1947-01-04 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1947.

•THE WORLD OF WOMEN.

The EXPERT In the KITCHEN

GEORGIE RODGERS,

Good

Principal of the Housekeeping School of Cookery, explains the

Continental

You can

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touch

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get a breath ur

Con-

tinental fr into your cookery at modest expense, by using the vegetables that are in the shops to- day.

Aubergines (eggplants) make an excellent breakfast dish fried, or a Food supper dish stuffed W-3151 sausage-ment.

Endive is one of the finest salud vegetables, sind chicory can be retved either a salad or cooled us .#

vegetable.

Pepper, both green and reef, have

a very cheery appearance, and can be used either as i garnish for mot or vegetable dishes, or stuffed and

sett fit a main course.

FRIED

AUBERGINE

I aubergine, firm and smooth,

tablespconfuls beaten rus or lat

ter breadcrumbs.

4 Hers bacon.

Picen

DEEL the aubergine and cut to thick and reason well with salt and pepper. Chat with batter, or egg and crumba. Fry the bacon and keep hot, then fry the aliced aubergine in this fut, adding n ttle more if necessary. Tarn and cook on the second akle, then drain and

serve while Crisp with the bacon rashers. This is a breakfast dish you will be asked to repeat, but next time try the follow- to a supper dish.

AUBERGINE GRATIN

AU

1 aubergine about a pound.

1 braton ego,

Box, grated cheese.

pist tomato sauce or punt benen i

PREPARE and cook the aubergine

its above. ba

ATTAINEN the

slices in a greased baking dish. First layer of aubergine. then sprinkle with grated cheese,

immediately on top of the

turn layer

and

thire

a second round of aubergine More grated cheese, then zu layer of aubergine and the rest of the cheese on top. Pour the sauce all around, and bake for 20 minutes in a bol aven 400deg. F. until the cheese melted and slightly brown on top. Serve each pile as a portions,

Minule Makers

4 GABRIELLE

Satin hots, shirred and puffed, looking like your Grandmother's tea coozy, are decorating smart New York heads! A delicate makrup goes along with this new. hat fashion

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JOAN KENT: Post-war office Birl

She

KENT. knows more

than most girls about doing Like a million other girls, she, usually leaves herself five minutes tuo little to do her face in the mornings,

Her skin (presumed overmath: because R's dryl gets a quick was with soap and water, then a creamy foundation. This takes care of cleansing, toning and protecting her complexion inside three minutes.

the can do ner antr 13 SAD minates-half of that is spent on brushing. By keeping the ends shihtly permed, wanning and settin her hair heraclf every week. Reeps it very soft and able, so that it's easy to dress. Trien she has designed herzeit

make-

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ample style, flat on top with a centre pirting, and straight at the tact co that she has only to curl the page. bay us.

with #

Morning make-up theindes any powder canly fluted on swanddwn puff and tipstick. Sho tres a natural colour mostly. Keeps small-size lipstick sharpened to a point to draw the outlines carefully. and uses a big, tubby one to fi iy the colour quickly.... That com- plica her morning make-up la four inutes flat.

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VENING makeup follows the same routine, but takes a little longer because she uses-cream on Her eyelids and a little rouge.

The secret of speed, stre gay, 18 Lo have regular treatments. She has a perm every eight months, a manicure when she does her hair ist the week. ends, a facial once a fortnight at home, That way her hair and skin keep in such good condition that she can get by with a minimum daily beauty core,

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makes up well in

4 mins. flat

BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

This is Joan Kent-

isn't she attractive?

Posed by Josephine Antoine for Lois Leeds.

A well-cared-for neck and shoulders, plus good head posture,

is easily attained.

"DEAR LOIS LEEDS" "Dear Jois Leeds--Please suggest something that will really get my face clean. I work in the allice of

Take it from me

WOOL is the natural thing to wear

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BILENE BUTTERFLİLS Ingredients: 2 975. flour, pinen Ball, red pepper, 1 oz. art. Juz. cheese grated), egg--recon- stluted, a tle water.

Filing 1 oz, eticase igrated), 102 Barcine.

Method: Mix flour AR, pepner and cheese, rub in lat, recon- stitute the egg and mix.

few drops of water to make w st. marzipan inixture; roll out

as thinly as possible and cut into rounds; cut half of rounds atright across mititle; place on #krised baking sheet and pric well to avold rishan, brush ever with egg. Regulo 6 for 10 minutes, cream cheese aut margarine well Joring: spread a little of Ang in the raiddle of each whole round: place wings filing.

These quantities nike approxi- mately ten biscuits.

TRICORNE TASTIES Required: 4 073. short pastry.

Film: Few drops of vinegar, pepper to taste, 2 ozs. cooked h. 3 tablespoona white sauce, 1 tablespoon chopped paratey.

Alx all ing ingredients together. Roll out pastry and cut into rounds with serrated culter, Pu a small quantity of mixture on to each round. Wet round edge of each and gather up to tricorne slape. Brush over with CAR and on greased baking Leulo 28. top shelf. sheet.

15-20 minuten.

These quantities make approxi mately ten tasties,

American Women

Are Discontented

MERICAN Women-home- [ The solution to the moun- makers and businessting discontent, she says, lies in Women - are becoming removing household drudgery increasingly discontented with with inventions and by women their lot because they cannot working together on projects. make a free choice in the way such as canning or laundry, their time and leisure are spent, "What wouki remain in the anthropologist Margaret Memd asserted recently.

Writing in the current issue of "Fortune Magazine." Dr Mead, herself a wife and mother. said that "more than a quarter of the women are articulately. definitely disturbed about their Int-as women." and traced the general causes to their isolation and loneliness in the home and their inability to choose their work after marriage.

The only solution. she sug gests, is elimination of "the

honte would be shared living, a family eating, sleeping and playing together," Dr Mead anys, adding that man must activities that we call living, as take "a greater part in these opposed to making a living."

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Once this is accomplished, "Rest women will find risason for their discontent removed and continue to give their time to homemaking," she concludes.-Associated Press.

semi-voluntary slavery to house- REVOLVING

-keeping-that-we-now-impose

on married women" by more labour-saving inventions.

and

by American men assuming more responsibility in family home life.

Dullness

the

LAMPSHADE

or

An Ingenious idea in home decora- tion, shown by one British manufac- turer, is a revolving lampshade. The outer shinde is of parchment plastic. The Interior-the part that revolves as soon as the lamp is 1- "WOMEN in our society com- is of clear acetate, with designs of plain of the lack of stimu-sailing ships or goldilah. The device works on the thermal principle and

Why not try one of the new soup creams? Work the preparation over the skin with the dampened finger-lation, of the loneliness, of the is so arranged that it pivots on an tips, then remove by many rinsings dullness of staying at home," ordinary gramophone needle, which with warm water. Apply founda-she writes. "Little babies are can be changed whenever necessary. tion cream as a protective film.

"Dear Lois Leeds-Are a white satin, short-skirted dress and hat suitable for a war widow's second wedding dress?-SAL"

It is within the realm of what to wear, but I wouldn't advise it. think furt a soft pastel of crepe would be far more attractive and it would look smart.

"Dear Lois Leeds-A bhte-red is becoming for my lipstick but the matching colour in polish looks ugly. What should I do?--N. G. L."

a jule, Shell-Pluk polish, Use Which will give a natural tone to the: nails. Or dispense with polish en- tirely and just buit your nails to a "high" "Naish,"

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"Dear Lols Leeds-Is there cream that will all out the hollows Ein my neck?---MRS. X”

A rich thront cream and oli will soften and will aid in smoothing the

poer conversationalists, hus-The sight of the slowly rotating fish

bands come home tired and sit tive

or sailing boats is extremely attrac- reading the paper, and women who used to pride themselves on their ability to talk find on the rare evening they can go out that their words clot in their tongues.

"Men are taught they are free to choose their jobs for one set of reasons, and their girls for another.

"But while girls are taught, they will choose their jobs in thei same way as boys, and choose their husbands as boys choose their wives, they can't choose their work after marriage."

AND

Children

ND all girls, whether they love or hate cooking, like ted, "because they fall in love or dislike children, are expec

and want to be married, to want also to be homemakers and to enjoy the routines of bringing

skin but exercise will fill out hollowя by Elving you better posture. Try up children," she writes.

this

This is a splendid exercise to per- fect the contour of the neck. It also nids in firming those muscles under the skin which show a woman's ago or her neglect of herself.

Dr Mend discards as unwork- able the suggestion that girls be re-educated "not to be persone first and women second, but to be women primarily." Similar- ly she is opposed to the theory

Lie fat on a narrow bed or couch; that housekeeping drudgery can one without a headboard. Let your be done away with by aprending head drop down over end of the around home-making in com- couch. Slowly raise the hend until

ercise five times the first day, grad-

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evening gown diaper services, play shown in London by Blanca ually working it up to twenty times. schools and Infirmaries. Child Mosca is set off by the use of In conjunction with this exercise, care specialists, she notes, have crmine and flowers for the gloves use oli massage for the neck and studied children brought up in and the tiny Victorian head- astringent patting along the Hine. If you do this you will get Institutions and "the results are dress. Sketch by fashion artist extra Beauty Dividends!

discouraging."

Virginia.

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GREATER CHOICE OF COLOUR

Women in Britain in 1947 will made of the yellow dye; It was kept- have a greater number of colours to colour the collapsible dinghies from which to choose. The delicate which enved the lives of thousands shades of yellow, for instance, which That vivhi yellow could be seen of men who came down on the-peu." were so popular before the war and miles away, either from the son or which have almost wholly dia-"] the air. appeared during the last six or As for the shatles of blue, the seven years, will return. But very them, and concentrated them into

Royal Navy monopolised most few of the women who admire the the famous, shade of navy blue. But realise what use was made of them demobiilsed, navy new shades in the shop windows will now that wartime sailers are being during the war years.

blua is being broken up into dozens of different nuances which will Any Royal Air Force pilot, how appearance in the shops in Britain make their ever, could tell her what use was this spring.