THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950,
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
HAVE THAT
LUXURY TOUCH
By Alice Denhoff
You can't by-pass meat very
often when there are hard- working men to be fed. So, best thing, in be a careful buyer
and a good cook, giving the Brifty cuts the same pampering are that in bestowedt and loving carc
on Juxury cuts. Lamb shanks reclps can be same-
in ulte special, as you'll see
if
You
Tackle the
one.
Fanchouettes of Lamb for 6. lakes 3 lamb sha
shaaks. Boil these with 3 cloves, tsp. celery seed, 1⁄2 hiy
leaf, tsp. ground thyme and น
tap, ground sage. When mat
In tender, remove it from the shank bones, and cut in cubes. Line individual moulds with reasoned mashed potatoes. Full with the lamb shank meat, one c. tm
small kidney beans, one e.
cooked cab coarsely chopped,
bage and one e. cooked carrots. Molsten with the Jamb stock. Top with mashed potatoes, using 3 C. mashed potatoes in all. Bruch over with beaten erg or milk, and brown In 425 F. oven.
Something Special
Place
irs
For something special serve curry of chleken, real party fare. Clent, ninge and cut up a 1/2 to 2 Ib. chicken. Faucepan and cover with hot water. Add 4 black peppercorns, 2 whole cloves, one bay lent, to taste and one
chili pepper from mixed pickle splee. Simmer until chicken is tender. Saute 2 sliced onions in table fat, then skim out and brown the chicken. Sprinkle with 15p. curry
urry powder,
add the chicken liquor; stew for 5 min. Make a paste of 3 tbsp. flour with 3 tbsp. water: add,
stir untik thickened. Add
beaten egg yolk. Serve with a border of lot rlee.
Can
Emergency Job
A casserole of sausage nnd baked beans in a good emer- gency job that is hearty and satisfying. Mix thoroughly one
bait:d beans each
and tomato soup: pour into casse- role. Dot 10 whole cloves through the mixture; lay 1 lb. pork sausages on top, and bake in hot oven until sausages are done. The entire process can be speeded further by warming the beans and soup mixture on top of the stove, and parbolling the musages before putting all the ingredients into the casserole for 10 min. of baking.
A
MUCH COMFORT IN SMALL SPACE
THIS INTERESTING AND ATTRACTIVE ilille house is some- thing unusually elever in compact convenience, with its two bedrooms, kitchen and living dining room. First floor area may
be finished off later, an desired.
AT THE IDEAL
HOME EXHIBITION
Points Of Interest
THE Ideal Home Exhibi-
IT"
The latter, occupying a small tion held in March at corner, represented the front of Olympia has many points an old thatched cottage. There interest for women. Was the faint, alightly musty of
of pressed Rowers, as Apart from the more ob- scent
**The Judge's vious displays of fabrics, you approached.
Choico" is the name of one furniture, and fashions,
genuine П complete P. It is made, from there
16th and 17th century recipes, modern laundry, a bakery, a
and is the type used by village of ideal homes and
notorious "Judge Jeffreys an Old English Pot Pourri stand.
Was
Professional Look In Home-made Clothes
By ELEANOR ROSS
BUSY woman physiclan of steam iron and an ironing board our acquaintance has taken right beside her sewing machine, and she uses the iron as she goes along. She claim it is a big
me saver, too.
up home dressmaking! aa a hobby. She says that it saves her much shopping time, and that the complete change from Ben work, mely na a mental tonic.
1685-to ward off gnol fever.
the
in
This little piece of Dorchester, transplanted to London, showed beautifully turned wooden jars of all shapes and sizes, made by the villagers from wood salvaged from old ships and mostly taken from Dead Man's Bay, and no two are exactly alike. An export trade is carried on, intel
the most in- terested countries appear to be Ant rica, and Australia, ·
SCENTED BROOCH
so far
Catering for modern tastes. there were varieties of flower adornment in the way of brooches, from which
n faint, sweet smell came. If you be come tired of the flower design in your brooch, it can be easily changed for another to match a different colour scheme,
Crosswise Thread
Fabric is straightened before pinning pattern and the end cut on the erwise thread. Fabric As with everything she does, is smoothed with steam iron to the job is handled in a thorough soften, then gently pulled on the ty scientille manner, and her blas until threads are adjusted home-made Kannent have # and fabric straightened, Put professional or eustom-made straightened end and selvages look about them. One secret is together, clipping any pelvagesminated, are made into pictures
that as she works, she has a that show,
ROSENTHILARGARIDA KAMORENOUN)
Easter chicks
Marzipan chicks easy decorations for an Easter cake. You will need 2uz sugar 202 soya flour, 1oz. mar-
An idea for your walls canie. from a firm of map spectulists. Genuine 17th and 18th century Blu- county maps, beautifully
for your walls. Any county in which you are particularly in- terested can be framed for you, MODERN LAUNDRY
To give a professional look to *cams, press seam 13 you stilched it to imbed the sewing machine stitching in the fabric end to give, smoothness to the
The modern laundry had the Eram. Next,
press seam open largest audience. One machine make with point of iron. It is best to Bnished collars so that not only press the entire section of the the top edge is smoothed for garment at this time, nat Just the
wearer's comfort, but space the seam area. Curved zzams was provided for the tlo to slide that fit curved sectious of the
the folds. The Greatest improvement was per pressing. Press on sleeve the marking
ing system, An board, first alltched, then visible identification sign open teams with iron point and chow in an instant when the press flat.
Karment is passed before Gmall cabinet which emils ultra violet ray.
parine, two tablespoonfuls boil-body get their shape from pro-round betw
ing water and half a teaspoon- ful of almond essence.
Melt the margarine in bolling water, add rimand essence and mix in soya flour and half the sugar. Turn on to a board and knead in the rest of the sugar. Roll out paste to about Kin.
thick. Pres out click's body. not quite all round, with a wineglass. Metal bottle cap will head, not quiic press out his all round again so that head und body are in one piece.
Give the chilck a currant for a triangular plece of his eye, orange or lemon peel for his legs, with a small piece for the beak
#13
Heavy Fabric
When working on heavy fab- rles, use brown paper strips under the edges. To handle French seams, used on sheer fabrics, first
press as stitched, and then press seam open with point of Iron, using a press cloth because this seam is on the right side of the fabric. Then trim sram · narrower than seam will be. Most French seams are less than 1⁄4- Inch wide. Turn back sharply on first stitching: press. Then stlich and press as you stitched.
finished Anished
Finish by pressing on the right ide, using press cloth on fabrics that may show shine.
ELECTRIC
CHEF
in
con
a
on
On the more practical side of life there was the ELECTRIC which heats, CHEF,
DRY UN
BEDROOM
EDROOM
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COATE
KITCHEN DINING
LIVING
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BX. CHINA
BY MARION CLYDE MɗCARROLL
VERY
busy modern
Eman wants to spend
just a few hours on the chores of housekeeping as she can possibly get away. with. There are far too,] many outside calls on her time, and far too many in- teresting things to do them days, for her to be satisfied to devote the major part of every day to vacuuming and dusting, washing and. froning, polishing floors, getting meals and all the rest of it.
The same thing applies to her. husband, Much as he may en- joy pouttering around the house doing odd jobs of this and that, he doesn't want to put in 100 many hours at it every week. He wants plenty of time left to spend at his community In- terests, his sports, and his hobbies
That's why so many people want their homes to be just as compact
convenient possible, so that there won't be too much to do around the house, and so thai what there is to do can be done easily and expeditiously.
That's why, too, many couple would like the type of house pletured here, which bas all the comfort and convenience
་་
of # five-room house, plus laundry and garage, in modest amount of space. Many's the clever little trick that has been used to give an effect of. spaciousness, tricks which, could be incorporated in other
new homes with equally good re- sult.
From "A Home of Your Own**
TWO BEDROOMS, EACH AT a corner so that they have the luxury of cross-ventiliation, make this an ideal litile home for a couple with one child.
TO GIVE A FEELING OF GREATER SPACIOUSNESS than its dimensions actually provide,
the celling of the living room follows the slope of the roof. The dining area is tucked away In a cozy corner, adjacent to the kitchen.
First Teeth Influence
THIE teeth
Permanent Set
of little children the teeth are not in proper align-
I should not be taken for ment, they will hinder correct granted but faithfully watched, speech. kept clean, and if they come in crooked, out of alignment, re school fer to a dentist without delay.
Children who are failing In
have
thele should teeth examinod. It is often the mouths of sorne The first set of teeth of found children are important because children are in such bad con- whisks, their condition has an influence dition as to cause malnutrition kneads, mixes, minces, mashes, on the
The and rheumatism, either of which permanent set. extracts julee, and grates and dentist should be consulted can make a child backward In grinds food of all type. There when they begin to shed so that learning. was no information available any attention needed can be
as to whether it washed Up afterwards.
given in time. It is too bad to
Beauty's Sake
lot a child's teeth grow out of Teeth should be kept in per- for the sake of alignment, sines this can spoll fect condition PLINTH LIGHT was a circu-
the tot of his mouth, bundicap bis speech or lower his health level.
of music.
en-lo
and
Last A Lifetimo
their beauty alone. The flash of lar flood lighting plate upon
sparkling teeth adds to the light aquarium, flower-bowl or other which you can stand a glass
of a child's smile, to the beauty of his expression, and that light to give Д soft decoration
will be a
asset to him great when he is an adult. Teeth radiance to a table.
Teeth tired and And lastly, for One of the signs of a custom-
Upon examination, children of mean so much to the good looks, made garment Is the decorn- aching fcat, were the cool, one school were found to have to the personality, to the sound tive lapped scam.
and fitness of a child and To handle cloistered gardens
defective molars. Because these hed
health this one put a line of machine This year they had an Im-teeth come early. parents seem of an adult, that the little care. stiching one-sixteenth
think them unimportant. they require from their owner, forecourt of ди pressive Inch Inside team allowance.c
Oceme a very Elizabell style-These teeth are important. They from the dentist, Notel curved area of team, and, crescent-shaped wall of old red should last a life-time. When small price to pay. with iron point, turn scam just brick
brick pierced by Tudor arch-ene
ere considers the fact that cach Train childrca from the very Trim down two or three beyond seam stliching. Then ways. At fifteen-minute inter-lost tooth lowers the child's beginning to care for their teeth coloured feathers (pipe clean- slip-baste the piece into position, vals each evening the daylight health potential, such neglect is as
as for
a very precious possession, ing feathers will do) for his tail. working from cutado of effect obtained by blue lighting. and a moonlight was faded out
serious indeed.
na for the pearls they can bo, so. across ment,
Tho
when they teeth of children who that
grown your cake and add thin strips of basting line. Blend seams. Press A Japanese garden depicted 籍 have speech difficulties should
people they can.open.... their: the sure falth of on right side using press cloth scene in Kenroku Park, Pana-be examined to learn if they are mouths in on all but cotton and light-zawa, with a view of the sacred causing the difficulty or any their beauty, their health and Fatmammann' coloured nens.
[Fujiyama In the background. part of it. That is possible. If their usefulness.
Make a row of chicks
greens for grass blade.
machine stitching
on
trance In
BEC
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