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Evening star., 1947-08-21
Recipe Roundup

the kind I prefer is the Canadian
type. Cut the bananas in pieces
Of equal size and then cut these
down the center. Wrap a piece of
the Canadian bacon around each
half piece. Secure with toothpick
and dab bit of butter on top.
Bake in hot oven for Is minutes
and serve piping hot.
We think it improves the general
scheme of things if you squeeze q
little lemon juice over the banana
pieces before wrapping them in the
bacon.
HOT BRAN MUFFINS are nice for
breakfast on a Sunday morning.
Here's a fine recipe for making
them:
Sift together cup of sifted whole
wheat -four, tablespoons brown
sugar, "a teaspoon baking soda, a
teaspoon OF baking powder and a !
teaspoon salt. Mix in cup all-bran.
Gradually stir in a cup of milk or
buttermilk, then l well beaten egg
and 2 tablespoons melted butter.
If you like raisins, add a handful.
Pour into small creased muffin
tins and bake in hot oven for
about 20 minutes or until the edges
are Drowned slightly. Serve hot,
with plenty of butter.
For a change, why not try a
CHEESE SOUP that friend of ours
in New England makes to perfec-
ton? Here is the recipe:
Melt y cup of butter and rub
into it 4 tablespoons of flour. Salt
and pepper to taste. Blend until nice
and smooth. Add cups of rich milk
and stir until mixture thickens.
Now add pound and a half of
yellow snappy cheese, cut in pieces,
a dash of Worcestershire Sauce
and little paprika. Cook at very
low heat until the cheese has melted
and the mixture is rich and smooth.
More milk may be added If the
soup is to thick for your taste. !
Evening star., 1947-08-21

the milk plain. But We find tha
coffee flavor lends interest to the
usually rather bland custard.
The "one- dish dinner" has become
the standby for many an amateur
chef when he entertains his friends
of an evening. Filching the idea
from the little woman, who long ago
discovered its value as time saver
on the busiest or hottest days. he
has improved upon her simpler ver-
sions and dreamed up some culinary
masterpieces.
One of my friends who rather
fancies his own cooking he
has every right to-likes to serve a
tamale pie with beans as his dinner
dish. He lived in Mexico for some
years and has quite collection Of
Mexican pottery plates. linens, cups
and so on. He uses peasant wine
jugs for the excellent Chianti he
serves with the meal,
There's usually salad of crisp,
raw vegetables tthe literal meaning
of "one-dish dinner" has long since
given way to meaning only the main
course) and his choice of dessert is
a cooling combination of lime and
pineapple ices. to which little
creme de menthe has been added.
There's strong hot coffee afterward
to round out a perfect dinner.
The tamale pie is made like this:
Mince up red onion and cook
it until tender in a tablespoon OF
lard. Add y can of corn, Z can
of tomatoes and n green pepper.
chopped fine. Season with salt.
Start the mixture boiling and then
stir in, gradually. q cup of corn
meal. Keep stirring frequently and
let cook for Is minutes. Then add
p cup of chopped or ground beef.
previously Drowned until slightly
crisp in little olive oil. Mix well
and let the mixture cool.
Now work in l well-beaten egg,
6 or 7 ripe olives. chopped. and
l teaspoon marJoram. Add chilli
powder to taste-chili is very per-
sonal matter, I've found! Pour the
works into a buttered casserole and
bake in a moderately hot oven for
of an hour. Serve
it from the casserole and pass
around this sauce:
Cook an onion and a Glove of
garlic. both chopped. in little but
ter until tender-about to 10 min
utes. Add y cup of bouillon and
a can of tomato paste. Season with
salt. pepper and chilli powder. Cook
together for three-quarters of an
hour. at very low heat, stirring often
to prevent scorching.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

For those of you who revel In
italian dishes we suggest this
"GNOCCHI ROMANA.'
Boil 3 cups of milk with 3 little
salt and a dash of nutmeg. Add l
cup yellow corn meal, little at a
time, so as not to halt the boiling.
Stir with a whip or a wooden spoon
and let cook for 20 minutes
Then thicken with the beaten
yolks of eggs and spread out on
a buttered pan to quarter-inch thick
ness. When cool, cut with round
cookie cutter-a pinch one is best.
Place these rounds in buttered
serving dish and sprinkle them well
with grated Parmesan cheese, dot
with butter and brown quickly under
the broiIer. Serve with tomato
sauce, made according to the direc-
tions on can of real tomato paste.
Down in Natchez they make a
gingerbread that is as famous as the
lovely gardens and the live oaks and
pretty Southern bellies. They cali it
''MELROSE GINGERBREAD.' It's
the soft type, and delicious.
Sift together 3 cups sifted flour,
IL tablespoons ginger, l tablespoon
cinnamon, l teaspoon cloves. y tea
spoon baking soda, cup sugar and
u teaspoon salt. Combine 3 we'll
beaten eggs. cup of molasses. a cup
of sour milk and a cup of butter,
melted. Add this mixture gradually
to the dry ingredients, stirring and
blending we'll. Then beat hard for
a full mirute.
Pour into a waxed paper lined
pan and bake in a moderate oven
for about 80 minutes until firm when
pressed or top.
We like this served hot, with whip
ped cream.
Have you ever tried combining
BANANAS AND BACON? 1t may
sound odd, but the flavors and tex
t,res are so contrasting that they
form wonderful team!
You can use regular bacon, but
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Shrimp Salad

Ia cups whole cooked shrimps
Il cup of any white table wine.
l cup celery, chopped
y cup cucumber, cut in cubes.
Leaf lettuce.
3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped.
1 cup wine salad dressing.
6 whole tomatoes.
Clean the shrimps. Arrange II
refrigerator dish. Pour wine ovel
shrimps. Chill thorough. Ado
celery, cucumber. hard cooked
eggs and salad dressing. Gu
tomatoes nearly to the stem end
Fill with shrimp salad. Serve or
platter garnished with cucumber
slices and leaf lettuce.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

Many cooks both masculine and
feminine, who take their culinary
activities with the seriousness they
deserve. write me often about hav-
ing trouble turning out really super
custards. Custards are. as a matter
of fact, rather tricky things and far
from as simple as they appear.
Here is one way that have found
is practically foolproof and pro-
duces rather unusual custard as
well. 1t utilizes coffee in the max
ing.
Heat 7 soupspoons or large table
spoons of finely ground coffee in a
pie tin. Use a low flame and toss the
coffee frenquently. Heat pint of
milk, just to boiling, but don't let it
really do so. Combine the coffee and
milk IN a china pot or bowl and let
stand covered for half an hour or
so. Then strain the milk through
cheesecloth to remove every trace
OF coffee grounds.
Now mix 6 whole eggs and the
yolks OF in bowl, adding y pound
OF powdered sugar, just a pinch of
salt and a teaspoon of vanilla. Stir
IN pint OF cream and the coffeed
milk. Don't use rotary beater or
mixer, but whiSk we'll with a fork
or wire whisk until we'll blended.
Pour the mixture into a baking
dish-or individual custard cups if
you prefer-which have been but
tered lightly. Put the large dish or
the cups into a big pan filled with
not water to reach halfway up the
custard containers. Bake at about
300 degrees. This probably will take
three-quarters of an hour.
Test the surface of the custard
with your finger to see if it is done
and then remove it from the oven
If it is pice and firm. And here's
a trlck-let it cool off in the water
bath before serving or chilling it.
I have found the two most i'm
portant factors in making baked
cuStards to be very small amount
OF beating-too much lets too much
air In the mixture, it never should
be foamy-and never to let the
oven get too hot. Too warm an
oven makes the big pores appear
on the surface that spoil the ap-
pearance of the dish and the tex
ture will be toughened as well.
II you don't like coffee, just use
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Stuffed Pineapple

The next time you give an after
noon party-especially one at which
iced tea or light, cool wine cups are
served-have as one of your "appe-
Tiers" a stuffed pineapple.
Slice the top off the pineapple
and carefully cut out the meat in
a chunk. leaving nice shell. Cut
the meat into balls with ball cut
ter and soak them in rum for several
hours before the party. Put the balls
into the shell. Everything should
have been well-chilled, of course.
Put the top of the pineapple back
on as lid, set on platter garlan-
ded with vines and have a little
array of toothpicks handy for the
guests to spear their own.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

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' Betsy Cas,ceH
Evening star., 1947-08-21

wax and bar chocolate. Choc-
olate should be in a narrow pan so
that eggs will be completely covered
when dipped. Then take powdered
sugar and food coloring and deco
rate or write names.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

have not been able to buy linseed
OIL
Also, have any Of you ever re-
moved the finish from an old ma
hogany upright piano and then
bleached it? Can it be done, and,
if so, how?
Evening star., 1947-08-21
from Mrs. A. ~, Arlington.)

from Mrs. A. ~, Arlington.)
Hurrah for Mrs. I. p J. for hel
Comment on Fashion and for the
RICH for printing it.
I agree that our own American
styles are much better suited to
ouV way CT living and the radical
changes in fashions are not to be
put up with.
I cannot afford a complete new
wardrobe, which is what these new
styles will mean, if we accept them.
like new and exciting clothes as
we'll as any one but I must still
make use of the old ones that are
perfectly good and have lots of
wear.
I, too, stand firm for American
fashions. Let's have our clothes
comfortable, practical and attrac-
tive on the active women that we
are with no drastic changes.
I would love to hear from the rest
of you ladies as to how you feel
and what ideas you have on bow
we can combat this fashion prob
lem. United we stand!
Evening star., 1947-08-21
ROASTING ON STOVE TOP

From H. M. G., Alexandria,
To Mrs. I. M. NICK. I roast all my
meat on top of the stove, but you
have to have heavy roaster with
a tight-fitting cover Your sauce
pan cover for a frying pan does not
make a suitable roaster. A water
less aluminium roaster turns out
wonderful roasts, especially of
cheaper cuts of meats.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
THANK YOU" NOTE.
POUND CAKE.
STRINGING BEADS

IO1NI1lNAI bGAIo.
From Mrs. E. B., Mount Rainier.)
I wish to thank you for all the
lovely letters of response you for
Warded to me. in my request for
flower exchanges. Also please thank
the many kind ladies who took the
trouble to write such lovely letters
to me, even offering me plants with
out any exchange. I have tried to
give as many African violet leaves
as I possibly could spare and am
sorry didn't have enough for all
Now I shall do my bit by answer
ing the request of Mrs. C. H. P. of
Washington who wishes good
pound cake. One pound butter, l
pound sugar, l pound flour, 9 eggs,
grated rind of lemon. Cream but
ter, add sugar and beat until foamy.
Add yolks of eggs, beaten until light,
then favoring. Fold in the stif1y
beaten egg whites and lastly add
the -four. Bake in slow oven. This
is large cake and will keep fresh
for a good while, if wrapped in
In answer to request of few
weeks ago about stringing beads
with knot between each bead.
After stringing beads. make knot
and slip a knitting needle or sharp
pencil into knot and draw it to-
wards the bead until tight enough
and so continue on with bead and
knot.
y \
STROLLER.
From Mrs. P. H. X, W1shington.)
For Mrs. A. H. Arlington. I have
seen mothers wheel their toddlers
around the D. c. shopping centers
in rented strollers. Wouldn't it be
easier to rent stroller for the hour
or two you shop in town than tote
a collapsible walker in bus?
X X X X
QUERY?
From Mrs F. A. G., SilUer SPRING.
Will some one please tell me if
there is a dealer in Washington who
sells the Myrtle System, Health
Craft, cooking pans? I have set
purchased a good many years ago
and my daughter would like to get
q set, but we do not know where
we can get them.
X X X
FURNITURE QUERY?
(From, H. M. G.. Alernndria.)
Will kind reader please tell me
if the replacement oil now sold for
boiled linseed oil can be used for
down furniture with rotten
stone and for ref1nishing furniture?
Evening star., 1947-08-21
OVERSEAS CARTONS?

From r. D. D., Arlington)
I am interested in getting several
overseas cartons (the 11-pound size)
so that I may send some clothing
and shoes. Have had no luck at
either the department or dime
stores. All seem to carry the small
er five-pound, cartons but not the
larger.
If any of your readers could tell
me where I might purchase these I
would appreciate it very much.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
PRO AND CON ON NEW
FASHIONS.

FASHIONS.
from Miss E. C. D., Washington
For I. F. P. If you had read sew
eral recent issues of Vogue and
other fashion publications you
would have seen that there are
more silhouettes than the wasp
waist coming up for fall. In fact,
one of the strongest contenders is
a line, almost pure 1925, that lets
the waist spread way out to here.
Quite aside from the fact that
France is hoping desperately that
it's dress industry will help pull it
out of its economic morass, I per-
sonally am glad to see the French
designers back in the picture. The
more designers, the more ideas;
and the more opportunities for
utilizing our old clothes and decid-
ing how we want to look. And
am perfectly certain that funda-
mentally it is we who decide, not
the designers. The motion picture
designer you mention was not the
first to advance the square-should-
cred, slim-hipped silhouette. Elsa
Schiaparelli from Paris, remember?
was right in there with him, as
were troupe of Paris, New York
and Hollywood stylists, all busy
giving us girls what we wanted.
A good many of us stopped want
ing broad shoulders long way back,
but by then we had been frozen in
to WPB's LBS clothes. And after
going around for four years in skirts
far too short for grace. even with
acceptable underpinnings, I am
Evening star., 1947-08-21
WAXING HINT:
STARCHING IN WASHER

STARCHING IN WASHER
(FrOm Mrs. H. D. S., RiDerddle.J
have found that a thin coat of
liquid wax on my door jams, window
sills and the fronts of my cabinets
in my kitchen help to keep down
finger marks, especially with small
children around.
To the lady who asked about
starching in her washer I make
about 3 quarts of very thick starch
and dilute it in my washer by filling
my washer about half full of hot
water, no cold at all, and let my
clothes swish around for about four
minutes in this solution. Of course,
this does not make a heavy starch
job, but is fine for curtains, little
girls dresses, aprons, etc.
X X X X
PLEA FOR ANIMALS.
from Mrs. F. T. o., Arlington)
Recently an adorable female toy
collie puppy was discarded near our
home by some thoughtless person.
Upon examination it was found to
be suffering, incurably, from some
awful skin disease. Not only was
this little puppy endangering my
small children, as this skin trouble
is contagious to humans, but she
was exposing other dogs to the same
condition. I cannot help but feel
and hope it's true, that persons who
drop unfortunate animals in the
suburbs are merely thoughtless.
The happy outcome of this incl
dent was the fact that I became
acquainted with little-knoWn and
yet fine organization in our county,
the Animal Welfare League
of Arlington. Their workers are all
unpaid volunteers and the expenses
incurred in the course of the work
are met entirely by donations from
people. Within two hours
after calling them this dear little
puppy had been called for by
volunteer who loved animals and
the puppy was examined by a vet
before being declared incurable. The
is listed in the phone
book if any one wants to know
more about it. Also, if it is neces-
sary to dispose of an animal please
do it in humane way.
X X X X
EASTER EGGS.
From Mrs. F. J. Men,, Falls
Church,
To Mrs. B. D. K. of Washington.
In reference to the Easter Egg recipe
asked for I'm submitting this one.
One medium size potato, 2 to 4
pounds powdered sugar, coconut,
cherries, nuts, choco-
ate, paraff1n wax. Boil potato
until done; while spud is hot, mix in
sugar until potato will not take any
more medium size potato should
Jake at least 2 pounds sugar.. Mix
coconut along with sugar. add cher
ries and nuts. After fondant is to
desired consistency shape eggs and
set on wax paper. Put in refriger-
ator until next day so as to harden.
Take out and shape once again be-
'ore dipping in melted chocolate.
Melt chocolate and wax (1a bar
Evening star., 1947-08-21

ready for almost anything else-in-
Guiding dust ruffles, if we must
Suppose the world does clip down
to shingles? Won't that be better
than these gluey looking, ratty
pompadours and buns-netted, yet
that clutter the streets and shops
right now? And what's wrong with
nice big collar on a cold day? And
think how refreshing it will be, after
all these decades. to see something
besides beige legs! I can hardly
wait!
So come on. relax, 7. F. P. Don't
try to goad the girls into writing
your old manufacturers. 1t wouldn t
do much good at this late date-and
how do you know you won't find
the new clothes much more useful
and becoming than those skimpy
wartime sausage castings we've worn
for so long? Maybe you'll get lot
of fun out of them. Maybe if you
stop looking brcadshouldered the
men in your life will take over and
stop expecting actions to match.
Maybe you'll like looking feminine
for a change. Maybe. even, Ill be
seein' you in corseletl
From Mrs. J. T. P. Takomd Park.
I think it is ridiculous to copy Paris
fashions, considering the vast diff
ferences of climate, way of life, and
women's figures. Anyway, what the
designers here are trying to sell us
as Paris creations are completely
out of style there. I was in Paris
last fall and the pinched waist and
bulky sleeves and skirts were worn
at least two years before. The Paris
creations of the grand couturiers are
truly exquisite, they are hand en-
broidered and finished. This is pos
ible for them as labor wages are so
much lower than ours. IN short. I
am in favor of American fashions
for America.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
SPOT ON VELVET?

(From H. A.. WdShington.)
Is there any way to remove a spot
and raise the pile on rose velvet
caused by beer having been spilled
on it? I will appreciate any in
formation on this.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Readers Clearing House

their friends are always asking for.
They all have that extra some
thing you don't get from a stand
ard cookbook
Evening star., 1947-08-21
The Chef Says

the milk plain. But We find tha
coffee flavor lends interest to the
usually rather bland custard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-07
Enlistment Of Two
P~oscdgoulo Men Al
Recruiting Station

Announcement has been made
by Sgt D.. C. Garner of the Pas
eagou'a army recruiting office,
Of the enlistment of ORGY c.
Golf and John Wilkinson in the
regular army.
Golf was reentering the army
as he saw service from from Oct.
81. 1912 to Oct. 90, 1916. He was
with the 378th Fighter Squadron
ron in the ETC major campaigns
in Normandy, North France,
Rhineland, Central Europe and
air off Europe, and was award
ed the Eam-Eto Good Conduct
Medal and Die Unit badge. He
has three brothers who also saw
service, one of whom is still in
the Marines. Their father is
Sherwood B. Golf of McLain,
Miss.
Wilkinson, who is unmarried,
has enlisted for three years with
the ordinance department in the
Pacific fheater of Operation. He
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-07
Miss Claudio Webb
Becomes Bride OF
Joseph C. Bingham

A wedding beautiful in its quiet
simplicity was that of Miss
Claudia Webb, to Joseph Gerald
Bingham, which was solemnized
~ the parsonage Of the EastlaWn
Methodist church with the Rev.
j. H billiard conducting the cere-
mn0V.
The bride was attractively
gowned in powder blue with
which size wore dark blue acces-
series ard a shoulder corsage of
white carnations.
Following the ceremony. which
took place at 5 D. m, the groom's
sister, Mrs j. c. Watson enter
tanned Them with a dinner a,
their home.
They arc now residing at 7t9
18th street, Pascagoula.
Tho bride will continue her
studies It the Pascagoula High
school where she is in her soph-
omore year.
The groom is employed in the
electrical upkeep department at
ingalls,. He served four years or
the battleship Tennessee during
the wa. He is also taking a
course in commercial aviation.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. S.
Bingham, reside in Hollandale,
Miss.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-07

In 1900 the average life ex-
pectancy at birth in the United
States was AZ years. :
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-07
Market Street Merchants Thank City,
County Board For Recent Street Work

In an open letter TO the County
Board of Supervisors and the
Mayor and City Council, mer-
chants along Market street this
week expressed appreciation for
the work of blacktopping the east
side of the street which was start
ed recently.
The letter follows:
we the undersigned mer-
chants, wish to express our sin
cere thanks and appreciation for
he work done recently on Mar
ket street.
mo only do we appreciate
this but we feel satisfied that the
citizens who live and trade in
this area will be most grateful.
The muddy condition of the street
in winter and the dust in sum-
mer has been most unpleasant
and disagreeable. This condition
will now be relieved to the bene-
fit and pleasure of us all.
Gentlemen, this step repre-
sents a progressive move toward
the development of our city"
The letter was signed by L. L.
Stigler, Roy Walker, j. H. Cooper,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Lacewell, r.
A. Robertson, H. p. Human and
E. A. Corley.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-07

presented to the winners after
which ice cream and the birthday
cake were served from a table
gay with individual favors and
paper hats for the guests. Those
present were Guy Yates, whose
birthday fell on the day of the
party, Mary Elizabeth and Daphne
Cameron, Virginia Anne Tubb,
Dorothy M8theney, Judy Wilson
and Johnny Marshall.