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Evening star., 1943-04-15
From Down East
A Real Clam Chowder as Made in Maine
Is Food for the Gods-and Goddesses
Bv the Victory Chef

In glancing over odds and ends
lotted down in my notebook I came
across q recipe for old-time New
England chowder. And I recall the
time it was given to me and the
man who had just cooked a kettle
pf it. 1t was in Portland, Me, one
of the ancient shrines of genuine
chowder.
1t seems that what most OF us
know today as "choWder" is a de-
cidedly gone -to-seed and degenerate
offspring of the real thing. In fact.
according to my popcorn Yankee
friend, real chowder could pass
she present day cupful and not even
see in 1t anything to remind it Of
its aristocratic ancestry.
Today we are served in restau-
rant with bowl or cup of Chow
DER as the start of a meal. 1t is
not a chowder at all. Mostly it is
= thinnish concoction of water or
broth in which float about bits of
vegetable and now and then the
ghost of a clam which may have
passed through there some time ago.
The real chowder is a one-piece
meal-a luncheon, dinner or supper
dish which calls for no side dishes
no helping hand. 1t is sufficient
unto itself. In it are meat or fish,
several kinds of vegetables and just
enough good broth to make it go
down nicely. Not even a plate of
bread is needed because in your
100 per cent chowder some man
sized chowder biscuits or crackers
have been incorporated. But what
Is most surprising to the casual
stranger is this-one doesn't even
have to eat the chowder with a
Evening star., 1943-04-15

rice or maccaroni or potatoes, with
= liberal bowl of gravy. and AZ
much meat ~ they need for flavor
ing.
Instead of making meat the heart
and soul Of the evening meal, meat
Is q contributing factor, but not the
backbone Of the meal. And why
should it be?"
I think one meat shop in m
Eastern manufacturing neighbor-
hood has done its share to stop idle
chatter. The owner has q sign on
display which reads: "Yes. lady,
know it's turrble. You told me all
about it last Saturday."
Decidedly, complaining about ra-
tioning is no longer spreading news :;
1t is merely doing m act-and a
stale old act, at that.
It's out Of date and out of style.
So there!
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Complaining Is Out Today
Growing About Rationng Is Out of Date for Duration
Making Do Is Newest Form of Wit and Wisdom

After the first few days Of meat
and butter rationing and that sort
of thing, the holding up Of hands
in holy horror ceased to be the
thing to do. Smart folk have long
since taken q bit of rationing as q
challenge and not as a catastrophe.
For instance, it was reported that
a few days ago q domestic science
teacher in a large city high school
telephoned all the mothers she could
reach and asked them to come Tor
cooking lessons under rationing
rules. But she was in 4 foreign
language section of the city and
the replies were mostly like this:
Il was born and raised In Europe.
I learned to cook where 4 pound OF
meat was 4 great treat. You can't
tell me how to make my ration
cards work. I'm just going back
to when I was younger" And If
we weren't born and raised in one
Of the less fortunate lands all we
have to do is hunt up novel, to us.
recipes in our cookbooks and away
we 60. Complaining is now 4 sign
Of low /. a., without any compen-
sating s. A.!
A very practical housekeeper, the
mother of four, plus hungry-as-a-
wolf husband, has all her answers
ready: Just see to 1t that every
body in the family drinks at least
a pint of milk 4 day and gets
sizable glass OF orange juice in the
morning. And with those two back
logs take what comes" But those
two are musts"-orange juice and
milk.
Another very efncient housekeeper
agreed with the milk and orange
juice "musts." but supplied this:
Il don't let any OF my family of
adults run of to business on q cup
of coffee and a bit Of toast on top
Of their fruit. They get breakfast
with a capital b When young
men and young women are doing
an honest days work they need
the foundation Of good early
morning meal.
And for that meal I am going
back to good, old-fashioned 'mush'-
hot cereal it is called nowadays.
Well-cooked rolled oats or corn
meal are my standbys, and cracked
wheat is gaining steadily in favor.
The rolled oats and the corn meal
is cooked the evening before ard
gets a couple of hours in 4 double
boiler. The next morning, half an
hour more and bowl of that sturdy
food postpones the late morning
sinking spell
Mornings when there is no
'mush' we have stacks of delicious
pancakes, with an egg, fried, on top
OF the heap. Or we have wafIles.
There is no escape-they all tackle
the days work on 4 full stomach.
That's the secret"
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Carving Suggestions
For Precious Meats

Mindful of wartime needs and
the necessity to avoid waste in
the kitchen, Mrs. American
Housewife is now cooking her
meat at low temperature there
by reducing shrlnkage and OBJ
tanning more servings to say
nothing of the improved flavor.
Now, can the cooked meat be
stretched further?
Yes, it can. And that's the job
Of the man of the house who, with
proper carving technique, can
avoid waste, obtain uniform slic-
ings, and extra servings by fol-
lowing these carving suggestions.
First and foremost, sharp
knife is essential Carving tools
should be treated like precision
instruments. Don't leave them
loose in a drawer where other
metal can dull or nick the blade.
A properly sharpened knife can
be kept sharp for long time by
a dozen strokes with a steel before
use.
In carving any cut of meat, it
Is desirable to understand the
anatomy and bone structure of
the cut to be carved and to re-
member that meat should always
be carved across the grain. Steak,
because it is tender and the meat
fibers are already relatively short,
is an exception to the rule.
Nowadays, no one will think
you stingy if your slices are thin.
1t is easy to serve second helpings
and many believe the favor to be
better if the slice is thin. And
besides, it is very bad wartime
etiquette to serve more than can
be eaten. A little practice will
develop expert handling of the
knife. Avoid changing the angle
of the blade while making a slice;
neat, uniform slices look better
and go further.
Plan the servings before cary
Ing so that the choicest portions
will be divided equally. Second
helpings cool quickly if sliced
before the. are needed. Conven-
ton doesn't forbid standing up
to carve and the hostess can CO.
operate by providing plenty of
elbow and platter room and by
heating the platter and plates.
Evening star., 1943-04-15

genuity will do. For the young
sters, make the eggs cute rs q
bunny" really a bunny by
sticking on ears, paws and tail OF
cotton, in the appropriate places,
of course! Then with pen and ink,
mark happy face complete with
whiskers. The eggs themselves
can be used in egg salad sand
wiches for the Sunday supper
snack or tomorrows lunch boxes.
No one knows better than you
what your family's breakfast IA
vorites are. Trot them out and
make this a breakfast worth re-
membering. But to top of the
meal. you will want one awfully
good hot bread, perhaps the tradi-
tional hot cross buns.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
ArmoufS
[MeafRatiou
Meals
- Meat
Dinners and
4 Meat LuncbeOns
for the tveek

Merle oi1ssd uses only 62 points
of the 81 point quota for 4 family
of 4 in these appetizing menus for
the coming week. The market order :
below which shows exact amounts
of meat needed for these menus
includes butter and shortening.
SUNDAY Red Stamp Points ~
(risk leftossrs for WsJsssdsy SD Fridsy)
Beef Pot Roast r Brown Gravy
Drowned Potatoes Fresh Green Beans
Lettuce and Watercress Salad
Fresh Strawberry Shortcake Beverage
MONDAY Stamp Points-S
Snowy Lamb LoafA
Canned Corn Broiled Tomatoes
Tossed Green Salad
Apple Snow Pudding
Case egg white left from meat loaO
Beverage
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Time to Think About Easter
Breakfast for the Family

Easter has rolled around again,
a religious festival for many, 4
symbol Of spring for all. What
better way to get into its spirit
than a gay breakfast? Busy
families don't have much time
these days for casual chatter.
Here's good time to let down,
to let the tongues wag on every
thing from dimouts and Red
Cross to bonnets and beaux.
OF course, you are going to
pretty up the table. You can
make 1t look Easterish without
benefit of ration tickets. Try 4
centerpiece Of hard cooked eggs
colored with the packaged color
ings -. or homemade dyes. Onion
skins give a pretty yellow, beet
juice a gay red. orange and lemon
rind a nice rich amber, spinach
leaves a delicate green you
will be surprised what a bit of in
Evening star., 1943-04-15

Recipe: SNOWY LAMB LOAF
lb. ground. boneless u cup me cracker
Star Lamb neck meat cruMbs
I tsp. salt l Cloverbloom EgI
, N Xclove garlic minced Yolk
very fine ~ cups mashed
l i cup Armosn's potatoes, leftover
Evaporated Milk, or freshly made
undiluted
Combine lamb. salt. garlic, milk. crumbs and
egg yolk. Spread in II inch layer over the
bottom of an 8 inch square or round baking pan.
Bake in 325' F. oven for 40 minutes. When
done, heap hot mashed potatoes over the top
and put under broiler long enough to brown ths
potatoes. Cut in squares or wedges. Serves 4.
IvgSpAY-fnot rationed}
Roast Cloverbloom Chicken
Dressing Gravy
Mashed Potatoes Fresh or Frozen Peas
Vegetable Relish Tray
Rhubarb Betty Beverage
WsDNGSDAY-fSHsde1 IefoDers
Beef Pot Pie% with Biscuit Crust
Carrot and Cabbage Slaw
Apple Tapioca Cream Beverage
Evening star., 1943-04-15

spoon. A real chowder in the hands
of a real chowder eater calls for a
knife and fork. My old chowder
friend went on to say that among
the inner circle even the fork NAV
be overlooked.
Now, here comes real clam chow
der:
Get a quantity of chowder clans
and steam them. Save the broth for
future use. Fill quart jar full of
clans. Then go over them and
trim out the soft portions which
are ready for chowder. The hard
portions must be run through a
meat grinder or Clipped fine. That
gets the clans ready.
The chowder pot is important.
The best chowder pot is a heavy
iron kettle with a good tight-fit-
ting lid, but similar utensil may
be used instead. Now, into the ket-
tie put a quarter of a pound of
bacon or salt pork, minced small,
and cupful of th;nly sliced onion
AS the onion starts to turn light
brown add the clans and enough
Of the clam broth to cover. Then
add two or three cups of sliced raw
potatoes and enough more broth
to cover. Simmer this mixture until
the potatoes are tender. Season
with salt and pepper to taste. Then
add a cupful of cream, or, if cream
is short, substitute evaporated milk
or milk and some melted butter
Last of all break up and add about
dozen chowder crackers.
This IS the genuine clam chowder
and is really a thick stew 1t is a
meal unto itself with nothing more
needed than maybe a salad and
dessert, If you must have one.
Starting with this basic chowder
recipe we find innumerable varia-
tions. There is, of course, the So
called Manhattan or Coney Island
clam chowder, which may be made
like the New England variety, but
with tomatoes added. Then there
are the tearoom chowders which
incorporate bits OF celery and other
queer strangers. Even these new
corners can be handled if only the
maker of the chowder will keep in
mind that there must be clans.
Sometimes one is served a so-called
chowder in which there is not a
trace of clam-not even the sand
or bit of shell.
AS working partner of the clam
choWder, there is lobster chowder-
a truly marvellous dish. providing
the cook does not stint on the lob
ster meat. AS one comes to the
Maryland and Virginia shores there
is grand fish chowder, sometimes
made with oysters. This brings me
to another page in my notebook
and I find the recipe for a fish
chowder given me by the Jenkins
boys of Kinston, N. C.
This chowder calls for the same
iron kettle. 1t is made like the
clam chowder, but instead of clans.
one adds pieces of boned fish-sea
trout the jenkins boys used, but
bass, haddock, or similar fish are
equally good. In this latter type
of fish chowder. after the bacon or
pork and onion are cooked, layers
of fish, raw sliced potato and raw
sliced onion are built up until the
kettle is tWo-thirds full. Then wa
ter, fish broth or tomato juice is
added. Always, in these chowders,
there is just enough liquid to keep
the solid part of the chowder "un-
der water" It must not dry out.
But neither must the dish degen-
crate into soup.
In Maryland. a generous quantity
of oysters, fresh from the shell are
added just few minutes before
the chowder is to be served.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
BY Arthur II. Dexfe

We've done away with idle talk
about rationing," another practical
housekeeper reported. I'VE are used
to ration tickets now. It Is an old
story. We have learned to adapt
ourselves. We aren't eating quite
as much meat as we did, but as
much as we need. When the men
folks get home from work, keep
them In the Victory garden for an
hour before their dinner. That does
two important things for them:
First, the garden is getting under
way. and it Is going to be a real
garden. Second, in that hour of
honest toll they shake OF many of
their inhibitions about what they
can or can't eat. They like every
thing can set on the table, and
they are getting plenty of green and
yellow vegetables. goodly mess of
Evening star., 1943-04-15
BY Barbara Bell

Flattering as can be fitted
jacket with simple v neck and gen.
erous skirt that's such a comfort In
warm weather
Evening star., 1943-04-15
q ! n eHl6
MoMDAY-Red Stamb Pofnh-l

MoNpAY-Red Stamp Poins-A
Serve Star Bacon, 4 tomato and lettuce sand
wiches on rye bread or toast. Add dish of fruit
or milk or iced cocoa to complete the menu.
wEpNGspAY-fTasd~y iefopers)
Make chicken salad from leftover chicken by
combining with celery, green pepper and salad
dressing and serve in lettuce cups with bread
and butter sandwiches and fresh fruit.
sATvRDAY-fTb1rsday leffepr,,J
Serve deviled Cloverbloom Eggs with creamed
potatoes. raw carrot sticks. and the canned
pineapple slices left from Thursday's dinner.
+Msans Radoned Msats
Red A, B, and C stamps good this week.
D stamps become good April 1S.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
By Peggy Roberts


This the time of when woodlands
the spendor Of the forest gades captured needework
Natural cooed linen
soft embroidery depth background is
worked in twoton crosssches combining
brown deer in natural pose and bunny aricay
envelope contains
by Is inches color chart stitch illustrations and full directions
Send II cents (con' for Pattern
Washington Star P o. 172 D. New York N Y
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Clean Glass Dials

To clean glass of oven door dials
scrub with a stiff brush. sprinkled
literally with securing powder.
Evening star., 1943-04-15

~ cups cubed beef l tsp. Worcestershire
leftover from Sauce
Sunday roast) ! tsp. salt
Z tbsps. Clover u tsp. pepper
bloom Butter or u cup chopped green
drippings pepper
u cup chopped u cup cooked or
onion canned peas
tbsps. -four Baking powder biscuit
cup milk dough
cup leftover gravy
Cube leftover roast. Melt fat, let onion brown
lightly in it, then add -four and stir in milk,
stirring until thickened. Add leftover brown
gravy, seasonings and vegetables, them add
meat. Place in shallow casserole and top with
biscuits made by your favorite recipe. Bake
3O-35 minutes in 35Oe F. oven. servings.
Red Stamp Points-7
Braised Pork Loin End ChopsA
Baked Potatoes Perfection Salad
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
(use rest of pineapple for luncheon Saturday,
Beverage
FRlDAY-fSsnday kffopers)
Drowned Beef Hash+ Fried Onions
Fresh Rzdishes Raw Celery
Fresh Fruit Cup Beverage
SAfURDAY-R<d Stamp Poiss-y
Heart Chop SueyA on Noodles
Sliced Tomato Salad
Lemon Rice Custard Pudding Beverage
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Horse Meat Sold Under
Cuise Of Beef in Arizona

PHOENIX. Jan. -CUP'--The
carcasses of l04 horses have been
sold for meat purposes in Mariposa
county alone during the past 10
days, and fewer than half the pur-
chasers have known the2 were eat
ing horse meat. Joint senate-house
livestock committee hearing was
told here late yesterday.
M. C. McCrcight operator of the
Glendale Horse Meat Co, made the
statement. He said horse meat also
is being sold in Tucson.
McCreight said his company had
slaughtered $50 horses in the past
month and sold l40 of the boned
carcasseS for use in Maricopa coun-
tv. He contended most of the meat
has gone ito hamburger. and said
retailers selling the meat told him
less than nalf their customers knew
the meat was not beef.
When questioned as to proof of
his statements b. committee mem
berS he said he had made individ-
ual sales up to 500 worth of horse
meat and II know people aren't
feeding that much meat to dogs"
McCreight said abattoirs with
which he is connected had sold the
carcaSses of 10000 goats within the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Senate Committee
Flags WPB Policy

Continued From Page i
resorting to various makeshifts, can
'veep up substantial production for
a year or So"
Zen if this assumption were
true" the report continued. the
committee cannot approve such a
short sighted policy. We cannot
lower our sights on food goals TO
such a brief period of time.
Even if the United Nations
should win the war this year. WIN
ming the peace will require the
feeding of vast populations OF large
areas"
The committee recommended:
!. That Food administrator Claude
r. Wickard's determinations of nom
food materials needed for the food
production program be given maxi
mum consideration in allottine ma
terialS"
.. That farm machinery now
scheduled for manufacture during
the wear ending Oct. 81 1913. be
completed instead by June so, 1913
This would in effect amount to a
production increase OF 33 pea
cent.
5. That for the year beginning
July l. 1913, "a new and more ade-
quate program for farm machinery
production" be Immediately put in
to effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
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over as far as his company was
concerned. He reported that 10000
of the compan2's employees were at
work today with about 1900 more
expected TO report on the night
sllft Other miners are expected
10 join the working force tomor-
row. Griffith said.
The three mines still idle we're
the No. l Collierv of the Susque-
hanna Collieries Co, Nanticoke, the
Exeter Mine o. the Payne Coal Co.,
and the Westmoreland Mine of the
Lehigy Vale. Coal Co.
Workers at the Exeter and PAYNE
mines voted last night to remain
idle in the strike for elimination of
p SO cents 4 month dues increase
and 81 n day pay increase. The
Nanticoke local voted Monday to
remain on strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

state of Arizona in the past three
and one half years. He said the
goat meal all had been boned be-
fore it was sold and that it was
his belief most of it had gone for
human food.
He said he also knew that meat
companies in Tucson had been sell
Jig both horse and goat meat
McCreights testimony came be-
fore a committee hearing on a bill
relating to the licensing of horse
meat establishments. He made his
statements while urging passage of
q bill-not yet introduced-requir-
ing state inspection of slaughter
houses and meat selling establish
mentS. Slaughterhouses and reta il
meat dealers are under local con-
troll only at the present.
McCreight said he had all his
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21

Caucasus. Russian units were 10
miles from Kharkov, so miles from
Rostov. 80 miles from VoroShilov-
grad l8 miles from the Salsk rail-
road junction. and 48 miles from
Armavir on the BakG-RoStov rail-
road.
. The Russian noon communique
told some of the details of fierce.
three day battle for ProletarSkaya,
90 miles east-northeast of Salsk.
There the Russians defeated the
crack German SIS combat regiment
Germany" and the remnants of
other units. Red army storm troops
broke into the town and railroad
station Wednesday and routed the
Germans in street fighting.
German daylight aerial raiders
returned to Britain again Thursday
while rescue squads still were dig
eing into the ruins of an elemen-
tary school that was hit WedneS-
day by dive bomhers. Fortv-four
were known to be dead and so 9TH
erS in hospitals.
British fighter planes were wait
ing for the German raiders over
the southeast coast Thursday and
one enemy plane was shot down in
tie early stages Of the fighting.
Dispatches from Turkey reported
rising resentment in Hungary over
the heavy Hungarian losses on the
Russian front. Cancellation of army
leaves was taken as an indication
that the Eungarians soon would be
ss.Ied to send more men to the
Erssian front. Reports reached
London that six of nine Hungarian
divisions had been smashed in RC5-
sio.
The four remaining pockets of
japanese resistance in the Papran
area of New Guinea gradually were
being reduced by American and
Australian forces. Allied planes
harassed the enemy throughol. the
area.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Cold AbatingIn
Valley as Nation
Counts 50 Deaths
Continued From Page l

of straw in the orcnardS.
Rising temperatures prevailed,
particularly in the Ohio Valley,
southern Great Plains. Mississippi
Valley and Rocky Mountain region.
Some freezing temperatures occur
red i'll the deep southern states
Wednesday night but thy rose above
freezing Thursday morning. The
cold wave was broken on the Pacific
coast.
COLD ELSEWHERE
The mercury still hovered around
the 80 below zero mark in the
Dako:as. Minnesota and Montana.
Federal weather bureau experts
in Chicago said the storm was a
major cold wave of the type that
hits the country every other Janu-
airy but was not record-breaking.
During the cold wave temperatures
dropped to below freezing in every
part of the country except the Flor
ida peninsula.
Representative temperature read
ings Thursday included: Mt. Wash
ington, N. H.. -37; International
Falls, Mimi. %: Saulte Ste. Marie
Mich, -13; Park Falls, Wis, -16:
Golva n. D., -29; Lennon, S. D.,
20; Great Falls, Mont, 90; Rock
ford. H., y; South Bend. Ind, -6;
Mobile, Ala, 33 above; Corpus
Christi. Tex, So above.
Florida basked in 80 above zero
temperatures. Highway crews clear
ed roads in Minnesota, wisconsin,
Illinois, and Indiana and for the
most part life returned to normal!
with children back in school ana
workers once more able to reach
work
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Kiss Too High
Price for Steak

ALBANY. Cnl. Ian 2l--tUPl--
=. 23-.6ar-old housewife filed bat
cry complaint today charging that
Nicholas Deme ~, a butcher, tried
70 collect . kiss for a beefsteak.
She additionally charged Demetry
promised to supply her with meat
regularly if she would go out with
him occasionally. She informed
her husband, who informed police.
IL metr1 pleaded innocent and was
freed on $3.50 bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Rural Schools in
About Program
Continued From Page

Continued From Page u
These books will be sent to Howard
D. Mills of the treasury department
for entering in the national survey
of the work the school children do.
On Feb. Is the school children
themselves will report to the ma
ton the results OF their participa-
tion in the war effort.
IN a survey made among some
of the rural schools by Mrs. Finney
this week, she discovered that Nj
land school children sold $1,000
worth of war stamps in IA school
days and are buying a ieep for a
narire station not far from their
school.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
MEXICAN CHARGED
WITH SMUGGLING

Santiago Valdez AgCilar, 40, Mex
lean, was ordered held for trial in
federal court on o charge Of snug
Cling two gallons of tequila and
half a ga lon Of wine into the Unit
ed States from Mexico United
States Commissioner Dorsey White
law of FL Centre set bail at $1,000
when customs officers brought Agu-
liar before him for hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-21
Strike Wones as
Deodline NeurS

WILKES-BARRE. Pa. Jan. 21-
tUP)-The strike on Anthracite
miners waned today as eight more
struck collieries reopened before
The deadline Of President RooSe-
Yelt's back TO work order and
United Mine Workers threat to
eNpel all strikers from the union
The Glen Alden Co. worlds larg-
est Anthracite producer reported
that all of its Collieries operated.
leaving only three other mines.
with a force of 3l50. still idle.
Edward Griffith. vice president
and general manager of the Glen
Alden Co, reported the strike was