Evening star., 1942-02-12

, Cney seem 10 enjoy IN washington.
Try soaking the slices in pungent
French dressing for an hour before
frying them in batter, and see what
a difference it makes in the flavor
And don't overlook baked, stuffed
eggplant-especially when the stuff
tomatoes and rice along with the
eggplant-it's a perfect luncheon or
dinner dish. Baby beets, young car
rots, white and yellow turnips, and
oyster plant are always on bargain
lists and are very good for you,
too. Knob celery, or celeriac, is
another root you should know more
about-use it hot as a vegetable. or
cooked and cold in salads.
Cuts of beef and veal seem slated
for recommended buys this week
end, with relatively little pork or
lamb being offered Poultry is ex-
periencing its usual slight seasonal
rise, so when you buy a chicken be
sure you choose the one that will
give you the most for your money,
depending on how you want to serve
it. Remember that stewed chicken
or fricassee to be good should uti-
lize much Of the stock in which the
fowl was cooked-whereas If you
use the meat In dry hash, a salad
or croQuetteS you can reserve the
stock for delicious and nourishing
chicken soup for next day. If it is
fried chicken you want, and your
family Is very small, 1t will pay you
to look into the poultry sold by the
piece" and thus avoid waste.
Despite all the fishing troubles,
Washington continues to get plen-
tiful and reasonably priced supply
of sea food, which will be good news
to those of you who are eyeing the
approach of Lent next Wednesday.
Fine green Southern shrimp have
arrived-but they are relatively ex-
pensive, and pretty much for dinner
party use only. Cooked shrimp stays
about as usual. Smells are very
good just now-and we learned for
the first time that smelts are the
only fish that taste better after
they are frozen than when fresh
or green" That is why nearly all
the smelts you encounter have been
frozen, as many people object to the
odd flavor of the green variety.
Smelt fishermen are others to whom
you should extend thought of SYM
pathy these cold black mornings
they fish for the delicacy through
holes bored in the ice of northern
lakes. and over each hole the fisher
man has his tiny hut in which he
sleeps and lives and does his fishing.
When one section has been "f1shed
out" he moves his house to another
spot on the lake, cuts another gap
In the ice and drops his lines once
more. Not what you might call a
glamorous existence, Is It?
Shad are still coming from Florida
waters, so they are not very large
as vet, and the roes are very small.
As soon as the fish strike the coast
of the Carolinas the size and quality
begin to improve: we should see the
first of the really fine shad along
about the beginning of March. Until
then, don't overlook the really de-
licious canned shad roe: broil it del
icately in butter, season it with
butter to which q little lemon juice,
some chopped chiyes and a few
chopped blanched almonds have
been added-and you have a dish
fit for the most epicureau king!
Not so incidental department:
Remember those nice compact bouil-
lon cubes when you're stocking up
provisions for your afraid shelter.
They are easy to keep, stay fresh a
long time, and will do a lot towards
supplying refreshing and strength
ening nourishment in an emergency
J.. and they come in chicken flavor
as well as in beef.