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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT The Needlecraft Corner
FOLLOW
the CHEF
JEAN VINCENT, one of the committee of chefs in the Association Culinaire Francaise. hag higd wide experience in restaurants and hotels, in- cluding Maison Prunier in Paris and the Berkeley and Savoy in London.
For 10 years he has becni principal of the coolery depuri- ment at Westminster Technical College, responsible for the traling of boys and girls in the art of the haute cuisine and fu hotel management.
Esked M. Vincent for recipes which you might like to try or adapt.
LOIN OF PORK BRETONNE FOR 10
25lb. dleed or sliced potatoes (yellow-fleshed for preference); lb, sliced onions, 2 tablespaar chopped parsley, pepper
salt, 3lb. loin
nf pork
(boned skinned)
and
1
Rup water..
Butter a deepish CAN- cerole, lorgo enough to. hold all the
ingredients. MIX the Potatues, onions und
Lean Vincent
and
poruicy together and season
them at the same time. Place
in the casserole with the season-
Soft at a kitton's car is this little angora jacket that you'll wear for snug comfort and glamour, too. It's easily knitted if you fellow the simple directions at right, mo
MEN AT THE SINK
SURPRISING view of do-
mestic bliss came from
Angora Jacket
(B(xa 12) ABBREVIATIONA
its a neck edge; 114 gis. K 1 row, NEXT ROW- wrong side- to within Gets of front edgo, k lasi 6 stp, for carter it from band. Repeat los; 2 rows unt! sleeve measures 4% inches above marker. Bind elt Gsts at beg, of each of next & raws worked from sleeve edge: 00 sts. Dec. 1 1 st at underarm edge every 2nd row 7 ilmes; every 8th row 4 times; 40 ets.-Work even unt!! tame length as back to ribbing, end on right side, DEC. ROW-Doc 11 st evenly spaced across 43 stockinette ats, sts of front band; 30 ats. With size 3 "Work even" means 10 work without Increasing or usedlce, front band until 2 inches from dec, row. Bind k for frant band; k 3, p 2 to end. Continue ribbing and
et (5)
Ins
knit puri dec beg
stitch (es)
increase decrease beginning
decreasing, keeping established pattern. MATERIALS: Angora' balls: 12. Plastic 14-inch kalang Needles, 1 pair each sizes, 3 and 4.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS: At bustline, buttan- ed 38 inches. Width of back at underarm 171⁄2 inches.
GAUGE: 11 sis 2 inches.
BACK: With size 3 needles, cast on 08' sts. Work k 2, n 2 ribbing for 2 inches, increasing 18 ets evenly spaced across luuj row; de sts, With size 6 needles,, work stockinette st, increasing i st each side every 8th row 5 times; every 2nd row times; 108 sts. Cast
en sts at beg. of each of next 18 rows for sleeves: 210 els. Work even until 15% inches above ribbing, measured 21 centre, end with p row. Place a marker at each end of last row for half of the width of sleeves. DIVIDING RoW-K 96 sts, place on holder for right front, bind off next 24 sts for back of neck, Anish row.
NECK SHAPING: Work even on left front 54 inch. Ine. 1 st at neck edge every row 10 times. Cast on
1909, IN FONTANERIA SangtarTIA DANTEWE BARENGUE},
off. Mark position of 4 buttons evenly spaced on front band, having Arst button 3 inches below neck edge and 4th bulten 1 inch from lower edge; 5th bulton will be p neck ribbing.
RIGHT FRONT: Beg. al necit edge, wark to corre spond to left_front, until opposite first marker, end at front edge. BUTTONHOLE-K 2, bind off. 2 sta för buttonhole, finish row, On next row cast on 2 als over buttonhole. Finish to correspond to left front, repeat- ing buttonholes opposite each marker.
NECK RIBBING: With size 3. needles, from right alde, pick up and k 25 ats evenly spaced on right front neck edge, 24 sts on back of neck, 25 sts on left front neck edge; 74 ats. Work p 2, k 2 ribbing for 1 row. Work 5th buttonhole en next. 2 rows, Work 2 hore rows ribbing. Bind of.
CUFFS: With size 3 needles, from right side, pleic up and k 32 sts evenly spaced on lower edge of sleeve. Werk k 2, p 2 ribbing for 3 inches. Bind qft. Sew underarm seams.
HOMEWORK PAYS OFF
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
An assistant professor of ed pork, boned side up, on top. actress Margaret Rawlings, architecture at the Univer Brush it with melted butler or margarine and add the water. who said: "Get husbandssity of Minnesoin decided to Bake hi a moderate oven (375- where they belong-behind put some of his classroom, 400 degrees Fabr.). until 1:10
meat is nicely browned, the the sink,"
side......Baste ...It from time to
1-14 hours,)
theory into practice. Result
house built with an eye
to the budget and the special needs of a family with three children.
Jurn it and brown the other Speaking at a London thne adding small quantities of Christian Action meeting, on boiling water as required. ("The Family," she revealed would give this dish at least that her own husband, Sir
Some of the Ideus used Robert Barlow, 59-year-old chairman of the Metal Box here should prove a help to Company, is a handy
man anyone who is eyeing blue- prints and checking' con- about the house.
tracting costs.
Serve in the dish with a good cabbage, cooked in salted water, butter very slowly for an hour. (I would use half the quantity of meat and hope that it would serve six persona,),
drained and left to Anish in
SHOULDER OF LAMB ST NUBERT
This is a wonderful way to serve shoulder of lamb. It will provide 10-13 servings.
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I doubt whether many husbands will agree with Miss Rawlings, but in 'these days of working wives and scarce domestic help, there is a lot to be said for it,
MALE VIEW comes from
He decided in two-storey house built on three levels would give him maximum anuce ut minimum cost. Rooms are arranged in four
Bone small shoulder of lamb and stuff it will; a imeli amount publisher Neville Arn-areas: Constant use: *en-
f rabbit, three chopped strong: "There is no loss
Zoz. sliced
in a lit'e of dignity in a man doing mushrooms sauted butler or margarine and a small housework. My wife, who glass of while wine and scasan-has her own job, and I ing to taste. Roll and the the share the cooking every
securely. Fry it all over
After dinner she
ARCHIF of margarine in a deep night.
in
pei. Pour off the fat. Add makes coffee and I wash up glass of dry white wine and so that we can enjoy our allow the wine is evaporate. coffee together!" Bares with a little alightly thickened brown start, flavoured WITH
a bouquet gami to which a litle basil has been added. Cover and cook slowly, hasting frc- quently. Serve with a puree of chestnuts.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
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How
also able to
far The bath,
cut
example, is
trances, utility room, kit- He Wes chen and dining room are corners by carefully, planning placed near the front door the use of every inch of space. on the main level. Sleeping directly underneath the fire- quarters and bath are down- place.. stairs, as is the storage room and furnace. The large living room is on the uppar level, slightly above the kit- chen and dining aren.
to prolong the life of your luxurious
By ELEANOR ROSS
rug
To test varnish or shellae to
No sooner is a new carpet off by walking on the rug. determine whether or not they down than the complaints on Fhing necurs, though to a less- will darken finish or impart flung start. Fluffing is a pere er degree, in the twist-weave colour to clear wood, pour fectly natural cccurence in a type of rug, too. small quantity over clear glass. new rug cr carpet, especially If either varních or shellac one with a cut pile. shaws an amber quality It will doricen any nich sigh.ly, and will also impart its colour clear wood.
And
Common complaints
When a rug is new, material Don't hesitate to use the vacu to that has been lopped off in them or sweeper regularly. A 30- manufacturing precess to even Ing-over with the sweeper daily the surface, tends to shod; it is and with the vacuum at stated Don't stir paint around around in the tin to mix it pro- possible completely to remove Intervals will prolong the life this fluff before the carpet and appearance of your rugs, perly. Use a flat paddle and
comes inta the store. Its re end help prevent moth damaže. start with the end of the pad-moval may even take months, Another carpet complaint dle pt the bottom of the In; and even beyond that time you depis with shading. This in `n then bring it up through the may And carpet fluff in the
normal condition in a rui or paint with a twisting, turning vaEMIUM cleaner OT carpet
sweeper. Some fuft may be eut Carpet and to due to the varyips degrees in which light is re- Accled on different sections of the rug. It is caused by the nap being brushed, or pushed In différent directions, and
In solid-
mulion.
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Is
usually most apparent it can
colour rugg and
be
De corrected temporarily by
steaming. and by repented brushings in the opposite dirpe- tion. Better stick to the brush- ings for the steaming is a Job that requires the skill of a pro- fessional rug cleaner,
Removing steina
Multipurpose materials--new plastic blocks and boards-were used throughout the home. An- other - suggestion for home- builders, he palated out, is to avold over Ankgiding. In his home, here is no extra finish on siding. Wax is used insteak, with barn paint for trim. Mating covers the floors.
If a man's handy ground the. house he can keep well within the budget by making furnilure and kitchen cabinets, and doing the double glazing and millwork Himself.
And mention of that skill reminds us that a regular pro fessionat cleaning is a sound in- vestment. Such attention will keep colours firight and remova ball and dirt that not even the Best vacuum can hoba to get at.. Should stains occur. Bet after thom at once, using clean. damn cloth of blatung paper to shiprh *liauld get salles "haye Peen spilled FREoCully. Scrape them all which sa parter, 430
nispeon. For oily
THE CHILDREN - họlp eening of the nanfium Dad gelo work on the ingat in 8 calls beams, which strge- kokoro kamrally, halpito kaap the house from splitting out: spot
ward.
THIS IS an answer to the perennial prablem
growing familles,
· HOMEMADE FURNITURE" helped cut costs for the family. Here Dad tightens the cords on one of the bods in the children's bedroom..
OF THE HOUSE L through the llying room: plcture v up nil ash frame for dr
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