Evening star., 1946-05-14
Readers Clearing House


vanilla. Beat eggs thoroughly with
sugar over boiling water. Remove
and beat until cold. Sift in -four,
salt and baking powder. Mix care
fully and add melted shortening and
flavoring. Bake in moderate oven
$3.50 degrees) in deep muffin pans.
Before serving, cut off top, hollow
out center and fill with mixture
of whipped cream, pecans and mar
aschino cherries. Replace top and
decorate with cherry and whipped
cream.
Schaum Torte: Three egg whites,
tablespoon vinegar, l cup sugar, l
teaspoon lemon juice. Beat egg
whites until stiff, add vinegar and
vanilla. Beat in the sugar gradually
and continue beating Is minutes.
Bake in cool oven 40 minutes or un-
ill., when lifted from pan, they do
not break. Serve with fruit and
whipped cream.
Request for Cup Custard, Spanish
style, to Mrs. V. B. M, Washington.
Cooked custard (Jiricalla. One
half cup white corn meal, 1ls cup hot
water. 6 eggs, l cup sugar, cups
milk, "a teaspoon nutmeg. Combine
corn meal and hot water, let stand
Is minutes, force through fine
sieve. Beat 3 whole eggs and 3 egg
yolks in top of double boiler until
thick and lemon colored. Add "a
cup of the sugar, corn meal mixture,
milk and nutmeg, stir until we'll
combined. Cook over rapidly boil
ing water until slightly thickened,
about 80 minutes Pour into g.
quart baking dish. Cover with
meringue made by beating remain
| ing egg whites until stiff, adding
remaining sugar, tablespoon at a
time, beating until well blended
after each addition, and continue
beating until mixture holds a peak
Bake in moderate oven $3.50 de-
grees) Is minutes. or until deli
cately Drowned. Chill before serv-
ing. Serves eight.
| I also have a recipe for corn
crackers, used as substitution fol
hard-to-get tortiilas. Also other
Spanish or early California recipes
including Spanish cream, all favors
| To Mrs. v. B. M. also, Egg Roll:
I have used my own recipe fol
Chinese egg roll Roll pastry Il
inch thick and cut into pieces 5 by 3
inches. Spread with any of the
following mixtures: Scrambled eggs
mixed with chopped shrimp or any
chopped cooked fish Also mix
chicken chowmein with the scram-
bled eggs. Roll like small jelly rolls
Place on cookie sheet, rolled edges
down and bake in hot oven (450
degrees) IS minutes or until
Drowned.
To Mrs. M. J. S., Arlington Re
quest for suggestions and recipes
for persons who can eat no sugar,
starches, fats and potatoes, I have
a very fine book, called Famous
Lindlahr Seven-Day Reducing Diet. "
1t has some good nourishing, we'll
planned meals which includes de-
licious salads, luncheons and din
ners. The book was presented a
couple of years ago by the Journal
of Living.
To Mrs. j. c. B., Bethesda
Braided Rugs-I have instructions
for making small-size braided rugs
if interested.
To Mrs. G. E., Riverdale, Md. ::
Canning Soft -Shelled Crabs-I hope
this recipe will help Mrs. C. E.
To S gallons of hot water, in a
large kettle, add y pound baking
soda. When the soda water boils
add the live crabs and boil rapidly
for 20 minutes. Remove crabs and
wash them in cold water. Pick out
all meat, being careful not to in
clude the shells In leg and claw
joints. Wash the meat in a week
brine q tablespoons salt to
quarts water, drain and pack into
clean jars to within l inch of top.
Add l teaspoon salt to each quart
jar, if desired. Put on cap, screw
ing band firmly tight. Process ac-
cording to hot-water bath 240
minutes or pressure cooker, Is
pounds. Time is 80 minutes. cTaken
from "Kerr's Home Canning Book, "
national nutrition editor.)
To Mrs. E. j. F., Washington ::
I can give children's recipes and
can plan picnic or outdoor lunches
on request.
BUTTER MAKING.
From Mrs. D. C. j., Takoma Park.
Mrs. M. H. of Arlington seems to
have misunderstood my notes on
butter making. 1t is the top milk
or cream (taken from the bottle
with skinner and not poured Off
which makes the butter. This
place in bowl in the warmest part
of the kitchen to sour quickly (it
usually takes nearly two days.
There is, of course, no butterfat in
the remaining milk and it should
be kept cold. for cooking or for
drinking, If any care for skim milk.
I might add that there are members
of our family on skim milk diet
and therefore this works out better
for us, perhaps, than for most, but
In the present butter shortage, it
may help some. hope this will
clear up the points Mrs. NJ. H. did