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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1961.

WOMANSENSE

Shirley This spotting'

Lord

on every woman's wavelength

I

fever-what is

the fascination?

BELONG to the breed

I have never been able to see the fun in Hægling a mirror in- of people who do securely on top of a stick in the not believe in standing pes of glimpsing a dins star's

hat or astronot's ear, on chairs, other people's shoulders, old telephone directories

But, alas, people who feel as I do are in the minority,

often walling

domply in

the

rain outside some pinstic palace ilke the Pinza - Krow, their patience Infinitely enduring, pro-

Viding they can catch sight of a famous (or infamous) leg, brow or, best of all, a display of temperament... this same patience, as I have observed.

or battered Famous cargo miraculously evaporating ante

Who's Whos-merely 'to

be able to sec somebody N TEVERTHELESS, hourly the

else pass by.

fever for celebrity spotting spreads, the human clusters

COOKING COLUMN by Helen Burke

What a little

trickery

can do for a meringue

READER wrote to me recently about making meringues. She could never be certain that they would turn out as they should.

Sometimes they were dry throughout sometimes the insides were chewy, What could she do to overcome this?

I thought about this a good deal, knowing perfectly well that unly the who muke meringues very often can be pretty sure to get them enough the same each tine.

1 dcted at i would try out stanething of which I had known for a long time-something nut in the classic recipes. This was the addition of a level teaspoon of colour to each egg white.

Of course, I worked, because the meringues were left in tires even long enough for the corn- Hour to be cooked.

and cover them with very hot

You can then add #low water. I leave them for a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice w at onec thin I is, then rise and try which them thoroughly.

dawn. Continue adding

all, this time

a thin steady Place the egg whites in the stream, whisking all the time, bowl, start to whip them slowly in order gather the thickish white into the whisk or beaters, that's gradually increase the :peed until they are dry aud frotity Sprinkle the first lot of AGCAT over then?

If the mayonnaise separates 2131! whisk until the mixture regains or does not thicken

but be its stiToss. Now fold in the comtes rather thin yellowish Beyond lot of sugar-that is, the sauce, do

despair. Place one contulaing the cornflour," another egg yolk in another basin and season it as before. Then, using the "failure" s

an

not

Pipe meringues on to the pre- pared surface or shape them were ol, add it to the yolk. with two tablespoons and drop drop by drop, whisking alf the them on to it. Place the mer time, and the mayonnaise will Ingues in the oven at 200 degreen be a success. It will, how-

ever, need a Kreahelt or gas mark and

further 4 pint alt and nure vinegar (or lenon leave them for two hours.

Juice).

Don't rush

This trick is used even by the mayonnaise

confectioners, I remember, how-

ever, having a meringue-topped

sweet in a London restaurant-- PARADOXICALLY

though,

A very good one, too--and I mayonnaise is so easy Lo could taste the uncooked com- make that it often falls. It Hour, It was very unpleasant, will not be hurried. I make it reputarly but had a splendid

fallure a day or two ago be- cause I tried to do the job too quickly.

Meringues, as anyone who makes them known, are not so much eonited dried out. Some people use granulated sugor and caster sugar, half und hill, but All you need to make a good caster sugar only is all right, thick mayonnulse is an Allow 2 uz. for curh egg white yolk, salt, Cayenne pepper, If, for instance, you are using dash or two of tarragon vine- three egg whites, you will

Kar or lemon juice and a 1tle] quire

12 pint nii--olive, thing more than

other for preference, thaugh vegetable oils will do, but they have less flavour,

it

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The Uz Sugaг.

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sugar. oz, as level {u ྃi:

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ndc fraspoons of, cornflour second 3 oz.

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It is good practice to have the egg yolk and oil at much the same temperature. It will

London Express Service).

the cargo are safely seated in the nine and six- pennies.

Them I have seen the outsiders appear to wake up frum П zombie trance nad push und

ly.

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shove their way home ferocious dinary position on V3 Day, be- cause several hundred people had slowly pushed what was len o shrimp of a Shirley Lord from her excellent viewpoint of

It wouldn't be so bad, if in- side amid uli the so-called "ghtler" of a in premiere of first night, things were different. the Palace balcony into the They aren't particularly oa degrading position. I have just Royal performances, when the mentioned and facing back dodges to stay in the foyer prac- down The Mall, too, tised by people themselves with published

have to be Tames seen to be believed.

It's funny

THIS has always struck me as hilariously funny, perhaps

Dww.

I remember only being con- soled later by the sight of sev- cral Gls sliting on the steps of a stopped escalator in Lel- cester Square saying good-bye to girl friends on their knees, by crooning. "Shoo, shoo baby don't cry baby... 1, after all, only had a strained back, not broken heart,

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By the way.

French

teenagers have Kone erazy over printed velvet tams, each with a velvet plɛlatl tipped by A daisy, and modellist Jean Barthel. who has launched his autumn collection. has had a great success already with a pinstriped velvet

sunhat.

My altitude has been strengh- Katie Boyli said providing ened by other events over the she was in the front row, and years in an inverse way, preferably sitting down-"on a warm day, of when I have swept down regal wonderfully stairs on some grand evening or course"-then she'd wait to see other, only to hear the murmur Princess Grace go by.

she's no one" go round the conspiring crowd of onlookers, No words can damage a trall ego me.e.

because it's at this time, that the cominisalonaires and

men in similar positions come into their I have "Inside, please, sir," heard one cry with unconcealed delight, as he propelled a tail- coated charge into the dress circle, like trotting a baby to the park,

"No, Ma'am, you can wait any longer ere. for your friend. Bu do the stars themselves You'll ave to go your seat ntar-gaze? Evelyn Laye told now, afore the Royal party me she would always wait in n arrive to the determinedly crowd to see Christine Truman entrenched blonde, blazing not had done so many times. only with the réni kind of and for Royalty, too, of cours diamonds, but curiosity, too.

with 18 carat

I suppose I can trace my re- volt against star gazing and even

In the rain

Royal gazing back to the day MY dog and I once waited when I spent several hours with "M the pouring rain for Queen Victoria's stone foot in the small of my back.

A prisoner

hours, just to see the late King and Queen Elizabeth-now the Queen Mother-come out of the BBC", she said. "I remein- ber the Queen smiled at my dog barking, but not at me... he WAS, In fact, held virtually was impossible for days after a prisoner in this extraor that."

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Knarf And Mailman

-Shadow Boy's Sad When He Doesn't Get Letters-

By MAX TRELL

$60OD MORNING, Mr Mail-

man."

said Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned About Name,

Boy," said

"Good morning. the Mailman

Pigeon who lives at the top of a steeple.

"I've got a letter for Mirs Goldle Fish who lives in the lake, but I haven't got a thing

for you."

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That's too bad," sald Knuff, like to get letters from

But, Brst

bowl. the mixing

"Have you got a letter for People." See that is abrolutely free of hot do to take the erg direct

me today?" asked Knart. from the refrigerator "and the grease because even the slightest oil from a warmish slore cup- traces of if would prevent

egg whites whipping properly, might mention here that s speck of egg yolk in the whites inence to add the ofl, drop by effect, drop-and I mean drop by

the board.

Start with the egg yolk in n basin, Season it well. Con

would have the same

The Maltman had

lot of

letters in his hand. He looked them over quickly.

"I'm sorry," he said to Knart, "I've got a letter for Mr Leo

Always, before making mer drop-stirring all the time. Lion who lives in the zuo. Ingues, I put a sprinking of you have done that, soon-but souplest detergent into a widish hot too soon for impatient folk Lowl, I add the metal mbeing the mixture will thicken into spoon and the whisk or beaters a beautiful emulsion.

JACOBY on

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table only. You open one heart clubs. Dummy hits the and your partner jumps to four and you are delighted that you hearts, Should you pass of did not get to seven. course not! Should you think have a problem in the play al Aboul seven? Yes, bul you BİX.

"I've got a lutter for Mr Sam Eagle who lives in the sky. I've

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Never gets mail

It's a funny thing, I keep de- "So do I," said the Mallman.

fivering letters to everybody else but I hardly ever deliver à letter to myself."

Knarf and he was sorry to hear that the Mallman didn't get any letters for himself.

"I bet you like being a Mail- man," said Knart,

"Oh, I do," said the Mallman. "It must be fun." said Knurf, "delivering letters to Llons and Eagles and Fish."

"it's hard work, sometimes," sald, the Mallman. "But

It.

Hos loud roar

like

"Now take this Jetter to Mr Leo Lion at the zoo, He's n nice fellow, but he has an awful loud rear and his teeth are good and sharp."

"I wouldn't like to have tho Ilon roar at me or bite me," sold Knarf. "But I'm sure he

·wouldn't if he saw that I wan | bringing him a loiter."

"Most of the time," said the Mallinan, ""I have to get into the Lion's cage and sit down

"Have you got a letter for me today?" Knarf naked Mailman.

"The only trouble with get-1 ting a letter to him is that I have to take a balloon to get up to him!"

'Kaarf sald, "I'd like to go up in a balloon."

A long way

"And take Mr Homer Pigean," sald the Mailman. "I've got to climb up hundreds of steps to get to the top of the steeple where he lives,

"When you've got a letter to deliver, you've got to deliver it. You just can't leave it lying around."

"I seo," said Knarf,

21 hope you do," said the Mallinan. "And here's this let-

ter for Mrs Gulie Fla. J' tell you what I'll do. How would you İlke to take this feller and Jump in the lake with it and give it to Mrs Fish?"

"I'd got all wet," gold Kriart, The Ballinan laughed.

Just fooling.

"I won just fooling, you ha

MEK VEL CAGI:62 4*374 ties. But suppose you are piny nad rae with the queen, if the Lions aren't very good at read-gut fellers for Mr Leo Lion in the trick and you have no wor with trump; lead a diamond and read the letter to him, sald to Knart. "I really haven't

•, the zoo," or Mr Bani' Eaglà in AmFam. You should be happy agninat an East

king has not appeared. This ing, you know."

the sky, or Mr Homer Yigerin far enough to play a diamond will win against the king in that will hold the trick. Then the East mad. It will also win to school," said Kharf. Tub In the lake, They're all for "That's because they don't go in the steeple, or Mrs Goldie when East leads a second din agalust the netual ecombination mond you will havn. to guess € king-malj

[[ Me} Jạnow, súd, Mr Smith and whether to incred with the age,

10 irtok game,

TOBAT'S QUESTION Instead of kidding four hourts your partner has bild, four spaces. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

In Went, inco "I gudes 40,” said the "Mali-" "Mel Simpson, and Mes Mat-

or to isn Weat will have to lead a black mali. "Now, you take Mr Sam thews. They all live right on

-cord and let you ruff in your Engle; he's a pretty smart old this street! Good-life; Buy!" the hand and discard dummy's last | Bird. He knows how to road ace of diamonds; enter dummy diamond at the same time,

A betier play is to coth

and everything.

"Clood-bye, MrMallman,”

and Knarf

were

"Or if a special peke on'stiow, then 131 join the crowd to see that. I'm mod about pekes. Yes, I'd even stand

box or something. If I couldn't see properly for that,"

on

But surely wouldn't I stand on something to see somebody, she Anally asked me?

"Only Mr. Mouse," I replied, whether his name was Mirky or

-¿London Express Service),

not.

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE ·

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

| AQUARIUS January

February 10): Pelty econo- mies muy seem frkson at times, but you must practing them if you want to e- cumulate havings. PISCES (Febraury 29-March, 20): If you have made up

your mind what you want out of life, resist the pres- Burc of these who think they know better,

| ARIES (March 21-April 19); A white lie you must tell to

spare someone's feelings is entirely excused by its kind- ly motive. TAURUS (April 20-May 201:

By catering to your every whim, someone is making it difficult for you to refuse

im a favour. GEMINI (May 21-June 211: An old acquaintance whom you take for granted would very much like to becomie your friend. CANCER (June 22-July 21);

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You may find that u matter you have been asked to keep secret is in fact alrently well known to many. LEO (July 22-August 21): It would be petly to dis- parage un associate's pro- ject jual because you are not likely to share in its benefits.

VIRGO (Augnat 22- September 22): A tem- purgry Reparation from a person of the opposite sex will make you realise how- dependent you have become on your frequent meetings. LIBRA (September

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Hug-

October 22): Don't your relationship with your partner by refusing to pologise If you are in the

wrong. SCORPIO

(October 23- November 21): it won't hurt you to try to be more demonstrative to someone clove to you who craves affection SAGITTARIUS (November

22-December 21): Get in touch with a friend who does not

know where to

reach you and la anxious to ascertain if there is any thing wrong. CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 20): A nice sum

of money will soon come your way without any ap preciable effort on your purt.

YOUR LUCKY CARD: I

today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the JACK of HEARTS,

Rupert and the Rugger Match-26

The King of the Dirds leads the way into a large, uffice, and Rupert finds himself facing= learned-looking parrot, who gazes at him keenly, Ah, the little bear, himself! Good, good." says the parrot.

"Your discovery is most important. Be sure you tell

us all you know and my clerk shall enter every detail in this book.*** In his bewilderment Rupert einnot think of anything to say, so the King leads him out and they witch another atately bird approaching. carrying something on a large velvet cushina. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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