Evening star., 1944-04-18

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REQUESTS ANSWERED,
REMOVING PARAFFTN?
Thanks to Mrs. A. r. w.,
Yorktown Village, Md
Here is a flood of material which
may perhaps help some of the
Clearing House readers whose quer-
les appeared recently.
incidentally, this has occurred te
me over and over, so may as well
express my feeling which I have a
notion is probably shared by great
many others.
I appreciate the courteous intent
of the acknowledgements which are
printed when many readers send in
the answers to a single question
But, after all, we are all, at least
theoretically, adult and so it seems
to me that in sending in suggestions
and recipes we do it with their sug-
gestion value in mind and not with
a view to receiving credit, as it were
I think it would be good idea If
this were clearly understood. Thus
the 10 or IL and sometimes more
lines which are given up to thank
ing Mrs. Whoosit and Mrs. Whatsit
for similar recipes might be given
over to an added suggestion or
recipe.
Let's hear how Clearing House
readers feel about this!
Oh, yes, I have a question, too.
When our home was sprayed with a
paraffin mixture in a hope to stop
some leaks, some of the wax missed
the bricks and found its way to the
window glass. How can this wax be
removed? I know it can be scraped
off, but perhaps there is simpler
way.
Upside Down Cake-Topping.
Four tablespoons butter or mar
garine, cup brown sugar, 4 slices
pineapple. Melt butter in bottom OF
pan. Add sugar. Blend and spread
evenly over pan. Arrange pineap-
pie slices over surface of mixture
and place cherry in center of each
slice. Cover with batter and bake
in moderate oven about $50 degrees
for As minutes. While hot, turn out
of pan upside down on serving plate.
Serve warm with whipped cream
from top Of milk.
Batter One-quarter cup shorten
ing, " cup sugar, " cup milk or
pineapple juice, / egg, ~ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder, "a tea
spoon salt. Blend shortening with
sugar and egg until fluffy. Add
sifted dry ingredients alternately
with milk or fruit Juice to shorten
ing mixture. Beat until smooth.
Some one recently asked for sim
pie cakes to serve at tea. These
given below can be cut into squares
or diamond shapes. The chocolate
cake in particular Is inexpensive
and foolproof. So foolproof in fact
that one day last summer in mixing
my zeal for gardening with my need
for cake I made this. up and put
1t in the oven. Tasting the batter
I decided it was certainly not as
sweet as it should be, and then
recalled I had neglected to put In
the sugar. So I just took the cake
out of the hot oven, added sugar
put it back again, and the cake
was still delicious.
Cells Chocolate Cake: l cup
sugar, egg, cup milk, / table
spoon melted shortening, / tea
spoon baking soda, 1h cups sifted
flour, teaspoons cocoa or 2 squares
melted chocolate cocoa is easier
and just as good, pinch of salt.
Mix dry ingredients. Add milk
and beaten egg, then the shortening
and / teaspoon vanilla. Bake for
90 minutes at 375 degrees, in a
square pan. Cut into cubes. Serve
iced or plain.
Cleo's Orange Squares: n cup
butter or margarine, " cup sugar
egg yolks, s cup -four, teaspoon
baking powder, u cup orange juice
n teaspoon lemon extract. Cream
shortening, add sugar and mix we'll
Add well-beaten egg yolks. Mix an6
sift -four, baking powder, salt. Ado
these with orange juice and lemon
extract to first mixture. Beat fol
2 minutes. Fill square pan which
has been lined with waxed paper
Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven
Cool and ice.
Canning Tomatoes Whole:
canned whole tomatoes in just thu
same way as those which I quar-.
tered, being especially careful II
packing the tomatoes into the jar,
so they would not crush.
i Scald the tomatoes in hot watel
for 3 minutes. Slip of skins. b
careful to remove all of white corr
at stem end since leaving this IL
Is often responsible for bacteria
; growth. Now pack the whole to
; matoes in glass jar. Slide them IL
gently and work carefully arount
with a tablespoon so that the.
> aren't jammed. Fill to within al
inch of the top of jar. Add no
tomato juice to cover. FINAL,
sprinkle teaspoon of salt over tol
of tomatoes. Process in hot waite,
bath for As minutes. This time i
for quart jars.
Before this past year I had neve.
put up anything but pickles, jellie
and preserves. But don't know O.
anything that has given us more
pleasure than our home-canned
home-growned tomatoes. Thei
taste is SO far superior to the com
mercially canned varieties.
To Keep From Slipping in th'
Shower Bath: It's not particular.
clever, and it certainly doesn't worl
as we'll as rubber, but what th'
members of our household do t,
keep from slipping in the shower /
to fold an old but heavy Turkish
towel and place it underfoot.