Evening star., 1935-12-26
Christmas Turkey May Appear Many Before Its
Home Economics Bureau
Suggests Various Ways
To Aid Temperance
Also Offers Idea on Using Leftover Cakes
Nuts, Raisins and Other Reminders
of the Feast.

-Parmesan or some other cheese that
Is hard enough to CRATE.
"a curry Of turkey with rice is an
other combination that extends the
flavor of the turkey in one Of the less
usual ways. For this combine small
pieces of turkey meat with cooked
shredded carrots, in sauce made with
turkey broth, thickened slightly with
flour, and seasoned with curry powder
and a little onion This mixture may
be served on platter with ring Of
rice. The dish may be varied by sub
stituting grated fresh coconut for the
carrots, or Sprinkling the mixture with
coconut.
"Other good turkey dishes are
mashed potatoes, like shepherds pie;
turkey chop suey; turkey croquettes
and turkey pie or turnover. For the
pastry use a very rich biscuit dough,
and if there is not quite enough turkey,
add some cooked celery to the filling.
Then, of course, there is turkey
soup-made from the bones, plus any
last scraps of meat, and cooked with
noodles, or macaroni, and perhaps
with tomatoes, carrots, onions, okra--
any or all Of these.
HE leftover vegetables come in
nicely when cold turkey is served
the mashed potatoes made into
cakes, fried with crisp brown crust
and served piping hot. Sweet pota-
toes may be scalloped with apples to
add to the quantity, and make nice
dish in any case. If there is leftover
celery, it makes a good stew with to-
matoes or with carrots, and thus fur
nishes third item in very good din
ner of Christmas left-overS. A cas-
serole of mixed vegetables, creamed
and baked with bread crumbs over
the top, is another good way to use
vegetable left-overs too small in guam
tity to serve separately.
THE fruits and nuts that may be
on hand are good in dozen different
kinds of salads or desserts. Nuts with
diced apples make Waldorf salad, or
nut kernels may be tucked into dates
or prunes and served with ball Of
cream cheese on crisp lettuce. Or nuts,
dates and figs may be ground up to-
gether and made into a ball to fill
the center of half canned peach, or
a peeled fresh pear that is served on
lettuce leaf, often with cream cheese.
Then for the cakes on hand after
Christmas day! Fruit cake, of course,
needs only to be served for itself alone
as long as it laSts-which can be a
long time, because 1t is moist and
keeps well if put away in tight con-
tainer. But other cakes dry out quick
", and one way to use them is to
serve a piece with slice Of canned
peach on top and sirup poured over
the whole. Or with some other sauce
butter scotch, chocolate, foamy,
tutti frutti or any other fruit sauce.
ANY kind of leftover cake can be
used in puddings or custards or in
betty" with apples or other fruits.
For example, substitute cake crumbs
for bread crumbs in a bread pudding
recipe, using less sugar than with the
bread, Of course. Or put cubes Of
cake, with custard, in shallow bak-
ing pan. The cake will come to the
top and brown nicely in the baked
custard."
II you wish advice on your indi-
vidual household problems, write to
Betsy Casweil, in care Of The Star,
inclosing stamped, self-addressed en-
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