THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
START SMALL = EXPAND AS YOU WISH
BY MARION CLYDE ·M«CARROLL®
ANY'S the young
M couple
that can
afford to build a small house now, but not a big one, yet, with expecta- tions that the family will grow and eventually need more room, realises that a big one will be a future "must."
Conversely, there are Just oz many couples that, buying rear- ed a family In a big home and hud their children go off to lend lives of their own, now need the large house so lunger, and want a mall one in which to spend their quiet years together,
The house shown here makes Ha appeal to either of thew groups. For the young couple con start small and expand as they wish. while the riddle. nged couple em build the baste unit and let it at that.
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The start of the house, as you see it in the picture below, in a basic 14x22-foot structure, with gables in each side of the roof which eventually can be extend- ed to cover wings to front and rear of the house, 'as shown in the one-colunin sketch. A lire- place is included in the basle. umit, but even with this, con- Itruction costs, are well within rench of limited budgets, accord- ing to Michigan State College engineers 111 Fast Luning Michigan,
who developed the
house plan.
Shown on the plan in a 9x12- foot bedroom at the rear, which can either be built at the time the basic unit goes up, or might constitute the first move fa ex- pand the house. To the front is shown a fx12-foot porch which
become
doing-room,
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kitchen or anather bedroom, Either or both these wings can extend further from the fuste
mom than the 9 feet shown, than giving the house a more rambling
Width appearance. munt remain ni 12 feet.
Poured
foolings conervie support a 4-inch thick slab the
THIS LITTLE SKETCH demonstrates the manner in which the baric house mit can be expanded on each sida.
A BIG FIELDSTONE FIREPLACE MAXES & cheerfully hospitable focal point in Michigan State College engineers to enable the man with a limited budget the living-dining room of Use basic house pictured below, planned by to bulld a small house within his means, capable of later expansion,'
size of the house which is cov- ered with asphalt tile
10 pro- vide a colourful, long-wearing flour.
The fireplace chimney is feld- stone around terra cottà flue Un- int When later additions are inade, space and a separato chimney can be provided in one corner of a room for a compact automatic henter.
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Bulli-in features such dresser, desk, buffet or ching cabinet save space and can be included in the mortgage, reduc- ing the cash outlay in buying furniture. The floor plan merely suggests furniture arrangemeast; many other groupings ean worked out.
Interior paritions of heavy plaster board help hold down construction costs,
The pullman - type kitchen with its equipment arranged in the efficient, step-saving U-shape can be closed off from the living- room with an accordion-folding door It desired.
A Tasty Fruit Platter
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN.
|6\/HAT are your orders for
the day, Malaray" asked
the Chef as I stepped into the test-kitchen.
"Clear all the refrigerator and disconnect it; torn the key in the gas-range and be ready İn
hours to start for Florida. We have been invited to be guests of the State."
Land
two
you can
Lunch on the Atlantic Coast Line proved especially interes- ting to me because many pas-
ordered sengers
the Florida special. We followed suit. This
of a consisted
grapefruit, and another thni turned out to be a quarter of a banana, cut lengthwise, ser- tioned into bite-sized pieces and rolled in chopped pecans. big gloss of Each drawing chilled orange juice, a wonder- ful fruit platter with a cream Ilsi dressing,
white and
wheat bread and butter, finger sandwiches, tea or coffee, and lee cream or pic.
an
tru
observed the
was numbered;
left.
The platter itself was chilled, then covered with crisp lettuce leaves to form a background for the fruit.
tasty" remarked the Chef.
"This cream dressing in very
"IS it not equal parts of mayonnaise and whipped cream,
little with
sugar and me
The steward nodded.
"And when you co:ne for dinner, we'll have malade pudding that may prove new," he said.
er- and next to corresponding
of numbers at the whole were given the ingredients.
"This is _picture_recipe," remarked the Chef. "It is u The Chef stared In ninaze-
pattern from which the cook he ex- ment. "Wonderful!"
"A
platter for lunch is works. Very simple, and very claimed. "But this is so sudden.
choice while clever." Madame, I must finish the
travelling. I remarked. Re- with the <fried experiments
freshing. anel only a Iltilo fruits. And what stall 1 do starch if one goes easy on tho labout the marmalade recipes
ple. And too much starch is we're testink?"
what often causes travel fatigue The dried fruits will keep
and many train headaches." the carry out
Well Prepared experiments right An important advantage in marmalade
You'll "See how well they are pre- this house design is that each where the fruit grows.
pared to serve the fruit platter," wing can be given windows on have oranges, grape-fruit, Inn- ilmes, guava-every-
Chef
Indienting three sitles, thus ensuring ex-erines,
we'll Furry or
a special refrigerating unit in cellent ventilation and a breeze thing. Now
miss the train."
the passageway near the kit- in summer, if the air is allæring
chen, where an assistant cook in any direction,
Was removing! ready-cut. sec- ilons of orange and grapefrult, avacados, fresh grapes, tinned peaches and sliced pine- Jupple. banonos and cooked
prunes. "He has
added to the tray it
low
squares of ercom cheese, and
nice crisp |lettuce," reported the Chef.
After the waiter had served uut lunch, the dining-car steward stopped at our table, "You seem particularly interest- ed in this fruit platter," he remarked. So I thought you (might like to see the directions for making it as sent from our hoine oflice,"
THE START OF THE HOUSE IS a 14x22-foot structure with gables in each side of the roof which, when the home owner is ready to enlarge his dwelling, can be extended to cover wings at the front and rear of the house.
BUILT-IN-DRESSER
BED ROOM
CLOSET
DOUBLE
BED
BED-DAVEN-1
PORT
SHOWER
23
LIVING-DINING
ROOM FIREPLACE UNIT. DINING SPACE?
KITCHEN
DINING OR SLEEPING SPACE
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BUILT-IN FEATURES SUCH as the bedroom dresser shown here can, say the Zoalgners, bu included la mortgage, save cash outlay in buying furniture.
Frame
also
Cream Cheeso Indeed I was interested, for The directions consisted of a line drawing! First R plaiter. In the centre was sketched a small Equare, representing cube of cream cheese topped with half a cherry. On each side were half eireles indica- Over- ting tinned pineapple. flapping at one end were helt moons indicating avoundo slices, and a fine drawing of half a
Opposite Dear.
several were small circles, representing halved tokay seeded.
Krapes: three stoned prunes; and hall In the centre of each side were sketches in- dicating sections of orange and
a finned peach.
CHOOSING COLOURS
TA
BY ELEANOR ROSS
But
be
recent conference on furnishlog.
bright walls colour an interesting contri- take the doldrums right out of bution, helpful to the amateur the furniture, and Indeed, right decorator, came from a famous out of the room, and give the firm whose prints and synthetic whole place a cheerful, pleasant producis play a major role in look. public places. While the
ite the average
A dressing room home does not in any way com minted a bluish-green to fintier pare in a decorating sense with the complexion. For when look- a hospital room, a restaurant, n'
colour - ng at any one tea room, a hotel,
are curtain aspects that are cominun, human eye reacts by bringing up a strong after-lage of the or complementary ..opposite
ccflour.
may
an
mur- orange
The following menu includes dishes we ordered on the train,
The pudding proved so de- lelous, we obtained the recipe. You'll find enjoyable and "Inside the budget."
Dinner Chilled Tomato Cracker's
Julce
Pork. Chups Lyonnalse Selly Lunn Mullins Peas, Green Limas, and Carrols In Cream Sauce Orange Marmaladie Pudding Coffee or Teď Mik (Children) All Measurements Are Levet Recipes Serve Four
Pork Chops Lyonnaise Remove the excess fat from 4 goud-sized pork chops, any cut. Dust both sides with salt and pepper. Slow-fry abonl 10 min, or until nearly done Just enough fat to
scarcely cover the bottom of the frying pam, Then place in a balting dish that can be seni to the fable, and pour over 1 recipe for Lyonnaise
Enuce, Slow- bake at 350 F. about 20 min. or until the chops ore fork- tender.
Lyonnaise Sauce: Melt 2 tbsp. margarine
small skillet.
io a
Add e. ne-chopped onion and 14 e. water, and slow-cook until tender, about 10 min. Stir in 2 tbsp. dour, 1⁄2 tsp. salt and 1⁄2 tsp. pepper. Grad- ually stir in 1% c. fresh milks, or use reconstituted evaporated or dry skim milk. Bring to boiling point and Usc as directed for pork chops Lyon- naise.
Sally Lunn Muffins
- Break 2
Add
melted
Een into
nbow!. C. Bugar and . shortening and bent until creamy. Sift together, 2 c. 4 tsp. baking powder Bour, land 1⁄2 tsp. salt. Add aller- nately to the first mixture with c. milk. Transfer to olted muflia pans, and bake 25 min. moderate oven.. 375 E. Makes 10 medium-sized mufins. Orange Marmalado Pudding
Scald 3 c. fresh milk, or use reconstituted evaporated or dry. Jakim milk. Beat 2. egg yolken. In choosing colours for n
Adid
c. sugar and 1 tsp. Gluing room,
Reduced to decorating terms lemon or lime juice, and for instance,
pour homemakers might bear in mind. for the home, this fact may be in the scalded milk. Meantime
there
because basic principles Arc involved.
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the curious psychological fact Dark wood surfaces that re- the heat. Spread generously Telegraph Staff Photographora fect little light aro out of place with orange marmalade, and in a kitchen with white wallstop with Mile High Meringue that reflect about 85 percent of made with the CER whiles. the light. No coloured surface in Slow-bako 12 min. longer at view in a given area should be 325 F. Serve warm or cold. For a room that is furnished more than five times brighter Trick Of The Chof with dull pieces or is really than any other surface in the
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