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! THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Care Of Foods For The Freezer
NOT
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
their own garden even ment. There are cartu
precautions which are necessary to be sure that the food is ade- quately preserved well as palatable.
and safe an
too long ago the clal establishments, where it a housewife had a hearty stored under inspection by state prepared, frozen, wrapped and contempt for "cold storage" or local health department in- foods. Now a large part of spectors. But there are more
families' meals in and more many
home freezers, and made of frozen foods. The many familles prepare and freeze products or quick-freezing process has added many foods to the all- year diot, just as canning has done previously. To- gether, these processes rich the diet at all seasons. Good quality foods are neces- Every housewife knows that mry; the freezing process mere- frozen foods should not be ly preserves and does not im- thawed unt just before 11 is de- prove the Quality which sired to use them and that once there to begin with. Proper thawed, they should not be re- wrapping is important, otherwise truzen
will be dehydration But not every housewife ther
which not only The correct use of "freezer known why.
DANT," the home freezer is important if impairs taste and appearance but its purpose, invenient, safe and fix
putrilles
en-
valic. Some
Was
or
vegetables
leus food in or out of sen- must be blanched, and some son, is not be defeated.
fruits require the addition of as- The old type cold
corbic acid to prevent discolour-
tion.
atorluge
Involved freezing, just process does the newer method, but thi slow freezing. It was first WES patented in 1842.
Slow freezin permits large crystals of lee to form in
in the cells
of the food substance.
These rupture The cells und render the food, when thawed Moft and mushy The
of the new process
Are
still a
and 114)
HC-
Wrap Carefully
Materials suitable for freezer ure must be used for wrapping- rellophant, paper iniminated with glassine, aluminium, plastics, ond various types of specially treated papers. Ordinary wrapping paper
БЕСТС
BJ In freezing, which produces is not suitaide, but may be used small
up- as an outer wrapper to help pro- preciable danurge to the physical list the inner one. A good job consistency of most foods There of wrapping is important, too. like tomatoes. Some puckages are better heat- {ew, which do nCHÈ freeze well-or. sealed in plastic coverings. perhaps, it would be more
The home "freezer" is actually curate to say that they do not
of a storage cabinet thaw well
frozen foods than * large- li will freEZE Valuable Contribution capacity freezer,
small quantities--about two The frozen foods now on the pounds of food per cubic foot and
on the of capacity. corn
market, including
tur
✩ For
A Large Family ⋆
A picture window has WINDOWS WORK WONDERS in making the exterior of this home distinctive. side interest-paned sections at either side-while a pair of upper-storey windows come complete with decorative shutters and window boxes all ready for greenery.
By Joan O'Sullivan
FOUR big
TOUR big bedrooms, two the dining area, the other
In
space, an efficient kitchen addition, the kitchen has 超 good-sized living- easy access to stairs (just a
Larger quantiftes dining combination add up few steps) to the basement,
signed to keep
comfortable family
A large tory are located.
and
Arranged for Privacy
peaco
quiet. These
rooms,
arc
cob and many prepared dishes are best taken to a commercial to a multi-level home de- where laundry and a lava- such as pics and French tried locker for freezing.
look and taste like Food, once thawed, should not potatoes,
Not be refrozen because it was not fresh foods when thawed. only that, but they have the absolutely sterile to begin with happy.
Enter the small vestibule.
Two bedrooms are up a level values of fresh foods, since their and, therefore, contains bacteria.
none of these is ac-] hang up your coat in the from the main floor, an arrange- original food elements are well Of course,
disease-producing, preserved, even including the tually
but guest closet and then step ment that makes for privacy, decumpose thawadi
and more sensitive vitamins of the B they away
into the living room. Ceride and
with Thus, foods and produce toxins. vitamin C.
generously-sized Το your left, a picture good ventilation and by
roomy these foods make a valuable
are not usually killed
closets. A large bath with linen tribution to the dat, and playing, though they are rendered window catches a wide view
multiply of the grounds. Straight storage unit and vaultory com- large part in maintaining health inactive and du voi
Bui and doing away with the habit while in the frozen state
its of using spring tonics, such as when the food gets above 30 de- unend, there's a huge fire pietes this level. sulfur and molasses, which were grees Fahrenheit, bacterial ac- place. never any good anyway.
tion begins. The resulting food welcoming effect in winter, Most of the food that is used spoilage may give rise to some when warm, glowing logs fast-frozen comes from commer- digestive disturbances.
group.
Loveliness
Restoring
To Droopy Roses
NE
By ELEANOR ROSS
As the
treez-
Just imagine
The remaining bedrooms and top a second bath are on the floor, over the living room. The largest of these has # buge walk-in closet.
greet the visitor!
Convenient to the Kitchen
The decorating ponsibilities The dining section, not are numerous. Wall space be- visible from the entrance, is tween two windows allows just the right space for a bed head- off to the right of the living board." For decorative purposes, area. Treat it as a separate you could run a cornice from
to window, providing room, if you like. A cozy window
wall interest over the bed! area, it's adjacent to the square kitchen. What could
Despite the multi-level plan,
be more convenient for a there are no long fights of homemaker?
over
stairs, It's always just a fow
base
4
As for the kitchen, the steps up or down from
ment to garage, garage to liv- architect's plans make doing ing room, living room to both говся are or select six of the roses, those dishes a joy-well, almost! bedroom doors. That's some- OnFordoza rosets, are on select six of the roses, those
There's nothing like the preciate.
12 double windows most popular of all floral them in a container in the coolest Light streams in through thing the homemaker will ap-
part of the room.
stairs to wear a woman out gifte. Beautiful in colour These should last a week, sink. Except on the
she has to run up and down day, and fragrance they are
A them a hundred dmes in the stems are cut each day and
gloomiest days, this is
and it sceS as though she their long box, the red, the water changed. Use a sharp
and cut the sterns cheery room. white, yellow or delicate kaite
Another efficient part of usually does. diagonally apricot set off by the deep shorter, change the container so the kitchen plan is its two
roses get
Design H-318-KF comprises green foliage.
that the arrangement is always | doorways -one opening on 30,290 cubic feet. But how badly the dazzling attractive. blooms are likely to be treated- jammed into
STILL BEAUTIFUL container, one rather than separated to bring The sixth day should find one beauty to many parts of a room or two full bloom roses, sur- One auggestion is to place rounded by petals from the bevoral roses in one container others, floating in a bowl as a and the remainder, one by one. Lable contrepiece. Should any in slender bud vasos. These are of your roses droog prematurely, charming decorative notes on a please don't give them the heave mantel, bookcase or small table. ho. Just cut a couple of
of inches from the stems of the droopy
weak EYES
CAN RUIN
YOUR WORK!
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eyes regularly with Optrex
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ones and put them in hot water
bath water,
Enjoy The Sunset
temperature of ICIT
At Dinnertime
Dinner
The water should be quite hot about the
ITY people sometimes the glorious panorama of not
forget there's a sunset the setting sun. but dem
don't be ap prehensive that this will flashmore beautiful than any off the droopy flowers. Just decorator's living or dining loave them overnight in the room. It comes about din- water, and by morning, you
ahould find the flowers very ner time, and one can enjoy It even if one hasn't a yard, much alive and lovely again.
terrace or piazza.
Boet Salad Chiffonado Beef Rechauffe in Rice Ring Asparagus on Toast. Raspberry Chocolate Cream Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk AB Bmments Are Level
Serve 4 to 8
ONE WAY TO DECORATE master bedroom is to cornice, which provides use a window-to-window
something unusual in wall interest.
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LET 'EM EAT ROSES
Beef Rechauffer Add 1 beef Go up on the roof. Nine Right here we would like to suggest a culinary use for this cases out of ten, It's safe, bouillon cube to 1 (1 lb.)
cooked loveliest of flower. Try decorat clean and accessible, and mixed vegetables or a 10-02 frozen mixed ing your next homemade cake allowed by the landlord. vegetables and heat. Stir in i with crystalised rose petals.
ketchup mixed To make, select highly scented Lot family come along with thep. tomato fresh roses, dark red preferably, the bridge table and chairs, with 1 tbsp, browned four and
tbsp butter. and wash well. Remove petals and whatever you planned, 1:
When boiling, add 244-3 & and drain. Remove white pulpy for dinner.
are of petal, as this has a bitter
small-diced remnante of tender Bring a jar of drinking cooked beef, and 1 tbsp. minced Beat
white of an egg to a water: don't forget the parsley. Serve in a rice ring. Form. Dip small pastry brush carton of milk for the Make up 1 pkg.
Raspberry Chocolate.....Cream: raspberry-
bare
kath.
(or use fingers) in the ear wife youngsters. Use paper or favoured gelatin using a di and brush both sides of roma pota! well,
takling care that bon follware throw-away dishes sidor are molek· but that no and be sure to leave the murplus rege while remaine on the roof clean,
rose peber. Shake granitiated And bring up a couple of
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bolling water.
Melt a squares unsweetened chocolate in 1% e, milk; add 1
A SECOND LEVEL of bedrooms over the living area features one with double closets, a second with a very spacious walk-in closet..
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
r in, and cook and air over tbsp. milk to 2 bosten egg yolks,
Add two teaspoons of ginger soap jelly to use
for washing
To give man's, 'ablets)-a-longer
and place on a tray to der in a blankets and some pillows hot water until allratly thick and one tension of cinnamon llegaria statupooing hair. ; for relaxing afterwards, and end. Add to the raspberry to four, or ire cups of boiling wwater, with six tee bags. Servo sy beestemmentally, the macon prooves notie. sib-down games and Refrigerate 30 min. or unta with few for a tasty sploed-tel 11th route uner users to mi may be employed with mint picture books for the beginning to thickens, Told Joves Crystallwod rose leaves children.
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