1938-01-17 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1938,

Three

smart

girls do

housework

Just to prove to you that there's no need to let yourself look dowdy on the days you stay in and do a hit of work around the house. No reason why overalls shouldn't be pretty as well as practical. Choose bright colours rather than chintzy patterns, keep the cut trim, and not sloppy, and if unexpected callers drop in you'll be well dressed to meet them.

Drawn by ROBB

YOU'LL FIND IT EASY. to relax ́after a hard morning's work in this trouser suit. The slacks are made of mulberry coloured face cloth, tailored, Irun, with narrow turn-ups. Coat (cut like a Victorian's smoking. jacket) is in grass-green corduroy, faced ith big revers, cuffed and helteil with mulberry-green and mulberry scarf tucks in raund the nech.

AN ARTIST'S SMOCK is al- ways becoming. Bor- Tow the idea and em- brolder on it by having it made in crease- resisting Unen, bright butcher bine, and put the smocking round the top and lacing down the front in

crimson, Keep the sleepes wide to let Them

castly turn p and the the kerchief round your head be fore you patel the smock on; it will save your curls.

YOU WILL LOOK SOPHISTICATED even

when you're brushing the fuor in this all-over coat in

Ta

Halibut Recipos

ITALIBUT 15 at its best just now.

HALU I At its best that wit ille

delicate flavouring juices are retained

bake it in in cooking this h tightly-covered casserole.

Tu mako halibut on casserole pu?

casserole, and 3) oze butter into Cheat over a low gas jet. Wheri hot. add onions, chopped timely, and fry gently to a golden brown. Add

and chopped parsley, demerispoon pepper and salt to taste. Put a thick lice of halibut on top and fry lightly on both sides (about five minutes in +all.)

Around the halibut arrange 4-5 tu +maloes, cut in halves, with a deal of pepper abd salt on each ball: put one or two date of butlar on top of the hailbut, and pour about 14 Frille in the casserole, Do not use too much milk, an a fair amount of moisture comes from the fish. Cover, tightly, and cook in a moderate oven. ttil the fish is tender, when tried with a tork. The time will depend on the thickness of the fab. Berve from the casserole.

Helibut au Vin Diane

Tills

may krem a more expensive" way of cooking halibut, but a 10 wat butlle of white wine can be used, several times, so it is not really an "extravagance.

Cut a good-sized alico of halibut into pieces, and place in a conserule withi 2 za butter cut into small pieces. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, id ap Idasis of paprika, and just cover with while wine, and a very Httle water Cover

closely, and couk 1. tender. out sh, place nit a dish, and keep hot.

What do

hite the liquor stir the beaten yolka at 2 eps, and a Hul of hulter. Ad

small leagoon chopped parsley, and rehenl; Just before serving

julee of a lemuti. Do not reheat, 'af*' ter adding the lemon juice, as tiria) would cause the eggs to curdle. Pour The sale quickly over the hallot and serve at once.

you do when he's late for lunch?

IN one house I know they use a war time air raid rattle to an- nounce lunch. The rattle has a range of about 300 yards, which makes sure that father hears. Sometimes he comes in (if he happens to have finished what he's doing or is particularly hungry).

More often he waits for five or ten minutes, knowing per- fectly well that the air raid signal has been given early just to ture him in on time. I guess this kind of thing happens in a good many families, -

They Like to take it Easy

F

RANKLY, Mrs. Smith, most men can't understand why five minutes this way or that should make such a lot of difference to a meal. For one thing they like to relax at home, and that alone makes them unwilling to be regimented into ext- ing by the stop-watch.

Timber-pelio Inssore DESSERT

fo the left). It buttons all

the

way down with nigger-HUBARB, which has

brown cooden buttons (30 it's_casy_to_slip_un_over_any.

mude its appearance in the shops, can be dress), and collar, cuffs and used to a variety of ways, and is

heavier pockets are faced with nig- welcome change from the per-brown velecteeni

tare of which we have grown a little match the sash, Turban is tired. Also it is excellent as a blood in nigger-brown, too.

puritter.

BITS TO CUT OUT

Chestnuts v. Moths

on

The putting in

suge and onion fuls of castor sugar and the thin rind sluffing (which goes in the inside and juice of half a lemon.

Pour

of bolling a quart COLLECT horse chestnuts of these birds and not in the neck) water cover with a clean cloth and (the children call them you will keep your bird n good leave until cold. It's a fine thirst- conkers) in the early autumn when shape. Also the stuffing will be quencher, as well as being good for you go on country walks, and put easy to get al and won't spread about you if you have a cold. them in your drawers and ward- loosely in the body. robes. They will keep

your

fura

and clothes free from the moth. Best Barley Wator

Stuffing

Set Up Shoulders

DON'T boil the barley if

SILK shoulder straps some-

times slip about; i you want really deli- they do replace them with velvet velvet IF you stuff the ten per cous barley water. Take your tablet ribbon straps, puttingen

of the body of a duck or spoonfuls of pearl barley and put pile next the skin. Then they'll stay

stale bread before in a heated jug with two tablespoon- put.

goose with

Nut Sandwich

nut sandwiches any kind of

Fons can be used. They should

be toasted for a few minutes in the oven, or in front of the fire, and then chopped rather small.

Mix them with a little clotted or whipped cream and season to taste. The mixture may be made either sweet or savoury. Then put a thick layer of this inside a finger-shaped piece of pastry,

For sweet sandwiches gingerbread or any other plain cake may be used Instead of the pastry, and honey can be substituted for the cream,

B. M

$1 TIFFINS

at-

Jimmy's

Also A la Carte

China Bldg., Hongkong.

Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

to

Rhubarb Betty

3 cups of rhubarb, cut into inches;

1 cup caster sugar;

A little cinnamon and nutmeg:

Rind and Juice of 1 lemon;

Grated rind of 3 orange;

2 cups of white breadcrumbs;

Lablespoons of butter;

cup of water;

are

And besides, most of their meals

in -enten

restaurants. When Mr. Smith, for instance, goes to lunch at the grill round the commer he doesn't ring up first to say, "I'll be five minutes late to-day, so keep the food hot."

When he goes out dancing in the evening he doesn't exprel-the- fish will be cold just because he took Mrs. Smith on the dance floor immediately the soup was finished. So why, he thinks, does it have to happen at home?

no

And he's right. There's

Meet Mr. H. reason for it at all. Mullet, who's in charge of the Cull- nary

Theatre nf the

current Caterers' Exhibition ut Olympia. He's also chief chef in the big new Enri's Court building.

Mr. Mallet has a home of his own, and he never ents cold food there, never even uses one of thyse electric hot plates.

Add crumbs to melted butter, Mix lemon and orange rind, sugar, and spice together. Cover the bot- tom of a fireproof dish with quarter of the crumbs, then with half of the This rhubarb

how

Sprinkle with the sugar and spice he does It

mixture, then with another quarter ATOR does he half cook the

with

rc-

NOR

food and then finish it off at All he uses the very last moment.

reclay tureens.

Here's how it works. In with

of the crumbs. Cover mainder of the rhubarb, then with remainder of the sugar and spice is hot fireclay bricks and thick ching mixture. Mix lemon juice and water together and sprinkle over, then cover with remainder of the crumbs. Cover closely, bake 45 minutes in moderate oven, then uncover and brown quickly, serve with cream custard sauce,

Rhubarb Custard Ple

2 cups rhubarb;

2 level tablespoonfuls cornflour;

1 cup boiling water;

14 teaspoonful salt;

1 CES

2 tablespoontuis cold water;

the roast in the oven you put a number of ordinary builders' bricks and also one of These Areproof or earthenware

the tureens. When joint is finished, put it in he tureen, which by then will be quite hot.

the Then take

of bricks out the oven and put them on a metal i tray. (Cover the tray with paper first for protection.) Then put the tureen on the bricks.

Nothing expensive or unpractical

about

the this. Mr. Malict USCA 1 cupfui sugar;

method In his own home. One time Shortcrust pastry (about 6 oz.) when he was living in a house in Moisten the cornflour with the cold which the dining-room and kitchen water, then add the bolling water were al different ends of a long pos-. and cook until it thickens. Add sage he had the fish and the meat rhubarb, chopped very inely, and course (on bricks) brought in to- stir till it boils. Cover, and allow gether.

to cool. Line a deep pic-plate with And when they started on the shortcrust.

meat it was beautifully hot.

Beat the egg til light and frothy, add sugar and salt. Add to rhubarb | mixture and pour into pie-plate, Rhubarb Trifte Bake til crust is cooked about half an hour. The while of egg will rise on top and brown like custard so

the lighter it in beaten the better.

Rhubarb Straws

Shortcrust pastry; Rhubarb;

Sugar,

1 lb rhubarb;

6 macaroons;

1⁄4 lb sugar;

Strip teman rind;

1 dessertspoonful cornflour;

pint of milk: Cochineal.

J. F.

Crumble the macaroons over the boltom of a gloss dialı.

Stew the

Roll out the pastry very thinly and rhubarb with the sugar and lemon cut Into strips of 4 ins by 2% ins. rind. When cool, pour it over the Cut the rhubarb into 3 Ins lengths. macaroon crumbs.

Make a custard

Lay a length on to a strip of pas- of the egg, milk, and cornflour, try, dredge thickly with sugar, damp sweeten to taste, and leave to cool. the edges of the pastry, roll up, and Pour It over the rhubarb in spoon- lay the rolls on a greased tin, Brush fute and leave till set. A little carter over tops of rolls with water, dredge sugar.. coloured with cochineal with sugar, and bake In quick oven makes a pretty garnish on top. 20 minutes.

Isobel

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