Evening star., 1945-08-02
By Betsy Cas,csH,
Woman's News Editor.

bowl ingredients are recommended
and besides spring onions you'll find
leeks-not for the salad, but to use
as a vegetable and in soups. Mush-
rooms are back on the market-but
very expensive.
The first Bartlett pears from the
West have come in, and some rather
poor seckels from nearby have also
been noted. Thompson seedless
grapes, Santa Rosa and green gage
plums, super Bing cherries from
Washington State. blueberries and
blackberries from New Jersey, fairly
good watermelons (pick these care
fully and excellent honeydews are
available. Cantaloupes from the
West are about at the end of their
season, and local crops have been
hurt by the weather. A few dam
sons have been seen, but dealers do
not expect any worthy while ship
ments of curlHnts this year for your
usual currant jelly. A very few ap-
peared little earlier in the season,
but further supplies are doubtful.
Grapefruit the size Of oranges,
oranges the size Of lemons, lemons
the size of lines and lines the size
Of damsons" just about sums up the
citrus fruit picture. Peaches, new
cados and pineapples round out
the list. =.
Here and There: A USDA re-
lease says that the OPA is going to
make sure that there is sugar
enough to sweeten that condensed
milk you use in SO many ways.
Commercial Gamers of bulk con-
densed milk will get their regular
sugar quota. To make lemonade
in = jiffy, keep this ready-to-mix
sirup on hand in the refrigerator: !:
Combine cups lemon juice with l
cup sugar, or honey or maple or corn
sirup. Stir until sugar diSsolves or
mixture Is well blended and store in
a covered glass jar in the refrigera-
tor. For each serving of lemonade
combine a quarter cup of the sirup
with cold or iced water. This
makes 8 to 10 large glassfuls. {.
Another sweetening trick for the
files: Use molasses with peaches in
dishes such as peach pudding, gin
gerbread peach shortcake. and 9TH
ers. Sweet picked peaches may be
made with 2 cups molasses as the
sweetener instead of the usual
brown or white sugar. -. With more
and more factory workers now being
served food in their own plants,
many plant manager and those
In charge of industrial cafeterias
will be interested in a new booklet
offered free by the United States
Department Of Agriculture. Just
write for Industrial Feeding Man
agement" to the Department. Wash
ington Is, D. c. :. Balancing min
erals has become the latest fascinat-
ing game of the food and nutrition
experts. Seems sometimes when
you add a mineral to a normal diet,
it upsets other elements and leads
to nutritional disturbances. Never
a dull moment. Appetite appeal
Is as important as wen-balanced
food, we are told-for without appe-
tite appeal not enough food will be
consumed to do the consumer much
good. Fruits and vegetables-often
served raw-lend color and texture
interest to an otherwise drab meal.
Remember, color contrast, having
hot things hot and cold things cold,
and plenty of crunchy foods to COM
plement the bland ones, makes all
the difference in mealtime enjoy
ment. What with July making
a wet smack out of itself, many
Washington housewives are tearing
their hair about the sudden appear
ance of mildew in their closets, on
the furniture, woodwork and espe-
cially on shoes and leather goods.