THE ACCENT THIS WEEK. IS ON
SCARVES
For never before have we had such a large selection.
Pure Wool. Cashmere Silk Foulard
Artificial Silk
Or In Mixtures
Plain Colours Printed Designs Polka Dots or Gorgeous Checks.
MACKINTOSH'S LTD. Alexandra Building. Des Voeux Road.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1948.
We Present with Pride
Emerald and Brilliant Cut Blue White Diamonds. Assorted Sizes.
WOMANSENSE
Pressure Cookery Saves
Saves Time
F you are one of the millions Mediamo,
of homemakers who dwn a extra tasty promised the Chef. Over tils measure 1 tbsp. table pressure cooker you are due "Yesterday in the markot I found mustard, 4 tsp. salt, 4 tsp. pepper, a good old American square of lenn. 14 e minced onion," 1/3 c. dark for a vacation bonus. How? By hacon which will go into the molasses, and 2 c. solid canned using that pressure cooker for pressure-cooker with the beans and tomato, or 5 cut-up skinned fresh at least one dish a day. Before You know, those breon squares aro liquid. Put on the lid and slow
Impart flavour most appetising, tomatoes. Pour in the beans and you know it, you will have cut from the ends of slabs of high bake for 6 hrs.
at 323 F. saved many "quarters" on your qually bacon, but they cost only more water if necessary. The bouns fuel bili, dollars on your food half as much as the regular sliced should not be allowed to bill and hours of work in a hot kitchen.
itiese beans will be and scrape the rind before using it.
Of course this time can't be saved in one stretch and used for n long vacation; but it can be salvaged at the rate of at least an hour a day. And who wouldn't welcome 365 hour-long vacations a year?
Comparatively few homemakers make full use of their presauro cookers because of the expensive. cost of the cooker, especially Hongkong, They are used mostly
In
· THE KITCHEN FRONT
-by-..
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
use it in
pro-
Add
become
stry. At the end of 4 hrs, draw the bacon square to the surface and remove it. Score the top; that is, cut the rind in in squares for easy service; place on top of the beats and finish cooking; uncover to brown.~ Makes enough.......f
for two. dinners and several "warmed-overs."
To Pressure-Cook: Prepare. NY directed, using only 14 qts. water. Instead of baking,-pressure-cook s follows: Close the cooker, bring to 15 lbs. pressure and process 35 min. Then cool the copier and open it. Put the pressured beans into
Score-the. baking dish or bean pot.
place it on top. Brown 30 min. à hot oven.
for vegetable cookery, and for bacon. So we can Preparing slewa and pot-roasts, paring beans for several meals, all bacon rind as described above and But pressure cookers can and should inside the budget."
be used for the preparation of many other foods calling for moist heat, uch whole grain cereals needing long-time cookery; soup; meat and poultry dishes; fish and shell fish; dried fruits nnst certain fresh fruits: many stemmed foods; and-
Baked Beans
Dinnar
Cucumber Lettuce Salad
Boiled Oil Dressing Baked Beans with Baron Square Smothered Tomatoes Boston Brown Bread Chilled Water Melon Hot or Iced Coffee or Ten Milk (Children)
"Beans!" called oul the Chef. "Boston Style baked beans. They are good for the budget, and you can pressure-cook enough for two meals in one cooking. Six hours in the oven but only one. hour in the pressure-cooker; five hours vacation. .'Baked
hot, benns baked beans cold, baked beans in the pot five days old'," he sang, as manmand the beans into the pressure-cooker.
for
All Measurements are Levet Recipes Serve Four
Boiled Oil Dressing
In a measuring eup blend 2 tbsp. salad oil, 2 tbsp. tour and 1 tbsp. vinegar and 1 tbsp. lemon
juice. sur in bulling water to fill the cup. Transfer to a small double boiler und cook and stir until thickened. "It pays to
ronk enough
While boiling hot, pour and beat it several meala." 1 laughed. "Hot inte
спи Inte
yolk, beaten
until bean, for dinner; a nice
. Beat in 1 c. celery and anlon salad next day for ercamy, then cool. lunch with
plenty of sliced saladi oll, mixed with 1 tsp. salt. tomatoes, then hold them over a Last whip 1 egg white stiff and stir tsp. pepper and 4 tsp. dry mustardi. dny or so, for beans keep at least 5 days under refrigeration. After it in to thin the dressing. This pro- that heat some for breakfast and use of half the usual quantity of oil. vides a mayonnaise effect with the
beans
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Established 1855.
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Tel. 22143
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An average of 070 cases ore investigated and assisted each month, but the work of the H.K.8.W.C. is only restricted by the means at its disposal.
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Donations may be sent to the
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Don't take chances with that Smile! As soon as you see a warning tinge of 'pink' on your tooth brush, visit your dentist.
Nothing serious may be implied, but he is the one to decide. He may tell you it is simply that your gums ard sensitive because to-day's soft foods do not supply thein with exercise". All the treatment you may need is "the helpful stimulation of Ipana Tooth Paste and gum massage.
Brush your teeth with Ipana every morning and evening; then massage the gums vigorously with Ipana on the fingertip. This induces whiter, more lustrous teeth; firmer, healthier gums.
BRISTOL
MYERS PRODUCT
IPANA
IPANA
1.000
halpe
correct
brush D.D. Touthe
with a handle.
Dentist
APE
:
serve on erisp buttered toast. A day later add a little diced tomato mit pret neprer, heal and serve in pastry patty shells as part BF # plate. Or make, them into bean club sandwiches with a little chili sauce, lettuce, bacon and erlap toast. And if any beans are left, make them into a thick bean soup for lunch of a coolish ruiny day."
THE SQUIRREL EFFECT
DOTH
Baked Beans with Bacon Square:
Fick over 2 lbs, kidney beans or Pea beans. Wash, place in a kettle Cover and let stand 50 min. cover and let stand 60 min. "The bring to boiling point: boll until the skins begin to loosen. Next, in the bottom of a 3 at. casserole or bean pat, put. 1 1 lb.) well-washed bacon
square.
Select quite lean bacon
Around The
Town
ISS
Smothered Tomatoes Remove the.
akins from B medium-sized tomatoes. Pince in a wide sauce pan. Dust with 1 tsp. shit, i top, pepper and 1 15p. Bar. Dot with 1 tbsp. butter of margarine. Add 1 tbsp. Rrated or 'fine-minced onlon. Cover and simmer until tender, about 25 min. Do not add water. If the tomatoes are cooking too fast, slip an asbestos mat under- neath.
Trick Of The Chef
For interesting water melon ser- vice, stice, cut the melon from the rind and cut in 2 in. cuber or places. Serve
in chilled soup plates shallow bowis so it will not skid:
Speed Method For Emergency
Washing
By ELEANOR ROSS
WE are all occasionally faced
with the problem of whether or not to wash a dress of delica.c
colour or a print which we fear may not be entirely colour fust.
The best thing is to try the seven- minute method, co-called, because, under normal conditions takes
about shut-long for water to pene- trate a dye to the point where 意 begins to ruri With
care the washing job can be completed within that time.
How's Your Body Complexion
Do you know
By LOIS LEEDS
that your body complexion is just as important as the complexion of your face? Hard water, while pure, has a very drying effect on the skin, making it scaley and dry and of.en red and Itchy. If you live in the "hard water" regions, use 2 generous handful of soda bicarbonate or a dash of starch Bakes in your bath water.
Do you know that for a Dry Skin you need a rubdown with oll? A small amount of white mineral oll will give a nice, smooth sheen to your sidn, will allay any flakiness and end that itchy feeling.
thai Do you know
your legs The must always be kept smooth?, smooth surface protects your slockinity from runs, which, in nl fairness to the hosiery. people, are often caused by harsh, flaky skin on your legs.
Keep your body halvfren, that is the demand of good taste, and 'good grooming. Underarm shaving nust be done regularly. Always pat on a little skin freshener and talcum powder after performing this beau ty rile.
Do you know that your legs must be kept hairfree? Never allow even a downy fuzz to show. It is so easy to shave the legs or to use a wax depilatory or one of the "erssers" which are made for the removal of You superfluous hair on the legs. can, of course, bleach it by using equal parts of ammonia and perox- So be modern and use one of ide.
to remove the new, modern ways unwanted and unsigh ly hair.
The cream depilatories, are easy to use, And they are faintly per- fumed and no longer have that un- pleasant emell.. So there is no ex- cuse for appearing in public with a grow h of hair on legs, arms or under the arms.
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE Chirpie Sparrow Saw Summer
-He Could Only Look at It Through a Window- By MAX TRELL
TT was a cold, rainy November morning. Knart and Hanid, the turned- shadow-children with the about names. were waiting inside the house, watching the window sil where the bread crumbs had been spread out. Presently, they saw Chirpie Sparrow come flying down. He began eating the crumbs, and necessary. Baste white thread on a shaking the rain of his wings every
then now and then as he ate.
Test Pioco
First, make a test to see if this with Mercia specdiest of washing procedures is
Dawn Kont
Hongkong
Mleaving
Hillaly scrap of the coloured fabric,
will
Place in a be suds.
tumbler
at
of lukeworm
Allow test plecs to remain
Then Knart and Hanid opened the.
their
the exactly seven minutes, then squeeze window a litle and spoke to him.
returned Sp 'rrow en:l of this month by
If there Chirpio the dry in a towel, and iron. Changte to return to Aus- is no change of colour in water, greetings quite cheefully.
tralia after a little more than year here. In the short space of two weeks, therefore, she will be quite busy playing off the tennis tournament games for which she has entered. She has won several trophies during her short stay here, but has something like 22 in Aus- tralia.
but not
Chirpio saw the greenhouse.
fabric or thread, routine care is all "Isn't it too bad the summer is
If water 18 that is necessary. tinted but fabric colour unchanged; over?" Hanid.said.. this indica.es bleeding
Knari ackied: "All the other birde fading. In this case, the garment have flown away. The leaves are "It looks more like a glass house," must be washed alone.
falling off trees. Isn't it a shame sald Chirple, "But I suppose you
be If the garment is a combination that it can't always summer might say it was green too, because of colours or fabrics, use the follow-time?" Ing speed method for
ما
emergency
-
nl the trees and flowers 'inside wero a green by green could be. It was.
Made Him Happy
washing: First, have everything To the surprise of Knart and Just like a garden in the middle of Mrs H. H. Findlay Gourlie has ready before starting the washing Hank, Chirple said, "There's still August." agreed to repeat her taik on how to job. Have Ironing board in place a lot of summer left. I saw it just
ready make Christmas decorations; which and when
rinse thefa few minutes ago." was given last week at the YWCA-garinent have the iron turned this ime for the benefit of working so that it will be warm enough to girls. But she wishes to make clear use immediately. that there will bo no demonstration. This will take place next Monday at 5.15 p.m., and admission will be nny. cents,
Tub Of Water
"You did!" Knart exclaimed.
Wind Is Cold
"What do you ran; Chirple?" Run a lub of lukewarm water sald Hanid. "Summer's all gone. It's ready for rapid rinsing, and pre- November. The wind is cold and it's parc a basin of lukewarm suds.been raining all day." During the week-end, Miss Rose-Avoid Irritating the dye by taking mary To. daughter of Dr and Mrs Ernest To, gave a party for her many friends on the occasion of her twelfth birthday.
ago," in
"That's because it's warm sido the green house," said Hanid. "The sun comes in but the cold and the rain stay out."
"It made me feel happy just to went on "IL look at it," Chirple made me think of the summer that has just gone. But, better yet, It care that every trace of soup is thor- "You couldn't have seen any suin- made me think of the summer that s
coming alter this winter oughly dissolved. Then hurry the mer here a few minutes
⚫is over. All the other birds have down South garment into the water, very gently sisted Knart. Paris and London are
squeeze the suds through It several
"But I tell you I did," said Chirple, where all the trees still have leaves, where everything is still, worm-- using a great deal of fur Quite the young lady, Miss To
umes, and rinse promptly and thor- "I saw trees with all their leaves. I trims which prove ta
where all the flowers are suli bloom-, arranged and sent out all invita oughly. be
Squeeze, but do not wring saw rows of flowers blooming. I saw tions herself, and had about thirty-then allp a towel inside the garment,a cricket silting on a pebble playing ing. popular trend. This autumn
Gix guests on Saturday afternoon place another towel under it, and top coat which flares from the
for tea, waist to a wide hemline border- ed with squirrel comes from the Ian Meredith autumn collection.
GENUINE HAND-WOVEN
HARRIS TWEEDS
21
Her birthday cakes were
All these
.:
"But I've stayed here--and I've got a little meck of summer still.
though I can only with me, evèn
his guitar.
things are a surprise from her parents-one roll it up for one minute.
certainly summumer." shaped like an easel with
paint
Take out dress and begin to iron
"Where could you see nuch u brushes and all (a tribute to Rose-it at once. mary's talent in painting) and m-
If you work with dis thing?" cried Hanid in amazement. look at it through a glass window." patch, the dress should be washed other iced to resemble a Bible.
and ironed before
Then Chirpie ate the last of his seven minutes "Just a bit down
the road," an crumbs, chirped, a merry so-long After tea and games, the guests have elapsed. It is best to hang it swered Chirpie.
and new off through the November were entertained to the thrilling awhile where air can circulate, to
wind and rain to have another look adventures of trossure hunters in a make sure all dampness
has dis
Knorf and Hänld begged Chirple
able bit of summer that he had just seen in November. So, after eating
few more of the bread crumbs, and
film entitled "Son at King Kong." appeared, so that the garment will to tell them more about this remark, at his little speck of summer.
A cocktail party was given at the
VISIT BOND STREET W. home, of Mr and Mrs Harry Odell
Clothes & Accessories of Distinction
At The Hong Kong Hotel, Hongkong
Tel: 30211- Ext.
not wrinkle unduly.
This is an excellent proceduro
for their son David on the occasiori with any dress that is washable. ficking off more of the rain from
of his twenty-frat birthday. Over af and once it is mastered, It precludes his feathers, Chirpie explainer Rupert & Mr Punch-
hundred guests, turned up.
beautiful
having nothing fresh and clean to "Well, down the road, naxt to the The party was held up periding wear when time la of the essence.big house where the former lives is the arrival of Mr and Mrs Odal, And what with all the
another house, mado all of windows. who were,
away
in Manila, sad cottons and washable linens, it You can look right into it."
washable frock Mrs Odell mother, who means Mrs Weill, has just come back from a holiday seems right for all but the most
dressy of occasions.. In Australia looking fit and well,
RED RYDER
ON THE STAGE?
| HOW DID YOU GET
KINOVING THAT FLO
Flo Wins
SUPPED IN WHEN:
WERE BUSY WITH THE HÖRSEE, RED/
that
I'M GOING TO HELP KXOW BETTER YOU CATCH THOSE THAN TO ARGUE OUTLAWS AND LOTH A WOMAN,
FLO YOU
DONT YOU TRY TO ARGUE ME OUT
WINY
"Oh,
that's the green, house!" Knart said.
By Fred Harman
THE STAGE OUGHTA BE ALONG BOON,
IM
THE YOU DID LAST TIMES
Rapers, muss on being" the - ons to nuk handling the boat, "a" "Thien''
*** and we got you- ujto this trouble. do "Fault"; try to sei, you” out, al *****-To' his great relief, the wind |t:nötkrong," and juhul, blowing “Nowards" "Sandy" Bay, I'd foeiter
row at first," he thinks, ***
tar enough our in-mind-britting thei breakwaters ; and rocka". Getting very captiously inse “the tiny boats. he sets off, and the inquisiting ovdy gull comes to see her own boy