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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
30,
1938..
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The same lav persila in fatlosy zal of fum: “kšighost efficiency at lowest co«l," Your other is workshop when figures #er "mamifaciated,” may be Dsouzandia, every day. Have you ever restined what 11 kunta po obtain the figurce you require? They must be exact and should be plac
ned at the lowest possible price. Analyse this and find out; no doubt the result will show that you and your staff cost o much to allow Jons of time in unsafe corntel calculations. You cannot and
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TWEED'
TWEED" is an elastic
A good check design "disappears" or a plain "two and two" to match at about fifteen yards, so don't choose something with an overcheck, or the word; it is used to your pattern from a shipping six same colourings in different patterns. describe materials of all inches square. See the roll and hold That's the beauty of pedigree 11 against yourself. Judge It close to tweeds. They can be mixed by the weights and colours.
the mirror and away from it as well. amatour,
If you are buying some this
You will like the "district check" autumn it is best to say exactly designs, so called after the districts what you want it for; the shop in which they were originally made.
There is, too, the Harris tweed, nasistant will then be able to shepherd's plaid and the. Glen U which is hand-woven in the islands They have been evolved from the quhart
of Lewis and Horris, it is perfect (pronounced Urkort), for real sports wear-and "ycor" 19 fluenced by the traditional clan tar- the word for it. tans.
judge the right weight for you.
for
on
If you want a suit for real tough wear you will need a material that I will withstand wet and possibly be
"prickle-proof" too. But ordinary suit something less ambiti nus will do-probably a material between sixteen and eighteen ounces (tha trefers to the weight of yard).
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There is a story of a Lewis former who put an old Harris suit on the scarecrow. Four years later he noticed the suit In his fleld. "Nice" the suit that scarecrow's wearing," he
sold. And took it back again. That's what Harris is like.
Shepherd's pinjḍ, which simplest and best known of the dis- Irict checks, is also called the dog's looth, hound's tooth, or in the trade "two and two." The Glen Urquhart
4 four and one has
four" crossing (four threads over, four under, in-
Choose u fabrle made of yarn stead of two, making a large-sized with a fairly high, firm twist. This dog's tooth) on a two and two back- kind needs very little attention, and
background. will wear like.pin wire. The softer twerds wear as well, but need looking after. Their skirts, for instance, will need fairly frequent pressing. will keep their shape.
Checks are popularly supposed to make you look large. Plaids and "dressmaker" checks where the up right and horizontal lines have the same weight certainly don't give an illusion of slenderness. But
variations of
-and here are some of the ways they are using tweed in Paris
fur
To make an evening coat with fitted waist, widely flared skirt, big sleeves silhouette of the nine- tles. Colours: Fuchsia Obvious but
red, the Glen quoise blue and white check are Thane of Fife, Mar, and ground.
on a prep Red Mhor, in which niternate "crossings" are outlined with a dif-
To make a two-contrast sult ferent colour. But these patterns-platu jacket, checked skirt. The are rather large. You might like to skirt, cut on the creas with a centre ask for some checks by name. Scots sean, has a bold plum-coloured Guards would be a suitable one-a check on a navy blue background; a two-colour overcheck. smail two and two background with the jacket ta plain navy blue, but- toning high to a stand-up. military The Horse Guards check shows collar. blocks of "two and two" you study a good suiting check you will woven in different directions; the length swagger coat, hanging from a
apparently
. To make a seven-eighths- see that the squares" are longer bloclts are outlined in a third colour, than they are broad.
Invercauid is a quiet one and light Colours: Wine and hunting green, hi square-cut poke with inset sleeves. Also, in a well-designed pattern in tone, it has a brown mixture with an overcheck of yellow. the upright lines are emphasised no background with a faint green line that they take your attention. This overcheck, Glen Feshie and Gun emphasis on the vertical prevents Club are cheerful, but not too loud. cape, elbow length and Atting on the To make a short evening you from looking, as a tweed man would say, "welty."
Nearly always you can get the shoulders: in midnight blue, checked same pattern in different mixtures, totth a tinsel thread.
CURRY SPECIALISTS
FAVOURITE
RECOMMEND
TESTED RECIPES
A BRANCH OF COOKERY THAT ATTRACTS THE
URRY is one of the disties on
MEN FOLK
Peas, haricot beans, french beans, server or hors d'oeuvres dish, hot which the man of the house has carrots, parsnips, cauliflower views of his
'all poppidoms own. Must men. If curry well; a mixture is best.
or pupadums, (all the they are interested in curry at all,
Jurge stores have them), diced regard themselves as authorities on
cucumber, pineapple, chutney and desiccated coconut. Some this important branch of
people cookery,
like Bombay duck.
CURRIED LOBSTER
they are well Informed on regional FRESH lobster curried is a good aspects, and varying methods of dish. Cut the white meat in The amount of diced ment used blending and they can discuss small pieces. Fry a large onion and should be about two large eupfuls learnedly the rival points of the an apple in lb butter. Mix in a or one small chicken. This is for different curries.
teaspoonful red currant jelly, 2 ten- Tour people.--
Much of this specialised know- spoontuts curry powder, 2 teaspoon-
10 minutes.
ledge
is first-hand and comes from fuls flour, a tiny pinch of cloves, SAMBOLS SERVED WITH CURRY having enjoyed particular curries in teaspoonful salt, and breakfast cup CARDINES, chopped up pineapple the place of origin.
ful of milk. Here is recipe for a "wet" curry; Stir well and cook
chunks, grated cucumber, toma- FOR 14b. of meat, or vegetables, Add lobster and heat through. Pile to cut into small pieces, bananu,
or mixed ment and vegetables, on a hot dish and surround
Bombay duck, with
chutneys, paradams, grated coconut, desiccated if fresh not take two good-sized onions, slice bolled rice sprinkled with coral.
available, burnt almonds and fry brown. Add to the fried
or nuts, PASTE OR POWDER
anchovies, onions in the frying-pan 2 or 3
sliced cooked beans, heaped tablespoonfuls of
green peas, chillies ground into u *NGREDIENTS: Prawns, crawfish paste (very hot), may all be served powder. (A very yellow tall or lobster, any cold meat, with curry-separately on saucers. curry powder bas excess of chillies pork, beef, multon, veal, venison,
curry
and
good
is very hot without full flavour.) birds, or fresh chicken; also 1 large Fry the curry powder in pan with
very
curry "stuf!
Cooked beans, peas and carrots, make an excellent vegetable curry.
onions until the grease rises. This is poriunt, as no amount of after-cooking will make up for under-cooking the
meat used, 2 teaspoonfuls of any good curry paste or 3 of powder, Meanwhile infuse 2 tablespoonfuls Koo of deslecated
shake of red pepper, 1 good coconut for about 5 or oz. butter, oz sultanas, 1 teaspoon-
Food 10 minutes in 15-pint of stock, I ful sugar and a good squeeze of le. available, otherwise water. Add this
onion, carrot, and apple, 1 green Pour some curry sauce into a cas-
めで pepper, 2 tablespoonfuls stock
the
for more according to amount of
to the frying pan and bring to the mon juice.
boll. The infused coconut may strained if desired and the liquor alone used, but this is a rather need- less refinement. This completes the
curry stuff."
serole and place the vegetabine in
about an hour before serving.
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MACK MOTER
THIS curry sauce is suitable for all ments, fish, and so on; 2 table- spoonfuls Melt the butter in a deep sauce stewing apples, 2 large onions, b curry powder, 2 large pan and bring to a "bubble." Add desiccated coconut, pint milk, 1 onion, carrot and green pepper, all dessertspoonful paprika powder or finely chopped. Cook to a golden fresh paprika, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, brown-about five minutes. Add a little chutney or sultanas as de- The cut-up meat or vegetables (or shake of red pepper. sugar and le- or vinegar for beef
and a good sired, salt to taste, juice of 1 lemon, apple, meat, sultanas a mixture) should now be put into a
curry, 1 smali stick cinnamon. saucepan and the curry from the muce. frying-pan added thereto, together bird. Have it jointed, fry to
If using a chicken choose a young
Chop finely apples and onions, not with B small dessertspoonful of golden brown in bubbling butter, and sliced. Fry together in saucepan in vinegar and some salt. The whole add to the mixture in saucepan shuuld now be cooked slowly-sim- Sur all up well, add two large table- Add curry powder, fry for half little dripping til brown and soft. mer, do not boll-for two or three spoonfuls of good stock-more if a minute to improve flavour. hours or more.
lot of meat is used, enough to keep NOTES-Fresh meat takes rather it moist but not runny. Add 3 tea- squeeze and strain off coconut milk. Pour bolling milk over coconut. more curry stuff than cooked meat spoonfuls of curry powder or 2 of Add milk and all and a trifte under 1lb will sult the curry paste. These must be heaped- curry
ingredients to above mixture. If the meat be very up spoontuis.
mixture.
Allow to simmer, lean add a little fat or dripping. A
with la on saucepan, for an hour, Cook on hot plate or over fire then remove lid, and allow sauce to curry always improves if let get cold quickly for two or three minutes, thicken if desired. and reheated next day or later. atlering,all the time with a wooden
For a fish curry or egg curry use spoon. Then draw to side of fire or should be fried together slightly with If fresh meats are used they mille in place of stock or water. Eggs switch down to lowest heat, and apple and onion and the curry pow should first be hard-bolled and cut in simmer, not ball, for 20 minutes. two, and the above quantity would
der added before liquids and other Serve the curry and rice in separ- ingredients. Simmer till serve for about 12 eggs.
ate dishes and hand round in a curry tender,
meat is
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