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Tuesday:
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 29, 1939.
EAT YOURSELF THIN
This Chart Shows You which Foods are on Your Side
"It's not how much you eat, it's what you eat that makes you fat," says Dr. Eustace Chesser in his new book, "SLIMMING FOR THE MILLION." This extract from his book tells you just which are the foods to eat often if you want to lose weight: which to eat decasionally: which to eat never.
CALORIE is a means of measuring food values. The meals that are primarily responsible for increasing your weight are those composed of calories derived from the fat-forming foods.
I am not so much concerned about your calorific intake, but with the sourer of the calories. Cut down the fat calories and the carbohydrate calories if you want to lose weight.
can be conveniently The various foods and beverages grouped into three classes: those which can be taken by the fat, those which are better loft alone or eaten in moderation. and those which should not be taken at all.
Below some of these are grouped as Class A, B, and C. In the table of food values on this page the classification
A, B, and C is shown for quick reference purposes.
A (
Look
on
these As your friends,
MEATS AND POULTRY: Hoast breast of chicken, ronat breast of turkey, cooked rabbit and hare, tean boiled beef, tean grilled stent: (rump, point Allet), roast or grilled cutlet real, tripe.
FISH: Flounder, tenon sole, halibut, smoked and fresh haddock, chiting, cod, prawns, shrimps, mussels, winkles, scallops, whriks.
Clear SOUPS:
sou, veal and chicken broth, meant extracts. VEGETABLES: Celery, runner beans, vegetable marrow, asparagus, french beans, sea-kale, spring cabbage, ontoris, cauliflower, furnip-tops, cabbage, broccoli, apring greens, turnips, brussels sprouts, spinach.
ALL RAW VEGETABLES, such as: Mustard and cress, celery, lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes.
RAW FRESH FRUITS: Red currants, white currants, cranberries, fresh fys, won, oranges, apples.
Eat these on
B (E)
MEATS AND POULTRY; Mutton chop, roast leg of lamb, lamb chop, boiled or grilled ham, Toast toin or leg of park, duck, quail, kidney
FISH: Perch, hake, trout, turbot, plater, lobster, sale, crab. SOUP: Julienne,
VEGETABLES: Artichokes, moedes, leeks, carrots, broad beans, fresh peas, beetroots.
RAW FRESH FRUITS: Pears, grapes, raspberries.
C (These Bre
:)
your enemies.
MEATS AND POULTRY: Roast leg of chicken, roast leg of mutton, roast leg of turken, pigeon, sweetbread, pork chop, fried liner.
FISH: Smelts, red and prep mullei, mackerel, whitebait, sprals, oysters, caviare,
DRIED FRUITS: Apricols, pruncs,
STEWED FRUITS: Rhubarb.
NUTS; Barcelona, walnuts, chestnuts.
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How Jam Making Started
OST housewives ut Home are
MOST
busy making Jam and jelly just
110W. We can scarcely Immagine u
CUT THIS OUT
Count Up The Calories Before You Eat Them
A
FOOD TO
EAT OFTEN
MEAT
Mutton:
Chop, strilled!
Holled
Ly, roast
Park:
Hum, grilled Lain, rous
Rust
Houst
B
FOOD TO
LAT RAFELY
Calories per average helpin
Helping Protein Fat hydrate Classi
Average
Sirloin, grilled
Boiled
Veul:
Cutlet, grilled
111 111 11
111.11
- 50.22
152.11 122.59
40.50
251.10
135.30
139.811
46.50 59.52
133.75 210.18
Carlo-
AAU DAD CAC 40
111
129.56 52.08
138.89 04.17
70.98
で
Murrow
Sea-kale
Onion
Savoy
Broccol Turnips Leeks
Swedes
160,72
139.40
37.20
ROASE
151.70 121.03
bailed
80.36
26.11
Kidney
82.00 55.80
Liver, fried
113.16
91.14
Chicken:
Breast Toasted
144.32
21.39
Leg, thigh
rons
roasted
130,38
00.21
Turkey:
Breast roasted
149.65
24.19
Leg, thigh
roastet
129.33
70.05
Duck:
Average, roasted
149.83
50.22
Rabbit, cooked
141.86
12.09
Hare,
cooked
220.60 10.60
FISH
40.59 13.02
Turbot
Sote, Lemon
Hake Italibut
Plaice
Call:
Haddock, fresh
Smel Sole Sole
Whitebait
Winkles
Whelks
Lobster
SOUPS
(Home-made)
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Beef Broth 1 cupful Mixed
Stock Tomato
1
(clear) 1
53.30 2.79
54.91
0.51
01.09
2.79
53.30 11.10
67.65 0.03
32.18 16.71
13.02
229
60 27
G0.27
£3.04
75.85 40.02
111
181 1 1 1 1
28811⠀⠀
C
FOOD TO AVOID
Calories per average helping
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50 COTTON : DRESSES Mixed Sizes
Average. Helping Protein
Carbo- Fat hydrate Class
VEGETABLES Boiled:
Hunn.ca
Beans
1 cuplul
3,20
3.69
1.04
5.74
Asparagus
6 states
5.74
2.05
1 cupful
5.74
2.40
Cabbage
5.74
4.10
A
& smuli
2.05
$.20
A
Cauliflower
cupful
6.15
4.92
$3.50
5.74
12.71
1371
Agents:
1.04
3.60
11.00
4.51
-19.68
7.38
18.85
20.01
5.74
Broad
Carrots, old 1
3.60
20.05
Bears
12.30
21.73 B
St
Peas, fresh 12
14.35
22.14
Parsnips
5.33
14.20
Butter
A
Beans
21.78
352.48
C
Polators. New Old
2 medium 0.84
112.75
11.01
120.95 C
A
Itaw:
Mustard
C
and Cress
cupful
1.23
0.82 A
Celery
2 stalks
13
7-In. long 1.04
2.05 A
Lettuce
2 large
leaves
2.46
3.Q0
Piece
x 2in. 2.03
A
5.74 A
u medi.
7.03
0.15
A
1 med.
whole
2.07
0.01
تے
Cucumber
Radishes Tomato
FRUIT
Raw!
Eled Currents
Lemon
!!
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سے
11⁄2 cupful
2:40
9.02
1 whole
2.46
10.GG
Logan-
3.72 13.53
3.60
berries
cuplul
3.28
10.00
43.05
1.86
4.92
65.60 11.16
8.61
Apricot
I average. 1.23
13.04
A
Cooked: NUTS
Rhubarb
* cupful
1,61
3.72
0.02
C
A
Walnuts
6 kernels 15.58 144.15
3.28
Almonds
20
25.42 148.80
6.33
0.41
0.97
A EGGS
12.30
II
Hen Duck
11
27.47 48.30
35.20 07.42
time when this custorn was unknown. Hints For The Cook
but the practice of turning fruit into
jam and jelly was unheard of in Scot- THE new transparent and odourless and wall the end of the eighteenth oil silk beach bags make excellent
century.
John Gall, whose centenary is cele
about this brated this year, writes innovation in his famous "Annals of
Hung up in containers for lettuce,
this Inexpensive bag and crisp cool place, will keep lettuce fresh throughout the hottest day.
To prevent the Jam, soaking through
a
the Parish," when the Rev. Micah baked jam roll or cozing out at Batwhidder takes notice of the intro- duction of jam and jelly making into the ends, sprinkle the sponge with bread-crumbs before spreading with Scuttish country parish,
warmed Jam.
"should not," he remarks, "in my notations forget to mark n new luxury that got in among the communalty at This time."
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Sandwiches of fish or meat will be lighter and of improved favour if a few drops of lemon juice are worked into the butter before it is spread.
To add nourishment and character Scots folks had begun plant to any milk soup, place the beaten In their yolk of an egg or a few spoonfuls ef "groset and berry bushes yards," among the koil stocks and whipped cream in the bottom of the Then pour the soup on Cabbages, and about the same time hot tureen. "some of our young men who had top
When pouching an egg, add a good been sailors coming from Jamaica"
brought home great
quantities
of pinch of salt to the bolting water
ar, and so the "condiment" was and stir briskly for a second. Drop
med after the island.
the egg into the centre of the pan while the water is still moving. This
So It came about that "the fashion ensures that the cooked egg has a neat
to make jam and jelly, which hitherto shape.
came
had been only known in the kitchens To prevent jam Jars cracking when and confectionaries of the gentry.bolling liquid is poured in, warm the ta be introduced into the jars and stand them on a wet cloth clachan,"
Any "over- while they are filled. Jam was valued at first, Gult tells now" should be removed with the us, not so much as a preserve to be cloth before it hardens on the jar. eaten with bread and butter, but sa During sultry weather, milk bottles "a remedy for a cough, or a cold, or should be placed on the floor of an a shortness of breath." People also empty freplace, where they are con- soon discovered that jelly was an stantly surrounded by a current of excellent cure for sore throat,
cool air.
To make mashed potatoes light and Jam-making caught on like wild- fire, and Boon every housewife in creamy, beat in n little hot milk in Scotland was making jam and jelly which a piece of butter has been --often under difficulties, for if by {melted.
good luck, a woman was the proud A handful of fresh cherries, stuffed possessor of a brass jelly pan, she had with cream cheese, make a delightfu to lend it so often to neighbours that addition to the salted bowl. she could scarcely get her own jam madel
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M. L. B.
•
We are told that "it occasioned a N easy method of removing frult great fasheric to Mrs. Balwhidder; stains, is first to rub the stain for in the berry time there was no with ordinary household soap, then end to the borrowing of her brass mix a little starch with cold water, it liberally over the stains, pant to make jelly and jam."
and spread However, eventually, doubtless to Rub it well in and leave to dry In the joy of Mrs. Balwhidder, "Mrs. the sun. Toddy of the Cross Keys bought one, Elles hale the smell of cloves, but which, in its turn, camo into request, you will find these give off a lovely
fresh scent and at the same and saved ours."**
Margaret Hilman. quite successfully banish all flies.
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