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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953.

PRACTICAL

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN'

A ZIPPY SAUCE IS A "MUST"

Cordially Invited that are dry, that

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NOT WITH

Air-wick

Amazing discovery kills smells of cooking, drains, lavatories, disinfectants

IR-WICK is Dew. It works in a

A cover up melle

but to destroy them in the air. You simply unscrew the cap, pull up the wick and put the bottle on a high shelf. As Ale-wick evaporates, unwanted Indoor smells disappear like magic. Alt-wick contains chlorophyll, the wonderful substance that keeps all growing plants fresh and green. It doom indoors what nature docs outdoors-- keeps the sit constantly mfreshed.

Ūm All-wick all over the house, wherever you want fresh, well-free Atrbosphere. Air-wick la indispensable, too, in clubs, hotels, offices and hospitals.

Air-wick

It's the wick that

does the trick!

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TOYS OF QUALITY

MECCANO for banding the modris of Franes, bridges, wagoni," etc.

⚫ HORNDY

CLOCKWORK TRAINS, strongly made for long service. HORNBY-DUBLO ELECTRIC TRAINS for perfect table railways,

ΤΟΣΗ, DINKY

the frrevistibla miniatures of popular road vehicles,

MADE IK INGLAND

Oktolacida et

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cream.

"Me, Mnd they or until

TANY foods taste so the custard. Refrigerate 4 hrs.. Jirm. Uninould and plain or whipped have no appetite appeal, arve with declared the Chef. It is Tomorrow's Dinnor for these foods, or for those Pickled Egg Salad Hoia d'Oeuvres

3-Layer Salmon Casserole a good Hauce is what you call *a Baked Butternut Squash

Buked Tomatoes not must. By this, I do mean plain white sauce, which in my opinion belongs in nursery meals, but zippy sauce, with verve and flair."

will

'

Fresh

Fruit Cup Ginger Snaps

Coffee Tea Milk.

All Mesurements Are Level

Recipes Serve Four to S

Pickled Egg Salad Hor

d'Ocuvres

“I

HOMECRAFT

OWN

MAKING YOUR OWN CUSHIONS FOR RELAXATION

By SHIRLEY LOWE

WANT cushions, cushions everywhere," cried TV stor Heleno Cordet, with a wave

of her arm towards the couches and chairs in her Bayswater flat. "They are so relaxing!"

It seemed strange to find England's most sitting cosily at glamorous French woman home making cushions.

"Not at all," she said. "Sewing is so rest- ful." Then, with a cry of triumph: "See, I have finished another one."

A

She held aloft tiny, bolster-shaped cushion, covered in a gay, yellow print.

They're so different

I THINK it is worth while telling you about Helene Cordet's cushions because they

Allow sliced pickled hard-differ in every respect from the large, puffy cooked ezs per person. Arrange brocade, or slippery satin variety we are used in lettuce ncats. Surround with to. small round slices of fresh to- mato put together sandwich-

They are the new ache-casing cushions in

your back, beneath your elbow, or behind your head.

"But every homemaker can't be a 'saueter, Chef. She hasn't the knowledge or the time)"

"She may not be a trained 'saucior, Madame, but she can learn how to make many sauces. fashion with sauce tartare. Gar- tiny shapes that fit snugly into the small of

"Par example, if the Indies high with watercress,

and few hours only spend a

"ccok studying the

books they will get many fine Ideas. And of course, with your permission, will occasionally include my own

recipes special sauce

in this

Dinner

| column."

Minced Spinach Soup Chopped Beef Patties de Luxe Crisp Corneal Squares Coffee Sponge Cream

and

Coffee Tea Mik

All Measurements Are Level, Reciper Servo our to sle`

Chopped Boof Pattios do

Luxe

Pickled Eggs

These will keep in the plékle

They are covered in bright for several days. To 2 c. white vinegar add 1 tsp. mixed pickling cotton prints. And not only are

comfortable - 'you epice, 1 stices peeled medium-they sized lemon, 2 tbsp. sugar, and 1 make them yourself as a isp. salt. Simmer 8 min.

sonable price.

Meantime hard-ccok 8 10 12 eggs and remove the shells. Place in a qt. jar. Strain over the ho: vinegar, Cover and refrigerate several hours before using.

rea-

Chocce trem a heart shape, circular but- a tiny bolster on or a kidney cushion.

Material required for eaVET- 3-Layer Salmon Cassarolo Ing one pair of cushions is five- Cut b. string beans in 1 in. eighths of a yard of 48!n, fabric, lengths: cook with a

little as well as one-quarter of

of contrasting

coloured browned minced onion until a yard most done. Transfer to a shallow fabric for your piping.

3 pt. casserole. Cover with a layer You will need two yards

Cover

with 1

♫

of

Put 1 lb, chopped raw beef through the grinder twice. Mix of 3 c. flaky cooked rice. Top piping cont and a piping foot with a spoon until very smooth, with the contents 1 (16 oz.) tinto it your machine. Shape Into 8 thin patties.

salmon naked Into bite-sized

You can buy ready-made Dip 8 rounds unpeeled

egg pleces. Pour in the liquid from

eushion pads Alled with kapok. plant in beaten egg and crumbs the tin.

to make until tender. Saule or fry

C. sharp But you may prefer

in which case broil the chopped beef patties as. Danish sauce, bake 30 min. in a your own puds

of pure will need lb. usual, nishing with

nille moderate oven, 350 F., or until you

thoroughly heated and lightly kapok for a pair of cushions. browned. Serve garnished with

II you are making your parsley,

cushion to L ready-made shape, cut out your material to the size of the pad, leaving half an inch all round for tummings

10

melted butter or margarine.

To arrange, put an egg plant round on each plate. Top with 3 thin slices seasoned fresh to- On each of these place a beel pattle. Top with a spoon- iul

horse-

أن

Sourca

(ream

radish sauce. Garnish each plate with lettuce and sileed pickle,

Coffee Sponge Cream

Measure 1 c. leitover break- fast cuffce into a double-boiler. Add the contents 1 envelope un- Hlavoured gelatin. 2/3 c. milk and 1/3 c, sugar, Heat in the double-boller, sår occasionally.

Separate 2 eggs; beat whites stiff and the yolks creamy. Add 1/3 c. additional sugar to the yolks. together with 1⁄4 tsp. salt ond 4 tsp. vanilla. Stir into

the

Sharp Danish Sauce

Make 1-2/3 c. mdium-thick white sauce. To this add 2 tbsp. inayonnals, 1 tsp. lemon juice r not, und 3 dashes tabaseo.

speelfestions.

your

zizani

4300

Remember to leave a 3in. wide strip for the border of the cushion, the length of the autside edge of the cut fabric.

In stripes

cut strips OR your plong,

1in. wide on the crows. making V at each end

a

STTID

of

Jula e strips together, the V's ntting uto each other diagram 11 and press opos to form a long strip.

Place the piping cord in the centre of the strip, folding over half-inch turn allow to Own

(diagram 2).

DINING

AUXILIARY

IN SMART

NEW YORK.

A

SPACE

SETTING

& & COMFORT

TV star Helene Cordet relaxes at home..

3

on

Fix piping foot to the biki sew along the machine groove where the card ends.

Bin. border for the ends, - and there is a piped join down one side of the cushion,

Now the HEAD CUSHION (6 support your head as you leau against a chair or couch. It is walted at the centre, whh a weighted strip hanging over tho back of the chair to keep your cushion in place.

of

You will need one yard material, piping cord, half a lo. of kapok and Zozs. of small shut weight.

Machine Оле edge. of the Cut your materiai Info two pipod mutertal on to the right sides about 20ins, long, 13ina. side of one piece of cut fabric, wide at the ends, and Bins, wide and at the end of the muteriai at the centre waist. These an fit the piping ends in the same meusurements allow half way as when you were making inch turning all round. Leave a the piping-ent to end (dia- 3in. strip, 33ins. long for the Oranı 3).

support.

Same way

Now machine one cut edge of the border into the sane gcuve keeping a Win, tartung. MAKE your head cushion by Place the cut. shape on top so AVI the some method as the doing that you can follow the line of contemporary cushions,

away with the barder und sew- the stitching,

Ing the piping on to one side of Edne-stitch the fabric, sew the fabric.

through border, piping..

ing turnings. and cut fabric keep the ends from fraying.

Tu

Now repeat this with the other piece of cut fabric, and the other side of the border.

J

When you sow it up, leave of the #2. gap at one side waist, through which you stuff- your kapok.

Now bend the long strip into two and hem it down each side. Leave a 2in. space for filling Turn it right side out and push with kapok, or a 14in, epaes if the 2ozs, of small shot weight you have to push your cushion into the base. Form the weight. pad inside.

into a bag by packing it lightly and machining it off two or For the CICULAR BUTTON three times. Fit the end of the By ELEANOR ROSS had been placed in a bay win-

cushion you will need 10. Erw dow flanked with tall pottery two buttons an very firmly, strip into the 2in. gap at waist

and sew firmly in. the hot mixture. Cook, stirringπRAY meals for television

foliage ind meeting in the middle. constantly,

The head cushion cannot slip until it conts the fans, conservation of Space is so valuable that we jars containing

The TINY BOLSTER cushion the weight keeps it balanced, spoon. Pour into the beaten cas space because of high costs certainly can't afford, nor would flowers for an airy, informal. whites.

Is made the same way, except it locks nitractive, and it is tho for huse 6 good-sized custard of building and land, the we like to have, a room that is but decidedly rimart setting.

in use-but-a few hours a day. cups with cold water. Pour in trend toward a more casual, so we

Yet another modern dining that you need two circular must practical invention tor arrange furniture

pieces of material instead of a comiort since the armchaft, less formal mode of living- gracious or informal dining, and room made wonderful these

some of

the give the room plenty of storage strong colour. A hendrame tble Better Housekeeping reasons given for the demise space to take care of its use as that had seen better days look sewing room, a study place, on new life with the use pi May Reduce Sneezes of the dining room.

an extra sitting room.

white enamel and a black glass But just the same, the

dining top. The ladder-back Smart Sots Iever victims would dining room isn't quite dend

chairs had been treated to the suffer less if they were better vet. In fact, it is slowly re- Useful in this setting is the white palut, too. and foam

Huy

Carbondale, IL.

are

use of

house-keepers, according to an turning to life, despite all table that extends to iske care rubber cushions were covered

Inols botanist.

11linols University said hay fever

be caused by moulds that float builders, not to mention in the air.

corators, plus a survey Kaplan said such moulds grow recent

new suburban and reproduce in damp closeta

HOUSEHOLD

paper

HINTS

Running hot

water over

cold shortening will prevent the blade from clogging.

Repairing a hole in a Bimney Clean fine crevices in carved curtain is casy If you first furniture with an orange stick cover the iole with white wrapped with cotton. of added place settings, as well with tomato red plastle with paper and stitch back and forth Dr Leo Kaplan of Southern the reasons advocated for as a small table and set of chairs white

of through the paper. When the fringe.

in curtain is washed, the is caused princtually by ragweed relegating it to the past. A for one or two place sellings, white with small design and other plants but it also can talk with architects and Wrought iron and glass is used tomato red, white walls and the dissolves and the stitching re- mixer blades before surring up

for many of there auxiliary sel de- and very handsome the new replace done over in gleaming mains.

new black, added up to an extreme- of designs are, too, just as good de Indoors as on porch or veranda. ly handsome

We saw

such a set smartly flavour all its own. and basements, behind wood-velopments, found the dining

used in remodelled dining

R and in overstuffed furni-room stilll-in favour.

room. It Was placed against a large, permittel auxillary in the juice, then sprinkle cup vinegar and one-half cup tured He said

old with salt and dry the garment water in a bottle. Shake it up danger

True, it isn't the formal, con- wall that had been papered in dining space. For this, at

well, apply with a soft cloth; a handsome design of mould-

simulating table was cleverly redone. Be-in strong sunlight. of yesteryear, brick, with espali гост

follow up with a dry, clean caused sniffling can be reduced ventional

da pench espoliered

cause it was round, it was de-, by keeping the home clean and just us today's meals aren't the

of cided to give it a slipcover over dry, and he admonished that heavy, stodgy affairs they used trees and a bottom border "furniture should be dusted and to be. The new dining room is Bowering shrubs. Looked rugs vacuumed frequently." an airy, bright room, n United Press.

with a great many uses.

Work

room

#

room with 1

Lemon juice and salt usually

To clean enamelled wood- will remove" rust stains from

first work, mix one cup kerosene, cue quite clothing, Seok the stains

Since the

room

WOR

a

•

•

one.

for skirt of white felt, edged with Moving pastry from pastry all the world Uke a terrace, and tomato red fringe and topped Board to ple plate is simplified To remove mildew from the wrought-iren dining pot with plate glass. Ice cream]it you roll úe dough around linen, soak the article in kero- helped carry out the illusion, parlour chairs went nicely with the rolling pin and then unroll sens for two days, then wash In another room, a similar set this.

on the plate.

well and rinse thoroughly,

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PREPARES

with right

Wequipment for an im-

She knows her business.

MISS MAKE-UP'

THE TOUR

FOR

By ANNE, SCOTT-JAMES

back to tho Palace as in the morning when she left.

This new assignment le just as complicated. "For she has to produce make-ups for many and morning to give the Queen a different dresses in a range of

Coronation

Australia and New

and quick treatment and to make colours.

ED

She is a charming woman

·herelf-with a skin that is quilo son a testimonial for her methods. Fale-haired, pink-checked, soft voiced, she looks the most feminine thing you know

portant Job: Thelma Hol-

She knows the`rayal roule......... Coronation. She went to the land, Beauty Adviser to the Australian bom Mrs Holland Palace before 7 on Queen, who is working right has travelled over, across now on the cosmetics the around Queen will take on the royal Zealand by plane, troth tour.

boat-there's hardly a acetion of her up, using one of the smooth the re

route she doesn't know. She liquid foundations that last understands the special climatic long. fler seven-year-old she has for many years been problems; will provide against went with her by speelat Invita- a director of an English the age of strong and ton of the Queen,

trying winds on the Queen's beauty firm-and underline delicate, truly English skin, For days before she had en English, for so many of the

She has advised the Queen testing colours' in, the Abbey, big beauty firms are She knows, the problems of a under, the alm and television for some time now, and” given American born. Has lec Queen, to whom all eyes tum. Jights.

her regular treatment. I'm suro tured, studied beauty before and

She has had the responsibility

gothie dotail of the: royal-arrange... same rough, Everyone commented on the ment will be at perfect as it can methods, given treatment, triumphantly. She advised, the Queen's beauty, and bloomberg Ar all over the world, and Wes Queen on her cosmetics for the fresh on the afternoon drive

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