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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

START SMALL = EXPAND AS YOU WISH

BY MARION CLYDE ·M«CARROLL®

ANY'S the young

M couple

that can

afford to build a small house now, but not a big one, yet, with expecta- tions that the family will grow and eventually need more room, realises that a big one will be a future "must."

Conversely, there are Just oz many couples that, buying rear- ed a family In a big home and hud their children go off to lend lives of their own, now need the large house so lunger, and want a mall one in which to spend their quiet years together,

The house shown here makes Ha appeal to either of thew groups. For the young couple con start small and expand as they wish. while the riddle. nged couple em build the baste unit and let it at that.

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The start of the house, as you see it in the picture below, in a basic 14x22-foot structure, with gables in each side of the roof which eventually can be extend- ed to cover wings to front and rear of the house, 'as shown in the one-colunin sketch. A lire- place is included in the basle. umit, but even with this, con- Itruction costs, are well within rench of limited budgets, accord- ing to Michigan State College engineers 111 Fast Luning Michigan,

who developed the

house plan.

Shown on the plan in a 9x12- foot bedroom at the rear, which can either be built at the time the basic unit goes up, or might constitute the first move fa ex- pand the house. To the front is shown a fx12-foot porch which

become

doing-room,

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kitchen or anather bedroom, Either or both these wings can extend further from the fuste

mom than the 9 feet shown, than giving the house a more rambling

Width appearance. munt remain ni 12 feet.

Poured

foolings conervie support a 4-inch thick slab the

THIS LITTLE SKETCH demonstrates the manner in which the baric house mit can be expanded on each sida.

A BIG FIELDSTONE FIREPLACE MAXES & cheerfully hospitable focal point in Michigan State College engineers to enable the man with a limited budget the living-dining room of Use basic house pictured below, planned by to bulld a small house within his means, capable of later expansion,'

size of the house which is cov- ered with asphalt tile

10 pro- vide a colourful, long-wearing flour.

The fireplace chimney is feld- stone around terra cottà flue Un- int When later additions are inade, space and a separato chimney can be provided in one corner of a room for a compact automatic henter.

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Bulli-in features such dresser, desk, buffet or ching cabinet save space and can be included in the mortgage, reduc- ing the cash outlay in buying furniture. The floor plan merely suggests furniture arrangemeast; many other groupings ean worked out.

Interior paritions of heavy plaster board help hold down construction costs,

The pullman - type kitchen with its equipment arranged in the efficient, step-saving U-shape can be closed off from the living- room with an accordion-folding door It desired.

A Tasty Fruit Platter

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN.

|6\/HAT are your orders for

the day, Malaray" asked

the Chef as I stepped into the test-kitchen.

"Clear all the refrigerator and disconnect it; torn the key in the gas-range and be ready İn

hours to start for Florida. We have been invited to be guests of the State."

Land

two

you can

Lunch on the Atlantic Coast Line proved especially interes- ting to me because many pas-

ordered sengers

the Florida special. We followed suit. This

of a consisted

grapefruit, and another thni turned out to be a quarter of a banana, cut lengthwise, ser- tioned into bite-sized pieces and rolled in chopped pecans. big gloss of Each drawing chilled orange juice, a wonder- ful fruit platter with a cream Ilsi dressing,

white and

wheat bread and butter, finger sandwiches, tea or coffee, and lee cream or pic.

an

tru

observed the

was numbered;

left.

The platter itself was chilled, then covered with crisp lettuce leaves to form a background for the fruit.

tasty" remarked the Chef.

"This cream dressing in very

"IS it not equal parts of mayonnaise and whipped cream,

little with

sugar and me

The steward nodded.

"And when you co:ne for dinner, we'll have malade pudding that may prove new," he said.

er- and next to corresponding

of numbers at the whole were given the ingredients.

"This is _picture_recipe," remarked the Chef. "It is u The Chef stared In ninaze-

pattern from which the cook he ex- ment. "Wonderful!"

"A

platter for lunch is works. Very simple, and very claimed. "But this is so sudden.

choice while clever." Madame, I must finish the

travelling. I remarked. Re- with the <fried experiments

freshing. anel only a Iltilo fruits. And what stall 1 do starch if one goes easy on tho labout the marmalade recipes

ple. And too much starch is we're testink?"

what often causes travel fatigue The dried fruits will keep

and many train headaches." the carry out

Well Prepared experiments right An important advantage in marmalade

You'll "See how well they are pre- this house design is that each where the fruit grows.

pared to serve the fruit platter," wing can be given windows on have oranges, grape-fruit, Inn- ilmes, guava-every-

Chef

Indienting three sitles, thus ensuring ex-erines,

we'll Furry or

a special refrigerating unit in cellent ventilation and a breeze thing. Now

miss the train."

the passageway near the kit- in summer, if the air is allæring

chen, where an assistant cook in any direction,

Was removing! ready-cut. sec- ilons of orange and grapefrult, avacados, fresh grapes, tinned peaches and sliced pine- Jupple. banonos and cooked

prunes. "He has

added to the tray it

low

squares of ercom cheese, and

nice crisp |lettuce," reported the Chef.

After the waiter had served uut lunch, the dining-car steward stopped at our table, "You seem particularly interest- ed in this fruit platter," he remarked. So I thought you (might like to see the directions for making it as sent from our hoine oflice,"

THE START OF THE HOUSE IS a 14x22-foot structure with gables in each side of the roof which, when the home owner is ready to enlarge his dwelling, can be extended to cover wings at the front and rear of the house.

BUILT-IN-DRESSER

BED ROOM

CLOSET

DOUBLE

BED

BED-DAVEN-1

PORT

SHOWER

23

LIVING-DINING

ROOM FIREPLACE UNIT. DINING SPACE?

KITCHEN

DINING OR SLEEPING SPACE

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BUILT-IN FEATURES SUCH as the bedroom dresser shown here can, say the Zoalgners, bu included la mortgage, save cash outlay in buying furniture.

Frame

also

Cream Cheeso Indeed I was interested, for The directions consisted of a line drawing! First R plaiter. In the centre was sketched a small Equare, representing cube of cream cheese topped with half a cherry. On each side were half eireles indica- Over- ting tinned pineapple. flapping at one end were helt moons indicating avoundo slices, and a fine drawing of half a

Opposite Dear.

several were small circles, representing halved tokay seeded.

Krapes: three stoned prunes; and hall In the centre of each side were sketches in- dicating sections of orange and

a finned peach.

CHOOSING COLOURS

TA

BY ELEANOR ROSS

But

be

recent conference on furnishlog.

bright walls colour an interesting contri- take the doldrums right out of bution, helpful to the amateur the furniture, and Indeed, right decorator, came from a famous out of the room, and give the firm whose prints and synthetic whole place a cheerful, pleasant producis play a major role in look. public places. While the

ite the average

A dressing room home does not in any way com minted a bluish-green to fintier pare in a decorating sense with the complexion. For when look- a hospital room, a restaurant, n'

colour - ng at any one tea room, a hotel,

are curtain aspects that are cominun, human eye reacts by bringing up a strong after-lage of the or complementary ..opposite

ccflour.

may

an

mur- orange

The following menu includes dishes we ordered on the train,

The pudding proved so de- lelous, we obtained the recipe. You'll find enjoyable and "Inside the budget."

Dinner Chilled Tomato Cracker's

Julce

Pork. Chups Lyonnalse Selly Lunn Mullins Peas, Green Limas, and Carrols In Cream Sauce Orange Marmaladie Pudding Coffee or Teď Mik (Children) All Measurements Are Levet Recipes Serve Four

Pork Chops Lyonnaise Remove the excess fat from 4 goud-sized pork chops, any cut. Dust both sides with salt and pepper. Slow-fry abonl 10 min, or until nearly done Just enough fat to

scarcely cover the bottom of the frying pam, Then place in a balting dish that can be seni to the fable, and pour over 1 recipe for Lyonnaise

Enuce, Slow- bake at 350 F. about 20 min. or until the chops ore fork- tender.

Lyonnaise Sauce: Melt 2 tbsp. margarine

small skillet.

io a

Add e. ne-chopped onion and 14 e. water, and slow-cook until tender, about 10 min. Stir in 2 tbsp. dour, 1⁄2 tsp. salt and 1⁄2 tsp. pepper. Grad- ually stir in 1% c. fresh milks, or use reconstituted evaporated or dry skim milk. Bring to boiling point and Usc as directed for pork chops Lyon- naise.

Sally Lunn Muffins

- Break 2

Add

melted

Een into

nbow!. C. Bugar and . shortening and bent until creamy. Sift together, 2 c. 4 tsp. baking powder Bour, land 1⁄2 tsp. salt. Add aller- nately to the first mixture with c. milk. Transfer to olted muflia pans, and bake 25 min. moderate oven.. 375 E. Makes 10 medium-sized mufins. Orange Marmalado Pudding

Scald 3 c. fresh milk, or use reconstituted evaporated or dry. Jakim milk. Beat 2. egg yolken. In choosing colours for n

Adid

c. sugar and 1 tsp. Gluing room,

Reduced to decorating terms lemon or lime juice, and for instance,

pour homemakers might bear in mind. for the home, this fact may be in the scalded milk. Meantime

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