Evening star., 1942-09-28

or baking dish about inches high
and about wide-or Whereabouts.
When the mixture goes into the cas-
serole, 1t should fill it about half full.
1t leaps nimbly upward in the baking
process and when finished will be
peeking over the top with a nice,
tanned complexion.
First, grasp the casserole firmly
in your left hand, dig into the but
! ter with your right hand, laying
hold of a piece about the size of the
Well-known walnut, and with that
butter grease" the bottom and
sides of the casserole. (Verv i'm
portant-and don't spare the but
teri
Into an appropriately built sauce
or stew pan, sitting over low gas
flame, pour four cups of rich milk
and a couple of pinches of salt. and,
as the milk starts warming up. Won
start stirring into it one cupful of
good, water ground corn meal. pour
ing slowly and stirring steadily
Soor the mixture begins to get
slightly "mushy," which is all to
the good. But now, working with
precision, drop into the mixture
tour nice fresh eggs-never mind
beating them until they are in. Now
check your heat-so you don't 90
100 last. Grasp your trustv rotary
egg beater and do a good stout egg
beating job for a minute or so
Wnlle you are doing that, let half
stick of butter melt (but not
brown and then pour it into the
mixture, give it a final fillip with
the beater, plop the mixture into
the well-buttered. aforementioned
casserole, and right into the oven
4oo degrees. And you can figure on
IL having to bake between 35 and 40
minutes. Toward the tail end. if it
seems to be making too much prog
ress or getting too brown, dron the
neat little-say to $50. you've
got 10 sort of know your own ovenD
BE sure your spoon bread is cooked
Ihfough In the middle-no runnv
spots. Check that with A straw or
with a silver knife blade-vou know
how to do that.
The spoon bread must be served
da soon as ready-and don't let il
stand around in neglect. If YOU do
IL Will get mad on, and fall f1at.on
you-and what a comedown that isI
My, my! '' 40
comes now the fine art of irving
MARYLAND chicken. There is amnle
Time because you start that after the
spoon bread goes into the oven Yo1
nave half an hour for the chicken
ana 1t takes only about Is minutes
in the pan. "Ve'
L am going to give you the recine
"hlch was given to me bv the
owner of the well-known Cbarlas
carroll Hotel in Westminster. Md
MIX some salt and pepper with a
cup o1 flour, spread on a platter
ana dip the chicken. In the mean.
tlme, nave deep iron skillet on the
ilre and plenty of good lard or mart
bacon fat and part vegetable short
ening, or something like that, getting
good and plenty hot. Then drop
the cnlcken into the fat-slow the
neat down to medium and frv for
ABOUT 10 minutes when it should
nave turned the chicken almost
brown. Then turn up the flare to
nigh neat, give it another five min
utes or a little more to get the de-
sired dark brown-and serve then
and there. Serve the chicken first
and the spoon bread right following
About those vegetables-thev are
a snap-Just a can of very fine slim
string beans, a smaller can of little
hma beans, and few bits of cooked
carrot-heat up together, run in a
little cream sauce, and they take
care Of themselves, what with mavbe
a smltch of salt and pepper.
We said something about baked
oysters to sort of kickoff the din
ner. And they are very nice and
very easy to fix. All you do is beg
! borrow Or possess yourself of a sec
ond Dig iron skillet and get it hot.
Also you have brought home with
you some l6 fine oysters in their
original housing You have scrubbed
the shells we'll with brush. If your
ever-loving wife wants to do her lit
tie kitchen trick, she places these
crustaceans in the skillet and covers
with lid, just about when you are
wrestling with the spoon bread mix
ture. And as you get the spoon
bread into the oven, the oysters
begin to ''perk. And as the chicken
goes into the fat. the oysters have
pried their shells apart and are
ready to emerge. Two oysters per
plate, set before the customers. and
you all enjoy lovely tid-bit which
puts sharp points onto the appetite
At the end of the repast, Join
hands, sing Maryland, my Mary
land" and then for some good
I bridge.