1958-05-17 — Page 9

Let's Eat

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Once Lowly Prune Now

In Elegant Desserts

NEAR the top of the dish. Top with whipped potato.

social ladder for foods Brush with stands the once humble margarine, prune.

...

Triumphant when Forved stuffed as a confection, it is elegant as D party pic and

melted butter ar Firown in a hot oven. Garnish with a border of cooked green beans,

TRICK OF THE CHEF

"nightcap" when riced, skinles frankfurters 10

can reconstituted

clainly in the form of prune stow for dessert. It is also a Anuthing

Add 1 e tomato juica-und 2

botiled prune Jutee is haken 1 (1044-092.) or buzzed with two-thirds the minestrone.

THREE DELICIOUS ways to use prunes: Pruna Snow withi Cinnamon Custard Sauce, Prune Milk "Nightcap" and ple

quantity of whole or skimmed milk and serves iced or heated.

All measuremente ara levet; recipes proportioned to zero to

Glamour Prune Farty Ple: Line a D-in, pie plate with American pie pastry. Dust the bottom with 1 tsp. Bne dry bread crumbs.

or

The Filling: Beat 3 eggS slightly. Mix in 4 c. sugar, c. dark corn syrup, 1⁄2 tsp. salt,

melted butler margarine, 2 isp, grated lemon Tind and 2 tbsp. temon juice. Add 2 e. diced plumped "pilled" prunes.

Transfer to the pie plate. Dust with 4 e. chopped walnut

or pecan meals.

Bake 10 min. in a hot oven. 423 F. Reduce the heat; con- 1inue buking at 375 F. about 35 min. more. Cover with aluminum felt it browning too EGON. Cool.

Garnish with whale prunes.

Prune Show: Add 1 envelope unflavoured elatine to 4 c.. cold water and stir, Stir in 1 g. bolling water; stir until the

gelatine dissolves.

Add .... sugar, 1⁄4 tsp. salt,

1 tsp. grated lemon rind and

1⁄4 lemon juice. Chill until

slightly thickened.

Beat until foamy. Add 2/3

e. chopped enaked prune pulp. stik. Whip 3 egg whites Gradually beut in c. sugar, Fold into the prune mixture. Pour into a mould or bowl, Re- frigerate 4 hrs, or until Arm enough to unmould.

Serve with custord sauce.

TODAY'S_DINNER

Grapefruit

Chicken Fricassco with Biscuit Topping Mashed Turnip Parned Now Potatoes Tomato-Lettuce Salad

Prune Snow Custard Sauce Coffee Tea Milk Debut! Open Fish Potato Ple: The secret of its goodness? The sauce or gravy, made with fish broth.

TOMORROW'S DINNER

Minestronc Pickles. Radishes

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Will they all stare at YOU

on the beach this summer?

BLUBBER is for Eskimos For bench

out. A pretty face can be an asset, but men won't even see your, face

"You scet

the trick. We've outlined three

1 saw. "But are you, still 100 calories to

Ort spare. You'it ving

Yummy lettuce nted them to ward off between leavea. and dime-sized ham- meals starvation pangs. Have burgers?" half, a grapeftult, or

The newly excavated, øyes apple or carrot in Tate disappeared behind that bir morning. Have a tomato or a Gaynor grin,

the

FOLLOW THIS meals, and you've still got abuit until they've weighed up the rest of the DIET FOR 90 gituution, That slow, speculative look.

DAYS—AND travels from the neck down or ankles up- a shudder at any and can stop short with point in between.

Though the coy creatures won't admit it, the same goes for women. Just watch them. They aren't from the nun-they're always shading their eyes.

casting covertly admiring Blanges at the V-shaped, bronzed feguards.

It's primitive. It's unfair. But it's chemistry

cup of tea in the afternoon, and "No, thank goodness. No.

THEN YOU until your stomach stops fighting Note i eat anything everything.

ARE A SYLPH

of beaches, and nothing con stop the che sou by DEE WELLS

can be ready for t

Tallow melis at 127 degrees. That's hot. Even sunny California doc't get that hot, "How then," I asked Mitzi Gaynor, "did you do it?" The sprig ly, gamin star of South Pacife glanced down at her new size 10 self, and laughed.

"I was fat. Ooh, really, fat. I weighed 130lb. Nimely days later I weighed 115. How did it melt?

I'll tell you.

And here it is. The 30-day wonder course exactly as Mitzi Gaynor follow-' ed. It's not easy, she admits. But it works If you work at it.

Start now. Suck to it. By summer

covered a multitude of bulges,

but

salt, pepper, (Why pepper? Because it stimulates your taste buds, makes you feel hungrier. that's why.} Wine, spirits, sweetened fruit juices.

that "Take all

away what's left bealdes berries, and seaweed?"

For filling.....

Mital.

back you

If I'm can even havo à But here's the secret: yoghurt or a cup of hot, skim eating out I don't eat all of any- milk at bedtime.

thing... If I'm at home I give "And bedtime is early. You.myself smaller servings. have to have a lot of sleep or

"What's your most favourite fatigue will ruin the whole plan.

10 hours a night, and used thing to eat?"

to catch a half-hour's rest in

the afternoon too."

Take a look.....

DEPRESSED? I was. It sound Died so gloomily austere that and ruots, even as I chewed morosely on a Inatchstick, I began to wonder how many calories it had.

reassures

. J

Here I expected the axotle. Oyatere Rockafeller. Eggs Bene- dict, chicken and mushrooms in cream sauce.

"But how did you stand 17. You like to eat. You said so."

In

But she fooled me,

Her best

OPAGHETTI! I dream about it. I invent recipes for Here's my best one: "Melt a big-lump of butter,

"I love to cat.. But three add some carraway seeds, and you'll be a sylph. Winter's sack dresses DLENTY'S left"

«PLENTY'S

things help you live through It. let them sizzle a bit. Then toss halt lb, of mushrooms, not "All the high. First, get a full-length mirror hammy haunches and Rubensesque protein foods: fish (non-olly), and take a good look every Pour in a good sized glass of cut up, and sautee them. Lightly. expanses of extra flesh can't be camou- chicken, lean meat, cheese and week or so. Your clothes get daged in summer.

eggs. For filling up loosely bigger, you get smaller, and you dry vermouth, and let it summer slowly. Now, lake some clams Mital Gaynor's diet was specially planned by speaking there's vegetables, red heiter. Next, weigh your doctors at the famous Mayo Clinte. And a ruthless, salad, and fruit,

self every morning and always doesn't matter-chop them up --fresh, trozen, or tinned, it spartan, ascetic, pleasure-denying diet It Is. But it does keep you healthy-If not happy-on a maxi- mum of only 850 calories a day.

The list of forbidden foods makes the Garden of Eden sound like a greedy gourmands' get-together. Absolutely never to pass your lips are: Bread. rice, spaghetti, zweets, pastries, butter, salad dress Ings to squeeze of lemon juice excepted), SAICOS, Loups (except clear broth), whole milk, cream, sugar, (potatoes, butter, beans, etc.). starchy vegetables

AFTER THE TREATMENT

Mal Garner (the ourrent 1151b. version) after, the treatment. In 90 days she lost Slat. How to stay ilko

that T She's of the 850 calorie diet now and eats what she likes, but not quite so, much of it,

THE NEW FAIR LADIES

. are you

TWO weeks ago saw the London opening of My Fair Two

Lady the most ballyhooed musical of the decade. When Its influence on fashion has been tremendous. Cecil Beaton sat down at his drawing board to design the costumes he never guessed he was sparking off a fashion revolution. But his Edwardian dresses, with a brand

one

What one fair lady picked

for the show.

Fish Potato Fle Green Beans Peaches in Raspberry Gelatin Coffee Too Mujk Fish Pelaio, Plet, Cover 1 The.. Arh leta, fresh or frozen, with boiling waler, Add 1 tsp.

art. Simmer 10 min, or mursilt tho Ash looks flaky. Drain.

LABMTON, Angle-ength art. A drape of Save the liquid. Flake the fan RB TEDDY

wife of the Irish racehorse Paler chinon fell across the skirt. coarse.

make the Bance: Moit 2 tbsp. trainer, had a truly My Fair to the hem. "All my evening butter or margarine. Bir in a Lady looks, for the first night of drosses pre Inspired by My Fair tbsp flour, tap, colery salt, the show. She was wearing a Lady," shid Mrs Lambton; "It'

4 tap. powdered dilltop. lock volimn of a dress kalik quite the prettiest look for pepper and 1⁄2 tsp onion juice, chitton try Baranin with more evening now."

Blow-stir in 1 milk and then a hint of Chell Beatou

With 1 be had ropt

de Loud: When bolling about itLori

In two alinden of mužér pink, pearls, and ado, awaKÉZŐ. inant Tranzitor to an It was strapless with a finely, ha, pocketba

Balding Jucked Lodlie abd Darrow shoes, and evening, tag.

of them?

new look, influenced designers in Italy, Paris, New York and London. To him we owe the way the smart girls like to look today, with their pointed-toe shoes, dangling benda and short bouffant hairstyles. Are YOU one of the Beaton Fair Ladies? Test your up-to-the-minute fashion sense with these questions, then check with the score card below:

Are your new shoes slim and pointed, with 11 Louis heels?

Is your hairstyle short and bouffant, not reaching below the ears, with a wispy fringet

3 Have you brought out your

Have you got a draped or pleated chiffon blouse to partner your new suit?

Does your evening bag havo a small glit chain handle?

Do you wear a bandeau round your hair to match

your cocktail dress?

Have you fallen for a frothy

chandeller earrings for even- 9. tulle toque, trimmed with

ing or wear rows and rows of benda or pearls dangling almoat 'violets or roses?

to the waisit

10 your summer lingerie of

fine lawn threaded with

Is your summer evening lace and ribbons? dress of pastel foaling chit-

fon or draped sailn, with silk 11 Do you pln a vosy of spring

pumps dyed to match?

Is your spring hat a "sailor" or a "Boater" perched on the

back of the head?

flowers at the waistline of your party dress?

Hove you adopted a flowery negligee for lounging even ings at home?

NOW CHECK YOUR SCORÉ

12 Yesen..

You're definitely one of London's new Fair Ladies. Cecil Beaton would be proud of you. 6 Yeses and over .. You've gut a feeling for current fashion, but don't follow t too slavishly,. 3 Yesca and over... Just enough fashion pointers

In your wardrobe to give tɩ a new look. Under 3 Yeses... Borry, you don't come into the Fair Lady brigade.

NEW FROM HER HEAD

TO HER TOES-

་ .

YOUTHFUL and Haltering to wispy forehead fringe she wałe

all ages are the hairstyles at the opening, Inspired by Eliza Doolittle...... This soft ocxt pretty style Here is Julie Andrews, with simply cries out for jewelled the high-dressed chignon and decoration. Julle crowns her. chignon with.. this fragile coronot of gold leaves studded with pearls.

CHOES from the show are

strictly Paul Poiret cre with

thick, squat heels and ornately jewelled.

But their fiduence can al- rendy be seen comlar, into our shoe shops, with the very point- cu loc, the lower walled. Louis wheel, and the jewelled evening

ona of Julie Andrews's.

which Zoek. Into the

As the

Just before "A day's menu goes like this on the same scales, of course, you can vary it to weight goes down, your courage and put them in.

And then, best of all, serving, add a half pint of sour keep your palate from atrophy- goes up. Hug completely, but this is what walt Ull your friends notice the cream, and stir it all up, Ladlo difference and start saying it over the spaghetti, and there

you are, It is really good.” I usually had:...

pretty things. That's terrific.

*This eyes had disappeared "For breakfast a half grape-

erairy. She was deep in a happy two soft-boiled or

spaghetti dream. I jolted her fruit and panched look lost on a plate, so put them eggs. Fooched SEKS

back to the diet. on a piece of unbuttered foast- but don't eat it. One cup of tra or coffee-ne sugar or mitic. I douan't sound much, but it adds up to 190 calories. And, re- member, the day has only begun.

"For lunch have half a small boiled chicken....

"But chicken costs the earth

here."

'I have eyės“

OR Instance. At a party, after I'd started to moll, friend came up to Jock, my husband, and usked: Who's had cycain

"Jack

WHE

"Honestly now, just between two spaghetti lovers, was that 90 days worth it?”

She didn't even have to think...... The smile and the enthusiastic nod were obviously genuine.

"YUS. he thought

But I had help... My kidding Aw, come on, you husband went on it with me and know Mitz!,"

we Jpt each other offnat.””.

And that,

my mind, "But he wasn't kidding. He qualifies Jack-Bean as the top- twok a big double take and said: keeded contender for the title Time Most Sym- pathetic Husband.

"Well, then, a small piece of But she's got eyes. Milzi never or the All tean grilled meat. Or 4oz. of had ever! # cottage cheese. And with it a

caw tomato-and a lot of lettuce maybe a quarter of a head. And one cup of coffee with...." "No

I finished it for her.

sugar or milk."

That's right, None." "Ugh."

"That's right. Ugh.. Now, so far you've ysed up only about 410 calories. So what do

you do dive into a big baked potato at dinner? You do not. You have 4oz. of minced beef, bamburger-grliled, and a gener- ous helping of green vegetabis. And splurge a bit, have another, And tomato and lettuce salad,

a cup of coffee-stili no sugar or milk,"

must "Naturally. By now you De getting used to that parti- cular taste thrill,"

You are. You get used to a lot in this 90 days. But here's

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Of red and white striped terry cloth, it la cut Kimono style and sashod in black or red colton. It can

so won without the minh for quick after bith duty'; with mkalų ir rukkan 'a lelinger to be proud of.

to

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