THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, - 1950, 0313***
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Practical Tips For Using Herbs
By ALICE DENHOFF
INCE the delights of home-grown berbs en- hance almost all dishes, tuck Д few herb seeds into n garden corner this Spring, or, got busy with a-herb window box (lots of fun for city apartment dwellers).
Among the herbs that thrive in the home garden are mint, thyme, sage, mar- joram, summer savoury and sweet basil. Each adds its to distinctive piquancy
dishes.
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Get the knack of herb season- In tested recipes, then branch out and "spike" other dishes to wall yourself. But do be sparing, better too te than The 1oo much.
herb favour
must never predominate.
The Tips
If you enjoy cooking and treat it as a science and art, you will be interested in these p
on the proper use of herbs.
A pinch of dried herbs may
be added to hot dishes at pry time. Fresh herbs should be added
the near
End of the cooking period, for. when overcooked fresh herbs often
become biller.
be added to Herbs should
ritating cold
weil nheri of serving, for the flavour develops Une bani la salads, slowly. with tomatoes, pears, polnton,
in black eggs, bref,
bacite 1 turtle soup, and in dah saures Use chives in salad, cheise Brid egg dishes, with new potatoes, mashed potatoes, on fish or N потеря Mini
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SMARTER AND MORE CONVENIENT
By MARION CLYDE MCCARROLL
A RE you one of the lucky, housewives whose home has a beautiful modern bath room?
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Or one of the many hope ful ones who look eagerly ahead to the day in the future when you'll have bathroom like that, in the dream house you and your husband plan to build some day?
If you're in the latter gmup. perhaps you don't really need walt indefinitely for n convenient smarter and more bathroom than the more or less Cold-fashioned ane you may now
have. You don't have to
tear
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H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
one time or another, nearly
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from infummation of the eyes. This is not surprising since the eye is less resistant to infection than other fissues of the body and at the
ex
SPETTAC
time, more of germ certain types
winds, can be the foured of my an eye infection.
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CAFTICES. Dust laten
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not rominan external care of the eve is inflamma tion f the eyelids nor the aning membrane of the erebral. This order, known technically as
helpt juctivitis. at spel.
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To make mint vinegar bruise Fresh mint leaves to fill a jard margles These sendes are Junsely. then rall Jai with lonely alfa bed vipegur, cover and let stand for
2 weeks. Dralo
With Bland Meats
Une marjoram with mrats, especially bland ments such as veal, with chicken, with pork and lamb, with fish, in soup". stuffing, with spinach, trust- TODER, Bquash, tomatoes, cream cheese.
Rose Keranium is wonderful in jelly. (Place the lenf in jelly glass.) And It is delightful too, when used as a scent. Rosemary Крев well with all ments, particularly with lamh nnd veal Use a pinch of it in salads. Use it in eweet sauces for something
different
Use sake in stuming. with pork, with oniona, In cheer making. Thyme Kots into stuffings, with beef and onion dishes, in mayonnaise, with peas, carrots and cheese.
When serving celery, save the tenves. wash and drain and spread them on trays to dry. Good in coups, stuffing and loaves.
the li marking are
reddened In some Inses the 11
membrane of the eyelids may be infined This condition 45 always associated with what is known a seborrbele dermatitis of the senip, the eyebrows, or the face, In which there is inflammation. of the skia and the development at a senly condition.
Mild Solution
The first step in the treatment of this disorder is the rleansing of the eyelids with some mild rollion Then an ointment. such as an ammoniated mercury oustment, is put on three times This treatment brings a day. rapid Improvement temporary eure However, in order to clear up the condition, completely, it is necessary to elininate the seborrheic der- molitis
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Another form of blepharitis is that known as blepharitis mar- ginalte produced by stophy- lococele gertus. In this disorder, There are hard sales on the
eyelids and ulcers or sores may develop The eyelashes may be lost permanently or for the time
being.
la treating this condition, the Ild margins must be thoroughly cleansed. It is suggested that a waller solution of zephiran chloride be employed for this purpose. After cleansing, the lids are massaged to expel the contents of the glunds in the eyelids. The expelled material is carefully removed with an
Sage is a "natural" with pork Thyme in deltelous in ment sauces. Sweet marjoram adds spice to veal and lamb, to hash. meat ples and casseroles. Mint, of course, is unbeatable with lamb. Summer cavoury la de- licious in
ment balls, perking them
up no end, and sweet bazil la fine with meat and tomato sauce. During the summer, use applicator moistened with I. ba fresh In autumn. dry silver them and store leaves in air-
nitrale solution. epinephrine is put into the eye. tight jara.
This procedure may have to be repeated daily for several daya, and then at less frequent in- lervals until the condition cleara up. Penicillin ointment also has been employed with benefit.
Two rules will guide you on use of herbs: (1) use no more than two herb-flavoured dishes in one meal; (2) a pinch of herbs between thumb and first finger is generally enough for ahy dish serving four people. Remember, seasoning is easy to add, but hard to remove.
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This week's
GADGET
By JOAN DALE
boiling burner for” tha bed-sitting-room kettle, making baby foods in the nursery or for use in a tiny uffice. It can be fitted to thị gas supply, costa 181, 33, and anished, in glossy great vitreous.eusmel
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Then,
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everything apart and do whole room over. Start, maybe, with some one ring-a new sink, a built-in be tub, a bath- room dressing ti ever you need on ennt most- and go on from there is the budget allows. Even one new plece will pep up the place na end, to say nothing of what it do to your spirital
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The interesting and unusual pieces of bathroom equipment shown in the pictures may give you some good ideas for some- thing you might be able to right now in your present sci- u Or, if you're just about to berin building thni dream house, clip the pictures out and when keep them for reference you're planning the equipment and furnishing of the bathroom,
Of special note among these unique Ideas, are the basin with small the pull-out step for the fry who can't reach up as high
the ndulta can, and the twin wash basin which speeds up the family's morning abtu-
tions,
WASH BASIN AND DRESSING TABLE are combined in this luxoriously convenient and good-looking bulit-in plece. Lots of wonderful drawer space, too.
A BIG FAMILY and just onu bathroom? Then how about twin basing like this, so Dad can shave at one, while Junfor
brushes teeth at the other?
GRAND STORAGE SPACE, AGAIN, under, this wash Baaln whlets, like all the others plotured, has-n top of attractive,
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You Know A Woman By The
Watch She Wears
New York
DIERRE Bohy likes to look at women. He looks at their watches.
Boby, who is a vice president of 能 watch company,
says he can look at a woman's watch and tell what country sho is from.
French
Or a men, for that matter.
like extreme, but not gaudy, watches," he explained. "They like them encrusted with Jowels."
The British like round watches. They won't buy square ones.
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removed by an women's watches, Bohy sald. absorbent material, Cornstarch, "People In the Middle East white comment, talcum powder are small and like small or salt can all be used to absorb watches," he continued. "South
molstened stain.
Shake
ko Americans like pink gold absorbent powder gently on the watches. The average Russian wet spot, then brush off with a hasn't seen a new watch since soft bruth Repeat procedure the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, until surface moisture has been so there is TO way of telling abtorbed. Finally, cover the
what they would prefer."' spot with powder and leave for several hours before brushing 01.
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If you rub lard on fresh grasa stains, they may be washed out In the laundering. If the staing gre old, sook in milk for 12 hours, with ап occasional rubbing Or dissolve cream of tartarin belling water and apply hot.
The trend in America is away from small, "Jowellery watches" for women to larger, accurato timepieces, he saldi. United Press.
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