THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
ONE-ROOM HOME
By Marion Clydo McCarroll
MANY
ANY a home in recent years, has, to its own surprise, found itself sud- denly having to expand in a way it never dreamed it could to accommodate sons, daughters or relatives who would otherwise be home- less,
Altles, even basements, have been turned Into attractively Jivable apartments, nod Alt kinds of other space has been found 10 ka convertible inte practical living quarters.
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Sometimes, just one TOOM can be made available for extra person or persons, and then, if each individual family unit wishes at least a reasonabio degree of privacy, bedroom must double as living room, or liv ing room must be turned into sleeping room at bedtime, cording to how you think of the arrangement.
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the It this happens to be situation, there are things the home owner who is handy with tools can do to make everybody happier.
He might, for example, do as was done in the double-duty room shown here; that is, build
In narrow bookcases at one end
of the room so that m
is formed, then install
alcove folding
screens that shut off that end of the room into a bed alcove, Just deep enough to
accommo-
date the length of the bed. A fairly
elaborate job has been done in the room pictured, with à lavatory dressing table and Pullman tollet, like those in
side
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Built-in book cases at either side of one
end of a normal-sized room, with folding doors installed between, enabled the room
to provide both a delightful living room and a tiny bedroom. This is, of course, the living room. Decorated and furnished for comfort and charm.
Pressure- Fried Chicken
By Ida Bailey Allon
TWENTY-FIVE gleaming
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pressure fryers were lined up on the range in the huge hotel kitchen, nll re- glstering fifteen pounds pressure. Each contained six portions of chicken destined to pressure-fry to perfection in 15 minutes. The occasion was a special luncheon in a big hotel at which the Chef and I were guests.
"This is indeed a remarkable sight," observed the Chef. "We have arrived at the pressure- age of scientific hurly-up cook- ing."
"Which at the same time con~ serves all flavours and food values," I added.
Modem Cookers
"I would like to be in com- mand of this battalion of modern cookers," exclaimed the Chef. "Then if my helper did not turn up for work it would not be too serious."
"The same principle applles to the home," I remarked. "But, of course, any household really needs two pressuru
cooking one for vegetables, for dried fruits, stews, rag- ouls and so on; and one for fry-cooking meats and fish. This new cooker can be used as an open deep frying kettle too."
Here is the menu--every food dessert except the salad and was pressure-cooked.
Dinner
Poached Shrimp Caprice with Rice
Southern Fried Chicken, with Ham
String Beans
Ice Cream
Crisp Salad
. Pellts Fours
Coffee or Tea Milk (Children)
"You see, we can afford have both the seafood and rice course
and the fried chicken course," remarked the Chel, "because when a good serving of fish comes Best, a quarter of chicken is enough for each If the lady does not person. wish to buy chicken, she could serve a nice veal goulash. May I suggest that the homemakers" serve the meat course as they al this luncheon, right from the pressure-fryer? It looks shining
and
luxurious on a large
sliver or even a plain tray, And it is what you call a good con- versation-plece."
Poached Shrimp Caprice
With Rice
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
This consists of three parts: the shrimp, mushroom-curry sauce and rice.
Pressured Shrimp: Thorough- Ty washib, shrimp. Put c water in the pressure cooker, or enough to barely come over the top of the rack. Add isp. lemon juice or vinegar. Put In the shrimp; close the
cooker,
bring to 15 lbs, pressure; pro- cess sinal shrimp 24 min, but allow 5 min. for jumbo shrimp. Cool the cooker at ance: run cold water over the shrimp. Cut the shell, and "pop" out the sharp shrimp meal. With knife remove the dark intestinal vein which lies on the edge of the the outside perimeter of shrimp.
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Cut out this diagram, fold in the proper places, and you'll have an idea of the While ree arrangement of the entire roem.
the room pictured is a really luxurious job, the same iden would
room.
serve In almost any
tbsp.
roomette, built in al one of the bed alcove and a wardrobe with sliding doors on the opposite side. The combina- tlon bed headboard and twin night tables was built to order instance, bul
in this
pleses are now
similar A HAPPY FAMILY ATMOSPHERE IS
In
available maty stores that handle uft- painted furniture and the like.
The colour scheme of the room is charmingly unusual, be- ing done in dark blue, pale green and American beauty red. The floor is covered with em- bossed Inlald linoleum in soft shades of blue, with 14 pale green rug covering part of it.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
It is hard to wash rough- walla, so when you textured tackle the Job, use stiff brush rather than a sponge. It is more effective for cleaning the crevices,
If you invest in a prepared flooring for some room or rooms
in your house, be sure to keep the cleaning Instructions on hand, and follow them.
To remove
n scorch stain from a white rayon blouse, saturate the spot with peroxide, Iny a clean cloth over it, and press with a warm iron. This should help, unless the Abres have been actually harmed.
If you have no dressing table in your room, hang a wide, at- tractively shaped shelt on the wall and paint it the colour of the wall. You will find that this type of shell will serve you quite well as a little dressing table,
INVALUABLE TO THE YOUNG CHILD
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
their
LESSED is the little child D whose parents read to him. No wages or salaries could be big enough to pay for
they invest in the tline, since Imperisirables.
ugly The ugly books with
idrals would soon ideas and
the trash heap it perish on parents would put good printed poges into the hands of their growing children.
Good playthings and piny grounds are many times cheaper than prisons and penitentiaries,
Mushroom-Curry Sauce: Melt tbsp. butter or margarine in small
saucepan. Stir in
Bour, 4 tsp. salt, 4 tsp. curry powder and a few grains pepper, Gradually add c. liquid in which the shrimp was cooked, and 24
milk c. top
light
or
stir
cream. Cook and until boiling. Beat 1 egg yolk; add 1 tbsp. milk and
quickly siir into the boiling sauce. Add
Ib. butter sauleed, sliced fresh
mushrooms, or 1 (5 oz.)
course.
tin butter-broiled mushrooms, Add tho shrimp and heat 5 min. over hot water.
Children who gain a taste for example. wise guidance and chopped good things they hear and do at abiding love. home,
while very young, will be the reader to enjoy hearing when and cloing good things they are older.
The more hours we spend at fun with our children at home, the fewer hours will we worry about them away from home.
A few good sturdy playthings are better than a ton of trash.
Fortunate is the child of three. 10, or 15 whose playmates and to his friends come often
If there were enough homes with parents who together en-
The more homes with play-home. things and tools and workshops and means for good music and art, and with purents who en joy these things with their joy their children and give them children, the fewer prisons, gaols and penitentiaries.
a happy, lovely family atmos- phere in which to grow as pre- clous personages, most of the police could presently be put to other work and gools coukl be torn down or be converted into play places.
Even better than good play mates are good parents, who appreciate the creations of a things. child with words and The more children who make
tho Let things for fun at home,
live with our fower will just make things at children in our presence that they will want to do right in an industrial school or reforma- tory.
our absence,
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The foundations days with
to
Botter to laugh and do things for fun hours und our children at home, than worry and weep over thom for |:months and years away from
home.
The growing child who learns at home to respect the rights and feelings of all others there, has a good beginning for respecting the rights and feel- Ings of ollier persons every
where.
What we parents invest now
le time and money for the best moral growth and education of our children will go on bring- g in rich dividends for years after we are gone, und these dividenda will never perish.
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Pressure Cooked Rice: Measure 1 c. dry, raw rice into the pressure cooker (no rack). Add 2 c. cold water (no salt). Close the cooker; bring to lbs. pressure and process ́ 10 min. Cool the cooker at once.
то Serve: Use small, deep tbsp. rice in cach, and top with plates, or small bowls. Heap 2
14 c. shrimp in mushroom-ourry sauce.
Southern Fried Chicken With Ham Singe and tweeze out pin feathers from 2 baby frying Isn't it wonderful to grow chickens. Scrub with mild up with our children and enjoy soapy water; rinse throughly. them and win their affection drain and dry. Cut in quar- and esteem?
ters, Stowly pan-fry in buller or margarine until well browned all over, about 8 min. Sprinkle with 4 tsp. salt and
tsp.
Meantime, pepper.
and years
Children who create for fun don't destroy for pleasure.
Good citizenship or crime be gins at the crib.
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