You must have
A Little Black Frock
because
-you can wear it on a hundred different days in a hundred different ways toith short coats and long coats, with belts and sashes, with collars and scarves, with necklaces and bracelets. ly plain. Afen wolt always think you well dressed, and women will or just absolute- envy you the different outfits you have for every occasion. Here is the type of frock; black wool marocain, high-waisted and moulded to the figure, quite plain at the back, slightly full in front. Neck is plain and cut high; sleeves are gathered in to just below the elboto. You can wear El
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938,
OUT TO LUNCH with several strands of pastel- coloured pearls. two gold clips, and a long gold chain hung with gold shells. On one wrist a thick gold cable bracelet on the other a bangle of twisted old gold and copper and a wide gold band.
BITS TO CUT OUT
Rules For Custard
WHEN making a bolled‡
custard with egge (two or three eggs to a pint Fof-milk)-pour--the-beaten- Teggs into warm milk, and not‡ the milk into the eggs. Then‡ tput the mixture, with sugar Ito taste, into a jug, stand inf ta pan of boiling water overt the fire, and stir ons way only Funtil it thickens. Don't let‡ El boil. If you follow all
these rules your custard will‡ tnot curdle.
To give the custard a speciaft flavour (such as lemon), let the milk stand over a gentle fire withi the chosen flavouring in it and † infuse for about twenty minutes; before you add the eggs.
*Use Glue
to washi your own blankets addf
IF you prefer
En little glue (a small teaspoonful); to the rinsing water. It will give Han extra sheen to the blanket and;
make it look like new.
Soft Chammy MAKE
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V leather poilsher
For Flouring
nabi
Do you flour your
and liver on a plate? Anf better way is to put some Bour int La paper bag and thake the fish or liver gently in it. It will be covered evenly and you won't
Thave to wash up a floury plate,
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TO THE OFFICE belted with a wido -band of emerald green crepe, closely draped, but held with a whate bone at the back to keep its width, fasten- ing off in a short frill.
TO A BRIDGE PARTY with a short sleeveless bolero made of coarse white lace. (Both boleros and lace being stop-press
-fashion news.)
FOR A DAY'S SHOPPING! with an astrakhan collar and belt and little peaked cap to'
- match.
TO A WEDDING under a bright lamé wrist-length coat, striped black, gold, and red, severely tailored and
very smart.
TO A CINEMA with a bright magenta coloured corduroy jacket, quite short and simple, with turn. back revers and long straight sleevess hung with two rows of tiny silver bells Instead of buttons,
Mummy taste too
it's good
OVALTINE'
SURPRISE your Puss
last-minute
GUESTS
THERE are only two
things to do when your husband rings up on Mon- day night and announces-- not without a certain amount of sheepishness-that he'd like to bring home some friends for dinner. Either tell him to take his friends to the club and re- tire to bed with a book and a poached egg on a tray or buckle ito.
with some original
quick-to-make dishes
If you're a nice wife, of course, chopped parsley.de 31 a reproof economical as you'll buckle to and make a raid on the store cupboard.
well as tasty.. It's
cover a threepenny bit, a pinch of The second course I suggest is an- other standby in our home as it is Grease the Inside dish. Heat the butter in a pan, fry called— An original first course is difficult them attractively in the dish in the roes lightly, and then arrange to produce at a moment's notice, but rows, one on top of the other. Add here is one which I have found from the lemon, chopped parsley and
Fricassee of Veal
THE ingredients:— Ilb. of pie' veal,
a fairly wide experience, is a grated shallot to the butter in the THE 1 small shallot, 1⁄2 pint of white
favourite with guests. It requires pan and heat for a few minutes. sauce, juice of a lemon, some button few ingredients, is quick to make, Pour over the roes and cook in a mushrooms, and 6 pieces of streaky and our "home-made" name for it quick oven for five minutes. 13-
Pimento Pie
bacon.
a
The entire dinner can be prepared in well under an hour and will be
Cut up the veal into small pieces, HE ingredients for a party of four with men
found to be particularly popular put them into a mucepan with the shallot and some stock, and allow are: 4 hardboiled eggs, pint
to simmer for a good hour. Make If you have not the staff or the white sauce with the stock, and then of tohite sauca flavoured with salt, pepper, 1 oz. of parmesan cheese and money to return hospitality on the reheat the veal in the sauce, adding a tablespoonful of economy cream, then choose a dinner that can be dish and garnish with rolls of bacon, same scala as your richer friends, the lemon juice. Place in an entree and a small tin of pimento.
partly prepared before the guests button mushrooms, and diamond Doll the eggs hard, cut them into arrive.
slices and arrange them in a nowadays, providing there la plenty potatoes fried in breadcrumbs and
Threo courses thin
is ample croutes of fried brend Serve with nests
mashed greased fireproof dish. Prepare the of each. white sauce, adding the cream and cheese, and pour over the eggs menu, so those who wish for a fish
Fish is an expensive item on n filled with a teaspoonful of spinach Place in a medium oven for ten course will welcome the speciality
a la creme. minutes. Meanwhile cut the pimento
I suggest 00 a third course a
of
Into long strips about a quarter af of our home, which costs about six- sweet that can be prepared during
an inch wide, and just before serv- Pence for four people. We call it the afternoon. ing, decorate the pie with pimento
arranged in chessboard fashion,
Follow this course with cold roast
i
Mock Sole.
are: Ilb,
beef, sliced and arranged on a dish, INGREDIENTS
Pineapple Royale
of You will need: One ripe pine- Alloted herrings, breadcrumbs, apple, 1 vill of thick cream, 1 garnished with waterercas. Serve with it potatoes
baked in their and tartare sauce. Cover the her tablespoonful of sherry or cointreau
rings with breadcrumbs and fry in
jackets and a winter salad.
Cut the top off the pineapple and fat as you would sole. Serve on a lay it on one side. Scoop out the Most men prefer a savoury to a Asha disht, garnished with sweet, and here is one which is a slices of lemon and prsley.
water inside of the pine with a blunt kit- chen apoon, taking care not to Uittle more exciting than the usual sardine on toast. Its name is-
folletare sauce de simply made damage the side or use of the Pin as follows:
the frult very add the Beat the yolks of two eggs quickly cream and sherry, and leave in a in a basin, adding slowly drops of basin in the refrigerator until just olt and vinegar until the basin con- back into the pine, place ita top on, before dinner la ready. Then put FOR four people you will need: tains enough sauce for the number
Half a pound of herring roes, I of guests. Add one finely chopped and serve in a glass bowl filled with tablespoonful of lemon juice, 11⁄2 oz. gherkin and you have an excellent ipc. butter, enough grated shallot to tartare sauce."
Baked Roes
COMMON SENSE
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ULCERS and SORES
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