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* THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, ́ 1956.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

BED CUSHION

MATERIALNI Conta Chain Mercer-Crochet No. 20 (20 Gran). 8 balls selected colour.

cushion. Milwards steel Crochet Hook No. 3. (Sinch workers could uso a No. 3 hook and tight workers a No. 2).

TENSION: 53 sps and 8 rown

1 in. (2.5 cm.).

MEASUREMENTS:

I aquaro 8 in. (20.3 cm.) approx.

ABBREVIATIONS: ch-chain; tr-trobto; sp-apuce : 2 ch, mis 2 ch or tr, tr into next ch or tr; blk-block=4 tr. plus 3 r for each additional bik In Kroup.

DIRECTIONS

Commence with 128 ch.

lah Now: i te inlo Bth ch from hook, (2 ch, miss 2 ch, tr into

A

noxt ch) 40 times (41 пра mado), 8 ch, turn.

2nd Bow: Miss first ir, i te into next ir (sp mude over ap), (2 tr into next sp,

into times (39 blka made next tr) over 30 sps), 2 ch, mis 2 ch, 1 ir into next ch (sp mada over Ap), 5 ch, turn.

3rd Row: 1 ap, 1 tr into each of next 3 te (blk made over bik), (2 ch, miss 2 tr, 1 tr into next tr) 37 times (87 aps made Over 37 biks), 1 blk, 1 sp, & ch, fuum.

Follow <liogram from 4th row to top.

Fasten off.

Make other 4 ploces the same

Mount crochet SQUATCR Cushion

as shown in illustra.

tion, and cut surplus nt back.

Damp and press,

DIAGRAM

material

Decorators Go Slow On Colour

By ELEANOR ROSS

combination green and pink, Tabica are ou yow

wood

Longer Life Where You Tread

men

—AND IT'S EASIER ON TȚIE POCKET

کھو

Last week Helen Burke took a look at a bachelor cooking the dinner. Today it is the turn of a bachelor girl.

"!

A SLAP-UP DINNER IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A WELL-PLANNED MEAL

Says JOCASTA INNES

London, water from the potatoes over the

fish,

THE only gadget my

kitchen stocks is a tin- "Now some buttered grease- proof paper. doar 10 cover opener, latest model. This them with, she ordered. in the one-utensil which an

chef unpretentious

like myself cannot do without,

Usually I enter my kitchen na rokuciasily on a prisoner step- ping into a punishment coll.

minimum

Actual cooling me try my Method involves five minutes' imprisonment be- tween wall and gas king.

The result

that when I found myacht landed unexpect odly with the preparation of a full-scale dignior party for Ave, I panicked ond

Helen rang Burko for advice.

Afbor

lot of argument

both sides, the manu we planned WIRA Avocado pear,

Solv Veronique

with

spinach and mashed potatoes, and fruit salad. This muttod Heber's Nons of a slap-up dinner an my frankly romlistic ideas of What Could Be Managed.

"But that's unimaginative, dear," Helen objected to my

suggestion of fruit salad.

my

"You

havont SCHO kitchen yet," I pointed out, over-rultar fanciful alternatives

1x¢ Chocolate Mutse and Pudding a la Reine,

When Helen finally bustled in on the night (1 allowed a full hour for preparations before the guests' arrival) she canızla mo Ittively wwwrapping two

Inex- packets of frozen plalce. perienced in the devilish ways of my local fishmonger I found, the other day, when I did my shopping, that he was closed and my Alots of fresh sole unob- tainable.

NO BONES?

The

*You can't mako Sole It is important, too, that you Veronique with frozen plake, should have R good underlay beneath your carpet. This will gin with you must have

said Hefen witheringly. "To be- save a great deal of unnecessary wear, besides giving a luxurious bones and skin to boll up for

bot. stock." feeling of thickness you can buy an underlay

underfoot.

& felt or in latex rubber. Old

carpeting or newspapers

don't make satisfactory aubstitutes will for an underlay, and you not'save money in the long-run by resorting to such devices.

WONDER how many when newlyweds have to and women learn to "give and take," to (especially women) have accustom themselves to one "aired their views" (both in another's foibles after the the ordinary initial rose-coloured bloom print and in way of conversation) on the of Romance has become FTER all the emphasis In me room, there is p hand-most difficult period that a little dinumed.

But I am

no newlywed. 1 am a veteran' of twenty years' standing, and in my own case i am beginning to feel that the most difficult days of marriage are at hand now. Not because I have any fault to find with the one who stood st the altar with me a score of years ago, for we are still a happy pair. Our affection for one another hasn't worn thin.

colour

any-

Most people seem to feel that the first year of mar. riage to the toating time,

Boden married couple has to face. and excitement about some colour in the home, it is

und mahogany. The number must be legion. Interesting to note that two There's a black and oyster-while cabinet and a handsome sofa of of the latest model room

black and creat striped satin exhibits go slow colour But 1 Vibrat and, in keeping with

the where subdued state of things, use simple window treatments. Į Neutral tones and whites and off-whites are favoured by one decorator. Where enlour is em ployed, she uses a sparingly but with excellent Judgment. Colours are used in paintings, in lamps. a part of the design a few throw rugs,

For the rest, the effect of neutral settings e pleasant and

certainly relaxing The mono-

INCLUDE

"SAMBEES" IN

HOLIDAY REFRESHMENTS

chromatic colony schemes oer- thinly do look new and differ- 66°CJOR ent For contrast, the decornfor

used darker weeds for the furnis

ture. most of it very good and attractive modern.

BEIGE

CURTAINS

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN

"FOR New Year's

petits fours with your new freshments, I suggest

beverage, the Sambee, Ma dame," remarked the Chef.

of

On the other hand, some

home furnishings in our have wom very thin Indeed.

号

When your carpet has lald, don't clean it too

been

thusiastically during the first few weeks of its life in your home. A gentle brushing from time to time is the best course of treatment in the early stages But don't worry it a wool pile carpet sheds some stray tufts or ends. for this is quite loose normal

Never tug out any luft that rises above the level of the ple. If it seems unsightly to you, trim it to the level of the pile with a pair of scissors.

After those first few weeks, run your vacuum cleaner over

onco the carpet

a week, mpre. A light brushing should

no

Then she relented. "Never mind" she said, "we'l Im.. provise. Never be afraid to improvise." And wo were off,

One short cut to large-senle" cooking without tears, A learn-

to od, la

work out a time schedule that Blow-cooking items (in my case the alrendy peeled potatoes) can be left on the boil while the next dish is prepared. Under Helen's watch- ful cye I seasoned with salt and pepper and

the fillets

ranged them in layere buttered oven dish,

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"This is where you shoxald have used fish stock as a bayo," Helen commented, pouring a cupful of white wine mixed with

Turban Hat

MATERIALS: 3 oza

re- To bring a "hosts" touch to

leomated the table, the Sambres might be the served in tail, footed glasses,

in pink, gold and and the cast of renewing them sulce for daily cleaning. In- charcoal grey.

18 bluing into Now Year's Day dinner should That's why I

cidentally, ensure this say that "A good choice, Chef." I be a bit glamorous, but still sub- twentieth year of partnership 1 sloping In its natural direction needles alzo 1.

leave the pile of Much admired Was a bod-

standal and fairly simple, for, not by any means the easiest after each cleaning. ting room with walls and agreed, "for both of them by the end of a wook of feasting,

one wo have known, Drac draw curtains psparkko with flavour. And appetites are usually jaded. pale belge, wall-to-wall carpet how gay they'd look ing sharp yellow. At the foot of the bed, a Moroccan type rug ranged on a table with

handseme

ar-

is in beige, yellow and white contrepiece of colourful bal- stripes,

loons, masks, confetti and Restful and rarely beautiful is a bedroom with walls com-

fringed New Year's horns." pletely covered with ad *x-

Sambees: Spoon 2 tbsp. quisite damask fabric in a neat mixed frozen fruits geometric design of beige while. The bed-eprend is of the frozen strawberries in the

Proxi

or

same fabric. For an original bottom of n ginas. Fin idea, there's a satiny beige mug with chilled orange juice. In front of the beautiful dress

Top with a scoop of lime

ing table that has a centre do ice and serve garnished with sign of four sculptured motits

the damask. taken from couple of handsome chests

lacquered in white.

Asprigs of fresh mint

Beautifully upholstered furni ture and woods of glowing colour in subdued settings make another exhibit noteworthy. The pieces are of the

traditional type, expert reproductions and adaptations of 18th century English, French and Italian. Directoire. The furniture has been brilliantly placed to show how well it is suited to modern -living.

MODERN FEELING Every soom boasts an antiquo chandelier and there is unually one painted pieco. · Yet the witale setting, has a modern feeling that is both elegant and. charming

What, we admired 80 much was the 'way chest!, buffets and tables were handled in the modern way- with: brosa, 'cane, marbie, alate, gilt or black lines or decorations.

Tho nowest shade of green in water featlone is the green of Inders, cloth and thig im "Ovči, Goo, in upholstery fabric colours.

New Year's Dinner Avocado Tomato Juice Cocktall

Beast Boof

Gravy

Whipped Potato Buttered Asparagus Blossom Sherbot Lady Fingers

Coffee

savings.

that the

you

Golden

carpet Eagle Chunkynit. One palc

To

At

think many who have been Manufacturers stross that car- married for a like oumber of pets should be kept free from years will probably agree that grit. I have also been warned the time when a home begins to against too much traffic' by look happy is the time

and when crepe-soled

rubber-soled husband anni wife might be shoes, and also shoes with metal excused for wearing a frown.

studs or heel-tips of course.

Which brings me to the new Bour-coverings wo bove just All Measurementa Ary Level Recipes Proportioned to serve 4 to 6 bought as the opening more in Blossom Sherbeti Use sherbet a campaign to restore our good- of throm different colours: lime, humour.

MEASUREMENTS: average hoad.

TENSION: 6 stitches and 81⁄2 rows to 2 square

inches over stocking stlich.

ABBREVIATIONS: K, knit; st(s),

P, purl; tog, together; #titch(); si-at., Stocking slich;

up, Repeat.

Tho predatory activities of

Cast on 56 sts. Work 2 rows, invet-life can

bo offset by ak.1, p.1 ribbing. Ka rows plain. cuco-n-year spraying of the

[Bih row: K. to the last 4 sts. of the

carpos Turn. of the

proprietary

in a doop sauce dish. raspberry and orange,

Arrange a small scoop of each the hardest-worked items with on

Carpets, of course, are just entire surface in the contents of a house. The fluids made for the purpose, font Door covering wo owned and containing DDT. were of good quality and served

Pass Indy fingers.

NEW YEAR's party refreshments litclude Sambozi," a fruited drisk made of frozen berties and fees and served in

footed!

Runen aro

recommended to

sih row: F. to the last 4 sts. Tum

thrawi K. to the last 6 sts.

da pretty well, but I realise now they could have served protect a carpet from constant | Turn.

u even better bod we taloon war on one particular ares. Sih row: P. to the last û sts. expert advice on how to treat in front of a Artplace, for in- | Turn.

stance.

to of

gih row: K. to end.

10th row: K.

them.

Rorrangement carpets, unle they are of the Here are some hints that have fitted variety, le another place been, given to me on how

good

advios, and will minimise

Repost from 6th to 10th rows - war and tear, and aquaise, the wear on them, In lengthen the life of a carpet. I the cases of the fitted carpeta Work & TOWN HI-RE * Inclusive, ones.. pass them on so that you, too, rearrangment of the furniture can prodt from them and got can often help in reckicing the the best value for your MONEY,

offees of tog'isich, 'trama", over inju A particular ke strip. Blaire Carpets" - nakæAILY, should be from. • to such (12, sta.). rearranged, at regular Intervals,

First of all it is important and never. allowed, to remain

· Mind · rows· K.

Strd row:

that your floors · should. ba in the one portiion so long that ** 25th_row::* K4, kia, tog.

mooth and leval. Loose or they become threadbare në the from badly-fitting boards are relente edges of, the treadi.? Lens enemies of a carpet Where one pecial point, Don't

neglect any part of a carpet

24th rowi P.

to end.. ruws P

to

28ih"rowi, K.

29th row!

they exist þanoath a carpet, the day-to-day pressure that comes from walking over them will that tray y be under a heavy from ultimately produce threadbare treated with the same carp weddio of haulpure. * Bén, that stripajarit

that you giye to the visbie Old tacks and nails in the arous, for in thon hidden Boor-boards must be removed, places dirt and dust will collect too. They can lead „to, darkened mundi i krisect-lite will thrived

from!

at a time, to the mashed pola- toos boating constantly oliminate amps and produce a detergent whitenom.

£

Tho queste had all arrived by I explained that greaseproof now and were chafing Impa- paper, aloog with wooden flently in the sitting-room.

"One last effort and it's done,” spoors, one-whisks and mixing bowls were the illo luxurico I said Helen with the eixourng- hadn't permitted myself. But ing air of a trainer coaxing a good chat is naver defeated. last spurt out of an expiring After a thorough inspection Channel-awimmer. of my waste bin, Helen emerged with a tiny scrap of crumpled greaseproof paper and slapped il, heavily disguised in butter, over the Allets which she set to cook at a moderate heat-4 on my cooker.

SPECIALISTS

The fruit salad came next, as it involved dicing up a melon, and should be allowed to stand so as to got the maximum Gavour from the druk. After adding

own hit-or-miss mixture of tinned guavas, malon and grapes to a base of ready- prepared fruit salad I gave it that professional touch with emalt battle of Cointreau.

好

A dozen grapes, which I was made to peel, were set aside to Kive the "Veronique" to my price.

*

Reassuring ourselves that the fish were not quite done ("They should bo opaque and fim") I turned my attention to mashing potatoes.

With all modesty

AN EFFORT

It was quite an effort. ined up all the accessories

We In

order of appearance. We drained all liquid from the fish, added and reduced uno oz. of butter, il to a syrup by simmering in

saucepan.

an open

"In case you are ever asked, ald this is called a fumes," Holen helpfully, pouring the fumce over the fish. I was allowed to arrange the grapes artistically round tho dish. which we pushed under the grill to brown.

The meal, which took one and a quarter hours to prepare and cost about £2 (for five people), vanished in under Ave minutes

per coursO.

But even allowing for the gross flattery of smack- ing lips and theatrical sighs, it was clear that there is no sub- stitute for a well-planned meal. properly cooked.

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And simply to forestall pro- tesis that anyone could do must explain that mashed pola with Helen Burke at their side. tocs

might aco my speciality. Even I

add that rudimentary cooks are valn us gastronomic triumph peacocks over their specialities, evening

A liberal amount of butter potatoes.

the

the

it

WTE the mashed

you remember,

and milk should be heeled Cooked separately and added, o trickle entirely by ma.

........VERDICT: BY HELEN BURKE....................

UNL

INLIKE Martus Fope, who cooks "by car" [December 18, Page 53 Jocasta Innes cooks by the book. And com- pared with the moat Marius served, her was almost teetotal to begin with.

Sho know the menu she wanted and why. Avocado pears because she likes them; Bole Veronique becameo is in her favourite diah (although her forgetfulness forend pa to

she'r 儡 use plaice in the end); fruit salad because

busy working girl, it is an easy dish.

Jocasta was out on timing and routine. For instance, sa the avocado pears came fires on the ment she wanted to preface them first, but quietly agreed when I pointed out they turned black when out and, therefore, are a last-minute Job.

She was a little sad to find there was no cream in my recipe for the fish. So I decided to add some and an egg. too. She beat three tablespoons' of oream with the whole ers (unorthodox, of course, but what would she do with one CRs white?), säded a little of the fish stock, turned the mixture into a small pan and warmed it over a low heat to thicken. the sauce alightly.

All of us voted the meal a great success. I have never saten better whipped potatoes. The coffee was first class. We never even thought of the missing sole.

Jlst row: K1@k2 tog, rep.

one strand, for sewing, then tie all strands, together, at „ono and

from to end.

ཡ

32nd row: P

Divide into 8, then proceed,

Brtok of and thread wool to blait tle pr bind and to through remaining 14 ata, Onaccine plait N

wrong side sow back seat from Pin this into posliion round

crown, ie ard ridge, the fasion odrs of hat; taking 心您。

Tako, anothe

(open

seum;

then all round puri

[of wool; [at" crown?" and:

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