1958-07-19 — Page 12

THE CHINA ↑ MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1958.

PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

Going Back To England? YOUNG MOTHER SAYS

Seriously, I say women cook too

much and cook far too late

by HELEN BURKE

three ormees ench, Flatten Wiem out, much trinner. Lightly try together a chopped 'small onion and clove of garlic and' two' chopped rashers of sirenky Encon. Remove, Add six table- spoons brendcrumbs, - pinch

MY proposition is this: that a great many women with each of thyme, grated lehors

young children work too hard, cook too much, Loo often, and start cooking too late.

All this overtires them and, far too often, mulges them poor Their evening companions at meal.

I believe that shopping for the raw materials fur main dishes can be done on two days

week, each time in one ex- pedition, and that, generally, only two days a week need de devoted to cooling or partially, cooking main dishes, reveral of which can be prepared at the one session in little more time than it takes for one dish ajone,

Last week I set out to prove this to be one of the most over worked young mothers I know Pamela Hurt is the British wife of Harry, an American who is a teacher at the American School in London.

WEDNESDAY: Chiclton and mushrooms in cream sauce, new potatoes (none of the family likes rier), and green sulad; gooseberry tori.

FRIKADELLER

for Monday

and

and salt to taste,

and pepper.

Ploce a portion on each slive then roll up and tle. Hent a little dripping in a pan, add a zpod pinch of sugar, then gently fry the "olives all over to a worm. gold. Add two chopped skinned tomatoes and boiling water fo cover. Put on the ild lightly and simmer very slowly for two hours.

For these I bought 114]b. Pamela emptied the beet minced "pic" ven to which I "olives" iato u bosin, cooled and added a tablespoon of flour and placed them in the refrigerator. finely chopped onion ecally All she has to do next Was cooked to the clear stago in a gently,

warm the "olives" fo Ittle butter. I slowly stirred in an entree dish. Bring the stock

to the boil and stir into it a fist if. almost 1 pint mile and added dessertspoon of arrowroot blend- seasoning to taste. The mixture ed in a tablespoon of water. The was then ready to be dropped in

clears al once and is mblespoons on to a wet enamel tray and each flattened out with

wet palette knife.

When

www

sauce

Pamela Hurte is watched by her children, Elizabeth and Durrell, as she prepares one, of this 'mealk she planned with Helan Burke.

Her mother

3lb. a

rest.

I'M BORED

RS JEANNETTE Terylene, avion or non-iron

Ironing to do.

young mother who ought The housework is falshed by not to have a caro in the 10.30 most days. And I have help world. She is happily twice a weelt for the heavier married to a prosperous wonic young engineer. They five nimple food, ao our suppers are "Stephen and I both like fairly in a pleasant, four-roomed mostly ́gilla -- steales," chops, ||bungalow" on an Edgware hamburgers →→ that trice no time housing estate. They have no all to do with frozen

six-month-old daughter, verotables.

"So you see, running a bomo and baby is praclically no And yet this young wife-with trouble at all. I have hours of everything that most women free time. Too much," And that, desire is bored. Desperately prealsely, is her problem. Sho bored.

han too much spare time. It la Looking round her protly, the problem of thousands of spotlessly clean house; looking young wives like her who have at the plum, smiling, sunburnt small homes to run, and all tha trouble-saving baby lolling in thee pram, I found me and

Sharon

it hard to believe. So many resources of modern invention to women would envy her. But da make their work quick and easy. Jeannette talked to me, I began

Until she gave it up 18 months to understand why.

ago, 28-year-old Jeannette had

It is alt, too easy. She is a. been a secretary for eight years, | swift and systematie werloor

"I loved the pace of it, the and her housework in dome be- work, meeting people, looking fore the morning is half over. round the shops at lunchtime. Sharon is a placid baby-and Now I am practically led to a with all the resources of modern house. baby-care,

looking after her takes up only two hours a day,

Jeannette has too much free

Shopping

"looks as the local shops-but

time.. Too little to do,

"Sharon is no, trouble," site you cannot look at them for ever.

garden is amall."

told me. "Inve up work a year cajoy gardening, but our before she was born. Friends told me that looking after her house would take up and the overy minute of my tine.

all young mothers can afford to It is, of course, true that not feed their husbands on simple-

to-cook sidaks and chops; or send the nappies out to the wash; or "r deed her three times a day even afford A twice weekly

con- -and she's much more

will, perhaps, sauce gently heat the chicken in gerator to be finished off by use less blackcurrant puree of the stock and strain . Simmer Pemela when required. more sugar?

1 level tablespoon flour in 2 I jointed

And for the chicken. walnuts butter without colour- poured over the "olives" and a Covered the pieces, with water, ing. Remove and side In 1⁄2 pint little chopped parsley is sprinkl- added a bouquet garni, an onion strained chicken stock. Simmer ed on top.

and' pepper and salt and gently to thicken. Add 2oz. thinly sliced pasched it for one hour. I peeled mushrooms, first cooked in a the vegetables

Make

THURSDAY: Grilled breaddi} doesn't. the blackcurrant ice of the skin and removed the walnut of butter, a tablespoon lamb cutlets with macaroni and in this fried the cream this way, Whip together bones. Placed the best pieces in water and a teaspoons lemon Pam and tomato sauce, Fra-instead of the traditional five help. "eukes", on both sides in a little pint double crcum

and a dish and covered, them with fulce (to keep them white) for beans; strawberry shortcake. dripping and, in-five minutes in four good

Buti tablespoons all, they were ready.

in essence, I believe, icing strained stock. When cold, this 5 minutes, covered. Stir in 3 FRIDAY: Poached salontented on it. I give her tinned Jeannette Paros's groblem is one sugar unt the whisk leaves dish was covered and placed in tablespoons double cream, beat and mayonnaise.

strained foods and cereal-all that faces too many young wives VERDICT: The father and mixture. Stir in as much black- of the chicken and giblets could pieces of chicken and serve.

a trall when drawn through the the refrigerator. (The remainder through, pour over the heated SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: easy to prepare as well as milk, today. mother enjoyed the Frikadeller. currunt puree

Ronst rolled rih of beef and 1 use the Nappy Service for (tinned) as the be used in a ple or soup 'and 'so-

We have taken the drudgery Derrell would not eat his. "Give cream will take.

For the Gooseberry Tart, the potato salad; chocolate mousse.

Bs. 6d. week they call three ant the toil out of a housewife's him a slice of Jumb or a piece of ice tray and

Pour into an on.)

butter and lard were rubbed into Fresh fruit,

lines, wash up to 42 nappies fe Have we also taken the joy? freeze in the he is happy," his

Cream, savoc. To make the the flour and stored in the refri-

And most of Sharon's clothes are refrigerator "I've never thought of buying steak and

at 'coldest."

-(London Express Serolca).

-London Express Service). The food for three days and cooking mother said.

(There I thought, dial ean then be turned to well,"

Pamela, is a future husband whose wife "normal," sufd "because I might not want what had better not try anything'

Their children are Elizabeth, 14, who was born in the United Slater, and Darrell, 2

born England. The family lives in a large basement nut in Lowndes, Square,

it

45

THREE DAYS

I had planned on the second and now). Elizabeth, whose criticism

Macaroons were served with:

third days. Fair enough-but could have been devastating this frozen sweet. she agreed to co-operate with me thought them "good." She ate..

and so we planned our arst main Darrell's share as well as her VERDICT: All but Darrell

nials for three days.

..רואים

MONDAY: Cream of onion BEEF OLIVES

soup with Parmesan cheese;

"Frikadeller" (Danish meat cokes), new pene and potatoes;

for Tuesday.

took and liked the +1

"olives" sirnight Darrell's mother had to unroll his, scrape off the stuff- ing and taiten out the ment. itself so that it appeared as one of his favourite "slices," But he

cold pears with apricot zlaze. These were prepared on this loved the ice cream!

TUESDAY: Beef olives, brant same "cooking day

beans and new potatoes; black- currant ice cream.

Here is the recipe. Have six thin slices of top-side beef, about

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GIRL COMBING SUNSHINE

INTO HER HAIR!

By JOY MATTHEWS

TEWEST approach to the sun this year is not on the

to put a bit of sunshine into her hair can turn to the bottles, the sprays, the shampoos, and the paintbrush instead of the sun Newest idea to scorch its way into the hair comes from the tube, just like toothpaste, and looks like a sort of brilliantine.

It bleaches faster and less Aressing for cucumber and furiously than any other, stuff rudish and tomato salad, season- I've seen around.

ed with chives, fresh basil or You can literally just pop chopped onion inlo the bedrooni, comb it Instead of cream with through your hair, and set it. raspberlas от strawberries, When it is dry-and i lakes Tropezians best up hall eup only about 10 minutes your of cottage choose a person with hair is a shade lighter.

a little milk and easter auger to

into a real blonde bombshell, whipped cream, then just do the job again and

If you want to tairn yourself' taste until it becomes like,

again. You don't have to wash Our beds.

your hair; in fact, they ask you

to put it on dry,

The action of bleaching con- tinues

day or 3D, and JOHN BELL is an interior de

won't come out when you wash

corator with a diferente. it. It is also supposed to be an Instead of being a sight and excellent hair conditioner.

sinewy Italian or Frenchman,

guarantee how long it will lost

just depots on how

Monsieur Malta is 35 years olá and is out to win the 36- year-olde with his dresses.

"I do not approve of the bub- ble, the chemise, the trapeze, and the balloon in eicthes,” he told me. "I like wadden with beautiful bodies, and I like

because they have such awful to start with, not pottery. counterpanER Rnd. unmatching lt is made in a thin, trans- bodheada They look as I thay, lucent porcelain in white them to show them off. were unmado and had just had

thrown a counterpane them

over and the colour of ripe olives. A 36-piece dinner He gave me en kica for service costs £15 pretty bedhead for those who can't afford a proper one.

"After all, God created wo- wen with waists and hips and- wall other things and they 16 hould not disguise them with these frightful loose things. Wo- men are not happy, husbands are not happy, and certainly lovers are not happy; so I plan to make some order.once again.

- "My collection will be for the women of 30. They have" just attained sophistication and I Ülke sophisticated clothes,”

"But a Victorian over-mantal mirror they cost about 23, or less if the mirror glass is al- ready missing. Then paint the frame with an emulsion paint or 2 paint with a matt inkh.

"The colour of the frame should repent the principal colour in the room. Or it can match the carpet or bedcoVET—

MIX AND MATCH idea but not the wall.

that is loss than 10s. a has now spread to bath- "Cut out a backing of hard- beard or Pirwood the shape of piece. You cannot buy the rooms. A

sunny #outh the missing mirror glass, cover pieces separately from the effect I saw this week was with kapok, and cover again first--but if you drop a done with

Zaimosa with plain glazed chintz.

two you can re- coloured towelling striped

"Stick this on to the hard-

plate or

board with plastle glue, then place them. A 10in, plate with uneven black and

secure the panel to the painted costs only 7. 6d. Liurne with ́ardinary panel pins

white lines. The towelling can be bought by the yard

-you can buy them from New approach for 14, 11d. It is a new

ironmongers. They'l what you mean.

know

French one, and you'll need 1 yards for The tube costs is. 68. No he's a hard-headed and solid BEST designed china of Yr another Spanturd is try sized towel that good

ing his hand at designing Canadian.

the year-according to French clothes.

Best Serge Malia, 28. 41⁄2d. per towel Mr. Bell gave me ntr views on the Italians who awarded born in Chile but blonde

English beds and bedheads,

Spanish all in stark white bathrooms. the same, is showing his first You can also collection of couturo clothes

get the this month the buyers,

to the Press and towelling in bright Medi

terranean blue.

| you want to go.

"People spend a lot on beds it a gold medalis selling over here" he told me, "Hut for one of the best design Colour is all they still look bumpy and lumpy ed prices. It really is china,

IT'S colour that makes is show the colour of our fonry. I've been majeling to an ad-man about the subtle something that niakes us buy one product in- stead of another, and 'that some thing turns out to be the colour of the package.

He says: "Scarlet for choco=" [late biscuits, The same biscuits .wrapped Is - siver did not sell

nearly so well.

1. “Blue and white for cigarettes. The most successful brands since the wor have been pack- aged in these colours.

"Gold for soap.

Keveral

firments that used to be wrapped in transparent paper have had to go over to the luxury, gold took

destined

“Be and red and white Tör toothpaste, People plean

clear-looking.

with bold lettering “

colours

And biggest chamcter give- cwyby of all "Pate, pontet colours for cosmeties. No woman buys costelles in bright, girlsh [colours"". They pssociate them with a painted, brazen hurry?!".

Slimmers.

EM St Tropez, where the sesaoti tarted Nearly this", year, Éktionable young. Fartéenner- are alitnázálné zlorie before thiazi burbanda joli thees" in August.

Yoghurt and college cheese are tired-fin tinsmad, wayak, bo beat the calorie cctant, Toʻlauri