THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8,-1998.
Smocks are
smart wear
Ever
pears,
ONE
By
now
Susan Gay
"MOST of the girls in
my office," writes a friend from England "have started wearing smocks over their dresses while they're working. I didn't like the idea at first-thought it sounded rather stuffy and a bit old-maidish, fussing so much about keeping your dress clean. But now I've changed my mind because I can see they really are prac- tical and can look quite nice. So, will you choose a smock design that can be made up in The some pretty material? newest style, please."
I think the attitudo expressed in this letter is probably quite widespread. Of course, no one liked wearing those old dull brown or green overalls that used to be the only dress protecting garment available. For one thing they savoured too much of a uniform; and they rarely looked anything else than drab.
It's true there were always the lovely linen smocks, often hand-worked, but they were usually associated with artists and never generally worn. Now,
tried baking
for a
a change?
Cook them slowly until lender in
a syrup made with a quarter-pound of sugar and half a pint of water. According to taste add to the syrup loned above, with the exception of
NE can only enjoy a pear thoroughly by forgetting brilliantine. Always lurking in the pear's back ground is a more or less faint aroma of that useful oil. Even the aristocrats of the pear world, such as Doyenne du Comice and William's Bon Chretien, are not entirely the wine. This is put in towards the guiltless.
So the first step towards appreciating a pear needs a slight effort in forgetting.
The second needs an effort in remembering that there are more than two ways-raw and stewed-of eating pears.
nny or all of the flavourings men-
end.
the
When the pears are done, arrange them neatly in a dish, reduce syrup to a thickish consistency, pour serve cold t over the peors, and with whipped cream en top.
An extremely simple, but not very common dish of hot pears can be nude by taking good-sized ones and sometimes baking them unpeeled in the oven. made to a pear eaten ripe just as is done with baked apples. has fallen asleep it is quite un- and raw is that most of its julee Serve them with cream and sugar.
can so easily escape one.
A raw pear must, of course. Easy To Eat be caught at the right moment,
and that moment is usually n
very fleeting one. Once a peni
wakeable,
N
objection. A
GOOD way of dealing with fairly squat, round-
This objection vanishes it the Lovely To Look At On the other hand, this fruit fruit is cut in halves unpared and when unripe is turnip-like and eaten out of the sitin with a spoon.
When it comes to gritty. And this is not really
cooking pears being complimentary to that some people are put against them shaped pears is to peel and excellent vegetable, the turnip by the uninteresting colour which them, cook them whole in syrup, let
No
Sore Throats
Colds Flu Diphtheria
by taking
FORMAMINT
core
them get cold, and serve them with they often assume.
This trouble can be largely over- their centres lled with apricot
or Jam and topped with whipped cream come by the use of cochineal other colouring, and also by mask- A final spectacular ornament con be ing the fruit with such things as made with a glace cherry on each.
pours.
Add To Taste
diluted apricot or ercengage, jam, or with thick syrup or jelly In various ornamental dishes of cold and cook them in a syrup with red
colouring added.
Drain them, and, when they are cold, arrange TALAVOURS which add in-vanilla lec. Pour over them a purce them on a bed of terest to the simple come made from strawberry or raspberry pote of pears are lemon juice and jam which has been passed through rind, cinnamon, cloves, and a glass a nieve,
For an even colder disk, peel thu: pears, cut them in halves, core them
of port or claret.
Peel half a dozen pears, cut them
In hoives and take out the cores.
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however, we've cribbed their She managed to find a short idea and smocks have become length of natural colour shan- snart wear.
tung printed in exactly the same shade of red and this was
BOTH designs shown here used for the turn-down collar, are suitable for use in the deep cuffs and the pocket the office, in the home or when trimmings. Her buttons are of doing some of the lighter jobs natural wood, in the garden, -
The following lengths of 35- The short-sleeved version on inch fabric are needed for this the left is made up in white design: Size 80, 3 yards; size spotted royal blue cotton. Red 32, 414 yards; size 83, 34, 35, rick-rack braid outlines tho
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APPLES
Use them to make Normandy pancakes.
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Peel and core sonic apples and cut them in thin
a little butter, Fry them in turning them with a slice so I that they brown on both sides. When cooked through but stitz firm, stand aside and keep warm. Have ready an ordinary pancake batter (e.g. oz. sifted plain flour, pinch salt), make well in centre, break in a whole. I
and 2 tablespoonsful milk, 200
with wooden spoor, add I Gradually the rest of 1 pint milk, after the 2 tablespoonsful have been used, beat with egg whisk for ten minutes, stand + aside for at least an hour,
Do you
take sugar?
castor
Did you know that there are more than a dozen diferent kinds of sugar? Every one knows about loaf and granul- ated; afternoon tea, with smaller
tumps, and sugar, ground very fine, are superior versions of there.
Pcopic
make jam and "buy preserving and leing tupar as wellthere is special variety of the latter, called bridal sugar, which is sold only 17
cakes
in tirus.
Then there is brown sugar: Demerara and Barbados, which is a trife cheaper and much more concentrated. There are two other cheap sugars, brown cooking sugar and yellow cry-
Heat a little butter or lard or Centrifugals, the little white olive oil in an fron frying pan, I ‡ crystals served with coffee, are add 6 or 8 slices of apple, pour
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tablespoonful pancake ‡‡ are dark brown, or made in a
balter, cook till brown under- neath, then loss or turn and ‡ cool the other side.
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Fairy cubes are another kind. They are flat, white oblongs, ike the cubes of best aupar you get in France.
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