THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
The Remodelled Kitchen Did I
Did It
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLE
HIS is the real story of
THIS
It
a real home-maker.
seems that, while
home-maker had most of
the
tho
modern labour-saving kitchen equipment and appliances-dish
Washer.
rang
refrigerator,
coffee maker, mixer, sandwich
ele-she still Incked
grill,
efficiently
convenient
EXT kitchen. 15
The kitchen she had was feet long and 8% feet wide, and old-fashioned, haphazardl
the
arrangement of things made her walk the entire 10 feet
cvety
time she wanted to take rome. thing out of the refrigerator and enrry it the sink.
kitchen
expen-
セx-
wiring
2
Remodeling the
would, they knew, be
sive business, But they figured
that if the husband did nit the
construction work himself,
cept for problug and
jobs, costs could be held to
Inicimum
On that
work.
lad they set เป
The result you see in the lanja picture
"Ar:1
Re-arrangement of samme the equipment, plus the use" method of storage -cau- ing storing materials and exptp- ment in that part of the kitchen where they are then used plan planned styling from a devor- tive point of view produced the eflent and attractive kiteben the home maker wanted
Sm
ot The
special
handy husband installer?
SUSAN
Paling shetf
10 caldnet tor atoris working utensile first are in meal pre poration at stok on refrigera- tor: a steel enbined next to 14 sink, a knife drawer, a BY Compartment, a recessed lower
WHAT HOME MAKER WOULDN'T ENJOY working in this kitchen?
Pentarizier
attractive and step-kaving The lucky woman who owned it, though, wasn't always so fortunate.
she got a long with the old-fashioned one below.
ta TVSTCOME the pzcelles of a low window that interfered with counter But - face are niso shown.
Plastir work surfaces t
Klay forms current“ pattern go woord work went with the white and ceiling, and the red marbled Isoleum an the fet,
features
the
HERE'S WHAT SHE AND her husband had to start with, when they decided to re-arrange and restyle their old kitchen
along efficient modern lines.
• recessed flower
THE PROBLEM OF A window whose sill would fall below counter surface was solved by Installing
box, gay with red geraniums,
and
A ⠀ DILAWER TO MAKE knivesfer to store 'exaler to get at, and a tray compartment were some now.
Household Hints
UFC of
oil polish ០៧ Jacquered furniture will some- tines produce
a gray-blue bloom. Wax is preferred over an ofl polish: for this type of furniture, but use it sparingly.
basr
A LAZY SUSAN UNIT in a cabinet provided easy- to-reach storało miace
that often-used equipment.
How To
for
Insert Slide
Fasteners
By ELEANOR ROSS
TIME
IME and time again we are told that making a dress, n
but slipcover Is a cinch, all inserting the side fastener. Somehow, say the ladies, the manufacturer's instructions, good as they are, don't seem to suffice.
Vie have an iden. though,
For year,
Encouragement
For Hen-Pecked Hubbies
HOLLYWOOD- Begardless
HU
sothe
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what
hen-pecked husbands may think, a woman's Vree ran play out.
Janis Carler was required to rick and shout at Laraine Day in a very dramulte scene for RKO Radio's "I Married a Com- Daunist." At the start of the fourth take. Janis lost her voice And couldn't even whisper.
ON
the
Janis fell back "singer's salvation" of her days as a Broadway vocalist. This remedy consists of silence plus frequent applications of hot ten
of lemon. with lola
In the Director theanline
Robert Stevenun shot around her and about an hour and a half later Janis voice returned and she was able to resume work.
Bollywood
Jane Bussell, sultry star of Howard Hughes "The Outlaw," and her husband, Bob Wuterfeld, professional football stor, have their own design for living.
Though Jane has made three inctures, "The
Paleface." Montuna Belle" and "It's Only Money," during the past year, to share many she finds thine interests with him.
They frequently pack camp- Jng equipment Into the High Starns on fishing and hunting Junkets.
that too many of us aren't pur-Do
fcular enough to choose solutely the right_zipper for the purpose. An ordinary dress or skirt zipper won't do for a handbag compartment, and the separating zipper must be the proper weight, too. The latter come in light and heavy weight fur windbreakers, work clothes, ski jackets.
For Light Fabrics
For an
ordinary zip- рег.
sheer lightweight fabrics should be ensed slightly when attiched to a zipper. Hold the fastener inut as it is pinned or basted to the fabric. Reinforce thin fabrics with seam tope Instead of self material for Incing, thus giving more budy to the fabric. This will let the fastener lie fat.
Fabrics such as wool jersey, FO popular right now, have a tendency to give, So nover stretch wool jersey Into a zipper. A small box of sterilised col-
Use a muslin facing to help (on bails
is a good travelling eliminate stretching. For fabrics companion. You can use it to
like velvet, best resulla are apply lotion to baby's body. obtained
hand-stitching the cleaning his
ed by hand- ears, eyes, nose and zipper to the garment., for general care. The balls are
Leave an 8-inch opening for handy for applying, antiseptics, 7-Inch
to allow for in caring for angernalla
zipper, and
scam and for case in sewing lo
applying lotions and make-up. the fabric. Always At garment
and for a number of other uses, and the package takes up little room in your travelling bage.
before inserting zipper. Workc from the bottom of the placket up, when pinning and basting. Pin át right angles, to fastener: then the pinning is firmer, more accurate and there is less danger of "puckering” and pins can be. easily removed while ninchine siitching.. Sitch close to
Apply war on linoleum or bsphalt ille in several thin coats with Intervals between, This procedure permits evaporation of any moisture. In the wox. A hard surface will form moro zipper chain so that needio door quickly and prevent dirt and not touch the metal part, and normal wear, from reaching the the ends of machine stitching floor covering.
after each stop.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
If You Must Count Culories
"Msiven me the secret of ple calorie
#ADAME, since you have Alling, packs just as much of a punch as a plece of
made with the real authentie 'chiffon or Bavarian plc." American style plecrust, I have
The Chef heaved a long sigh. become an enthusiastic convert. "Then I seeina that I must Never did I think there would conane myself to the testing and
my gastronomic insting of these ples."
BOTDC-
be a rival in affections to the French pastry.
admit But I must
that the American ple, has done thing to me."
"Yes, I've noticed that, Chef" "Úb, you mean the avoirdupois! That's what I wanted to talk with you about. Madame Is it possible to eat the ple and keep the waist-line from spreading?"
Nutritive Value
"A good iden, Chef, if there's more testing than tasting!"
"But Madame, shall the great public be dented the tronomie joys of pic?"
n
After
**By no means, Chef.
third of our all, less than population is over-weight. Pie will continue ОБ our Arent American dessert. But W must remember that at substantiul food, not merely an accessory."
Dinner
Cream Soup Croutons Roast Codfish with Caper Sunce Diced Buttered Squash Green Beans Criss-Cress
"Yes, provided you count the calories, or nutritive value as part of your normal dally diel, and cut down the intake of other fats, sugars and starches Com correspondingly that day. Most of us don't realise how many catories go into
pic.
As you for know Chef,
9 covered apple pic, you need for the crust
2 cups of flour, about 800 calories, and shortening, which is about 1500 calories."
that's
Apricot Pie Coffee or Ten Milk (Children 1
Juclide enriched bread cup role with butter or margarine
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
"Oh, ln In, Madame! Already in the crust there are more than 2000 calories"
Roast Codfish With Capor Sauco
Order a 214
for
to 3 lb rodil sli Wash rusting Draj Dust with
well-seasoned earl
stooth
"Then add the Alling, say six dressed apples and a cup of sugar, and thoroughly you add about a thousand more, salt and pepper and 11 sparing So, If you cut a covered 9 nie ly with into eight wedges, you get more stuffing, making than 400 calories a single the open edge Irtion."
GARDEN
By BOB SCHARFF
ON'T forget about your garden, for now s the time to protect and prepare it for the coming spring.
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Spading is best, for ground you expect to use in spring for กรรมสร
vegetables. The winter cold will break up the clods and leave the soil in the best condition for seed sowing. Insects exposed to the cold will be killed.
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To have less plant diseases and fewer Insects, cut the old stems of your perennials back to the ground. Then lay loose, springy mulch over the entire bed insulation against climatic changes. Use hay, straw, and leaves for the mulch. Hold it down in windy areas by stakes, branches or chicken wire.
Fr
.....
th Do not sew flab together Gush the skin oh the back so it will not crack i m1ggestion, cooking?. Transfer fo a baking
make pan
lined with a plece of heavy
"But I have 1 Madame. Suppose we
this into a pre-crust ple. or a waxed paper or aluminium frail, deep dish ple, und use a little long enough so it stools kip on lens Ruge
rach end, 30 the Osh can be "That woulet
lifted out and transferred abiy All fruit pies ent
Dat the fish with made with one crust, and so can margarine or shortening. O
WeTh
help consider to the platter
br
all kinds of custard pre, and plare small thin slices of salt pumpkin piv
pork along the back. Ranst in "Now
getting Home- a moderate oven, 350 F When where," remarked the Chef. The skin begins to turn colour, "In the case of custard pie we add a little water to the bottom use only one crust, 2/3 lew of the pari or use liquid drained sugar than we do in fruit pies, from cooked vegetables, and the eggs and milk in the decisionally with this alling supply SOTH of the until the fish begins to separate
Paste
70051
protein calories which are from the bones, about 35 min.
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custard pie is eaten in 9 meal Serve with raper agure, when the meat or Ash portion is
snall, and the protein therefore Caper Sauce: Measure 1% e Inte a null satier needs building up, the eggs and hot water alk wil help out. On the pan. Add 3 tbsp. capers and 1/2
Blerred other hand, chiffon and tbsp. lemon Jutee. Bavarian ples made and topped bap. butter or margarine and with whipped cream in addition tbsp. cornstarch
✰
4
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AT
If
to the sugar content and the pie of the boling liquid. Stir un crust, are extremely high in smooth. Return to the cooking calories, For instance, consider sauce, and cook and stir until the
meal: following
Chopped bolling all over, Season to a chopped beef taste with salt and pepper, pinach soup; n
on toast; string patty
beans; desired 1/3 chopped raw urots:
Jettuce and tomato celery may be added. aulad: fresh fruit cucktall and coffee. One single good-sized portion of a chiffon or Bavarian pie contains as many Culories as this whole meal,”
Mincemoat Pia
Criss-Cross Apricot Pio
Prepare pinin ple pastry or
Itoll to " use a mix.
Thick- ness and line 9° ple pinte with it. Then combine 2% c. well- sweetened stewed apricots with
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Brigade
"I would not have thought it the grated rind, 4 lemon and 2 possible, Madame! But how thap. quick-rooking
tapioen St. John Ambulance about the mincemeat pie? That, Tra
Transfer to the crust-lined of least, has protein calories." plate. Arrange criss-cross trips "Not many, Chef, I'm sorry of pastry on top. Do not t to disappoint you, but a piece of them an tight; they should not genuine two-crum mince pie, be stretched. Then press them because of the suct used in the into the piecrust at the edges. Bake in a hot oven 400 F from 30-35 min. Serve cold.
TALK
Protect your young trees
Keep the soil about the roots of your evergreens moist until cold weather. Upright branch- CR of columnar evergreens Cover stems of climbing rosen should be tied to a central stake with top soil after trimming and to keep snow and ice from split- tying slems as flat as possible. ting them apart. Use strips of Fad the sharpest, bends with cloth or a soft cord for tying. rolled sod to prevent breaks in Burlop screens prevent wind nks damage on young fender trees. ivy their stems. Wisteria,
pinks and chrysanthemums need pro- tection against rabbits. Use Removing leaves, and trash screen wire pushed in
lower caught at the bases of the hedge ground and cover the
und fence elimilriates a fire haz- free feet of each plant or vine ard. If you must mulch hedges in your area, uso soll, Don't. trim hedges until spring.
NAA
the
Nowly set trees need the help provided by guy wires to resist winter winds, and all trees need Lawn mowers s should be set to protection against raids by bark cut as high as possible, but con hungry mice and rabbits. Push tinue to mow the lawn regularly . screen or wire netting two until the grass stops. growing- Inches into the soll to fall at- Keep the tree leaves, raked up tempts at an underground at weekly intervals to avoid attack by the pesta.
danger of: zmothering the grass.
Trick of the Chef
tu criss-cross
To give a continentai flavour apricot pie, ndd blanched c. fine-chopped berts to the apricot Alling.
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