1951-02-03 — Page 9

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SYLIKALI,*

NA LUKIJA 1,

TEDIUMIVA

ADA.

PRACTICAL

INTO

1

SPRING

SILHOUETTES

COATB

IN: Chipped-in waist. linon tallorod fitted coals, swinging circular skirta. narrow tailored revern, comfortable act- In sleeves, one or two front buttons. OR dead straight unbelled edge- to-cdgo сопід

SUITS

IN : Pugoda Look-- chipped-in waltlines, V. shaped Jacket lines. sharply Jutting-out hip- linas, toose three- quarter-length Bleeves, Lube skiria OR switigy hip-length jackets over finely pleated skirta

DAYDRESSES

IN: Easy-to-wear, full- skiried feminine styles, any-way-you-like sleeves. soft necklines. OR sharply tailored, narrow- skirted designs, tight hips. Some skirts cling to the knees, flare out below. Bodices tailored,

some sleeveless,

AFTER 6 p.m. IN Little change on last year Nipped-In waists, full skirts stay. Interest centres on the hip. Tops when not bare shouldered, have soft. scooped-out neck-

lines, soft revera.

EVENING

IN : Two-tiered akiri efects. spirnla over- skirts shaped like aprons but may be worn at the back or on one side. OR clinging, sheath shapes with # plunge neckline and split-up- the-front akirta.

HOMECRAFT

THE LONDON FASHION SHOWS HAVE OPENED and Page 9 presents a trend chart based on who. was shown and on a preview of some of the collections to be seen

The chart was prepared by -

DETAILS

COATS -

Hippy pocketa, hemlinea roughly one Inch shorter.. alcoves with rounded cung, no exog- gorated collaro по dolman aloeven. Some collare have broad rovero 'to give that enger look."

BUITS

Plaid Jackets and shoes to match. Long, straight revora, hip- length jackets, scarcely padded shoulderlines. knife-pleated (pleata 2ins. widel or Lubo akirta Some twoed skirts have horsehair- backed pleats.

DAYDRESSES Flowers Nigh up at the neck. Giant white piqué collar, big hip- sashes, swirling akiris. one-layer chison gloves to matob chiffon dresses.

AFTER 5 p.m. Gayest Idens: scooped uut necklines filled in with ince, raffin toplesa bodices bordered with ivy leat geraniums, pleated chiffon or mixed spring flowers Belts are in mixed patent and suede.

EVENING

Sleek hair styles to set of Jutting-out hiplines, fan-shaped sweeps of material. Impressive hip drapes. Bodices stitched aver with mixed spring flowers, sprays of mimoza or Elles-of-the- valley.

COLOURS

COATS

Soft pastel wouls, white dreama. belgo, Kroy, miracza yellow, black and white check, tur quelse ined. Find face, transparent shantungs,

Led Dimy red

binck plaid organsa tiny check tweed.

SUITS

Puppytooth check twoods, wool-and-shan- tung mux, heavy No ellk. Colours 1 Faded tangerine (last year's vivid orange laundered), soft melon caramel.

black-and ginger. Alloplash colours aro out,

DAYDRESSES Chiltons in soft floral designa apotted

organzas. Tailoreds in `metallic shades-newler, creamy coffee, grey. Nowest materini: Pinė- fringed shantung.

AFTER 5 p.m. Inkspalted shantung, melon taffeta, bleached sailor navy, Splash shades are out.

EVENING

Jersey tops to match huge net skirts, white plqać broderie anglaise, grey-and-gold Jame smoky Uloc ta silk, heavy cinnamon satin.

Robb

Designers whose collections Pro- vided Robb with material for this chart include Hardy Amics. Norman Hartnell, Digby Morton, Victor Stiebel.

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Mary Brooks Picken

A Coverall Play Smock-To Keep Little

Girls Neat and Tidy

CHILDREN like to dress up-

bul when dressed up, they cio not like to have to foregu play for fear of smiling a good dress.

This smock is perfect when the little lady is ready and waiting xo visiting or waiting for company at home but insists un playing until guests arrive.

Good also for point and putty- dabbing, since it protects and stili coks attractive. Ideal os a gift.

You need, in 36" width fabric -muslin, or plain percale, col- Lon, or broadcloth-two lengths shoulder to hem less 4"; 1⁄4yd. of colourful plaid of check for trimming.

Straighten fabric. Fold in hal lengthwise. A is at half-way point in length. Measure from collar-bone at back neck down over shoulder to wrist for shoulder and sleeve length, then fold fabric so selvage is this same measurement above A. Directly above A is B.

A Straight Line

C is armhole plus 2 to left of A. Chalk a line straight above C to selvage, Measure in from C on this line, 4 cheat plus 2" for

underarm same us front. Slash centre back fold 6" from I to J for back neck opening.

From pluid or check fabric, cut off 2 pockets, making them 6 by 4*. Finish top of each pocket with a 2" bias band. Turn in 3 edges" and stitch pockets to position.

-{London Express Service)

Cooking on a ring?

Then try these

bachelors and Career girls, are faced with the problem of cooking on one gas ring or an electric hotplate. It takes ingenulty, but many delicious meals can be prepared.

MANY housewives these days, besides

All the really interesting egg dishes scrambled, omelettes and steamed souffles-are 'ring- cooked.' So are steamed sh with delicious sauces, mussels

by

(done in several ways), fried HELEN BURKE

Ash, fish fritters and fish cakes of all kinds. And there is no better way of cooking herrings than gently poaching them.

There are a dozen corned-beef recipes and, provided he can get Anely ground steak, not even the best cho needs more than a cooking ring for hamburgers.

One of my favourite dishes, Steak Diane, is cooked in a frying-pan and so is liver, which best cooked this way: Cover the

thin slices with boiling water,

Leave for a few minutes, then

Into rounds or leave in one plece. Rub a little saltless fat over well-heated frying pan, the griddle or the "inner hotplate, Bake on this until the undersides are pale brown. Turn and cook the other sides, then,

for good measure, give thein another turn. Split, butter and. cat at once.

SCOTCH PANCAKES

drain and slowly fry them in a RUB a good walnut of mar-

mere smear of fat. Kidneys, loo devilled, curried or with rich mushroom or

Madere sauce-are ring-cooked.

Incidentally, the one-ring cook would do well to invest in

to extend pressure pan-both her "repertoire" and to econo misc in fuel. Further, with a pressure pan, there is no dim- arm, drawing line straight out fabric in true blas strips 14 culty in keeping food hot.

D.

Els chest plus 4" above F.

True Blas Strips

Connect D and E. Curve under- Cut remaining plaid or check

wide.

to selvage as diagram shows.

Stitch these together, Gis neck to left of A. % using 1/4" scams. Press all neck plus 11⁄2" above A is H. Iscams open.

TEA-BREADS

are

1s 1" to right of A. Chalk neck- French-team underarms, clip-VOU can even bake scones or fine curves and cut out neckline. ping first seam around curves. I other tea-breads on a ring Gather neck and bottom of Rounding Underarm

or plate. First, heat slowly and sleeves.

thoroughly whatever, you Round comer. E and cut to- Bind all edges with the blas, going to use a griddfo (girdle), ward D, rounding underarm......irst back neck opening then thick frying pan or the griller then cut up to selvage. Cut along neckline, extending blas 5" at hotplate of your full-sized selvage to B.

top on each side to use for ties.

electric cooker (this at "me- Finish bottom of smock and dium,"

turning it to "low") sleeves the same.

while you get on with the mix- ing of the scones or cakes,

Here are some of my favou rites, most of which are best eaten hot:

Fold front over back on line A-B, and cut back sleeve and

B

Selvage

collar bone

to Wrist + 2"

1/4 Breast Front +12"

GAI

Back 06

MEASURING FAT

THIS RECIPE

GAYS AV5 CUPFUL OF FAT, HOW ON EARTH

DO YOU MEASURE

IT?

WELL, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH A CUPFUL OF THE FAT WEIGHS. THIS IS THE WAY TO DO

FILL

THE CUP 2/3 FULL

WITH COLD WATER

ADD THE

"SINGIN' HINNIES” THESE are so rich that they

"sing" about it as they bak. Rub (but not too finely) 4oz. lard or hard and butter into 8oz. self-raising flour and a pinch of

garine into two teacups plain Bourr sifted with a tea spoon cream of tartar, tea- bicarbonate of soda, and a spoon pinch of salt. Add a tablespoon

of castor sugar. Stir in one eg beaten with a

thespoon golden and leas syrup

4 pint milk. Add a few drops lemon cesence, Drop dessertspoons or table.

to the spoons on

greased hol surface, turn with a palette knife as soon as the undersides are warm brown, and do the other sides. Pass butter with these.

POTATO SCONES

RVE together 3oz. self-raising flour and 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, Rub 2oz. butter or margarine into thom. Rub lb. cooked meaty potatoes through the slove and work the flour mix-n ture into them. Roll out in.

use thick, cut into rounds and bake both sides on the greased sur- face (8-10 minutes in all). Split, spread with butter and

eat as soon as possible.

SYRUP SULTANA SCONES

aalt. Add, if you like, 4oz. DUB an ounce of butter late cleaned currants and just enough 1416. self-raising

milk to make a stiff dough. Roll out to in. thick and either out

THEN POUR OFF

THE

WATER

AND

YOU HAVE

THEN

FAT BY

DEGREES UNTIL THE WATER FILLS THE

CUP

3 CUP

FAT LEFT

flour, altted with 4 teaspoon

Baid, Work In a tablespoon golden

NOW

WHY DIDN'T

I THINK OF THAT?

AS A MATTER

OF FACT, A CUPFUL OF BUTTER, MARG OR COOKING FAT WEIGHS BOZ, BUT MEASUREMENTS UKE YS OF A CUP ARE AWKWARD TO. WEIGH?

1

syrup, 2oz. cleaned sultanas end enough milk (about 1⁄2 cup) to make a soit dough. Roll out to in. thick, cut into rounds and bake as above.

MAX

CRUMPETS.

"IX oz. bakers' yeast with a little topid milk and water, taken from a scalded pint. When well mixed, add the remaining liquid and stir in 1lb. plain flour to which has been added a tea spoon salt and a pinch of bicar- bonate of soda. Beat very well for 5-6 minutes, then put in a warm enough place, covered, to rise for just under an hour. Beat again.

Pince greased crumpet ringe on a well-greased moderately heated griddle or large frying- pan and fill them 4 inch deep with the batter. Bake until the bubbles which form are then remove the rings, turn the crumpets, bubbled sides down, and finish of the cooking.

Eet,

-(London Express Service)

Three-plece Smartness-

By VERA WINSTON

SHOWN, here, is a suit for winter wear that is really. dress and jacket and detach- Tho able tape of navy wool. dress is smartly simple, really basic design, with a high, round neckline. and long, slim slcoves that are loose ul the The underarm for comfort. Jacket is also aimple, handled on clamic lines, with's sleeve,

that, while alim, allows for the dress, «leave underneath. Both

'worn

-jacket and/or dress can be with tho soal collared cape, adding ́ ́up toƐa. smart enecmble.

little

Household Hints

To keep a gardenla corsage fresh, place a piece of wet cot- ton over the flower, then put it in the corsage box or a jar in your refrigerator,

Chromium will stay shiny and amooth it washed with hot water and coap, rinsed and polished with a dry, soft cloth.

Rayon upholstery fabrics should be dusted or brushed weekly and vacuuined at least once a month. "Soapless" Inthers are very effective for washing such upholstery. Follow Instruc- made from a synthetic detergent, tions on container. Thick suds such as you use in your washing a good machine, will also do job. Use as much suds and as

ttle liquid as possible.

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