THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1988,
Curried
Favourites
are Lesmpkinst
WURIUED dishes
unct generally Bad favour. The following dunited stew arcel ant be scompanied by the usual tice unless desired.
Melt ope dessert-spoonful margarine or butter ni i shallow pan: fry the sliced quarter of an upple in it. Trim all fat from one pound of round steak. Cut i neat pieces, and dust thickly with four; brown niet on both sides, onton and one Have ready one
carrot. Fry Bghtly other ingredients.
of
with the
Mix two hemped aspoonfuls
Indian
curry powder together
with
good squeeze of lemon julee, and very little water. Add this just before pouring in as much boiling water as will not
the quite cover
of the contents pan. Stir well until boiling. Re- duce heat, and allow to
Bimmer for three hours, or until meat is
tender. Stir Decasionally
And
add boiling water it necessary. Season with salt half an hour be. fore serving. Should a thicker gravy be required, dust in a little: more flour whilst browning the
meat.
Served with mashed potatoes, this dish will be welcomed on a cold day.
Curry and Cheese Sandwiches
$
These dainty morsels have piquant flavour, and will find popularity with those who have a liking for curry,
First, grale about three table- spoonfuls of cheese into, a pan.
Add just a little milk. Allow 10 simmer until melted. Beat up two eggs together with sull and pupper, pour slowly into the pan of cheese, stirring all the time. When the mixture has become quite thick, but not boiling, set aside
to cool.y, Into one
of butter
two level teaspoonfuls of curry powder, and
of lemon juice. a squeeze of
If a stronger flavour is wished,
curry
muy be added.
ounce
more
Spread This on slices of bread which have been cut thinly. Put the now quite cold filling of cheese and egg between these slices, and cut into neat shapes.
The result will be a novel, but simple, sandwich.
Ann Forman
Novel Alarm Clocks
Bolero Lines Show Spanish Fashion Trend
By JANE GORDON,
DRESENT fashions are Hled up embroidery forming the yoke and with bistory in the making. Each the outside seams of the long sleeves collection demonstrates an angle of **
RAINBOW HEM the international afturtion and the designers reactions towards it.
There are several very Spanish- In Paris this is chsy to trace. The looking dance frocks. One in crisp was black lace, full-skirted, is bordered criticni aftution in Morocco responsible for the brilliantly coloured of the hem with nine rown of Valenciennes tate of different colours, pink at the top, then blue, brown, green, magenta, mauve, lime, per- venche and oranste.
A frill of black
B
‣LACK futile dinnor suit with poke and deep border on skirt of white starched lace. The second dinner frock is in sea-green crepe, with little bolero bodice embroidered in silver and green beads to tone.
beach clothes, inspired by the native lace forms the decolletage and the baznard and the Foreign Legion hats, bodice is held up with one shoulder One was reminded of the Spanish strab only.
tions
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REFERENCES FOR WIVES
What Would You Write?
providing you with any luxurics whatever. I shall work only when I feel inclined. I shall rely on you for all things, and expect you, if necessary, to do my work.
Yet are there not thousands of Preferences hind to be chunned women who could write their refor
between prospective husbands ences in that strain when they and wives half the marriages would marry? never take place.
Wille yourself a 'reference. Put When a man marries it must be down your good points and your bad, rather like walking blindfolded Into Some of you may find that you are very unfamillar room! For what a A great deal better than you does he know of the capabilities of imagined; others may blush at their his wife?
own fallings, and, in the process. A man's life, his position in the Improve, world, his approach to success, and You would dislike being dismissed Ma ble modesty (or conceit) in the face as Incompetent from a pluce of tolerate being of it, all form part of a reference, business; why then
they must, of necessity, prove incompetent us a wife? known to be this or thnt. His con- tions for marriage would set a new certain indisputable facts. He Trying to assemble your qualifica- tacts with other men set a sent on standard. Half the defects of man- traced to ignorance, him, and when he asks you to marry kind can be him he can tell you, quite frankly, and it is amazing how ignorant eacht of all he has to offer, and you know one of us can be when it comes to whether or not he is able to provide our own shortcomings.
or
Bince
a home and its attendent comforts.
What Are Your Qualifications?
Setting a Standard
You should be able to offer a re-
What does he know of your ference something like this:- qualifications?
"I am marrying you, not for your Does he, for instance, renilse that
money or n life of ease., I have you are not suited to married ife? sufficient intelligente to be your Dare you tell him that you are be friend, your companion, and suf- coming his wife simply to escape ficient pride to challenge the best drudgery or the bleak prospect of housekeeper ever born. I can cook. splasterhood.
B
not
meals.
a
Would you say to him frankly, and shall therefore not go into of all qualified to be your hysterics if I have to attend to the wife. detest housework, and I it is my job to run the home, just have no intention of being careful as it is yours to run your business. with your money. I shall make 19 And I can run it smoothly, without effort whatever to see that your creating the impression that I'm home is run as it should be. I want either saint or a martyr. Only a soft spot in
spot in the sun, and you ore
common-sense in required for that. I going to provide it."
have learned to use mine. Most men
could write themselves "I can promise you freedom from reditable reference for marriage, financial worry so far as the bills because when they marry they do no are concerned. If you wish. I can because their intentions are good take entire charge of all money to decide. They have worthwhile dreams of matters, but that is for you real home; of children and a Wife to i am not pretty, but I enn improve whom they prepared to give myself, and know it. Because Rm every ounce of credit and affection, your wife 1 have no intention of and for whom they are prepared to looking dowdy the moment the ringt work.
is on my finger. want children,
#
are
Women's ambitions are not always but I shall regard having them as so commendable. Too often they are part of a woman's job, and I am tarnished by materialism.
qualified to look after them myself,
11 is very ensy to give yourself and if they are ill I shall not "need 100 per cent, spoken reference, But
to rush to mother for advice. write it down and see how different
Whatever my fallings, I have no ulterior motive for marrying you. um nut deceiving you about any And if eventually phase of my life.
it looks.
A Husband's Recommendation
Suppose, for instance, before mar- you are able to give me a place In riage, your future husband gave you the sun, 1 want to know that I de- serve and have earned it as you his reference, which read:--
"I want to marry you, but I have have."
no Intention of keeping you or of
Sonia Deane
Hostesses, Be Unobtrusive!
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THERE a tendency, nowadays, a contrast to the woman who Adgets for hostesses to be over-zealous, from the moment you step inside to but the hostess who can look after the inoment you leave her doorstep. her guests without fussing is the And it is not because she does not want you, but because she is an over- most successful one.
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C1818-Zampa. Overture
C1873-Rosamunde. Overture
C1869-1812 Overture D1226Rlenzi. Overture
D285-Invitation to the Waltz C2923-Nutcracker Sulte. (Tschaikowsky)
.New Light Symphony Orch. Symphony Orch. .H. M. Coldstream Guards Band. .Philadelphia Symphony Orch. Philadelphia Sym. Orch. London Philharmonic Orch. CZEZA DB2400-Sonata A Major. Op. 47. (Kreutzer) Beethoven DB2412
Plano & Violin. Hephzibah & Yehudi Mentuin,
(Mozart)
London Philharmonic Orch. DB2345- DB2343-Symphony in C Minor.
(Now. World) Dvorak Philadelphia Symphony Orchestera.
C2100-Saschinka (Potpourri Russian Gypsy Bongs & Dantes)
If you drop in, uninvited, the un- zealous hostess.
sit cushion! No, obstrusive hostess will have a com- "Do have this
011 this fortable chair pulled forward. A here! Put your feet up cushion somehow Ands its way be- pouffe-it is so draughty. Have a hind your back without you having cigarette. Will you have a chocolate? felt
DB2443-Symphony No. 5. E Minor. being put there. A small Are you sure you're not cold, &c., table at your side, with cigarettes &e?" until you feel you want to run DB2547- and matches on it, destroys the Inst out of the house.
There is no pleasure in visiting shred of guilty feeling that you
for at the at on in under these conditions, might have butted In
end of the visit you find that there convenient moment.
just The hostess who does not make a has not been any conversation, fuss is always ready to be interested a series of solicitous "Will you's?" in a soothing kind of way. And from your hostess. And the over-
will pick
hostess asks zealous up after a little while,
yout, "Would "Have you end you like some coffee, or would you a book and say, this? It is just out!" and, still un- prefer tea? Or will you?" which and far very often has the unfortunate obstrusively, leave you some moments. When she re-appears inexplicable result of making you it is with a tray of ten or coffee, feel that it is easier to say, "N which is always so much more de- thank you!" which would probably lightful because of its unexpected- distress her immeasurably. ness.
war by the Goya fashions and of the A taffeta frock printed with yellow, Russian Soviet by workmen's overalt purple and red Rowers has top of
lyics.
the tightly fitting bodice draped over What is true of the Paris collec- one shoulder and under the other
true also of the London arm, and the skirt is very wide. 5 houses.
For Instance, Strassner's imagination has been stirred by the FTERNOON dresses are charming. Spanish war. In his Summer
One in black georgette wool has icellon a great many bolero effects a tiny bolero bodice cut out in a big appear. An example of is the "M" section to show a white muslin
this dinner frock sketched. The material gillet, pin-tucked and ruffled with used is sea-green crepe, and the tiny narrow Ince. The straight skirt has bolero bodice is heavily embroidered a group of small knife plents across with sliver and sea-green beads. the front. A black crepe dress has There is a tiny slit at the back of the front of the bodice of pale blue Don't Fidget the bolero and a group of knife Ottoman silk like a jacket and but- pleats inset at the centre-front of the toned down the centre with binck
buttons. sittet.
This frock is essentially for Heavy black crepe is used for a with a slim figure, dress with an enormously full skirt, young woman whereas the other dinner frock in hanging in straight folds, cross-over white crepe would be equally good bodice and wide Ught-waisted section for the older woman. The jacket held with two daggers. There are part is all in one with the dress and several good looking suits with long has herring-bone lines of silver bead jackets, tightly waisted to accentuate
the waist and hip lines.
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BITS TO CUT OUT
MOST people, after trying to get Scone-Making
up and shutting off the alarm
clock, teel they need ut least another
hour in bed to recuperate from the
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THE new Xentu collection is very interesting from several points:
of view. There are the long hooded capes reminiscent of the "Reign of Terror." There are the waterproofed dresses and capes and the
Inveninguted Ascot .clothes. A repli
crinoline evening track has 19 yards
net in of hand-embroidered
the
black follle dinner
CONES should always be of ha
made with sour milk, but skirt.
suit
startling awakening. Bui modern this is rather difficult to get these! The alarm clocks are almost soothing in cold days. It can be turned sour, sketched has the yoke and deep their treatment of the sleeper, apart however, in a minute by adding a border on skirt of most beautiful from being very decorative.
few drops of vinegar to L
modern fashion with a jade or very Shoe Saver
The latest model, made in the
face and silver figures, la surmounted
by a miniature birdenge containing
a brillantly coloured bird. At the
appointed tithe a silvery bell rings shoes.
white
starched lace. The long- sleeved jacket is fastened with black velvet buttons. A black net dress with insertions of black lace is work
FRESH orange peel is ex- over a taffeta slip and has a floor- ceilent for restoring black length cape of crisp black face made Rub them well with the In-with a litle hood."
for a few moments, then stops. But side of the peel and polish them you are not allowed to go to sleep with a soft cloth. again. The 1tle bird bursts into nongs, and does not cease until it is: switched off by hand.
WATERPROOF LACE Another block lace dress crimson roses at the front of the
with
In the morning. They can also be bodice is waterproof and is worn
These tholodious alarm clocks have set to remind the housewife of some with a long, black waterproof cape many uses. They can be set to warn tile job that has to be done in the which has a pointed hood. Heavy husbands when they have just five house, or of a letter that must be white Ottoman silk with a silver thread is used for another water- minutes in which to leave the house written in time to catch the post.
bordered proofed full-length cape with dyed ermine and worn over a white Ottoman dance frock.
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A court dress of silver metal hag ten yards of material in the skirt, and a very grand evening gown in cire satin is figured with plump white cupids, angels and classically undressed ladles, on
delicate
pastel
background. Over this is worn a blue net cape with frilled sleeves.
saw several good silk jersey day Irocks. One in a deep violet colour was ruched all across the bodice and the top of the skirt, and another ir black lind a pervenche-blue wash tled in front and hanging to the hem of the skirt,
she
alone
The most important feature of be- ing a good hostess is to see that one's guests have everything required for
their
being It is a joy to pay casual visits like their comfort without
ts done. this and to receive such attractive aware of how
Lyn Grey attention from one's hostess. What
new
·a new'
a warmth in your smile sparkle in your eye-a new spring to your step-THAT'S
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Congo Lullaby. (Sanders of the River).
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