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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

CRISP

ISP winter weather de- mands hot sweets to

Now- round off the menu. adays diet does not allow us to indulge in schoolboy "stodge,' but something nourishingly warm and sus- taining meets the bill just as well, without embarrass- ment or bulk,

Speaking of schooldays, per- haps our greatest joy was a fruli-filled basin pudding of suet crust. There were lots of ideas for these, caramellised or plain, so I guess they still top the bill. Here is an American version you may like to try, with cran- berries.

"This delicious winter pud. ding hails from Middle West of America. Make your suet crust in the usual way, stirring in n good teaspoonful of cinnamon

to

After each lib. of flour. mixing reserve a portion for the lid, then roll out the large piece buttered thinly and line basin,

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"Take equal quantities of stoned dates and prepared cran- berries. Mix and fill the basin, putting in two tablespoons of brown sugar and gill of water. Put over top a layer of pastry, and then tie down with a double layer of greased paper. (The secret of a good pudding is to keep it airtight, and so con- serve the flavour.) Steam or boil for two hours. The bitter cranberries and the sweet dates blend well."

THE

THERE are countless Ways of using breadcrumbs in puddings-spleed, Baked or steamed, cabinet variety or charlotte. Here Is an attractive coconut layer sweet re- vipe.

"Grease a large ple dish and half l with thin silces of bread, each

Father's Baby Wasting Time

"DON'T know what to do with

Patciclu," her mother sighed. "With me she is quite all right and well-behaved, but as soon as her father enters the house she becomes

a perfect tile nuisance.

"Of course, he spoils her terribly, and she knows it. If she can't have anything from me, daddy is sure to give it to her. she behaves like this at the age of two, what will the be like as she grows older?"

This problem is a very common one in modern households particu-

O

Wisely

ilme

waste psychologically

TAPI occasionally is

Sustaining Puddings

with hot lemon-flavoured slide the soaked fingers into the pan, layer being sprinkled with desie- drossed

and

with currants with treacle sauce. Plenty to keep them and allow them to become coated all

over with caramel. Servo cated coconut come shredded suct. (Use 3oz. each busy here.

cinnamon, one

2

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A FEW DROPS

family

ON THE HANDKERC FOR INHALING THRE

NOSE OR H40

of coconut and suel and foz. of "Four big apples, two eges, one whipped cream or custard."

NOW for "Russian Pudding" currants.) Best up two eggs, add, gill milk, a litle

40-year-old 1 pints of tepki milk, 2oz. sugar lemon, one tablespoon ground rice, und a few drops of vanilla essence, curar to taste, treacle for sauce. Pre- favourite. This prize-winning recipe Pour

into the pic dish and leave pare the apples and stew till tender, is a "lightweight," but it is nourish- sweetened with cinnamon. Place ingly substantial, so do try it for your Banking one hour.

next special meal. "Bake in a slow oven 11⁄2 hours, them in a pie dish,

"Line a flat dish with pastry and covering with greased paper, till the "Mix the ground rice with most

cooked, and re- of the milk and slightly cook the unke blind to a nice brown. Spread padding is nearly moving it last of all for the top to mixture, then beat the eggs and add with warmalade and then put the over it: take 3 colour. Turn out and pour over a with the rest of the milk, and from following mixture

according to

02. oz. butter, 2 sugar, 2-6 pleces of sugar, little melted red currant jelly,"

Stir over gentle heat, then and glass of sherry. Put yolks taste, FRESH frult is ever impore pour the mixture over the appies of expa, creamed with the sugar tant for children, so here and bake about 4 hour in a mode basin over hot water in a bulter. sugar puddings iwo nursery

in rate oven uni alightly brown. urc

naucepan. Add the troducing

different it In

ways. For the treacle sauce to serve, There is something rather comfer! just warm 2-3 tablespoons of treacle and sherry. Place the pan over gen add the Juice and the heat and whisk or stir till the ing about Honey Dumplings. Made In a saucepan,

"Then remove from the ftre, cool with honey and ginger flavouring, to grated eind of a lemon, and a little ingredients thicken to a custard,

Use hot."

and add the whites of eggs whisked sent to table with dressing of water to loosen, fresh orange juice, here is the way they go:

ANOTHER outlook for sure to a stin froth. Fold in and spread aver the pastry and slices plus

bread, this mixture

Lo

cream

custard.

of

For xx

eans,

Steamed Kidney And Onions

"Six ounces self-raising flour, 2oz. breadcrumbs. 3oz. shredded rutet, Toffee Pudding" might have been marmalade Alling, and bake about Sprinkle with easter sugar and serve 1 tub

tablespoon ground ginger, 4oz. designed for the nursery, but in this 15 minutes in a very moderate oven. cleaned currants, 3 tablespoons respect we are Inath to grow up,

"Half cup milk, 2 rather thick very hot"

A. M. liqney, gill milk, julee of 2

the flour Into

Tablespoons of n slices of bread, branges. Steve basin, then add the breadcrumbs, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons golden ginger, suet and currants. Mix well syrup, a good sized lunob of butter, together, stir in the honey-which small pinch of graund ginger, 11⁄2 cup has been previously warmed-then of mix together into a firm dough with people.

"Boll the milk and pour it over us makes the milk. Turn on to a floured

1 large onlon and board and divide into clight portions, the bread-which has had the crusts dish, Peel rolling each into a bull. Place in a removed and been previously sliced cut it in half. Remove the centre 1/4 inch in and lay in the half a sheep's kidney teamer over a saucepan of boiling into angers of about water and steam for 11⁄2 hours, thickness, Allow the brend to soak and a piece of butter, adding a sea- Serve with the strained Juice of the in the milk, and then drain well, to roning of salt and pepper.

milk being 15- Then pin the onion together again oranges."

with n Din wooden skewer and place the toffee' it in a small basin or casserole with

prevent too much Forbed.

Meanwhile, prepare

delicious supper

VEN the youngest of them EVE could enjoy Pommes a or caramel. Place the syrup, moist at #itle butter and water at the bot-

Ito Pudding. It offers the right sugar, ginger and butter in i frying tom of the basin.

Cover with a plate or lid and cook solution for cereals when appetites chat over low heat, stirring all the

time with a wooden spoon, until the in a moderale oven not less than 21⁄2 ore a bit tricky.

Cinnamon-flavoured apples cloaked mixture becomes In lovely golden hours.

I. M. custard are finally brown. bubbling all over. Gently in ground riec

New Ways with Tapioca

are

TAPIOCA puddings sound like an unpleasant reminder

those Clint follow of nursery days, but sound. Some- times it is both a nerve rest and a something which everyone will ke, children and

all! form of social tonic.

It makes a woman feel less a slave

to eircumstances.

For one who lives by the clock and

Brazilian Pudding

Put nearly a pint of milk into a saucepan with two in mentally driven throughout the

of salt and an ounce and a working hours it is a wonderful re-ounces of sugar, a pinch

When the sugar has dissolved, bring the laxation deliberately to waste, in the half of butter.

with the lid on for evening, a little of this time which milk to the boli, and sprinkle in four ounces of tapioca. has been too precious all day long. Put the pan in a moderate oven

Those who are held responsible to twenty minutes, and then, in another saucepan, add to iarly where there is an only child. other people for unvarying punetus- the toplock mixture three yolks of eggs, an ounce and a quarter of butter, and two stiffly-whisked egg-whites, A man does not have to deal with lity, and who can be reprimanded, pour this into a mould which you have already lined children ali day long, and, conse- quently, does not realise how or even fined, if they are late, seem with caramel, and cook this delicious pudding in a pan

quick to be given a new dignity by the

very fact that they are free to waste full of water. It will need no sauce, as when it is turned

out, the caramel will coat it.

lime.

they are to seize upon any loosening of authority. Mothers have to be firm with their children during the Lastly, there are those who are hopelessly unmanageable.

developed consciences and driven on Should you sip the girt for some by a false sense of values until all naughtiness, father will immediate-restfulness has gone and their very companionship is a nervous strain.

day, otherwise they would soon be perpetually lashed by their over- Keeping

Tiles

ly reprove you. He will tell you to if only they would be content to sit Clean try sweet reason, and, when you de- still sometimes and let the world clare that simply won't work, he will try to prove it himself. Children lip by for

while they might be you

being such annoying little things more pleasant to live with, and of baby meekly listens to father and more real use to those around them.

you are treated to triumphant

tirade upon the success of right over

might, or words to that effect.

Plán a Mode of Conduct

Now, two masters are the very i

A. D.

Hair Health

In Winter

con save

yourself quile

a lot of work v rubbing tiles with milk and water after 'first washing In the ordinary The milk way. and water frem-

worst, conbiantion to bring up 20 child, and so, while your daughter NOWADAYS, when young and old ment

Inst

make clean

is still a baby, you must have a talk hair regularly waved and set, the usual, to father about the matter. Decide scalp requires almost more care and then upon your jolat conduct, and attention than formerly. stick to the rules you make.

rich and poor alike have their much longer than

If you are to abide by the princi-ssage will spoil their waves. płe, "no eating between inenis, the contrary, clean healthy hair is father must be forbidden

to bring caster to

ad

stains

Many people wrongly think that should be removed On prior to washing. Usually n brisk with set, and will retain the soda will do this,

scrubbing wave much home sweets or biscuits. If you are should be studied, and neither slinm lemon will do the longer. The scalp but if not, a cut both agreed upon a mild form of physical punishment, then there must poo nor tonle chosen at random. i trick.

Prematurely grey hair is frequent-

be no Interference from one parent

Lemon could be If the other administers a sharp slop. caused by -health, sometimes by

Pdryness. Here an oily massage is used for

hearth, Even if he thinks the child has been best-castor or olive oil diluted with but in the case of unduly punished, he should never

stained badly ;:l mention the feet in front of the child, equal parts of lavender water or eau

de Cologne being most effeaclous, large surface, such bat talk to you about it privately.

Shampoo with green soap, which is as a tiled floor. Fathers are notoriously fond of good soft soap blended with gly-cheaper stain re- dispensing "treats.”

mover is made by ecrine and olive oil,

Green soup is the ideal shampoo mixing some whit- "Here, Johnny," one will say, "take for almost overy head. For fairing into a paste this money and go to the pictures" hate mix with half a pint of warm with a strong so- of soda. camomile Infusion. For dry or very lution And Johnny jumps with glee, bo-dark hair, add a dessert-spoonful of Apply thickly and enuse mother had already refused the coconut oil,

Heave on for two requesti

Dry shampoos should not be used days. too frequently, but when necessary This sune mix- of finely sifted ture, made more and vicli powder thinly and left to sprinkled on the hair and thoroughly dry on, can be up- Once these small concessions are rushed out with a clean brush will plied to tiles occasionally to Improve | made, no child forgets them. He is leave it soft and silky, and do no their appearance, even If they are going to give his allegiance to the harm.

not very badly stained. Remove the parent who "gives in" rather than to As no hair will ever look well if mixture as soon as dry, und thin the one who seems deliberately to the scalp is scurty, an excellent ro-polish with a soft cloth. withhold all the nicest things from medy to apply is made from one

M. L. P. bim

pint boiling water, heaped table-

Or a certain bedtime has been im-equal quantities posed, and then father begs for "Just starel powder half an hour more."

The only course is

to discuss spoonful of common sulphur and a frankly with your husband a really teaspoonful of boracle powder. Cool

bottle, chake vigorously, and allow united mode of action about your to stand for two or three days. Rub children's education and behaviour.

You will never have peace in the in to the scalp on alternate nights, camp if your child is "father's and massage the scalp with warm.

olive oil before shampooing. baby"!

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Tapioca and Apple Pudding

Cook three tablespoonfuls of large tapioca in a pint of milk flavoured with lemon-peel for three or four hours, in double saucepan. Peel and core half a dozen sweet apples, and eut them in segments, and slew them. When the taptoen is rendy, but some of it in a deep fre- proof dish, cover with half the apple, add the rest of ihe tnploca and apple, and cover Bnally with plenty of apricot Jem. Cook for twenty minutes in the oven, and see what is said about it!

Tapioca Cream Soup

And here for a change is a most excellent light soup. Brint a pint of well-Bavoured veal stock to the boil, sprinkle in two dessertspoonfuls of very fine tapioca, and bol for twenty minutes. When ready to serve, slightly whip a gill of cream, pour it into the soup, and whip briskly until it all gets frothy.

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