1950-01-07 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950.

PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

The Remodelled Kitchen Did I

Did It

By MARION CLYDE McCARROLE

HIS is the real story of

THIS

It

a real home-maker.

seems that, while

home-maker had most of

the

tho

modern labour-saving kitchen equipment and appliances-dish

Washer.

rang

refrigerator,

coffee maker, mixer, sandwich

ele-she still Incked

grill,

efficiently

convenient

EXT kitchen. 15

The kitchen she had was feet long and 8% feet wide, and old-fashioned, haphazardl

the

arrangement of things made her walk the entire 10 feet

cvety

time she wanted to take rome. thing out of the refrigerator and enrry it the sink.

kitchen

expen-

セx-

wiring

2

Remodeling the

would, they knew, be

sive business, But they figured

that if the husband did nit the

construction work himself,

cept for problug and

jobs, costs could be held to

Inicimum

On that

work.

lad they set เป

The result you see in the lanja picture

"Ar:1

Re-arrangement of samme the equipment, plus the use" method of storage -cau- ing storing materials and exptp- ment in that part of the kitchen where they are then used plan planned styling from a devor- tive point of view produced the eflent and attractive kiteben the home maker wanted

Sm

ot The

special

handy husband installer?

SUSAN

Paling shetf

10 caldnet tor atoris working utensile first are in meal pre poration at stok on refrigera- tor: a steel enbined next to 14 sink, a knife drawer, a BY Compartment, a recessed lower

WHAT HOME MAKER WOULDN'T ENJOY working in this kitchen?

Pentarizier

attractive and step-kaving The lucky woman who owned it, though, wasn't always so fortunate.

she got a long with the old-fashioned one below.

ta TVSTCOME the pzcelles of a low window that interfered with counter But - face are niso shown.

Plastir work surfaces t

Klay forms current“ pattern go woord work went with the white and ceiling, and the red marbled Isoleum an the fet,

features

the

HERE'S WHAT SHE AND her husband had to start with, when they decided to re-arrange and restyle their old kitchen

along efficient modern lines.

• recessed flower

THE PROBLEM OF A window whose sill would fall below counter surface was solved by Installing

box, gay with red geraniums,

and

A ⠀ DILAWER TO MAKE knivesfer to store 'exaler to get at, and a tray compartment were some now.

Household Hints

UFC of

oil polish ០៧ Jacquered furniture will some- tines produce

a gray-blue bloom. Wax is preferred over an ofl polish: for this type of furniture, but use it sparingly.

basr

A LAZY SUSAN UNIT in a cabinet provided easy- to-reach storało miace

that often-used equipment.

How To

for

Insert Slide

Fasteners

By ELEANOR ROSS

TIME

IME and time again we are told that making a dress, n

but slipcover Is a cinch, all inserting the side fastener. Somehow, say the ladies, the manufacturer's instructions, good as they are, don't seem to suffice.

Vie have an iden. though,

For year,

Encouragement

For Hen-Pecked Hubbies

HOLLYWOOD- Begardless

HU

sothe

fג}

what

hen-pecked husbands may think, a woman's Vree ran play out.

Janis Carler was required to rick and shout at Laraine Day in a very dramulte scene for RKO Radio's "I Married a Com- Daunist." At the start of the fourth take. Janis lost her voice And couldn't even whisper.

ON

the

Janis fell back "singer's salvation" of her days as a Broadway vocalist. This remedy consists of silence plus frequent applications of hot ten

of lemon. with lola

In the Director theanline

Robert Stevenun shot around her and about an hour and a half later Janis voice returned and she was able to resume work.

Bollywood

Jane Bussell, sultry star of Howard Hughes "The Outlaw," and her husband, Bob Wuterfeld, professional football stor, have their own design for living.

Though Jane has made three inctures, "The

Paleface." Montuna Belle" and "It's Only Money," during the past year, to share many she finds thine interests with him.

They frequently pack camp- Jng equipment Into the High Starns on fishing and hunting Junkets.

that too many of us aren't pur-Do

fcular enough to choose solutely the right_zipper for the purpose. An ordinary dress or skirt zipper won't do for a handbag compartment, and the separating zipper must be the proper weight, too. The latter come in light and heavy weight fur windbreakers, work clothes, ski jackets.

For Light Fabrics

For an

ordinary zip- рег.

sheer lightweight fabrics should be ensed slightly when attiched to a zipper. Hold the fastener inut as it is pinned or basted to the fabric. Reinforce thin fabrics with seam tope Instead of self material for Incing, thus giving more budy to the fabric. This will let the fastener lie fat.

Fabrics such as wool jersey, FO popular right now, have a tendency to give, So nover stretch wool jersey Into a zipper. A small box of sterilised col-

Use a muslin facing to help (on bails

is a good travelling eliminate stretching. For fabrics companion. You can use it to

like velvet, best resulla are apply lotion to baby's body. obtained

hand-stitching the cleaning his

ed by hand- ears, eyes, nose and zipper to the garment., for general care. The balls are

Leave an 8-inch opening for handy for applying, antiseptics, 7-Inch

to allow for in caring for angernalla

zipper, and

scam and for case in sewing lo

applying lotions and make-up. the fabric. Always At garment

and for a number of other uses, and the package takes up little room in your travelling bage.

before inserting zipper. Workc from the bottom of the placket up, when pinning and basting. Pin át right angles, to fastener: then the pinning is firmer, more accurate and there is less danger of "puckering” and pins can be. easily removed while ninchine siitching.. Sitch close to

Apply war on linoleum or bsphalt ille in several thin coats with Intervals between, This procedure permits evaporation of any moisture. In the wox. A hard surface will form moro zipper chain so that needio door quickly and prevent dirt and not touch the metal part, and normal wear, from reaching the the ends of machine stitching floor covering.

after each stop.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

If You Must Count Culories

"Msiven me the secret of ple calorie

#ADAME, since you have Alling, packs just as much of a punch as a plece of

made with the real authentie 'chiffon or Bavarian plc." American style plecrust, I have

The Chef heaved a long sigh. become an enthusiastic convert. "Then I seeina that I must Never did I think there would conane myself to the testing and

my gastronomic insting of these ples."

BOTDC-

be a rival in affections to the French pastry.

admit But I must

that the American ple, has done thing to me."

"Yes, I've noticed that, Chef" "Úb, you mean the avoirdupois! That's what I wanted to talk with you about. Madame Is it possible to eat the ple and keep the waist-line from spreading?"

Nutritive Value

"A good iden, Chef, if there's more testing than tasting!"

"But Madame, shall the great public be dented the tronomie joys of pic?"

n

After

**By no means, Chef.

third of our all, less than population is over-weight. Pie will continue ОБ our Arent American dessert. But W must remember that at substantiul food, not merely an accessory."

Dinner

Cream Soup Croutons Roast Codfish with Caper Sunce Diced Buttered Squash Green Beans Criss-Cress

"Yes, provided you count the calories, or nutritive value as part of your normal dally diel, and cut down the intake of other fats, sugars and starches Com correspondingly that day. Most of us don't realise how many catories go into

pic.

As you for know Chef,

9 covered apple pic, you need for the crust

2 cups of flour, about 800 calories, and shortening, which is about 1500 calories."

that's

Apricot Pie Coffee or Ten Milk (Children 1

Juclide enriched bread cup role with butter or margarine

All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four

"Oh, ln In, Madame! Already in the crust there are more than 2000 calories"

Roast Codfish With Capor Sauco

Order a 214

for

to 3 lb rodil sli Wash rusting Draj Dust with

well-seasoned earl

stooth

"Then add the Alling, say six dressed apples and a cup of sugar, and thoroughly you add about a thousand more, salt and pepper and 11 sparing So, If you cut a covered 9 nie ly with into eight wedges, you get more stuffing, making than 400 calories a single the open edge Irtion."

GARDEN

By BOB SCHARFF

ON'T forget about your garden, for now s the time to protect and prepare it for the coming spring.

от

Spading is best, for ground you expect to use in spring for กรรมสร

vegetables. The winter cold will break up the clods and leave the soil in the best condition for seed sowing. Insects exposed to the cold will be killed.

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To have less plant diseases and fewer Insects, cut the old stems of your perennials back to the ground. Then lay loose, springy mulch over the entire bed insulation against climatic changes. Use hay, straw, and leaves for the mulch. Hold it down in windy areas by stakes, branches or chicken wire.

Fr

.....

th Do not sew flab together Gush the skin oh the back so it will not crack i m1ggestion, cooking?. Transfer fo a baking

make pan

lined with a plece of heavy

"But I have 1 Madame. Suppose we

this into a pre-crust ple. or a waxed paper or aluminium frail, deep dish ple, und use a little long enough so it stools kip on lens Ruge

rach end, 30 the Osh can be "That woulet

lifted out and transferred abiy All fruit pies ent

Dat the fish with made with one crust, and so can margarine or shortening. O

WeTh

help consider to the platter

br

all kinds of custard pre, and plare small thin slices of salt pumpkin piv

pork along the back. Ranst in "Now

getting Home- a moderate oven, 350 F When where," remarked the Chef. The skin begins to turn colour, "In the case of custard pie we add a little water to the bottom use only one crust, 2/3 lew of the pari or use liquid drained sugar than we do in fruit pies, from cooked vegetables, and the eggs and milk in the decisionally with this alling supply SOTH of the until the fish begins to separate

Paste

70051

protein calories which are from the bones, about 35 min.

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custard pie is eaten in 9 meal Serve with raper agure, when the meat or Ash portion is

snall, and the protein therefore Caper Sauce: Measure 1% e Inte a null satier needs building up, the eggs and hot water alk wil help out. On the pan. Add 3 tbsp. capers and 1/2

Blerred other hand, chiffon and tbsp. lemon Jutee. Bavarian ples made and topped bap. butter or margarine and with whipped cream in addition tbsp. cornstarch

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4

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AT

If

to the sugar content and the pie of the boling liquid. Stir un crust, are extremely high in smooth. Return to the cooking calories, For instance, consider sauce, and cook and stir until the

meal: following

Chopped bolling all over, Season to a chopped beef taste with salt and pepper, pinach soup; n

on toast; string patty

beans; desired 1/3 chopped raw urots:

Jettuce and tomato celery may be added. aulad: fresh fruit cucktall and coffee. One single good-sized portion of a chiffon or Bavarian pie contains as many Culories as this whole meal,”

Mincemoat Pia

Criss-Cross Apricot Pio

Prepare pinin ple pastry or

Itoll to " use a mix.

Thick- ness and line 9° ple pinte with it. Then combine 2% c. well- sweetened stewed apricots with

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VICE CHAIRMAN

Brigade

"I would not have thought it the grated rind, 4 lemon and 2 possible, Madame! But how thap. quick-rooking

tapioen St. John Ambulance about the mincemeat pie? That, Tra

Transfer to the crust-lined of least, has protein calories." plate. Arrange criss-cross trips "Not many, Chef, I'm sorry of pastry on top. Do not t to disappoint you, but a piece of them an tight; they should not genuine two-crum mince pie, be stretched. Then press them because of the suct used in the into the piecrust at the edges. Bake in a hot oven 400 F from 30-35 min. Serve cold.

TALK

Protect your young trees

Keep the soil about the roots of your evergreens moist until cold weather. Upright branch- CR of columnar evergreens Cover stems of climbing rosen should be tied to a central stake with top soil after trimming and to keep snow and ice from split- tying slems as flat as possible. ting them apart. Use strips of Fad the sharpest, bends with cloth or a soft cord for tying. rolled sod to prevent breaks in Burlop screens prevent wind nks damage on young fender trees. ivy their stems. Wisteria,

pinks and chrysanthemums need pro- tection against rabbits. Use Removing leaves, and trash screen wire pushed in

lower caught at the bases of the hedge ground and cover the

und fence elimilriates a fire haz- free feet of each plant or vine ard. If you must mulch hedges in your area, uso soll, Don't. trim hedges until spring.

NAA

the

Nowly set trees need the help provided by guy wires to resist winter winds, and all trees need Lawn mowers s should be set to protection against raids by bark cut as high as possible, but con hungry mice and rabbits. Push tinue to mow the lawn regularly . screen or wire netting two until the grass stops. growing- Inches into the soll to fall at- Keep the tree leaves, raked up tempts at an underground at weekly intervals to avoid attack by the pesta.

danger of: zmothering the grass.

Trick of the Chef

tu criss-cross

To give a continentai flavour apricot pie, ndd blanched c. fine-chopped berts to the apricot Alling.

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