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CHOOSE A SMALL BIRD AND COOK IT THIS WAY

year.

ELECTION is extremely turkey or chicken at this time of important with any kind For this allow one pound of chest- of poultry, but to-day the nuts to a good-sized bird, and holl them thoroughly in their sklus first. housewife's task is made Then plunge into cold water and. considerably easier, as birds are leave for ten minutes. By that time the skins should come alt quite carefully graded in all the big easily, including the brown, Abrous

underakit. shops.

Staleness in turkeys or chickens shows very little until they are actually on your plate.

Fine Skin

Pound the chestnuts very finely, add the nuts with a little butter and either cream or eggs. Add salt, pepper, and a tiny pinch of mustard to flavour, and fill the bird fightly. Your Christinas beef should be

Choose birds of fine skin-the ten days old; then it will be in real- colour is not so important as they perfect condition. Wing rib and

Although Sirloin are the most popular joints. Aneness

pores.

the of white-skinned birds are support

The Hesh should be bright red. H it is a purple it is stale, and

to be more fender, with good cook- if it is a very pale red it will be

yellow-skinned bird can rome fourth.

to the mouth as tender as a pench.

to

Wipe the joint over with a wet

Turkey is beat eaten hot-cold winth and then, flour thoroughly with turkey having a tendency to taste tour in which you have mixed salt rather : tough nation. Don't then. buy to large a bird. It's pepper in your dredger. usually safe allow two to three reads of waste in reckoning; your Mine of bird an eight-pound turkey 18x pemple, a ten-pound turkey

seven or eight people, and so on. The best possible way 10 cook turkey and chicken is in n overed aluminum baking dish with ventilator top. You are then saved a busting troubles, and need not touch, the bird until half an hour Instore serving, when you dish or

en the ventilator wide.

Cook in a deep dish with a good e sized knob of butter on top as well

my beef dripping you may have. Bate all folats frequently unless you are using A enver.

Wipe your bird over with a clean

in whom cloth wrung out

water. Uve small, neat wooden skewers to

Serve with, after pudding and at least two vegetables.

Watch Your Windows

Leten up the stuffing, and be rather MA^

MANY modern houses have such delightful broad window-sills

extravagant with the butter you use that they deserve to be well dressed. for basting.

Window-sills lend a great deal of

On this important occasion, you character to a room if the house- ould allow yourself from to is of butter in which to cook the wife has taste and Ingenuity.

In a hotise seen recently every bird. Melt the butter in a small Faucepan and pour it over the bird room possessed ita window ledge and just before it goes in the oven. If each was differently dressed to suit you wish a crisp akin to the bird the individual need of the room.

The lounge, for instance-a large itour, pepper and salt the bird blue root overlooking a busy street, tightly beture pouring on the butter and therefore having net curtains Cook slowly in a moderate oven, right across the windows-had a tall Increasing the heat for the brown- cream vase in the centre of the all ing process of the fast half-hour: blled with delphiniums to match the Ad 15 minutes cooking per pound enlour scheme, flanked by a pair of o; hird, plus the extra half-hour at squat vases of a pale shade of blue, the end.

each filled with a small posy of pink and blue flowers. The effect was pleasing against the mistiness of the net curtains.

Stuffings

Friday

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UCH a rush I've had." The manageress of a dressmaking establish- ment, said to me- whilst I was being fitted for a new dress.

"I'm going to be married on New Year's Eve. We've got the house, what about you giving a hand with the furnishing?" sho whispered in her best wheedling voice.

"Right," } said, "that's easy. You'll spend the afternoon at the Woman's Fair with me. Every- thing you want you will and there under one roof.

"But mind." I said, ns later on we No fun and went into Olympia.

You can come

games this afternoon, Ünek later with your young man and enjoy the fun of the fair, but today It's serious business.

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you are going to con- a

your

time you want a house that with pre- eally run itself, and there will be no belter servant than electricity."

In the Pavillon devoted to electrical chaipment we found all that was worth while in stoves and lighting, heating and labour-saving.

"Wait a minute for colour schemes," I said. First you want help about the workshop of the house, so let's absorb some of the details in the model health and cleanliness kitchen." We then looked round for the newest One of the ideas in labour-saving. nicest things about modern times and

edges of the volumes seen from out- side, they do not look their best.

In the kitchen, where the colour scheme is green and white, a white window sill with a tubby green vase kept filled with the cottage garden type of tower looks effective.

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December

23, 1938.

Janet Jay, with

a Bride-to-Be at Woman's Fair

of ench on is due to the fact that ench Loup is prepared from its own special Rich cream is the basis of all the cream soups, and nutritious cula of meat are used for the meat varieties.

the modem kitchen is that "Binck Monday need not exist any more.

Olven

Ingredients the proper washing equip ment, you can get through the week's laundry, sheets and all, double quick time and have it ironed and out of the way by Tuesday.

The first thing I noticed about the new Hotpoint electric cabinet washing machine is that the enamelled top is just the right height to use as an extra table, and beautifully cool for pastry making.

the washing inchine is a useful piece of furniture and does not waste floor space.

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Opened up the cabinet reveals on efficient washing machine which is as easy to use as a vacuum cleaner. The wringer, which stows away in a cup board in the base of the cabinet, nd- justs its tension automatically to the inaterial going through, and the soft upper roller is kind to buttons and

A dining-room recently seen had) one of those delightful flower rings holding short-stenimed flowers on its press studs. broad sill, and on each of the smaller alder-It was'a by window-n smali: one to match filled with a similar colour scheme of flowers,

Windows are so prominent a part WHAT You stuff your birds

Books, by the way, should be put of my room that it pays to make with is entirely a question on window ledges where they do not them attractive if taste of your individunt palate. A chest- chow from outside. Placed in un-peity are the keynote. nut stuffing is excellent with either curtained windows with only thei

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need guidance about these,"

"There's your object lesson," I and, na we gazed at a lovely range of nell coloured ones on The Times Furnish- ing stand Self-colours you have agreed upon right through the house, except in the dining-room-where a well-covered pattern helps to obliterate footmarka round the table and stains from spills by the sideboard.

"Fawn beige in the fashionablo underfoot colour at the moment. You can have a pinky tone or a yellowy one, according to your scheme."

"A man needs feeding," she said, "Let's go up to the food gallery,"

We lingered here sampling tit-bits both sweet and savoury. They all Lasted so fresh and good, which set mo thinking that it was time to start ordering extra supplies for Christmas. Soup is a good stand-by for all times, and on the Heinz stand we found the full range of cream and mest soupi.

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Shanghal, Dec. 22. Reports are freely circulating In: usually well-informed circles in Tientsin, according to a report from that city, that a number of changes in Customs tarifs for North China are at present under consideration.

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up a list of Items EZ ZENCIAS ZA UZAZI ZIN the importation of which it was pro- posed to restrict drastically.

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The nuthorities in close touch with the Provisional

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ported impending British loan, re- poria of revision of the Customs tariffs have begun to circulate with greater persistency. Rumours go as far as to suggest that there will be a prohibition on the import of ali but Japanese goods into North China,

to inching

Revenue Increases None of these reports or rumours can be confirmed, but it is the general impression here that

the final intentions of the Provisional Government have not yet crystalised. Imports Into Tientsin have in- treased heavily during recent months and Customs revenue has rocketed. The increases are generally believed firstly, that goods are again

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that importers in- secondly, creased their stocks owing to fears of extreme restrictions against im- ports, and, thirdly, uncertainty over the currency

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from message Shanghal says the Japanese authori- iles there profess complete ignorance of the matter.

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