1958-04-05 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958.

PRACTICAL

Every husband a

ONE of the things men do better than women is cooking good food. But most cooking is, of neces- rity, done by women. To spread the art of the chef

week-end

more widely in the British under the instruction of one of

I had brought the equipment with which I had been told to parade:--

HOMECRAFT

The bed with

cook foghorn...

Cut them into an. lengths, and wash and reason them.

Next, in another deep covered Trying pan, melt some butter

to be furt about ready. That

firm, but means

cooked-li through.

Pour all the Juice, including and put in a few more small what you glared the onions in onions and carrots and shallots. through a trainer into a bowl. When you have got them all Now put the cels, and the blta swimmy after a minute or two of carrel, ele, into your dish, Three pounds of live cels (in (but NOT quite trying), pul and keep warm, a bucket), lb, small onions, into this same trying pan the

lb.

Slosh it all email mushrooms,

Pour the juice back into the some sections of eels. thallots, parsley, thyme, bay- about.

frying pan and boil it flat out until it has halt boiled away. leaf, lemon, one garlic, minia

Stir furioso, tere battle of cheap brandy,

of London, chefs Nuest the home, we launch a cam-

Monsieur Aspinte Laplonche paigni

more hus- of the Savoy. to get bands into the kitcheni, And what better time than the week-end? The cam- paign will be conducted by a man who until now has ventured beyond boiling eggs. This is not just a cookery course, þut a nothing-ventured - nothing- lost report that no wife can afford

never

allow

to

her

husband to

ignore:--

by

TOM STACEY

BEEN RIGHT

AT SAMPL.

ING STAGE,

I

HAVE just

cooked Matelote d'Anguille Maconnaise. This wildly exotic dish is eels done up in a French way such as will astound guests.

I

IT'S JUST ONE OF THE MANY DEVICES WITH WHICH MR DINE HELPS AMERICANS TO GET TO SLEEP

NEW YORK.

the built-in

Q

ANNE SHARPLEY

reports from NEW YORK

hookah.

chromium

By my side was my "Beduca- tion kit" ear plugs, eyeshickin and snore-stopper. (There Arc three kinds of more-stoppers-- one, a rubber ball which fastens to the back of the pyjama cost to prevent sleeping on the back; two, a gnoro mask to keep the mouth closed; and three, a buzzer put under the snorer's gentle pillow, which with "buzzing tells the morer to turn My Fort of simple sleep,

over.)

having necessarily fed in the free of all these mechanical A printed notice assured me alde there were JOHN FOSTER DULLES wanted a folding sleeping.

plenty of board to bring Spartan conformity to his world that "Security palliatives"-like devices to help me enjoy my scattered couches. Orson Welles desired a bed big a personal Rism to panic in- smoke with my robot cigarette- enough to "roam in." And Eugene O'Neill Insisted that truders, an instant vigil lamp to holder, a licked up

light up whenever I might sit version of the bed for him must "guarantee sweet dreams with up startled and an instant fire Or my bed-specs with pris-

whispering signal were protecting my happy endings." So they all consulted a

peace of mind. dormouse of a man called "America's public sandman,"

If I required to make use of His name is Norman Dine At a touch from ᄆ button

my subconscious b. buller, small packet plali

the only man in New York who from Mr Dine it has undulated

to learn a language, for Mix into the hulee your flour nur, French bread (narrow

likes his shop to be considered smoothly into a bed. A gentle stance, there was the automall- feel Arm and butter mixture, squeeze in soporific. He has the cels

the largest pulsation from an electric motor cally time-set memory gauge), hall a bottle of cheap WHEN

the chair tackled my This does (after a few minutes) pour your lemon, and put in a little collection of sleep-Inducing gam- Inside Macon (red win).

which would drone out my

Or it my growing conviction of browning and another dollop of bits ever assembled, good half-lumibler"

und for five people,

the "Jangled Insomniatic nerves."

homework while I slept. brandy, stand back, strike

that I would never sleep again a butter.

most telling evidence

the of

VISUAL BALM match, pul the match to

was justified, I could always My "polite alarm clock" was the brandy, and smother

When it is all looking our nervy tweak that has got into

US. slumbering. the ex-

Another snap of a switch and set to wake me with gentle reach for a "relieve your heart plosion

with the lid of this smelling terrife, pour it all over your cela, Dust the chopped

A fragrant scent of pine,, com- chimes or my favourite radio Pillow." a frilly, heart-shaped frying pan, Cooking is, fan,

bined with the muffled droning programme. Or if I woke be- moisture-resistant pillow. secure in the knowledge that It is Mr Then pour in your half-bottle parsley on the top, and prop the

of a foghorn started up from Mr forehand and was too lazy to

Dine's View that "pent up of Macon.

tum my head there Put in your thyms croutons round the edge...

Dine's "Lullapine." and bayleaf (not too much).

not be GUY You have

Facing me was Mr Dine's Ingenious magle lantern which emotions should Congratulations and some of your parsley tied now cooked Motelote d'Anguille

"visual balm" section, a reloxer dashed the face of a clock on to Pressed. They should be health- up in a lite bundle. The Maconnalse, Whether you eat

lamp with a revolving shade of the celling at a press of a re- fully released." liquid should now be covering it, is not for me to say.

mate control switch. swimming tropleal fish design. your eels, and bubbling merrily.

do not normally lite If yo」 eels, the following Matelote will Convert you.

A good way to start is to drink &

the brandy. little of This is at neistance in killing the cels. Only the VETY freshest cels make nice cating.

Live ccla bite. They are naturally very slippery. Have no mercy with your eels.

in a

Skim

In spite of the lid on your | Take them by surprise with a frying pan, you also put on a veth, holding them just below piece of butter-smeared grease- the neck. Ignore the wriggling, proat paper, cut in a round with hole in tho,middle (fold it sharp knife, but leave a little like a child's dart to cut it). Lay it on top of the boiling mixture. bit of skin al the back.

This is to trap the hot steam. Skim the scum the while.

the throat with a

very

SIN the skin a few inches around the Adam's apple area, Then, gripping hold of the head, must be admitted that when proceed to skin the cel by pull

wing with all your strength.

created this heure t

He uses-

Vaseline

KRANO

a

Now squash a piece of garlle the size of an orange plo by bashing it under a knife with Put in the garlic. Put the point of your very your fist. sharp knife obliquely into the Skim the while. cel's Tummy bullon and all Now you make the croutons. upwards. Then vigorously Little rounds of buttered bread scrape out the innards. Leave lightly fried under the grill. nothing nasty Inside at all,

Now snip off with scissors the tail und any odd bits of Sn.

Now you begin COOKING.

Just peel

Chop the parsley.

.

Only the very vigilant get out of his shop still awake or with out having slept once on the way. "Just sit down here for a moment," he says, indicating a blameless-looking armchair. Unwarily one alts.

London girls fall for

THE SHORT SKIRT

Mrs Green,

Uiin. Ko the lient bridge, John Cream, of Knights-

TP, up, up go bem-

ning tour of London streets the other day I found many Trin the mushrooms (umb-pretty girls out shopping nail size), and pop them in with with their skirts chopped the glazing onions. Alter about five minutes, strain a little juice nearly at the knee.

"All the Italian girls are the shorter skirts,” said MARIE ACHILLINI,

from the cels into the onions

xi mushrooms, A few minutes) cook the onions, more and they are done par wearing M. Laplanche, says "glare" faitement, which is NOT TOO themi, What you would call MUCH.

HAIR CREAM FIRST YOU

uf

Holborn, just back from doing

new spring hat in a charming outat of lise and grey wool.

e turned the hem up three

inches only the other day." she sald, felt positively dowdy with the old skirt-length. My new spring clothes are going to ba shorter still-right to the kner."

PRETTY SHOES

GIRL who likes the shorter for that

a small onion he would eðli a In your warm serving-dish, on interpreter's job in Rome.

length, "because it shows big union, Throw away any make a bed of the onions and She had turned up her loose-

look #reen jersey jumper suit off pretty shoes," was MAR-

of Earl's well groomed look! onions bigger than your thumb- tutishrooms.

nail, or just peel away big Prepare a mixture of four 2in., but admitted she hadn't GARET HEDDLE

to her winter Court, onions to Laplanche-size, You and softened butler (about yet got round

COAT

She works in a big store, want about 40 for five people, three dessert spoonfuls of each).

-found Marie buying spring which makes ber fashion- Glazing onions, means frying Keep this handy,

daffodils for her home. "I just conselous. Her choice for 2 them incredibly slowly in

love the new butter, with

short style," she bunny, chilly spring day was a told me.

"It makes one look sapphire blue coat, with black and feel so much younger,”

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salt

and sugar

addled, in a covered frying pan.

It should be half an hour be-

fore they are ready.

Terrific

Meanwhile, les anguilles (the IT is now about 15 minutes

eel).

Don't they look awful.

since you did anything (bar skim) to the ceis. They ought

Practicality Stressed

In Home Furnishings

By ELEANOR ROSS

TN spite of the sumptuous least

that are displayed, home catch furnishing shows

ticality.

that it

have novelting that

Something that is sure

to the homemaker's eye is prac- the chest or bureau with drawer plastic that just No matter how interiors of

need to be wiped clean. The

handsome 11 sofa or rounded comers raake light Lable is, store buyers want work of this. chore. Drawer to know if it can be kept fronts, of course, are made of clean with a minimum of wood.

effort, for that's what the Many koutes are chowing shopper will ask when she integrated chests, shelves, racks, goes looking for furniture cabinets and drop-front storage

boxen.

o matter what the price.

At one showroom, we admired the exquisite silken sheen of

STORAGE WALL

the upholstery on a particulor Armed with measurements sofa. However, we discovered and an idea of the pieces re- that it wasn't silk at all, but a quired, one can purchase a synthelle that could be kept whole storage wall, which does Jooking new and colourful with not have to be built in. Once The aid of a damp cloth. This it meant an expensive jobs, in- was also rue of the "fur" stalling custom made units, but fobrics and velvets that turned this storage wall is an improve- out to be pretty pretenders. ment over the ok. The pieces

ore krag or placed between Comfort is an Important con- free-standing metal or wooden sideration in both design and frames and "give an effect_that_ construction of the new pleces. Foam rubber cushioning is used is so smart as it is efficient. extensively. Some pieces have Headboards, too, are designed plump, doep, soft own-filled for greater conffort. backs. Many cofan

One has a thick pad of foam and casy chairs have very low bases that rubber which makes qn, excel- almost reach the floor.

lent back rest for those

As for design, there's nothing like to rood in bed.

especially new. Easy, graceful

ities and 'a lack of gingerbread mark all

designs, whether

period or contemporary.

After a

FOLDING BED

who

A demendant of the old fold-

long absence, the ing bed is one that looks like a oldeboard. Pulling down the

bod

vanity table is again a popular sideboard-type front reveals a bedroom plece. So, too, is the comfortable foam-rubber blanket chest. Today's wome welcomes both.

BRAND-NEW PIECE

complete with reading lights. This is particularly useful when space is at a premium.

Many, tables have extending tops and are made to be used There is ond brand-new plece, ki the dining area of a living however. It's a bedroom break- room. As for theocensional fast tablo, a low, wedge-shope table, it is still with us, but the type with two stools that side, new variety is functional rather under it. Buyers selected at than just decorativo.

accessories

and American T-

MARIE ACHILLINI (centre)

"I look and feel so much younger."

MRS JOHN GREEN (above) "My new spring clothes are going to be shorter still... fight to the kace.”

-and soon you, too, will

be reaching for your

scissors, says

EILEEN ASCROFT··

strap shoes with spindle heels.

Two inches came off all her skirts recently, but she is con- templating another inch. "I like to adopt the new fashions gradually,"

ONE

A MODEL GIRL

NE girl who simply hated the short skirts at Arst and vowed she wouldn't follow the fashion was JILL FENGILLEY, of Holland Park

But Jill is a model gizi and all the other girls were doing it, followed mult." Slie has shortened her complete wardrobe by three inches, sometimes four inches,

Now, the has got used-to-the-- new length, she loves it.

With her blue fuffy coat and neutral accessories she carried intriguing outsize wicker

an

bag.

"It is the new model girl craze," sho explained.

bought mine in Berwick market. It holds everything we need and has entirely replaced the old beauty case"

DOWDY.

IT is true to say on my tour I found far more longer skirts

JILL PENGILLEY

"I followed the other

giris

matie Jenses would enable me to read white fat on my back. I could contemplate which of my neighbours should

receive during spir Dine's "colourtally printed

in". cards,

each M whimsically rhymed plea against neighbour- trinery noises from pels to parties."

was art

-(London Exzprass Service),

MARGARET HEDDLE. "I like to adopt the new fashions carefully.”

than chort.

But now that I am used to the more fashionable shorter length, I found them dowdy and old-fashioned.

Have YOU chopped you skirts Feil You

may swear

today you are not going to make a change. But welt just a few weeks! You will be seeing so many shorter hema around, you will give in eventually and reach for the sclssoTS.

-(London Express Service),

Co-Education Bunk?

"CO-EDUCATION & bank and boys ought to be taught by

'men," When this view was put to the Canadian Con- ference on Education in Ottawa, when i was in Canada _inst week, by hir Tom Nye, a former school trustee, it caused

quite a storm,

"Women teachers," Mr Nye went on, "cannot teach the manliness necessary to equip a boy for this tough world." And he argued that co-education encouraged "Momism,”

The women teachers in his audience may have been incensed, but i thought Me Nye had a point. Look what te happening present in American co-educational schODİR. Stories arrive every day of police called to schools, teenagers out of control and assaulis on teachers and fellow pupils,

THE OPPOSITE SEX

Much of this can surely be attributed to the natural streak of exhibitionism engendered by the presence of the opposite sex. Mixing boys and girls is their studies not only talces their minds of their work, but tends to soften up the boys and make the girls aware too early of their charms,

A teacher's job is not merelý brata cramming, trut character-building as well. And this is done only by example, Boys receive quite enough feminine influence at home. At school they need masculine example and control, That's my view, What do YOU think?

IN SWITZERLAND

At another small shop I

Is there anything quite so

mouth-watering as the smell spotted another delicacy-a

of

to

freshly cooked breed? sliverside of beef lightly smoked, Nothing, surely-unless it is the then hung in the open air crusty cracide of it under one's dry. fingers.

"Absolutely a speciality of the Compare all this with

the town," says M. Bczzola, pleasure" of opening the paper hotelier, of bluden fleisch,

It is

our

round our finbby, steam-baked white loat,

How sad to think that, so silees cut so thin that one could.

served, uncosited-in few of our children know tie read a newspaper through them. scent of an old-fashioned bake It is delicious, especially

with

house. I find fi irresistible,, :

Here are top displays half a dozen varieties of roll ranging from spongo-light and soft to

!crusty,

gherkins.

Could we do this in England

I wondered. "Ah, no,"

Monsieur Bozzola aid, "the flesh must hang in the dear air. In England thore sto too many meecrobes.

I linger at the door like the kids in the gravy, od..

"And soon we shall export Armed with a German- it," he added hopefully. "Here, English

and thero in a man dictionary

who is now weights and measures table, I doing this beef the quick why begged the chef for a recipe for by machinery," petita prins,

How long, I wondered, before With a reckleseneas that only ruy tile bakehouse is swopt Mcs Bouton could rival. It begant away on 'a lide of progres-and “Tako lib, of butter.". Can any- steam-baked broad

one give me a simple practical

recipet

-YERONICA" PAPWORTH