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Evening star., 1947-07-10
Bv Violet Faulkner
Food Editor.

ing plant at Edinburg, Va, in the
heart of the finest chicken raising
area in the country. The chickens
are bought from the local farmers,
taken to the plant where they are
processed one day, brought to Wash
ington and are on the grocery coun-
ters the next day. Graders are en-
ployed to select the poultry by quail
ity, size and grade according to
Government standards; only the
fancy grade A chickens are sold on
the local market.
HERE AND THERE: Hot foods
made of dairy products and eggs,
such as custards, should be cooled
quickly with ice water, or even re-
frigerated while hot. Don't allow
them to cool slowly at room tenn
perature because bacterial growth
continues in all such perishable
foods, whether cooked or otherwise,
unless retarded by adequate re-
frigeration. Chemurgy is a new
word to many people, but it's new
in name only. Chemurgy is the
science of taking basic farm crops
and making from them new food
products or developing industrial
uses for them by the application
of science. For example, the magic
of chermugy was applied to the
sweet potato to produce a new
source of carbohydrate cattle feed.
When a recipe calls for dash"
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Report to the Housewife

Of such and such An ingredient
use less than " teaspoon. Home
canning authorities say = pressure
canner must cool until the pressure
gauge registers zero before remov-
ing the lid. But, do not hurry the
process by applying cold water or
wet cloths, because you may crack
the Gamer If you do. -. Do you
have trouble with griddle cakes
sticking? Try this trick. Fill a
small cheesecloth bag with table
salt. Then when you are ready to
make pancakes, rub the bag over
the bottom of hot skillet or grid
die, and (believe 1t or no) the
batter won't stick! To keep q
tape measure neat and easy to use,
wind it on an empty adhesive-tape
spool. Chopped unhlanched
almonds and sweetened dried apricot
puree make an extra good topping
for quick coffee cakes. Spread 1t on
thick and you'll be serving it for
dessert, too. Put the tag ends
Of veal roast to use in q popular
luncheon salad. Cube the veal, add
cooked green peas, sliced celery and
chopped toasted almonds and sea-
son to taste. Blend with mayon-
naise and serve in crisp lettuce cups.
(. Almost any types Of bread and
pastries can be frozen in either
cooked or uncooked form and stored
in your home freezer to meet your
needs for months ahead. Freezing
and saving egg yolks when only the
whites have been used is another
use for your new home freezer.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Recipe Roundup

crushed fruit with whipped cream
and sugar" Theoretically, this is
true, but the famous gooseberry fool
of old England and New England is
more complicated than that-and
the best known fool" of them all.
Top and stem a quart of really
ripe gooseberries and stew them in
water with just q little sugar until
tender. Press them through a col
ander to remove the tough skins.
To the fruit add tablespoon of
butter, g. cup of sugar, just a Whit
of salt and 4 well-beaten egg yolks.
Pour all this into a glass bowl Beat
the egg whites stiff and add table
spoons powdered sugar to them.
Then heap this lightly on top of the
fruit mixture. Serve very cold, with
no additional sauce.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
The Chef Says

INGREDIENTS to be fresh and pre-
nared separately, but my friend
found the short cut did just as well.
Season with III teaspoons chill
powder and add salt and pepper to
taste.
Cut up a medium onion in small
pieces and crush 2 small cloves of
garlic. Fry these in the frying pan
with some butter until they are
rich brown. While this Is going on.
seed a small green pepper, chop it
up fine and add it to the meat and
vegetables in the pot. Then toss In
the Drowned garlic and onion.
Let the whole concoctlon cook
slowly for three-quarters OF an hour.
Stir and turn it often to be sure it
doesn't stick and burn. just before
it finishes cooking, thicken 1t bit
witha little butter and flour rubbed
together over the fire. Serve from
the casserole or pour into deep
platter.
NV friend serves this in the sum-
mertime on his terrace, where ne
has a portable grill and other IA
cilities for outdoor cookery ana
dining. With it he usually has
big wooden bowl of green salad, with
some very bitter green, such as
endive or dandelion in it to sharpen
the taste. The dressing Is French,
made with lemon juice rather than
vinegar-all of which counteracts
the rather heavy richness OF the
chilli con carne.
He also serves long loaves OF
French bread which have been sliced
almost through, crosswise, their en-
tire length. The surfaces OF the
slices are spread with butter and the
whole loaf warmed for just a lew
minutes in the oven. This Is a
speciality of his and is well worth
emulating. Beer, and coffee are the
beverages and dessert Is invariably
that choice of gourmets-cheese and
cool, fresh fruit.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Chicken Pie

A really different chicken pie
makes news-and that is just what
this chicken and leek one does. 1t
is easy to make but exceptionally
good.
Stew a good-sized fowl in water
about y cup per pound is good
proportion-with salt, pepper, celery
salt, a bay leaf, a small minced
onion and an herb fagot for about
two and a half hours. Pour off the
broth and let the chicken and broth
stand until the latter has jelled.
Cut the tops off six or eight young
leeks, leaving about an inch or so
of green on top of the bulb, and
parboil them for just a few min
utes. Then split them lengthwise
and cut them in inch-long pieces.
Cut the meat of the chicken into
good-sized pieces and lay them in
q baking dish with thin slices of
boiled hama quarter pound should
be ample-pieces of leek, some
sprigs of parsley and the jellied
broth. Remove some of the fat
from the top of the broth, but leave
just enough to enrich the pie)
Cover with pastry or biscuit
dough, set in pan Of water and
bake until the crust is brown. Cut
q little hole in the center and pour
In a quarter cup of heated cream.
This is good either hot or cold.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
FRENCH APPLE PIE.
ITALIAN SPAGHETTI
CASSEROLE. 4

From M. E. M, Washington.)
Maybe this is the French apple
pie the lady likes.
French Apple Pie: Three pounds
apples Q0-12 apples, l tablespoon
grated orange rind. "a cup brown
sugar, 4 pound chopped nuts oil-
berts), u cup chopped seeded
raisins, / cup honey, / tablespoon
butter, pie pastry.
Pare, core, slice apples very thin.
Mix with other ingredients. Put IN
pastry lined pan, put on upper crust,
bake 375 degrees F. for 40 minutes.
Pastry: One and one-half cups
flour, Il teaspoon salt, u cup short
ening, 3 tablespoons water (abouD.
Sift flour and salt together. Cut in
shortening until like meal. Add
water slowly. Use enough only to
hold shape. Quickly make into ball.
Wrap in waxed paper. Chill. Roll
dough "a inch thick on flour board.
Line deep creased pie plate with
pastry circle, cut / inch larger than
pan, pressing in lightly to fit pan
closely. Fold all around pans edge.
Crimp with fork. Sprinkle l table
spoon of sugar and -four mixed over
bottom crust, fill with apple mixture.
Put on top crust, cut deep cash in
center. Bake. Serve.
Here's a recipe for Italian spa
ghetti casserole for the lady asking
for Italian dishes.
Italian Spaghetti Casserole: One
half pound spaghetti, large onion,
y cup olive oil or drippings, "a
pound ground beef, 2 cups cooked
corn, 4 cups cooked tomatoes, l cup
grated cheese. hard variety. Salt
and pepper. Cook spaghetti accord
ing to package direction. Drain.
Dice onion. Cook golden brown in
hot oil. Take out; fry meat in oil
until medium done. Mix all in
gradients together and bake in a
fiat pan in 375 degree F. oven fol
20 minutes.
Italians have large families and
it is just as we'll to make n this
recipe. 1t Is easily divided. A fresh
green salad with simple vinegar
dressing, crusty Italian bread sticks,
fresh fruit and you have an Italian
meal that is quick to prepare.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Vegetable
Beef Stew
2 pounds beef chuck

2 pounds beef chuck
Flour
2 cups boiling water
10 whole peppers (black)
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons salt
l cup diced celery
6 medium size potatoes
8 small onions
! No. can carrots
1 No. 2 can peas
Biscuit dough
Fry out some Of the beef fat in a
heavy kettle. Cut the meat In q
inch cubes and dredge heavily in
-four; add to the fat and cook until
Drowned IAN onion may be diced
and Drowned with the meat, If
desired. Add water, spices, salt
and celery; cover and simmer gently
until tender (about an hour. Re
move the bay leaves. Pare the po-
tatoes and cut into quarters; add
with the peeled onions to the meat.
Cook about 20 minutes. Add can
ned vegetables Except y cup peas)
with the liquid from them and con-
tinue to simmer about 10 minutes.
Pour the stew into baking dish
and place baked doughnut shaped
biscuits on top, fill the centers with
peas. Serve hot. Eight. generous
servings.
NOTE: Make enough biscuit
dough so that half can be used for
regular baking powder biscuits, and
the other half for the top of the
stew. For the doughnut shape bis
cults, roll the dough lightly fourth
inch thick. Cut into doughnut rings
and bake as usual.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
SPECIAL NOTICES Cont J

THE ANNUAL MEETING Of the share
holders OF the Northeast Building Associa-
tin will be held ct the offices of the as
sociation, 201O Rhode Island ave. ne. at
election Of directors and such other busi-
ness that may properly be brought before
1t. RAYMOND c. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
ALL INTERESTED PERSONS take notice
that the co-executors of the estate Of
GRACE H. LOWE have sent her household
effects to sloan's. 715 18th st. NV, to be
disposed of at public auction.
experience in design estimating and speci-
fication writing available on part-time
basis EN- OSLO -l2
Evening star., 1947-07-10

In these days 1t takes bit Of
doing for a young father to stretch
his income to meet the soaring
prices in food and still feed his
family adequately.
I wonder how many people are
aware of the valuable nutrition in
formation available to Washington
ians through the Nutrition Service
of the District ef Columbia Red
Cross? Individual conferences are
only one way in which this branch
of the Red Gross continues to serve
the welfare OF the community. 1t
also includes a chapter consultant
service and offers adult classes free
to the public as we'll as community
consultant service. The experts
stand ready to give you advice on
marketing, budgeting, home man
agement and special diets. Educa-
tional material in nutrition will also
be sent upon request to individuals
or agencies.
In these and many other ways.
Nutrition Service of the District OF
Columbia Red Cross is meeting the
needs of the community in promot-
ing the first essential to better llv-
ing through better food habits. For
more detailed information call
Republic 5000.
Tops or. the list of fruits in local
markets this week are the summer
berries, huckleberries and excep-
tionally fine cultivated blueberries.
The berry season lasts such short
time, do plan on blueberry pie
or serve them just plain with
cream as one of your week end
desserts! AS a matter of fact, you
can't improve on fresh fruit as the
perfect ending for any meal and
now is the time to enjoy all the
delicious midsummer varieties:
Peaches, fresh pineapples, plums,
apricots. seedless grapes, cherries,
cantaloupe, honeydews and water
melon.
Vegetables are a mite cheaper this
week, I'm told; certainly any down.
WdIu ClCIlO AL ~ ASCo Ao "SASoAAAS
news. With the exception of the
salad green's you'll find ample sup
plies of almost everything: Beets,
carrots, caulifower, broccoli, yellow
and white squash, eggplant, string
beans, cabbage, peas, home grown
tomatoes and cucumbers, and very
good corn from the Eastern Shore.
There's little asparagus left on the
market, but the quality is only fair;
the season is over for the fresh
variety.
The featured items in meat, poul-
try and fish will be chuck roasts,
smoked beef tongue, frying chickens
and cooked hard shelled crabs. BY
the way, the cooked crabs are very
reasonably priced, too.
Every housewife likes to know
where< her meat or poultry comes
from ard how it is handled before
she eventually brings it into her
kitchen. These facts about the
chickenf you buy may be as inter-
esting to you as they were to me.
One independent grocery chain
operates their own chicken process
Evening star., 1947-07-10

A friend of mine, an amateur
male chef OF no mean ability, makes
chilli con carne from recipe he
picked up on a visit to Mexico sew
eral years ago. 1t Is one of the
best I've run across and I have his
permission to pass 1t along.
First, get heavy iron frying pan
If possible. Heat it. Put in it a
tablespoon OF butter or beef drip
pings. When this is hot, add a
pound of top round ground and
brown it well, breaking it up and
turning 1t over and over to get
crisp. Now put it in a big creased
casserole or pot, over a medium
fame.
Add q No. can Of red kidney
beans and a No. 2 can of tomatoes.
The original recipe called for these
Evening star., 1947-07-10
LETTER FROM HUNGARY.
/Et~onr, ~ = IIyN !, IL. rsfoS1

thought RICH readers might be
interested in a letter from a charity
case in Hungary which started when
I put my name in the coat sleeve Of
a coat I gave, along with many
other articles, to the Federation of
Churches clothing drive.
Sometime later I heard from
little 23-year- -old Maria thanking
me for the note and the coat which
she had just received. She was
happy that, we did not want war
anymore than they and thought,
too, that by helping and being
friendly we could cement the bond
of brotherly love and so help pre-
vent another such world war
tragedy"
I heard from her again on Valen-
tines Day when 4 sent the first
package of food, which she ac-
knowledged so happily. Later when
I learned all about the family, three
girls and one young man, father
and mother, and the fact that they
had been driven out of their native
Transylvania with nothing but the
clothes on their backs, losing every
thing, and could never return; that
their little sister, Sara, just IA, had
lung trouble, that there was no
work; that they could not even get q
little piece of land Q'had offered to
send them seeds, and had received
many letters explaining not only
their plight but the horrors they
had suffered, I got very generous
and having given away darn near
every stitch off my back I had to
buy them new things. You can
imagine their Joy, new things!
She sent their sizes and weights
in one letter. They are enormous
people. Her one sister just younger
is 6 feet 3. Her brother and father
are 6 feet g. She is the only one
under 6 feet and is just S feet g.
She weighs SO pounds and the tall
mother and sister only around ITO
to 120 so you can imagine that they
look like the concentration camp
victims, nothing but skin and bones
She says they "have little weight
because the food is so few"
So many need so much help. Too
bad we can't do more!
Dear Friend: I can write to you
very great happiness, maybe you
know what. Today we received the
gift of clothing. How we enjoyed
ourselves for it! There was very
much woman clothing, new ma
terials for clothing, stockings,
underwashes, threads, sweaters to
me, father and brother, also very,
very much things. The sack was
not opened. We were almost hacked
without clothes and underwashes.
We couldn't go anywhere, because
we ashamed of ourselves. This help
is delightful to us. Please take our
thanks for them. We shall be for
ever truly and grateful to you.
Sorry, that I am today unable to
kiss your hand and face, and to be
your obedient servant. But I think
my prayers and the prayers Of mine
ones will be heard by God.
"We shall make in these days pic
lures and I shall send them at once
to you. Your photo is on the wall
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Tuna Steak

If you can get your hands on a
fresh tuna stake and fix it like this,
you'll find it real treat:
Salt and pepper the steak, put
into neat slices and sprinkle them
with-of all Fthings-a little nutmeg.
Put them in a buttered dish and
pour 2la cups clam broth over them.
Cover the slices with buttered paper
and bake in a moderate oven for
half an hour. Baste them often.
Remove the fish to hot platter
and put the liquid in a saucepan,
reducing it somewhat over hot fire.
Slowly add to it 4 tablespoons OF
butter and teaspoons of tomato
paste. Check for seasoning, add the
juice of i lemon and pour over the
fish. Garnish with parsley and
lemon slices.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
: HWhat$ Coohin'
; Salmon MGcdrOni
Corn

Salmon Mccaroni
Corn Hot Rolls (prepared mir)
Chocolate Icebor Cake
Salmon Macaron.
shell elbow
u teaspoon salt macaronl cooked anu oralieo
I ahlesnoon lemon Juice tin red salmon
diced cucumbers celer Crisp lettuce
chilled Mix together salad DRESSING salt
macaroni salmon and
lightly thoroughly Serve in lettuce cups Serves
Made n dinner)
vegetable Beef SteW
Tossed Green Salad French Dressing
BAKING Po,Dder Biscuits Honey
Bueberry Tarts
Coffee
sRecipee esewhe
Bluebery
I No can water pack blueberres salt
sugar tablespoons butter
cornstarch 8 baked tart sheHs .
and heat to boiling Com
bne S into the boiling liquid and cook
until thick stirring constantly Remove from heat add
and tart shells May be served
plain with whipped If up pack are used reduce
a
Evening star., 1947-07-10

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 1t
is obviously impossible for us
to test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility
for them. B. G.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
French Toast

Someone asked the other day just
what was pain perdu." It's really
just fancy language for that old
familiar favorite French toast u
Literally meaning "lost bread" pain
perdu" does sound much more i'm
pressive than 1t Is.
You probably know the regular
version, but have you tried this one
for q really nice dessert?
Proceed as usual. beating up an
egg in about ~ of cup OF milk
and a pinch of salt. Now add a
teaspoon of sugar, Y teaspoon lemon
Juice, q dash Of vanilla and 2 tea
spoons sherry. Dip the bread slices
with the crusts cut off, in this mix
ture and saute them in sizzling hot
frying fat to golden brown. Drain
on absorbent paper and serve with
cream or sirup.
Evening star., 1947-07-10


we kissed you and we said our
thanks to you, and you smiled with
goodness to us.
II am unable to say in words our
gratitude, but I know you will
understand my simple lines. We are
waiting the box with food, it will
be not lost.
Sarah is little better. she is now
at home.
"Our life is not sure. We don't
know what will still happen in the
life of peoples of Europe. The suf-
fering was not enough, the deads
the ruines are forgotten. The devil
has a very great power on our life
We must to look at heaven, to have
faith. in Lord, the God, to be con-
tent with our daily black and little
slice of bread, because this life will
pass on, the body will die, and then
when we shall stay before our God
we can get an everlasting life.
II would like to live among peoples
who are not so cultured whose
life is consecrated to God. Maybe
once I shall get occasion to go away
with a church mission in Asia, In
the old native country Of the un-
lucky Hungarians. I learn now the
Japan language. 1t is alone diff
f1cult, but no matter, I will and ]
shall learn it.
"The situation here is not the best
The life is difficult for peoples. The
time will not heal the wounds.
This typewriter is lent to me
from a neighbour, maybe now you
will read better my writing.
Before I closed the letter the
postman brought the package with
foods. This is too much from hap.
piness? How good appetite got
Sarah! It was beautiful to look al
her! The milk, the eggs, the fruits
everything is splendid! So long ate
we these fruits, delicacy. Please
take our thanks for them. Coo
bless you"
sILVERFISH?
(From Mrs. r. c. T., Washington. J
Can some one tell me a sure cure
for silverfish? I have used patented
poisons and borax. What now?
NoN-ALLERGY PILLOWS?
(From, Mrs. d. M. L., Washington.
Perhaps some of your many read
ers may have had similar expert
ence and may be able to help me
I have had a sinus infection for q
long time, had successful operation
a year ago and still take treatments
because at nights my head clogs or
the side on which I lie. AS soon as
I turn over, this side clears and the
other sides stops up. NV doctor
seems to think there is something
about my bed to which I am allergic
possibly feather pillows. Before go.
ing to the expense of either purchas-
ing non n-allergy pillows or covers FOL
the ones I have, wonder If any OF
the readers can give me any infor-
nation regarding them? That is, II
they have used them with salts
factory results, etc? My trouble may
not come from the pillows, yol
know, but may come from woolel
blankets.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Pickles From the Garden.

How's that garden coming along?
Crops getting out Of hand2 Try
making pickles of some OF the vege-
tables for use next winter.
Use cup each Of as many of
these items as you can spare: Tiny
cucumbers, large cucumbers cut in
chunks, coarsely chopped green pep
per, small onions, quartered green
tomatoes, cauliflower howerets, corn
off the cob, fresh Hmas, shredded
young cabbage and coarsely cut
celery. you'll most likely have to
buy this last oneD
Mix all the cucumbers, green pep
pers and tomatoes, cover them with
salt water and let stand over night.
Drain. Cook the rest of the vege-
tables in water until they are almost
tender. Then drain them and mix
with the others.
Heat cups cider vinegar with 2
tablespoons mustard seed. 2z cups
sugar and a teaspoon celery seed.
Pour hot over vegetables, cook for
Is minutes and then pour into
sterilized jars and seal.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
AFRICAN VIOLET?

From A. c., HyattsDilIe.
Will some kind African violet
friend please tell me what to do
for a plant when the leaves begin
to curl under, then later go limp?
I lost one plant that way and now
another one is "sick."
Evening star., 1947-07-10
LIMERICK IN LATIN.

from Mrs. H. A. McC., Alexandria,
The following might be Of in
terest to former Latin students.
It Is an almost literal translation
of the well-known Jingle about the
young lady from Niger who rode
on the back Of tiger.
Puella Nigreusis ridebat
Guam tigris in dorso vehebat
exterua profecta
Interna revecta
Et risus cum tigris manebat.
Xxx *
SPOTS ON MAHOGANY?
CLEANING LEATHER CHAIRS?
(From II. D., Washington.)
Please help me all you can to re-
move the spots from a mahogany
cedar chest. The spots are rather
bad looking, caused by rain. Let
me know many different ways to
remove spots.
Also have you any way to clean
or wash red cushions (chairs)? They
are rather dull and dirty. Should
I wash them with soap and warm
water? The cushions are leather, I
think. 8:
ICING HINT. ,,.
DARKENED ALUMINIUM.
(Fron, Mrs. S. J. B., Fair1Ddy Hlls.}
While I've time, here are Few
contributions: If you are making
the uncooked cake icing, with but
ter, cocoa, coffee and confectioner's S
sugar, or any other icing using con-
fectioner's sugar, substitute corn
starch for about a quarter of the
sugar quantity. The icing is per-
haps a little less overpoweringly
sweet, and. you can have thicker
icing with less sugar that way.
For those who are concerned
about the discoloration of the in
side OF aluminium saucepans: Use
the bottom of a double boiler for
boiling potatoes, eggs, beets-any
vegetable that Is boiled in the skin.
If young brides (who often are dis
tressed at the darkening of their
new aluminumD say they have no
double boilers, they should by all
means get some. Nothing more use
full for keeping things warm after
cooking-like gravies and creamed
dishes. As most inexperienced cooks
will find that one part of the dinner
is suddenly ready to serve before
the rest is done, by all means get
a double boiler to hold the cooked
dish until the rest of the menu
catches up. Also 1t is much better
to use than the open flame for
heating up canned peas, canned
cream-style corn, etc, and for
warming up leftover rice and
mashed potatoes.