The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-05
FOR
WOMEN
Keeping
Ahead of
the Times
By Mary Moore

from jury service, refuse women legal
business status and give husbands
preferred rights over children and
property. In many states women are
classed with idiots and lunatics. These
conditions would be done away with
by the passing of this amendment.
| The QUESTIONABLE of women's
opinion conducted by the Woman's
Home Companion indicates that
American women believe a Federal
sales tax is the fairest method of
spreading the burden of taxation, and
that compulsory savings would supply
cushion against wartime imitation
and probably postwar depression.
Eighty-two percent of the women
voting on the poll, which is a cross
section of the magazines readers, fav-
ored compulsory savings in the form
of war bonds, while forty-fve percent
favored the Federal sales tax, giving
as their reason the fact that it in
cludes everyone, that it is better to
pay outright, because people will
naturally buy all of the war bonds
they can anyway.
The younger women favored the
compulsory savings, while women in
the Older age groups were favorable
to the Federal sales tax idea.
What with the gasoline ban and the
scarcity of domestic help women are
going to find themselves completely
| tied to their homes. But sharing the
work with neighbors, taking turns
with the children, will offer as much
socialibility and companiionship as
the old time sewing bees.
PANTRY PALAVER
Meat stretchers are the trend of
most housewives conservations these
days and good old scrapple is one to
put on the list. Crumbs or bits of any
u
leftover meats are added to 8 cups
of broth (made by using bouillon
cubes) and heated to the boiling point.
One cup of cornmeal or cream of
wheat is added and boiled until thick
ened Pour into mold, chill, slice and
fry in bacon fat. Serve with syrup.
Another meat stretcher is accom-
plished by shredding one-quarter
pound dried beef and browning in
butter. Add beaten egg to two cups
of leftover mashed potatoes and COM
bine with beef. Form into cakes and
brown.
Because fowl will be unrationed
you'll be eating more of it so better
tuck away a few good ideas for fowl
stuffings in your scrap book. Here is
good one:
Combine four cups of dried, cubed
bread, one-quarter cup each of celery
and walnuts chopped, three-quarters
cup diced pineapple and one pimento.
Melt one-quarter cup shortening, stir
in two unbeaten eggs and add to the
bread mixture Season with salt and
pepper. Makes six cups.
This is year of tangerines. The
trees are loaded with them, so make
the most of them on your table. Fine
for salads, casserole dishes and des-
serts. Just before serving your next
casserole of sweet potatoes cover top
with tangerine sections and brown.
AS elusive as halo is Tangerine
Fluff. Beat three eggs whites until
stiff, add six tablespoons sugar while
beating and cook As minutes in the
CREASED upper part of double boiler
over hot water. Pile the fluff on tan
gerine sections arranged in individual
dessert glasses.
Grapefruit-apple crisp is good
winter dessert. Both fruits are mex
pensive and plentiful. Peel and slice
thin three apples, cut two grapefruit
in sections, two tablespoons water,
tablespoon cinnamon, one cup honey,
two-t thirds cup sifted floor, one-half
cup butter substitute. Line casserole
with fruit, water, cinnamon, blend
rest of ingredients to crumbly con-
sistency, spread on fruit and bake 45
minutes in moderate oven. Serve hot
or cold with hard sauce or cream.