TILE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1938,
MEALS FOR LIVE-ALONES 2
Try these menus
on
THIRSTY
THE gentleman "on the
wagon" is a very dif-
ferent animal from the total
abstainer.
Yet he, too, has something of a
sweet tooth as a rule (to his
MEN
surprise
plates.
and not altogether to his approval). On a bed of ice in shallow coup is just to have a dinner that you
Most of his tastes, however, pre
left over from gayer days. He will
munch sweets übsent-mindedly, but
cheeses.
critical.
DEEF STEW
will enjoy yourself and let him eat it or not as he sees fit.
Three pounds of beef and two of Don't offer him wine; he's almost
reach.
his real interest is still in good meats tumb are boiled until tender, the rare to prefer stronger drinks, but and such things as the sharper grease skimmed from the pot, and probably he'll drink anything within
If he is a recent convert, he is pro
salt and pepper added. bably, slightly on edge, especlully be carrots are boiled separately. Next, Ten amall onions and ten small
Give this man tomato juice and fore dinner, and inclined to be the juice from the carrots and cheese biscuits when he first arrives. onions is poured into the stew, and, He will be sure to come fortified any- His entertainment, therefore, re- while the slew is not, but not bolling, way, and this will bring him at least quires as much thought as that of a four tablespoonfuls of flour mixed part way back to scratch, gourmel.
It's a good idea to give him dishes with a little water are stirred in.
If you feel that you must, you can cooked with wine, since he will en just long enough before serving for say, "Wouldn't you like a whisky and Joten particularly und will un- them to heat thoroughly, and a little soda?" just before dinner is served. doubtedly congratulate himself on Madeira may be added for flavour. his sterling will power in being able (This is more than enough for two, to eat them without demanding a but beef stew is a dish that is delic- drink.
don't have any drinks around, but one.)
lous the next day, and even the next is, actually, struggling more thán he admits.
If he Drinks
But He
served. Here is the menu:-
Oysters
The carrots and onions are added
Too Much
Menu:
Onion Soup Cheese Croutons Tongue with Cumberland Sauce Asparagus
Hot Apple Torts Port Salut Cheese Coffee
You'd better use tinned soup, it your time or space is 1mited, since there are excellent varleties to be And sprinkle a Httle grated
■T is scarcely worth while to had.
"If he is an active fusser tell him you just love vegetables and thought it would be fun to have a feast of them."
For the
Young Beau As
for
this
You won't need recipes not very original," but thoroughly masculine, meal. But take a little trouble in buying the cheese,
If Digestion's
+
On his Mind
THERE are so many men around with their diges- tion on their mind that you might as well make up a good menu for them. You'll have plenty of chance to keep in practice in preparing it.
Whether you do it openly, or act
on
only
Above all, don't have a cocktail yourself before dinner. Unlike the teetotaler, he won't think you're de- praved; lie'll think you're tacticss,
Sa matter of fact, this as if it were the type of meal you and he'll be right.
depend young man may not even always have, must Instead, have
spend much time on meals cheese on the croutons before put- be a beau. He may be a nephew or whether he's reticent about his all- tomato Julee and cocktail bisculls before dinner is for the Man Who Drinks Too Much ting them in the oven.
(or to spend much time on him any-
the younger brother of your current ments or loves to tell about them. way), but you'll probably have to The tongue should be bolled, of young man. entertain him occasionally,
the course (get a small one, since you're.
Either way, if you can feed him If you know him well, you also his diet and make it seem like a 13 a Live-Aloner, and a tongue lasts know what to do about drinks. If party, he'll think you're the rest of us do.
friend of your much longer than you think it will), you don't, you will have to use your woman who understands him. Perhaps he is a brother's Perhaps you are indebted and the Cumberland sauce is made own judgment whether to overlook to him for some special kindness, merely by melting currant jelly, add the matter altogether or mention the If he is an active fusser tell him (Heavy drinkers, disconcertingly, are ing meat stock or a little concentrat fact that you are having sherry, and you just love vegetables, and thought often kind of heart.)
ed meat sauce, and some finely grat- is that what he would like?
It would be fun to have a feast of Beer is the answer, more often them. This is, incidentally, an cosy Perhaps, even, you are going to ed orange peel. The beef stew and coffee are all reform him.
If this menu is a bit dimcuit, just than not, so you'd better be prepared plan to manage if you are getting that you need to cook in this good Our advice-after urging you not serve him any menu
for it.
the meal yourself. masculine menu. Serve the oysters to look on him as a prospective beau venient.
Once that is settled, give him steak. Steak is, incidentally, sure- fire with most men,
Beef Stow with Vegetables Rolls Preserves
Alligator Pear Sulad
Ripe Camembert, Toasted Water
Crackers Coffee
Do We Leave Too
that is co-
Much
To
Amah?
Those First Impressionable
Years
Need Watching
would be a dull subject in-seven years of their lives, which, in him harm never for a moment en- deed about which there were the case of parents living in the tro- tered her head.
pics, who have to send them home to
not two opinions. The bringing school by the time they are seven, Is More Tributes
up of children is such a interest- the only period during which they
ing one to those of us who have have a chance to mould their char- CHEILA Kaye-Smith in "The Child- any and even, or so it seems to aclers at all..
them
two short,
say:
seven in
ren's Summer" and Eleanor Acland in her unforgettable "Good-
me, to those who haven't, that. Is it not the Jesuits who no two of us are in entire agree- "Give us the children for the nrst bye for the Present have both left ment.
seven years and anybody can have monuments to the old-fashioned Nan-
nic
In the latter book the nurse was after that"? By Possibly this is because 110
undoubtedly what the foundations are laid termed in those days "
would have been children are exactly alike and Whether they are well and truly fald, yet she was so ignorant and so en- treasure," theory that is vindicated when ap- only the adult that emerges from tirely devoid plied to one child is an utter falture them will prove.
of imagination, that when applied to another,
one wonders how parents, themselves It is obvious then that, if we hold 50 enlightened, could have tolerated Parents also differ enormously, the destinies of our children in our her presence in their household. There is the astrict disciplinarian who hands, it is of the utmost import- must have obedience at any cost and ance to whom we transfer this heavy a ken Inying an egg, Nannie?" asked "Will you take me one day to see the one who wants her child's per- responsibility If we cannot carry it the litle girl thoughfully contemplat- sonality to develop at any cost! entirely aurarives.
Again, there is the parent who says Formidable Nannie
all she wants for her children is a
ing her breakfast egg. "Any more nonsense like that, Miss Mary, and you'll be slapped and put in the cer-
happy childhood, which probably GENERATION ago, it was given ner. Be quiet and cet your break- means that all she wants is to
bo to a highly respected Nannie, in fast like a good girl,"
left in peace and the children can voluminous white apron and a bon- Pre-School Days
act on with the being happy. Her net with starched streamers, who more honest neighbour, plump and ruled the nursery and very often the
benign, smilingly admits that it is so entire household, including the par- HERE, in the East with our little much less effort to let children have ents, one of whom she had probably are almost inevitably
ones still safely at our side, we
their own way-and have their own nursed and spanked thirty way they do,
years
more inter ested in the next stage, the school singe.
previously. Taking It Seriously
It never occurred to any body that, whatever she might have been to the We scan prospteluses, weigh their LASTLY
the mother, previous generation, she was not ne- merits and choose so carefully the the school to which we hope to send the generally not long past child-cessarily the ideal guardian for
children presently, but do we always next one. In her time she had
there Is
kecs
hood herself, who takes this parent brought up so many children, which Eive sufficient thought to the pre- › business terribly seriously, exactly where her own mother, nus fact alone gave her authority-like school days-those Arst impression- Brand-mother and great-aunt' have the labourer's wife who said to the able years when habits and charac- gone wrong and, text-book in hand, Young Health Visitor sent by a bene ters are being formed?
At Home parents are no longer
volent Ministry of Health to invite
is determined to do better by HER her attendance at the Clinic: "And antised with old methods. The old children.
do yo think you know more about fashioned Nannie has given place to On the whole, though, it must be children than I do, when you've never a young, trained, nurse, competent admitted that parents theno days, had none yourself and I've had ten in matters of health and hygiene, in
probably as a result of education and and buried eight."
of press publicity on the subject,
take the rearing of their children Not Enough
very seriously, from the earliest days
having also knowledge of child psychology.
Leaving It To Amah?
when to be breastfed or not to be THE Victorian Nannie would have breastfed, to go to bed with a light given her life, willingly, for her CUCH nurses are luxuries, which or to get accustomed to utter dark- charges and her loyalty to the family few of us, here in the East, can ness are momentous questions, up to was unimpeachable, but, much We afford. Do we, however, superviso loved her, we know now, or, it we the lives of our children as we ought. adolescence and beyond.
don't, we ought to, that these laud or do we leave most of it to amah? And so it should be, för, an ye sow. able characteristics are not in them- so shall ye reap and parents, with a aclves sumelent.
Who will suffer when the pamper- few outstanding exceptions, get the
ed children, accustomed to servanta children they deserve, just as chil- R. L. Stevenson adored his old to fetch and carry for them, go home dren become what their parents, nurse to whom in his manhood he and find that they no longer have knowingly or unknowingly have de- dedicated his famous "Chlid's Garden merely to order to be obeyed, that creed they shall be.
Responsibility
of Verses," but he admits tint her they are not reigning polentaten any vivid teaching of liell and everlasting more, but insignificant members of damnation caused him to lie awake a wider family in which there in no night after night, fearing to trust room, and alas no love, for the spoilt No ATO child escapes the effects of its ilmselt to aleep in case he should ifttle "Tida 'maus" from the Bart.
early environment and it is pro- slip, ere he awoke, into eternal ruin. Will the children rise up then and pably true that we make, or mar, our That the fonching she gave this call us blessed? children's characleta in the first most beloved pupil could possibly do
-D. C..
Have alternative heaps of string beuns, asparagus, peas, stewed
It is preferred by practically all celery, broiled tomatoes, and small young men and unsophisticated men spinach moulds arranged on a round of any ago, and by at least half of platter, and serve crisp-bread bis- the rest of the sex. Substitute it for cults with the vegetables. the meat in most of these menus and you can't go very wrong.
Very rare
For a dieting guest who tries to. conceal his dieting (a bird), you can sorve the same plat- Steak (ask him how he likes it the centre, which will make it pos- ter with French chops arranged In
Vegetable Soup
cooked) Baked Stuffed Potatoes (or French take it but fail to cat 1, without sible for him to skip the chop, or Fried Potatoes, if you can manage under-nourishment.
لگے
Radishes
them) Celery
Peas Fresh Fruit Pie and Cheshire Cheese
F077.
F074.
With a simple but good soup first and fresh fruit or compole after- wards, you are almost certain to be a success with this guest.
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