PAR 10
OOKING OLUMN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1960.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
by Helen
Burke
Now here's a tasty
CORN beet hosh is the
it it q
dish hora and
second tasty one. This
simple Av
is D very
SUA Tomatoes Cod Beef Hash
Pea
en Salad
-
Ginger Syrup
THE FOES
dish
Removo 25 soon as the eggs eem to be a little less liquid, because as you know, the heat of the vegetables will continue to cook them. Turn on to a warmed (not hot platter and serve with a pilaft of rice.
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SHIRLEY
LORD
Why, I wonder, do parties
of OTS L
advico has boon poured out to females on how to cope with a
Cut inned tomatoes into TT seems that "Chowder" dope, resist a kiss,
thick and dress them with auzar and salt and,
per.
CORNEEF HASI
For
from
Hand the man and or so on.
the is derived French "chaudiere," mean- ing
boiler a copper,
cored son, dice 3 to 4 0 Targo kettle.
holl
Add to 2 dice
s a chopped small asoning to taste,
As far as the cookery world it is a pleasant is concerned, union mixture in a basin, mixture of Esit (generally clams i 1 to 2 tablespoons in the United States) and a little
15 pork.
Place prinkl
minute
of top
Gel
hat A
and leave for
I like to think of the dish os entirely American in its origin eastern seaborrd found clama
had there and they certainly salted pork.
But precious little in- formation appears for a man to peruse on how to get along with us.
Why? Does he think he knows
stuning-pan, at the because the early settlers on the it all?
Reduce
4
ut of butler pretty press it into a cake, Meal and slowly brown #id over and serve.
In the following recipe, based for & Winge, a teaspoon of chopiteley or, just now, a on the American version. I use little green sweet pel smoked haddeelt and feitled nerded with the milk. park and ke the chowder very
the above amounts much.
per can
and hem
AMOKED HADDOCK
CHOWDER
(For seven to eight servings)
The potatoes in this chowder
PEARS A GINGER SYRUP
The
an excellent party the peeled pears awee!
In 1 ginger- Ravouryrup. Leave to should be cooked through, of core Burve them over its entrse, but so very gently that
they do not break up. eresin.
cream wil a lume in
Incid, fee
kecɔ_uite
A
PE
red
is a glorious
of
Cut 4oz pickled pork into small dice and try them lightly in an iron casserole to extract the fut, onion and the Add a chopped clapped white part of a leek and simmer them until the onion is translucent,
onions, A HOT GRILL er green sweet
lived
Add up to 11⁄2 pint measure of poppopmatoes and eggs alced, peeled potatoes and strike and kind of dish you them to call them with the fat, would
ke regularly if Add a bouquet garn! sud a litle you
in the salt (bearing in mind the pickicd
park and the haddock). Basque Country. because
Add. leo, a diced desended tary vegetables large green sweet pepper, a 10oz
and
ob. cat of tomato soup and as pint hot water. Cover and enoit very
the
grow
are, vioushed companions.
For
simmer unlans
uit in Turge
ingred transiy valeur
in
Hall pepper
corsa
strips
The
i lo
work by pepper
ivate
servings, slowly gently for 16 to 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, wash and dry a mild smoked baddock weighing
b sliced
Spanish
o tablespoons olive 1 to 21b. Place it, sin side un.
low wide saucepan,
he
to
to contain all the
unter 4 hot grill just long enough to shrivel the skin an
Until they oft make it easy to remove it.
then Jel thent Cover it with cold water in a
lb skinned red
pan and bring it to the boil.
Remove and strain, the stock after removing the into the casserole. Adil as much
ceda, cut them into
add them to the
freshly-milled pepper as you like and lightly stir in a small "tub" of potted shrampa
way to skin them Cut the haddock, freed of
then on all sides bones, into suitable pieces and until this are charred, then place them on top. Cover and skins and wash the cook for 15 minutes in a medium der running cold oven (350 degrees Fahr. ce gas
mark ). roughly chopped done ators and, if liked, INEXPENSIVE the Jum a clove of garlic,
Season
Add
.
Sorry, str, I don't think so.. particularly when it comes Now Year partes.
to
From the age of six to 60 seem to bring out the partic
worst in the masculine make-up and as the last festive night of 1960 is upon us, it would red now is definitely the time for all alce men to be as good as they can at the party.
An honour
Mums can start turning their iuto Eligible six-year-olds escorts by stopping immediately all bribes of jam tarts and bal- loons it only Junior will take along young female guests without sulks or screams. It should be treated as an honour.
!
It can be done, too. Three
years ago when he was seven, I watched Simon, on
bring
PAT DRAKE'S INFORMATION COUNTER
"I
DIRTY WEDGWOOD
WONDER if you can tell me, please, how to remove from a Wedgwood vase (a) what would appear to be ingrained diri bat which does not respond
asks Mr J. S.
Od to soap and water, and (b) one or two paint splashes,"
out the worst
Ho gravely looked after her the entire afternoon, plying her cholcest tiiblis from with the the groaning-with-food table w
and opening doors without any phoney - exaggeration, When Simon gets to be 27 he'll be wow.
Unfortunately wows are in a minority-and we have to put up with all sorts of treatment at parties these days!
Discussing it with an oce rulleague I wasn't even mudly surprised to learn that the locked
forward to parties but routine that went not to the with them--that of taking her young men friends home rather the worse for went, and paying the taxi fare, dico,
me
Very
in In a
man...
ал
If you haven't, then like fit. People in love to such extent that they state they you might be lucky enough to will only dance with each other miss it altogether,
thu are not only a danger ta party, but to themselves.
Husbands, anyway, are
different category. quite
haven't Generalising madly, I yet worked out why most ato tremendous hosts, but auch
for poor guests.
On the other hand, beware, in for this is the time of year when
It's most catching.
"
senil- Elg businessmen are mental over last year's figures; actresses over last year's paris and thousands of people over 40 The usual procedure
Year Eves before the husbands to follow is: before are busy heaving sighs over "Why do we have to go? it's a New filthy night"...during "Darling war.
per- Let's get nostalgia in "You
see I don't drink," she it's so early-you don't nemi said, "which makes
any beauty sleep my sweet, let's pective, please. popular and reliable.”
stay" and after "Why on earth Too much attention, however, didn't you insist on us leaving at a party can bo just as embar at a reasonable hour? you russing as too tile, chaps... know I have to get up early in
invited your girl so if you've friend along, as long as you see she's not stranded or coping frantically with
party's monumental bore, circulate for the host's sake.
the
Usual line
the morning.. 7
LOOK BACK
IN... 2
HAY
Anyone who just now start to sigh over midnight celebra
tons of old, how delightful it must have been to travel by carriage, and the still champagne one could drink round the fre in the 1930's might like to know I like all these things, too-in theory.
In reality I already groan About the cold think walling for a carrlage must have been more tiresome than queueing for a bus at least 56 can sit down at one time and really infinitely
preter my glass of bubbly.
Shall 100 Say nuta to
ITAVE you suffered from If you're engaged, remember nostalgia lately? Have of Tom that nothing deadens
you had a heavy bout of memories covered thickly nostalgia. in sentimant?
Brooke Smith, this year's
top atmosphere more
וגבל!
the
on
test pilot, usher his younger animated discussion on bottom sister Selina to a party.
drawer acquisitions.
-London Express Service),
To every father
!
Give the vase a good brisk bread tins, which should be about scrubbing. If that doesn't clean three-quarters tull. Press the if, then it may be that the dirt dough with your knuckles, and really is ingrained and that leave the tins in a warm place nothing will shift it,
until the dough has risen to the topa,
Treat the paint spots with a chemical paint-stripper. But be sure to rinse the vase thorough. afterwards, otherwise the 17 stripper may affect its colour.
GUMMED UP
"The second time my husbang wore his new suit he sat una the piece of chewing-AUM bus, reports Dies B. "As the salt
תם
BREAD AND PIE
Eake the broad in a hot oven (450 dogre, F.) for a quarter of an hour, then reduce the host to 400 degree, to nish the baking. Give
small loaves 35 to 40 minutos, Large loaves will need an hour ce more,
And this is how to make the
ple:
Blend 1 oz, of.cornflour with a little cold water. Pour on it a half-pint of boiling water then
is so new, I don't really want to add the juice and grated rind of the mixture for three minutes, send it to the cleaners. Can you two small jemons. Stir and boll tell me what to do?"
Carbon tetrachloride or white before odging three ounces of bealan spirit will soon get to the seat of caster-sugar and the
the yolks of two eggs. Pour the trouble,
mixture into a prepared pastry case and leave it to cool.
meringue, To prepare the whial up the whites of the eggs very stimy and fold in two ounces of paster-sugar.
Cover the lemon Alling completely with the meringue, which should be scaled sides of the pastry case. Then put the ple in the oven for about half an hour, to brown.
"Would you please give me a recipe for making yeast bread; also for temon meringue ples requests Mrs G.
Here's how to make the bread:
to the
WATERMARKED
Steve 34 lb of plain flour and a half-ounce of salt into a mix- one ounce of ng bowl. Put yeast and a teaspoonful of sugar in a basin and work it with teaspoon until it liquefes, then
"Is there any way I can re- add to it three-quarters of a move a water mark from a pint of tepid water.
pollshed tbls?" Men XX. I. wants Make a well in the flour and to know. It was made pour into it the warm yeast mix weeks st, because of a cracked ture. Mix the flour and yeast vase of lewers.
Rub the table the way of the either with your fingers or with
water beating the mixture with ractal polish. Then polish tid en spoon and add more grain with a soft cloth sprinkled by hand until it will come away the wood in the normal way. from the sides of the bowl cally and cleanly.
Turn the dough out on to a lightly floured board and knead it
thoroughly for about ten minutes, turning it around as you work. Return the dough to the Boured bowl, cover with a damp cloth and leave it
Etvo
STICKY QUESTION
"Can Jed please tell me how to remove nicky collophane strips from tim inquires Miss D. W. In n I have overal fancy dias left
warm place for about one hour, over from Christmas which I or until the dough doubles its would like to keep. But I can't
size. Grease your bread tins and
four them lightly if you wish,
get all the sealing tape off them." Patrol should do the trick.
Put the risen dough on a flour. But keep well audy, from the pas stove when ed board and knead it for two of fire and the three minutes. Then cut 1 into you are using it, I don't want pieces and put these in the to love render.
fond of laying down WILL PILLS KEEP
New York.
THOSE calm, peaceful homes that psychia- trists tell parents to squerough a garlic press Ranove pad trickle over the create for their children Lagle. Cover and top 3 to 4 tablespoons of double are no good-not if you This dish can now wait, I want them to be famous. until the vegetables cream. e not too moisi. if necessary, for up to 4 hour at Beather four eggs, Just low heat say. 300 degrees
Fahr. or gas mark 2. combine the whites or them over the And stir them over a
heat.
coolc
are
enough t
and vega mediu
Sprinkle the chowder with lots of freshly chopped parsley and pras litúe cream crackers with it.
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So
Geertzel Fays Victor revchologist and respected pre- sident of America's National Association for Gifted Children.
Goertze! should know what he is talking about, for he is studying the lives of 350 famous people-Including Sir Winston Churchill.
From 77 care histories so far studied, Goertzel comes to some starting conclusions.
School
the law...
A CONTROVERSIAL
VERDICT ON
YOUR CHILDREN
by GEOFFREY THURSBY
true. Femous men are not rew bels at home as chlidren.
up idear of greatness from the frustrated ambitions of fathers. Psychiatrists often say a chiki from a troubled home will find it hard to succeed.
Examples
Cocrize doesn't agree.
Chi
dren who have bad experiences In childhood are certainly not
doomed to grow up fallures, he says,
Goertzel certainly has good examples to back his findings.
YOUR HEART SAFE?
ERIC TYTLER had taken business executive
George Todd out for lunch. As they sat back after coffee George produced a little box of pills and slipped one into his mouth. “Anything wrong?” asked Eric.
All in a doctor's day: by CEDRIC CARNE
George hesitated until their waller was out of shot. Thon he leaned forward confidentially and said: "I take them to pre- Among the famous men he vent me suffering from a coro- nary thrombosis. They stop the hay so far studied are. Clement blood from coagulating Altico, Chancellor Adenauer, Alfred Adler, the psychiatrist, Is there really a magic Din Sherwood Anderson, the novel that Prevents A man from 1st, Sir Winston Church, having a sudden heart attack? When taymon discuss modi
playwright, This was the question Eric cal matters,
giva they often James Barrie, the Bernard Baruch, the financler, Tstler put to me that evening each other a completely falso ploture of an lines, and its No, says Goertzel, that isn't think it, he will be forming his, Mark Twain, and Joseph Con-in my consulting rooms.
rad.
treatment. own opinion,
"If George Todd is talking this
"Yes, understand," agreed Don't be afraid
to talk in
Goertzel believes that the pill why not mo?" he asked. Eric Tyer,
"All the Among them: novelists genė-
front of your son, about your turmoil, humour, despair, happi-"After all by coronary throm
middło aged executives - and relly come from stormy, 1921- Those he has studied all said own ambitionsthe
ness, and unhappiness that most boss docters mean the blood morista trom tragio homes; that they enjoyed the cut and never achieved.
experienced as has coagulated into a clot in the people like me well, you know military leaders and poets are thrust of their stimulating Your son may achieve them they grew up helped to form artery
life to the how common coronary throm that feeds often "sickly, mother-dominal homes. They liked it when for you; for sons rapidly pick their creative abilities,
heart. Aren't there drugs that boals is getting. Why wait to have an attack Why not take ed boya."
prople argued over ideas
elop the blood coagulating?"
anticoaguphis,
you're when: wre not too concerned when
Indeed there are such drugs, well and pealthy to prevent tran And in recent years more and more substancez have been found which can be used as anticoagulants. It is one of the major break-throughs in the treatment of coronary throm- bosis.
One thing men of eminence
and
have in common: they do not the households coemed to be in like cchool or school teachers.
chacs,
Famous men's parents sra Active, Ilve-time and time alzo usually highly opinionated again it comes out that this is about controversial subjects. So the sort of home famous men if you are the sort of person grow up in. who is food of laying down the
then.
aro
of
ones
you
of these mon
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
law on toples Uke religion er "Creativity Jocs not résult politics, your child E mere from being reared in a warm likely to grow up famous than cohesive, supportive Eart children ct meek, mild itle home," says our phychologist- `Soups take an added flavour from scratches
though he did find that humani-with the addition of cherry wine. you scrape, tariens and humanitarian-type
The Wind Instikute suggests stire and vegetables. politicians often come troca such ring a little sherry into cream of homes
mushroom, oyster, chicken And it does not maiter too potato soup. Add 4 spoonful to much it your son slemt et onion soup or bouition. too fine an education. It he has it in him to be famous, he probably will be anyway.
Another thing famous men Inva in common; they "hungry" rad Goerizci eltes Sir Winston Churchill na an example.
Chaos
fle also cités Sir Winston as.
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For all cake baking das equal quantities or milik sini water.
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All wrong
Awkward
BOUTIA,
No doctor would give, say, streptomycin to someone fit and well jury because there is such an illness as T.D. Still jess would they give anticbagulants simply because a patient 'is frightened of having a heart at "Excellent," sald Erle Tyler, tadle. For anticoagularita, If not and cuts when | amalling. " Then
recommend used with great care, can have of these anticoagu- very awyward side effects pare or cut fruits me some
lant pills,"
"No," said, "Mihere fano But Mr Tyler had got it all magte harmless pull that can wrong. Anticoagulants are used prevent healthy people from Die baked ham and sprinkle in the treatment of coronary rulering & coronary attacks Est it over the waffle iron before you thrombosis. They are not given it knoson that overweight pour in regular batter. Makes a to people who have peen com people and their who, sorry, too much about such things are junt good main dists for breakfast, pletely free of heart trouble
"You, thean that George Todd slide itty bit more likely to be lunch or supper. Try serving
had a coronary coronary typeN, POLLSTA with a syrup made of cratige ha pbably
strendy?" he said, "That's why 21 Wommanded that next
timó MINTYzier fund kúlachi witla -- ho's taking anticoagulants now." cinta Tocks his shakl enduro a granulated sugar,
Very likew!" I replied On the outer hand, it may, the same time," 1
"There is no apparent rela- It makes the cakes ennoža Jules and outni amount of a schoolboy who could not stand on between the amount of littler. ht school teachers, "Sir Winschooling and fituro ominence," alon did not behave well in zdys, Goertzók.
did Mark
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A handy klichen safely gid- If you spili grease on the well be that My Todd Was West and the extra fat from And you tub-thumpers who get is sold at stationery coun- kitchen door, pout ico water taking some other kind of pill that juler steal you've ordered. dogmatically proclaim what you lors, let time stores. It's a rüb over the apoi inediately to that had no anticoagulant Prow And make sure you walk back Trom all this it sounds as it bellave, to in a great truth, you be fagor, protector faped harden it before it has time to perties at all. Perhaps he had to the ice. That will do you to seara famois son you need are not doing your son, any like bongated thimble, oak in. Then scrape it off with angina and was taking some more gbọc than a box of pile"
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