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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 29, 1939.
EAT YOURSELF THIN
A
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 now 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 "cat occasionally: which to cat 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 fooda.
1 am not so much concerned about your calorific intake, but with the source of the calories. Cut down the fat calories and the carbohydrate calories if you want to lose weight.
can be conveniently and beverages The various foods grouped into three classes: those which can be taken by the fat. those which are better left 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. Roast breast of chicken, ronst breast of turkey, cooked rabbit and hare, tean boiled' beef, lean gritted steak frump, point fillet), roust or prilled cutlet veal, tripe.
FISH: Flounder, teman sale, halibut, smoked and fresh haddock, whiting, co, pratens, shrimps, mussels, whites, scallops, whelka.
SOUPS: Cleur strips, eat and chicken broth, meat extracts. VEGETABLES: Cetery, runner beans, regetable marrow, asparagus, french beans, sca-kale, spring cabbage, onions, cauliflower, turnip-tops, cabbage, broccolt, spring greens, turnips, brussels sprouts, spinach,
ALL HAW VEGETABLES, such as: Mustard and eress, celery. teltuce, cucumber, radiales, tomatoes,
RAW FRESH FRUITS: Red currants, white currants, cranberries, fresh Aps, lemon, oranges, apples.
B
Bad there
rare occasions.)
MEATS AND POULTRY: Mutton chop, roast leg of lamb, tamb chop. boiled or grilled ham, rudat loin or leg of port, duck, quail,
1:
FISH: Perch, hake, trust, furboi, plaice, tabster, zote, crab. SOUP: Jullenne.
VEGETABLES: Artichapes, swedes, leeks, cufrots, broad beans, fresh peos, beetroots.
RAW FRESH FRUITS: Pears, praper, raspberries,
These
C (Tout chemter.)
MEATS AND POULTRY: Roast leg of chicken, ronat leg of mutton, roant leg of turkey, pigeon, sweetbread, pork chop, fried liver,
FISH: Smelts, red and grey mullet, mackerel, whitebait, sprats. oysters, caviore.
DRIED FRUITS: Apricots, prunes
STEWED FRUITS: Rhubarb.
NUTS: Barcelona, walnuts, chestnuts.
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How Jam Making Started
MOST housewives at Home
aro
busy making jam and jelly just HOW. We can scarcely Imagine a;
MEAT Mutton:
Veal:
CUT THIS OUT ...............
Count Up The Calories
Before You Eat
FOOD "TO
EAT OFTEN
Miscellaneous:
Pripe, besided Kkiney
Liver, fried
Cateken:
Breas rousted
Lex. thith
roared
Turkey:
Breast roasted
Leg, tinch
B
FOOD TO
EAT RARELY
Calories per average helping
$0.22 152.11 40.60 122.59 251.10
46.50
139,81 59.52 153.75 210.18
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1
C
C
Runner
Beans Marrew
Asparagus Sen-knie Cabbage Onions
Cauliflower
Savoy Broccoli Turnips
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Parsnips Butter
Them
C
FOOD TO AVOID
Calories per average helping
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50 COTTON
DRESSES
Mixed Sizes
Cash Only
Average Helping Protein
Carbo- Fut hydrate Class
Average Helping Protein
Carbo- Fat hydrate Class
VEGETABLES Botted:
Chop, grilled!
11.11
1 cupful
3.28
3.60
A
Buffed
1.04
5.71
A
Pork
Leg. roast
stalks
5.74
2.03 A
cupful
5.74
46
2.46 A
Han, grilledi Loin, const
135.39
31
5.74
410
4.10 ^
a sinal
7.05
2,03
8.20 A
fluast
Beef:
cupful
6.15
4.02
A
(1.50
л
A
+
Agents:
Roast
129.54 52.08
12.71
1.04
Sirloin, grilled Baited
130.00 160.72
04.17
A
3.09
11.00
70.03
A
Swerles
14
4.51
19.68
Cutlet, grilled Roast
Lieks
7.38
10.00
139.40 - 37.20
Spinach
20.91
5.74 A
151.70 121.83
Carrots, old
3.65
20.05 B
Broad
10.38 25.11
A
83.00 55.80
1
Benns
12.30
21.73 13
113.16 0114
C
Pens, fresh
14.33
22.14 13
5.33
44.20
C
140.32 21.30
33ears
1
21.73
52.48
H
Potatoes,
130.38 00.21
C
New
2 medium
9.84
112.75
C
Ola
1
0.61
120,95
C
中
149.63
24.10
A
Raw:
Mustard
LILE
129.33
79.05
C
and Cress 1⁄2 cupful Celery
1.23
0.02
A
2 stolks
140.83 50.22 141.86
-in. long 1,64
2.05
A
12.09
A
Lettuce
2 large
A
leaves
2.46
3.69 A
40.59
Cumumber Piece
13.02
53.30
Radishes
24 x 2in. 2.05 b med.
5.74
2,05
6.15
A
54.04 6.51 61.09
Tomato
1 med.
2.79
waole 2.87
8.01 A
11.10
FRUIT
:
Cod
67.05 07.09
0.93
Sule
Smelt
52.48 16.74
60.27
13.02
Haddock, fresh
03.64
279
Raw:
Ked Currants Lemon
1 cupful
2.40
0.02
1 whole
2.48
-10.60
Whitebrit
75.85 40.92
Logan-
Winkles
13.53
3.72 3.09 A
berries
43.05
1.80
4.02 A
is cuplul
3.28
10.66
Apricot
1 average 1.23
13.04
A
Lobster
65.00
11.16
8.01 B
Cooked:
SOUPH
(Home-made)
Rhubarb NUTS
S cupful 1.01
3.72
0.02
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Beef Broth 1 cupful
-
Mixed
Stock Tomato
(clear)
1
1
0.41
A
4.07 A
20
"
6 kernels 15.38 Walnuts
144.15 Almonds
25.42 140.80 5.33
3.28
EGGS
Неп
27.47 40.30
12.30 13 Duck
1
35.26
87.42
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roasted
Duck:
Average, roasted
Rabbit, cooked
Hare, cooked FISH
Turbot
Sole, Lemon Hake
Halibut
Plaice
Whelks
1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1
229.60 18.60
time when this custom was unknown. Hints For The Cook
bul the practice of turning fruit into
Jam and jelly was unheard of In Scot-THE new transparent and odourless land until the end of the eighteenth; oil silk beach bags make excellent containers for lettuce. Hung up in
century.
John Galt, whose centenary is cele-a cool place, this inexpensive bag and crisp brated this year, writes about this will keep lettuce fresh Innovation in his famous "Annals of throughout the hottest day. the Parish," when the Rev. Micah Bilwhidder takes notice of the intro- duction of far and jelly making into Scottish country parish.
"I should not," he remarks, "in my notutions forget to mark a new luxury that got in among the commenalty at
this time."
To prevent the jam soaking through a baked-jam roll or oozing out. al. the ends, sprinkle the sponge with bread-crumbs before spreading with warmed jam.
Sandwiches of fish or meat will be lighter and of improved flavour if few drops of lemon juice are worked into the butter before it is spread.
To add nourishment and character
Scots folks hind begun to plant to any milk soup, place the beaten "groset and berry bushes in their yolle of an egg or a few spoonfuls of yards." among the kull 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. been sailors coming from Jamalen" When poaching an egg, add a good brought home great quantities of pinch of salt to the boiling water war, and so the "condiment" was and stir briskly for a second. Drop named 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.
had been only known in the kitchens To prevent jam jars cracking when and confectionaries of the gentry, boiling liquid is poured in, warm the Came to be Introduced into the jars and stand them on a wet cloth elachan."
while they are filed. Any "over
Jam was valued at first, Galt tells flow" should be removed with the us, not so much as a preserve to be cloth before it hardens on the jar. galen with bread and butter, but as During sultry weather, milk bottles remedy for a cough, or a cold, or should be placed on the floor of an shortness of breath." People also empty replace, where they are con- soon discovered that jelly was an stantly surrounded by a current of excellent cure for sore throat.
cool air.
Jam-making caught on like wild- To make mashed potatoes light and fire, and soon every housewife in creamy, bent in a little hot milk in Scotland was making jam and jelly which a piece of butter has been
often under dimculties, 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 delightful to lend it so often to neighbours that addition to the salted bowl. sho could scarcely get her own jum
M. L. J.
made!
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We are told that "It occasioned a AN easy method of removing fruit great fasherle, to Mrs. Dalwhidder; 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, pan to make jelly and jam."
jand spread it liberally over the stains, 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, Flies hate the smell of cloves, but which, in its turn, come into request, you will find these give off a lovely and saved ours."
fresh scent and at the same iquite successfully banish all dies.
Margaret Hillman.
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