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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

CRISP

RISP winter weather de- mands hot sweets to round off the menu. Now- 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 fruit-filled basin pudding of suct crust. There were lots of ideas for these, caramellised or plain. bo 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 suci crust in the usual way, stirring in a good teaspoonful of cinnamon

to each 1lb. of flour. After mixing reserve a portion for the lid, then roll out the large piece thinly and line 1 buttered basin.

"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."

THERE are countless ways of using breadcrumbs in pudding-spiced, baked or steamed, cabinet variety or charlotte. Here is an attractive coconut layer sweet re- cipe.

"Grease a large pie dish and hol

All with thin slices of bread, each

Father's Baby Wasting Time

❝ DON'T know what to do with Patricia," her mother sighed. "With me she is quite all right and soon as her well-behaved, bui as futher enters the house she becomes a perfect little nuisance,

"Of course, he apolis her terribly, and she knows it. If she can't bave anything from me, daddy la stire to tive il to her, If she behaves like this at the age of two, what will she be like as she grows clder?"

Wisely

arc

two troducing

Sustaining Puddings

of

to

layer

being sprinkled with desic dressed with hot lemon-flavoured slido the soaked fingers into the pan, with caled coconut and currants with treacle sauce. Plenty to keep them and allow them to become coated al

over with caramel. Servo some shredded nuet. (Use 3oz. cach busy here. of coconut and slot and loz

"Four big apples, two eggs, one whipped cream or custard."

NOW for "Russian Pudding" currants.) Beat up two eggs, add gill milk, a lle cinnamon, one

-A 40-year-old family 1 pints of tepid milk, 2oz. sugar lemon, one tablespoon ground rice, and a few drops of vanilla essence. sugar to taste, treacle for sauce, Pre- favourite. This prize-winning recipe Pour into the ple dish and leave, pure the apples and stew till tender, is a "lightweight," but it is meurlsh- sweetened with cinnamon. Place ingly substantial, so do try it for your. soaking one hour.

Bake in a alow oven 1 hours, them in a ple dish. covering with greased paper, Ull the "Mix the ground rice with most next special meal.

"Line a flat dish with pastry and pudding is nearly cooked, and re of the milk and slightly cook the bake blind to a nice brown. Spread moving it last of all for the top to mixture, then beat the eggs and add with marmalade and then put the colour. Turn out and pour over a with the rest of the milk, and from following mixture

over it: take 3 little melted red currant jelly,"

oz. sugar, 2-0 pieces of sugur, according taste. Silr over gentle heat, then 5 2 cz. butter, 2 FRESH fruit is ever impor pour the mixture over the apples and glass of sherry. Put yolks the sugar of eggs, creamed with tant for children, so here and bake about 1 hour in a mode- in a basin over hot water in a

In rate oven until lightly brown. puddings nursery

saucepan. Add the butler, sugar in diferent ways. "For the treacle sauce to serve, and sherry. Place the pan over gen- There is something rather comfort- just warm 2-3 tablespoons of treacle le heat and whisk or stir till the ing about Honey Dumplings Made in a saucepan, add the juice and ingredients thicken to a custard. with honey and ginger flavouring, to grated rind of a lemon, and a Jittle Then remove from the fire, cool be sent to table with dressing of water to loosen. Use lot."

and add the whites of eggs whisked fresh orange juice, here is the way

NOTHER outlook for mur- to a stiff froth. Fold in and spread A plus alices

over the pastry and theounces self-raising flour, 2oz.

of

bread, this mixture breadcrumbs. 3oz. shredded suct, "Toffee Pudding" might have been marmainde filling, and bake about 1 tablespoon ground ginger, 4oz. designed for the nursery, but in this 15 minutes in a very moderate oven. Sprinkle with caster sugar and serve cleaned curranta, 3 tablespoons respect we are loath to grow up.

Ela cup milk, 2 rather thick very hot"

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

a slices of bread, 2 tablespoons the flour into oranges. Sleve basin, then ndd the breadcrumbs, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons golden ginger, suet and currants. Mix well syrup, a good sized knob of butler. together, stir In the honey-which small pinch of ground ginger, cup

or cream

Bix custard. For has been previously warmed then of mix together into

a firm dough with people. the milk. Turn on to a doured

it

of

Steamed Kidney

And Onions "Boil the milk and pour it over THIS makes a delicious supper dish, Peel 1 large onion and board and divide into eight portiers, the bread-which has had the crusts rolling each into a ball. Place in a removed and been previously sliced cut it in half. Remove the centre Angers of about 1⁄4 inch in and lay in the half a sheep's kidney steamer over a saucepan of boiling into water and steam for 1 hours, thickness. Allow the bread 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 soning of salt and pepper.

prevent too much milk being ab- oranges."

Then pin the onion together again sorbed.

with a thin wooden skewer and place "Meanwhile, prepare the toffee' it in a small basin or casserole with TAVEN the youngest of them

could enjoy Pommes a or caramel. Place the syrup, moist a little butter and water at the bot- Roi Pudding. It offer the right sugar, ginger and butter in a trying tom of the basin. solution for cereals when appetites put over low heat, sirring all tho Cover with a ninte or lid and cook time with a wooden spoon, until the in a moderate oven not less than 2% are a bit tricky.

a lovely olden hours, Cinnamon-flavoured apples cloaked mixture becomes

in ground rice custard are Anally brown, bubbling all over. Gently

New Ways with Tapioca

wasic

time occasionally Is TAPIOCA puddings round like an unpleasant reminder

days, but those of nursery sound. Some- psychologically times it is both a nerve rest and a something which everyone will like, alll form of social tonic.

that

follow

arc

children and

Brazilian Pudding

It makes a woman feel less a slave to circumstances.

For one who lives by the clock and

Put nearly a pint of milk into a saucepan with two is mentally driven Uroughout the

ounces of sugar, a pinch of salt and an ounce and a working hours it is a wonderful re-half of butter. When the sugar has dissolved, bring the laxation deliberately to waste, in the milk to the boll, and sprinkle in four ounces of tapioca. evening, a little of this time which

Put the pan in a moderato oven with the lid on for This problem is a very common has been too precious all day long twenty minutes, and then, in another saucepan, add to one in modern households particu Those who are held responsible to larly where there is an only child. other people for unvarying punctua- the tapioca mixture three yolks of eggs, an ounce and A mon does not have to deal with lity, and who can be reprimended, a quarter of butter, and two stiffly-whisked egg-whites. children all day long, and, conse- or even fined, if they are late, seem Pour this into a mould which you have already lined quently, does not realise how quick to be given a new dignity by the with caramel, and cook this delicious pudding in a pan. they are to seize upon any loosening 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 cost it. of authority. Mothers have to be time. firm with their children during the

Keeping

Lastly, there are those who are day, otherwise they would soon be perpetually lashed by their over- hopelessly unmanageable.

developed conselences and driven on Should you slap the girl for some by a false sense of values until all naughtiness, father will immediate restfulness has gone and their very Tiles

ly reprove you. He will tell you to companionship is a nervous strain.

Lry sweet reuson, and, when you de- If only they would be content to sit Clean

and let the world will try to prove it himself, Children S by for a while they might be

clare that simply won't worit, he still sometimes

You con

Save

being such annoying litle things more pleasant to live with, and of yourself quile

A. D.

baby meekly listens to father and more real use to those around them. you are treated to a triumphant tirade upon the success of right over

might, or words to that effect.

Plan a Mode of Conduct

Now, two mastery are the very

wars combination to bring up

child, and to, while your daughter No

Hair Health

In Winter

a lot of work by rubbing lies with milk and water

after first washing

in

the ordinary

juvny. The milk

and water treat- ment will make clean

TOWADAYS, when young and old them last

rich and poor alike have their much longer than

is still a baby, you must have a talk hair regularly waved and set the usual.

to father about the matter. Decide sculp requires almost more care and then upon your joint conduct, and attention than formerly. stick to the rules you make.

Bad stains Many people wrongly think that should be removed prior to washing. On Usually

* brisk the contrary, clean healthy hair is scrubbing with

If you are to abide by the princi-nissage will spoll their waves.

father must be forbidden

pic, no eating between meals, easier to set, and will retain the soda will do this,

to bring wave home sweets or biscuits. If you are should be studied, and neither sham-lemon will do the inuch longer. The scalp but it not, a cut both agreed upon a mild form of

physical punishment, then there must poo nor tenic chosen at random. trick.

Prematurely grey hair is frequent-

be no interference from one parent

Lemon could be dryness. Here an olly massage is used for a 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 equal parts of lavender water or cau badly stained mention the fact in front of the chlid, de Cologne being most efficacious. large surface, such but talk to you about it privately.

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

cerine and olive oil,

mover is made by dispensing "treals.”

Green soap is the iddal shampoo mixing some whit- for almost every head. For

a posle iniring into

with hair mix with half a pint of warm a strong so- [camomile Infusion. For dry or very

lution of soda.

leave on for two

if the other administers sharp slap. caused by Bl-health, sometimes by

"Here, Johnny," one will say, "take Uls money and go to the pictures,"

And Johnny Jumps with glee, ba dark hair, add a dessert-spoonful of Apply thickly and cause mother had already refused the cocoanut ell. request!

Dry

should not be used days same mix-2

but when necessary

Loof of Anely

Or a certain bedtime has been im- equat posed, and then father begs for "just starch powder

half an hour more."

alfied

made more and violet powder thinly and left to sprinkled on the hair and thoroughly dry on, can be ap- Once these small concessions are brushed out with a clean brush will plied to tiles occasionally to improve made, no child forgets them, Elo is leave it soft and silky, and do no their appearance, even they we

oing to give ha allegiance to the harm.

not very badly stained. Remove the

him.

A

M. L. P.

parent who "given in" rather than to As no hair will ever look well if mixture as soon as dry, and then the one who neema deliberately to the scalp is scurty, on excellent re- pollah with a soft cloth. withhold all the nicest things from medy to apply is made from one pint boiling water, a heaped table- The only course is to discuss spoonful of common sulphur and frankly with your husband a really bottic, phake vigorously, and allow teaspoonful of boracle powder. Cool united mode of action about you 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 all before shampooing. baby"!

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Tapioca and Apple Pudding

B. M

Cook three tablespoonfuls of large tapioca in a pint of milk flavoured with lemon-peel for three or four hours, in a double saucepan. Peel and core half a dozen sweet apples, and cut them in segments, and slow them. When the toploca is ready, but some of it in a deep fire- proof dish, cover with half the apple, add the rest of the tapioca and apple, and cover Anally with plenty of apricot jam. Cook for twenty minutes in the oven, and see what is caid about itf

Tapioca Cream Soup

"

And here for a change is a most excellent light coup. Bring a pint of well-flavoured veal stock to the boil, sprinkle In two dessertspoonfuls of very fine tapioca, ready to serve, and bell for twenty minutes. When slightly whip a pill of cream, pour it into the soup, and whilp briskly until it all gets frothy.

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