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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1958,

PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

Leisure With Children?...I Say It's Possible!

JOY IN ROME

JOY MATTHEWS HAS SOME MORE INTERESTING NEWS. ABOUT THE

"AT HOME" HABITS OF THE ITALIANS

HUSE

ȚUSBAND of strawberry Pd furnish blonde Ella Fudge is house,” Prince Pier-Francesen

The prince Borghese, who looks like an work. for the Italian version of Cary rather than Grant. They live a highly people.

existence for informal Rome.

fiat or

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prefers to Government for private

"I loathe working for pri

dear no.

"And do they go to Lloyd Wright for the house? Oh, They go to some- body else with the photo- graph and say I want some thing like that.

"Would

they

go

"

to

and the host kindly me his own special recipe:

THE more I look into

the more I realise that only those who run them can plan their cooking, but it must be planned for some easing-off of the strain.

Tether people's idtchens,

My candidate for this two-day-a-week cooking ex- periment knows all about that problem.

Christine Thomas is B young Hampstead of three children-Carpline, almost five; Fiona three, nand baby Katherine, just one year. That is a hand- ful, if you like.

Cook the mussels in court bouillon with a little dry white wine. You make

do.

By HELEN BURKE

# "rich

were

ing mushrooms; frult pavlova. in a very slow oven (270 to The shoulder of veal WILS cooked on. Tintraday to nothing lost in bore or fat. I with a poached egg on top of be served cold, with salud, enlarged the natural "cracks" in each.

"Text day. Very thin рад the fillets, without damaging the This is a simple home way of cakes (3 per person) Ailets themselves, and inserted making this very good dlah. We made from

Yorkshire six stoned canned prunes lato, did not cook it on the Monday, pudding batter and stacked on them.

Inverted plate When cold, but prepared it in a marinade. 30 "to cook itself," as it were, on they, plate and "dil UNITO I pressed the filets into Wednesday,

wrapped in aluminium foll and well buttered glass oven dish,

Put 4 pint Inexpensive red Placed in the refrigerator where which was a tight it for them. Burgundy, pint water, two

they

For will keep perfectly. added boz butter and pepper

the filling, and crushed pineapple to a creamy sweet white sauce.

NAVARIN OF LAMB

garni

and salt to taste, and placed the to three sliced carrots, two dis (covered) in a fairly hot sliced onions, a bouquet mother

aven Just long enough to start and a little pepper into a pan die cooking, then reduced the and simmer them for 10 minu- heat to between 270 and 300 to when cold, pour it over a compact 21b, to 24lb piece of

Middle neat chops (14) degrees Fahr, or gas mark 1 to chuck or top side beef in a were covered with water, bowl. Turn The mest from Added were an onion, a tea 2 and left them for 2 hours,

The Alleta miake quite a very time to time. Next day, place spoon of tomato puree.

inent in its marinude, spoon sugar and pepper good slack, Christine thickened the this by adding a small teaspoon covered, in the refrigerator. salt to taste, They were sim-

D blended with

To cook the beef: Drain and dry It Fry it all over to deep warm brown, in 2oz. but- lor Transfer to a casserolo

n court bouillon by adding Christine has to take the carrots, onions, a bouquet of He wears a shirt vate people. They are so Balmain with a picture of a herbs, salt and pepper to two elder girls to nursery of arrowroot

school each morning anu le cold water. and slacks for evening wear difficult. The sort of per- Blor model and ask for a about two pints of water collect them again round ut home. She wears a tight con I would not mind work- copy? They would not dare. Simmer.

about noon, as so many HADDOCK MONTE CARLO into which it its Ughtly. Pour When the mussels are who But with an architect they fitting pair of willow-green, ing for is the one shantung slacks with a wild comes to me and says, I think they can get away cooked, remove their shells, other mothers must. also

mix the liquid with mayon- ailk shirt in white, striped have a wife, four children, with it." across with yellow and gold

naíso and add chopped Here then is how I plan sandals.

parsley and herbs. I per ned Christine's "Two-Day- sonally like chives and Cook" week. MUSCLING their way marjoram. But you can use Pour into cocktail parties: anything you like. "But

who does that? mussels served

the with over the mussels in Instead, they buy a lot of delicious sauces hot or cold, bottom shell and serve.

flick through The most luscious ones mugazines.

You just pick up the shell them, choose n house by had were served with a with your fingers and scoop somebody like Lloyd Wright, special mayonnaise sauce, out the mussel.

Prince Borghese is a hard working architect. He is planning to convert his old, but very small, castle in Tuscany. "I don't want the inside to be all medieval. I'll just furnish it the way

I

DO

three servants, two dogs. and six pigeons. F have 10,000 lire to spend. Build me a house!

1

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the same oki subject

all the time, but at least

about

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

once each summer I feel should follow vo far as sun daty bound to pas..

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Now, a few "don'ts." He can your sunginases.

Don't wear sunglasses to determine the proper colour und density of the lenses watch television and don't weac according to your individual I've discussed this before, but I can't over-emphasise this last requirements.

point.

them while driving at

night.

If you customarily wear

The Society for the Proven- glasses because of poor ton of Blindness strongly ad eyesight, you should, of vises against the use of tinted course, have the lenses of or co-called "night driving" lenses for motorists using the your sunglasses ground according to your prescrip streets and highways after dark.

tion.

| HAVE DEFINITE FUNCTION

0

Sunglasses perform a definite function, a helpful function. They prevent visual discomfor: and possible harm during ex- posure to bright sunshine outdoor daytime glare. But un less they are adjusted correct- ly to your own particular re- quirements, they might be

Farmful.

For some persons, sunglasser should be bifocals or even tri- focals. Such glasses will pro-

Not

GLARE A PROBLEM

Certainly the glaze from 01- coming headlights is a problem in night driving.

But, the society warns, "No device yet perfected can dim inish glare without diminishing though some of these produels

THREE DAYS

i

*

Ida- and

mored until just lender, When cold, Dinced," covered, in the refrigerator...

FRUIT PAVLOVA

On Saturday, Christine had only this to do: Into a pan; nut. the marinade, including the a whole small onions, 2 quar vegetables, over it. Rinse the tered wirite turnips, a bunch of This is a luncheon rather frying-pan with a little hot whole young carrots and than a dinner dish and one water and add it to the dish. enough mall potatoes for the which could just as well be Cover and coole for three hours family. Cover with the stock made on the day it is required, in a very slow oven (275- from the meat and simmer for because il is quickly cooked, 300 degrees Fahr or gas mark 1 1⁄2 hour, Thicken the stock with but we started it off by poach- to 27. Make a roux with a little attle, butter and flour, knead- ing a washed smoked haddock butter and four, strain the stock ed together. Place the chops on in milk and water,, half and into It and simmer for 10 top and gently heat - through, half beginning from cold. We minutes to cook the flot without boiling. thon removed the Akin and thoroughly. The ment can be Here are the main meat dishes bones and placed the fish in cut into slices with the mucë- and sweets, prepared on Monday shallow entree dish. The poured over them, or cut at for that day and the following stock, with a sliced onion, and a fable as requined,,

clove, was reduced to about Monday: Braised fillets

half, then poured over the had- work with prunes, peas, and dock for Christine to finish off minted

next of minutes potatoes; Strawberry in a matter Flin,

day.

Tuesday:

Her port was to make a white strained stock, Carlo, potatoes and peas: Pine sauce with the

adding a tablespoon or so of applo Yvonne.

cream, pour it over the haddock Wednesday: Beef Burgundy, and place it under a gentle

carrots, young

peas and grill or in the oven to heat potatoes: Creme Carimet,

though. Five "heaps" of steved At 6/- a pound, these seem a tomatoes, stewed in a little but little expensive, but there is ter, were arranged on the dish

two:

Haddock

4

of

Monte

Let's Eat

MY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Chilled Soup Good Now As Starter For Meals

visibility at the same time. Al-16] Y husband is used to course, "M*

the read by cutting down our

eating

in

good

may soften the headlights of on restaurants where the food approaching ear, they tend to looks glamorous. How can obscure objects at the side of prepare good dinners in keenness of vision. This can re- forty-five minutes that look sult in needless injury and loss and taste comphy ?” of life."

quires our bride of the See?

week.

Sleeping Well?

OES your bed sag? Is It should

Is the pillow too hard?

Any or all of these faults might mean a regular and continuing siege of sleep less nights.

Too often, I'm afraid, you're apt to blame inability to sleep on mental stress or some obscure disease when the real trouble is simply poor sleeping conditions.

Good Night's Rast

be renovated

every

in-

"This young bride will find the oven her best friend | for cooking dinner,” ob

served the Chef.

"The entree and vegetables Jean be baked in the same ovén. Often the dessert can be, too, or even a hot bread when she

has learned to work fast.

"All food should be well sea- soned.

Those of you with spine or rachoillae alimenta might need a Armer mattress and spring ar rangement. It's up to your own doctor, of course, to decide what sh

is best for you in such cases.

ASSORTMENT OF SPICES

"For this purpose, she will need as a starter on assortment of spices, including allspice, ground black peppDICK, Tobasco, Worcestershire sauce,

and powdered garlic

onion

In inner-spring mattresses, powder, fresh parsley, fresh the spring coils form open cells. Temons and fow murprise

This

·

Chef," I told him. /

newost "Let's give her your creation."

Frosty 5-Minute Tomato Bel- termik Soup: In a bowl, beat

together a (10 oz) cart cream: tomato soup, % c. colá buttermilk, 1⁄2 tsp. chili pow- der, 1⁄2 tsp. salt and 1/18 trp. ground black popper. Chill.

Ladle into small-glass bowls. Top with 1 tsp. dairy sour and dust this with cream papriko

For glamour, present In large sterned ginss lined with crushed ice.

TOMORROW'S

B

45-MINUTE OVEN-DINNER Frosty Tomato Butterlik Soup

Lamb Chop Bake

Onions

Spiced Sliced Curtols Soufia Patoce

Tossed Green Salad (Optional) Petits Fours (from bakery) Cingered Pears with. Ice Cream Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk

Ail meattivamente are tebal, recipes proportioned in perus 1,

For, double prediente SCHEDULE FOR PREPARING MEAL

Lamb Chops: Preheat oven to

gives these mattressed gourmet ingredients such as some ventilation-which le fine) preserved ginger," during the summer, but might "At this season, a fine chilled-400 P. Dust 3 shoulder lamb be a bit chilly during the soup 12 Д spectacular first chops or 5 rib chops with flour,

winter. Placing a blanket be tween the mattress and the lower sheep will keep you

WETITION.

Blankets should be warm, yet

J

LAST FOUR DAYS

Thursday: Liver pate, fried scumpi; "gooseberry pudding.

Friday: Stuffed shoulder of veal; pineapple pancakes.

This is made with a trus meringue mixture added to which are a few drops of whe vinegar. A 7 to 8-inch circle of the meringue is piped on to oiled paper, a little higher on the rim than he inside. The meringue is dried out in the oven at hardly any heat. Once dried through, it

Saturday: Novarin of lamb; ice can be stored indefinitely. When All the centre with wanted. cream,

sweetened fruit and ice-cream or whipped cream.

-(London Express Service).

young

Sunday: Braised chicken and vegetables, includ

seasoned with salt, pepper and a very little garlic salt if de isired. Brown quickly on both alics in thep, imargarinë.

Place on Tx11-in heat-resist- unt baking dish.

Carrots: Scrape and slice 0 medium-sized carrots. Dust with salt, pepper and 1⁄4 top. ground allspice.

syrup.

baking dish with the. Sprinitio with 1 tsp. crushed the-grated lemon rind and 1 Ebep, chopped candied or pre- sorved ginger.

Bake 15 min., then chill Present in wide dessert dishes. Top with butter pecan ico' cream.

NO COOLING needed! It takes only five minutes to make this Frosty Tomato Buttermilk Boup. It's low in calories, too.

Drain 1 buffet can onions. Arroge

chops.

Bonilla Potatoes: Place the vegetables, around contents I pleg, frozen French Sile 1⁄4 tsp. beef broth souffle potatoes in a baking pan; powder into 1 c. boiling water heat-bake according to pkg, di

reations. and pour in. Cover and place in

over.

Serve in baking dish. Garnish with water cre

Gingered Pexes: Open 1 buffet site can pears. Turá into small

SUGGESTION OF THE CHEF Pass crisp crackers spread with ham pats with the chilled

soup.

e de bere Are You Well-Informed On Health?

The most important thing, obly are bianicets of wool of a for a good night's rest is a loose, fluffy tecume. Not only is fairly light, it also good bed that has a well- this type

retains body heat Electric constructed mattress. Check binnkota generally are accep

It should be long fable. yours enough for you to lie in when stretched to your full length. The springs should permit your body to re

Fluff your pillow before go- series circulated some time main generally in a straighting to bed. line.

It should not be ago. Some of the answera too thick, though, since it's best that the readers gave, 1 for your lead to remain “in a

Fluff The Pillow

(e) Have three shiots,

Open Food Cans

* con

UIZ-shows seem to be extremely popular these days. So let's try a little health quiz.

3. After

of food has I've compiled theso ques- boen opened, the contents

(a) Should tions and answers from a

be removed Imoodiately. (b) Cam bo safely

frigerated in the ori Final dan

Cosi springs probably are best straight line with your spine think, may surprise you.

since the individual springs on

give way most beneath the shoul-

when you lie on your side.

Here are their answers:

(e) should be removed

within an hout.

Bone Leafy - vegetables should be malen row Becalist

ders and hips. Next best in the While 16 might not be prece Smallpox Vaccination cooking

[link_spring." This in Jointed wine links which at malizesses and beduprings just fastened to seng springs because I say so, keep theag

made nt teal at this time to change

the fool and the head of the audations in mind the next successful vaccination against

bed.

time you're in the market for these items. And for better Beds with fabric or WOVEN wire-springs bond to sag in a slow it would be well for all of us to Hava, our mattengon hammock-like effect.

clicked at regular Intervals. The Your mattress should be - You might be surprised how moderately soft. It should not comfortable you cati be," *** be lumpy or have hollow spots,

If i la culled, with hortchalt, By H. N. Bunderen, M.D.

1. "A person who has had a

smallpox is Teamsune

(a) For at ledes 12-monthɛ. (b); For three years. (0) For fe

1. Persons who have bad pollo should The

[(a) Not be: encinated,

(b) Have one, shot of Balk:

vaccine,

Often polts Bavdur. I (b) Is too much bother.

for deertuago (0) Destroys

vitamin content,

Losing Weight Frenly the part way to "Tore weight" is to

(a) Skip one or two mese

should

(b) Reduce overall calorto fection of one type is not neces

tniske daily.

(c) Take

bati

regular steam

(b) squeeze it.

Bacily rampne to the others,

3. (b), After a can of food . If you have a pimple, you has been opened, the contenta can be safely refrigerated in the

| provided it is 29- original coň, covered. Both the can and thọ, l food are sterilized in the cessing, Another contain might have. bacteria la ft.

(by Apply peroxido. (e). Let it alone.

NOW FOR THE TRUE ANSWERS:

1. (b) The length of time that succesful vaccination

A

tración

Vitamins Decreased®%

4. (e) Of course cooking of will protect against smallpox leafy vegetables decreases trinis vi varies from three to 20 years, viiamja content somewhat, In regions where smallpox oc. 3. (b) Is the total daily food"," curs, it is advisable to be vac- Intake that county, not there cinated

twp every!

three

number of meals eaten. A years,

40

*** Polio “Types.

0. Lot 16 Mode. When the m elsin 'la broken, there is always!!! danger of infection. Etva, dimomak ku germis. Applesužn, of peroxide:ja 2. (a) There are three known, will not prevent infection mg, types of polio virus and a per- wilt li cause the pimpla, le dag son who has recovered from in- u.