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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1987.

Be your own Fashion Expert

HOW to KNOW

your STUFFS

T'S casy to be well-dressed if you can have your clothes designed and made by the first-class fashion houses.

But if you're planning your wardrobe your- sulf you have a lot to learn before you can produce their effects of style and smartness,

First of all you must understand the basis of fashion-materials. Every season brings out sheaves of new fabrics; you must know which to choose among them... which will wear which is the most suitable to use for different cuts and designs which will keep its shape. Test it this Way FABRICS you'll be looking through now are the woollens and suitings for dresses, overcoats, suits, tailormules Suitings are in a class by themselves; you will use them for strictly tailored suita and costs.

You need a material with a strong, close, heavy surface which will keep its shape and line, stand up to bad weather, and show off the cut of the suit. Choose a cloth that might be used for a man's suit and you can't go far

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wrong.

Here are few feats you apply to make certain you are getting what you wont. Suppose you are choosing stuff for a suit you'll be wearing every day tas Hold a length of the material up to the light; the tensparerey will show you the looseness of the weave. Handle the stuff and avoid the very loose-mesh fabrics, they will quickly loose their shape.

Then pull a thread out of the width of the fabric (better do this with a small pattern, or you'll be rather unpopular in the shop) and see how tightly each thread is twisted. The tighter it is, the harder to unravel, the more likely it will be to keep its shape, because the

threads will go... buck. ailer stretching.

Silk lining Helps

I you're buying

frock, treat yourself to

for

or

one of the new rough, pebbly patterned woollens, and face the fact, that they are bound to stretch a bit. One Invaluable rule for helping dresses keep their shape is to fine the skirt with a band of, say, jap Rik, cut lengthways, reaching about half-way down the 'skirt. This takes the pressure when you sit or bend.

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Another good tip is to put amall silken hem round the skirts of frocks made of very soft materials, such ng angoru, to prevent them clinging to the calf of your leg.

Always line conts with a heavy silk to make them hang well.

Sometimes good material-the rather woolly-looking sort-fluffs up and looks shabby when you've been wearing it for about a forl- night. That needn't discourage you

wear it for another fortnight and. you'll find it looks quite all right, again,

..

When buying Silk

You can apply some

of

these rules to silks. Make up your mind whether you want real silk or artificial. Wien you're buying silk handle it well. Real silk feels soft and warm in the hand, and has a faint squeak when you rub it

should together. It hardly creuse at all.

Rub it up in your fingers; it It's crisp and has a faint shine, you'll know that it's loaded, won't wash. well,

There's an easy way of telling the quality of artificial silk: take a plece in your hands and pull it both ways. The threads should hardly move, and what movement there is should be even.

Stuff that pulls pdly one way will obviously airetch in wearing.

Lucy Milner

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Rabbit Pie

Stuffed Pancakes

Savoury Cream Cheese

Plan of life for a 3-MONTHS

BABY

AVERAGE weight at 12 week

12 pounds: average height, 24 inches; average gain in weight per week, GoSIDER, DIET

Five feeds a day at four-hourly intervals. Usual hours 8 am 10. o... 2 p.m.. 6 p.m. und 10 p.m. Quantity of food goes by baby's baby's weight. Give 21⁄2 times poundage in liquid ounces. Thus 12 pound baby requires 12 x 2-or 30 quid ounces of food over the five feeds.

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To make modified cow's milk for three-months old baby toke 114 times halled milk to one of boiled water.

To that add one level tea- spoonful pure granulated sugar to each pound of weight. Thus for 12-pounds baby give! 18 ounces milk, 12 ounces water and 12 level tea- spoonfuls of sugar.

Also needed; Three drops concen- trate sh liver of and three ter- spoonfuls of diluted and sweetened orange or tomato juice. Give this during waking interval between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m: feeds.

THE ple is made with rabbit and pickled pork, and very good, too.

The pancakes can be made (very thin) before the meat, and each one rolled up and stuffed -either · with -jam: or...-fruit-purce....Dr.. some of the mince-meat that may be over from Christmas. Keep them hot in the oven and at the with last moment powder them fine castor sugar .or with icing. sugar and pass them quickly under the grill. You may have a jam sauce or white wine sauce with them if you wish.

The

cheese cream

is mnde savoury by being beaten up be- forehand twith,

clinpped sau, parsley and a tiny fraction of very finely minced onion, or with a judicious addition of mired i herbs.

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SLEEP

OLD

Requires nineteen hours out of the twenty-four. Should be awoke and not crying for at least two hours. CLOTHES

Three layers of the wool or fine silk and wool materiais not longer than 19 inches. Vest, simple pet- ficoot and

Long gown.

woollen bootees and light woollen sult for out of doors.

HYGIENE

Clothes should be washed every other day. Ten napkins during the

the twenty-four hours. Is

average requliement,

FRESH AIR

In

Cold dry air is the most bealthy for tiny bables. Keep Indoors warm but fully ventilated room dur- Ing heavy rain or fog. EXERCISE

Should be allowed to kick with vest and pants on before bath time and during afternoon, for twenty minutes at least.

Have you ever tasted ·

CELERIAC?

ASK your greengrocer about it. Celeriac is a root vegetable with a subtle flavour rather like celery, but it has the advantage of never being stringy. It is very good served with roast meat or chicken.

Brush and wash the roots (they cost about threepence cach); peel them and cut up into fairly small pieces, not more than half n-inch thick. As you do this be careful to cut out the browny pieces you will find, rather like the eyes in potatoes. Soak the pieces for an hour in cold water.

Then put them inlo on enamel

от earthenware

saucepan

Mied

soft,

The

NURSERY

and the

KITCHEN

By

Ambrose Heath

SARA are always racking their

SARAH said: "I wonder how many

brains to find something specially ex- citing for the nursery; how to dis- gulse rice pudding or lapioca pudding and to make the children's dishes more interesting and amusing. I ex- peet most of 'em give it up utter a blt (and go on dishing up the same things day after day. Couldn't you help them with a few suggestions, Mr. Heath?"

So this is what we selected together as a few tips. Tapioca Appies -

COOK three tablespoonfuls of

large toploca in a pint of

milk with a flavouring of the yellow part of a lemon peel for three or four hours, using a double saucepan if possible.

Take half n dozen medium-sized cooking apples,' pare and core them and cut them in quarters, and stew them in a little syrup, When they and the tapioca are done, put half the tapioen its a fireproof glass dish, then add half the appic, then the other half of the tapioca, the other half of opple, and cover with a good layer of apricot jam. Pul in the oven for 20 minutes, and it is ready.

| Chocolate Junket,

PUT into a saucepan a pint

of milk, two ounces sugar, and a quarter of a pound grated chocolate. Sur this mix

of

over a low fire until it is bikeasti and then add two tablespoon of

touch rennet and if you like a

ok ivanilla essence. (If the chocolate Is

this Ivanilla-flavoured, leave

out). Let the junkel set in a glass dish, and decorate it perhaps with little blobs of whipped cream. Caramel Rice

INTO a double saucepan put

two ounces of Carolina, rico with a pini of mith and the Anely grated rind of a lemon, and let it cook until all the milk is absorbed, which will take about two hours on a very slow Ore. Then let it cool just a little and add two beaten eggs and sugar to taste.

Meanwhile have ready a caramet mixture, made by cooking two ounces. of lonf sugar with about two table- spoonfuls of water until the sugar is a golden brown and not tod dark. Roll this caramel round the sides and bottom of a tin dish so that it is coated all over and quite hard. Now put in the rice mixture, cover with a greased paper and steam gently for three- quarters of an hour. Then turn

out and serve.

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If you want it cold, let the tin cool a little before you turn the mould out. Strawberries and Cream

In

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winter-time? Here is an ingenious sub- stitute. Chop up some bananas, ripe ones, about half a dozen, and put

them into a basin with a good cover- purce ing of strawberry jam. Make

dish. of them and spread it in a Cover with a gill of whipped cream.

with boiling water flavoured with Two Leek Dishes Colt Chocolate Custard

Are

they salt, and boil ill which will take at least an hour. Then drain, preserving the water for soup.

Press the vegetable through 11 sieve with 25 wooden spoon ar vegetable presser. Put the erlerlac back into the saucepan, keeping the flame very low, odd salt and pepper and quite a bit of butter to taste. Add as much cream You spare, failing that milk or bechamel sauce,

JLS

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The water celerine hos beeri boiled in, with celery or onions ori carrots, makes the foundation for a delicious soup.

4 Questions for Wives

What is the secret of making good mint sauce?

2. What are the essentials of a good larder?

How can you prevent baked custards from curdling or becoming watery?

4.

ANSWERS est some uses for emply jam jars.

1. More mint than vinegar. Most people serve it the other way about. Be lavish with your mint and with the sugar. To sprinkle the mint with a little castor sugar helps the chopping.

2. Your larder should face north and must be directly ven- tiated from the outside air. It should be fitted with a wire gouze window; shelves are best made of marble, stone, slate, or any other cold material.

3. Place the piedish In which the custard is prepared in a baking tin quarter filled with cold water, If you bake the custard in this instead of directly on an oven shelf, it will not become watery or curdle.

4. The modern jum jar with screw or patent top serves many good uses. The larger glass varieties are ideal for stores of sugar, tea, coffee, rlee; the smaller ones for herbs, seasonings, or for first ald items: bandages, safety pins, bornele crystals. A large stone Jar will hold your supply of soda ar soap-ilakes, or is à bundy receptacle for floor cloths or brushes.

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Leeks au-grutin

Cut up a pound and a half of the white part of some leeks In rounds about half an inch thick, and cook them for * quarter of an hour in boiling salted water. Drain them care- fully and thoroughly, mix them with three-quarters of a pint of Bechamel Sauce, season them, put the lid on the pan, and let them cook gently for half an hour.

Then pour them into a shal- low fireproof dish, sprinkle over them some fine white breadcrumbs, dot them with butter, and let the dish brown in the oven for about twenty minutes.

Leck Salad

It is not generally known that leeks make quite a good salad. For this small leeks should be used, and their white part only. But they should not be cut up: just cooked whole in bolling salted water for half an hour.

They should then be drained. arranged in their dish when cold, and dressed with ordin- ary French dressing or a dress- Ing or a dressing composed of oil and vinegar (three parts oil, one part vinegar), salt, pepper, and chopped capers, chives, chervil, and parsley,

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DIS

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ounces ISSOLVE six

chocolate in a, mint and a half of milk, sweeten to taste, bring to the boil and ball for Ave minutes, being careful that it does not burn. Let it then gel practically cold and add the yolks of Ave eggs and the white of one beaten together. Butler

mixture a mould, pour in the

and steam for an hour.

Turn out when it is cold, and de- corate it if you like with splintered blanched almonds. Serve & cold creamy chocolate sauce with it if you care to.

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