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THE HONGKONO TELEGRAPIE, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1938.

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Hot bullered scones and plain cake,

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This is for those too thin, but whether you are too thin or too fat, let ELIZABETH ANN show you the DIET WAY to

SHAPELINESS

7OU incline to take more food than you need, not because you are hungry, nor because you are particulary fond of it, but you have a distinct iden that you require so much to keep your funds of warmth, energy healthful and resistance at a pitch.

You have never been told authoritatively that you must have eggs and bacon for break- fast, with tea, followed by toast and marmalade, nor that to meat without potatoes and green vegetables at dinner is a gastronomic crime.

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But it has become a habit to serve and prepare food in this

way.

YOU FEEL FIT

ON LESS

One particular benefit which aris from diets for alenderising and b especially noteworthy in the case of my bread-and-bulter diet, is that no one goes back to the normal amount of food afterwards.

It educates you to feel fl on less--

and that in its turn becomes a habil. It is an excellent one.

The very word DIET at one time conjured up a victim of self-acrifice In the interests of

of alimming.

I never has concerned slimming alone, and diet is something every woman should understand, whether she prepares food for her own house- hold or relies on what is served to her.

Make n resolution Jo write

With a sheet of paper be- yourself. fore you write down what you eat during the normal day.

Naturally the foods will be varied, but the amounts probably will be similar. You will have breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner; or breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. ARE YOU GETTING THE VITAMINS ?

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Are

essentia! getting you vitamins in your diet Vitamins A. B. Cand D Are you getting a cor- rect proportion of fats and proteins to your carbohydrates?

The entle should be approximately one of fat and one of protein, fu every four of carbohydrate.

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to easily

lore by careful dieting and gradually surrendered, IT'S THE KIND OF FOOD THAT COUNTS

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But if you are too thin, you can help yourself in the dictory, to great extent, not by adding to the buik (since in so many cuses ut under-nourishment the digestion is Impaired and refuses to assimilate so much food but in the kind of ent, in the amount of things you calcium you absorb, and by balanc- in the proportion of fats, proteins and carbohydrate,

For instance, you CAD vary the breakfast menu by making it milk Instead of tea or if milk is not easy to assimilate, ten made with one-half

warm

milk.

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ing way is to take the necessary fruit and vegetables in the form of fresh juiceand have plenty of it.

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Every diet can be improved, re- vised and altereil if you realise exactly whint you cat and under- stand why you eat it. It is advisable, meals per day, too, to have and Ught ones, then to try to over- ent at the three important meals.

You can be lavish with tea-hot buttered scones and plain enke, or sandwiches which are savoury.

And, by the way, it is no more beneficial to take Jam with your tea butter than to have a bread and savoury paste or filing, since jam loses much of its food value in the cooking.

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Housewives, Scrap That

Time Table

FAR too Inany housewives

set

themselves a time-table that no pald servant would tackle, and then proceed to work themselves into a stale martyrdom and nerves, trying to get through it.

A detailed programme for every day of the week may scem most business-like and cffelent, but the akles won't fall the washing is not done on Monday, the ironing and

on Wednesday, and so on. Some on Tuesday, the bedrooms

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of Women seem to lose their sense proportion over This clockwork routine of the week,

They let golden opportunities slip and lose

many a simple pleasure because they set aside a particular doy for particular fob, and cannot, or will not, avalt themselves of the benefits of being their own mis-

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How much wiser the mother who спп say, "A holiday? Then have one too. No washing! Let's make sandwiches and have a plenie?"

Renewed Vigour

Tuesday may not be such it fine day for washing,

her holiday and may make the rest of the week a rush, but that Monday off will send her back to housework with new All who are under weight should | energy and hoppiness caught from try to manage a midday meal and a } the sunshine. She will have linked seven o'clock dinner or light supper, herself closer to her children. and as well as beverage with biscuits given them u

lovely memory

of "a retiring.

day with mother."

is scrap- That is And remember the mid-morning Apart from the food you eat, there ping the time-table wisely for a day.

the beverage of malted milk or chocolate is magle in

way you take it, Has your husband

had to is essential. Have it at 11 am, and Assimilate slowly, counting your take a holiday at the wrong time of

bite, t you should be ready for a mid- 30 in the mastication of encl

mea!.

and

resting afterwards for just as the year? He has come home full of plans and said, "To-morrow we'll up is not vital if it upsels your monents.

do this, I've always wanted to go. digestion and often it provukes a

immediately way. there," feeling of satisfaction so that you are

"Oh, not to-morrow. I must wash-- or bake or something tempted to leave the incal

Then count your calories and dise cover whether you are getting sty teen calories to each pound of your weight.

This, of course, varies with the

at t Sedentary type of work

you to. work requires less calories per day than manual or domestic work,

Active sports require more calories. than if your hobby is sewing or knit- ng or taking yourself quietly into with a book. Forbr

int 18 calories allowance can to 20 calories

pound of lats weight.

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per

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man's

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? FIGURE FAULTS are numerous, but Is just as vital to study a figure which is under-nourished and under- developed as average,

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Over-

Actually it is more difficult to put

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Fresh herrings are excellent for this meal, and should be served Alternative- with a mustard sauce.

ly, roust lamb or light grilled lamb cutlet with potatoes prepared in their jackets,

The green-vegetable fallacy per- sists. When 1 receive letters from readers concerning diet, they invari- ably assure Dic that they have green vegetables every day with dinner."

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This is an essential, since hur- riedly digested food can never bene- fit you in the same fashion, and if vou seriously intend to put on po weight, you must take your food us a pleasure and not us a rush-hour necessity.

If you have too much weight, and if the accumulation is regular and gradual, and does pot "sky-rocket" you into two stones more than you should weigh, count your calories.

You may be having too many. You need not deprive yourself of the nicest things in the cause of n slender figure it is unwise to cut | Dut carbohydrates, because a diet

them tonds without

to produce acidosis.

REDUCE

SLOWLY

And

Did

ever

Anding equally im- next day you do something else.

under- Husbands simply cannot stand this time-table slavery, and pfter one or two refusals of their well-meant proposals, enn you blame them they stop asking you and go off on pleasure alone?

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Don't Be Bound by Routine

That is why, during the in particular, the routine tyranny should stop.

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be methodical about your work, but do remember that the housewife's battle for perfection is long, and hopeless from the start.

means

Clean your home twice a day and you'll still find dust. Wash every If they refer to boiled green vege- tables,

day of the week and you'll still And or preserves which have been boiled, or greenstuft cooked

something to wash. But if the silver so-called "starvation" diels with sodu. they are not likely to

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purpose.

day things, and then go out and shut But where one will want biscuits the door. Your health and temper enses are forbidden in the dietary.

Skins of fruit also are inadvisable another reups reward

in the small hours of the morning. need just as much consideration as with certain digestive apparatus. If morning orange juice,

from: early your furniture, and the woman

who refusing to let her housewifely con- you take your green vegetables in And while medical opinion favours raw stale they would be so much

science tyrannise her will have a a sound breakfast, some women are more beneficial,

happier, more attractive home thun best with mid-morning

just morning tea, until a "perfect" house run by a nervy,

when meal comforts and benefits.

the "snack" rouline-bound wife.

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And if you are among those who are under-weight, the most appetls-

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Milk Puddings CHEESE

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HILDREN who disdain the or- dinary milk pudding will cat their portion with pleasure when it is served, in one of the following disguises!-

To make fun pudding," take one pint of milk, sponge fingers, two ounces of flour, two ounces of easter sugur, Iwo whites or eggs.

SAUCE FOR SAVOURIES

THIS sauce is very easily made, being n simpla variation of the usual white sauce.

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Put 1 tablespoon butter in a sauce Grate 11⁄2 cup of yellow cheese.

pan to melt. Withdraw from Whip the whites very stiffly, add heat and blend in 2 tablespoons the sugar gradually, and a little four, 4 teaspoon salt and 14 ten- milk. Sprinktie in the flour very spoon pepper. slowly, stirring all the time, and then put into an enamel pan and thicken very slowly over gentle heat.

Slice the sponge fingers, spread with jam, and pour the mixture over. Sprinkle with grated coconut and serve cold.

Raisin Rice

Slowly stir in 1 cup hot milk and return to heat. Stir and cook till the sauce thickens smoothly, then cook slowly until no flavour of raw flour remains.

Add the cheese and place over a very low heat until the cheese has melted. Keep the sauce hot until required.

Ingredients-One pint of milic.

For savouries on toast, the cooked two ounces cach of rice, breud-

vegetable, meat or fish should be crumbs, and brown sugar, one ounce suitably diced or faked, stirred Into of butter, and two eggs and some the cheese sauce, heated thoroughly. seeded raisins. Boil the rice in millt and served on hot buttered toast. till soft, and crumbs, creamed butter,

sugar, and beaten eggs. Decorate a Try, separately or in various buttered basin with raisins, pour in combinations, cauliflower, oflory, the rice, and steari for an hour, carrots, tomatoes, green peas, mush- Serve

with brown sugar.

rooms, ham, mutton, sardines sal- For this you require one pint of mon, or any

white fish. If you milk, two half an ounce of prefer it put the vegetable, meat or powdered gelatine, sugar to taste, dah on the hot buttered toast and and half a small tin of unsweetened pour the sauce over. evaporated milk, Make a custard Savoury cheese and sandwiches

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with milk and eggs and sugar.

are dellelous. For each sandwich Soak the gelatine in a little cold cut two slices of bread inch thick milk, and when the custard is cool-and toast on one side only,

ing, add the gelatine and evaporated Spread the toasted sides with soft milk. Servo cold with stewed fruit.butter and put together in pairs with

To make pink cream, take one

slices of tomato between.

pint of milk, two ounces each of Prepare the clicese sauro, then ground rice, butter, and sugar, toast the outsides of the sandwiches Stake the rice in a little cold milk, and replace them on hot plates. add the rest boiling, the sugar and Cover with hot sauce, garnish with butter.

Cress or parsley, and serve piping Boll, and cook slowly, Mirring hot.

frequently for 18 minutes.

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When suitable slices of crisply- pink with cochineal, fried bacon may be added to this sprinkle with desiccated coconut tomato sandwich or bacon or crisp and serve with strawberry jam, snúisagos upoď as a gárníah,

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