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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938.
'TWEED'
clastic "TWEED" is an
word; it is used to describe materials of all weights and colours.
If you are buying some this autumn it is beat to say exactly what you want it for; the shop assistant will then be able to judge the right weight for you.
the
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 your pattern from a shipping atx same colourings in different patterns. inches square. See the roll and hold That's
beauty of pedigree It against yourself. Judge it close to tweeds. They can be mixed by the the mirror and away from it as well. amateur.
You will like the "district check" designs, so called after the districts
in which they were originally made. There is, 100, the Harris tweed, They have been evolved from the which is hand-woven in the islands shepherd's plaid and the Gion Ur- quhart
of Lewis and Harris. It is perfect (pronounced Urkart), in for real sports wear-and "wear" is fluenced by the traditiorial clan tar the word for 1.
tans.
There is a story of a Lewis former who put an old Harris suit on the scarecrow. Four years Inter he noticed the suit in his field. "Nice
If you want a sult for real tough wear you will need a material that
Shepherd's plaid, which is the sult that scarecrow's wearing," he will withstand wet and possibly be
And took it back again. on simplest and best known of the dis- sald. "prickle-proof" too. But for
That's what Harris is like. ordinary sult something less ambiti-trict checks, is also called the dog's ous will do-probably a material tooth, hound's tooth, or in the trade between sixteen and eighteen ounces "two end two." The Glen Urquhart (tha trefers to the weight of one our threads over, four under, in- has C "four and four** crossing
stead of two, making a large-sized
yard),
Choose a fabric made
of yarn
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 tweeds wear as well, but need looking after. Their skirts, for instance, will need fairly frequent pressing. but 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'l give an illusion of slenderness. But if you study o good suiting check you will see that the "squares" are longer than they are broad.
Also, in a well-designed pattern the upright lines are emphasised so that they take your attention. This emphasis on the vertical prevents you from looking, as a tweed man would say, "wefty."
Ited
ferent
the Glen
-and here are some of the ways they are using tweed in Paris
Oround.
To make an evening coat with fitted waist, widely flared skirt. big sleeves-a silhouette of the nine- ties. Colours: Fuchsia Obvious variations of
red, LILT- check are Thane of Fife, Mar, and quise, blue and white
on a grey Mhor. in which alternate "crossings" ure outlined with a dif- ... To make a two-contrast suit colour. But these patterns plain jacket, checked skirt. The are rather large. You might like to skirt, cut on the cross with a centre ask for some checks by name.
Scots scam, has
bold plum-coloured Guards would be a suitable one-a check ou small two and two background with the jacket is plain navy blue, but- navy blue background; a two-colour overcheck.
toning high to a stand-up milltary
The Horse Guards check shows collar. blocks of "two and two" apparently woven in different directions; the
Pa make a seven-eighths- blocks are outlined in a third colour, length swagger coat, hanplug from a Invercauld is a quiet one and light Colours: Wine and hunting green, square-cut yoke with inset sleeves. in tone. It has a brown mixture with an overcheck of yellow. background with a faint green line overcheck. Glen Feshie and Gun Club are cheerful, but not too loud. cape, elbow length and fitting on the To make a shurt evening Nearly always you can get the shoulders: in midnight blue checked same pattern in different mixtures, with a tinsel thread.
CURRY SPECIALISTS
FAVOURITE
RECOMMEND
TESTED RECIPES
A BRANCH OF COOKERY THAT ATTRACTS THE
URRY is one of the dishes on
1
MEN FOLK
Peas, harigol beans, french beans, server or hors d'oeuvres dish, hot carrots, parsnips, cauliflower all poppadoms or pupudums (all the Jorge stores have them), diced cucumber, pineapple, chulnicy and desiccated coconut, Soine people
which the man of the house has views of his own. Most men, curry well; a mixture is best. they are Interested in curry at all. regard themselves as authorities on
CURRIED LOBSTER
this important branch of cookery; FRESH lobster curried is a good like Bombay duck.
they are well informed on regional aspects and varying methods of
dish. Cut the white meat in The mount of diced meat used blending and they con discuss small pieces. Fry a large onion and should be about two large cupfula learnedly the rival points of the an apple in 4lb butter. Mix in a or one small chicken. This is for different curries.
teaspoonful red currant jelly, 2 ten- four people.-- Much of this specialised 'know- spoonfuls curry powder, 2 teaspoon-
first-hand from
a tiny pinch of cloves, SAMBOLS SERVED WITH CURRY milk.
lenge is just and find cornes, in teaspoonful salt, and breakfast cup- CARDINES, chopped up pineapple
the place of origin.
ful of
chunks, grated cucumber, toma- pleces, banana, chutneys, paradums,
Here is a recipe for a "wet" curry: Sur well and cook 10 minutes. toes cut into small FOR 1416. of meat, or vegetables. Add lobster and heat through. Pile FOR
or mixed meat and vegetables, on a hot dish and surround with Bumbay duck,
take two good-sized onions, silce boiled rice sprinkled with coral. and try brown. Add to the fried
3 or
PASTE OR POWDER
grated coconut, desiccated if fresh not available, burnt almonds or nuts, anchovies, sliced cooked beans, green peas, chillies ground into u
onions In the frying-pan 2 heaped tablespoonfuls of D good TNGREDIENTS: Prawns, crawfish poste (very hot), may all be served curry powder. (A very yellow curry powder has excess of chillies pork, beef, mutton, veal, venison,
tail or lobster, any cold meat, with curry-separately on saucers, and is very hot without full flavour.) uiris, or fresh chicken; also 1 large make an excellent vegetable curry. Cooked beans, peas and carrots, Fry the curry powder in pun with on
1 green onions until the grease rises. This is onion, carrot, and apple,
Pour some curry sauce into a cas- tablespoonfuls stock Yory important, as 110 amount of pepper,
more according to the amount of about an hour before serving,
serole and place the vegetables In after-cooking will make up for meut
teaspoonfuls under-cooking the curry "stuff."
of any used, Meanwhile infuse
Food
curry paste or 3 of powder, a Lablespoonfuls o
GENERAL CURRY SAUCE- of desiccated coconut for about 5 or 6 butter, 40z sultanus, 1 teaspoon THIS curry sauce is suitable for all good shake of red pepper, 1 good 10 minutes in 4-pint of stock. It ful sugar and a good squeeze of le- available,
otherwise water. Add this
meats, fish, and so on 2 table- mon juice. to the frying-pan and bring to the
spoonfuls curry powder, 2 large Melt the butter in a deep sauce- stewing apples, 2 large onions, Ib boil. The Infused coconut may be strained if desired and the liquor onion, carrot and green pepper, all dessertspoonful paprika powder or 1 pan and bring to a "bubble." Add desiccated coconut, 32 pint milk, 1 alone used, but this is a rather need- finely choppel. Cook less Yent. This completes the brown-bout
to a golden fresh papriko, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, five "curry
minutes. Add a little chutney or sultanas as de- apple, meat, sultanas and a good sired, salt to taste, julee of 1 lemont, The cut-up meat or vegetables (or shake of red pepper, sugar and le- or vinegar for beef a mixture) should now be put into a man juice.
curry, 1 small stick cinnamon, saucepan and the curry from the If using a chicken choose a young frying-pon added thereto, together bird. Have it jointed, fry to Chop Anely apples and onlons, not 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.
little dripping till brown and soft. should now be cooked slowly-sim- Stir all up well, add two large table- Add curry powder, fry for half mer, do not boil for two or three spoonfuls of good stock-more if a minute to Improve flavour. hours or more.
NOTES-Fresh meat takes rather it moist but not runny.
of meat is used, enough to keep Pour boiling milk over coconut, more curry stuff than cooked meat spoonfuls of curry powder or 2 of Add
Add 3 tes- squeeze and strain off coconut milk. and a trife under 11b will suit the curry paste. These must be beaped with lid on saucepan, for an hour, milk and all ingredients to above mixture. If the meat be very up spoonfuls.
mixture. curry
Allow to simmer, tean add a little, fat or dripping. A 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. stirring 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
fresh meats
used they milk in place of stock or water. Eggs switch down to lowest heat, and apple and onion and the curry pow- should first be hard-boiled and cut in simmer, not bolt, for 20 minutes. der added before liquids and other two, and the above quantity would Serve the curry and rice in separ- Ingredients. Simmer til meat is serve for about 12 eggs.
ate dishes and hand round in a curry tender.
with n
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