breadcrumbs, 216, flour, and 2 tea- Australia, or New Zealand). spoonfuls of baking; powder and b. ralsins (Ans- leave out the apples. tralla).
Royal Christmas Pudding Recipe
lib. small raishis, 105.
plums (stone halved). ilb, Denierara sugar.
lb, breadcrumbs.
of 1lb.
SKRY shells).
b. sifted four, 116. w
L
and
(weighed
FIL
4oz. citron (sileed).
102. candied peel.
Half a grated nutmeg.
b et
2 teaspoonfuls of salt.
1 teaspoonful of mixed spler.
Inilk the added, and then the liquid stirred
into the pudding“ und the mixture
is thoroughly even.
1 wineglass of brandy.
i pint of milk.
Best results are obtained by leav
ing the mixture in a cool place tor
at least 12 hours before dividing it Into the basins for cooking. About right
hours continuni boiling
(Aitairalla).
Use a cupful of ale and is RM Tb. currants of brandy, in place of the rum, addl three cats, and mix in the usual way, Plenty of Variety
jaib. xultanas
(Australia).
(Mauriflus).
Two Frocks for Swing Lovers
Frocks in plain or patterned woollens are an important lem. At left, natural colour wool in a short sleeve track with extended shoulders and stitch pleat skirt. A tailored frock in wide striped woollen with the stripes used in opposing ways for pleated skirt and bodice. This model adopts long sleeves with extended shoulders. and buttoned' pockets.
Are You A Good Speaker?
TF
you are to be a charming faker.
Make sure that your voice is not suspect the unfortunate possession ever of such a vojce, convince yourself The most glorious music 1lb. brawn sugar
The recipes for
plum pudding written loses its beauty when played of the error by using occasionally mincemeat are legion, azıd. lb. Hour
upon a harsh and tuneless intru- to listen to yourself. (Aus. and
If you break off abruptly in the apart from those tratio).
more generally ment, so do the best of phrases, when alb. breadcrumbs known, nearly ever family has its spoken in a
rough. undisciplined middle of a sentence, you may be (Great Britain), wa special way of preparing these vojec, jar, and netually hurt the ears shocked to find how loudly the own voice ring in Filb. apples
cars, how strained the
you must cultivate a pleasing and high-pitched and strident. If you attractive speaking voice.
essentials of the Yule feast. (Canada). As for mincement, very many
echoes of your
own your
to
few
of the hearer.
It is worth while to watch your 1lb. mixed peel houtwives buy this item ready pre-friends faces as you talk to them larynx fecks, and what physical.
(South Afrlen), pared by sume well-known firm, for if the face is screwed up and the curt you me making merely
al- there are widely advertised and mouth contracted just a little, you make a simple statement. A monds
(Pacific popular brands of this and all the may he sure that your voice has such shocks should soon teach you Islands).
other delicacies
for the table and jarring effect and is rasping delleate to adopt a deeper, and more syn- Rind and juler of sideboard.
1 lemon
sweet
(Jamaica).
(Malaya).
A le salt,
1 glass rum (Jamalea).
glass brandy (South Africa),
(Great Britain or New
A little milk.
Zealand).
gredients for the puddhig
can
nerves.
pathetic tone.
In the same way many of the in- You may be talking too fast. Then Smooth and Slow
be you will see brows kilt in an endea
By speaking a whole octave lower teaspoonful of obtained in hygienic packings all vour to concentrate and to follow mixed splee ready for use. Fruit for dessert, what you are saying. A strained than usual, you will bring your voice boxes of figs and dates and various look of concentration, too, will be under control and give it that fine preserves are other obvious exaen noticed if you speak too softly, be smoothness which is so desirable.
The well-bred woman speaks in a cause again there will be dificulty in low lone, slowly, and distinctly. ples.
of secrel
the Here we have the Dried fruits mixed in equal pro-hearing, and thus in following you. portions are offered by one well-
charm of voice and the explanation High Pitch known firm of leading importers of
of the pleasure found in listening to If your volee is high-pitched and her words.
-So. If besides making your own pud- Empire products.
Istening to ourselves, and by strained, you will probably notice a raisins of
their faces, it the forehead, têners as seen in down of shutting the eyes, giving the listener should not be difficult for us to dis a wearied and bored look, is often cover just where our voler fails to due to an uninteresting and mono- attract and how to set to work to tonous voice. Sometimes there may improve it.
H. E. even be attempts to hide a yawn!
necessary, after which the puddings dings you decide that the Christmas Labour-Saving Items
should be stored away to be given cake and minerment shall also be another two hours boiling on the day homemade, there will, of course, Le of serving..
Improved by Storing
The longer they are kept after the first boiling the better the puddings will be. Now is thus none too carly this to begin making them, and applies to whatever recipe you may decide to follow.
There is another excellent recipe for a rich pudding and one of very special value to the British house- wife, since It has been evolved to demonstrate how every ingredient can be obtained from the Empire.
The many aids to cooking and the A pulling listener's eyebrows. by watching the reactions of our is-
extra quantities of most of the above important trimmings to every course, items required.
the sauces, avouries and sweets can
So that you can allow for these be selected necording to their brand when making your purchases here names or mark of origin. is very satisfactory mincercat recipe you may cure to follow:
abredded beef nuet,
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11.
ib. brown sugar,
b. stoned raislus.
alb. currants.
11ს.
b. mixed peel.
1lb. Anely chopped apples.
oz. mixed splee.
1ib. sultanas.
4. muscatels.
lb. ground almonds.
In all these things it is thus a simple matter to identify those of undoubted quality.
At Christmas, of all times, this should be the principle of selection with every item of food and drinks. Let everything be of the best and which сап nothing be overlooked contribute towards the enjoyment of the great festival only five weeks from to-day.
Seven Points Of Popularity
If you want to be popular that they themselves have not the RE you popular? If not, would resented.
you like to be? People who are you must belong to your own world faintest idea how boring they really unpopular with their fellow-eren- and not to some imaginary "smart are. Lurea are well aware of the fact and set."
whatever
0. Do you try to be clever at expense? A wilty they are unhappy about it,
3. Are your efforts to please much other people's they say. So if you find yourself lonely, if nobody seems particularly too obvious? Is your praise gushing sarcastic tongue may be amusing, interested in you, if your invitations and insincere? Do you smilingly but it can never make you popular. reason, for your listener, will always are few and far between, if you agree with everything that every You will be distrusted and with good make efforts to find friends but the body saya?
have the uncomfortable feeling that
response is disappointing, have you The argumentative person and the they may be your next vlelims, ever questioned yourself honestly fault-finders are nuisances, but you and deeply to discover how this go to the other extreme. Let your state of affairs has come about?
Do
-Do you really enjoy life? opinions be well-defined and don't be you find that, with nil its foolishness,
If not, here is a short self-analysis afraid to argue (always in a friendly there is something lovable about the test which will help you to find out spirit, of course) and you will gain human race and that the world is, which one of your own short-comings the reputation of being a stimulating after all, a fine place to live in? is responsible for your social dis- talker and an interesting personality. appointments.
Of all the questions, seventh is the
1. Did you join your tennis, 4.-Do you withhold confidences? most important. If you cannot an- the affirmative on most rambling, or other club solely for the Do you always talk of generalities swer it purpose of meeting new acquaintan- and impersonal subjects as though days of your life, you have not the ces although you are not really keen you had something to hide or wanted makings of popularity in you, though your listener to understand clearly doubtless it is your unpopularity it- on tennis or hiking?
If so, you have, made an error, that he or she must on no account self which has led you to so dis- Don't think about making friends but pry nto your private life? If ED, illusioned a philosophy,
chilliness about you throw yourself whole-heartedly into there will be
tho
Question 2 is next in importance of your club. In- which will prevent acquaintances activities variably, the keen members of any ripening into friends. Willingness to and you must answer it with an club are the popular members. It exchange confidences is the basis of emphatle negative, but the others are you are not genuinely keen on aport, friendship,
join some other club devoted to-
something you really like-music, Boring Conversation
politics, play-reading-anything
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not so fundamental. They are points
on which you can improve yourself if you set about it with determinn- tion, but if you recognise any of
5.---Conversely, do you talk too them your own particular failing. energies into it and forget that self much about yourself and your not you should declare war on it right
long as you can throw all your
of which you are probably much too conscious. *
Falte Superiority
2. Do you, in secret, feel you are superior to the people of your circle? Do you dream of some day moving among smarter, cleverer people?
This is a fatal mistake and one that does not deserve much sym- pathy. Thore will be an aloofness, or worse still, an attitude of con descension about you that will be
are for they Egotistical talkers are the world's handicaps. worst bores and everyone fights shy
particularly Interesting adventures? away,
of them. But the tragic part of it is
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ENGLISH SOUPS
of the thest JULIENNE SOUE
To-day is Thanksgiving Day
LIVERY year on the last Thursday, and Worcester
sauco
und bread
in November Thanksgiving Day crumbs. Steep the bread crumbs in is celebrated throughout Amerlen. a little chicken broth and add small It is a great social and religious pieces of bacon and, when cold, add festival-and turicey generally a little brandy, and stuff the inalde Ogures in the
menu of the special of the turkey.
Coolt the turkey, according to its evening meal.
Special Thanksgiving Day dinners size, a to 3 hours in a slow oven are arranged now in many London and in a deep pan, place carrots and around it and, with some hotels and restaurants. Here are onions two recipes from Maison Prunler: chicken gravy, make the gravy for
small zest
the turkey.
This can be served with whole Iced onions and sweet potatoes.
Crepes a l'Orange
Stuffed Turkey And Cranberry Sauce Convert Into caromet a
Moke the batter as for ordinary amounts of sugar, add lemon and fulco of lemon and ploce panenkes, and cook the latter,
! Have the the cranberries In this, allowing
following mixture to cook for half an hour. Then ready: Grate the peel of an orange, pass it through a fine leve small verted into caramel a small amount
add to sugar which has been con To stuff, the turkey lake a
amount of sausage meat, whole of curacoa.
A spoonful of this mixture Is peeled chestnuts which have previ ously been cooked, a little sage and then placed in the centre of each "nülmeg" and "a few spices, pepper pancake,"
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