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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1857.

PRACTICAL

The Flight from the Kitchen

PICTURE BY ALAN BOYD

And it's the at-ease look for hostesses

THE SKEWER SCRAMBLE is beuting the barbecue FOR THE GIRL IN THE

beano. Tired of those burbecue parties where debs and their delights dripped round a dropping charcoal grill

in the great rainy season, the London hostess is doing BED-SITTER OR BIG

her grilling indoors, and making her guests help in the same way that they did in the pouring rain.

Richard Lonsdale-Hands, industrial designer who has only just finished decorating his London penthouse, told

me:-

"I predict that the old type of hostess who roasted away in the kitchen shout- ing to her guests in the sitting-room will vanish completely.

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Here are six recipes from clx skewer for different countries. scrambles.

Swiss Style

TAMMENTHAL BROCHETTES:

PARTY-GIVERS

-IT'S THE THEME NOW

THE NEW LOOK that goes with the new informal entertaining. A beautifully cut pair of slacks and a really simple shirt. No more high mahogany tables and big stuffed chairs. Instead, low coffee tables and low lounge- about seats. Wool chequer-board pants cost 6 guineas. The shirt, in fine creamy, Irish tweed

with a and leaded

fine gold stripe, costs

£5 15a. 6d.

"Elther the hostess-cook will Have two thin veal escallops cook in her dining-room on one beaten 03 thin as possible. of those new electric prills, of Spread them with a thin layer zako the kitchen her dining- of iinned liver pale and a good pinch of white pepper room. Personally, we cook In sprinkle with salt and grated, and a level teaspoon of salt. our studio."

cheese. Gruyeré s perfect, but mousetrap will do.

cx-

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Taking the place of the pensive steaks and whole char- coaled chickens are the skewers

HOMECRAFT

STRIPED DOLMAN JERSEY

oza.

MATERIALS: 4 Bairns-Wear Scotch Knit- ting or Ghillio, Fingering 3-ply in a Dark Shade and 4 (5, 6) ozs. in a light shade. A pair of No. 10 and a pair of No. 12 knitting needles.

MEASUREMENTS: To At 32/33, 34/36 or 37/38 inch bust Length from shoulder 21%; 22, 22% inches.

TENSION: 71% sta. to one inch in width on No. 10 needles.

ABBREVIATIONS: K., knit; p., puri; st., stitch; tog.. to rether:

t.b.b. through the back of the loopa; ine., Increase or in- creasing: dec., decrease or decreasing: гер. repeat; patt., pattern; cont., con- tinue; beg., beginning; foll, following: rem, remain D., Dark Wool; L., Light Wool:

NOTE: The instructions are given for the smallest size; the figures in brackets refer to the medium and largest size, respectively.

BACK

Cast on 125 (133, 141) sts. with No. 12 nedies and D.

wool,

1st row: K2. p., k., rep. from" to the East st, EL

Zad row: 1, p.1, k.1, rep. from to the end of the row.

Rep these two rows for 14 (2, 2) inches, ending with the 1st row.

Next row: K. 13 (13, 15). * 2 tog, k18 (19, 20) repeat from to the Inst 13 (15, 18) sts, ka tog., k.l1 (13, 14). 118 (127, 134) sts.

Chango to No. 18 needles. 1st row: Knit

2nd row: K.1, purl to the last

st, k.1.

Rep. Int and 2nd rows three times more.

Join in L and work 2 rows slocking st. in L. Break off L. World 2 rows storicog st. lu D.

13th row: Using D, k8 (10, 12) (2 tog, thi, k10) twice, hund and kept hot, tightly 2 tog. th, 19 (23; 27) covered, for ages.

Continue cooking at least Cook lb. unwashed Italian

minutes another 30

until rice in 4oz. butter in or

a thick saucepan until a turna parent without colouring.

Roll up the escallops ughtly prunes are tender, fish them out and leave for at least an hour of the syrup, sill and stone them with their cheaper and spley skewered in position. Remove carefully without breaking. (ie

they succulent leads-a perfect boon skewers, cut in inch-wide slices over-cooked,

may dis- to the busy cook and the girl Swiss-rol fashion,, taim. each integrate, so be watchful.) with a bed-sit, and IL baby piece in seasoned flour.

Fast-boll the syrup to reduce cooker. They can all be pre-

Thread the pleces on skewers to half the quantlly, which

rooms. Brush all over with

k.2 tog, (k.10, k2 tog.) twice, k.8 (10, 12).

Work 11 rows in D.

25th row: Using D.. 8 (10, 12) (ka tog. tbl., k.17) twice,

Work 4 rows L. casting on

14 sts. at the end of each row.

285 (293, 301) sto

2

Work 12 more rows L, with-

work shaping, then out rows in D. 2

Bronk off D. and work 28 rows in L., ending. (32, 36) with a purl row. Shoulder and Neck Shaping:

(Work in L. throughout)

Cast off 15 (17, 19) sts. evenly at her, of each of the next

TOWE,

Cast of 12 sts, at beg each of the next 3 rows.

or

8th row: Cast off 12 sts., p.58 k.2 tog. tbl., k17 (31, 25) k.2 cast off 61 sts, evenly but not Have ready at least a pint of tog.. (17, 2 tog) twien, k.8 tightly, p.57, ki.

Continue on the last 58 sts. yeal bone stock or chicken-cube (10, 12). bouillon, Pour a little on the Work 1 row D., 4 rows L. as follows:--

8th row: Cost off 7 sts, knit rice, then add a pinch of saffron, and & rows D. Continue adding liquid a little 37th row: Using D., ks (10, to the last 3 ats., 12 tog, th.l, pared before and coolsed easily alternately with button mush should be about a teacupful. at a time and continue cooking, 12), (k2 tog, tbl., 10) twice, k

10th row: K1, p. tog. tbl. tightly covered. Add more k.2 tog. t.bil.. k.15, (19, 23) k.2 stock

as the rice absorbs it, tog. (k16, k2 tog.) twice, B Burl to the last st, kelu until fully tender.

(10, 12). 101 (109, 117) Kis,

Rep. 8th and 10th rows twice, then 0th row once. Worle 7 rows D. Work 6 rown Le, inc. one st. at euch end of the 1st and 51: rows.

sprinkle very

at the time.

Stuff the prunes with chopped Skewers are cheap, and it is melted butter,

almonds, thrend on better to get the proper kind. lightly with paprika, and gril sulted

with the alternately The free meat skewer is not for about 10 minutes, turning skewers good enough.

several times,

brushing slices of lamb. Brush well with with more melted butter.

the prune myrup, and grill for Serve with hot bread rolls, about 10 minutes, turning the butter, and endive salud.

bladed

You can get the dat kind for ild. euch, or the long Italian

with wooden ones hanelles for 12s. 6d. set of half a dozen. Always of the skwwers before grilling.

Naturally all the recipes given below are for real barbecuing if you

and

Turkish Style

EDAB

skewers once.

French Style

side.

TOWS

10th row: K., puri to last t, kl.

2nd. rat: Ki, purl to the last ting (every row knit) until the

neatly. t, 1. Rep. lat and 2nd rowa band measures 37 ins. Cast off

qnce.

5th row: Cast off 12 sta, mit Sleevebanda: (Both alike) to the end of row.

Cost 7 st. with D. on No. 12 6th row: Kil, purl to the last needles and work in plain knit- st., EI. Rep. 5th and 0th rows ding until the band is loug

enough to fit all round sleeve.

опса,

8th row: Cast off 7 315, kalt to end of row.

10th row: K., purl to the last st. k..

Rep. 9th and

10th:

TOW'S

́s

edge, Cart off neatly. To Make Up:

Pin out each piece to the alzo required, following the shapings

times, Cast of the rem. 9, s. carefully to give the correct with a hot Join in the wool at the neck outline, and press

damp cloth. Scw iron, över up the shoulder seams, then sew up the side and sleeve feams, Sew on the slive bands. Sew &nda on the neckthand, leaving

and work the other side of the reversing neck to correspond, the shapings. Neckband:

Cast. 7 sts. with D. on No. 12 to tie at the side front. Press. needles and work in plain knit- al seams carefully.

Make mine minestrone

the -AND THE THICKER THE BETTER, says

17th row: Cast off 7 sta.. knit to the end of the row.

Rep. 18th and 17th rows once. Cast on the rem, 9 sts. Join in

M

HELEN BURKE

Gently cook two chopped on onion in an тапсе of butter. Add, if you

In

to-

IZIDNEYS A LA BROCHETTE; Work 12 rows D inc. one Serve with a big green salad Skin eight English lamb'e at euch end of the 3rd, 7th and lots of watercress, outside kidneys, slice them

two-thirds 11th rows.

the wool at the neck edge of INESTRONE in one of crisp lettuce leaves, raw spinach open through the round

Work & rows L., Inc. one st. the rem. 58 sts, and wort the leaves, all well washed and Parboil about a pouse of small at each end of the 3rd and 7th other side of the neck to corres- the most satisfying shallots and MUSTAPHA: Have drained-and with plain, fluffy white onions.

soups for chilly days ahead. have them, a few bacon rinds. the "eyes" of meat boned boiled Patnu rice.

Work 10 rows D., Inc, one at, pond, reversing all shopings.

It can be s thin as you Waric in I dcarcrtspoon of can do it. But don't try out from abeut u dozen toy This is cooked until tender in putting skewer through

Skewer the kidnrys open (by at each end of the 3rd and 7th

FRONT

like, but it is much better flour and cook for A tew. them out in the sitting-room cutlets of lub. Cook b

both rows.

like nearly mastes of quickly bolling salted halves)

the French minutes. when, with charcoal, You might peunes in water until

threaded alternately Work 10 rows I, inc. one st. strained, westled with all

teneup quests tender, add

brown water, then

the onions Brush

Work exactly as given for the Garbure, it is thick enough the at each end of the ist, 5th, 7th anaesthetise

your

another pat, cools with melted sugar, two tablespoons vinegar, with fresh boiling water through food with the fumes.

butter, and 0th rows, 127 (135, 143) back as far as ***

on gether four or Avo siloed a sieve, und dried spread on a sprinkle with salt and pepper. Ists.

Break oft D. and work 11 (15,to serve as a main dish shallow over-proof dish in the Grill for

It only takes 30 medium-sized potatoes, Ilb. aboul 10 minutes, Work 3 rows D., Inc. ane st, 19). rows in L, ending with its own.

chopped tomatoes, a tenspoon of mildest of oven temperatures,

brushing on more butter when at each end of the 1st, 3rd, 511 knit row.

minutes to prepare.

sugar, a tablespoon of tomato you turn the skewers.

and 7th row,

Neck Shaping: (Work in L.

For four to Ave cervings, purce and water to cover, Cook Micunwhile stice a long, that each end of the 1st, 3rd, 5th

Work 12 rows L, inc. one st. woot throughout).

chop two to 3oz. of fat green until the potatoes are soft, Add Next row: K.1, p.110 (123, bacon and simmer it to extract French lond diagonally

to the diallot-onion • mixture, 7th, 8th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 127) cast off 45 sts. evenly but the SWEET 'N SOUR SKEWERS: lightly toast the slices.

12th rows.

not tightly, 10 (123,

127). Make up about a teacup of When the kidneys are done,

Work 6 rows D., Inc, one st. k.1. French dressing. and marinate · dab a pat of parsley butter into at each end of every row.

Work 15 rows in I, on the in it for half-hour 6oz. of raw the hollow of each half, und Work 8 rows L, inc, one st. last 120 (124, 120) sts., der, one gammon cut into dice (one thick serve the skewers on the toasted fat each end of every row. 181 st, at the neck edge in every alice may be enough) and a lea- French bread.

(109, 107) sts.

Tow. 105 (100, 113) EL. cup af small pineapple cubes.

Work 6 more rows L, casting Next row: K1, purl to Wrap each cube in a strip of

on 4 519, very neatly at the end Inst st., Ic.l. of each row.

Work 4 rows D., casting on 6

Keep A Medicine Chest American Style

By HILARY WENTWORTH

TN these days when all

doctors have cars

IN

and

there is a telephone either in the house or just around the corner, the old-fashioned medicine-chest, once found in every middle-class home,

is not so frequently seen.

On

aro

many

1. Never mensure in the dark.

medicine

2. Read the label three times tinned red pimento, and sewer Moorish Style

--before removing the alternately with the diced bottle from the shelf, gammon. before pouring medicine, and after pouring the medicine.

The

MARRAKESH

und

on sis. at the end of each row.

KERAB Melton tablespoon of butter 11 quaai Mako up Д with two tablespoons of pine, marinade of olive oil, vinegar, apple juice, brush over the food, salt, pepper, and mustard, just

Ebout medicine and grill for

seven like Franch dressing. But out YOU PAY FOR while you are listening or minutes, turning once. speaking to anyone.

3. Never

the

pour

diluted with a little

the pinch of sugar and put in a level teaspoon of ground ginger

A home without a medicine- dependent cliest is

Use the sput from the instead. ductor for nearly everything,

The contents of the medicine marinade minor and there nichaps, especially where there chest will be decided largely more pineapple juice as a dress-

wslett The by individual choice, but there ing for a tossed green are children, for

summoning of a doctor 1s

of his time and Waste money.

lettuce

are several items which are

Icaut your either essential or at

salad

1

Italian Style

highly desirable. These items should be divided into three Since every home has a few categories Burgicul supplies, bottles of medicine, patent or stock medicines and otherwise, lying around some- medicines.

where, it is a good plan to put

the

thinner, wide siripa about four

long.

Shoulder Shaping":

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fat. Add a chopped together with a bay leaf, good-sized onion and a minced spray of parsley and, when you clove of grito then, tra the can get it; one of chervil or following order, add two To bnail. If you wish, you can also three sliced carrote, a sliced add a bouillon cube. Season small white turnip, two to three well. sliced sticks of celery, two locks

the

well washed and cut into

1st row: Cast off 15 (17, 19) ats, knit to the end of the row.

THAT LIGHT

Don't brown

about There should be

13

hlanish rounds) and two to quart of liquid in all, Cover three skinned, descoded toma- and simmer, all gently together toes or one tablespoon tomato for 30 minutes. Rub through a zleve and, if necessary, add puree.

more water. Taste for season- Ing. At the 'Ipst minute, add a sumpli cardboard · bub of cream, but do not blend it completely in. Just skír it around to leava the soup slightly streaky.

Scotch broth!

OF

con lake. 15 tha Any of

CHARE these together over a low heat to coat them with By ELEANOR ROSS

the fat and to bring out - the lighting vegetable juices. Do not how. Have two thin escallops cut VEN the most conscien- Just recently, from a leg of lamb, beaten even E

unless ever, brown. them. If you have tious homemaker some engineers declared that and cut in half-inch-

lamps ro cleated regularly, planned this soup a day in ad-

add 40, haricot Inches times forgets that lamp the low of light is considerable.vance,

COTCH Broth butte: beans, soaked overnight S

place With shades and light bulbs re-

BIG LOSS

in water, drained and then classic soups on the Continent. Peel and slico a medium-sized quire cleaning, too!

gooked smitil they are just soft,

Well wash a neck of lumb onion in circles, separate the

'0 For instance, in single They add immeasurably to the doctor's Buy two

UAGLIETTE DI VITELLO: circies, and marinate with the A vorn can look pretty with

collected on light goodness of the soup.

(acrag) to get rid of any aplin Allot silces of strips of lamb in the

dressing freshly washed curtains, clean month, dust

Ado, too,

(Some cup of diced po- ters of bone

people Axtures can result in a loss of veal, have them beuten, very for half an hour.

ship-covers, shiny floor and an The lowest shelf can be ured thin, Marinate for half an hour

immaculate rug, but is it really 18 per cent of light. these in a proper medicine

pepper and salt to taste, Cover, beef) Cover with two quarts Proper lighting is more than lators, benty of hot water, and prefer to use a piece of la for aurgical supplies and with a handful of stoned black foil up the strips of meat and showing off to best advantage? just a glamour accent is any and let all boil gently together of water, bring the boil and chest and gradually expand the

should Include

roli

alternately of olives in two tablespoons of thread on skewers chest is until contents

the for 20 minutes, Finally add at akim. Add two tablespoons of When you're in adhesive tape. bandages, int, olive oil, blended with one with onion rings. Extrah. with

COLLECT DUST equipped lo meet all minor

a graduated medicine glass, an tablespoon vinegar,

icitchen, when the children are cup of thinly shredded cabbage washed barley, cover and sim- a crushed the marinade and grill emergencies,

oimce of broken mer for 11⁄2 hours. turning thermometer, clove of garlic and a pinch of about 10 minuter

so much on doing their homework, when and an We all spend eup, д

of the house

macaroni The oheat

ixed ye

spaghetti or should be

scissors, safely-pins, and some salt.

altewers whenever the onida attractive lighting ixtures und, the man

Add a diced carrot or two, a fancy-shaped amali, high on the wall well out of

current isn't puttering around ble workshop. ofthe moodness knows, clean white rago.

rings threaten to burn Suggestions

a finity. the reach of small children,

for the middlo shelf

Cut the veal into inch-wide Serve this with plain bolled exactly donated What we are the right amount of light is pastas, When they are cooked.. diced small turnip, and it should be kept locked.

strip round rice, or loding trips, wrap each

the soup is ready, Pane grated chopped good-sized onion antineptic ointment,

aalmple version of opt to farrei is that flcture essenua)

the white of two well-washed So at the sarvont to Lake Parmesan with the Minestrone. It is convenient and safe to liquid paraffin, boracic powder, an olive, with a tiny fragment Oriental Rice, Clean and chop and light bulbs collect dust-

lecks, out into rourula, Season keep the key on the top of the preparation for

G

hole roughly a handful of sultanas, which cuts down the light to that muday sponge and go over treating of grile pushed into the

to: taste. When the vegetables your light fixtures and bulba, left by the stone. burns,

bottle

dimmer gently for a few minuten an astonishing degree.

are cooked, the soup in ready it dona ramilarly We're always arging home. Gut. The top shelf can Thread on skewers alternately in butter seasoned with salt and

Wie be served. · Remove be used for doctor's medicines with tiny whole tomatoes, and pepper, and mix with the rice makers to take a tow tipe from you'll be getting your mancy's

mcat and keep it hot to serve brust with the marinade. Grill Just before serving,

industrial plants. They have werth out of your Imps-and #the- resources and

trained the current you're paying for... THIS in the best home-made with plain boiled potatoes. At

ever the last minute, sprinkle personnel to study

what in Even better than that, you'll a tomato soup have:

of freshly chopped reality are housekeeping opera be safeguarding that most met. In'ple of the potatoes, it tablespoon

is as smooth as velvet,

parsley over the soup. tions, on a gigantlo scala. pregious pomum @yon [ght?

chest and attached to it by a plece of string or chulz, IL 18

sheet

and

antiseptic.

of

a good plan to write or type out a list of rules for giving medicinu and paste the

Finally, mako sura that the turning skewers twice at least inside the door of the chest contents of pach battle, jar or during 10. ininutas, The rules should certainly in- tube are clearly indicated clude the following:-

the labels.

'on

Serve these with saffron rice, which can be prepared before.

Joy

Matthews

fort the

and

Tomato soup

any

to

and