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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 clapsed and then remove tho
ly few who can make a cake with coke.
any high prospect of sucCESS. Too
often the result turns out to have
Test with a cake-tester or knife
· Cool the cake on a wire rack.
sunk in the middia and to be "sed" for the sake of satisfying yourself in the centre. There usually on that it is done, but if the directions excuse for these defects: somebody have been closely followed, this wil opened the back door or the kitchen be the case. window or did something or other highly detrimental to cake baking.
Success in baking enkes is 00 per cent care and only one per cent.j luck. The first thing to make sure of is that the cake will not slick to the tin.
Grease the tin thoroughly using either a pastry brush or a piece of paper. Dredge it lightly with flour after greasing. Put waxed paper to fit the wall and bottom of the tin.
Exact Measure
The next essential is to measure the Ingredients exnelly. Approxim- ate measurements may be all right for plain rocking but they often consitute all the difference between success and failure in euke making.
MIX the ingredients thoroughly. using either a wooden spoon or a mechanical mixer. The shortening: should be worked wait! It is soft and smooth, then the sugar should be blended in gradually until it is) soft and smooth, then the sugar sisould be blended in gradually until It is thoroughly incorporated. Estas should be benten until yolks and whites are well mixed and should then be stirred in the fat and sugar mixture, until the whole is smooth,
Ught and fluffy. Quis
boxy suede jacket with seamed detail and polished wood but. tona,
NEW GLOVES
LEATHER gloves are warmer this time than they were last year.
Chief point of interest about them in that the fur trimming, usually shown round the out- side of the wrist, has gone In- side, and most of the nuturi gloves this year have a fur in- ing at least for the whole length of the wrist.
There are some particularly smurt, now designs. The "point" where Lie Angers join the hand huy disappeared. The new gloves ore semi-gauntlet- shaped, open slightly down the sides without a fastening, und are trinuned with geometrical design.
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Flour, baking-powder, should be sifted together and should. be mkded to the first mixture before the milk. After the milk has been addled, too much beating is a dis- advantage. The butter should be stirred lightly until it is just blended and no more. Add the favouring and then pour quickly into the cakel tim. Biling it only two-thirds full. Put in Oven Immediately
With the convex side
of tablu- spoon, spread the butter from the centre of the tin towards the edges, leaving a slight depression in the centre. Put Into the oven im- mediately, if the mixture is allowedt to stand at room temperature for even a short time, the baking- powder begins to do its work, Iguore the telephone. the knock on the
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Short Cuts
After cleaning raftan, (KTABA and willow furniture with a stiff brush or vacuum cleaner. it may be washed with a servb- bing brush and thick Juke-warm soapsuda containing Ittle borax. Rinse thoroughly and set In sun to dry.
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Pink woollen for 1tle dinner Jackets in a Molyneux suggestion.
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Use buttered puddings and
cruniba ол casseroles. This not only garnishes but gives a delicious nutty flavour to auch disties.
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remove any meat juice from table linen before stains laundering. Such stains may be re- moved, with clear lukewarm water.
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To add rest to cold meats and salads Bervo. A side dish of pickles, any kind, sweet, sour or Jur.
To make sally bacon more palatable, parboil, for two or three minutes. Then pour off water, pal bacon pieces dry with fresh towel and crisp in hot fry- ing pan as jaual.
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A quick way to remove tarnish from stiver is to set the pieces sonk- ing in potato water in on aluminium pol for about an hour.
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Electric oppilances will give better service If olled periodic- ally with a good grade oll.
When making' griddle cokes, the ride is not hot enough it the
rider side la baked.
With her back to the mirror this model displays the front and back of the corset designed along the lines of the original Paris Mainbocher corset which was brought here recenity on the Normandle. The corset accentuates tight-fitting, giving the formi a stem-lined torso. With this style comes a controversy on the number of bones or the amount of lacings necessary for the new wasp-waisted, round-hip silhouette. WEI, the English women sacrifice their comfort for a Uny walst, seems to be the qursion.
To Wear A Corset Or
Not, That's The Problem
By ELEANOR GUNN
sets were not discussed publicly and when the mere mention of them occasioned blushes?
back door, and every ather top of the cakes stiffen before the NEW YORK-Who remembers way back to the days when cor- threatened Interruption until the cake is safely in the oven.
Pay strict attention to time and temperature and see that there is ample virculation of alr round the cake. Keep the oven door resolute-j
Renew Your Beauty Equipment
TN preparing for nutuents beauty it
is a good plan to start off by
revising your beauty box completely Economical Supper
First of all, be ruthless about uuch things as oid nail varnish and stale cream, and only keep what you are really going to use.
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Dishes
LIERE ore some easily prepared
11 supper dishes; they are appelis-i
sustaining and economicat
Eug Mudaleins
2 eggs.
3 rashers of bacon.
Scour all your jars and bottles, and lay in a fresh stock of cotton wool and tissues, emery boards and Wash your powder (orange slicks.
pulls, or throw them away. Have ja good look at your hairbrush; If I
seems to be getting soft, trent your- self to a new one, New tooth and nail brushes are also likely to be u definite aid to beauty, and made sure that you have a good hord loofah. bowl with the ink and seasonings. Sterilise your eye-bath.
2 dessertspoons milk. Seasonings.
Cul the rashers of bacon into very | small squares and put them in a
Add the egts and inix very slightly with a fork.
Now for your new stock, Autumn
Heat a little fat in the frying pan, means colder weather, wind, and probably fog, so plenty of good skin and put a dessertspoonful of the Cook for a cream is nooded. Toilet oatmeal is mixture into the fat. also a good investment, for soften- ininutes
on each side until
ing water and for an occasional face solden brown. hot with
Serve very
Angers of
pack, mixed with warm almond oil. toast either fried or plain.
Cleanliness is very important now The quantitles are for four per-
as at all times, and a juke of good sons.
soap is just ns essential as cleansing Macaroni Timbale
cream or lotion. You can economise
in skin tonic, for cold weather braces Two breakfast cups cooked ma- the skin more than anything else,caroni.
but invest in a first-rate land creamn One breakinst cup thick white whatever you do.
stuce.
Half breakfast cup cooked minced
There is a new olly nail shampoo beef or ham. which should have a place, too, and
Four tomatoes. seo that you have a good supply of (cuticle oil.
Mix the macaront with the white and season well. Grease a Elture
line
Be kind to your eyes, and in addi-round Areproof casserole and tion to eye-lotion, get some of the the foot and sides with the macaroni now eye-masks. They are seen mixture (leaving sufflelent to cover a dat, attractive jar which holds
the twelve, already saturated in un eye alternate layers of the minced beef lop.) Fill the hollow wie lotton.
Something special for the hair can and thinly sliced tomatoes.
for
Front fulness In 1 suede coal. There are unpressed pleats released below the waistline. Nole the pocket flaps. The coat has no fastener, and wraps over will a selfbeli.
Hints For The Housewife
Cover with the remaining maHEN making egg sandwiches, also be included, preferably a really good tonic. If this is massaged into caroni and heat in a hot oven
rub the shelled hard-boiled egg the scalp about three times a week, 20-30 minutes.
through a sieve, season, and form into a paste, and use in the usual manner. The mixture will be much Aner and easter to spread.
all the nuisance of dull and falling hair should be averted through the autumn.
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LEMON SNOW
DREAK down 4 dessertspoonfuls of
cornflour with 4 teacupfuls of water. Add to it the strained julco
Suelent for
persons.
Potato and Ego Gratin
Two breakfast cups mashed poln- Locs.
Four eggs.
Three oz gented cheese.
Tablespoon chopped parsley. Mile, if required. Seasonings.
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Add a teaspoonful of malik to the water in which cauliflowers are be Ing. boiled. They will remain mucli whiter.
Before scrubbing sink boards Iwood shelves rub well with the in- side of half a lemon-leave for a few Mix 2 oz of grated cheese with the minutes and wash in the usual way. of 1 lemons and one toneupful of potatoes, season, and moisten with a For very stubbom stains make a sugar. Pour all into a pan and stir ittle hot milk if necessary to make paste of cleaning powder and lemon bver the fire till the mixture boils, them into a soft consistency. Grease juice and leave on the stained wood and continue to boll for a _town_shallow tireproof dish and spread for an hour before washing. minutes to cook the cornflour. Then the potatoes overly leaving `four; Most people become accustomed to let it cool a little, giving it an occa-hollows. Break an ext into each the "burr" of on alarm, clock in the sional stir to prevent a skin form- hollow, sprinkle with the remaining early hours of the morning. Try ing, and fok in the stiffly whisked grated cheese, and bake in a hot placing the clock on a china plate--- Whites of two eKgs. Pour into a oven until the eggs are set.
the bur" will be very nuch glass dish, and serve with cream. Serves 4 persons.
louder.
Elleen
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Elleon
Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
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-
men all but stop traffe.
Most makers of chle clothes insist that one must wear corsets and stressi
the
ORANGE FLUFF
stem-like waistline, the hour-TRAIN off the juice from a small glass figure, even swelling hips tin of oranges and add the juice and bosoms. Mainbocher certainly of a fresh orange to it. Heat the turned back the clock, tipped over strained juices and use to mell a the hour-glass, or something because packet of orange jelly, making up he's the one to blame for corsets. the quantity with water.
Hls have those silk lacings at the back but then you would, of course, remember about them.
When the jelly is cold and almost setting, whisk vigorously light and fluffy. A stiffly-beaten white of Wat About Hips?
egar 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.
with
small sections
of
be sinall, or appear so, but about Turn the fluff into a glass dish and the hips. Some like 'em controlled, decorate others like them to "swing out," an orange. the phrase "gues.
for
Whatever one's personal reactions
against the corset,
Just can't
be dismissed. Some sort of corset isi a necessity and the slops report wo- men 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 büt for the more active hours women will manage to get along i with a garment that cpnines but gives thein comfort as well as con- tour.
Appropriate Styles And speaking of the styles the corset takes us back to the crino- line evening type which Queen Elizabeth of England wears so sur cessfully, is repeated in new veralons in the Norman Hartnell collection. Some of these frocks are reminiscent | of the Louis XII and XIV epochs.
Among the prettiest models is a black velvet with a wide embrold- ered band in eyelet fashion, used in the skirt and again at the decol- Jele. Another, in duchess Katin in violet-blue, is embroidered In large Louis XV bows, accompanied by a matching waistlength jacket.
Other evening gowns
are made with bank fullnes below the ivalst- line, or with fitting hips with full- ness below, especially at back, a silhouette definitely accepted at this time.
One of the sensational features is the "Winged Victory" shoulder, a Rosevlenne iden. It is shown in town suits with Jacketa moulding to the waist and with deep flared peplum.
Arched Eyebrows
*If you wish to give your eyebrows more of an arched look without any radical plucking, try brushing up the hairs in the centre with a cream type mpacara or soopy water. Allow the hairs to dry in place. This gives the eyebrow a more arched appear.. aneo and the new natural arch will last until you wash your face next.)
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Scarves are worn square, of long. checked or plaided this antuma. The upper of these two is a 27-Inch square of green Aine woollen, in a drop-stitch effect, woven with fringed edges. The long sesat · la a' chamois
· angora în a basket weave treat- ment with solid edges and fringed enda,
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China Bldg., Hongkong,
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Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
Lord Londonderry Nails A Lie
Belfast, THE Marquis of Londonderry recently scotched rumours that he had been interned as a spy. He did so in a telegram to Mrs. Templer, wife of Lieut.-Col. W. F. Templer, of Loughgall, County Armagh, who wrote Informing him that rumour was busy with his name.
Lord Londonderry, in his tele-1 gram
from London, stated: "Most grateful to you for your latter.
"Please tell anyone you like that rumour is a complete 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 proceedings. derry,"
(Signed) London-
DISTRESSED
Lord Londonderry, who sought to secure better relations between Bri- tain and Germany, had among his guesta at Mount Stewart (his Irish scat) some years ago Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, who was at that time Ger- mon Ambassador in London,
Called Up
--At 87
AN old man of 87, his chest
a mass of medal ribboni, was hofpod into the depot of a Lancashire Regiment. Ho arked to sco. the C.O, "1 sorved with your grandfather of Poona," hó said, “and now I have been called up again-- at 87." It was trup--the old man had received a mobilisa- tion order instead of his grand- son,
Jury Duty Leads to Jail
Since the outbreak of the war friends of Lord Londonderry have ELYRIA, O. (UP)-Edward Mil- been distressed and bewildered by aler, 28-year-old Avon farm worker, crop of rumours. These have painted arrived here to do jury duty, Lord and Lady Londonderry, who but instead spent five days in have made no secret of their social the county Jail. Miller stretched a friendships with high political per-10-minute court recess into half an sonages in Germany before the wor. hour and Judge Guy B. Findley found him guilty of contempt of court and Lord Londonderry made a special imposed the sentence. trip to Munish to observe the situp-i tion first-hand when Mr. Neville Chamberlain paid his flying visit last Londonderry said: "The world should September. He has also written abe told that we are tired of the book, entitled "Ourselves and Ger-browbeating we are getting from many."
Germany,"
On June 19 of this year, speaking i Appreciation of his public services at the 30th anniversary dinner of prompted Mrs, Templer to write the Handles Page Ltd. in London, Lord letter.
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