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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, November 29, 1961 platter, slice as desired and store in refrigerator. How Chef Cooks Holiday Turkey So as not to waste succulent pan juices from the roasting, Chef Forster suggests a zesty gravy to be used with the left- overs (if any) at a later date. This is his recipe -- About an hour before the turkey is done, add one coarsely diced carrot and a large diced onion. When At Thanksgiving and Christ-|pepper, inside and out. Rub the) turkey is removed from roaster, mas time, roast turkey tradi- tionally occupies the No. 1 spot on the holiday menu. A cold roast turkey platter is a favorite buffet attraction with hostesses who like to prepare the party dish a day ahead. | Thus they can enjoy the com- pany without the interruption of kitchen duties A Forster, distinguished member, of the American Culinary Fed drying out.) top professional, Frank eration, American Academy of| other side. whole bird with butter. Place| place the pan, containing the turkey ON ITS SIDE in uncover-| juices, on top of the stove over ed roaster and put in 350-degree|an open oven. (Chef Forster notes that|juices, stirring until the fat is by roasting the turkey on its|cleared. Pour off all the fat. |side, rather than on its back or!/Stir in two, tablespoons of flour. 'ace down, the juices are better| Add two cups of broth or water. able to run to the breast bone,|Simmer for a few minutes and keeping the breast meat from} strain. flame. Reduce the Have your holiday cold turkey As soon as the one side is|platter, and gravy, too -- both browned, the turkey should be} delicious. turned over and cooked on the This Christmas, take a little extra time with your gift wrap- ping to come up with charming, unusual designs that will add greatly to the pleasure of all concerned. There are so many ways to use wrapping paper, tape and ribbon that you're sure to run out of gifts -- before you run out of ideas. Here are some suggestions for achieving that personally gift Unusual Designs For Gift Wraps paper in appropriate colors and paste them onto a rectangular|med-back _ paper. box. If you prefer, yor can use self-adhesive paper. It comes in all colors and can be cut to re- zines or books. features Draw tie clown's face on the neck of the scraps of wrapping paper to bottle and tie it with a big bow. Make paper into a cone shape . s semble any form you like and/for the clown's hat, finishing iti designs and pasting them on attached to the top of yourjof' with ball fringe. The fringe|Shiny black wrapping paper. paper. Popular gift motifs forjcan also serve as his nose and/The result makes a_ striking such cut-outs are little angels or|for the buttons on his "suit". animals. If you're not talented in| In every group of presents,'propriate for masculine gifts. the drawing department, simply|there's always at least one item trace your cut-outs from maga-|of such an irregular shape, that it's impossible to wrap it neatly. Everyone knows that wrap-|For.these problem gifts, try ping a bottle is just about one|making a paper of the most difficult cover-up|bright red paper, using a plain chores at Christmastime. ; A clever way to handle this|4PPly a design cut out from left- from heavy)problem is by turning your gift\°VeT sift I linto a clown with bright, gum-|Clorful decoration. sack from 'grocery bag as your pattern. wrapping paper for A clever way to put left-over good use is by cutting out words package that is particularly ap- wrapped look. The children on your list will be delighted to find Santa Claus' smiling face on their presents. For this jolly portrait, cut out ALL SWISS MADE MUSICAL WRIST WATCHES LADIES' 7.95 From MEN'S BEATS HER MOTHER Chefs, tells how he prepares his} Chef Forster favors 15 min- holiday cold turkey platter./utes per pound as cooking time.| DORMAN'S PARK, Surrey -- Home cooks who follow his|For the final quarter of an hour, Nine-year-old Christine Williams method should score a etioner bara the breast up in order to sal = Dainty neh : it wi mily and friends. | 7 i Shristmas cake is pi wes in i do it-- peasy ' lige ob ese Park horticultural show. Her} A CHRISTMAS masterpiece ; and holloware -- and lo, you Wash the dressed turkey thor-| roasting. | mother who also entered had to} --Compose your own dramatic have the perfect background oughly; season with salt and! When done, place turkey on'be content with second prize. setting for holiday entertaining | for your festive foods. The gay JEWEL BOXES From 4,95 grotesque birds with monstrous headdresses, tour the villages singing carols. 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Use pine branches, bright styrofoam board, multi- colored Christmas balls and white-sprayed pine cones--add tall candlesticks, fine china and your finest silver flatware Merrie England house to house singing the time- hallowed songs of Yuletide. Thus traditions cherished down the centuries will invest) Christmas, 1961, with something) of the magic of "the good old days". | With all the background of} merrymaking, however, an Eng-| lish Christmas is still, above! all, a religious festival and in every church throughout the} country there will be special) services with, in many cases, a brightly - lit Christmas tree be- fore the altar, on which gifts Customs Survive By JAMES STREET good people of Dewsbury be- For centuries Christmas in|lieved that the tolling of the England has been the traditional|bell would keep the devil away time of goodwill and merrymak-|{to™ their parish for the next ing. The spirit of the 'Merrie|twe!ve months. England" of olden times is pre-| A very ancient custom ob- served in Christmas customs|served every Christmas Eve at which still survive. {Dunster, in Somerset, is the One of the most picturesque|burning of the ashen faggot. of these customs -- and one/This cusivum is more than a which conforms closely to the|thousand years old. Before conception of Christmas madejentering the fray in the battles familiar to millions by Dickens|in Wessex in 878, the West Saxon and Washington Irving -- is the|warriors built fires of ash Boar's Head Festivity at Ox-| branches to warm themselves at ford. night. They discovered that ash At Queen's College, in the|was the only fuel which would jancient university city on Christ-/burn when green. The worthy mas Day, a boar's head, gaily |folk of Dunster still continue bedecked with pennants, bay,|this custom, but it is now a holly, and rosemary, becrowned,|prelude to nothing more fierce and with an orange in its mouth,|than a battle for partners at a is borne into the gaily-decorated|dance. hall; where it is the centrepiece} A Christmas custom observed of a ceremony which has beenjin several parts of England is observed for centuries. ithe hanging of ale garlands out- Carried head-high through the|side inns. This is to signify that hall on a huge silver dish, the|good ale awaits within the boar's head is lowered on to the/houses that hang the sign. The Provost's table as the choir|garland is regarded as a simple sings the last notes of a tra-|expression of the spirit of fes- ditional carol. The Provost then|tivity, hospitality and good fel- takes the ornaments and embel-|lowship which for centuries have lishments one by one from the/been associated with the English head and presents them to thelinn. choir boys and visitors. The solo : singer of the year receives the) MUMMERS PERFORM orange from the boar's mouth, |. Christmas mummers perform jin the streets and inns of some OLD NORSE CUSTOM jtowns and villages in the west Boars' heads have featured injcountry, At Eynsham, Broadway banquets for hundreds of years,|and Chipping Campden, in the especially in the north of Eng-|/Cotswold country, \these mum- land. There it is believed to be|Mers perform a maSque depict- a survival of an old Norse cus-|ing two men fighting and the tom in which a boar was sacri-|vanquished being rajsed from ficed at Yuletide feasts in honor|the dead by a doctor |~ a tradi- of Freyr, the Scandinavian godjtional version of geath and of peace and plenty pest tg -- mi saat at The Queen's College ceremony|L0"8Parish an Veron ae has yi particular tradition, |Hampsbixe, yed like It is said that in the early days} of the college a student was walking in the neighboring. for- jest of Shotover, engrossed in a jvolume of Aristotle, when a wild) ¢ bow charged him. With great) | presence of mind the student jrammed the book down the boar's throat and choked it. Another old Christmas custom is observed every year in the Yorkshire borough of Dewsbury. |Known as "Tolling the Devil's) |Knell", this custom has been} carried on for 700 years, with! only a short break in its con- jtinuity during the war years, when bell-ringing was forbidden \for security reasons. This year, on Christmas Eve. a team of bell-ringers will toll the tenor bell of the parish church 1961 times -- once for every year since the birth of Christ -- the final stroke being timed to ring exactly at the hour of midnight. |BARON'S PENANCE Legend says that the custom FROM POLAR BEAR coun- began in the 13th century when] try comes this wonderfully- a local baron, as a penance for| warm, shaggy-look jacket for killing one of his servants, gave| young-hearted winter sports la bell to the church and order-| fans. This yummy-soft, gold- jed that it be rung each Christ-| color Verel pile fabric is flat- mas Eve to remind him of his| tered by a mock leopard- crime. 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