THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1961.
PRACTICAL
THE SOCIAL WHIRL *
OF A TOP TOT
By JILL BUTTERFIELD
FACE up to facts, girls. If you're a day over three you can't hope
to crawl into high society. Your social life must start in the cradle, not at Queen Charlotte's Ball.
Recently I wandered into this silver spoon world where know- ing your Who's Who matters and you can't see the ginger bread for glit. Recently that Ninette de Valois of the nursery world Miss Violet, Dallantine put her privileged pupils through their paces on the stage at West End Theatre.
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The children were beautifully
The cast list road like a LR!!- putian Debrett. The audience-manneret and exquisitely composed of misty-eyed, mauve dressed, with hair that none in haired grandmothers, uniformed the spotlights and shrill little nannies, and the sad proud voters polished into perfect uni- city-suited Papa -- had paid up formity. to 10 guineas in aid of chority to see the kind of performanse that
and 1 sit through you every bedtime.
COOKING COLUMN
by Helen
Burke
A COLD SURPRISE
PELL the average man TE
you are giving him a cold meal, and what happens?
Even though it is 90 in the shade, he sets up a loud wail of protest that cold food isn't really a meal at all.
This reflects seriously on Brl- tish eating hablis, Unless you are In the lacome group which hap- pily pays 10s. Cd. a lb. for sal- mon, "a rold na?" somehow implies eating leftovers — those sad tle bits from the roast. flanked by pallid chunks of plain buted patates and livid slices of Lestrout.
it can, In
In fact, of course, a cold men) needs as much care and thought as a but one But sunnier, be far more attractive,
So next time you plan to eat eeld, don't breathe a word to the man of the house. Surprise him with--
en croute This is a sort of
veal and bum ple, but with that added touch of Gallic charm which
Say
you know
will probably make him "Oh,
la- what I mean.
Il costs
with
about 10s. tu make, and will feed six people average appeilles wall, or four glutions copiously.
in the butter eat
HOMECRAFT
with
*
Say it flowers-but now
they are artificial
FRENCHWOMEN revived the art of the arti-
ficial bouquet last winter when fresh blooms were both expensive and scarce and found that these lifelike, artistic flower arrangements which may have taken hours to perfect, have the advan- It's nice work if you can get it tage that, they do not wither next day, and have must be prepared tu spend at no need of water. The flowers, too, can be used teast a working man's woge over and over again, being constantly rearranged weekly to make you a tot-about-with new effect.
But
lown.
to get it yotir "parents
When anked. Miss Ballantine
the price of a weekly lesson at her school in S.W.1; she shud- | dered slightly. "I have nothing ugainst you knowing how much | 11 costs, but I do think it's vul- går to discuss money, don't you?"
But If you're alming ligh, dancing
class fees are just ile tug anust sail.
intó amall pieces, the egg, and the wall. drop in the ocean your cherished Mix with tips of fingers, adding water to give a fairly enough
dry but elastic pnste.
On a foured table top, pum-
met out and flatten the dough with the palm of one hand, hold in it down with the other; fold it back; pummel out again bord. This makes it supple. Leave to stand for at least two hours.
TO MAKE THE FILLING: Mix together welt the veol, sausage meat, salt, pepper, egt. and brandy. Then add and milx in the diced ham.
Roll
out 2-3rds
Hair-do
by PEGGY
MASSIN
Recently, at the bl-annual.
Cushio Paris
group dinner, Madame Dugrenot decorated
for 800, piests with silver candelabra twined with hundreds of her small white
orchids and artlilcial fern. The
arrangement remained im-
Theatres, haute couture salons, and profes- sional decorators have long realised the scope of peccable throughout the evening.. artificial flowers. But the idea has only recently. In pite of the hout from the caught on in private homes.
Once, most ariifelal flowers opened blooms, or full blown were unattrnetive, and mentally that almost faded.
aszociated with the garish,
|
coloured paper carnations
a
platited on the windowsill of
TOTS have nonnies. Cust: quary, absolutely
a week
candles.
MIXED
The finest pure abre fobries
Madame Poule Dedoban, who' are used to make these flowers. Sliks, velvet. and sheer or-
runs a florist shop, specialises in. mixing fresh and or voile prove mout
artificial cuitable Shading, streaks, vins,
flowers in the same bouquet. She and ciched effects in leaves are
belloves in taking ad- hand painted. Prices are high. Vantage of the fresh cut flowers
and using Lut mury clients "colicet" there season,
two or flowers a few at a time, adding three artificial varieties to pro- to their bouquets every weck vide a touch of the unusual. with money which they would spend beautiful otherwise
1 fresh tag of flowers, Madame Do flowers.
Party conclerge's loge. But to- day exports like Judith Bar bier, who supplies fashion flowers for the haute couture, Dugrenot, the well-known
Honora Faubourg St
anu!~ and Trousseller, who lifelike If she's the creates
reproductions of every T10- Jural bloom. offer Top fots gu to top hair-and veriod selections for private dressers shunpoo and set at ellents, the smartest "Knightsbridge Jun- for salon costs 10a. Od. As every. social butterfly knowa, a weekly hair-do is a MUST.
1 £7 pukka, uniformed type.
Most
it
imaginative French- women belang to the "do yoursel!" school of Nower arrangers. Whether a woman is Top tots must be well dressed, looking for three branches of At the quiet Bond-street shop | delicate white lac on which which is babyland's Dior Bout-each tiny blossom is hand made fang.que,, I was told: "Organdle trim-in pure silk organdy, or whether med cots start at 50 guineas, she wants to assemble a large babies' dresses cast up to 33 showcase
bouquet of mixed guineas. The average price of blooms. Trousseller has exactly old? I'd say around 29 guineas. a party dress far n two-year- what she wants. And we still sell musses of long. white sits sucks."
fairly thick, to line a rectangular tin suitable for baking a loat. Roll out the Add the filling. remaining 1-3rd dough to form al and fold in the sides shaping to a small ridge. Cut a hole for a little cardboard funnel In the centre of the lid.
Brush with
milk, put in a hot oven and cook month-old daughter recently re- beaten egg and Tob tata entertain. My six
Confidence
OUBTLESS the
children
HISTORICAL
CONCEALED
Monsieur Trousecller's roses cost an average about 15 few francs (about HK$20) dach. Single branches of 11ac, gladiola, or delphinium cost be tween 20 and 28 new francs (about HK$24 to HK$32) side Smaller flowers for dining or
table VASCS, Including sweet peas, nasturtiums, corn flowers, defalcs and ivy or leaf sprays, cost from three to five or six new tranes (HK$4 to HK$8) cuch.
Monsieur XVI
· Trousseller's
the
Troussetter asserts dat artificial flowers have been in fashion for a long time. He
A strong believer in the mix-
deban asserts that there is nothing more boring or mona-" tonuous than that "eternal dozen flowers all of the same. 'species.""
Madame
Like the Trousselier Arm
Dedeban's bualnoss was founded by her father, who: was originally a shepherd in the Landes region of France,
While tending the flocks, he would gather little bouquets of wild flowers. His casual ar rangement of these were greatly admired by the lady of the chateau, who appointed peasant as her gardener, eventually helped him to come to Paris and found a small florist's shop.
DIOR
the
the and
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Top little girls will pop on a cool smock top of pink, white and blue gingham, paired with solid pink bloomers. Smock is trimmed with applique, edged with ric-rac braid.
This Arm, whose premises are for about two hours. Bake a ceived a deckie-edged, engraved on the historical Louis French ham pate to cover the hoie left by removed her that a top tet she picked present Morsicur
small separate diamond of dough invitation in the post. It inform Square, was founded by the ing the funnel, when the pie
is up in the Park would be "At father, in 1876. Today, at the tells the story of a bouquet cooked.
Home" for Serve three separate dishes of week
tea the following age of 71, the son carries on the sent to Queen Marie Antoinette
business and 'directs
The late Christian Dior way salad with this: Tomato
the retail accompanied by a note Baking and cucumber, thinly
her majesty to prese a bulion among Madame: Dodeban's chist shop. Workrooma on sliced, in " French dressing: Russian solad
premises employ 50 skilled concealed in the central blossom. nirers. He praised her ability
As the rose "bloomed" before to mingle ertisans.
seemingly incon- -made from a tin or a quick
her eyes, the queen discovered gruous flowers in
same frozen
pack of macedoine of
Monsieur
·Faithful· Trousselier is her own portrait painted on an bouquet,
Dedeban who have into the clients
Monaleur Bednt believes that. vegetables mixed with a home-D
recently started his own business and made or bought home-made-
capable of reproducing an exact ivory miniature set (although I hope they spars
ordered " claborate
the Duchess artificial numbers
of he most inspired floral arrange- type mayonnaise; and a big bowl mine) will be fed on bridge rolls copy of any known flower. But heart of the little rose,
flower bouquets for their Parts Windsor among his first clients,` ments come from imitaling na- of dressed lettuce.
and canapes, amoked salmon his relection usually within
Unlike Monsieur Trougscifer, homes include the Begum Agu He particularly clever wit ture. "Ille flat on my back in the range of fresh flowers fold haveandwiches, and cocktail BEU-
dried grasses and leaves, and the gross and potato as well as pastry crust, rages on sticks, And if there's in the florist shops: His special who refuses to use any type of Khan and Madame Patino.
spend hours lib flour 11b butter; 1 whole serve cooked potatoes sliced and conjurer, na nim
plastic media to make his Jacques Bedat, a Young Swiss collects them during the summer show, no favourite is the rose, and he re-
studying the patterns formed egg: 2 level feaspoonstui anil
flowers, Madame Janine bay and
by former protege of In fields surrounding ħla coun-
tree branches or willd butter with finely presents, the two-year-old host-gularly attends the annual rose and for the Alling Soz Jean, chopped onion. But don't touch ess's reputation has gone for exhibitions in Paris eagh June Dugreno, antique dealer and Madame
Dedeban, recently try cotinge near Orleans,
flowers," he explains, finely chopped veal; ib RAU- -them yourself they put on good.
Goz ham, cut in a pounds.
looking for new types of hybrid interior decorator, has launched suste meat;
Punch and Judy can cost up tu roses to copy
miniature thi: slice and dleed; 1 whole
and add to his special line of A cold sweet to follow? Try:20 guineas a show and Norman collection.
orchids made of plastic. No one eg: solf; pepper; and one table-
Myers ("I've got a really good
fean rerist touching the waxy Spoonful brandy, Plus 1 whole
class ellentele") told me he All Trousselier roses are ob- smoothness of their translucent +2 beaten in milk, to brushi
charges 10 guineas for an after-tainable in three stages of petals to probe the secret over the crust and give a pro-
noon's entertainment. fusional finish,
blooming: in tight buds, half ila lifelike media.
YOU NEED: For the crust
ΤΟ MAKE THE CRUST: Make a well in the flour and pat
THE
NEW!
bronztan
THE SUNIAN LOTION
THAT PROTECTS EVER
AFTER SWIMATHO
WEEKEND
t
"BUT I MUST RAVE
For
fried in
men who must.
Blackcurrant trifle
deira cake at the bottom of
Put wedges of sponge or ma- big glass bowl, damp with her ry and cover with a thick layer
"Then for 48. 60. a head 1
supply a
hot, a mask, 1 squesker, a cracker, and a going home present too. I also get my mileage on the clock."
uf fresh blackcurrants sleved to The other day a small, flaten-
puree and not oversweetened (for contrast)..
haired boy in a sailor suit talked
to me.
Add a deep layer of creme seriously. |patissiere-1oz (luur, 11⁄2oz sur-
I hop
"I hop," he told me
"I like hopping ant very well. In fact,
1
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
ar, 1 whole egg and one yolk, would say I hop better than any- and vanilla essence, mixed one else in the world."
Whatever you smoothly and added, stirring
might feel briskly, to 1pt of bulled milk about the top to! system, il has brought to boiling point agaiready given him something and then whipped off the heat that all the money made later quickly. Then, another layer of in life couldn't buy. Super self-number of sausages or kidneys after baking, place the tin and thick whipped cream. Into the confidence,
fridge with it, and out just be- fare eating. Delicious!
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To remove a nake from a fin
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when 10 handic devastating tycoon.
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