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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1937.

NEW COLOUR

WHATS FOR

PUDDING?

Something new-and something good

FLEET STREET PUDDING Quarter-up butter, two egg yolks, one-and-half cups flour, three tea- spoons baking powder, quarter- teaspoon vanilla essence, one cup castor sugar, half-cup milk, 13202 unsweetened chocolate, two whites of eggs, one tablespoon made coffee.

Cream butter, add half the gar by degrees, beat yolks of eggs till thick and honey coloured, add gradually to it remainder of sugar. Stär mixtures together, add milk alternately with flour sifted with baking powder, a pinch of salt, and a saltspoon of ground cinnamon

Stir in melted chocolate, fold in lightly stiffly frothed whites of eggs and sanilla, and bake in a tin with a hole in the centre or steam in a similar mould.

Fill centre with whipped cream sweetened and flavoured to taste and pour round the following

sauce.

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Sauce: Boil one cup castor sugar with half-cup water and

a few grains of cream of tartar until a clear syrup.

Melt 12oz. unsweetened choco- late, and pour on to it gradually, stirring all the time, the hot syrup. Flavour with quarter-teaspoon vanilla.

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The pudding can be served either hot or cold, but the sauce must be hot.

WILL-

Change The Shape Of DAILY DISH

Your Room!

and

Many women think that there are only two ways to cook a chop. I know that from the letters I re- ceive, asking me to give a' chop re- cipe that is different. Here it is:

BRAISED STUFFED MUTTON »

"CHOPS

AM watching a woman in a wall play for safety and look dull.

paper shop..

For years- decorators "Oh, yes the green-I must architects have encouraged por¬ have the green," she is saying. ridge-coloured walls because they Four loin chops, 1⁄2 cup diced "It will set off my chairs. So offer no problems. Colour does to turnip, 1⁄2 cup sliced onion, 1 cup restful, green, don't you think?”

la room what make-up does to a diced carrot. 1⁄2 cup sliced celery, face gives it character, vitality, 1 cup stock or water, salt and per- "But, madam the curtains-you

interest. Or wrecks the whole per to taste. said they were

thing.

"I like contrasts," replied Madam with some asperity, “Nature is full of contrasts and Nature nerer clashes.""

Mix vegetables in a basin. I can't fix up individual colour Place in the bottom of a schemes unless I see inside houses fireproof dish. Sprinkle with salt with my own eyes or through the and pepper to taste. Either grill or post. But I can give you some sound par-grill chops till brown on both sides. Season lightly with salt and

rules and lots of ideas.

She took the green. I know that she had maroon tapestry chairs, a brownish carpet, curtains with Two things should gide a colour pepper. spots, multicoloured ornaments. She scheme. The aspect of the room

Arrange side-by-side on top of had a carrying voice.

and the people who are going to vegetables. Add stock or water and cover closely. Bake in a slow oven Generally speaking, colour sets for two hours, if chops are thick. If thin, bake for one and a half the temperature of room.

hours..

Her room will look like a her-live in it. baceous border, and that will please her. Nature is her decorator and can do not wrong.

Half your house problems are about colours.

Every post brings me letters say ing, "Choose me a colour

make me a chart will go with this and that?”?

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In a north room grey, green or blue is chill and depressing. All these colours have "warm" shades, scheme and modern decorators sometimes what use them, but the rule for north and north-east rooms is against cold colours.

Most people are afraid of colour Uncertain of its effects and its possibilities. Nine rooms out of ten

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Peach, yellow, biscuit, all the dusty pinks, are good north-room colours.

BEIGE NEEDN'T BE DULL

Enough for four persons.

ELIZABETH CRAIG

the green of the leaves, the wood brown of the stalks into my room.

I use wedgwood plates, coftage pottery, scraps of ribbon and wall paper and carpet when I work out. colour schemes. I collect samples of every kind of material. My rag-

In sunny rooms the reverse is true Vivid yellows and all the red-bag is like a rainbow.

dish shades will make them look If I get miniature harmony on my restless and over-heated. In my own desk I know the room will look experience I have found that posi-good.

tive and very decided colour schemes look best in east and west

rooms,

Beige is a trick colour.

Now for some of the magic you can make with colour.

It is listed amongst the “safe” colours, but is one of the most dif-

You can almost rebuild to the ficult to treat. Only very subtle con-eye at least a long, narrow room trasts will make it "come alive," by having three rooms a pale, plain and yet two out of four problems colour and the fireplace wall paper- begin by matching your rooms up to led with a rich dark paper or with begie.

jone of the exquisite modern “wood”

Stop thinking beige belongs to the brown family, and introduce it to pine green, a deep sapphire blue or a rich plum purple.

The best beige room I ever saw had plain beige walls and carpet, plum-coloured upholstery, white, plum and green curtains.

Choose a basic colour for each room when you decide to decorate. It can be the walls, the carpet, the ceiling if you like. To produce har- mony, all other colours in the room should be related to it.

papers.

You can bring the ceiling down in one of those rooms which go up and up by painting the ceiling some- shades darker than the walls.

A definitely coloured or pattern- led ceiling above plain pastel walls

is a good idea for a large, light- [room which wants to look differ-

ent.

exactly the same, colour will add Paintwork, cailing and walls all feet to small rooms.

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Make a frame for a special piece of furniture with a contrasting/ panel of colour behind it. This can be best done with wallpaper, and is Have some definite scheme in specially good behind a bed which

your mind.

is set in an alcove.

Deep cream walls and paint throughout one floor will make a small house spacious.

A flower, a piece of good china, a length of chintz or embroidery will give you a plan to work upon You want a rose and green bed- room. So many shades of rose and green can be wrong Get a for- quiet, cool rooms. Blue is soothing, glove, or a rose, or an aster, and green take it with you when you choose wallpaper, and paint.

You needn't be slavish about the actual colour if you stick to the

Vivid people are best served by

stful Yellow stimulates, reds - purples can be irritating. Boys hate pink.

Copy Nature if you like, but keep

copies single.

tone. I did this myself once with The P. and D. 5.8 Corfu left Singapore on the 18th instant and

due here to-day at about

KEILHU1111TIT bunch of grapes. I got the deep

purple, the grey of the "bloom,