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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1987.

Have

you

had flu?

Health and Beauty Notes by a

London Dietician

bolted lose much of their value, and may start digestive troubles.

Breakfast-fruit, fresh_or tinned; porridge

or cercal and milk; cug baked with butter or bacon and to- matoes; weak tea or coffee and milk.

Lunch-Omelette or 'macaroni cheese; or salad with egg, cream cheese; or sardines,

Any of the crisp kinds of ryc 10 most people the re- or wheaten bread and butter--if turn to ordinary life you do not have the salad, have Home watertress or an apple with

is the hardest part of 'flu. your bread.

One feels so depressed and A plass of milk or milky coffee weary, and it is hard to bollevé or cocoa.

that life can ever again be some- thing to enjoy.

Tea-Anything

like- Hou bread and butter, cake, Proper food will do much to help you over this stage and give biscuits-but do eat something you back your normal fitness and with your cup of tea.

zest.

Regular Meals

Dinner-Soup--the tinned

It is not, in the case of normal- excellent anul nourishing.

To avoid that Sunday Monday monotony-

Plan

your

week-end

meals

TO-DAY

and packet kinds are

Add

"W

ly healthy people, necessary to keep milk to the cream ones.

to a strict diet, but some extra niten-

tion should be paid to one's food;

Fish in any form—a grilled

and meals should be taken at regular herring or mackerel has a very hours. Regular meal times are of high food value. great Important to health faci

which is very often forgotten by busy Grilled chop or steak, or any people.

Women, mostly, are the offenders: roast. meat or poultry; or stews see made of fresh meat and vege men as a whole

demand, and

A large helping of green intervals, and take reasonable time vegetables or celery, carrots, or over them--another important point. onions and potatoes. To get the Most flu victims find that they best out of a potato, hoil or bake have lost weight as well as and need some building-up. Milk, it in its jacket.

that they get, their food at regular tables,

green vegetables, fresh

as energy

meat and

frult and the more nourishing kinds

Milk puddings, custards, and

of fish, such as herrings, turbot, and any kind of stewed or tinned sardines, will all help you to regalo fruit or cheese. your fitness and your good looks.

Suitable Diet

This type of diet will help to malte

and keep you fit, and you will not

weight if you put on exCUSS

take

The following suggestions for meals reasonable exercise and drink plenty are suitable for normally healthy of water between meals. people living and working in our average winter weather-a

good. There is no reason why you should breakfast, a light but not scrappy not have fruit juice, fresh or bottled, lunch, a satisfying meal in the even with your water; it can only do you ing, and something hot before going good.

to bed. There are a number of

Plan your meals carefully and have excellent concentrated foods on the

this what you feel like and as much of IL market from which to choose nightcop; all of them can be prepared as you want. Meals should be a minute And they not only pleasure. Most of the food suggested nourish but help to give you a good can be easily obugirt and quickly prepared, and there is room for night's sleep.

Eat slowly and in comfort: meals plenty of variety.

BUYING GUIDE

There are two sorts of

T

Straw Hats

HERE is as much technique

That is a finely plaited hood, neither matt nor shiny. There is usually a square or oval on the very, top of the crown of even finer plating.

Paribuntal is not affected-by- weather it does not become limp and depressed on a rainy day, and it is very light to wear. Excellent with summer dresses.

So is its cousin, ballibuntal; prac-

in buying a straw hat as in tically the same to look at, though of buying material for a dress iner weave. These straws both have Hat straws vary in durability a plaited appearance. and purpose as much as frocks. '

It is sensible to choose a hord- So you should not confuse them a fine criss- wearing straw for the hat you are with balu, which has

cross weave like linen or canvas. It going to wear a lot.

divide straws into is rather a delicate straw, best with Milliners "course" and "exotics" (the fine de- really light summer frocks.

ones). There is another dis- tinction between blocked and stitch- Like a child's Hat ed bats. A stitched hat is made by sewing a long

of straw round and round itself in the shape you want. The other kind is blocked it looks into shape from a hood.

thin strip

Can stand a Wetting

IF your summer hut is made

PAPE

APER panama is soft, and comfortable to wear, too. like an ultra-fine, 'extra- white version of a child's school hat, and has e papery feel. Milliners dye panama all shades this year; black, navy, yellow, and many delicate pastels.

of a matt, rather spongy

They dye leghorn, too. Remember straw, and stitched, it is probably pedaline: that is about the best your Sunday hat, about twenty years medium-priced utility straw. It takes ago, with its cornflowers, popples, and less harm from a wetting than most ears of wheat? You won't be for wrong if you choose something similar Most of the canrser plaits will Бес you through the summer. You can, this season.

estimate their length of life ist Let yourself Go

the

by looking at them. See that straw is not so brittle that the top skin will peel off where the strands cross. Apart from this there are no pitfulls.

Fine but Sturdy

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YOUR beach hat can be mode of straw material, or any- thing else. Have you seen the print- ed tennis shades with n pirate's handkerchief for the crown? Very casual and attractive; the hankle of neck. Linen or

the "exotics" the sturdiest knots at nope is probably paribuntal. cellular material hats are good, too.

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by HESTER

VALENTINE

EEK-ENDS are a nuisance;" a

young married friend said to me yesterday.

"Sunday lunch is easy, but after that my imagination goes no further than cold meat and rissoles.

What is one to do?"

"Sit

Friday morning

town every

for

ten

minutes and plan ahend," I replied firmly. "Ten

minutes' concentrated

thinking may be an effort, but it is much pleasanter than two whole days of worry."

"But there is so Hitle

I could think about: you see, my cookery repertoire is sadly limited."

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"Very well then, come round to me every Friday for the next few weeks and see

what you can learn from my week-end plans."

Menu book

I went over to the

writing table. and took out my menu bookt. "Now this Sunday, for instance," TSA}}, "RE ar: having:

MIDDAY Roast leg of lamb and mint sauce

New potatoes and peas Black current fool "And this is now I intend Monday:-

Cold

MIDDAY

Lamb

EVENING

Pea soup Stuffed curried eggs and

salad

Raspberries and cream

to use up the remains on

EVENING:

and mint sauce

Hot lamb ples Carrots and salad Sour milk chape

Fried potatoes and

broad beans

Coffee Mousse

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"Stuffed curried eggs. Allow two eggs to a person and bell them for twelve minutes. Cut then in halves crosswise, remove and put the yolks into a basin.

"With a wooden spoon work the yolks to a paste with a lump of butter, salt, pepper, a pinch of mixed spice, curry powder to taste, chopped parsley and a good squeeze of lemon juice.

"Fill the egg whites with this delicious mixture and put them on a bed of lettuce and cucumber.

"Mr. Valentine will be working on Monday, and Harold will be at school. Clementine and I will be alone

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"Now you should always decide on and order your meat on Thursday or carly on Friday morning. You will be more likely to get a good joint if you do this. for lunch.

"As I am lucky enough to have a garden, all I shall "On a cold plate we shall have some cold lamb and need to do on Sunday morning is to pick the black cur- mint sauce and on hot salad plates to one side we shall rants and peas, dig the potatoes, and pull the lettuces, have broad beans and fried potatoes the left-overs from but as you have no garden I advise you to order black- Sunday. currants and the potatoes, which are heavy, to be deliver- · ed on Saturday..

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THEN, go out yourself on Saturday morning

marketing is the greatest fun once you be come interested in it-und choose lettuces, a cucumber, a small bundle of parsley, a large bundle of mint, peas (allow 3lbs. for four people), carrots and spinach. Re- member also to order a shillingsworth, of cream, and least a dozen eggs from the dairy.

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"Lamb pics are excellent either hot or cold. Remove, trim and chop up the remaining meat from your leg of lamb. Season it well with salt, pepper and grated onion. Then prepare pastry.

"Rub 4oz. butter or lard (I'usually take half of each) into ib, four, add a pinch of salt and half a cupful of "The Sunday lunch is straightforward to prepare. hot milk. Add to this the yolk of a small egg. Roll the Remember to make the mint sauce two or three hours paste out fairly thin and let it stand for fifteen minutes. before the meal.

"The pea soup for supper is made from pea pods. When you cook the peas for lunch save the water they were bolled in and the poda.

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(T INE some little round pie pans with paste, all "LINE with ment, sprinkle with water, and

"You make the soup in this way: simmer two or cover with a lid of paste. Pinch the edges well together three small sliced onions in an ounce of butter for three and brush each ple over with white of egg. Bake in: minutes. Remove from the stove and stir in (violently moderate oven for 35 to 40 minutes.

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