1939-10-23 — Page 18

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boxy suede jacket with seamed detail and polished' wood but- tons.

NEW GLOVES LEATHER gloves are warmer

this Ume than they were Just year.

Chief point of interest about them is that the fur trimming, Usually shown round the cut- ade of the wrist, has gone In- side, and most of the autumn gloves this year have a fur th ing at least for Ue whole length of the wrist.

new

There are some particularly snart new designs, The "point" where the Angers join the hand Ja disappeared. The ploven

semi-gauntlet- shaped, open alightly down the alden without a fastening, ned are trimmed with 日 senari geometrical design.

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Monday,

HONGKONG TELERGAPH:

October 23, 1939.

Can You Bake Cakes?

MOST housewives are good plain ly closed until the prescribed time cooks, but there are surprising has elapsed and then remove the

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ly fow who can make a cake with cake.

ing high prospect of suCCOBS, Too Test with a čoko-tekler or knife often the result turns out to have

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the middle and to be "sad" for the sake of satisfying yourself

be the caso.

Cool the euke on a wire rack.

in the centre. There is usunily on that it is done, but if the directions excuse for these defects: somebody have been closely followed, this will opened the back door or the kitchen window or did something or other highly detrimental to cake baking.

Buccess in baking cakes Is 90 per cent, care and only one per cent.j fuck. The first thing to make sure of is that the cake will not stick to: the tin.

Grease the tin thoroughly using elther a pastry brush or a plece of paper, Dredge it lightly with four after grensing. Put waxed paper to

the wall and bottom of the lin.

Eract Measure

The next essential is to ineusure the ingredients exactly. Approxim-

ale measurements may be all right) for plain cocking but they often confitute all the difference between

M. W.

Short Cuts

After cleaning ratian, KTRAR and willow turniture with a Bilt brush or vacuum cleaner, It may be washed with a scrub- bing Brush and thick luko-warm soapsuds containing D Ristic borax, Rinse thoroughly and set 'in sun to dry.

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Pink woollen for little dinner

success and failure in cake maiding. Jackets is a Molyneux suggestion.

Mix the ingredients thoroughly, using either a wooden spoon or a mechanical inixer. The shortening I should be worked until it is soft and smooth, then the sugar should be blended in gradually until # soft and smooth, then the augar should be blended in gradually until

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Use buttered crumbs puddings and casseroles. This not only garnishes but gives a delicious nutty flavour to such dishes.

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Always remove any meat julce from table linen before

it is thoroughly incorporated. Eggs should be beaten until yolks and stairs whites are well mixed and should laundering, Such stains may be re- then be stirred in the fat and sugar moved with clear lukewarm water. mixture, until the whole is smooth, light and Nulty.

Flour, balting-powder, and salt should be zitted together and should! be added to the first mixture before the milk. After the milk has been i added, too much beating is a dis-i alvaninge. The batter should be stirred lightly until it is just blended and no more. Add the flavouring and then pour quickly into the cake Un, Ming it only two-thirds tuli.

Put in Oven Immediately

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To add zest to cold meats and salada serve a side dish of pickles, any kind, sweet, sour or

more To make salty bacon palatable, parbol for two or three minules. Then pour off water, pat bacon pleces dry with fresh towel and crisp in hol fry- log pin as usual.

A quick way to remove tarnish

With the convex side

of table-trom Biver is to set the pleces soak- spoon, aprend the batter from thefing in potato water in an aluminium centre of the tin towards the edges, | pot for about an hour.

slight depression leaving

in the centre, Put it into the oven im-

mediately. If the mixture is allowed to stand at room temperature for even IL short time. the bakingt- powder begins to do fa werk. Ignore

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Electio appliances will give better service it olled periodic- ally with a good grade oil.

When making griddle cakes, the

the telephone, the knock on the griddle is not hot enough. If the

hack door,

With her back to the mirror this model displays the front and back of the corset designed along the lace of the original Faris Mainbocher comet which was brought here recently on the Normandie. The corset accentuates light-ftung, giving the form a slem-lined torso. With this style comes a.controуCKAY on the number of bones or the amount of lactags necessary for the new wasp-waisted, round-hip silhouette: Will the English women sacrifice their comfort for a tiny walat, scems to be the qucalion,

To Wear A Corset Or

Not, That's The Problem

By ELEANOR GUNN

every other top of the cakes stiffen before the NEW YORK-Who remembers way back to the days when cor- threatened interruption until the under side is bakod. cake is safely in the oven,

Pay strict attention to time and temperature and see that there is mmple circulation of air round the cake. Keep the oven door resolute-

Renew Your Beauty Equipment

IN preparing for autumn beauty it!

is a good plan to start off by

revising your beauty box completely. Economical

First of all, be ruthless about such things as ad nail varnish and stale cream, and only keep what you are really going to use.

Dishes

Supper

THERE are some casily prepared supper dishes; they are appetis-

Scour all your jare und bottles, and lay in a fresh Block of cottoning, sustaining and economical.

vool and tissues, emery boards and "orange" sticks, Wash your powder puffs, or throw them away. Have Fa good look at your hairbrush; if it seems to be geting soft, treat your nclf to a new one. New tootli and hall brushes are also Ukely to be n definite aid to beauty, and made sure that you have a good hard loolah. (Steriliso your eye-bath.

means colder

Egg Madaleins

2 CHRS.

3 rushers of bacott.

2 dessertspoons mlik. Seasonings.

Cut the rushers of bacon into very small squares and put them in a Lowl with the milk and scusoniaga. Add the eggo and mix very slightly with a fork.

Now for your new stock. Autumn] Heat alle fat in the frying pan, weather, wind, and and put a dessertspoonful of the probably, fog, so plenty of good in mixture into the fat. Cook for a Cream ls needed. Tollet oatmeal la

few minutes on each nide unili also a good investment, for soften-

golden brown. ing water and for an occasional faco pack, mixed with warm almond oil

Cleanliness is very important now

Serve very hot with Angers of toast either fried or plain.

The quantities are for four per-

as at all times, and a cake of good sons.

oap is just as essential as cleansing Macaroni Timbale

cream or folton. You can economise

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iin skin lonie, for cold weather bracen Two breakfast

the skin more than anything else, caroni.

eups cooked ma-

but invest in a Brst-rate hand cream One breakfast cup thick white whatever you do.

There is a new olly nall shampoo which should have a place, too,'ind Lize that you have a good supply of

cuticlo oli.

EQUCC.

Half breakfast cup cooked minced beet or ham.

Four tomatoes.

Mix the macaroni with the white sauce and season well. Grease a

Be kind to your eyes, and in odd round fireproof casserole and Ine tion to eye-lotion, get some of the the foot and sides with the macaront new eye-masks. Thoy, arg seen in a flat, attractive jar which holds mixture (leaving sufficient to cover

the top. Fill the hollow

will:

twolve, airpady saturated in an eye alternate layers of the minced beef Lotion.

Something special for the hair can and thinly sliced tomatoes

Cover with the remaining ma also be included, preferably really good tonic. If this is massaged into carent and heat in a hot oven for

the scalp about three times a week, all the nülkanes of dúll and falling| hair should be ayetted through the

autumn.

R. H.

E LEMON SNOW

PREAK down & dessertspoonfuls of

cornflour

with 4 tancupfuls of water. Add to it the strained julco

20-30 minutes.

Suttelent for 6 persons. Potato and Egg, Gratin

Two breakfast cups mashed pota- toes.

Four eggs.

Three oz grated cheese. Tablespoon chopped parsley. Muk, it required. Sensonings.

Mix 2 oz of grated cheese with the

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suede

Front Funtas $11 coat. There are unpremed pleats released below the waistline, Note the pocket flaps. The coat has no fastener, and wraps over wiki a selfbelt.

Hints For The Housewife

rub the shelled hard-boiled egg making egg sandwiches,

through a sleve, season, and form Into a paste, and use in the usual [monuer. The mixture will be much

finer and easier to sprend

Add a teaspoonful of milk to the water in which enuliflowers are be- ing bolled. They will remain much whiter.

Before scrubbing sink boards or wood shelves rub well with the in- side of half a lemon-Jeave for a few minutes and wash in the usual way. stains make a

of 2 lemons and one teacupful of potatoes, searon, and moisten with a For very stubborn sugar. Pour all into 'á' pan' and stir fitüs hot milk it necessary to make paste of cleaning powder and lemon over the fire till the 'mixture bolls, them into a soft consistency. Grease Julco and leave on the stained wood and continue to boil for a few ʼn shallow fireproof dish and spread | for an hour before washing. minutes to cook the cornflour. Then the potatoes evenly leaving four Most people become accustomed to Tot it cool'a little, giving it an occa-hollows Break an egg into each the "buṛp" of an alarm clock in the sional sile to prevent a skin form-hollow, sprinkle with the remaining early hours of the morning. Try ing, and fold in the stiffly whisked grated checks, and bake in a hot pincing the clock on a china plate- whites of two eggs. Pour into a oven until the eggs are set.

the "burc" will be very glass dish, and serve with cream.

louder.

B. M'G.

Serves 4 persons.

Eileen

much

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Count the TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

sets were not discussed publicly and when the mere mention of them occasioned blushes?

Corsets, pro and con, are now on everyone's tongue and on some torsos. Windows are filled with them and gaping crowds of amused men and interested wo-

mon all but slop traffic.

Mosi makers of chic clothes insist thut one must wear corsets and stress

ORANGE FLUFF

the stem-like walatline, the hour-TRAIN oft the juice from a small swelling hips tin of oranges and add the juice. plass figure, even and bosoms. Mainbocher certainly of a fresh orange to it. Heat the turned back the clock, Upped over strained juices

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and use to melt

the hour-glass, or something because packet of orange jelly, making up he's the one to blame for corsets. the quantity with water. His have those silk Incings at the When the jelly is cold and almost back-but then you would, of course, setting, whisk vigorously till light remember about them.

and fluffy. A stily-beaten white of What About Hips?

ery or a little whipped cream folded Designers are divided, not about in at the last is a great improve- the waistline, which all agree must ment.

Turn the fulf into a glass dish and be amall, or appear so, but about

with smull sectiuns the hips. Some like 'em controlled, | decorate others like them to "swing out," as orange. the phrase goes.

Whatever one's personal reactions for or against the corset, it just can't be dismissed. Some sort of corset Is

a necessity and the shops report wo- nen in a perfect dither over them. Everyone wants to see whether or not they "can take it," but above all, what the corset does for them. My guess is that the corseted figure will be the choice for evening but for tho more nelive GUTA women will manage to got along: with arment that confines but gives them comfort as well as con- four.

Appropriate Styles

And speaking of the styles the corset takes us back to the crinu-

evening type which Queeni Elizabeth of England wears so suc- cessfully, is repented in new versions in the Norman Hartnell collection. Some of these frocks are reminiscent | of the Louis XII and XIV epochs.

Among the preitlest models is a black velvet with a wide embroid- ered band in eyelet fashion, used in the skirt and again at the decol- Jefe. Another, in duchess satin in violet-blue, is embroidered in large Louis XV bows, accompanied by al matching waistiength jacket.

Other evening gowns are made with bank fullness below the waist- line, or will fitting hips with full- ness below, especially at back, a slihouette definitely accepted at this time.

One of the sensational features is the "Winged Victory" shoulder, a Rosovienne Idea, IL shown In town suits with jackets moulding to the waist and with deep fired peplum.

Arched Eyebrows

If you wish to give your eyebrows more of an arched look without any try brushing up radical plucking, the hair in the centre will a cream type mascara or soapy water. Allow the hairs to dry in place. This gives; the eyebrow a more arched appear- ance and the now natural arch will last until you wash your face muxt,

$1 TIFFINS

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Scarves are · worn square or long, checked or. plaided this autumn. The upper of these two is a 27-inch square of green fino woollen, in a drop-stlich effeol, wovon with felaged edges. The long scarf is a chamois Manzora in a basket weave ́treat- ment with soild edges and fringed ends..

Lord Londonderry Nails A Lie

THE

Belfast,

THE Marquis of Londonderry recently scotched rumours that ho had been interned as a spy. Ho did so in a telogram to Birs. Templer, wife of Llout.-Col. W. F. Templer, of Loughgall, County Armagh, who wrote informing him that rumour was busy with his name.

Lord Londonderry, in his tele- grarn from London, stated: "Most grateful to you for your 'letter.

"Please tell anyone you' llko that rumour is a complote lie. That I'am engaged on war work in County Down, County Dur- ham, London, and also Luton, and that I am returning to Northern Ireland either to- morrow or the next day,

"Please make any use of this tele- gram you like, and if you can trace. the rumour to any particular person I will immediately commence legal London- proceedings. (Signed) derry."

DISTRESSED

Called Up

--At 87

AN old man of 87, his chest

a mais of modal ribbons, was helped into the dopet of

Lancashire Regimont. Ho asked to 800 the C.O. " sorved with your grandfather at Poona," ho said, "and now I have boon cailed up again— at 87." It was true the old man had received a mobilisa- tion order instead of his grand-

son,

Jury Duty Leads to Jail

Lord Londonderry, who sought to secure beiler relations between Bri- tain and Germany, hnd among his guests at Mount Stewart (his Irish seat? Bame years nga Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, who was at that time Ger- man Ambasander in London.

the war Since the outbreak of friends of Lord Londonderry have ELYRIA, O (UP).-Edward Mil». been distressed and bewlidered by nler, 28-year-old Avon farm worker, crop of rumours. These have painted arrived here to do jury - duly, Lord and Lady. Londonderry, who but instead spent five days in have made no secret of their social the county jail Müller stretched n friendships with high political per-10-minute court recess into hall an sonages in Germany before the war. hour and Judge Guy B. Findley found him güllty of contempt of court and Lord Londonderry made a special imposed the sentence.

trip to Munich to observe the situp- tion frst-hand when Mr. Neville Chamberlain paid his dying visit last Londonderry said: "The world should September, fte has also written a be told that we are Tired of the booit, entitled "Ourselves and Gee-browbrating we are getting from many."

Germany."

On June '19 of this year, speaking Appreciation of his public services at the 30th anniversary dinner, of prompted Mrs. Templār to write the Handley Page Ltd. in London, Lord letter.

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