Evening star., 1947-03-04


a roomy Dutch oven should afford
you quite a variety of dishes. How
about a yummy pot roast, too? Or
creamed Clipped beef on toast or
mashed potatoes, also creamed
salmon or tuna?
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
From Mrs. v. H. D., Washington J
Some helps that I have used and
which save time and trouble.
When dredging fish, meat or vege-
tables, to save muss, put -four or
fine crumbs and seasoning in a
paper bag, add pieces of food and
shake until evenly coated.
When something boils over into
oven sprinkle salt literally on spilled
food and leave the heat on till food
chars. then remove.
To save rice, macaroni, noodles OF
cereal from boiling over on stove
when your back Is turned, add fat
(butter, salad oil, vegetable shorten
ing or margarine) to water.
To whip light cream just chill IL
bowl one-half pint day-olds light
cream and beat, put in freezing tray
in refrigerator. Chill till crystals
begin to form around edge. Scrape
into chilled bowl, add l teaspoon
lemon Juice, beat with chilled egg
beater till stiff.
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PLUMBAGO
(Fron1 Mrs. S. M. H. Takon,a Park. J
In the RICH Miss A. r. of Wash
ington asked about blue plumbago
I looked in my new flower catalog
and found one described as deep
blue in the Peter Henderson catalog
from IS Cortlandt street, New York
y, N. Y. I hope this will help.
From Mrs. G. S., AleT1ndrta.)
For Mrs. A. R., Washington, con-
cerning plumbago. Capensis house
variety, which she can buy from
Tex D. Pearce, Moorestown, N. j..
for 20 cents q plant plus postage.
III any RCH readers know about its
culture I'd appreciate hearing from
them, as I have one which isn't do
ing right this winter. If interested
there is a hardy variety, plumbago
larpantae.
From Mrs. D. N. H., Glenn Dale. }
If Miss A. R., Washington, wishes
to purchase the plumbago plants she
may obtain them from Wayside
Gardens Co., Glen Head, Long
Island, N. Y. They do not sell less
than three plants to a customer.
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COMMENT. ..t
From Miss M. H., TakonaG Park.
The letter from Miss E. A. r. OF
Arlington was interesting to me- I
too, feel that a social life for q sin
gle woman in her,40s is hard to find
Like Miss E. A, q r., had my
family responsibilities in my 20s
and now that I have more freedom
and more comfortably off finaI1-
cially, I am more or less alone ir
my leisure hours To have my owr
apartment is a great Joy, but living
a little out of washington find
myself surrounded by married sets
and get no opportunities to meet
people of my own age and interests
I heartily indorse the letter from
Mrs. B. B. S. of Washington. When
one reads the RICH every night, one
is struck by the number of people
who are only concerned with thei1
own family problems or exchanging
recipes which call for whipped
cream and eggs, etc. I do think that
we hardly realize what people ir
Europe have gone through in the
last seven years. The British people
seem to be worse off now than dur
ing the war. They are only allowed
one egg in two weeks, bread is now
rationed, during the present crisis
they are almost without fuel, the
electricity is cut of for five hours q
day. Four million are now unem-
ployed. In order to replace any
household equipment, they must
have been absolutely bombed out.
I personally have sent many par
GELS to friends in England and
France and indorse all that has been
written as to what to send. I have
sent along everything which has
been passed on to me by friends
here and If I am not sure they are
good enough or will fit, I ask my
friends on the other side to please
pass them on to others who are less
fortunate.