The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 13

The Daily Telegraph Thursday January 1 1970 Start the When we change over to this is the chart to cut the chore NEW YEAR i well with There are two editions of the chart to choose from the de luxe edition printed on heavyweight glossy-finish board is 5s the ordinary edition on varnished white card costs 4s Both can be obtained from Tuesday onwards from The Daily Telegraph 135 Fleet Street London EC4 or by post (postage 6d extra per chart) from Dept CO The Daily Telegraph 135 Fleet Street London EC4 imminent national change-over" they write in an introduction to their Conversion Chart (pictured right) in which they ease the way for everyone else This comprehensive DAILY TELEGRAPH chart has separate measurement sections for solids and fluids bulk-buying cooking temperatures pan tin and instrument contents It even has an extra section devoted to converting American measures THE conversion to the metric system will be far less of a chore for Bon Viveur than most other people because since they use French sources tor their cookery references already had plenty of practice Working on the basis of a flat 28 grammes to one ounce ignoring the odd decimal points we have stubbornly persisted with this chore unconsciously arming ourselves against the BON VIVEUR Other people's super cast-offs are Jasmine's business Around the they are now picking the citrus crop to tog and -v WM Ml 'flu-struck Britons the fruit offers both the taste of warmer climes and welcome vitamins SIX ORANGES A DAY THEY HELP TO KEEP THE AT BAY-BUT BE CLEVER WITH THEM WE put ourselves and everyone else on a basic six oranges a day when coughs colds and started to run through the house and surprising how many different ways you can work citrus fruits into the diet without it seeming obvious or monotonous THE RECIPE CHICKEN WITH ORANGES INGREDIENTS: 31b roasting chicken seasoning Ipt fresh strained orange juice the grated rind from 2 medium oranges 21b very finely sliced onions 4ox butter METHOD: Butter the inside of a casserole pot thickly Put onions on base season with salt and pepper Butter fowl liberally seasoning again Place on onion bed add peel to orange juice pour overall cover with a lid and cook at 350F (gas 4) until bird is tender This really does need several careful bastings Serve on a bed of rice and garnish with grilled oranges Hot Baked Grapefruit appeared regularly on winter breakfast tables alternating during this germ spell with Hot Baked Oranges Both are a good deal more welcome on an icy cold morning than refrigerated orange juice can ever be The treatment is the same for both and we learnt it in Madeira not as you might imagine in the orange farm areas of South Africa THE RICE: Fry 1 chopped shallot in 2oz butter adding 8oz rice gradually and turning it well until butter-impregnated Stir for about 3 to 4 minutes add to a quart of white stock bring to the boil simmer for 1 to 2 minutes and turn into lidded casserole Cook at 400F (gas 6) until the rice has absorbed the liquid approximately 20 mins THE ORANGES: Boil steadily until tender then halve de-pip coat with soft brown sugar and a pinch of dry English mustard and dot with butter flakes rather more generously than usual Finally bubble and brown them under a slow grill until a rich crust forms on top You eat the lot skin and all and they are delicious There we were extremely surprised at the almost total absence of citrus fruit recipes and very amused at receiving a severe ticking-off from one very well-known hostess who barked Do not attribute any of these eccentric recipes to us We eat our grapefruit fresh! To bake either fruit halve the fruit then detach the sections from their skin partitions with a grapefruit knife (Never emulate tatty hotel treatment by cutting through those bitter dividing walls of pith) Then invert each half so that some of the juice runs out and leave about 40 minutes Turn cut side uppermost and cover the tops with soft brown sugar Dot this surface with tiny flakes of butter and spoon some of the juice back on top for breakfast service For dinner set the drained-away juices aside to use in a rum jelly and moisten either grapefruit or oranges with dry Sercial Madeira or medium dry Verdhelo Bake one shelf above centre at 350-375F (gas 4 to 5) for about 20 minutes As a family we dislike the taste of rum so we have solved the problem by using white rum for the following recipe it does not give anyone the shivers as it goes down For a good Rum and Orange Jelly take the strained juices of 4 oranges and 2 grapefruit and bulk up to 14 fl oz with pale strained China tea and add 2oz of white rum Dissolve loz powdered gelatine separately with 4 tablespoons cold water When this is clear and syrupy stir into the hot mixture Add soft brown sugar to taste and pour into a wetted mould and refrigerate until set You can persuade difficult children to absorb both juice and flesh easily provided you cut skinless segments and then either set them in a jelly or turn them into orange and grapefruit salad It is easy once you have got the little trick but you must have an extremely sharp small pointed knife (an ordinary French knife is perfect) Working always with a little light jerking movement never pressing the knife-blade against the skin and pith and forcing it round you peel off skin and pith together leaving none behind It is the little jerking movement which cuts smoothly and leaves a smooth flesh-exposed surface Having done this successfully you can see every segment of orange showing through the little walls of skin so that it becomes mere play to run the blade of the knife be tween the skin and flesh on one side of each segment and then on the other side thus achieving a perfect skinless pig as we used to call them in the nursery Turn these pigs into Nursery Jelly Cover the bottom of a wetted mould with a in depth of orange only jelly at the syrupy stage Arrange a decorative pattern of orange segments over the centre surface when almost at setting point Leave for 5 minutes pour in a further lin of jelly and when this is at setting point arrange a further set of segments in a pattern around the edges this time and so continue until the bowl is filled: central pattern one layer side pattern the next When the jelly is turned out all the little orange segments will show through The business of excavating these proves so fascinating to small children that a plateful is demolished quickly For adults we use equal quantities of orange and grapefruit skinless segments for the most re freshing of all fruit salads Just pile the segments ai ternately into a mounting pyramid on a large glass dish with layers of sifted icing sugar in between Refrigerate overnight and then if not teetotal perk up with a few drops of rum or maraschino We think our version of Chicken with Oranges is so good that we can risk repeating it We know there is pee! in the recipe so we have checked with our own doctor who assured us that although it is frequently treated for exportation the quantity is so minuscule C0 many women have perfectly 3 good clothes they have tired of but cannot afford to give away others would pay good money if they could lay their hands on such bargains I have discovered one bright enterprise that puts the two in touch Called simply it is run by Jasmine Bligh the original glamorous television hostess of the Thirties She now lives in a peaceful country village under a fold of the Berkshire downs From this apparently remote spot hums a most exclusive and enterprising second-hand clothes business conducted from a van and a tent I It is tremendous Jasmine Bligh said talking in her sitting room from among a litter of lists and papers I go all over the country with the van full of clothes a friend comes to help there are alivays women who love a day out ready to help If there is room we fix a tent to the side of the van for trying on Dog shows are particularly splendid we do very good trade Once half the tent blew away leaving the customers in their panties clutching at the canvas and roaring with laughter Like all successes that appear obvious this one is the result of careful planning and hard ground work With her background Jasmine Bligh has many friends and acquaintances her first step was to send out cards to a picked list announcing exceptional second-hand clothes at bargain She then bought a second-hand van equipped it rather necessarily with new steering fitted it out with rails inside painted a peacock on the outside filled it up with clothes and began her first business Now Bargains goes to dog shows agricultural shows WI meetings and by invitation to married quarters of military camps coffee mornings on housing estates and twice a year to Harrow school for the wives Her super castoffs come from all over the country: Scotland Ireland and Wales and some from France and even the United States from highly-sophisticated social types to quiet country ladies Prices vary from a few pounds for a little day dress to £20 to £30 for a London or Paris model and you may find a fur fabric coat for a fiver or a mink for a few hundred 1 went to her yearly open day at her own home on a rainy day and came away with a raincoat for 30s Organisation is simple Miss Bligh accepts the clothes sells them if she can at about the price the owner hopes to get takes 25 per cent service charge herself After three months the price may be lowered and after six if the things are not collected or the return postage prepaid they are given to charity Now her ambition is to have a double decker bus with the clothes on the lower deck and a shop for Victoriana on the top On sale that no harm will come from eating it We have now abandoned the use of wine vinegar for mayonnaise so when you make your next batch try using our new favourite mixed orange and lemon juice instead We would never use bought essence To make our own orange and lemon essences we take screw topped jars half-fill them with transparently thin peelings of either orange or lemon and top up with colourless odourless tasteless vodka As you pad around the kitchen give these tightly screwed-down jars a shake and invite the family to do the same because like the baby these also respond to rougf treatment After three weeks store with other flavourings and use a drop at a time or return SHOULD A MANSE BE A MANSION? By Dr Cecil Northcott I WAS admiring a newly-built vicarage in a village the other day when the wife his people The working-class man with his little semi or terraced home feels a bit out of it with the parson in his mansion and that's the reason why people go to church and so on burst into a sudden paean of praise Yes wonderful At last we have five bed- all sounds pretty opulent and judging from the correspondence in the Church press many of the clergy are worried about it She had wanted five bedrooms because one of them could be given over to her husband as a study She believed it was vital for her husband's job that he should have a room to work in like the doctor the village policeman and the district nurse There is some truth in the belief that the traditional housing of the clergy in England does place them well and truly among the middle classes I suspect that this is the reason why the new Bishop of Woolwich the Right Reverend David Shepoard has gone to live in a street in South London rather than among the elegancies of Blackheath where the Bishop is normally expected to live The trouble centres on the number of bedrooms A generation or two ago it did not seem to bother people that the parson should live in a vast old vicarage where his usually-large family had plenty of room to play MY wardrobe doors were bursting with never-to-be-wom-again dresses suits and coats They had to go! So I paid to put an ad in the local paper writes LOUISE RHOADES First viewer good at this secondhand clothing lark sold her entire wardrobe to friends recently) she offered to return on pay day for a long evening dress Her mother would come too (so she said) as some of the clothes are just They never did Second viewer: mother minus her student daughter She loved on behalf a pillarbox red coat and left with the promise that she would return with daughter They never did My reaction: to arrange the room boutique style with dim lights and taped music Result: a third viewer and a sale She also liked the sliding partition between the sitting-room and the diningroom which made space for a meeting of 30 people It all she said what you want your house for" Those old vicarages are now selling at the rate of 200 a year and making a useful £8000 each for the Church But why should five bedrooms have an isolating effect To think of a five-bedroomed house as a mansion is surely to ignore the new scale of values which is pushing the classes of England together She had been struggling along with three bedrooms or so as a wife and now the splendour of a five-bedroomed detached house with central heating and a garage was paradise itself Yet still the big-house complex haunts the clergy It seems that a terraced house with three bedrooms keeps you among the working class tour bedrooms pushes you up to middle class five lands you among the wealthy Far from being cut off from his people the next-generation parson will probably find that his five-bedroomed parsonage puts him on the level of his parishioners who by then will alt have added an extra room to their homes During 1970 the Church Commissioners whose responsibility it is to house the clergy will probably be putting up 100 such new parsonages costing nearly £12000 each It Where should the parson and his wife be The anti-five-bedroom Churchmen argue that these mansions cut off the parson from ANITA CHRISTOPHERSEN ADVERTISEMENT- tough for women who lay down the Law Stop Winter Wrinkles By Dorothy Wayne on their work Mrs Dorothy Knight Waddy a County Court judge since 1967 is a widow Her husband whom she married when he was a fellow Recorder already had a grown-up family They also adopted a daughter Now 59 Mrs Knight Waddy lives in Bick-ley Kent and relaxes in her garden or by taking photographs Use the colder months to give your skin a lovely sunlit satin ploom but guard against wrinkles caused by the cold air Even mildly crisp air causes Ihe skin to contract prevent ing protective oils from reaching the surface Ask your chemist for oil of Ulay and before you make up smooth it over your face neck arid hands being careful to pat it generously around the eyes You will be amazed how quickly this tropical moist Ulay oil will give the skin a healthy mid-summer bloom even on winter days only had three hours of domestic help Life was more automated but not much easier for the American lawyer I visited in New York Her large house had every labour-saving device But upstairs the washing-machine in one of the bathrooms was piled high with dirty clothes My daughters promised to do it before the weekend but they and I simply she said wearily Two other women judges I met in America looked anything but the part Both Jewish women from Boston in their fifties they agreed that there was generally a fairly liberal attitude towards women in the legal world in the United States men feel that if a woman has the aptitude a pity to waste In France there are around 600 women in practice as lawyers and around 80 who are presiding judges in the Paris region alone A 40-year-old French woman judge I met in Paris who loved her work seemed to successfully mix the law with domestic life But French women have been a part of professional life far longer than most The only woman judge who had no worries about her domestic life was the Indian mother of four she had four servants two full-time women judges have private lives which impinge little A WOMAN in a full-bottomed wig is still a novelty in Britain where there are only two women judges and a mere hundred or so women qualified to practise as barristers Most other countries have a better record but the problems that go with the position cross national barriers as I have found in meeting many women in the legal profession to which I also belong In Poland women judges equal men in number and share the same status and salary A Civil Court judge I met in Warsaw was a very feminine 40 and always had her hair done before a court appearance She was married to a judge-advocate and specialised in land disputes and divorce cases After a full day in court she became an ordinary city housewife again cleaning the two-room apartment looking after her husband and father When finished in the evenings too tired to do anything but go to she told me The woman judge I sat beside at a conference dinner in Helsinki was an attractively-dressed mother of two teenage children in her forties But never seen anyone look so tired High Court judge Mrs Justice Elizabeth Lane now 64 was first addressed as Mr after her elevation to the High Court and the Lord Chancellor issued special instructions that it could be changed to She is married to a barrister lives at the heart ol legal world in King's Bench Walk Her hobby is needlework SOCIABLE BOOK by Bon iveur Now in paperback 6- from your bookseller She explained that in her five years as a judge Mrs Dorothy Knight Waddy Mrs (ustice Elizabeth Lane.