Evening star., 1943-10-07
Report to the Housewife
BY Betsy CasOeH
Women's News Editor.

NO SdltOl.
very helpful service. They have a
board set up in their stores with
new "tearoff" recipes each week,
featuring ways of preparing such
meats. This is a real service, and
Washington women will do well to
make use Of it, hard as it is these
days to make the ration book and
the budget meet the requirements
OF a nourishing diet. Last week,
for instance, OK tails and calf brains
were featured; next will come fresh
beef tongues and pork hooks.
The supply of eggs continues
limited and prices are higher. The
"upping" of the ration points on
butter has resulted in a big up
swing in margarine sales-coupled
OF course, with the fact that butter
is unobtainable in great many mar
kets. There is practically no cheddar
cheese in town and the supply of
Swiss has also dwindled to the van
.shing point.
Storms off the coast have reduced
the amount of fish shipped Uneven
catches from the Bay and nearby
have been curtailed. There may be
some porgies and butterfish for the
week end, but dealers are wary of
definite predictions. Some cod and
haddock flllets, mackerel and trout
are being offered and raw shrimp,
though expensive, is good and fairly
plentiful.
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Here and There: Remember
those Victory Food Specials we had
on various items few months ago?
They've popped up again, this time
with Irish potatoes being elected for
the period October 81 to November
6. You know, of course, that
both smoked and fresh beef tongue
are now off rationing. Wonderful !
served hot, with spicy sauce, and |.
then cold for supper. . Brains and
kidneys cost no points, either, as we |
mentioned last week. :. Navy cooks |
find that the men dislike greasy |
soups. So they make habit of cool
ing the soup after cooking, to allow |
the fat to rise and harden, then they |
remove the fat and reheat the soup |
for serving. Saves fat for cooking or |
salvage, too. The three words |
that mean safe storage for all those
precious cans of food that you toiled |
over in the hot weather, are-cOol,
dry and dark. After october 81 |
you'll find yourself only using Ration
Books 3 and for foods. The last |
blue stamps, X, Y. z in Book 2, /
will be used by consumers through
November 20. Stamps U, V and w
expire on October 20, thus providing |
the usual overlap period for using |
old and new proceSsed foods stamps. |.
Book l, now used for buying sugar |
and shoes, will not be used for food |
after October 81 and the red stamps |
in Book 2 expired on October 2.
OPA announces that ceiling prices
will be established in the near future |
on all varieties of edible tree nuts,
both shelled and in the shell.
There's to be a Nationwide cam
paign to collect unused clothes
hangers from housewives to aid the |
dry cleaning companies who are
embarrassingly short of the articles. |
. According to Owl, although |
women by the thousands are taking !
war jobs-cthers are quitting such .
jobs in serious numbers that may |
we'll become threat to production. |
What's the matter, gals. can't you /
take it? Incidentally, we are
told that lots of those odd jobs you've |.
been doing around the house all |
these years, such as using an electric |.
mixer, spraying plants, ironing |
sheetS-or even washing pots and
pans have been fitting you for a
special position at turning out some
part of the great assembly of war.
Makes it easier for you to learn how
to run blueprint machine, de-
grease metal parts, spray painting, |
just for example. If you've
signed the Home Front Pledge, and
find you are in honor bound to re-
port a violation of price rulings, |
don't be afraid your dealer will be |
sore at you. He'll never know you
are the one who has made the report |
unless you tell him. Price Panel |
complaints are kept entirely secret,
and the reporting source remains |
anonymous. . With the new drive |
for conservation of electric power, it |
would be wise to send for new little |
leaf1et. How Can I Avoid Wasting |
Light" obtainable for l cent each |
from the Illuminating Engineering
Department, Westinghouse Lamp
Division, Bloomfield, N. J. !
"Favorite Recipes From Americas
Dairyland' is another newcomer,
issued by the Wisconsin Department |
of Agriculture, Madison, Wis i
Chock-full of nourishing and war
wise recipes. =. Even though real"
coffee is off the ration list, many |
people have always liked the cereal |
types. TIL ere's a new one out |
now, that is unusually full-bodied |
and well-favored. Can be used in |
all sorts of desserts, too. WPB |
says no more olives in containers less
than 5 ounces, maraschino cherries |
in less than T. and mustard must be |
6 ounces, or over.
Sweet Eruit RItfar