B. I. F. NEWS for WOMEN
By GRACE WILSON INTERESTING
new items
for the home captured my attention at the better- -than-ever British Industries
Fair.
A basket nursery chair, for instance, low-scated and arm- less for easy handling of baby, complete with deep drawer in ita base for oddments. Heavy blue bubble-filled glass fruit bowla with table lamps to match.
Glass swans for the centre of fashion- a dinner table..
able ornaments these at
the moment.
A salad-set for
mixer.
the
saluci ACTIOUS
021 Everything at hand
designed a solid wooden tray" to hold wood-stoppered oil and vinegar bottle, wooden condiments containers, a glass mixing bowl
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Texible back.
THEN there is n scrubbing brush
of
Made of strong rubber and Göre, 11 s specially shaped to uliow scrubbing in nwkward corners with- out causing damage to paint-work. ete.
are other
Bexible-backed There bruches for every purpose, includ- ing car washing, the tollet, and the cleaning of upholstery and clothes
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ANYONE who ta til, or who feels the cold interacty, will appreciate
a compromise for warmth which is a
cross between a smooth sheet and a cosy blanket. It is guaranteed wash, boll, and wear well.
OTHER Rems liked
were
to
he
pastel-coloured dotted glass bed table lamps with drawn net shades to match-part of Queen Mary'a wide sekecilor at the Fair, together with
some painted waste paper cans and a hand-painted lemonade sel on n long handled tray.
A new accessory for the hand- bag looks like a large lipstick 'ense. It contains a spill-proof powder compartment at one end and a soft puff pulls out from the other. Re- quisite amount of powder shaken on to the puff sprinkler.
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By GLORIA
Stripes
STRIPED balero over a simple track, or a fitted hip-length jacket if you prefer it.
E average woman's dressing table drawer just does not hecar looking luto! A lot of mud-j Idle can be saved if the drawer is will +partitioned. Any carpenter
Line the the it up quite cheaply.
50 that Idivisions with old silk
they are caxy to keep loose powder and dust.
Surprise
Dish
PAIN PERDU
free oft
SOAK some slices off
white bread
cut!
from a small cottage Floaf (leave the crustst ion) for ten minutes int #milk to which you‡ have added littlef sugar and a little rum, sherry or marsala.
a
Take each piece out, dip it?
in beaten egg yolk and fry ont both sides in a little foamingt butter till golden brown.
Serve with jam sauce Igolden syrup warmed in
10 Just saucepan, through
Recipes
A
for
a
are here
THE new 'striped materials are to be seen
A good way of using up left-overs is to make a
SWEET CURRY
everywhere FOR this curry you should or
just now - in
1.
slightly
and malt vinegar, sweetened with brown sugar.
Add a teaspoon of mustard oil if allow 1oz. of Patna rice for each person;
wash, you have some by you and a dash
of
paprika. Sliced plaento silks, cottons, drain, and dry the rice thor- well, too, if you like it. Season to and woollens.
needs taste with salt, and when all is weil blended and cooked turn into a hot of dish.
oughly. The rice
If you are longing to twice its own weight buy some, here are alwater for cooking.
gain.
goes
Turn the rice into a hat bowl and dust it with sieved hard-bolled egg
few ways of making up Measure this amount of water yolk or powdered saffron. your material - andjand in it cook shredded coco- ANOTHER way of cooking the rice to fry it till it is pale freshening up your nut, very gently, for fifteen
minutes. Use about one table- gold and transparent before boiling 11, and then again, by cooking a pineh wardrobe into the bar-spoon of coconut to each per of saffron threads in with the coco- son's ration, and cook it in a nut, which, when strained off, will
a brilliant saffron-yellow hue give double saucepan.
You'll find it good. Strain off the coconut, and cook your rice.
An excellent thleltening agent for the rice in the coconut water. In vegetable and fish currles is onts. about twenty-five minutes time the If you happen to have any porridge rice will have absorbed the liquo left from breaktast, design a curry and be perfectly cooked. Spread it for its using up; it only a small vege- on a cloth on a hot dish and allow table and egg curry mixture to serve to dry gently in the oven.
FORK LUNCH
Planned by Countess Morphy
crumbs, and fry to a light golden of colour in a deep pan of very hot fat or oll. These can be served, either hot or cold. Tomatoes au Gratin'
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A LITTLE
over blouse
to
in the brightest and gayest of stripes wear with your black
suit.
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TRIPED and
de
flowered
crepe
Chine "top"
to a frock that's looking tired.
tablespoonful of finely chopped raw onion, 1 tablespoonful of capers, and 1 of tarragon and chervil (when obtainable).
Coat with the following sauce; Soak 2 berring roes in a little milk, put in a small saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boll and simmer for a few minutes til tender. Drain and rub through a Brra tomatoes. CHOOSE small,
Season highly Make a neat round incision in Bleve into a basin. the top of each, and remove the with soli and pepper, and add 1 tea- pulp. Mix in n basin with a few spoonful of made mustard. Then finely chopped boned anchovies, a stir in gradually 3 tablespoonfuls of few slices of Italian salumi'sausage, olive oll and 1 of vinegar. half a teaspoonful of chopped capers to every tomato, half a teaspoonful of fine breadcrumbs, with a little olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
and moisten Prawn Mayonnaise
"FORK" meals are a practical
and economical way entertaining one's friends. They certainly are a boon to small households, and have the advantage that the clever organiser of a "fork" menl gives her guests the impression that she is inviting them to a real one, yet it has none of the latter's formalities, etiquette, or exigencies.
Guests are ushered into a room where a "help-yourself" buffet 19 laid out everything enn be eaten
CHELL the prawns and put three- either with Angers or a spoon and
quarters of them in a salad bowl fork. Service can be dispensed with
Stuff the tomatoes with the mix- or in small individual paper cuscs, Just as it is at a typically English breakfast-and guests can choose for ture, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, put Chop the remaining prawns finely themselves. Each diah or plate in a buttered dish, moisten each and mix with a few chopped, boned little oil, and bake in anchovies, 1 or 2 chopped gherkins should, however, be carefully labelled tomato with
for about 25 and capers. will small fing, stating the nature, moderato -oven
minutes. These can be served either of its contents.
hot or cold, and are easy to eat with The men can be either hot or cold a small spoon and fork. -preferably a mixture of both. But the hot dianes depend on the facili ties available in the household, XI hot dishes aro served they can be kept hot on a spirit lamp or hot plate or, better sill, in the double pan of a chaing dish.
Iference suggestions for "fork" ment relishes, both hot and cold..
Mushroom Croquettes PEEL and remove the stalls from
Chicken Mousse
Add these Intter ingredients to a stiffly made mayonnaise dressing, and mix with the prawns.
Cheese Tartlets
DUT
of cooked chloken pur
through the mincer and mix CHOP the cheese finely and mix with a little butter. Fill tartlet with 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls of thick cases of puff pastry with the mix- white sauce, flavoured with 1 table ture and bake in a quick oven till spoonful of mild Hungarian paprika. done. Sprinkle with finely chopped Then add gradually, beating well, ollves. These can be served either 1 pint of whipped cream to which hot or cold. Just under 4 ounce of dissolved gelatine has been added. The mix- Apple Chips
ture should be very light. Put into
the apples-they
1lb. of mushrooms. Chop them small Individual paper cases and DEEL and core
should be sweet dessert ones- finely and cook in a little butter will get on lee or in a 'cold place for and cut into very thin slices, in the
tender about 10 minutes. Then mix several hours till set and firm. with lb. of finely chopped ham and
molaton with a few tablespoonfuls of Salade Chanoinesse
thick white sauce, flavoured with n
squeeze of lemon Julee.
same manner as for 'round potato chips.
Fry in a deep pan of very hot fat
Let stand till cold and sumclently MX 1lb. of cooked and flaked dry or all to a light golden colour, drain salt cod in a salad bowl with thoroughly, and put in the oven for atin to shape into small corks. Then 4 or 6 small, thinly sliced cooked a fow minutes to get quite crisp. roll to: Dour, cont with beaten yolk potatoes, Garnish with slices of They should be sufficiently dry to of jogg then with no whito bread- hard-boiled egg. Sprinkle with 1 tent with the fingers.
You
on tonet as
can make the curry with snack.
Caks, prawns, herring,
ог savoury
supper
fish, kidney, Hver and ham, POR very hungry people double
any
fish, or alt mixed vegetables,
Aalty
the allowance of rice. This bul is the sort of dish you should make meal of. It's always better to pre-
its basis is the same. Ilent in a pan
ail or nut fat, and gently fry chopped pare too much rice than too little. onion and appic, shredded carrot and And, by the way, curry is best eaten swede celery and sultenas.
When rich looking and
with a spoon.
brown, Alternative flavourings (which are
add Angers of banana (about two niso digestive akis) to use with your of cooked curries are: powdered nutmeg, mace, each),
flowers Ball
in cuuliflower, and the curry powder coriander seed, tamarinds
slaked in milk and lemon
THE
SETS
OU
julce serve, aubergines, pineapple.
con-
QUEEN
A NEW FASHION
UR heads must be capa- sunray stitched. One tipu, ostrich In blue, and another In green, trim risoned with feathers, the centre front. In addition, there bedecked
rainbow is a band of ostrich strands in green with
and blue round the toque, while a colours and set off with vell of heavy green net covers the billowing veils this season. He in a bow at the front. The new hats, our favourite
hair at the back and is drawn up to
A Clase-Fitting Model
An ostrich-trimmed hat is also in-
tonic, hark back to tranquil times. They evoke images cluded in the selection the Duchess of peace and plenty, and of Windsor made recently. This is a closely Atting off-the-face help to create it for the in- small
model. It is entirely covered in dustries that are being given small feathers graded from midnight to pale blue. Over the bat goes a a healthy lift-up by our more tulle veil in the former shade.
From the same milliner comes a elaborate headgear.
flat sailor bat in fine black straw,
In this connection, the Queen worn over the brow and completed three ostrich feathers in pink, pale has once again given a lead to blue and royal blue, which cluster at
fashion.
the back and fall over the hair. The Queen, who has always But the hat question has not ended had a strong liking for ostrich when trimmings have been discussed, feathers, has already shown Hats are not only more elaborate, they are larger altogether, with wider that her new spring wardrobe brims and a more important look. includes them. Recently she They have a sweeping air in the way wore, for a London #ngugement, a they swing up from the face or dip graceful toque with a large, full over the brow. They are not afraid ortrich feather set low down on the of novelty, although there is a ten-
styles. centre front of the crown and falling deney to favour gallor and plate softly back over the entire hat.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1988,
to
It will pay you
ECD our now shipmont
of ECONOMICALLY PRICED.
from
HATS Now York
just unpacked ex "Pres. Taft"
PASTEL COLOURED SPORTS SILK HATS WHITE FELTS
from $5.00 ca.
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Alo on Display latest Vails for HATS or TOQUES
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The emphasis on trimming is the feature most arresting in the spring Flatter Hats for Summer hats, Scarcely a model, apart from
Taken all round, hots are flatter. those intended for sports, is free of
The art of the But if you are wise in their, ways ornamentation. milliner, fallen into neglect in the you know that this is not really news recent era of cops and berets and but only due to the fact that while nature fall flat, Winter hats are tall, untrimmed straws, is having a real felts like going high-hat straws by heyday.
Crowns are cut out of hats to admit summer ones low-crowned, as a rule, In some cases this season the flat- cunning arrangements of ribbon and
ness is so acute that there is not any flowers.
Tiny models perched on the head way in which the hats can stay on wing are little more than an excuse for the head of their own accord, This the feather that catches the eye; for his led to a craze for chin-straps, THIS MONTH'S REX & PARLOPHONE RECORDS the veil thut hongs to the shoulders which of all recent fashions or twines scarf-like round the neck, first prize for being hard to wear.
Ribbon also les round the back of the head, holding the hat and hair A Toque of Varied Plumes
in place and breaking in a becoming The Duchess of Kent's milliner way the long lines of the head,
For sheer practicability, however, one of the most celebrated in Paris
twa models the back of the head and has the one of the users of interesting the best solution of all is the Light forms of trimming. Among her most schoolboy cap of straw that grlos recent creations are trimmed with the fashionable ostrich peak attached to it in front. In this feathers. One is a toque made of case the trimming is centred on the red, green, blue and white plumes, penk, and usually contrives to accent the tips in front, with a hair-net of the forward movement of the hat.
Alternatively, the brim sweeps up ailk containing the hair at the back.
The other is also a toque, with a from the brow. The bat is worn forward movement. This is express- back on the head.
Christine Dawson ed in midnight-blue organdle entirely
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Also A la
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