THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950,
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
HAVE THAT
LUXURY
TOUCH
By Alice Donhoff
VOU can't by-poes ment very.
You
often when there are hard- working men to be fed. So, best thing, is to be a careful buyer and a good cook, giving the thrifty cuts the same pampering and loving care that is bestowed on luxury culs. Lamb shanks in a
Food recipe. can be same-
Ding quito special, na you'll kee it you Lackle thin Fanchonelles of Lamb for
takes 3 lamb shanks. Boil these with clover, isp, celery seed, 1⁄2 bay leaf, top. ground thyme and 1/4 tsp. ground sage. When mat
it from the is tender, renove shank bones, and cut in cubes. Line Individunt moulds with seasoned mashed potatoes. Fill with the lamb shank meat, ene c. small kidney beans, one e coarsely chopped, cooked cab- bage and one e, cooked carrots. Molnlen with the lamb stock. Top with mashed polators, using " Է. mashed poluloes in nl. Brush: over with beaten erg or milk, ond brown in 425 F. oven.
Something Special
For something special serve curry of chicken, reaf party fare: Clean, singe and cut up a 14
Place lb. chicken. to 2 saucepan and cover with hot water. Add 4 black peppercorns, 2 whole cloves, one bay leaf, to taste and one
chitl pepper from mixed pickle spice. Simmer until chicken is tenter, Sule 2 sliced onions in table fat, then Ekim out and brown the chicken. Sprinkle with 15p, curry powder. add the chicken liquor; stew for 3 min. Make & paste of 3 tbsp. flour with 3 tbsp.
water; id.
stir until thickened. Add a beaten en yolk. Serve with a border of hot rice.
Emergency Job
A casserole of sausage and baked beans is a good
-
gency job that i hearty and satisfying Mix thoroughly onc
MUCH COMFORT IN SMALL SPACE
THIS INTERESTING AND ATTRACTIVE little honse is some- thing unusually clever in compact convenience, with its two bedrooms, kichen and Bving dining room. First floor area may
be finished off later, as desired.
AT THE IDEAL
HOME EXHIBITION
Points Of Interest
TIE Ideal Ilome Exhibi-
TH
musty
The latter, occupying a small tion held in Murch at corner, represented the front of CAM
baked beans cach
and Olympic has many points an old thatched collage. There temato soup: pour into ease-
interest for women. was the faint, lightly we of whole role. Dot 10
clover
of pressed flowers, S through the mixture; Jay 1 b. Apart from the more ob- seent
"The Judge's pork sausages on top, and hoke
vious displays of fabrics, you approached.
the name of une In hot oven until sausages ore furniture, and
fashions, Choice" is done. The entire process, can
there WIN *L complete pe. It is made from genuine be speeded further by warming the beans and soup mixture on modern laundry, a bakery, a top of the stove, and parboiling village of ideal homes. and! the sausages before putting all
an Oil English Pot Pourri the ingredients into the casserule for 10 min. of baking.
A
stand.
Professional Look In Home-made Clothes
BY ELEANOR ROSS
BUSY woman physician of steam iron and an ironing boarti our acquaintance has taken right besitle her sewing machine, and she uses the iron as she goes along. She elabus it is a big
up home dressinaking
Crosswise
bobby. She says that it saves the saver. Ino. ber much 'shopping time, and that the complete change fram hen, work neta as A mental tonic.
Thread
16th and 17th century recipes, and is the type used by the notorious "Judge Jeffreys In
1685-40 ward of gaol fever,
*
and
This little piece of Dorchester, transplanted in London, showed beautifully turned wooden jars of all shapes and sizes. made by the villagers
fram wood salvaged from ald ships and auslly taken from Dead Man's Hay, and un Iwo are exnelly afike. An export trade is carried art, and so far the most l- terested countries appear to be Amt rica and Australia,
SCENTED BROOCH
Catering for modern tastes, There were varieties of Bower adornment In the why of a faint,
brooches, from which sweet smell came. If you be, come tired of the flower design in your brooch, it can be easily chatuged for another to match a differem cule scheme.
Fabric is straightened before pinning pattern and the end gut on one crosswise thread. Fabric As with everything she does, is smoothed with steam iron to the job in handled in a thorough soften, then gently pulled on the ly scientife
manner, and her bias until threads are adjusted home-made gangents have a and fabrie atraightened. Put professional or custom-made straightened end and selvages look about them.
One secret is together, clipping any selvagesinated, are male into pictures that as the works, she has a that show.
Easter chicks
nuke Marzipan chicks easy decorations for in Easter cake. You will need 20%. sugar 2oz. soya flour, loz. mar-
An idea for your walls came from a fum of map specialists. Genuine 17th and 1806 century county maps, beautifully
11131-
for your walls. Any county in which you are particularly” In- terested can be framed for you.
LAUNDRY
To give a professional look to Kean, press RentM 05 you stitched it to imbed the rewing | MODERN machine stitching in the fabric end to give smoothness to the
The modern laundry had the seam. Next, press seam open largest audience. One machine with point of iron. It is best to finished collars so that not only press the entire section of the the top edge is smoothed for garment at this time, not just the wearer's comfort, but space the team area. Curved reams was provided for the tie to slide that fit curved sections of theuround between the folds. The
Greatest improvement was
garine, two tablespoonfuls boil-indy get their shape from pro- [fiking system. An
ing water and half a teaspoon- ful of almond essence.
Bielt the margarine in bolling waler, add nlmond 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
about in.
body, thick. Press out chick's not quite all round, with a wineglasa. Metal bottle cap will press out his head, not quite all round again so that head and body are in one piece,
per pressing. Press on sleeve he board. first 35 stitched, then visible identification siga open seams with iron point and show in an instant when press fat.
Karment Is passed before small cabinet which emits ultra violet ray.
Heavy Fabric
When working ón heavy fab- rics, use brown paper strips under the edges. To handle
Geam
beam
ELECTRIC
CHEF
Jrt
in-
call
the
UNDRY
BEDROOMTM
BEDROOM
KITCHEN
DINING
COATE
LIVING
12'21'
DRIVEWAY:
From "A Home of Your Own"
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL
IVERY
Вину Tmodern
E woman wants to spend
just as few hours on the chores of housekeeping 48 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 these days, for her to be satisfied to devote the major part of every day to vacuuming. And, dusting, washing and ironing. 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 too 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 and convenient 03 possible, so that there won't be too much to do around the house, and so that what there is to do can be done cually and expeditiously.
of
That's why, too, many a couple would like the type house pictured here, which has all the comfort and convenience of a five-roons house, plus
and laundry
garage, in modest amount of space. Many's
the elever little trick that bas been used to give an effect of spaciousness, tricks which could be incorporated in other new hom.es with equally good re- quit
TWO BEDROOMS,, EACH AT a corner so that they have the luxury of cross-ventilation, make this an ideal little home for a couple with one child.
TO GIVE A FEELING OF GREATER SPACIOUSNESS than is dimensions actually provide,
the ceiling 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
Permanent Set
a THE teeth of little children the teeth are not in proper align-
THE
should not be taken for nent, they will hinder correct granted but faithfully watched, speech.
are Children who failing in kept clean, and if they come in
have their should crooked, out of alignment, re- school
It is often fer to a dentist without
teeth examined. delay.
of some found the mouths The first set of teeth of children are in ruch bad con-
because chlidren are Important whisks,their condition has an influence dition as to cause matnutrition and rheumatism, either of which The permanent set. dentist
be should
consulted can make a child backward in when they begin to shed so that learning.
needed can be any attention
On the more practical side of
There was no information available as to whether it washed afterwards.
up
French seams. used on sheer life there was the ELECTRIC fabrics, Arst
preas as stitched, CHEF, which heats, and then press eam open with kneads, mixes, minces, mashes, point of iron, using a press cloth extracts juice, and grutes and because this scam is on the right grinds food of all type. side of the fabric.. Then trim
narrower than finished Most seam will be.
finished French reams are less than - inch wide. Turn back sharply on first stitching: press. Then stitch and press as you stitched. which Finish by pressing on the right side, using press cloth on fabrics that may show slitne,
One of the signs of a custom- Is the decorn- mode garment tive lapped seam. Το
PLINTH LIGHT was a circu- lar flood lighting plate tipan you can stand a gins
soft
and
un the
given in time. It is too bad to
Beauty's Sake
of Teeth should be kept in per- let a child's teeth grow out alignment, sines this can spoit feet condition
of
for the Bake of the set of his mouth, handicap their beauty alone. The flash of his speech or lower his health sparkling teeth adds to the light- level.
д child's smile, to the beauty of his expression, and that light will be a
great asset
Teeth when he is an aclull Upon examination, children of mean so much to the good looks,,
Last A Lifetime
10
him
aching feet, were the cool, one school were found to have to the personality, to the sound
music. defective molars. Because these health and fitness of a child and teeth come early, parents seem of an adult, that the little care
them
-
to
Ulok
unimportant, they require from their owner, These teeth are important. They from the dentist, seems a very should last a Sife-time. When small price to pay.
aquarium, flower-bowl or other
to Rive decoration radiance to a table.
for red And lastly,
Give the chick a currant for
ot handle cloistered gardens his eye,
Im- a triangular plece of this one put a line of machine This year they had on und forecourt orange or lemon peel for his clitching one-sixteenth of un pressive legs, with a small plece for the inch
Elizabeth style-a Inside seam allowance, trance in beak.
Notch curved area of scam, and. crescent-shaped wall of old red with fron
brick pierced by Tudor arch- one considers the fact that each Train children from the very point, turn senm just
lost tooth lowern the child's beginning to care for their teeth coloured feathers (pipe clean-slip-baste the plece into position,
each evening the daylight health potential, such neglect 18 ar for a very precious possession, ins feathers will do) for his tall working from outside of gar-effect obtained by blue lighting.
was faded out and a moonlight serious indeed.
un for the pearls they can be, zo Make a row of chicks ReFoss ment.
stitching
teeth of children
are grown who that when they
their your cake and add thin stripe of basting line. Bland scams Press A Japanese garden depicted a
they can open have speech difficulties should people greens for grass bladed.
on right side using press cloth scene in Kenroku Park, Pana- be examined to learn if they are mouths in the sure faith of on all but catton and light-zawa, with a view of the sacred
causing the dimculty or any their beauty, their health and SUSANNE HORYNICHES' coloured linens.
Fujiyama in the background, part of it. That is possible. If their usefulness.
Trim down two or three beyond scam siliching. Then ways. At Afteen-minute inter-
machine
on
vals
The
Swimsuits by
Gantner
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