THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1981.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
The Continental touch LADY
HOME PAGE FINDS SEVEN BRIGHT IDEAS
WAITING FOR A WELCOME
麻汤
ING by Helen
Burke
Give this
all-American favourite a try
ASK any American which, of all the maint
course dishes, he could be pretty sure of in any reasonably priced restaurant in the United States, and I have no doubt that the answer would be “Hamburgers."
I can
Having just returned frum the States, confirm they are gen.
rally very good.
In places where they fancy fhemselves. you get them brolled over charcoal; in lessor places. you get them part brolied ur dry fried, niuch in thu sume way as they ar cooked here at home-off that is, slapped down on a hot plate which ha been barely brushed withi
ttle fat.
As an instance of their popularity I must tell you that, on the shelves of one of New York's most serious book shops, I saw a book entitled 305 Ways to Cook Ham- burgers. (No-I did not buy it.)
i have no fault to flad with American Ham- burgers. On the whole, I like them better than any other restaurant main dish.
Hamburgers, ALA never tire of saying, aro made of nothing else but flatly minced Ican chuck tent .or lop Airloin, formed into itile round cakes, 14inch thick and dry.fried or grilled to your own liking.
Season them after this. The
Budget
• ANY INEXPENSIVE which has several uses will always find a plate in my kitchan, This Phoenix egg saparator la also a pie fuenol and if placed in a saucepan when heating 'mlik will prevent It from boiling over.
ONCE went out to lunch with an industrialist, and on the way there I was seized with the kind of inspiration that usually only comes in dreams, and is exasperatingly forgotten when you wake up.
Tournedos
But when, over the tournedos půd champignons I put the Idea up, the mon said; "Yes, someone Inventes
at in 1010. And I wouldn't work."!
Since then I've been shy of að. vising manufacturers to do anything.
The Ideos in these Home Page drawings, however, ure different. Any manufacturer of home furnishings
rently missing something.
I thought up a gadget; a splendid gadget that the who doesn't have a go at them is world had been waiting for. It would be easy and cheap to make; it was bound to be 4 success.
Wonderful
All the way through the West End trafe I was working out its wonderful possibilities and seeing how successful it was bound to the.. By Plecadilly Circus had floated
n company; by Hyde Park Corner Consolidated Caters were declaring a two-for-one bonus issue, and by the time I'd found o parking meter 1 was working - out where I'd moor my yacht,
Experts
They were suggested by Henry and Lillan Stephenson, the husband-and- wife design team who are experts in home ideas And many of them are already on the market in various European countries, but haven't yet crossed the Channel.
If no British manufacturer cashes In on them quick enough for you, they nre all within the ability of the do-it- yourselfer,
For most of them veneer-surfaced blockboard is an ideal material.
Bill Cater
NEW twist to the old bed-into-samothing-elso transformation. In this one. bad tips on pivot at head and foot to reveal big desk on the other aldo. Mattress, of thick foam rubber, is fastened on with straps ar press-studs: bara at back hold head and foot together, provant desk tipping. Blackboard ends: beach sidos.
ment must be handled lightly gnocchs, one at a time, into it. FIRST AID IN
because, if pressed together, the in circles. hamburgers would be dull.
No onion goes into them, but they can be necompanied by blanched onion rings, together with any
number of delicious relishes.
I have a rough idea of one of the best of these I have ever
tasted and, in due course, after
I have made I to my own
THE HOME
After one circle has been added, increase the heat 50 that, by the time all the gnoccht has been added, the water just comes to the boll again. It must
boll furiously not
Burni. Best the
together gnocchi will break, so watch it, egg white and one tablespoon of
olive oil and apply freely to MORE BUTTER-
burns. Keep the patient quiet and warm, alve warm quids and
ог
PAULINE gently moved the
with A wooden
satisfaction, I shall give it to spoon. Gradually, one by one, you in these notes.
THE BEST FOOD
they rose in the pan when they should poach for under a minute.
are
treat for shock If necessary. I the burns are very severe, take no chances but get a doctor or rush the patient to a hospital,
Croup. Scrape a teaspoonful Have ready, as Pauline had, of alum with twice the quantity pless of melted butter and a good
as possible. Almost instantane sprinkling of grated Parmesan
ous relief will follow.
DY for the best food I had in a heated platter with a nice of sugar. Administer as quickly
D the United States was in private homes. and the best of all was in that of my friend, Pauline Presenza, who provided a dinner for seven of us which could not have been equalled In any of the restaurants visited.
Her first course was the softest most delicious Spinach Gnocchi, with not a spot of}
flour or semolina In it. I sug- gest that you try it, first, in hair quantiles.
Start by draining 11. Alcottn cheese in a muslin bag in the
refrigerator for 24 hours (hang
from one the
with a souces underneath),
Cook in its own juice a 100%.
packet of chopped spinach for
cheese in it. LIN euch of the gnocchi out with a slotted spoon and place them
ал ileadache. Take
ospirin
on the the dish, Dot them with with half a cup of water to which further creamed butter and add 1⁄2 teaspoon of bicarbonate
nore grated Parmesan cheese. ol sóda,
That first
baby
PRINCESS MARGARET will be 31 when she
has her first baby. The Queen was married at;
21, and now at 35 is the mother of three Ehildren.
10 minutes. Drain and press out For the Arst time since the looks, corect or interests out all molature. (This is very Just two wars, there is a surplus important.)
fho
or men under the age of 30, and
When cold, mix with
it hardly matters whether a girl Ricotta, 2 good tablespoons of decides to marry carly or late.
taste.
.
grated Parmesan chcesz, a beaten egg, u pinch of rated her own fat, a
A girl of 20, for instance, with nutmeg and salt and pepper to
well stocked jwardrob strings of dates and is freedom to take a job in Drop half teaspoons of the Rome or New York if she wants mixture on to a pastry board a change of scenery, can hardly sparsely sprinkled with flour, ite regordel as on the shelf. lightly roll them with the palm What does matter rather more of the hand into balls and dat is when you have your children,
en them a trific. It is a good idea to leave them for a little.. Many a girl who has married Halo and started a family after carofres te las come to, feel Pauline placed hers in rows that the twenties are really the Sti floured wax paper on R hest time for coping with the covered tray and stored them in the refrigerator for two cat, pot and happy stage,
now.
hovire.
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To cook the knogihli · Uve ̈a' wide pan with water to it to the depth of four to five faches.
Bring it to the boil, mendj
Lower the bent to arrest the
Elde the home may be harder to achieve.
Then there is the sight of Younger friends, their children al school and enjoying tho pleasant round of married life in enviable serenity.
Many a girl who has married early, on the other hand, mus have felt who was missing some- tightened old infant despots thing, as the,tles of motherhood
seemed to have taken over for good. The younger she is tho less she can see beyond life without, nopples.
Yet I believe that older mothers are often more tolerant and relaxed with their children. (All that Cun to look back on?) And I have met many young
who have bloomed "The hardesk, and some say Again at 30. Married parties, in the most cowarding, unsa in a my opinion, are more fun than women's: Elia are the 10 years teenage ones. that dato from the Fizik el her first child,
If this brings tier to 40-plus
I know which I prefer. How about you?
bolling || atvi· lightly, drws the, e re-blossialog, in terms of weig -Maureen Owen
HOW many hours a year do you' spend taking things off trays and putting them in the sideboard, or taking them from sideboard and putting thom on trays? Way out: turn shelves into trays sliding on original sholf-supports or strips of beading. No shelves? Buy or make trays to fit.
FOR Idat-minuta, rushers who polish their shoes on the hoof, a simple, hinga-out section
01 kitohen fitnient, rubber-topped. to put the foot on (and hide the Jatray pollah-amoara); with stor
mga space for Ahpe ateaning materials in a drawer or cupboard- above it.
WHERE to put tho. trollay: Instead of lonving it stuck out In the kitchen to be fallan over, fit it with a solid and so that it can disappear into spoco in rango of cupboards when not in uso. Easier for cleaning, noator, and. ideal for idle husbands who want to hide the washing-up..
COCKTAIL cabinet for loss than the price of the cock. talls: a simple box scrowed to wall,
with drop-down front supported by metal leg. Polished booch
for frame and front, plastic surfaco for serving-flap and to ling the box.
A KITCHEN with enough working surfaces shouldn't need o tablo-but If all the surfaces are at working holght, thoy are too high' for sitting. down tasks. If you uso a high stool there's nowhore to put your knood. Solution: this tip-up flap. Flush
with front of kitchen unit when closed. It opona at right height.
NOBODY likes hailstands, with their burden of damp coats and dripping umbrellas, but while. there, ara stili houses without popt cupboards, they are needed and you might as well have one that looks good. This la tha (nántest f'vo 'ason; pidin woosten bucking is handsome" without being Fašky, mirror...in in the right, plans,
ketidul Kaptim Servig,
your
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