Evening star., 1946-11-27
This and That
BIZ Charles +. TracetDeH.


Templeton Jones Is great expert
menter.
Perhaps he should have been ! chem
list. he might have ended up helping 10
make the atomic bomb and feeling sorry
for himself aiid the rest o. the world.
Z Mostly he experiments in household
affairs. He Is always puttering around
with something Or other, trying to nake
something work that won't work. or
doing something in the cooking line.
Jones has . slight contempt for these
male cooks one reads so much about
nowadays, but at times he, too. succumbs
to the lure.
After all. men eat, Why shouldn't they
ccok2
That is the Jonesian attitude.
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The other day he passed store which
had in the window big bag Of dextrose.
Jones. despite his many affairs. or
maybe because Of them, had heard OF
the sugar shortage.
Dextrose, he knew, was grape sugar.
and grape sugar might take the place
of cane sugar.
1t is only about half as sweet. accord
ing to the books--and that was what
intrigued the inquiring mind of T. Jones.
Before the ''plan-age" every one could
get all the sugar he wanted.
Now, after many years OF planning
one cannot get much sugar, or soap, or
paper, or host of other things.
Planning, it seemed to Jones. hadn't
worked out very well.
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He thought he would try bag of dex-
trose.
when he unwrapped 1t at home, Mrs.
Jones regarded II with feminine suspi-
cion.
What is that?n she asked, touching
the bag gingerly.
Templeton revealed the fine four-like
white powder.
aDextrose," he announced. proudly.
You would have thought he had dis
covered a gold mine.
what do you do with it2" asked the
Missus.
Jones smiled IN his superior way.
put it in coffee, Or z
He hesitated, and Mrs. Jones knew
why he hesitated. He was bit slow
about admitting his pet vice. chocolate
fudge.
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No Gibson girl of the gay '90s ever
loved fudge more than the austere Tenn
pleton Jones.
He liked it hot, right out9of the china
DISH
He did not care for fancy Judges,
loaded down with nuts. just plain fudge
suited him best. He liked 1t firm, crisp,
rather in thin squares, with not too
much vanilla in 1t.
He regarded himself as rather judge
of good fudge, and liked to eat it hot.
A glass of cold milk always stood by his
elbow.
When in the right mood, Jones could
eat an entire plateful all by himself
With his glass of milk, the total caloric
intake must have been around 5000
calories, enough for q man at hard labor
for an efltire day.
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Jone speedily began TO mix up batch
using half dextrose and half sugar.
Mrs. Jones protested feebly. but the
master mixer paid little attention.
TT won't get firrn,r she said, land 1t
will give you cold next day"
But Jones went right ahead with his
mixing.
At tine first cooling, it was SO stringy
that 1t had to be done over again.
AT the second cooking, in an effort to
make it hard, 1t had slightly scorched
taste-and still would not cut.
{ Jones mixed tn heaping DESERT
spoonful of soy -four
That win fixdt," he said, confidently,
but It didn't. The stun was slightly more
firm, and had i nutty taste, now. but
stiH it wouldn't cut into squares.
.Dextrose,' he sale, rs naonosac-
charide- :"
Whatever that is, said Mrs. Jones.
Which doesn't make good fudge, 3
completed Templeton jones'
After all, there Is nothing like finding
out thing for yourself.