1958-06-21 — Page 12

Pago--12

by Anne

Glidewell

THE MAN who said all wives could save a day a week by more ófficient working has proved it. He was challenged by Mrs Patricia Maddison, of Wol- verhampton.

study

Time-and-motion expert Kenneth Lindon. Travers has just spent a whole day with Mrs Mad- dison in her home, following her every chore with stop. watch.

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H Travers and his assis

BELOW: The time-and-motion study expert Lindon-Travors (contro) and sesistant Bill Port put the watch on Mrs. Patricia Meddison

12.17 p.m. Laid table.

wardrobe in the main bedroom, 12.30, Children home from a small brush cupboard under the stairs and a china cupboard school.

In the kitchen.

12:40. Dished up lunch, 1.30. Cleared fable.

Scampi Is Served In The Drawing

Room

[UIIS, week I have been lucky to find a woman who has some outstanding ideas on party-giving methods as well as good food.

Mrs Nurla Allason, wife of Lieut-Colonel' James H. Allason, the Conservative candidate for Hemel Hempstead, is a devoted cook.

In her busy life she still finds time to attend cookery und, demonstrations, tries out new ideas, chatiges

dishes to suit herself, then writes them in her large thumb-index book ag suit- able for parties.

I met Mrs Allason in the gracious pine panelled drawing-room of her beauti- ful early-Georgian house in Cheyne Walk."

HELEN BURKE

、

oven, besting the hom with white wine.

"Ike to serve my own ver-

en ef Cumberland sauce with tho ham. It is good, hot or cold."

Here is the recipe for the

sauce:

Put into a saucepan half cup "I do not want to appeur red-cuirant Jelly, half cup brown to be one of those grand sugar,, one tablespoon Worce- hostesses," "

she said, "hestershire sauce, one tablespoon cause I am not. I give in- good slock or meat extract, one tablespoon chopped blanched formal parties for from 10 almonds, a pinch of ground one tablespoon orange

to 35 people, where my clove.

peel in half-Inch shreds, the luler of one to two oranges and

guests help themselves-- but my parties are a little different. I serve the first course in the drawing- room."

"Isn't that a lot more work?" I asked. (The drawing-room la on the floor above the dining- room.)

Half lemon.*

Heat together until the jelly is melted. Add a glass of port.. Blend one teaspoon corniour with one tablespoon cold water, Stir info the sauce and boll up.

which is six inches too low for anyone Mrs Maddison's height (5ft. 234 in.). This caused her tant Bill Port created a day

unnecessary fatigue.

She walked a quarter of a "Not at all, because here 1 A Spanish dish Mra Alleson 19 of leisure for 31-year-old

"During the day

Mrs mile preparing lunch, 'a simple serve ruch things as fried fond of is paella, made from Mrs Maddison. The Mad-140. Played with Tony in Maddison spent 60 per cent of meal, simply because she kept scamp!, on sticks, with green rice, chicken and lobster. One But her disons live in a modern three garden.

utensils in 30 2.24. Washed up lunch things. her time in the kitchen.

many mayonnaise, or decent - sized Is enough for six to eight people. the kitchen layout with three different places. 2.40. Stoked up boller.

of smoked salmon, or squares

This is a wonderful party up and one down, easy to

wall run, semi-detached house. 2.45. Started ironing (four doors breaking up the

Clothes washing. Total time thrimp croquettes, also on sticks, dish," said Mrs Allison, I got the recipe from the cook of my shirts, six pairs of space is, frankly impossible.

31 minutes 51 seconds. It would so that all help themselves." Three children (Diana, 10, men's

It is something, these days, tu bostess on a visit to Spain. I pyjamos, seven pairs of pants, Christopher,

"Although Mrs Maddison. Is save time If larger batches were and

less

meet a Frequently Ove vests, two Lee chiris, six slim, she only just manages

woman who cooks sat in the kitchen and watched to washed Penny, six). go

enter every move she made. to school, pillowcases, 18

everything herself and handerehiets,

squeeze between the kitchen possible. come home for lunch,

Ironing.. Carried on for too one apron, one

table and toolbox to get at her Tony, three, Is home all day,

larder door. She badly needs long a period, which resulted in The house is half an hour from

some cupboards on the wall for Mrs Maddison slowing up by the nearest shopping centre, 20

storing dry goods and china and 20 per cent after 45 minutes. ininutes from the bas route.

a continuous working surface We suggest shorter sessions, Mrs Maddison copes with #

round one corner of her kitchen family wash for six without a

with more cupboards below. washing machine,

seven,

First the house was measured up and an exact scale plan made. Then, stop-watches and chorls At the ready,

experts shadowed Mrs Maddison at work for an eight-hour stretch. This was her routine:-

the

one. slip, towel, two tablecloths).

tea

4.0. Made. batch of buns and currant cake.

4.47. Tea break.

4.55. Started preparing chil dren's tea.

T

So quick

Was Ken Traver's general comment on the

"I suggest doing away with the larder altogether."

Fatigue

Saving

INDON - TRAVERS

praised Mrs Maddison for her hard work. But his (triumphant) general conclusion was this: "By her improving the layout of

9 am. Suw fusband off to way she worked: "Mr Maddi- are some of his detailed kitchen on the Unes I have sug-

work, children off to school.

9.10. Started clearing break- fast fable, washed up.

son is a hard worker. And she's jobar quick, i thought she was par- Licularly good on the washing- upy which she did in a well-thought-out way, washing-up on to the left hand draining-board, then rins ing the dishes and stacking them on the right.

9.25. Upstairs to make beds, methodical, tidy and dust bedrooms.

9.50. Brushed down stairs. 9.55. Tkiled, dusted, Vacuum- ed living-room.

10.26. Did daily washing (two girls dresses. one boy's shirt, one pair of boy's trousers, one cardigan, five pairs of socks).

11. Tea break. 11.40. Started preparing lunch (ehepherd's ple, cauliflower. rhubarb and custard),

11.03. Put

away.

grocery

order

comments оп

different Ecsted and cutting down. excess movement she could have saved 47 minutes on this day.

Bed making: Time spent,

"She could easily save more 8 minutes, 30 seconds. Thla included a considerable amount time on other days and so the of

equivalent of a day each week-- unnecessary walking. Mrs Maddison walked 85ft making by cutting out her two weekly the double bed when she need shopping trips with Tony in his pram and by getting her only have walked 24ft.

husband to take her shopping Mopping and dusting. Ineffec- in the car on Saturday." tive, Mrs Maddison hardly ever shook her duster out and tended LAST WORD BY LINDON- to push the dust around rather TRAVERS: This business of work than mop it up.

planning the household Clearing refuse. There was isn't only a woman's problem. no refuse bin, so Mrs Maddison Husbands could help enormously down the garden by seeing that their homes are her had to walk

Men might kitchen and the general lack of three times to throw potato and properly equipped. storage space in her home.

the remember that investing in some nhubarb peelleuzs, etc., on compost heap.

Inbour-saving equipment is one

of geiting "In the whole "house, there Food preparation. Carried out way

out of the are only

three cupboards--a on a table only 28 inches high, washing-up."

"Hør Ironing session was marathon. She got through on enormous amount in 72 minutes. "The main fault in her house- work rouline is not the way she works but the layout

THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM IS YOUR CONCERN, TOO

MOSQUITOES are pretty

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

•

From May

until about October

much like the weather: everybody talks about them, but nobody they make things pretty annoy- does a great deal, about ing for almost everyone who them.

ventures outside.

STAMP THEM OUT Oh, I know that many com-

programmes

munitie conduct extensive

Like an enemy, they should control mosquitto and many of these are highly be stamped out as thoroughly successful But .except. for as possible. Killing one or two slapping at one of the posts here and there helps, of course, who happens to be biting you, especially if accomplished carly Yoost of you do little about Tid- in the season. But you can do by eliminat- ding your own neighbourhood of a lot more simply

mosquito breeding ing any | these hungry insects,

Mosquitoes are your enemies., places around your home.

C-O-O-L

M13. ALLASON

.recipes into the party book,

tains as she did not. Some- "Start by soniring a good thing, too, to find one who loves pinch of saffron la a tablespoon cooking (and,

presume, of warm water. Chop an onion As an added precaution, you can

who has cating),

two sons, and crush two cloves of garlic spray the screens with acropolis Julian, aged 10, and Rupert, 04. and gently cook them, without such as DDT and pyrethrum,

and yet has herself the gure of colouring, in a little chicken or Mosquitoes require water. Bo-

porke Int. These aerosols are also gooda alim "teenager." cause of this, you should re for spraying the inside of the

"When we have inished with "Add four to five tablespoons move all rain barrels, stagnant house. For best results, close pools, even tin cans from around all window and doors tightly the first course." Mrs Alason of olive oil and two

ond when' everybody unwashed rice your home. In short, get rid of while you spray and keep them went on, "and anything that can collect water, closed for about 15 minutes seems to know everybody, we age.her until a pale gold. Now go down to the dining-room, add enough, chicken stock to Although mosquitoes do not after you have anished the job.

where I have my buffet," (The cover the rice, pepper and salt actually reproduce in shrubbery and tall grass, they frequently. This will give the insecticide buffet le built into the pine do taste and the strained saffron.

Stir to blend all. can be found nesting there. enough time to destroy the in-panelled walls.)

SPRAY SCREENS

wherever they may bo

hiding.

Best way to keep them out of A little thought early in the your house, of course, is to keep season will prevent a lot of on- windows and doors screened. noying itching Inter on.

COOL and creamy in haven't, an egg-beater and cream on top.

• A

cups of stir all

"Cook together for a-tow minutes the bury pieces of boiled chicken in the rice and "Sometimes, when the party half bury pieces of Jolister cut la a large one, we have an across the shell. On top, put "overlow' buffet in this small some of those lovely large

prawia (Another panelled zoom."

and, che Mediterranean from the main when avaliable, mussels which leading off

have been opened in the usual too.)

"I take it that they sit down way on their half shelle. for these foods?"

drinks for hot, summer a little milk, beat into half a pint of milk, add a little They're easier to make if coffee essence, and serve cool you have a mixer but, if you with a blob of chocolate ice

"Of course. We have tables set for eight and four, When

"Add leo three skinned und a strong arm are just as big glass tumbler

Honeyed Egg

guests have helped themselves, that's the way some people effective.

sort of super-nog. they find their own places, deseeded red sweet peppers cut in quartets, three. "Querberoð like their milk best. But In order of sheer calorific Beat a raw egg and a large Sometimes Mis Allason serves tomatpen, a cup each of Franch even the beat things are richness, here are her sug- spoonful of runny honey into hot roast turkey with baked beans and peas and some black boros If you don't vary them gestions:

4 half pint of milk, together ham coated with a mustard and olives Add, too the strained mussel mock. Add a litle more from time to time. -

Blackcurrant milk with a scoop of vanilla ice brown sugar crust.

..slock or water. Vit, the mixture "we estimate the time for seems too dry, N Lorna MacLean runs the Beat a big tablespoonful cream. Looks palé, rich and

completely cooking the ham,Transfer the pas "to à soda fountain in a Plecadilly of blackcurrant syrup into creamy.

then gently simmerit for just moderately hot oven. (75 to 400

· Shake Float store, and spends a lot of half a pint of milk, chill and

short of that time. We then degrees Fahr. br Regulo to Nicest is strawberry peel off the skin and, having cut 6) and cook until the liquit has her time dreaming up new serve. milk drinks,, Some are rich

favoured. One scoop of ico- the shalloweet possible lattice been absorbed by the rice, is beaten into the pattern on the fat, cover with which should not be af all sticky, mustard and sugar art ingest That, followed by a bowl of another is dropped clove in ouch. lattice space. We green molod, is very good ne

finish off the cooking in the *(London Express Servicą),

Choffee

and filling enough to be a Make a dessert-spoonful cream whole dessert on their own of chocolate syrup with milk Others are pleasant, cooling sweet chocolate powder and in to float on top.