1938-02-23 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1938.

MEALS FOR LIVE-ALONES 2

Try these menus

on

THIRSTY

THE gentleman "on the

wagon" is a very dif-

ferent animal from the total abstainer.

Yet he, 100, has something of a

sweet tooth as a rule (to his surprise

MEN

and not altogether to his approval), on a bed of ice in shallow soup Is Just to have a dinner that you

Most of his tastes, however, are plates,

will enjoy yourself and let him eat

left over from gayer days. He will

munch sweets absent-mindedly, but

BEEF STEW

Three pounds of beef and two of

it or not as he sees fit.

Don't offer him wine; he's almost

reach.

his real interest is still in good meata lamb are boiled until tender, the sure to prefer stronger drinks, but und such things ns the shorper grease skimmed from the pot, and probably he'll drink anything within cheeses.

If he is a recent convert, he is pro-

salt and pepper added. bably slightly on edge, especially be carrots are bolled separately. Next, Ten small onions and ten small

Give this man tomato juice and fore

dinner, and inclined to be the juice from the carrots and cheese biscuits when he first arrives. crilical.

onlons is

Into the poured

and, He will be sure to come fortified any- stew, His entertainment, therefore, re- while the stew is not, but not bolling, way, and this will bring him at least. quires as much thought as that of a four tablespoonfuls of flour mixed part way back to scratch. gourmet.

It's a good idea to give him dishes with a little water are stirred in.

If you feel that you must, you can cooked with wine, since he will en- just long enough before serving for Wouldn't you like a whisky und joy them particularly and will un- them to heat thoroughly, and a little soda?" just before dinner is served. doubtedly congratulate himself on Madelra may be added for flavour. his sterling will power in being able (This is more than enough for two, to eat them without demanding a but beef stew is a dish that is delic drink.

But don't have any drinks around. but one.)

ious the next day, and, even the next- He is, actually, struggling more than he admits,

Above all, don't live a cocktail yourself before dinner. Unlike the teetotaler, he won't think you're de- praved; he'll think you're tactless. and he'll be right.

The carrots and onions are added

If he Drinks

Too Much

I

him any

Menu:

Onion Soup Cheese Croutons Tongue with Cumberland Sauce Asparagus

Hot Apple Tartă Port Salut Cheese Coffee

You'd better ure tinned soup, it your time or space is limited, since there are excellent varieties to be

"If he is an active fusser tell him you just love vegetables, and thought it would be fun to have a feast of them."

For the

Young Beau

You won't need recipes for this not very original, but thoroughly masculine, meal. But take a little trouble in buying the cheese..

If Digestion's

On his Mind

THERE are so many men around, with their diges- tion on their mind that you might as well make up a good menu for them. You'll have plenty of chance to keep in practice in preparing it.

Whether you do, it openly, or act Sa matter of fact, this as if it were the type of meal you is scarcely worth white to had. And sprinkle a little grated

must depend spend much time on meals cheese on the croutons before put be a beaut. He may be a nephew or meats or loves to tell about them.

always have, young man may not even whether he's reticent about his all- Instead, have tomato juice and for the Man Who Drinks Too Much ting them in the oven. cocktail biscuits before dinner is (or to spend much time

the younger brother of your current way), but you'll probably have to The tongue should be bailed, of young man.

Elther way, if you can feed him entertain him occasionally, the course (get a small one, since you're If you know him well, you also his diet and make it seem like a Live-Aloner, and a tongue lasts know what to do about drinks. If party, he'll think you're the only Perhaps he is a friend of your much longer than you sauce is winil, you don't, you will have to use your woman who understands him.

Perhaps you are indebted and the Cumberland made own judgment whether to

If he is an active fusser tell him to him for some special kindness, ing meat stock or a little concentrat fact that you are having sherry, and you just love vegetables, and thought merely by melting currant jelly, add the matter altogether or mention the (Heavy drinkers, disconcertingly, are often kind of heart.)

ed meat sauce, and some finely grat- is that what he would Ilkka?

It would be fun to have a feast of Perhaps, even, you are going to ed orange peel.

Beer Is the answer, more often them. This is, Incidentally, an easy The beef stew and coffee are all reform him.

if this menu is a bit difficult, Just than not, so you'd better be prepared plan to manage if you are getting

for 11. that you need to cook in this good Our advice-after urging you not serve him any menu

the meal yourself. masculine menu. Serve the oysters to look on him as a prospective benu venient.

Once that is settled, give him steak.

served. Here is the menu:-

Oysters

Beef Stew with Vegetables

Rolls Preservca

Alligator Pear Safad

Ripe Camembert, Toasted Water

Crackera Coffee

rest of us do.

BS

that is con.

Do We Leave Too Much

Those

To Amah?

Years

First Impressionable

Need Watching

IT would be a dull subject in- seven years of their lives, which, in him harm never for a moment on-

deed about which there were the case of parents living in the tro- tered her head.

pics, who have to send them home to

Possibly this is because

Is it not the Jesuits who

they

not two opinions. The bringing school by the time they are seven, is More Tributes up of children is such a interest- the only period during which ing one to those of us who have have a chance to mould their char- CHEILA Kaye-Smith in "The Child-j any and even, or so it seems to acters at all.

ren's Summer" and Eleanor me, to those who haven't, that

Acland in her unforgettable "Good- no two of us are in entire agree- "Give us the children for the first monuments to the old-fashioned Non- Say bye for the Present" have both left ment.

seven years and anybody can have nie. In the latter book the nurse was them after that"? By seven undoubtedly what would have been по two short, the foundations are Jaid, children are exactly alike and a Whether they are well and truly lald, yet she was so ignorant and so en-

termed in those days "a

treasure," theory that is vindicated when ap- only the adult that emerges from firely devold piled one child is an utter failure them will prove.

of imagination, that when applied to another.

one wonders how parents, themselves A It is obvious then that, If we hold 50-enlightened, could have tolerated Parents also differ enormously, the destinies of our children in our her presence in their household. There is the strict disciplinurian who hands, it is of the utmost Import- must have obedience at any cost and once to whom we transfer this heavy the one who wants her child's per responsibility if we cannot carry it sonality to develop at any cost! entirely ourselves,

Again, there is the parent who says Formidable Nannie

all she wants for her children is u

"Will you take me one day to see a hen laying an egg, Nannie?" asked the little girl thoughfully contemplat- ing her breakfast egg. "Any more nonsense like that, Miss Mary, and you'll be stopped and put in the cor-

happy childhood, which probably GENERATION ago, it was given her Be quiet and ent your break- means that all she wants is to be to a highly respected Noanie, in fast like a good girl,"

left in peace and the children can voluminous white apron and a bon- Pre-School Days get on with the being happy. Her net with sturched streamers,

who

more honest neighbour, plump and ruled the nursery and very often the

benign, smilingly admits that it is so entire household, including the par- HERE, in the Enst with our little much less effort to let children have ents, one of whom she had probably are almost inevitably more inter- anes still safely at our side, we their own way and have their own nursed and' spanked

thirty years way they doi ».

ested in the next stage, the school singe,

:

Taking It Seriously

previously.

It never occurred to any body that,

whatever she might have been to the We scan prospectures, weigh their ASTLY there is

the mother, previous generation, she was not ne merits and choose so carefully the generally not long past child-essurlly the ideal guardian for the school to which we hope to send the

children she had

presently, but do we always hood herself, who takes this parent next one. In her time business terribly seriously,

brought up so many children, which give sufficient thought to the pre- school days-those frat Impression- able years when habits and churne- grand-mother and great-aunt' have the labourer's wife who sald gone wrong and, text-book in hand, young Health Visitor sent by a bene-

secs

exactly where her own mother, aunt, fact alone gave her authority—ors are being formed?

in determined to do better by 11E volent Ministry of Health to invite At Home parents aro

her attendance at the Clinic: "And satisfied with old methods. The old no longer children.

do you think you know more about fashioned Nannie has given place to On the whole, though, it must be children than I do, when you've never a young, trained, nurse, competent admitted that parents there days, had none yourself and I've had ten in matters of health and hygiene, in probably as a result of education and and buried eight.

having also knowledge of child psychology,

of prossing the

of the dude Not Enough take the very seriously, from the earliest days

when to be breastfed or not to be TUIE Victorian Nannie would have Leaving It To Amah? breastfed, to go to bed with a light given her life, willigly, for her CUCII nurses are luxuries, which or to get accustomed to utter dark charges and her loyalty to the family ▷ few of us, here in the East, cun ness are momentous questions, up to was unimpeseliable, but, much as we afford. Do we, however, supervise loved her, we know now, or, if we the lives of our children as we ought, adolescence and beyond.

don't, we ought to, that these taud or do we leave most of it to amal? And so it should be, for, as ye saw, able characteristics are not in them- so shall yn reap and parents, with a selves sumeitat.

Who will suffer when the pamper- few outstanding exceptions, get the

ed children, lccustomed to kervanta

children they deserve, just as chil- R. L. Stevenson adored his old to fetch and carry for them, ko home dren become what their parents, nurse to whom in his 'manhond he and had that they no longer have knowingly or unknowingly have de- dedicated his famous "Child's Garden merely to order to be obeyed, that creed they shall be.

Responsibility

of Verses," but he admits that her they are nos reigning potentates any vivid teaching of Hell as everlasting more, but insignificant members uf damnation caused him Só lie awakë ล wider family in which there is no night after night, fearing to trust room, and alas no love, for the spoill ATO Child escaped the offects of its himself to sleep in caso he should leida maus" from the East. Nearly trips

him, ere to nivel, las

Will the children rite up then und

pably true that we make, or mar, olle That the teaching she gave this call us blessel? children's characters in the Brat most beloved pupil could possibly 410

Have alternative heaps of string Steak is, Incidentally, sure beans. fire with most men.

asparagus,

stewed peas,

It is preferred by practically all celery, broiled tomatoes, and small young men and unsophisticated men spinach moulds arranged on a round of any age, and by at least half of platter, and serve criep-bread bis- the rest of the sex, Substitute it for

cultu with the vegetables. the meat In most of these menus and you can't go very wrong. Vegetable Soup

raro

For a dieting guest who tries to conceal his dieting (a very bird), you can serve the samo plat- the centre, which will make it pos- ter with French chops arranged in

Baked Stufed Potatoes (or French take it but fail to eat it, without sible for him to skip the chop, or Fried Potatoes, if you can manage under-nourishment.

Steak (usk him how he likes

cooked)

Celery

them)

Peas

Radishes

- Fresh Fruit Pie and Cheshire

Clicese

With a simple but good soup first and fresh fruit or compote after- wards, you are almost certain to be a auccess with this guest.

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