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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938.

seasons are

.At this time of year, when the

changing, people often feel weary and blood gets out of order. A change in food is an excellent remedy, so Dr. MARY ANTHONY prescribes for readers a good

ADULTS

and children, while they enjoy the brighter days, sometimes feel weary and tired in the carly spring.

Winter foods no longer ap- peal, yet spring salads and now potatoes and forced vegetables are still too expensive for the average household.

Food must, however, contain a certain amount of mineral salts and vitamins to produce energy and to keep the body well.

M

SPRING

DIET

should be omitted. Certain cereals vegetables contain it, as also may be too heating; heavy does fresh fruit or a small cream sweets for dessert must be dose of yeast.

Fr is important at this given up, also such vegetables as Vitamin C is the essential

protection against scurvy.

time of year, when parsnips or root artichokes. the blood gets out of order, to There should be un increased This is sometimes seen in have plenty of vegetables or consumption of milk or milk und undernourished men or women who soda water, with plenty of barley have to live on a few shillings per fruit on the menu.

lemonade week. Tomatoes, beetroots and oranges water and home-made are fairly cheap and make a valu- available. able addition to the meal. Stale

They come into the out-patient Stimulants should be curtalled. department of a hospital complain- flushing of the ing of aching limbs and bleeding eggs, vegetables or fruit lose most They may entise

There аге discoloured if not all of their health-giving skin and blind boils if indulged in gums.

reason too frequently by sensitive subjects. patches on the face and hands and qualities; and that is one

Housewives may be interested in a want of general fat. Plenty of why signs of malnutrition are very

an account of the vitamins and the fresh milk, orange juice, tomato common to-day,

juice or limejuice will soon restore In the household where money is foodstufts which contain them. tight, bread is the largest item ont Vitamin A is useful for prevent their general health.

weekly budget and the amount ing infections such us colds and

Fruits containing Vitamin C are left for milk, eggs, butter and vege- chest trouble, and the best of it is oranges, bananas, pineapples, lemons, tables is too little. But fortunately that this important element is found pears, carrots and lettuce also con- cggg are cheup now. and every in such ordinary things us milk, thin it. advantage should be taken of this. cream, butter and egg yolk. These

The

Vitamin D is necessary for grow- dairy products have also got protec- ing children and is found in dairy tive powers for mal

maintaining health. produce, in Osh and in cod liver or vegetables which contain halibut oil. YOUNG people and of Vitamin A are: Spinach, turnip

With regard to the minerals in fice workers suffer tops, carrots, swedes, turnips, to-

tomato the diet, bread, our simple food, in and orange with from minor skin troubles at this sether

these. Lime found in juice. Meat such as liver also con- rich in time of the year.

malik, cheese, tains this vitamin.

cauliflower and egg Sometimes too many violent pur- The next vitamin, known as B, yolk; phosphorus in egg yolk, wheat gatives are taken in an effort to rid is rather more elusive in its results, and oals. Iren is found in cabbage, the body of these impurities. A and it is easier to mention the peas, potatoes, carrots and spinach,

Epsom salts before troubles which small dose of

by the breakfast once or twice weekly may lack of it.

are caused

It will be easy for the housewife to arrange her spring menu so that

be useful in the case of a full- For instance, a feeling of general the meal contains many of these blooded person, but ordinarily this weariness, want of appetite and loss elements, is not necessary.

.

of energy all point to something Freshness, cleanliness and good

The whole diet should be re- missing from the food. Potatoes, cooking are the essentials of a sound arranged, however.

Fried foods peas, beans

and most ordinary dietary.

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Spring Cookery

LAMB

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it? By its fresh-looking, pale red meat, by its small- Mr. BUSINESSMAN ness, which should be combined with a fair proportion

of fat which is white to the eye and firm to the touch.

Beneath the warm brown of its "outside" meat and the transparent gold of its skin, the cooked lamb should still have: an attractive pallor when it is carved. In other words, it should be well cooked.

Give it plenty of Time

ANY one who thinks that the roasting of lamb can be skimped because it is young and tender will find that it proves to be tough and red-faced at the slightest under-cooking.

is

the

Mint sauce is the clusale companion So if you are going to have a to roast lamb, and very rightly so, shoulder (which should weigh some- Unfotunately, it is often wrongly where about 5lbs.) or a leg (lbs.) ONCE read an article by all you had to do was to talk to n story-teller and I agreed to submit

made. A deplorable shortage of I am going to give no choice of re- the question to Mr. Gammond. Dorothy Dix in which woman about herself.

And the same technique works Mr. Gummond listened, kicked mint is too frequently in evidence, cipes. Roast it.

And, when the minimum of mint is Another delicious, if somewhat "Talk to a man about me under the table, and then said: she claimed she was tired with men:

target, or forequarter minus men who ever ruled the man is right. It is from the Bible."

doubly devastating. of always hearing lectures shrest said Disraeli, one of the "Dale, you are wrong. The gentle-unout in the coarsest of vinegar, the inelegant, joint for roasting is the

40 (0lbs.) especially be British Empire, "talk to a man about On our way home that night I When I I say that only the best shoulder to brides.

himself and he will listen for hours." said to Mr. Gammond: "Frank, you vinegar should be used, I am not recommended for those who con- She declared that someone

chorus sider that the most entrancing part So if you want people to like you knew that quotation

joining the silly modern which insists that a wine vinegar is of young lamb is its delicate fat. ought to take the bridegroom -Make the other person feel import- Shakespeare."

"Yes, of course," he replied, the only possible one for any Two ways with Them to one side and give him this ant, and do it sincerely.

"Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2. But we pose. A good honest, malt vinegar bit of sage advice:

were guests at a festive occasion,

Matrimony is no place for con- Why He Kicked Me

dour. It is a feld for diplomacy.

If you wish to fare sumptuously

every day, never knock your wife's

Under The Table

housekeeping or make invidious SHORTLY after the close of

mother's.

thav

wes from

my dear Dale. Why prove to a man he is wrong? "He didn't

ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle." comparisons between it and your of the war I learned an in- The man

"Always avoid the acute angle" But, on the contrary, be forever valuable lesson one night in the man who said that is now dead; lesson that he taught me praising her domesticity and London.

goes marching on. openly congratulate yourself upon I was manager at the time for Since then I have listened to, having married the only woman Sir Ross Smith. During the war criticised, engaged in and watched who combines the attractions of Sir Ross had been the Australian the effects of thousands of argu- Venus and Minerva and Mary ace out in Palestinc; and, shortly ments.

after

declared,

As a result of it all. I have come Even when the steak is leather, astonished the world by flying half to the conclusion that there is only

แล don't complain. Merely remark way around it in 30 days.

one way under high heaven to get that the meal isn't up to her usual I was attending a banquet one the best of an argument and that Avold it as you would standard of perfection, and she night given in Sirr Ross's honour; is to avoid it. will make a burnt offering of her and during the dinner, the man uit- avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. self on the kitchen stove to live ting next

to me fold a humorous story which hinged on the quotation, Let Your Wife Don't begin this too suddenly-or "There's a divinity that shapes our

ends, rough-hew them how we will."

The raconteur mentioned that the quotation was from the

Ann.

up

ideal of her. your

she'll be suspicious.

But to-night, or to-morrow night, bring her some flowers or a box of sweets. Don't merely say, "You, I bughs to do it." Do it! And bring her a smile in addition, and some warm words of affection.

Would you like to know how to make woman fall in love with you?

peace

was

Bible. He was wrong. I knew

that

he

And so, to get a feeling of import-

It is not. He stuck to Ng

Win The Argument CONSTANT, the head valet in

is what we want.

Washed & Dried

THE

THE best end of neck (4lbs) and the loin (4lbs.) fall into a somewhat different category. of course, to be HAVING got it we will forget These, too, are, HA

about it until the mint and roasted as whole Joints, but they can also be divided into cutlets sugar have been properly mixed.

Or for entrees at a solitary diners. This process is not followed by the and chops for very small families or vast majority of the electorate, dinner party, which only shows that far too many Here are two suggestions for the people have the vote.

latter: Wash the young mint leaves well, Fry the cutlets and

serve them and dry them by shaking them in with a brown sauce and a puree a cloth. Then chop them finely and made by stirring sieved mashed put them into a basin by heaped potato into a thick onion sauce, with tablespoonfuls. To every three of the final addition of a beaten yolk these add one heaped tablespoonful of egg. of castor sugar, mix together, and Or coat the cutlets with egg and icave covered up for half an hour.

breadcrumbs, fry them, and serve Then add alx tablespoonfuls of them with a Bechamel sauce to vinegar, and let the sauce stand for which have been added cooked an hour before it is wanted. Clear green peas and dice of carrot. gravy should occupy the other sauce- boat,

Serve it Plain

You can, if you like, alter the pro- portions of the ingredients to suit

your own taste, but do not alter the Napoleon's household, often method.

Roast is Best

unce and display my superiority, I played billiards with Josephine appointed myself ns on unsolicited Nine times out of ten an argument and unwelcome committee of one to ends with each of the contestants correct him.

being more firmly convinced than Well, here is the secret.

Duna What? ever that he is absolutely right. my iden I borrowed- it from From Shakespeare? impossible! Constant says on Page 73, Volume Dorothy Dix.

I, of his "Recollections of the Private Sho

Interviewed a ccle-

Lite of Napoleon": "Although I had brated bigamist who had won the

some skill, I always managed to let hearts and savings-bank accounts THE story-teller was sitting on her beat me, which pleased her ex- of 23 women. (And, by the way, it

my right; and Mr. Frank ceedingly."

Let's learn a constant lesson from our customers

oned

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ought to be noted in passing that Gammond, an old friend of mine, Constant. Let's': let

When she asked him his recipe Was sented at my left.

she interviewed him in gaol.). .......

and sweethearts and husbands and

for making women fall in love with Mr. Gammond find· devoted years wives beat us in the little discussions him, he said it was no trick at all: to the study of Shakespeare. So the that may arise.

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THE slightly less ornate, but less expensive, chop should be either grilled or fried, and is really best when served with little embellishment us possible.

A grilled tomato, if you like, or a

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THERE is no doubt that the few mushrooms, but why not serve full, sweet favour of young just a little mint sauce with it os famb can only be got by roasting you would with the largest roast? the joint. Its character is lost when Two things, above all, were ob- it is slewed. and such dishes as viously destined to go with lamb blanquette of lamb are not among mint sauce and new potatoes.

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