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THE

TELEGRAPH HONGKONG

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER

14,

1938.

A

nice

cup

by

of tea

an

THE tea-table needs

autumn and the fire- light. It is only a ghost of itself in summer. A wasp- infested ghost.

OND

No

takes it seriously then. A cup of tea is some- thing to be swallowed between games. But in autumn it be- comes the game itself.

To play it at all well, one must at scast be able to make ton. This is where a large number of players gat

autumn fire

disqualifted for a start. And they are not all beginners by any means.

HERE are the few simple

rules for making tea.

Heat the teapot with some hot water. Then pour off the water und

Allow thoroughly dry the pot. hemped teaspoonful for cuch person, and an odd one for the pot.

w

Use water. which has only just come to the boll. The surpris.ng but gentlemenem ditorepca briwern two pots of tea made from exactly the

same tea is often due to a difference

In times of

bolling. Long-boiled water simply does not work.

Let the ten Infuse for at least four minutes.

Do not allow your kettle to ge! furred.

can For a few pence you buy little fur-collecting gadgets to put into the kittle.

After ten, rinse out the pot and dry it thoroughly.

BITS TO

CUT OUT

Marrow Slices

"My Hair Is

Up...!

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perseverance and not litue has. They assured me, when my

bair and the heart that was snking. dive for window Tw.et I had to mirrors, just to make sure; twice had to do things to the vel in cloak- Tooms beneath the piercing eyes o. other women in more civilised hats and more clvilised coiffures,

pa to my arm muscles though courage was waning, that I looked i had maserta it. My hair, I'mtun. periectly right, so smart, so ultra- I tried it again this morning, and, chle behold, it went up, right on top world, with the hat to match the And so they sent me out into the Lyle. Cowardian

to uccording fashon's decree, and w.in next to no ends to smooth flat with brillantine, and the curls pinned high wacro i used to have a pinin, slick purling. To say I felt triumphant was shocking understatement. At last looked The tone advertisments. felt ready for every Edwardian hat that was ever critics, every all-over-the-face vell, every modern hold-on dodge, like comba slipped through hat crowns and in- visible elastic nets.

women in dress

The first friend I mit frankly gaped. "It's smart, dear, but a bit

endy. Perhaps in a week or two

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DANGKOK

BATAVIA BOMBAY

dodged into a shop door to avoic the next friend and went suddenly blind and draf when an acuant

on the sky

Une. 1 CALCUTTA With my cars and nape of neck all auce oppo'd tay in we bus go- exposed

felt a bit cally, bu, 1 maue knew what

and up my face cunningly went ing home:-"My dear, who do you

thinkc

I saw in town wearing one o. downstairs.

"How do: you Ilke it rather those crazy hats, with her hair Madame Recamier don't you think?" drawn up like a grandmother's?"

"1

I suggested to a startled husband. suppose you women must keep changing yourselves into different people," he said, laughing good- humouredly,

Men

to

getting arc

resigned fashion, even striking fasnions like

and heads

Edwardian figures. Choosing a Hat

Victorian

I went shopping in town. Miracul- ously, the hair stayed "put." Or did 117 I felt people staring at me in little boy the bus, and one rude giggled. But the girls in the hat shop were more than polite. They saled out to meet me like a convoy at sea. They produced their most

Knitting Hints

So, right in face of the traffic I

carly dived for the

bus and found a did it In comer seat. That, rush.

ow I could

the ECC the dark window I whiskers of hair falling loose from the elastic and the brilliantine. I could see the other women's eyes and

amile. mouths crooked

in a feel the hat slipping and my c

redder every getting redder and moment, until I arrived home mom remembered what I had read only the day before:Women are tiring of the Edwardian coiffure, and are for more practicat forsaking styles."

and

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It did not take a long time to brush my hair down again!

Anne Blythe

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Can you make a really neat Jon preciation of in your work which does not entai.vining but complimentary.

Take the simple matter of a book, any finishing off and deles detec-

In a chatty moment you tell come- one that such and such a book is tion?

Try this method. Take one of the very readable, absorbingly Interest- Down it goes

application. friend's library list. Good! on your ends to be joined and thread througing to the last page. a darning needle. Then Insert But the

reveals the regrettable length of wool to be joined pushing fact that your friend found the book Tax overpaid, on terms which may b it down for at least three inches and very heavy going, in fact amazing-

dull. Politely Incredulous ly drawing it right through and out of speculates on your odd taste in the wool, snipping the thread close literature and leaves you feeling to the place the needle emerged. very small.

VERY small morrows can be turned into an excellent Now these rules are all very vegetable by cutting roundwise th well if you have the rigni lices about a quarter of un inch tea and the right water. But large think and simmering gently until numbers of people pass their whole nearly done. Then strain and try in lives without tasting a really good butter. There is no need to peel the needle down the middle of the other future sequel is not so good. For cup of tea because they have never marrows unless the skin has grown rralised that they are using a tea really tough. which

does not agree with the water

Proserver of their district.

This seems a pity, because quits. nexpensive teas can be bought which are specially blended to suit dificult sorts of water,

Hard, chalky water is the worst offender, and the trouble is sol entirely overcome by getting the right tea. The technique of making

it becomes a trifle different,

IF it is made according to

IF

you have been giving your palls rest from varnish even if only overnight--wipo a tile varnish remover over them be- fore varnishing them again. It will then stay on much longer, and will not peel. Luncheon Sweet

THE season's cooking apples are coming in again, and dish of them baked will make a delicious luncheon sweet. The chil-

with

demerarn brown coffee sugar, with a knob of butter on top. Sprinkle a little more

dren will enjoy them best if you All

the rules laid down above, the core space

1 must be allowed to infuse for six

minutes to get the right flavour.

Eugar and butter round the baking

Gently pull both sides of the wool two cnds are outwards until the mingled together, and give a fina. twist with the fingers to make the joln perfectly smooth.

Here is another method, equally effective. Unravel the ends of the two strands of wool to be joined for

Differing Tastes

sho

Again, if you recommend a tasty supper dish from a recipe you have nequired, will it earn you a halo? No! Your friend's murmurings arcut high standards in cooking accam- panied by raised eyebrows, will at once chow you just what she thinks of your ideas on suitable food. De-

feat again!

wool, break off two strands from But if there is one recommendation about two inch:8. If it is 4-ply each end of wool, if 3-ply, only which provides more of a death pang break off one strand from each end. than others, it is recommending holiday haunts to friends. Nobody

this willingly, but you may

Now place the ends together and

be

Another way of making tea with dish, and you will have a nice.roll them between your Angers

untrareto 11 You return from a

hard water is to pour the boiling caramel to serve with them. Bake the unravelled strands are woven

into the pot frat and then slowly, then they will not burst. water sprinkle the tea on to it, allowing

it

o infuse for seven minutes.

The whole point of this method is hat the cholky deposit gets a chance to sink to the bottom before the tea comes into contact with the water.

muffin.

Cleanser

NOTHER bugbear of the Hair Brightener A

ten-table L the tough

muffin and

Into one unbroken thread. For the Sleeves

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F you have a wound that

-you are dressing at home. If your siteve instructions say,

But their holiday proves far from ndd a good tablespoonful of hydrogen shape top of sleeve by casting of

n success. Of course, they hold you peroxide to the water in which you two stitches at beginning of every bathe it. This will gently cleanse row, slip the first stitch, knit the

faintly responsible. Mrs. B. intorms you in a chatty letter that the peopic the wound of ali poisons before you

next, pass the slip-stitch over one "ut on the bandage.

cast off the next stitch in the usual rate and the food unexciting. And way. By doing the you avold worse! Like a terrier with a bone

a much nealer wors

she returns briskly to the charge at "My dear." she Your Brst meeting. This is caused by the misguided bowl of water in which you wash

Instead of joining your pleces to "I can't understand your en your hair will help to cleanse the practice of cutting open

cain thoroughly and leave you with gether by overrew.ng with wool, thuslasm over the place. You must to be fatally easy to please. A horrid .oasting in halves.

a delightful feeling of freshness. It machine them, being careful

This place I call

you recommend on inno- will also brighten the colour of your match the thread exactly. hair. You can use it with any of avoids bulgy seams and enabler

slight adjustments to be made, 11 cent plant for the garden, it rounds vour favourite shampoo5.

on you and lets you down. Your fellow gardener informs you coldly Too Salt

Remember, too, if you are using that she has followed all your in- IF your breakfast bacon is

inclined to be too salt, white wool, that the finished article structions to the letter. And the re treat

the rashers as you would a must be spotlessly clean. If there is ull? Hardly an orphan bloom, and niece of bacon for boiling, and put any suggestion of grubbiness any he trazes resentfully at your own

sprinkle soma powdered hanpy bed of colour.

Be warned! If you value your them in cold water before cooking. where Three or four minutes are enough. magnesia on the soiled part and roll

peace of mind, and you want to keep Hoon Chun. Exe. it ut in a clean cloth. Leave over- Dry with a clean cloth before put-night and in the morning shake the your friends, take a vow never to ting under the grill or in the frying powder out, then you have a snow-recommend anything. Belleve me,

You will be delighted with the white garment once moret

A mulin should be toasted whole, and then cut round the edge, torn, apart with the Gingers, and buttered.

IF you prefer tea buns, here

is a recipe for them.

Sift lb. flour and half a ten- spoonful each of tartaric acid and wargonaic of soda. Rub in 3 oz. of butter till it is free of lumps.

Add 3 oz. currants, 11⁄2 oz. sifted sugar, and half a teaspoonful of

carraway seeda. Mix all well to

gether.

Don.

result.

Cucumber Tip

WHE

THEN serving cucumber snind cut the cucumber in very thin elices and sprinkle with rastor rugar; then pour a little vine-

Beat up an egg with a gill of milk, Make a hole in the flour and pour this in. Mix thoroughly and lightly. Grease a baking sheet, divide the dough into small lumps, and baker over sparingly. This is a plea- for twenty minutes.

Home Page Cook

For The

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tant change and a great improve- ment on a plain vinegar dressing.

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