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iufJlynn GkamLeAA Fruit Plate Enhances the Bride’s First Dinner (See Recipes Below.) Cooking for Two Now that the honeymoon Is over, the serious business of housekeeping begins. Most brides manege well with the general cleaning routines, but marketing and cooking presents some problems No bride need feel alarmed, how ever, about cooking or'marketing for two, for it is often just as much of a prob lem to market and feed two peo ple as it is a dozen, To help out this year's bride, I’ve formu la led a few rules by which she can start guiding her culinary adven tures. First, the marketing. How, ex actly does one use the food dollar? It’s dooe by fifths: one-fifth of the money should go for purchasing fruits and vegetables; the next fifth for milk and cheese, and the bride should remember to provide a pint of milk for her brand new husband and herself, every day, in drinking or cooking. Another fifth goes for meat, eggs and fish, and still an other fifth provides the bread and cereals. The last fifth is used for purchasing fats like butter or en riched margarine, sugars and ac cessories. The above yardstick will help the bride plan her well-balanced meals. Purchasing fruits, vegetables, milk, butter and cheese will be simple if she follows the guide. The wise bride will buy carefully, planning menus in advance so there will be no waste and all leftovers will be used in menus. Before she markets, she makes a list, looks through the advertise ments to decide where she can get the most for her money. After mak ing sure her list is complete, she goes to the grocers to do her buy ing. In this way she does not have to make too many trips and she can save her own time and that of ber grocer. She knows there is a premium on time in wartime. The bride also deplores waste, especially in buying meats. To aid her in making out the meat list for two, I have made out the following: Beef: X club steaks X cube steaks 1 T-Bone steak X rib steaks 1 pound round steak (for swiss steak) X pounds pot roast 1 flank steak (for stuffing) 1 pound ground beef (for loaf) M pound ground beef (for pat ties and casseroles) H pound liver 4 large frankfurters Fork: X chops (butterfly, loin or shoul der) 146 pounds spareribs 4 to 6 slices thin Canadian bacon 44 pound ham slice X pounds fresh loin roast X pounds smoked butt (boned) 44 pound bulk sausage or links 44 pound bacon 44 pound tenderloin Veal: X pounds rolled rump roast X loin chops Lynn Says: Here are the rules by which to substitute honey and com syrup for sugar in your recipes. In using honey, substitute Vt to 1 cup of honey for each cup of granulated sugar, but reduce the liquid in the recipe % cup for each cup of honey used. In using com syrup, substitute 2 cups of corn syrup for each cup of granulated sugar. Reduce the liquid in the recipe by one fourth. If you wish to substitute com syrup for only part of the sugar you may substitute 1 cup of com syrup for each ft cup of sugar and reduce your liquid one-eighth. Because of the difference in fla vors of substitute products, be prepared to have a slight change of flavor in the food you prepare with them. Honey cakes and cookies, if al lowed to ripen, will have better flavor. Bride a Firat Dinner Pineapple-Apricot Juice •Swedish Meat Loaf •Asparagus Paraleyed Potatoes Whole Wheat Bread and Butter •Fruit Plate 'Cooktea Beverage •Recipe Given H U K pound steaks or cutlets 2 rib or kidney chops 1 sirloin steak 1H pounds rlblets 1 pound breast or neck meat for stews H pound liver Lamb: 2 shoulder, loin, or rib chops 2 lamb patties 25$ pounds shoulder roast Small leg roast 2 lamb shanks 15$ pounds rlblets 5$ pound cut up lamb for curry or casserole Poultry: One broiler usually serves two people. It is very often possible to buy certain pieces of fowl, espe cially chicken, and you can decide bow much of each piece according to your appetite. For frying, a 3 pound chicken is just about right. A simple dish for one of the bride’s first dinners is this Swedish [WflSl TODAY CHUCK ROAST meat loaf. Its simple as first grade spelling to make, and cer tain to please the brand new hus band. If there is some left over, the loaf is very deli cious served cold in sandwiches or sliced with potato salad: 'Swedish Meat Loaf. (Serves 2) H cap twice-ground beef Vi cap twice-ground pork V4 cap grated potato 1 tablespoon grated onion 3 tablespoons milk Salt and pepper Mix meat thoroughly, add onion, potato, milk and salt and pepper. Blend thoroughly, and shape into loaf. Place in a buttered loaf pan and bake Vi of an hour in a mod erate (350-degree) oven. Baste at 15-minute intervals. To make gra vy (after loaf has baked) take 2 ta blespoons of the drippings, blend with 2 tablespoons flour, Vi teaspoon salt, a few grains of pepper, and then mix in slowly 1 cup of milk. 'Asparagus. Take Vi of a pound of asparagus, clean, add 2 Vi cups boiling water with Vi teaspoon salt. Boil uncov ered, 15 minutes, drain, and serve with melted butter. 'Fruit Plate. Make a circle of orange slices on a large individual platter. In the center of the wreath, place a lettuce cup, fill with avocado balls, a dev illed egg and watercress. Use halved strawberries for one fruit mound at the side of the plate, raspberries and blackberries for the second berry patch, with a cluster of cherries for further variety. Select easy-to-peel Valencia or anges for slicing purposes. Bride's Biscuits are exquisitely simple to make if you use this rec ipe: Bride’s Biscuits. (Makes 18 Biscuits) t cups enriched, sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt t to 4 tablespoons shortening % to % cup milk t tablespoons softened but ter or margarine Sift dry ingredients together, cut in shortening. Add milk to form a soft mixture. Turn on lightly floured board and knead Vs minute. Pat out to % inch thickness. Spread with 1 tablespoon butter. Fold over and spread top with remaining butter. Cut with a 2-inch cutter. Bake on a baking sheet in a hot (450-degree) oven 10 to 12 minutes. Why get hot and bothered over your cooking and household problems when you can get expert advice on them? Write, explaining your problem to Miss Lynn Chambers, Western Newspaper Union, 210 South liespluines Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features—WNU Features. ■^EW YORK. — Alter the first World war, the war department picked Brig. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, as he was then, to “read, mark, learn and in ‘One Who Can wardly di-| Digest Failures *est' ’ 0ur And Successes war exP"ri' ence. This he did, as president of the army war college, and his documented and formulated findings of what our army learned in this short, prelimi nary bout have been worked into *>ur military heritage and are now «ing used in the main event. Major General Ely rates any casnal, off-hand optimist when he says we’re doing all right in this war, that we’re get ting plenty of fighting tools, and that officers and men have what It takes. One feels a bit offside If he gela too much this way or that, but in this corner we can’t help being bncked np when any one of General Ely’s profession al detachment says we're com ing through. He is 75 years old, having retired from active doty in November, 1931, when be reached the statutory retirement age. He didn’t “shoulder his crutch and tell how battles were won.” He continued as an in structor in the war college in Washington, lecturing on “the psychology of the battlefield.” And It is interesting to find an old - timer hoping instead of croaking, and telling how much better they used to do things in his day. He is a huge man, supercharged with physical and mental energy, and hit his later years with a tre mendous momentum. They call him “Ely of Cantigny.” That goes back to 1918, when he commanded and led the 28th infantry when it cap tured Cantigny in one of our most brilliantly executed victories of the war. This and other such exploits brought him the Distinguished Serv ice Cross, the Distinguished Service medal and five awards of the Croix de Guerre. He was born in Independence, Iowa, and, after his graduation from West Point, taught military science at the University of Iowa. He was in the Philippines, fighting and hack ing his way through the jungles with Gen. Frederick Funston. from 1898 to 1904, back again in 1907, to re main five years and make the first complete map of the Philippines. He is one of the nation’s leading au thorities on tactics and battle lead ership—with a mind flexible enough to turn from tactics to the improvi sations of strategy, if that is what is needed. A LEAN and academic but tough bachelor of the science of edu cation, in the army after winning scholastic laurels, is in command of our new Here's a Scientist parachute Busy Conditioning force, poised Ou, Sky Hopper. £ ™ the mainland. He is Brig. Gen. Wil liam C. Lee, Colonel Lee until a few weeks ago, a native of North Carolina, born with an insatiable desire both to get and to impart in formation. He was an early spe cial pleader and experimenter in parachute jumping, as well as mech anized preparedness in general. The parachute army numbers about 8,000 men and one wonders how lads not long out of a class room or a soft job on the ground, with no practice war for a work out, will take to this ultra-modern rough-and-tumble of sky and land. General Lee figured all that. He formulated the science of physical, sensory emotional con ditioning of human raw materi al, with a view to reducing nerve and reflex variables to a calcula ble minimum. To do this, he wanted to know more about communicating precise knowl edge, so he knocked off from ac tive service and, in 1936, after 19 years in the army, took his degree in the science of educa tion, at the University of North Carolina. He works the theory of plastic endowment, the condi tioning reflex, and the transmis sion of the social heritage into teaching rookies to take a dive, puli the rip-cord at the right split-second, unlimber their guns and score passing marks there after. General Lee was bom in 1895 and entered the army from the Univer sity of North Carolina in 1917. An | incurable bookworm, but always | craving action, he wolfed all avail able army courses, including the | officers course of the infantry school, the full table d'hote of the tank school, from which he was graduat ed in 1930, the general staff school, and then back to Chapel Hill for coaching in telling what he knew. He was appointed to his present command last March “to formulate tactical and training doctrine for air borne troops.” WASHINGTON —While the deci sion has not been made, it is highly unlikely that President Roosevelt will revise upward his demands of construction of merchant ships. The classifications, using precious steel which will be raised, are aimed at destroying submarines rather than replacing losses from subma rines. It will be noted that most of the ships sent to the bottom by subma rines have not been in convoys—nor In the patrolled lanes. That is one reason for the gasoline shortage in the Eastern states. Obviously there have been no convoys of tankers bringing oil from the Gulf ports to the East. The only important protection af forded along that long coastwise route has been by airplane spotting. It is true that this has resulted in i the sinking of some undersea boats, but it has n6t proved very sound Insurance for the tankers. In contrast, the supply ships transporting our men aud sup plies to the various theaters of war, from the Arctic coast of Russia to Australia and all way Have suffered hardly at all. This is the logic behind the Presi dent's present thought that it is bet ter, for the time being, to put any surplus steel that may be available over and above the objectives al ready laid down into destroyers, tor pedo boats, corvettes, etc., rather than into merchant ships. One for One One destroyer, corvette or torpedo boat may destroy a submarine which otherwise might sink a dozen mer chant ships. Of the three types none uses more steel than a single mer chant ship; the corvette uses con siderably less, and the torpedo boat very little indeed. There is another argument for building more submarine destroyers rather than U-boat fodder. This is that when a merchant ship is sent to the bottom there is frequently a loss of life. Nothing comparable to when a ship is lost in a naval en gagement, for as a result of present war conditions frequently the ma jority of a crew of a warship is lost. But too many trained seamen in the merchant service are being killed. And they are very difficult to replace. So it is quite conceiva ble that one corvette or destroyer might save the lives of a considera ble number of merchant seamen, as well as merchant ships. • • • Allies Permit News 1Leaks* To Create Confusion During the period known as the “phony war,” before Germany over ran the Low Countries and Norway, and short-circuited the Maginot line. Hitler was doing to the French and British what Roosevelt and Church ill are now trying to do to Hitler. No one knew, then, what Hitler was going to do. So Hitler utilized the time by finding out precisely what the French and British—not to mention the Belgians and Dutch, would do in every possible contin gency. Over the many months of the “phony war” Hitler thus acquired a vast amount of information as to just what to expect when “Der Tag” came. As a matter of fact their peoples, those in Belgium and Holland, were very much divided. Many of them thought they would be able to main tain their neutrality throughout the war. It is of record that Hitler sold guns to the Dutch for gold, and then captured the guns later on. Naturally the parallel is not ex act There is no maneuvering of an invasion force up and down a frontier, while the helpless victims on the other side, hoping to main tain peace, scramble for a defensive distribution of their forces. But the effect is very similar, from a mili tary standpoint. News is allowed to leak out—in fact it is broadcast—that a “very large" American expeditionary force has landed in Northern Ireland. A few days later it is announced offi cially that another large Canadian force has landed in Britain. We do not know precisely how large this United States force now in the British Isles (count ing Ulster as part of that cate gory) may be. We only know It is sitable. It is assumed by officials here that Berlin knows precisely how many Canadian troops are in waiting there for the "second front," and what their equipment and training is. It is also as sumed that Berlin knows how many Canadian troops are in Britain, and how many British troops are available. What Berlin does not know is where this force is going to strike, or when. It might be anywhere from the North Cape, or beyond, to Murmansk, down to Italy. [patterns ) SEWINGOPCLE^ 'T'HIS one helpful pattern shows you how to make four garments for your little girl! A button-front frock, overalls, rompers, and a bonnet. Each one of them cute and original in design and as easy as pie to make. Can’t you see them all in a dotted swiss, a quaint calico or checked gingham trimmed with ric rac braid—can you imagine a more charming wardrobe? Useful for play hours and dress-up times both, this set is a welcome aid for the clothes prob lem for small one-to-sixers. • • • Pattern No. 8925 it in sizes 1, 2. 3. 4 and 5 years. Size 2 set requires 3% yards 35-inch material, 3 yards ric rac braid. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 111S 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicas* Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No.Size. Name. Address... Somehow Tramp Knew He Wasn’t Addressing George A tramp, coming down a country road in England, stopped a mo ment in meditation before a sign on which was written: “George and the Dragon.” He then en tered the tavern to which the sign was affixed and asked for the land lady. “Noble lady,” he began, “have you a meal and some old clothes to spare for a poor, tired and hun gry man?” “Not for the likes of you. Now go!” she said sternly. Then, see ing he desired to get another word with her, “Well?” “Then please, ma’am, could I speak to George!” Fiction Increases Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fic tion always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.—Ovid. ^.^.^.(1.(1. (V. (V, (U (V,(\.(V.(V.(V. (V. (V. (V. (V. (V. (i. fw. (V. (V. (V. (V. (V, (V. (V. (V.(V.(V. (V.(V. (Vi O- (i. (U (V. ASK ME 7 A quiz with answers offering ? ! ANOTHER! information on various subjects ? rv. (v. rv. (v. (\- (V* (v. (v. ru (V. rv. rv. rv. (v. (v. (v. (v.(U(v.(v. (V. (V. (V. (v, (v. (v. (i. (v. jv. (V. (V. (V. (V. (v. (V. (V. O'* The Questions 1. What does a Scotsman mean by mickle? 2. What ranch is the largest one in the world? 3. What countries fought the Punic wars? 4. What is the difference be tween continual and continuous? 5. Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” refers to whom? 0. Does a horse push or pull in his harness? 7. What are concentric circles? 8. How many United States Presidents received the Nobel peace prize? 9. What government body of the United States has the sole power to try all impeachments? 10. The science of semantics is concerned with what? The Answers 1. Much. 2. The Victoria River Downs ranch in northwestern Australia. It is 10,800 square miles in area. 3. Rome and Carthage. 4. Continual implies frequent repetition. Continuous means un interrupted. Do You Bake at Home? If you do, send for a grand cook book—crammed with recipes for all kinds of yeast-raised breads and cakes. It’s absolutely free. Just drop a postcard with your name and address to Standard Brands Inc., 691 Washington St., New York City.—Adv. • Hating Our Victims It is human nature to hate those Whom we have injured.—Tacitus. 5. Lincoln. 6. A horse pushes in his har harness. 7. Circles that have a common center. 8. Two: Theodore Roosevelt (1916) and Woodrow Wilson (1919). 9. The senate. 10. The meanings of words. . ' ' ' . - - Sargasso Sea The Sargasso sea, a part of the North Atlantic which covers an area as large as that of the con tinental United States, is unique in that it is relatively motionless and that it far exceeds in size any other water or land area in the world devoted exclusively to the growth of a single species of plant,' which is a floating seaweed, says Collier’s. Incidentally, this weed fs also unique because it grows at the tips as it dies at the base. Buy more oranges at a timo—thoy keep You don’t have to cut down on fresh foods just because you shop less often these days. Simply buy oranges in larger smounts. They're natur ally fW kttpm! They give you protec tive vitamins and minerals you need, especially vita min C. They satisfy your sweet tooth-save sugar. Those stamped Sunkist are the finest from 14,300 cooperating growers. Copr.. 1941. California Fruit Orowan Portion— I — ill SEE YOUR DEALER ABOUT SPECIAL MAILING WRAPPER • The favorite cigarette with men in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship’s Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.)