Make a Delicious Spinach King With Leftovers
(See Recipe Below)
Conserving Food
As the quotation “Food will win
the war and write the peace” gains
prominence, homemakers all over
the country are.
beginning to real* I
ize that they must I
do their part in I
making the most
of the food at'
band. j
Your first step/
in conserving food
will come when you plan your
menus and shopping. If you are not
In this habit, then start now to prac
tice the true economy that comes
only with this kind of planning. You
will rarely have bits of leftovers that
are difficult to fit into the menu if
you provide a place for them.
Your second step in conserving
food will come in proper storage. No
matter how careful a shopper you
are, if you do not provide the fa
cilities that keep food from becom
ing decayed, wilted, or spoiled, you
will not have done your part.
Refrigerator Storage.
Milk, eggs, butter, cheese, meat,
opened canned food, or leftover food,
require the cold of a refrigerator to
keep them in good condition.
Fresh fruits and vegetables also
retain their freshness and moistness
in the icebox. Place them, after
they are washed and carefully dried
on the racks or in their special
compartments. Lettuce and other
greens keep best when stored in
damp cloth bags.
Protein foods such as eggs, cheese
and meat need the controlled cold of
the refrigerator to keep their protein
from decomposing. Uncooked meat
may be left uncovered or covered
lightly with waxed paper. Cooked
meat should be covered. Cheese
may be wrapped in a waxed paper
or cloth, and covered with a thin
film of butter if you expect to keep
it for a long time. Keep eggs away
from strong foods to prevent their
porous shells from absorbing odors.
Leftover food remains usable if
kept in covered containers. Canned
foods will be perfectly safe to use
even if left in the cans in which
.they come. Canned fruits keep best
in their own liquid or syrup, olives
best in their own brine, and pimi
entoes will not become molded if
left in the oil in which they come.
The problem of keeping an egg
yolk or two after the white has
been used is easi
ly solved if you
just leave the yolk
in a half of a shell
I and cover it with
the other half.
Several egg yolks
or several whites
can be placed in
a glass Jar nnd kept well covered.
Take stock of your refrigerator
frequently so no food remains there
for too long a time. Even though
you are careful about storage, do
not expect food to retain its good
condition indefinitely
Storing Cookies, Cakes, Bread.
Crisp cookies will retain the crisp
ness if you place them in a loosely
covered tin or box to permit the free
Lynn Says:
You can be smart about the
way you use leftovers. Here are
a few ideas:
Save leftover vegetables from
dinner, wash the butter off and use
in salads combined with celery,
lettuce and dressing. Use other
vegetables for stews, meat pies,
and casseroles.
Leftover roasts slice nicely so
you can have them cold or serve
hot with leftover gravy. Meats
combine well in casseroles, cro
quettes, stews, soup and salads.
Meat juices and bones com
bined with a few vegetables make
up nicely into soups.
Clarify fats (bacon drippings,
lard, suet, or chicken fat) by
heating and adding 1 peeled,
sliced potato and cooking until
fat stops bubbling. Strain through
a double cheesecloth, and store.
Substitute % cup clarified fat for
1 cup butter in recipes.
Pour cqoked cereals leftover
from breakfast into jars or pans.
Slice, fry and serve with syrup.
Leftover egg yolks are good for
custards, mayonnaise, sauces and
frosting. Leftover egg whites are
excellent for angel food cakes,
frostings, meringues and sauces.
This Week’s Menu
Hot Consomme
•Spinach Ring with Shrimp Sauce
Grape, Peach, Banana Salad
Whole Wheat Bread Butter
Baked Apple Stuffed with Raisins
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipe Given
circulation of air. Soft cookies re
main moist if kept in a well-covered
tin or jar with an apple or slice of
lemon, orange, or grapefruit to pro
vide additional moisture. Change
the fruit every several days.
Tight containers which close out
the uir are recommended for keep
ing cakes at their best freshness.
Cover them with waxed paper, too.
A bread box scrupulously cleaned
at least once or twice a week with
soap and water, and dried thorough
ly contributes in large measure to
the freshness of bread.
Keep in a Cool, Dry Place:
Coffee, spices, flour and crackers
need dry, cool storage in tightly
covered containers since they are
affected by air. Use metal or glass
containers for them. When crack
ers get soggy, crisp them in the
oven for a few minutes and they will
be as good as when you bought
them.
Fats which are so valuable at
present should be treated with the
best of care so they do not become
rancid. Store them in a glass jar
or crock and place in a cool, dark
storeroom.
Storing In the Cellar.
You are extremely fortunate if
you have a cellar for storing pur
poses. Now with home and defense
gardening gaining in popularity, you
may have vegetables to keep for lat
er use. If the cellar tends to be
come warm, leave the windows open
at night, closed during the day.
Cook to Save Food Values.
Poor cooking may cause the big
gest kind of waste in food Perhaps
you roast your
meats at too high
a temperature
, and cause them
to shrink more
than necessary.
Be careful to
watch tempera
tures and time in
roasting or cooking meats. Meat,
cheese, eggs and milk are all pro
tein foods which should never be
cooked too long or at too high tem
perature since this causes the pro
tein fibers to become tough.
Measure water carefully when
cooking vegetables so you do not
have to throw any out and lose
valuable minerals and vitamins into
the kitchen drain. As soon as food
Is cooked serve it immediately as
standit)g or overcooking causes loss
in food value.
Cook with covers as much as pos
sible except in the case of green
vegetables which lose their coloring
if covered. Starting the cooking of
vegetables with boiling water will
cut down cooking time.
Our recipe of the day is a good
example of how you can combine
several kinds of leftovers into one
delicious main dish. The spinach
may have been left over from yes
terday's dinner, the shrimp from a
luncheon you gave, and the bread
crumbs rolled from stale bread.
*Splnach Ring With Shrimp Sauce.
(Serves 6 to 8)
3 cups cooked spinach
1 teaspoon grated onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon salt
ts teaspoon black pepper
teaspoon paprika
2 eggs
3 cups cream sauce
t£ cup fine bread crumbs
I to 2 cups whole canned shrimp
Chop spinach fine and add grated
onion which has been browned in
butter Season with salt, black pep
per, paprika and add the well beat
en yolks. Mix the spinach with ltk
cups cream sauce and fold in well
beaten whites. Place in a buttered
ring mold and dust with bread
crumbs Place in a pan of hot wa
ter and bake in a moderate (350-de
gree) oven for 20 minutes. Loosen
by pressing spinach from side of
mold. Heat shrimp with remaining
white sauce and serve in center of
spinach ring.
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XJEW YORK.—Anthony J. Di
mond, Alaska’s delegate to con
gress since 1933, has a chance to
say "You should have listened to
Asked Alaskan Air ^mme^
Bases; Settles for ably re
float* Linking U. S. 'rainj , He
begged long
and earnestly for air and army
bases in Alaska, didn’t get what he
: wanted, and now settles peacefully
for that road linking Alaska, Cana
da and the U. S. A., work upon which
has just been begun by U. S. army
troops. Mr. Dimond did the best he
could.
It was on March 28, 1938, that
Mr. Dimond managed, by con
siderable effort to fudge a
$2,000,000 allowance for an Alas
kan air base into the $447,000,000
war department appropriation
bill. Congress made mincemeat
of the bill and Mr. Dimond's
$2,000,000 was an almost un
noticed casualty. He said that
if a plane wandered up that way
it couldn’t find any place to roost
over night and reminded con
gress that it might not be a good
idea to leave matters of national
defense to the budget bureau.
The year before congress had
killed a $10,000,000 allowance for
an army base in Alaska.
Mr. Dimond was a Palatine
Bridge, N. Y., school teacher who
shoved off to Alaska in the gold rush
of 1904, and in Valdez, a settlement
of about 300 persons, has been pret
ty much owner and operator of his
little principality. For about eight
years he was engaged in mining and
prospecting, and in 1913 took up the
practice of law. He was a mayor
of Valdez and member of the Alaska
Territorial senate from 1923 to 1931.
In 1916, he married a Valdez girl
and they have three children.
Mr. Dimond is a born joiner
and mixer—an Elk, Eagle,
Moose and what not. He is sat
isfied with his friendly wilder
ness and long has Insisted that
it Is worth defending—aside
from its importance as a step
ping-stone to Canada and the
U.S.A.
IT MIGHT have been better If we
had sent Japan xylophones in
stead of scrap-iron. An eight-foot
xylophone, made in Chicago, divert
, fid Yoichi Hi
Xylophone I his raoka from
Jap’s Bridge to his career as
Our Way of Life aneconomist
and brought
him to New York for the edification
of a 7:45 a. m radio audience, for
nearly 12 years.
The Pearl Harbor bombs blew
him out of his job and now
Mayor LaGuardia, his Kew Gar
dens neighbors, members of the
New York Philharmonic Sym
phony orchestra and sundry oth
ers are urging NBC to restore
his inspiriting early morning
tinkle to the program. It is
more than that, however He
was the first man to arrange
Baeh, Handel, Hadyn and others
of the great masters for the
xylophone.
His friends now cite his aid to
the U.S.O., the Red Cross, the
Y.M.C.A., the New York Institute
for the Education of the Blind and
other Patriotic and welfare organi
zations It is apparent that the peti
tion in his behalf must fail. NBC
officials think there are too many
listeners who remember Pearl Har
bor.
While studying economics at the
University of Keio, in Tokyo, he
played the little two-foot mokkin,
the Japanese version of the xylo
phone. He heard an American
phonograph xylophone record and
borrowed 50 from his sister for
the eight-foot specially designed
Chicago job, big enough for the
classical romp 'of his dreams.
With such a lure at hand, it must
have been hard for him to keep his
mind on his work, but, in 1930, he
was graduated in economics, with
honors.
The western musical classics
fascinated him. lie walked out
on the "dismal science,” and
persuaded his merchant father
to buy him a boat ticket to New
York. He landed with only his
xylophone, and faced the neces
sity of hastily converting his
talent into food and lodging.
His neighbors’ petition cites him
as "an American in loyalty and de
votion, in thought and in deed.”
We once saw him work—a small,
lithe man whose body seemed both
fluid and precise as he swept the
instrument board with bewil
dering swiftness or hovered over it
with a gentle caress. A few ship
loads of bis Chicago xylophones
might have turned many Japanese
economists, or militarists -they are
all one these days—into more co
operative world citizens. Also they
might have awakened somebody at
Pearl Harbor that fateful morning.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Predict European
Conflict Will End in
Fall, 1943 . . . Timing
Kimmel and Short's
Court Martial . . .
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. - How long the
war will last is perhaps the most
vital question to every man, woman
and child in America, always as
i suming that we KNOW the answer
I to an obviously more vital question:
! “Who is going to win?"
Most of the answers to the first
I have been very discouraging. They
| run from three to ten years, every
body, from Roosevelt and Churchill
! down, assuming that we are going to
! be on the receiving end of attacks
during most of the present year.
But two men in Washington,
whose voices have been listened to
with more and more respect as the
war has developed, have a more
cheerful view. Unfortunately the
writer cannot name them. If he
could, the words of either, alone,
in this connection would make the
front page of every newspaper from
Eastport, Maine, to San Diego.
Both are predicting now that the
war in Europe will end by the fall
of 1943!
Both men know their Europe in
timately. One is best known as a
diplomat and the other as an econo
mist, but both base their opinion
as to how long the war will last on
economic and morale factors. In a
nutshell, neither thought any part
of Europe can stand another winter
of this war without cracking, and
this includes Germany.
The economist was telling friends,
last fall, that he thought Germany
would crack in the fall of 1942. He
changed his view after Japan’s ini
tial victories. He now thinks the
hope given the Germans by Japan’s
successes against both the British
and the United States will postpone
the crackup—perhaps through one
more winter. But the German peo
ple, he insists, will not be able to
face winter on top of that.
Depends on Nazi Offensive
The diplomat is actually a little
more optimistic than the economist.
He is still talking about all Europe
cracking in nine months, which
brings us to the fall of 1942. He
concedes, however, that it is possi
ble, especially if the Nazis should
make a successful offensive this
summer and the • Jap successes
should continue in the Southwest
Pacific, that the Germans might
stand one more winter. But NEV
ER two, he insists.
Both men admit the war is just as
hard if not harder on most of the
other people in Europe as it is on
the Germans. But the other peoples
of Europe have very little to say
about it. All this leaves out the
British, but there is no question
about what they will do, so far as
continuing to fight is concerned.
The diplomat’s version is that the
Germans will crack THIS fall, and
that the job of the United Nations
then will be to concentrate on Ja
pan, which, he figures would be just
a question of time after the German
menace is removed.
Both think Russia would be eager
to remove the Japanese threat in
the Far East once and for all, and
that Stalin’s air power, hitting the
Japanese both in China and in their
home islands, would make that
phase of the war a mopping up op
eration.
All of which is presented because
of the writer's high opinion of the
judgment of the two men cited, plus
the fact that it is a little more
' cheerful than the actual war news!
. . *
Three Clashing Opinions
Concerning Officers' Trials
There are three violently clashing
opinions about the timing of the
courts martial of the army and navy
commanders held responsible for
the Pearl Harbor debacle.
The most generally held is that
the trials of Maj. Gen. Walter C.
Short and Rear Adm. Husband G.
Kimmel should be postponed until
after the war.
The second is that it would be
cruel to the officers and their fami
lies to keep them under such a
cloud—considering possibly that a
court martial might hold them guilt
less—for what may be a very long
period.
Tile third is a combination of the
motives actuating both the other
groups, and would provide for a
secret court martial, so that the de
fense would be able to present all
sorts of testimony, or argument,
which for strategic reasons should
not be made public.
In his defense of his own conduct
of the war, it will be recalled,
Churchill laid a great deal of the
responsibility for the fall of Hong
kong and Singapore on Pearl Har
bor He mentioned also, of course,
the loss of the Prince of Wales and
Repulse, and left the clear implica
tion that if it had not been for
those two disasters, both of which,
air-minded critics allege, are direct
ly due to the conviction of so many
admirals that airplanes could not
sink battleships, the whole story of
the Southwest Pacific operations
might have been very different.
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