THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH
1950.
$7.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFTPA
FOCUS ON FAME TODAY ... is back on the. Cook a Million
MY GADGET - PACKED
People Watch at Work
KITCHEN
1
Philly Harben tests a chicken MY
KITCHEN in n bedlam of dials, buzzers and bells. Some of my equipment. Is used for find- ing out how and why, and has no practical use beyond that. But a great deal of it -is-designed to make kitchen work quicker and easier, and to eliminate wasteful guess ing.
pre-sets the dial thermometer for trying-oil.
corded on a' dial, and a glance it is to hows me how being exactly done.
near
SO MUCH of cooking con-
of subjecting alsts
food 10 A certain temperaturo for a certain time that control
and time of temperature
vital. You can guess it-or you
By
PHILIP MARBEN THE TV CHEF
is
USE I timer
can make sure.
This is o dial thermometer,
watches his spilt-second pressure-cooker timer...
and works out a figure,
to to calculate the minimum is one drawback
these appliances ns standard, There
im- But there is no full
not my Heath Robinson of ap- cooking time. having a kitchen
bul specially pliances like mine-I am apt to maximum
cooking provisations over -
This will be lost without them!
makes no difference, and the
designed for the job.
work in- tenderizes procesa
and
fro cooks from guess creases flavour, and practically and fallure, and leave us free no weight is lost.
for really creative cooking.
THIS IS my anhopetal cooker, "Anhepsetal" means cooking below bolling point, I BELIEVE that the kitchen
cook thin split-second but actually
meat of the future will contain all well below for bolling eggs, at a temperature wel for brewing-tea (which I then that. The exact figure in my p decant into another pot), and secret for the time being, and a
of important all-for sensitive thermostat maintains it with bold figures easy to read most
It rings cooking. right across the kitchen, which pressure
degree centigrade. In this picture you see an tells me the exnet temperature bell when the pre-set time is precisely within a fraction of B me in a of my frying oil. To make sure, up, to all I have to do is net it which electric skewer
A canteen has sent the bell Rensitive
warning buzzer and forget it until thermocouple lip. It sounds
temperature rings. This is invaluable with ham to cook, and with the slide- When I plunge it into a joint when a desired
_high-speed_ pressure rule I work out the square of
the cube root of the weight-and- or bird which la Lelng cooked, which-1-can-pre-set-on-the dial.. modern.. cooking. has been renched. the inside temperature 15 rc-
has n
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New save-space ideas for flats
Concealed occasional table in the arm of an armchair.
Simple Formula
Devised For Health
CHAMPAIGN,
University of Illicis
HA
professor
says he has a two-step formua
for
getting rid of that
feeling.
tire
Furthermore, the system will spare tire
eliminate th
around your middle, according 10 T. K. Cureton, physical education professor.
Cureton developed the formula over the past 25 years which he has spent "studying healthy people while doctors have been studying sick people." Here are the rules:
1. Walk "rhythmically and briskly" at
mltes least two every day. (An alternative la to go swimming for a half-hour at least every other day).
2. Get u proper diet-not too much food, avoiding large cating fats and quantities of
and green
soy beans more vegetables.
"That's the nub of it," Cure- Lon said.
UTILITY FURNITURE GETS
ITS 'FREEDOM'—GOES GAY
TILITY
U granted
By EILEEN ASCROFT
furniture, freedom of design a few months ago, has produced attractive an
were novel ideas, which shown at the British Furni- ture Trades' Exhibition at Earls Court.
There were occasional tables
Unit Furniture Unli furniture is going to be too, to popular addition,
It can be sel small homes.
wall as a neat couch or along split up into separate seats for The the Breside or garden. upholstery is a washable fabric called Ryjack.
Grow-up-with-baby
nursery
furniture
armchairs with In The concealed in there is n
grow-up-with-baby their arms, which can be pulled cupboard, which starts life as a The bath is out, and settees for small dats bath cupboard.
inside when not (at no additional cost), which tucked away
converted Info spare can be
in use; there are towel rails beds in a few seconds and in at both ends, and the bath can which there is space for the be put orn top and wheeled bedding to be stored.
་"་
new
the small flat For
(here i also a
kind of kitchen-
with ad- cum-dining table, justable pull-out leaves covered
smart
about.
When the baby grows out of his bath the cupboard can be used for toys, combined with which the bedside table. beige plastic child can wheel from room to material called Formica.
room.
in
a
It looks attractive enough to do credit to a living-room, but is heat-resisting, stain- proof, and even chop-proof, co for all that It can be used kitchen purposes.
Nursery sulte showing, on the right, the grow-up-with-baby
Here's
cupboard.
MONEY-SAVING IDEAS
method a good
of while, then wring out and dry. washing a clothesline: Wrap It When the cloth becomes solled. around a washboard, stand it in it may be washed and retreated a tub of hot, soapy water, and the same way, scrub well with a brush, Rinse
you
and let dry on the board to prevent tangles.
,
You'll feel younger and
worries can practically forget about heart trouble and harden-
says- ing of the arteries, he United Press,
Lucky Find
When eating an oyster stew
A quick trick to speed the drying of foundations is to arst roll in a bath towel, then to For greater case in removing place on a dry towel and stuff stains, use a pale of embroidery well with crumpled tissue paper, hoops. These are used to lock This salsen the top half and the solled spot taut, making the makes it easier for air to elr
casier to handle, culate through the garment. material whether brush and sud- stain method is used, or the flushed by pouring through it.
£
water
•
To keep the dial section of the phone clean and legible, use a cotton applicator or a wisp a toothpick Or
in a restaurant recently, a To make a "dustless" duster, of cotton on
New York City
man
eighteen small
pearls
single oyster.
found immerse
n large square of pencil, dipped in suds. And in-
in a cheesecloth in a basin of strong, clude dusting the telephone in hot soapsuds. Let it soak for a your daily dusting rounds.
n
London Express Service)
Common Lead Poisoning And Its Treatment
We
come.
By H. NBundesen, M.D.
are more on guard today suggested is that which will pull
сли
at any time during the past, but there are still many sources
danger from which this
Licking the paint from wails some young or furniture, as children do, is definite hazard. Another source of lead may old be the stove-burning of storage batteries, Lead from the batteries is volnilised and gets into the air. Enough may breathed by a young baby child to cause severe Ing.
be or
ם
Whenever fix it in the bones. calcium or lime is deposited in the boner, lead is settled in nimilor way. Therefore, the treatment of lead poisoning con- slats in giving large amounts of calcium.
Calcium Treatment
д
It is suggested that what is Fluconate known as calcium
Injection colution be given by
hours. into a vein every four polson-
tho This is continued until patient la freed of the abdominal pains and other symptoms for period of three to four days and
hen gradually stopped,
During this treatment, cal- cium is not given by mouth. However, after the injection Treatment is stopped, calcium wafers may be taken for as long a period as may seem neces-
Cause Weakness Abnormal ntnounts of lend in at- the body cause weakness, tacks of pain in the abdomen. decrease in the number and
of the cells or of red blood colouring matter of the blood.
in Lead which is circulating the blood can cause damage to such issues as the blood and in-
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the testinal tract, brain. Lend which is stored the bones cannot trouble. Hence, the
in
cause any treatment
Bridge Lunch Special
Other ideas include a raised, foldable playpen floor (to keep the baby out of draughts) and slot. #table with a special which can be opened to take a
vas seat for incal times. A winged armchair, miniature
Georgian Wo of an early сору design, makes a cha
à charraing pre- sent for a small child.
canvas
of
A gay note in utillly klichen furniture is the outbreak: colour in cabinets, cupboards, tobles and chalts, breaking away from the plain whites and associated previously with the utility range.
-London Express Servicaj
creams
Paris
TWO
SOTY.
Source of Poisoning
It Is important that the palient be kept out of contact with the source of the poison- ing. Rest in bed is required if the symptoms are severe.
If the attacks of pain are bad, belladonna or similar substances may be used for the time being. Narcutles are not employed. An electric pad or hot water bottle
abdomen placed on the help to give relief.
may
It is nlsa suggested that mag- thisnesium sulfate may be used to overcome constipation which is frequently present.
ari
By ALICE DENHOFF
tables of bridge week-end? How about interesting
dish for moulded luncheon, oue that is substan- tal, yet light, and a nice choice for dieters? Here's Tomate Cottage Cheese Mould then, to e tune of eight servings.
put 2 out of In a saucepan 32 c. of the tomato juice that the recipe calls for. Along with it, put in one mettlum sliced onlon, 8 pepper corns, 8 whole cloves, one c. coarsely cut celery leaves, a sprig of parsley and 11⁄2 tsp. salt. Bring to boil slowly and let simmer for 10 min. then strain. There should be 15 c. Soften 2 envelopes unflavoured PARIS NEW IN THE
water, all cold gelatin in C. SHOPS: Handbags designed until gelatin is dissolved.
c. (8 oz.) cream like cockle shells, like Gladstone bags, and barrel trunks....Real
tbsp. cottage cheese, snakeskin ties for
2
finely tbsp.
Pointed shoes
that have black mayonnaise,
minced onion or tsp. finely cut patent backs and mauve suede
chives, and 1⁄2 tsp. salt. Blend fronts....Cigarette lighters dis-
in tbsp. of the dissolved
Inlo guised as champagne corks.... gelatin. Turn
135 qt mould; chill until almost firm. Add remaining dissolved gela- tin to seasoned tomato juice, and remaining 1 c. plain tomato juice.
Shopwindow
men.
Hugo full-blown lik_roses that contain powder, puff, mirror, and lipstick in the back....
Flapjacks with
glass topa covering a little-bouquet of real dried flowers. rhinestone
necklac Shimmering and ear- Tartan carpets. flags. Plaid Blocs Black suedo and diamond cuffs that can be slipped over any steevo,
And in the picture-nursery Iamps designed to look like a
with an awning roundabout, striped shade and china horses dangling round the rim..
one
Mix style
Бу
Chill until mixture a con- sistency of unbeaten egg whites. mould Turn into
on top of cottage cheese layer. Chill until firm. Unmould on lettuce and али serve plain or with mayonnaise. Now from the bridge table to comething for the youngsters. Well, how
about B banana split. To make one full size banana split in the best soda fountain cut Into tradition, peel and lengthwise halves, a fully ripe peel banana, one of yellow flecked with brown. Place halves cut aldo up, side by side, In a shallow dish. Place por- tions of ice cream, side by side, top of banana in centre, on halves. Four
to
tbsp. chocolato, sauce over one por tion of ice cream,
Cover other part of ice cream with 2 to 3 tbsp. fruit sauce. Top the lee cream with whipped Cream,
and finely chopped' muts
cherry,
6
Blood should be
examined
a; it may be four or five months before the red cell count returns e normal. As soon as the in- testinal symptoms have stopped, prepara- reme iron-containing tion may be employed to help overcome the anaemio.
BE
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Painterote is supplied in twelve pastel shades and in white, and is suitable for application to Concrete, Cement renderings, Stucco and Rougheast, Pebble Dash, Brickwork, Wallboards and Asbestos cement sheets.
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