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Evening star., 1946-01-24

elegance and richness to the menu
that is hard to find unless true
game is at hand.
Certain chefs of my acquaintance
advise never washing guinea hens
Simply clean them inside and out
by rubbing them well with cut
lemons. Be sure the guineas are
well cleansed inside and that all
pin feathers are removed.
Put them in a bowl with mix
ture OF olive oil, lemon juice, a mild
white vinegar, juniper berries, a
very little garlic, some sliced onions.
dash OF ginger, ground black
pepper and generous dose ON
marJoram. Sage, NO-bay leaf, NO.
Let the guineas remain in this
mixture-there should be just
enough of the marinade to cover
for IL hours if possible, turning
them over several times to make
sure that the liquid comes in con-
tact with every inch of bird.
When you are ready to roast
the guineas, take them from the
marinade and drain them. Lard
the breasts with bacon and here
and there under the skin insert
cabs OF parsley and rosemary
pounded into little butter. Put
some of the marinade in the pan
Tor bastlng purposes and pour a
little sour cream over the birds.
Cook at very low heat until the
BIRDS are tender. Then serve, using
the strained pan juices as gravy
you'll need no other.
With guinea, wild rice goes as
well as it does with duck. Hot spiced
kumquats will make another nice
accompaniment and probably the
least offensive vegetable would be
snap beans or asparagus, either
fresh or the quick frozen variety.
Currant jelly has no place in this
picture.
For a superdinner, you could use
the above as the main course, start
ing off with a clear consomme
royale, then flllets Of sole poached
in white wine and dressed with
oyster crab sauce, accompanied by
thin sandwiches of eucumbers and
whole wheat bread. Then would
J wa N141SoSs a oAllipkC dbOIdQO
and end1Ve salad and perhaps q
strawberry mousse for dessert.
The mousse is made like this:
Get pint of Strawberries and
hull them carefully. Let them stand
sprlnkled with a cup of sugar for
about one hour. Then crush the
berries through a sieve. Soak 2
tablespoons plain gelatin in y cup
of water. Then dissolve it over bot
water and mix with the strained
berries
Put this mixture into an icebox un-
til it starts to harden a bit and then
fold in one quart of heavy cream,
whipped stiff. Pour into a mold and
pack in ice and salt for several hours
TO harden to true mousse consist
ency. Garnish with large fresh, un-
hulled berries.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Report to the Housewife

OF course, anything can happen
and probably will-by the time this
appears in print, but at the moment
Of writing the meat picture looks
mighty dark and dreary for WASH
ington's week end. Supplies on
hand have been rapidly dwindling,
and while, so far, we have not felt
the full impact of the strike, it's
purely matter of time before the
butchers ice boxes become the
counterpart of Mother Hubbard's
cupboard, and Mother HIS dog will
have nothing on us, In some mar
kets a few small shipments of meat
are coming in from independent
plants not affected by the strike
but these mainly consist of such
items as sausage meat, luncheon
meats and so on. To the average
housewife, this is where she came in
some months ago before the end of
the war, when meats hit bottom, and
q hot dog rated a medal.
However-there'S a big difference
now-for then we couldn't get chick
ems or turkeys; cheese was scarce
and rationed and our only "out" was
fish. Today the markets are loaded
with all kinds of chickens, from fowl
to broilers. there are plenty of tur-
keys and adequate supplies of ducks |
Better cheese is arriving and more
of it; some local dealers expect the |
first aged cheddar from Wisconsin
this week, and there is already some
of the fine sharp variety from New |
York State in town. So you can |
pinch hit with cheese souffie-eggs |
age more plentiful, too-a welsh |
rSrebit, fondue or any nourishing
cheese dish your fancy indicates. A
fsr cry from those really rugged |
days, isn't it? (Not that I'm being
a sweetnesS-and-light department.
I like my thick steak and my rib
roast just as much as any oneD
Our old standby, fish, is ready to
come to the rescue again. Despite
stormy weather in the South, which
may affect supplies of porgies, croak-
ers and trout, we should be able to
get plenty of fine buck and roe shad
rockfsh, Spanish mackerel, sea bass
and butterfsh. Cod. mackerel and
founder fillets will be available,
along with oysters and crab meat
but cooked raw shrimp will be few
and far between
Black Twig apples from West
Virginia, and Mexican Rome Beau
ties are due in this week to bolster
the somewhat sagging apple supply
The Delicious have been of better
quality, too, lately. Cranberries, pine
apples, rhubarb and white and To-
kay grapes lend variety to the fruit
bowl, and bananas are seen from
time to time-usually toward the
end of the week. DAnjou pears, and
all the citrus fruits, including Tenn
pie oranges and cumquats, are here
in abundance. More strawberries
are headed this way, also.
Greens from the Norfolk area
include spinach, kale, collards and
turnip tops. Broccoli is especially
good this week, and so is caulif1ower.
Cabbage is very plentiful, and SO are
lettuce, celery, sweet and white po-
tatoes, and turnips-these the small,
punched type. Chives from Illinois,
tomatoes from Florida, beets from
Texas, carrots from California-the
produce stalls are practically roll
Evening star., 1946-01-24

stew, serve it at the table or buffet
from large preheated tureen or
after the elegant manner of the
early 1900's from a chafing dish
Bowls Labeled from the kettle in
the kitchen must be served imme-
diately, for this soup should be pip
ing hot. Oyster stew does not take
well to waiting. 1t should be pre-
pared just before it is to be served
Made according to the following
recipe. oyster stew, white wine, is
guaranteed to be the hit of the buf-
fet party.
OYSTER STEW, WHITE WINE
(SerDes ~
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
l pint oysters
! pint milk (scalded)
l cup Chablis, Hook, Sauterne, Ries.
ling or any white table wine
! cup cream
Melt butter or margarine. Ado
oysters and cook until edges begir
to curl Season with salt and pep.
per- Scald milk and oyster liquo.
Add to oysters. Heat to boilins
point. Remove from flame, ado
wine gradually. Finally add ths
cream. kReheat and serve very hot
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Party
Fare

All dressed up in their party best,
carrying a present carefully chosen
and lovingly wrapped, little guests
ring the front door bell with eyes
sparkling in anticipation of the
good time ahead. It's an occasion
they'll treasure-for to small fry
parties are important events.
II your youngster is to step up
another year soon, don't fail to cele-
brate the occasion. Invite a few
children-let junior or Jill suggest
whom they should be-for an after
noon of fun.
Since there's nothing more dead
ly than lull in a small-folk party
have lots of good games up your
sleeve. The old stand-bys, pin the
tail on the donkey, musical chairs
and button, button, who has the
button may seem corny to old
timers, but they're always favorites
with new audience. Some mex
pensive prizes for the winners will
spur competition.
But most important to the success
of any party-and especially one
for the young set are the refresh
ments. And to youngsters, no party
is a party unless there's ice cream.
With the ice cream, though, serve
lots of iron-rich molasses cookies
made really partylike when cut in
interesting shapes and maybe FROST
ed with various toppings. And for
a novel drink the children will run
home to tell mother about, serve
molasses milk shakes.
MOLASSES MILK SHAKE.
IL teaspoons molasses.
l cup milk.
Pinch of cinnamon.
Combine molasses, cinnamon and
milk. Shake thoroughly. This is a
simply-made nutritious drink suit
able for children and adults alike.
Yield, portion.
MOLASSES COOKIES.
l cup melted shortening.
l cup molasses.
u teaspoon lemon extract.
l egg. beaten.
Az cups flour.
l tablespoon ginger.
l teaspoon soda.
l teaspoon salt.
Combine shortening and molasses
and lemon extract. Add egg and
stir until mixture is blended. Mix
and Slft dry ingredients and add.
Chill dough until firm enough to
roll. Roll about Is inch thick, cut
and bake on a creased cookie sheet
at 375 degrees F, II to IS minutes.
Makes S dozen 2ll2 inch cookies.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Why Grow Old?
By.JoSebhine Lowman

Some very interesting information
on nutrition has come to me from
the Nutritional Biochemistry Lab
oratories of the Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, Cambridge,
Mass. I will pass some of it along
to you.
Quite a few surveys have been
made in an effort to determine the
nutritional adequacy of the people
of the United States. 1t is very diff
cult to make a survey of this kind
because there are SO many varying
factors such as difference in content
of each food, losses due to storage
shipping and cooking and serving
and sizes of servings. The difference
in the eating habits of divergent
parts of the country add to the con-
fusion. Every effort has been made,
and will be made, to weed out as
much inaccuracy as is possible.
Several methods have been used in
collecting this data. In one survey
record of food consumed by repre-
sentative group over "a hour period
was obtained through the mail or by
personal interview. Then the results
were compared with list of essen
tial foods. Another technique OBJ
tanned information by personally in
!terviewing smaller group of persons
concerning a two-day dietary his
tory.
In another, the homemakers told
Iinterviewers, from memory, the type
and approximate amounts of food
eaten in the home during the past
seven days. In still another the food
in each house was weighed at the
beginning and the end of week
and a record kept of all food brought
into the house during that time
Then the intake of each nutriment
was approximated. In other in
stances, the food was weighed and
the same records kept but for each
/ individual member of the household
rather than for the family as a
whole.
Perhaps the most interesting sur
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Dinner De Luxe
By The Chef

Guinea hens, although barnyard
fowls today, still boast smoky
exotic taste that renders them fit
for the same culinary treatments
as game. Like pheasants, guinea
hens tend to be dry when cooked
and If their delicate flavor is not
to be impaired by this, care must
be taken to marinate them before
hand and to lard them with bacon
or salt pork during the roasting
period.
These birds are, of course. ex-
pensiye and not for daily casual
use, by any means! But for a
dinner party dish they lend an
Evening star., 1946-01-24

one. One-half cup sugar or honey
slrup, cup boiling water, / table
spoon cornstarch, 2 tablespoons but
ter, Il teaspoon salt, Sherry or Ma
deira wine to taste. Mix sugar or
honey with the cornstarch. Add
boiling water slowly, stirring smooth.
Boil minutes, stirring to keep from
Jumping. Take off fire, add butter,
salt, dash of nutmeg grated over
top. Wine to taste.
xx *
CHILD PROBLEM.
From Mrs. E. S. B., Alexandria,. J
What a pity it is that young
mothers fail to realize how a little
time spent in preparing a child for a
new experience will take away from
the strangeness and even terror as
Mrs. r. E. S. describes and avoid
scenes and emotional upset so detri-
mental to a small child. When my
son was 18 months old, he went to
the barbershop, not for his first
haircut, but to watch his grand
father have his gray hair trimmed.
Grandpa seemed to enjoy it, Johnny
was interested in the funny noise
the clippers made and no suggestion
of hurt" was made. Mother re-
Trained from remarks such as, Here,
it doesn't hurt a Bit. When the
haircut was done, the barber pre-
sented Johnny with small, hard
candy and was at once regarded as
friend, A week later Johnny went
for his own haircut. Even knowing
the barber wasn't quite enough. for
Johnny showed reluctance to climb
up in the tall, awesome chair. So I
climbed into the chair and, with
Johnny safe and snug on my lap, we
were both wrapped with the BARRIERS
cloth and the haircut proceeded
with no protest or fear. Next time
Johnny climbed into the chair him.
self and, while I held his hand
really enjoyed the clip, clip of the
scissors and the mild tickling of the
clippers. Now the barber remarks
upon how good he is and what a
relief it is not to have a scene so
common to small boys haircuts.
Mrs. R. E. S., isn't there a small
shop in your neighborhood where
you could hold your son on your lap
so he will feel secure while under
going what to him has become an
ordeal? The same preparation
should be made for visits to the
dentist. Take the child with you
when you have your teeth cleaned.
The dentist is more than willing to
cooperate and if you have friend
accompany you to watch the child
while you are in the chair, all will
be well and the child will be inter-
ested rather than afraid. / see that
Evening star., 1946-01-24
IRONING NYLON.

From Mrs. /. c. ~, Washington. J
I noted in your column that Mrs.
M. G.. Of Washington asked about
ironing nylon fabric Wash, wrap
in towel a few minutes to absorb
moisture, place on hanger, straight
en- and dry thoroughly. Do NOT
moisten: this is important. Iron
with a rather cool iron. 1t requires
so little ironing it can almost be
used without any.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
ADVERTISEMENT
Ever Try Making Cough
Syrup in Your Kitchen?

or liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup.
Get 21z ounces of Pinex from. your
druggist. Put this into a pint bottle
and fill up with your syrup. This
makes pint-a family supply. Tastes
fine and never spoils Children love it.
And as for results, you've never
seen anything better. 1t goes right to
work on the cough, loosening the
phlegm, soothing the irritation. and
helping clear the air passages. Xou
will like it for its results, and not
merely for the money it saves.
Pinex is a special compound OF
proven ingredients. in concentrated
form, a most reliable soothing agent
for throat and bronchial irritations.
Money refunded if it doesn't please
you in every way.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
FOOLPROOF BISCUITS.
PACKAGES FOR ABROAD

From Mrs. K. S., Washington)
To the lady who wants a foolproof
recipe for making biscuits, hope I
can be of help. Sift into a bowl
cups of -four, rounded teaspoons
baking powder, y teaspoon salt and
p teaspoon soda. Add heaping
tablespoons of shortening and cut
this. into the flour mixture we'll
Add q to l cup buttermilk to this
and work well until it is a rather
sticky mass Put this dough on a
well-f1oured board or table top and
sprinkle well on top with flour
Roll out to u to q inch thickness
and cut into rounds. I divide this in
two pans and pop the first pan in
the 500-degree oven about to 10
minutes before calling the folks to
eat. Then bake the second pan SO
we can have biscuits piping hot
during the meal. This makes
enough biscuits for five or six peo-
pie about 8 or apiece This has
never failed and hope she will have
success. 1 found in my own expe-
rience that handling the dough even
enough to knead ever so lightly
made my biscuits tough.
From Mrs. J. A. M, Washington
For D. M. D., Silver Spring, Md,
who asks for foolproof recipe for
biscuits, this is it:
Southern Biscuits: Sift into bowl
3 cups flour, 6 tablespoonfuls baking
powder QeveD, teaspoonful salt,
l teaspoonful sugar, 4 teaspoonful
baking soda. Cut in level table,
spoonfuls shortening. add butter
milk, enough to make soft dough.
Turn out on Toured board, roll !
inch thick and cut. Bake Is min
utes at 400 degrees. I keep butter
milk on hand for biscuits and hot
cakes at all times. 1t keeps for weeks
without spelling 1t takes butter
milk to make fluffy biscuits.
This is a timesaver I'd like to
pass along: When making pastry
roll out leftover pastry to the size
you use for pies. Roll this on waxed
paper and keep in the refrigerator
until you need it. Let stand at
room temperature for a while be-
fore you unroll it. This saves get
ting out board and roller again. I
found I always use my leftover
pastry since I do this. When I
saved it in bulk, I often let it spoil
before I used it.
Answering the request for ad-
dresses to send boxes for children
abroad: These are some addresses
in Europe of people who will dis
tribute clothing sent to them to
desperate people. United States
Government regulations are: ID
Each person may send l box month,
II pounds or less in weight, up to 70
inches in length and girth COM
bined; (2) custom tags, obtainable
at the post Office, must be made out,
attached to each box; 90 seal box,
wrap in heavy paper and string, ad-
dress. seal ends with sticking tape:
(4) attach customs form; t5) label
each box or wrapping paper, Gen
eral License G. Post; 90 postage
charge, IA cents per pound, con-
tents of box not to exceed S25.
% Superior, Suor Del Buom Pas
tore, Via Del Benedettini, Palermo,
Sicily; (2) Superior, Suor Del Buon
Pastore, Corso Calatafini, 997 Pail
ermo, Sicily: 80 DR.. and Mrs. Pi-
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Gives Quick Relief. And It
So Easy! No Cooking.

If you've never tried
mixing your own cough
medicine, you've missed
a lot. It's no trouble
needs no cooking-and
gives you about four
times as much cough
syrup for your money.
You'll say it beats any
Evening star., 1946-01-24

It's tempting dish, whether for
family or guests. It's culinary
delight; it's economical and it's well
worth what little time and effort
are required to prepare it. It's
potato cheese puffs, and the fluffy
puffs are delicious served with wien-
ers with Sausages or with similar
meats-if available!
POTATO CHEESE PUFFS.
Beat 2 egg yolks. Add and beat
until fluffy:
Ia cups mashed potatoes (hot or
cold.
3 tablespoons hot milk.
Il cup grated cheese.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
HELPFUL HINTS.
(From Mrs. o. S., MitchellS-
Jille, Md


I want to thank the ladies who
sent in recipes for scrapple and
pudding as requested. They both
turned out delicious for me.
I am sending in 4 few helpful
hints which I hope will be of use to
some one. Oil spots on garage drive
ways can be removed with naptha
Pour it on. then brush away with
an old broom. To make glossy en-
amel dry dull, mix enamel under
coater with the last coat. Before
trying to drive a nail into a plaster
wall, dip the nail in hot water or
melted wax and it will not crumble
or crack the plaster. Mice are re-
PEELED by the odor of camphor. Put
it in places which they frequent and
they'll keep off the premises. Lime
powder well spread about will kill
reaches.
Carpets can be "mothproofed" if
scrubbed with a solution of hot wa
ter and salt tstrong). When alumni
mum becomes tarnished or black
ened, it can be cleaned with a soft
cloth dipped in lemon juice then
rlnSed in warm water.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

Season these Ingredients with:
a teaspoon salt.
u teaspoon paprika.
Il teaspoon celery salt
Add:
Il teaspoon finely chopped onion.
l teaspoon chopped green pepper
(optionaD.
Beat until stiff egg whites.
Fold in the egg whites and place
the batter in mounds in a creased
pan. Brush the tops with 11a table
spoons soft butter Or margarine.
Bake the potatoes in a moderate
oven, $50 degrees F. for 20 minutes.
Makes puffs.
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vey is the one I will tell you about
tomorrow.
If you wish to have my leaf1et
No. 81, "vitamin defense" send a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
with your request for it to Josephine
Lowman in care of The Evening
Star
Evening star., 1946-01-24

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted. We
cannot assume responsibility
for them. BIC.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

thIng you ever tired Tor coughs due
to colds. And here's how it's done =
Make plain syrup by stirring 2
cups of granulated sugar and one cup
Of water few moments. until it is
dissolved. Or you can use corn syrup
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Readers Clearing House

etro Leone, Via Liberia 26, Palermo,
Sicily Twill distribute boxes to hos
pitals and orphanages); a. Rev.
Mother Superior, Forbach, Bel Pu-
dewitt, Polaska, Weis, Poland home
for children who lost both parents)
60 Rev. Mother Superior, Plac No
womiejSki, Posen, Poland. What to
send? Used clothing for babies,
children, adults, used shoes. Cloth
for dresses, underwear, thread nee
dies, scissors, soap, scrub brushes,
combs, sheets, pillowcases, towels,
medicines, vitamins, hot-water bot
ties, surgical goods, adhesive, gauze,
cotton, etc; baby food, matted milk,
cocoa in cans, candles, candy for
sugar content.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

I have taken quite a bit of space,
but 1 feel so strongly that most of
the disturbing scenes one witnesses
would never occur if only the
mother would take the thought and
time to prepare her small child for
new experiences. My three chill
dren, 5, 3 and l, are good at the doc
tors, dentists and barbershop, sim
ply because they are not afraid.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
WASHABLE GLOVES?
STAIN ON ENAMEL?

any washable leather gloves which
will not turn stiff when dry, necessi-
tating kneading. How does one re-
move discoloration from a white
enamel pan which is only used to
sterilize my baby's drinking water?
1t has never been used for anything
else.
DYEING WOOL YARN?
(From S. B. G., Riuerdale, Md
Could any one give me a sugges-
tion as to how you would dye wool
yarn? Also is there any way in
which color can be removed from
yarn? My sister-in-law made an
attempt at dyeing wool and the
yarn did not dye evenly.
X x y
BOILED APPLE DUMPLINGS.
From M. E. NJ. Washington
For the lady VINO wants a recipe
for boiled apple dumplings and wine
sauce, this recipe is an oldtime one.
They are light as a feather.
Boiled Apple Dumplings made
with sour milk-Six cooking apples
CYorks are spicey), cups all-pur-
pose flour sifted, Il teaspoon baking
soda, y cup butter or substitute,
cup sour milk. Sift flour and bak-
ing soda together. Mix in butter
until like meal, add sour milk slow
ly, mixing into smooth dough. Roll
out y inch thick. Cut in circles
using Toured inverted saucer. Place
a peeled cored apple in center each
circle. Fill apple with bit of orange
marmalade or raisins mixed with
butter and sirup. Fold dough up
tight, pressing edges to cover apples.
If you have a steamer with food
pan have water boiling before put
ting dumplingS in pan and putting
on cover. Any deep saucepan with
cover may be used. Have filled half
way up with boiling water, put dump
lings on creased plate and set on
rack or heavy jar above the water.
Boil covered for 80 minutes, take off
cover, let steam escape, lift out plate,
set in platter and serve at once or
they will be tough. Secret of light
ness is water really boiling, tight
cover, never lift cover until the time
is up.
Dumplings made with sweet milk
Two cups all-purpose -four, tea
spoons baking powder, 81 cup sweet
milk. Mix into dough as before.
Wine Sauce-For boiled dump
lings the sauce is usually a liquid
Evening star., 1946-01-24

CLEANING COIL SPRINGS?
(Fron Miss A. H., Washington
The RICH is so very helpful I look
for it first when The Star comes to
us. Now, would appreciate it very
much if some one can offer a sug-
gestion of how to clean the coil
springs of bed mattresses in a simple
way. They gather dust so quickly
and I have torn my fingernails at
to get through the close
wires with a dust cloth.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Information sent in bu the
toiloi0tng has been torWarded to
the individuals for 1Dhom it Uas
intended
Mrs. B. L. G., Siluer Spring;
Mrs. L. c. L., Alexandria; Miss
M. r. G, Mrs. II. w. K, o. S.,
Mrs. E. L. NJ, Mrs. w. H. c.,
Mrs. w. T., Mrs. w. J. W., Mrs.
B. M. W., Washington.
Our thanks to the tolIo,Cino
readers, 1DhoSe contributions
mere similar to others previously
receiped.'
Mrs. L. F. B., Poolesuile, Md;
Mrs. H. w. L., La Plata, Md:
Mrs. E. J. W., Takoma Park, Md:
Mrs. B. A. I, Mrs. w. E. c.,
Washington.
Evening star., 1946-09-04
FOUND.

FOUND.
DoBERMAN PINsCHER found in NV sec
ton; owner or good home. SH. 374e.
IDENTIFICATION BRACELET, GeofIrey
r. Paul. Call EN- 615o.
RED SPRINGER SPANIEL. Call UN 1241,
Prince GEORGES County Animal Rescue