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IT'S

ti you like original

costumos copy Miss Superstition, She is

sture to create a stir of interest at a fancy dross party.

SUPPER

SWEETS

HETHER you're having a

Warty or just a few friends

in for a quiet evening, these -easy-lo-eat sweets will be much

appreciated.

Chocolate mould, for instance, is n sure favourite, especially if each garst has a small one made an individua! fancy shape.

It is made with 1 pint milk, 2 table- spoonfuls cornflour, 2oz. sugar, joz. chocolate powder, or a grated penny bar, a few drops of vanilla essence,

Mix the corndour and chocolate with

a little of the cold milk to form R smooth paste, boli fie remainder of the milk with the sugar, add the cornflour mixture, and continue to boll ut stir for two minutes.

Stir in the vanilla essence, pour into a wet mould, and leave to set. Turn out and sprinkle with desiccated coconut or chopped almonds.

RECIPES

FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK

BEEF LOAF

1. minced beef, alb. fat bacon (minced), 4lb. breadcrumbs, 2 tomatoes, 1 cm.

MIX

AIX the meat and breadcrumbs well, skin and cut the tomatoes,

Then to and add

the mixture, moisten with the egg.

Fut the mixture into a stone jar and steam for about two houra. Serve cold with palnd. CHEESE AND

PARSNIP SAVOURY

21b. parsnips, 14lb. prated cheese, loz. butter or margarine, 2 cpp, t teaspoonful mixed mustard.

PREPARE the parsnips, cut into

small pieces and boil in salted water until tender. Drain und mash with the cheese and butter or mur- garine.

Lastly, and the eggs, well beaten. Bake in a buttered ple dish in ni brisk oven until nicely browned.

This makes a tasty hot dish. 11 preferred, it can be eaten cold with sslack.

One-Minute Hint

PIPECLAY and water made into

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21,

1938.

FANCY DRESS!

1103

Brother and sister go as Safety First and the

Messenger of Poace. Two popular and

topical figures.

These Should Win

a Prize

Says MARY GRACE

A young lady from Wales in her national dress will cause heads totum.

30

CHOOL

Honey Fillings Improving The

NUMBER of delicious Allings for sundwiches, spongecakes, and tarts can be made with honey as a bonis.

For example, it can be used with mashed banana, proportions as

desired,

Honey and walnut sandwiches are a treat, parilcularly if malted bread is used.

Spread the honey on first, chop the walnuts finely, and sprinkle them

over,

Honey mixed with ground almonds makes another good filling.

Ginger honey is particularly tasty In tarts and Victorin sandwiches. Add ten drops of essence of ginger and two ounces of chopped crystal- Iloed ginger to one pound of thick honey.

Those who and honey 100 sweet a paste will remove stains often like R better if a few drops of

from wallpaper. Leave on for 24 lemon juice are added, hours and then brush of Hghtly.

W. B.

Colour Of Food

THE colour of rhubarb is improved and the syrup sweeter and richer if a few cubes of red jelly are added with the sugar.

A teaspoonful of lemon juice added to the cooking water improves the colour of bolled rice.

To make bolle white fish whiter, rub it over before cooking with n

cut lemon..

To Improve the colour of cakes of the Madeira variety, add a dessert- spoonful of golden syrup to the creamed butter and sugar,

Add the same quantity of black treacle to Dundee and plum cako mixtures.

W. n.

M

OTHERS

arc

driven nearly distracted at this time of year by, on one cile, a small con who on- nounces: Mother I have to be n cowboy in the school play," and on the other by ten-year-old Anus picading tones: "I want to go as the Fairy Queen to Joan's party,"

FOODS

MEN

PREFER

BSERVERS were asked recently to note what business men in restaurants choose for their, midday meal. The favourite dishes turned out to be roast beef and two vego- tables, fried fish and chips, and suct pudding..

Housewives, probably, will not be surprised at this resul Years of experience in "feeding the brute" have shown them that he distrusts Innovations. Give a man something "lashing" in the vegetarian line

Paiterned for you to-day are four instead of the roast joint he is ex- fancy dresses that you can make appecting and he will demand. "What- at home. Let's take the Belishajever is this?" Then he will either Beacon Arat.

leave it or eat it with

The secret .

of radiant

beauty

Take a little "HAZELINE' SNOW"

on your finger-tips and gently massage it into the skin. The smooth and lovely complexion which results will reveal to you the true secret of radiant beauty.

“HAZELINE

Bluan fare from

ell Pharmacias

air of

and Stores

The suit is composed of alternate martyrdom, according to how badly, stripes of black and white sateen or

been brought

cotton fabric with orange headdress, or how well, he has

The

boy

could carry a short thin up! pole bound with red, green and om-

Her fabric to represent traffe lights.

Where some men are concerned it even necessary in produce A red triangle, the thirty-miles-is not an-hour sign, as well as that indicat-something completely

ing

4 school, could be utilised.

out of the

jordinary to excite suspicion and dis-

A voile dress could be used for the approval. Messenger of Pence. Cut the bodice

magyar shape and thread silver rib-

One has only to cook a familiar

bon down the front, cressing over to food a new way. For example, a

back.

wife who took a lot of trouble to more tasty

Wings are made from thin silver tissue from the sixpenny store, and make a piece of steak wired at the edge. A coronet or than usual by adding a new sort of silver leaves mounted on cardboard forcement was asked by an ungrate- for the hair and the word Peace em-fúl husband, "Why on earth can't wei bendered in silver thread down the have honest meat?"

front.

Now to describe the two grown-up! tyemên Like a Change costumes. "Superstitions," is an ex-!

cellent choice.

Women, on the whole, take more

You require a dress of green suteenindly to changes of diet. Forsaking with various superstitions cut out of} the habits of our grandmothers, we silver or coloured paper.

For instance, it is supposed to be have grape fruit, oranges, or bananas unlucky to see the new moon through al breakfast time, and turn a dis- twigs or through glass; crossed dainful eye on the man of the house knives, ladders, cracltca mirrors, consuming rashers of bacon and egg. "unlucky 13," back cats, horseniors,

are some of the morc common. For lunch or dinner we welcome Wear a close-fitting cap or bandeau French dishes of the omelette and with a reversed horseshoe or cres-souffle kind though we may not care cent moon in front.

to go to the trouble of preparing

For the Welsh costume. An old them when we cat at honie, and shoulder shawi an be brought out generally we prefer light sweets. for this dress.

The frock is of dark woollen At a women's college the caterers fabric with full slceves of white found that, even in winter, stewed

more

organdle or muslin. A large check- fruit, fruit, tarts, Jellies, and similar popular thazi ed gingham apron is worn over itdishes were Over the trilled white mob cap is steamed puddings of the suet variety. Stennied and baked sponge puddings, the usual high-crowned black hit.

rice, and tapioca were moderately popular. Puddings of the bread variety nearly always "hung fire."

Tasics Agree

Care With LIPSTICK

Here it seems the tastes of the sexes for once agree. At one of the men's colleges at an English Univer- sity recently one-night strike Was PPLY your lipstick with care and held as a gesture of protest against

precision. Onc application of the too-frequent appearance of the indelible variety should be queen's pudding, sometimes called sufficient for a whole day provided it "queen of puddings," Among pud- is nut on correctly in the first place. dings of Its kind it surely deserves Pay as much as you can for your the title. It only on account of its Bpstick and give yourself on extra puffy gold-brown-and-white "roof." minute or two for its application But it appeals more to the eye. It when you are getting ready for your seems, than to the modern palate daily round.

Try a new

STUFFING for the

A

LTHOUGH sausage meat

W. B.

stuffing is the most popular TURKEY

jon for

rkey, there are many

other sty stuffings which

pepper, and bind with 1 or 2 eggs.

make a pleasant change and are little grated lemon rind, season will neither difficult to prepare nor jexpensive.

Chestnut Stuffing

Broad Stuffing

Use 4 or good handfuls of soft bread, or more, according to the size This is somewhat different from of the bird. Soak in milk for a few the usual one. Chop and mince lb. minutes, then break up the bread. of lean val and 14b, of lean porit, put in a saucepan and, over a slow and brown Are, inix in a Hittle white sauce. with the turkey Iver, lightly inter, with chopped mixed Then add about Boz, of chopped herbs, a pinch of nutmeg, salt and cooked ham, 2 or 3 chopped cooked pepper. Bhd with,1 or 2 whole mushrooms (when available), 1 eggs, mix thoroughly and remove small chopped cooked onion, 3. tea- from the fire. Then add about 2 spoonfuls of parsley; and season and pepper. Stir rund atozen roasted chestnuts, pected and with salt

shure to serve simmer for about 10 minutes. skinned. A good with a turis stuffed in this manner

Liver Stuffing

Is

Trade Mark)

SNOW"

Chal

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(PRDANISTORE The WELLCOME FOUNDATION LTR.. LONDON,

LONDON AND SHANGHAI COPYFLIN

* 7011

Just in!

NEW FINGER-NAIL

POLISH SHADES

With your travel twoods and silk prints, wear the lovely Parma violot shado CONCORD

With dark town tail- leurs, black and white evening dresses, try the new scarlet, clear and cool as a jowoł

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For Babies

by

Le Cross

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Singapore.

& Children

Attractive Gifts

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JAEGER PRAM SETS HAND KNIT JACKETS CUDDLESOME TOYS

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RATTLES & BEADS OTTERBURN RUGS

LAN AIR-CELL BLANKETS CAIRN'S COSY BLANKETS

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Chestnut Sauce This is much better made with At Christmas Time

Put 1b, of chespuls in a sauce 11b. of chicken livers, but, as these pan, cover with cold water, and bring ure not always obtainable, 1lb, of Hvar, can be used instead. to the bolly Lot them boil for 1 calves'

minute. Then peel and skin them. Chop or mince the liver and brown put them in a saucepan with a small in butter, adding 3 or 4 handfuls of alick of shredded celery, 1 lump of bread previously soaked in milk or well squeezed. Add 1 or water and Kugar, and cover with stock water.

the boil and sim- tablespoonful of chopped onion, a Bring to mer tlif the

chestnuts are tender, little parsley, and season bighly with Then rub them through a sleve, put salt and pepper. them back in a saucepan, and thin this puree with a little boiling stock. Just before serving, add 1 oz. of butter, divided in small pieces.

Chestnut-Bacon Stuffing

Stuffing, a l'Espagnolo

Chop 0 or 8 pork sausages, ib. of prunes (previously

and Booked stoned), the same quantity of dried apricots (also soaked), Boz. of chop

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