EVERY SATURDAY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947.
WOMANSENSE
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The happiest woman
I have ever met
by ERIC BENNETT
STOKE FERRY, Norfolk. [RS GERTRUDE CARTER MRS
the midday was serving meal when I called at her coun- cil house home in this Norfolk village.
"That's Erie. He
was
FOUR RECIPES FOR CHINESE CHOW
C
By DIXIE TAYLOR
HINESE cooking is a fine art and it's not an art that is easily learned. For one thing, many of the in- gredients used are strange to Europeau housewives. For another, the preparation is in- volved.
Nevertheless, it's a personal satis- faction to be able to prepare a few vour Chinese dishes well, and "Chinese chows" will make you a popular hostess when you go home
on leave.
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Although the best knowledge of Chinese cooking comes from watch- ing, the Telegraph brings you today recipes for four dishes which are fairly easy to learn. The four esn
combined with killed in be
European by a soup type dinner, preceded made from dried mushrooms
and folicived by preserved ginger as a sweet. Of course you will serve the main course in rice bowls with chon- sticks.
Hongkong. He joked the Middlesex
Regiment after he left me. I member how proud he was when he got his first stripe.
"This is Teddy, lle served in the Merchant Navy right through The "family" were seated round the war-and had a wonderful kitchen table.
nine-year-old
too.
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record,
The Telegraph is indebted to the th.W.C.A., Duddell Street, for most of the recipes given here. It span. sored a class in Chinese cookery last ashes demonstrated.
aming the winter, and these were
Although it's not the Chinese way, many Eur.peans like chow fan as a fich and base for Chinese meat
"Here's a letter from Arthur, which The three girin. Norman, Helen, aged six, and Kay, he sent from a Japanese prison comp, aged five, with shining, newly washed He's home now, thank goodness! faces, were ranged along one side. At the end sat Mr William "Carter, aged“
04.
"Good lord!" said Mrs. Carter, pu- ting down the pot of new potatoes in a furry. "Fancy coming all the way
from London to see me! I am you are wasting your me."
'Mother' to all
sura
But I was net wasting my time. did not take me long to know why, In addition to her two children, her seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren, there are some 35 others who call her "Mother"
Grand reunion... In the letter this caught my eye: "It should not be long before I'll see you in person. I have been waiting for that day, bellove me! I know you! must also be longing for that grand reunion of the family and us boys."
The letter closed with "Lots of love" and a row of kisses.. Mrs Carter put the feller carefully away and went.om
"You know, I have so many children here I can't place them in their correct order-but I remem- who look on the little house in Stoke April, and it's dimeult to get it all ber them all. I shall be 68 next Ferry as home.
and
For Mrs Carter has been 41 gistered foster parent since June 26,
1008. It was on that day that she took in filda" sweet Itle thing
Just 15 months old."
right.
to me.
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dishes. It takes the place. of pota toes, although it's delicious in itself as a one-dish luncheon.
CHOW FAN
chow fan and I hasten to add that Here is the way my cook malies there are many other, ways.
2 cups rico
4 CELS 1 pound shrimp
fina
Green onions
Hean soy sauce You can use leftover hicken, ham, beef, or pork us the meal, but the cured and the Chinese prefer can be bought in native markets, cooked "red pork" (cha shiu) which
Bacon also may be used-cut into bits fried before using.
Flour can be substituted for the benn starch sine: its only use is to th'eken..
1. Use
AND FEEL WELL
BY PRUNELLA
STACK
TALKED the other day to a friend about the value of regular exercise in building up and maintaining a healthy physique."
"Exercise," she ro- plied. "But I never have time."
Most of us, however, cannot walk under natural conditions, but must take our exercise In in the city streets. these circumstances we must do the best we can and, keeping the idea! walk in mind, adapt it to suit our ways of life. There are three impor lant points to remem- ber:
a "hcel-and-toe leverage for length of stride. Mobility of the foot is of the utmost importance for a good walk. The best way to Cultivate this is to concentrate on the Buat push-off from the ball of the Unck foot to the tip of the toc. Feel with each stride as though you were pushing the earth away from you at the back. This gives your walk spring and elasticity,
Pour a tablespoon of groundnut or salad off into a frying pan and Having mastered the push-off bring to a bell, Add the garlic, with the back foot, next thinks of cucumber, onion, and fresh and lengthening your forward stride. preserved ginger, which have been Place your heel down first and then chopped fine. Stir thoroughly. Now transfer your weight smoothly righ put in the vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, through your foot from heel to toe wine, and, sesamum all, (1 table-with nach step. Another important Bring to a boilpoint to remember is to place the con) and salt. and add the starch, which has been feet straight. Children should be mixed with water to form a paste, trained to do this from an early age. Straight placing of the fect gives greater length to the step and pre- vents a "waddle" of the lips.
Stir continuously until the mixture balis again. Pour over the cooked fish and serve,
say.
BEAN SOY CHICKEN
(Shee You Kai).
head
•
chest.
2. Polse the head. The castest way to achieve the "feel" of a well- You will require a whole chicken poised head is first to relax your
forward on to your for this dish, and a young ones Then gradually unroll your spine as best. The other Ingredients are though pressing it out against an Szechuan
pepper (Chuan chiu) anisted star (pak kok), cassia bark
wall. Think Imaginary
specially (kwei pi), sugar, shin Wine and bean about pressing out the base of the neck. Lift your head slowly Up into its natural position and then Put cassia bark (30 cents worth) feel as though your neck had grown into four cups of boiling water. inches at the bacit.
Imagine that card attached from the After dive minutes, add, the pepper there is a
4 star and and aniseed star and boil one hour.crown of your head. to Drain. Mix the liquid with 2-2/3 that your head is being pulled up ounces sugar, 3 ounces wine, and towards It Elevate your thoughts ounces of soy sauce. Stir thorough as well and you will begin to feel ly and bring to a boil again, Pour the exhilaration which good posture the liquid into
brings. The
sensation should saucepan, large add the chicken, and steam in the that your spine is stretched like liquid-until-done (about two hours) elastic and that your head-is-lightly Turn the chicken from time to time poised on top of it.
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so that all of it is thoroughly covered with the suce. Cut into pieces in the kitchen and pour the sauce over) to serve.
BEEF WITH MUSTARD
DE
3. Swing from the hips. The natural walk entails a free swing of the leg from the hip. Sometimes this is curtailed by loo tight skirts, Our last Chinese recipe is "Ngou too high heels or too heavy shopping Yuk Chuw Kal Lan," or fried beel advantages and practise swinging baskets! Do away with these dis- with mustard. The ingredients are the legs forward and backwards 152 cups cooked meat, chopped 11⁄2 pounds of coarse mustard (kal from the hips with straight knees.
lan), 6 ounces of rump becf, wine, ffold on to the Lack of pepper, sugar, bean soy and bean steady you if necessary, Try this in
D
chuir to starch.
the seclusion of your bedroom and `Although the recipe calls for then put it into practice when wallt- mustard, fresh spinach or any other Ing outside. A free hip-swing de
onc-inch pieces, once the beef cross-of the body which can be achieved pends on nexibility of the hipy and green can be substituted
Cican the mustard and chop it into also on the upward husyani polse
wise into thin. Bat pieces. Mix by conscious lifting of the ribs above
wine, of a cup of
one the waist line. quarter sauce, pepper and small amount of from the shoulders, not the elbows,
The Liblespoon sugar, one tablespoon soy
arms should swing freely starch into a paste.
In opposition to the lega Fry the chopped mustard in a small our only until it is slightly basis of a good walk. At first they amount of fat, salting to taste These three rules constitute the
Holt. Itcrnove from pan, fry the must be remembered consciously beef slices, turning to brown. When each day. Say to yourself as you done, pour in the mustard and sea-walk down the street; "Heel-and- son with the sauce
red toe you prepared
leverage, head poise, free carlier. Toss and stir until the sea-swing." After a while you will soning is thoroughly blended and form the habit of good
walking the mixture at the boiling stage. When the dally shopping excursion Remove to a dish and serve. The becomes exhilarating exercise instead entire cooking process will take only of a tiring trudge you will be justly
last 10 minutes,
pleased.
aund
Livo
"Now 1 Would like to tell you off Boil the rice. Shell und clean the Sadie, beenuse I have not heard from shrimp or prawns. If you are using her since she went back to Liverpool, prawns, cut into pieces about 1 inch and I am sure that if she sees some- Jong, Clean
and chup the onions, the green. thing in print about me she'll write Beat the eggs, fry in pancake form, and cut into mali pleces. Now put the shrimps into a lightly greased frying pan and cook about
Remove from the pan, add more fat, and pour in the rice. Now put In the coolted ment,
CEE, onions, und shrimp. Add soy sauce to taste (about & tablespoons) and mix well Return to the Are and cook about 10 to blend the minutes, stirring
Now Hika is married with two children of her own. But she 18
"Sadle was a wartime, evacuee. makes the journey from Cardiff had five other children living with see the woman she knew and loves as
me when I Brst overhend the welfare) mother.
offleer talking about her to another
Carter women.
A year after Hilda Mrs toolt another tile girl less thun year old and so the foster family be Kan.
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'Terrible girl'
"I have a girl in the office whom
It went on growing and growing. I shall never find a liome for," the More than 20 boys she had from Dr wellare, officer was saying. She's Barnardo's Homes. Mr: Carter
until terrible glet, and the officer went on nursed them from babyhood they reached their techs. Then the describing how terrible that girl was. home took them back for training or Suddenly she broke off and said to apprenticeship,
ne. "Why are you staring?"
I am waiting to hear of one ze- deeming feature," I answered.
There isn't one,' she said.
Parting hurts "It's the parting that breaks you up", said Mrs Carter, nioving her work-wrinkled hands-in-a-sudden gesture of despair, "I go about the house with wet eyes for weeks after my reply. they have gone and swear I'll never take another child to bring up and. love!
"I will take her for a month,' was
minutes, stirring continuously.
flavours!
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in dish and more if it is used This recipe serves six for a main
with other Chinese delicacies. Some people do not think the shrimp need
my preliminary cooking, .SWEET-SOUR GARQUPA
For your fish dish bring to the table a whole garoupa made with sweet-sour
The
sauce re- quires 13 ingredients, but don't let "that discourago you. They dre available in the native shops, nd any amah will know where to buy them.
Баисо.
"So Sadie came. She was 11 then. She stayed with ma until she was Sicon the fish in bolling water,
She had packed the girls off to just on 15, and we never had a cross-
schoul they are the daughters of word." London parents and their mother is at work,
HAT-SHY? TRY A CIRCLET
Meet the
being careful not to overcook it. Five to 10 minutes is long enough for a 2 to 3 pound garoupa if the She began to park up her treasures. saucepan is tightly covered. Mr Carter dozed on. "Only the clock
For the muce you will need one. Her husband had settled down to made a sound la the little room that tablespoon preserved sweet cucum-
Another way of ringing the bell for ber (kwa
ying).
and doze in the · armchair
an equal you don't ilke hats? by the fire. has rang with children's laughter for
circlet, ventile "round" of evening is to coll pearls or sparkling amount of preserved ginger; two material which can be When we were introduced Mrs Carter 40 years.
adapted to beada round the circlet to comple- assorted Qunces nald proudly:
vegetables many uses. The one pictured is ment gny costume jewellery you are He's only 04. He loves the children as much as [„dó, "It must be an awful-nuisance to (sup kum
Buen
chol); 3 ouncer black, but use your favourite colour, wooring. and they love him, too."
you listening to all this old woman's white
White viacgar; 21⁄2 ounces gossip upologised Mr Carter. sugur; 1 1/3 ounces bean say:* 2 For evening wear (left), veiling, The variation at The "right 15 Mrs Carter sat at the kitchen table, "at it was nice of you to
ounces shiu, wine (shiu chow);; ánd | tylng under the chin with a narrow achieved by twisting 'n striyal and showed me her treasures; the Goodbye and God bless you'
garlic, scomumoll (ma yen) fresh black ribbon, Is 'awathed
the material from your frock or suit in photographs of her, boys and girls and. He has certainly, blessed Mrs ginger, green onions, bean starch face. Wear the circlet dead straight the headband detachable and inter- the letters they have sent to her, Carter.
changeable for daytime wear,
Come.
(dou Zoo) and salt,
sour
over
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