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Simple Kitchen Secrets

CULINARY

accessories can make a few spleed nuts to aug-

ment your atores. always count - more

"As a change from salted nuts, we than ever just now. Re- have spleed nuts placed in little action from too festive fare sweet dishes on the dinner table.

"One breakfast cupful of mixed almonds, walnuts,

castor pecans-1⁄4 cupful

results in lack of zest, s80 nut-such

simple meals with an unex- urazils,

agur, 1 dessertspoon cinnaman, pected twist arc rather teaspoon each of ground cloves, nul-

mixed spice. One neg and popular.

Take ham, for instance. It's white alightly beaten.

"Prepare the shelled

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nuts, mix a splendid stand-by, but add the spices and sugar in a small bowl. fruit in a new way, and you Add the nuts to the egg white a few begin all over again. Next time at a time, and be sure they

egg white you aim to serve it think over thoroughly conted with frying the lam and serving it before putting them into the bowl their of

sugar and spice, second coating. Now space out the nuts on a paper-lined baking sheet.

with raisin filled peaches.

Here is her a good reclpe,

to get

"Eight thin slices of ham, & halves and bake in a slow oven for about

seeded 4. of tinned peaches,

V hour. Store in an airtight Jur or raising, 1 cupfuls of hot water, tin until required, so the nuts de net small piece of ginger, strips of lemon lose their crispness."

peel. 4 cupful sugar.

"While the ham is frying glaze

the peach halves in a little butter Chestnut Truffles

and brown sugar. Cook the valsins

in the hot water with

the

SUIT

Chestnut truffles are popular and

ginger and peel. When raisins are simple to make at home recipe for oft, remove from the heat and lrt them.

out the ginger and peel. Fill the

0:1

"Take lb. chestnuts, 3oz. icing-

little rum or red wine.

"Place

hollows in the pench halves with this sugar, 1 egg yolk, 1oz. butler and x. Aling and place each pench slice of ham for serving." Italian Sauce

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the chestnuts for ten minutes in boiling water, then re- move skins, and cook until tender.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 4, 1939.

The Return Of The Muff

time,

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Let The Children

Choose

is never too early to start train- ing your children's taste. What, after all is good taste, but renson- abla and appreciative choosing? Like most faculties, it develops with exercise, so the wise mother lets her children choose for theinscives when- ever possible, be it clothes, toys, pic- ture books, or nursery furniture.

The child's competence to assert her preference in any direction may be judged from her desire to do so. The three-years-old does not want or expect any say in the choice of her frocks. But at the age of seven or eight, just when a sense of sult- ability to occasion develops, she de- clares, "I'd rather have this dress, please."

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. In principle, when children interested chough to want to choose, the time is ripe for them to do so. Do not worry lest they make mis takes in the larger issues. Their unsophisticated taste, unspoiled by half-knowledge, is often more nitin to that of the expert than their elders' conventional judgment,

Recently I heard an Incident vivid- ly Illustrative of thin. A mother took her sons, aged ten and twelve, to an art exhibition. Both boys ked the same faconspicuous picture and, having heard their parents dis- cussing the purchase of a good plc- Eve for the children's den," begged them to take this one.

As it was inexpensive, the parents agreed. hut reluctantly. Shortly afterwards, an artist friend begged them to sell him the picture, offer- twice what it had cost. A well- known connoisseur, whom he brought to see it, agreed in acclaiming it a kein of harmonious composition and virile atmosphere. Wisely, the pur- ents refused to ask their sons to part with it.

The child's present happiness, even more than his development for the future, depends on his freedom to select for himself. Things that are forced on children can sometimes shaved and cause acute misery, particularly us regards clothes. The average child re- clipped lamb, and are quite inexpendreads looking, quaint or "different." Left to themselves, each would look

AL onc one,

and

A piquant fruit sauce is excellent

"Dry thoroughly, and pass through background for richer food, and here is "Italian Sauce" made from oranges, wire steve. Mix with the prepared

and flavour with the THE present liking for fur of every skin, moleskin, It is just right for roast duck, and icing sugar

wine. Cream

butter ind has brought about a best of all it stores well.

"Peel 4 oranges, remove pith and separately, add the egg yolk, and vivat of the good old-fashioned muil, sive,

mothers. work these into the chestnut mix-beloved by our

Muffs, for evening wear are popu-exuelly like the next. and cut into slices. Put into pip

carried every waman

Indulging children's preferences with 2 large onions ture gradually, until a soft paste is saucepan

does not necessarily mean giving chopped finely, alb, demerara sugar, formed. Shape into small balls and large or small, rough or smooth, but lor too. Many of them are made of Leave always a muff, as long as the slight the same material as the dress in roil in powdered chocolate. 1 pint vinegar, and the following

est nip in the air warranted its ap- Kate Greenaway sigle, being them no guidance. They are usually and nat, quaintly finished off with spices tied in a bag: 2oz. pepper- to dry on grenseproof paper."

pearance. Then, suddenly, for

nny by casually-expressed adult corns, 12oz. cloves, 14oz. allspice and

apparent reason. Dame Fashion de old-fashioned doubled silk pleatings, almost too willing to be influenced Joz, salt.

opinion. But it is as well to let them creed its downfall, and the mult For Evening Wear

learn from the mistakes they make. vonished.

"Boll gently for two hours, stirring well. Remove splee bug and rub the pulp through a sieve. Bottle the sauce when cold and store for

served at once."

Quick

Work

no

In many cases the muff chosen for Eventually, the concrete results of Last winter it made many tenia evening occasions 19 in a rather their lapses from good taste usually future use, or if needed--it can be ON'T waste time trying to clean tive bids for popularity, but this year deeper shade than the gown it is to grow to jar on them as much as on

rusty articles with emery paper. it has come Into the limelight. Ai-

there

outsize accompany, but the pleated frill mat- us. some are Here is a much quicker way to brigh- though

the same colour look effective. ten them up. Simply place them in modern muffs, the mafority are on ches the dress. Muffs and shoes of

jur of vinegar, leave for a couple the small size, and made chiefly of of days, and you will find that they carucul, or some similar short-haired are quite free from rust.

Orange and Almond

Stuffing

orange

mixture."

fur.

and

to

Anyway, surely they, who have to live with the things, have the right into to choose them, within the necessary Muffs were first Introduced this country from Spain during the monetary limits. We may say, "No, the I'd rather buy you this one," and reign of Queen Elizabeth, but Virgin Queen viewed them with dis dismiss the matter as finished. favour, suspicious, perhaps, of their for the child an integral part of its Spanish origin. Later, wh the happiness depends on the choice, for Stuaris sat on the throne, the custom as long as the purchase lusts. of carrying muffs was adopted by both men and women, and in old

when

prints of these times we see Court

These old-time muffs were made!

Dorcas Lelgh

But

Reads Lessons.........

TOPS,

I CALL

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Try this orange and almond recipe it te speelally good for serving Oranges are often very difficult to This Season's Novelties with cold duck or goose, either baked pecl successfully this cold weather,

A silver beige caracul muff is with the bird or in a separate dish. A quick way to deal with thein is

"Place in a basin one pint brand-

endo place them in very hot water for favourite novelty this season, crumbs, and work in oz, warmed butter. Add a good pirich of nut- Just a few moments. Then they peel another fashion is to have a muff

match each costume, by utilising the easily. meg and salt, teaspoon of gented

Half a pint of paraffin mixed with modern system of dyeing furs: rind and 202. chopped

cleaner and Somclimes the muff is part of the dandies walking, skating on fee, and Pantomime Robber Loving Cup Memories almonds. Bind with beaten egg yolk, the same amount of brown sugar is

poilaher. A brisk rub with a cloth whole ensemble, and matches the fur even sitting in theatres with their adding orange julee to form a stilt a wonderful quick

dipped in this mixture will shine up on the collar of the coat, or it is hands costly buried in their muffs. Ginger Hard Sauce polished furniture, painted wood-mude of the same material as the

The Bishop of Sheffield (Dr. L. H. There is sure to be a little pre-work, tiles, marble, glass and brass, coat itself, combined with fur. Vel- served ginger in the jar, and surely A quick way of mending a crack vet is used too, and very attractive of gaily-coloured satin, adorned with

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when the solemn German Court came children appearing in Sheffield's pan of hard sauce on um butter lines. is to bind it lightly with adhesive shown by the various designers.

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which the brightly be-ribboned scarlet and and the new handbag muffs," foot or brown

35 sugar, spreading and does not come off.

A quick way to make breadcrumbs combine the two-told functions of green muffs affected by the fashion- Actors' Church Union service in the Reg Bolton. who plays time. The cathedral, teaspoon lemon juice, two table- spoons ginger syrup, 3-4 tablespoons is to put the bread in a muslin bag bag and muff. These are fitted with able courtiers of

and rub with the fingers. This not a roomy bag at the back, and have custom was so loudly ridiculed that Dick the Robber in "Babes in the tinely, chopped preserved ginger,

in "Jock and the Beanstalk" read "Cream The buller thoroughly, only saves time but leaves no sent-a zip fastener, so that there is no at last 1 died out, and muffs were Wood," and B. Brownblil, the Dame

risk of anything falling out. They carried only by women.

the lessons. gradually add the sugar, and con- tered crumbs.

M. L. Stollard Unue ereaming until the mixture is The quickest and easiest way to are made of caracul, nutria, scal- very light. Add the lemon juice, stone raising is to place them on a ginger syrup and chopped ginger,in plate and heat thoroughly in a mixing well. Pile lightly in a serv hot oven, The heat makes

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cup

ing dish, and chill untii cald, but not raisins split easily hard."

Spiced Nuts

the

and then the stones can be removed.

A quick way to clean bollies or

It tit-bit supplies are wearing decanters with small necks which do thin, and there are parties ahead, you not permit the mop or hand to enter,

The flowing, blas lines of this frock is in good style and in this vertion done in black crepe, the only adjustable feature la the elongated sash, which may be knotted and adjusted to the figure.

Is to crush the shell of an egg small enough to go in. Add a little warmi vater, shake well and you will find: the glass not only clean, but well polished.

Potatoes will bake more quickly if. after peeling, they are wiped dry and smeared over with dripping before putting them into the oven.

Did you know that a dry cork will remove stains from plate or silver more quickly than anything else? It never scratches, and if you cut it a point I can be worked into become tar- crevices which have

to

nished.

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Cooking Mishaps Averted

WHEN the ple-dish is too large for

the quantity of meat or fruit you have to use, place a few clean! wooden skewers ncross the dish be-[ fore putting on the top ild of pastry. It will keep the crust from collaps ing and becoming soaked in the fruit! julee or gravy and the skewers aro crust is casily removed when the

cut

When you are trying anything ini deep fat it is a wise plan to put a tew alices of raw potato into the pan. This will keep the fat from giving the food a burnt flavour.

Boiled fish will often stick badly to the bottom of the pan unless of Courno you use a proper fish kettle. To prevent this happening, place the Ash on n saucer and put this in the pan with it and you will have 10 dimcully at all,

To avoid any water settling in the bottom of the dish when making a baked custard, warm the milk before adding the eggs and sugar.:

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