THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1950.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Putting On The Pounds
TUIAT word "diet" to most So
don't cat
raw vegetables, tossed salad or whole
persons is synonymous with much "reducing". But this in merely fresh fruits.
a restricted Use of the word. Glance down this column at because die
die!" is what is enten Monday's dinner be planned for How would you Imbitually day after day. There the family. is the balanced diet, for per-
fortity the various foods for a sons of normal weight; the re- person needing to gain weight? of heavy ducing diet that features high.
Add #tablespoon
Pour coma proteins and cuta down starcher, cream to the soup.
over the broiled sugar and fats; and the building melted butter vilet, based on a balanced diet ateak, or top the nerving with a with extras
added that help to ball butter. When preparing the bald stuffed potatoca, ndd put on the needed pounds.
And there are many persons, an extra tablespoon of butter to young, not so young, and the potato and top the apple elderly, who need to gain a sweet with whipped cream, for few pounds. For these people, the weight gainer. the rotullon in to eat about 4 more food cach day than nor mal, or from 500 to 700 enlories, With extra reat in the day time, moro sleep at night, plenty of fresh air and sunshine, the gain should be at the role of a pound to a pound and a half a week.
Increased Food
meals འ May,
Whatever the cause of the underweight, increased food in needed. But I should not be enten entirely at the usual three Instead ferve seven smaller meals. Yes, I Enid seven, of easily digested foods, that are enjoyable and 100% not bully.
And have them regularly at the same time each day. Breakfast, dinner and sub- per can be based on the family menis. For instance:
Monday's Dinner Spinnch Cream Soup Crackers Breited Steak or Chopped Beef Pattien
Baked Stuffed Potatoca Parsnips en Casserole Apple Rollsh Coffee or Ten Milk (Children) Include enriched bread or rolla
with butter or margarino All Momirements Are Levei Recipes Serie Four
Spinach Cream Soup
Add I cooked, leff-over or tinned ninach, to 1 c. water with top. enit, a few straine and a bit of baylent. nutmeg Simmer
Then rub 5 min. through A sieve. Meantime make a white sauce and odd to the deved spinachi. Relient and serve with or without a garnish of roured crtam.
While Sauce for Soup: Melt I
On rising--4 ounces orange Juice and glass water. Breakfast Should be
rail thap butter or margarine and stantial, such as a baked apple; silt in 1 tbsp. four. Cook and
with cerent
wheat stir cooked
in bubbling. Then farm,
sugar and whole milk
gradually add 2 c. whole milk or 2 soft coaked eggs; toast;
reconstituted or
evaporateel butter; coffes with sugar
and milk.
Continue to cook and cream; or milk or encon.
Mid-morning-Agings of milk stir until the sauce boils.
Apple Relish and 2 graham crackers.
Luncheon-Might be a brolled ilver or chopped lamb chop. beef patty; warm rolly with but- ter; cream cheese and vegetable anlad with mavontalse, ginger- bread will hard sauce and
coffee or cocon.
PLEASING AND PRACTICAL
CONCRETE BLOCK MAKES THE NEAT and attractive exterior of this one-alorey hip-roofed dwelling, interestingly. do signed with the garage directly in the front of the house and the entrance door set back at side. Corner windows are those of bedroom and kitchen.
the
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL
WO pleasing and practical one-storey houses, some- what similar, in general type of architecture, have some quite different and some identifiçal fentures in interior layout.
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Outside, the concrete block of the house above, and the white brick of the one below, together with the fact that both houses have hip roofs, cause them to present much the same construction pleture.at casual glance.
Inside, while the actual amount of space differs com- paratively little, and while the sleeping quarters are arranged in exactly the same way, there is Interesting difference in the rest of the plan.
Sift together 2 e enriched flour, 3 tsp baking powder, 1
sugar and tsp. salt, 3 tbsp. tsp. nutmeg Add 1 c. short- ening, any kind, and chop in
For example, in the houso at top, the living room, with a pastry blender until the
Then with its dining area, is at the rear; the kitchen mixture resembles bran. beat 1 egg and add 6 tsp. mille immediately at the left of the front door. The front
the dry Ingredients mix until well blended corner of the kitchen turns its pleasant window space ing over to a tiny snack spot. The two bed-rooms, of approximately the same size, occupy front and rear corners on the opposite side of the house, with a bath midway between, off a connecting hall.
Into
n
Mid-afternoon-A fruft Julee
Str 2 whole wheat cocktail and crackers aprend with jelly.
and ana Dinner-Can be
the family Next on 7" x
Spread in e meal, with
calories in utencli. extm the form of cream and butter Cover the top with 114 c. tart adiled to various foods..
apple sliced thin and mixed with Bed-time
Snack-An orange 1/3 c. sugar. Cover with
crumb topping and bake 30-35 There 15 · nothing
at 373 F. dlmeult min.
Serve warm abou! Fuch a regime. The or cold greatest hurdie is remembering Crumb Topping: Cream 10- to eat at the right time. No gether 3 tbsp. butter or mar-
3 ibsp. feeling of stuners will result garine,
flour, 3 tbsp. if the foods are not too bulky, zugar and 1/3 tsp. nutmeg.
cfx-nong.
An interesting feature is the location of the garage directly in the front of the house, with a door leading into, the vestibule.
.
The second house has its living room in front, dining room and kitchen at the back, and the bedrooms, bathroom and connecting hall just as they are in the other.
DINING
8:49"
LIVING ROOM
15'5"x 18'6"
BED ROOM 12:010'6"
KITCHEN-
1591*90*
SNACK CLI
SPACL
VEST
PORCH
GARAGE
10'4'x20'4"
HALL
BATH
BED ROOM 12'0'X14'-3"
.
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A SECOND HOUSE, WHOSE HIF ROOF and white brick ex- terior give something of the same general appearance as the other one, has a large picture window in the living room, The other front which occupies the front right-hand corner.
window is in a bedroom,
BED ROOM 12-0'x10'-0"
DINING ROOM
9-011-10"
KITCHEN 104x8-4"
CL.
BATH
CL.
CL.
BED ROOM
1280% 11-*
HALI
LIVING ROOM 19-10"x 14'-0"
VEST. CL.
STOOP
THE ARRANGEMENT OF BEDROOMS, bath and connecting -hall-way-is the same in this house as in the one at the top of
the page.
FROM THE PORCII AND also from the garage,, doors lead into a vestibule which, in turn, opens into living room and the kitchen,
APPLE ICE CREAM
NOW
PERFECTED
Geneva, N.Y. The latest thing in the ice cream line is a 'product with the genuine flavour of well- ripened apples.
fore
and
they arc ground pressed for julee. The result is a juice with a pleasing natural flavour and good colour.
Dy freezing the juice and re- moving the ice, station workers obtain an apple juice con Apple-flavoured ice creams centrate having more than two have been tried in the past but and one-half times the solids did not prove satisfactory. The of the regular juice. The new Juice and apple latest development of the New type of apple York State agricultural experi- juice concentrate are the basis ment station has overcome pre- of the station's apple ice cream vlous shortcomings by using a and an apple ice. new type of apple Juice and apple juice concentrate worked out in its food laboratories.
Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, is added to the apples just be
to worry
How not to after forty
JIK
I
by ELIZABETH FERGUSON
FOUND my bebind you are the diffiences friend Janet and searchings of youth.
You have learned (If you busy at the kitchen
anything at all) Bink, but I knew have learned from the depressed that to be kind and tolerant lo
lot of clever hump to her shoul worth un awful ders that the onions ness and virtue. the was
peeling
You have found out how true
Try to be
A tidy, always. "sweet disorder in the dress" (or, the hair) not for the overforties you have a hair- do that suits you, stick to it
Never wear sloppy shoes in the house. If you're most of the day on your feet, you'll get much more tired that way.
clumsy
Clumsy boots
wear those
Outdoors, don't
boots. Irrespective of the temperature, from
October till April, just because they're handy and kind to unimmacu
stockings.
were only partly it is that it isn't what happens we can't deny that they ranko
responsible for her moisture-filled
From my usual perch on the table I asked: "What's up?"
"Nothing much, except that it's my birthday, and I'm 40,"
(Horror-stricken volce.)
I laughed and said: "Well, we
all have to have 'em, you know, and haven't you heard, lite be-
Al
Kina
Elizabeth,
stult,
onions and
#t
to you that matters so much as the way you deal with it, and thick if your job is a home and family you have realised that o shab- by house with love and laugle
legs look like a grand
and plana
thin ages liko n sparrow with goloshes, so savo them for days when it's so cold ter in it is worth a heap of that everyone is too busy keep- palogos
You've learned...
And when
ing their teeth from chattering to notice your legs.
Simple things, like
cold
for Ured eyes and plenty of
you get sick to good hand cream for sink-ured In "frosty weathes death of housework and its end-hands
repetition of
affect the budget, yet chores scarcely She stopped me with a wave less
have. gained of her knife.
wisdom they help a lot forty, you'li
that against
it can be managed, ter When don't give me that enough to weigh You just go on, peeling the fact that you have created minutes rest after a moal will
with- making beds and little fortress that will
We pay a large dividend. sleges of filness. or Don't worry about the lines Retting older and okler and stand the
hard times
in your faco.
If you use your Now for some practical ad- face you can't avoid lines. vice to the forty-ish housewife. Anyway, they tell a story and If you use make-up; put it on it's
probably an interesting
Words falled ker.
You know
Come to think of it, lem't it a before you start your work. A story. darn good ago to be? You have well-applied lipstick can help So you so, whether fat and cleaned out more fuzzy, or Hoan and lank, you weathered quits a few storms get the fre and you have survived; you are quickly and more efficiently.
can enjoy being torty,
■ long way off old age, but far Just you try it and see!
London Express Barpics)
has
"Both the lee cream and the ice have been, a pleasant sur prise to overyone who tasted them," sald Prof. J. C. Hening-United Press.
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