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Economy Accent . . . Delicious Chicken Croquettes (See Recipes Below.) Budget Stretchers What can I serve as a main course that won't take too many dishes? What can I give my large family that isn't too ex pensive? These are the two que ries often asked by my readers. The answer to both questions is simple—a casse role. Easy to make, easy to serve, economical too, casseroles solve the main dish problem almost perfectly. Almost? Yes, I say almost advis edly, because if the family ever be comes aware of your ulterior mo tives in serving casseroles, their in terest in them becomes less, less and finally non-existent Make your casserole so delectable and so distinctive in flavor and no one will ever realize that it's packed with economy and you have a one dish meal that’s perfection plus. Never overwork the casserole by trying to use up all the leftovers lin ing refrigerator and pantry shelves. Never swamp the flavors of the food so you strike a false note and con fuse the sense of taste. Use good food and season with discrimination. Your result will be a real success. Here are some new ideas I’ve compiled for you. Most of them of the food you have used often enough so they’re old favorites, but in new dress! You’ll like: •Bice sad Chicken Casserole. (Serves • to 8) X caps Hce X caps milk 14 tablespoons batter x errs X4 caps diced, cooked chicken Boil rice in salted water until ten der. Stir in butter, milk and eggs. Put a layer of this into a casserole, then chicken, more rice, etc. Bake In a moderate (350-degree) oven un til well browned. Every now and then you’ve heard me talk about food affinities. Here's another I’d like to add to the list: Lamb and Lima Bean Pie. (Serves 6) X pounds lamb neck, shank* or shoulder 1 pound dry lima beans Salt, pepper Celery salt Soak lima beans overnight. Drain and place in a heavy kettle. Have lamb cut in 2-inch pieces. Add to beans, season and cover with water. Transfer to cas serole and top with pimiento bis cuit rings and bake in a moder ately hot oven 20 to 25 minutes. To make pimiento biscuit rings: add % cup coarsely chopped pimi ento to baking powder biscuit recipe. You’ll get your carbohydrates, proteins along with vitamins and minerals in this economical, hunger satisfying dish good for family din ner or informal buffet entertaining: American Goulash. (Serves 6) S-pound package macaroni 1H pounds hamburger I large onion, chopped 1 tablespoon fat Lynn Says: Store Food Wisely: There are no “Finder's Keepers” but you may be the “Loser Weeper” if you do not store those vegetables properly. Scientific experiments show that lettuce may lose 40 per cent of its vitamin C if kept at room temperature. Refrigerator rec ommended I Spinach, left standing on pan try shelf, will be drained of its vitamin C by about one-third. Canned string beans lose about one-third of their vitamin C if they stand in a bowl at room tem perature for six hours. Short cooking time is recom mended. too. Cabbage, for in stance, loses 69 per cent of tne elusive vitamin C and 72 per cent of its calcium and 50 per cent of Its other minerals when these val uable nutrients go up in steam. This Week’s Menu Tomato Juice Saltines •Rice and Chicken Casserole "Grapefruit-Cranberry Salad Popovers Strawberry Jam Sliced Melon Beverage •Recipe Given. 2 teaspoons salt H teaspoon pepper 3 t ups tomatoes 1 can tomato soup Buttered crumbs Cook macaroni in boiling, salted water, about 20 minutes, or until ten der. Drain. Brown meat and on ions in fat Add macaroni, season ings, tomatoes and soup. Pour into greased baking dish and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake 30 min utes in a moderate (350-degree) oven. An economy meat cut that is get ting itself talked about plenty be cause of its simply wonderful flavor is this: Ribs of Beef With Vegetables. (Serves 6) SH pounds of short ribs 1 Urge onion, sliced 2 cups tomatoes Salt, pepper 6 onions 6 potatoes 3 parsnips Season short ribs with salt and pepper. Put in skillet with fat and brown quickly. Place in an iron skillet or roasting pan and add on ions and tomatoes. Let bake in a moderate oven for 1% hours, tightly covered. Add whole carrots which have been scraped, parsnips, peeled, and poUtoes peeled but left whole. Cook another hour or until vegeta bles are tender. Add boiling water If necessary during the last hour of cooking. Second day service of chicken is beautifully simplified if you do up the bird in crusty cylindrical cro quettes, and dish them up together with golden^ car rot strips and ei ther canned or frozen asparagus and you have a one-plate meal that is bound to inspire the family’s ap petite: Chlrken Croquettes. (Makes 10 croquettes) 2 cups cooked, ground chicken 1 cup thick white sauce 2 teaspoons chopped parsley Flour 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 tablespoon milk 3 cups oven-popped rice cereal Salt, pepper Prepare white sauce using tfc cup chicken stock and cup milk. Add to chicken and parsley and chill thoroughly. Shape into pyramids or cylinders. Roll cereal to fine crumbs. Dip croquettes first in the flour, then in egg (to which milk has been added) and in rolled crumbs. Fry in deep, hot fat (365 degrees) for 2 to 5 minutes or until golden brown. A crispy, citrus salad goes well with casserole dishes. Suggestion of the week which will take top hon ors in the hall of fame is this one made with grapefruit, oranges and cranberries for color. Its dressing is unusual in that it combines honey with mayonnaise, and cranberries. 'Grapefruit and Cranberry Salad. (Serves 4) 1 large grapefruit t large oranges Lettuee M cup ground, raw cranberries t tablespoons honey H cup mayonnaise Peel and section oranges and grapefruit. Arrange alternately on lettuce. Mix cranberries with hon ey. Let stand H hour. Combine with mayonnaise. Serve over salad. ff hal problems or recipes are most on your mind during these fall days? Explain your problem to Lynn Cham bers and the will gire you expert adli e on it. Address your letters, enclosing a self-addressed stamped en velope for your reply, to her as Miss Lynn Chambers, V extern Xeu spajter Union, 210 South Desplainet Street, Chicago, Illinois. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features.—WNU Release NEW YORK.-We get word from Detroit that Igor Sikorsky's helicopter, the rocking -chair of the sky, is In production and that one r» . u Detroit fac tory is man War Helicopter la ufacturing Lot eat Contribution ! 'll!, army and navy have been this way and that about the helicopter, but there is no doubt that it is now a war weapon. Its uses are a military secret, but its value in spotting submarines and in reconnaissance are obvious. It can take off from any ship deck and It can hover in the air like a hum ming bird while a mechanic swings I down under and changes a wheel, j Igor Sikorsky is a shy, gentle man who dreams great dreams. His book, "The Story of the Winged S,’* begins with the story of a dream. At the age of 24 he was the father of Russian aviation and be was launching cardboard dinosaurs into the air before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. He built the first great air clippers and the csar’s first huge bombers were of his design. With the revolu tion on, he found it difficult to keep his mind on his dreams and went to Paris to lecture before YMCA audiences on a variety of subjects. Rachmaninoff, the pianist, wanted him to keep on dreaming, and, with other musicians, gathered $100,000 to this end. In the U. S. A., he built the huge S-35. It was to take Rene i Fonck to France, but it crashed on the runway and burned two men to death. Mr. Sikorsky kept on de signing and building, a pioneer of multi-engined planes, in his 36-acre air plant in Connecticut. His dreams are paced to mu sic, Chopin frequently, as music is somehow innate in his genius and Inseparable from his aero nautical flights into the future— which be says belongs to the air. Eight hundred classical records are a part of his work a-day equipment. On his tidy little home farm, he raises cu cumbers and drives his own tractor. He loves cucumbers, perhaps on account of their nice design. He is plump, bald and hesitant, with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. His father was pro fessor of psychology at the Uni versity of Kiev. IT WOULD BE just like the versa tile marines to unveil a sea-going truck. That’s just what they have done, and we've been trying to find Sea - Going Truck jt was used Juat What Doctor in the Dieppe Ordered for War ine navy wasn't talkative about it, but there is sufficient wide open news of this jungle jallopy to justify the con clusion that it is the most novel and exciting new fighting tool this war has yet produced and sure to score heavily in landing operations to come—and it appears that they are coming fast. The marines call it their "in vasion taxi," and its inventor, Donald Roebling, grandson of the builder of the Brooklyn bridge, calls it the ‘‘alligator." It goes about twice as fast on land as on water. Twenty-five feet long and about as wide as a box car, it can be lowered over the side of a transport or warship, take the water like a duck and, hitting the shore, keep right on mushing along. It can carry a big load of leather necks, a military freight car. or plenty of fighting gear. The cater pillar treads have wide, diagonally placed cleats which serve as fins or paddles in the water, and nobody has to tuck them in or reset them when it reaches land. It is armed and armored, of course not heavily, but capable of resisting fairly brisk fire. On February 17 of this year, the marines ordered 200 of them at a cost of $3,200,000. They have been in forced-draft production in a big Detroit auto factory. Down in Florida, it was just a I ‘swamp buggy" at first, or a “mer cy tank," developed by Donald Roebling after the hurricane of 1933, to rescue storm victims marooned | in the Everglades. It took him seven years to bring it through and a war to make him change the name from “mercy tank” to “alligator." He apparently in herited the inventive and construc tive genius of his grandfather, the j late Washington A. Roebling. who not only built the Brooklyn bridge, but spanned Niagara gorge in 1850. Young Roebling has been known as a sportsman, much at sea on his yacht Iorano. on which he led a Smithsonian exploration of the Car ibbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico in 1937 His absorbing life interests are science and invention. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtvitwtd by CARTER FIELD How the Censor* Denied Knowledge Of Air Pictures . .. 2 Cabinet Members’ Economic Views ... Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. Washington—Sometimes it seems as if the army and navy should have a fictional department Not to in vent tall stories to divert the popu lace, or even the enemy, but to keep abreast of ideas about warfare de veloped by amateurs who make their living by writing fiction. Take the recent case, for instance, of photographs given out by the gov ernment showing how alleged mark ings in fields resulted in arrows or other signs pointing directly at im portant war factories One is obliged to assume that these photographs, and the stories that went with them, were given out in good faith. Any thing else would be unthinkable. The fact that they were later de nied, and put in the "looking under beds" category, is not the point Now It so happens that just such markings, produced by cat ting crops In certain ways, or by other devices, which would reveal important directions to aviators flying over them, were actually used by the Japs when they attacked Hawaii on Decem ber 7. So the officials who learned of these alleged mark ings in fields near important war production factories a few weeks ago were entirely justified in be ing interested. In fact It might have been forgiven them if they had gotten a bit rough with those responsible for these particu lar markings. Fiction Story Year Ago But if they had read some fiction a year or more ago in widely cir culated magazines they might have acted differently. In the case of a serial which was probably read by more than a million Americans the same sort of thing, generally, was discovered in Britain back in the 1940 days. Fortunately, the author was not handicapped by publicity men. He did not have the com manding officers rush to the news papers with the story. Instead the traitorous signs were changed—and changed in such a way that they resulted in destruction for many of the attacking airplanes. But surely if the enemy is depend ing on some markers, and these markers are discovered, the censors should forbid anything being printed about it Can’t the markers be changed to point to some fake plant or city such as the Germans are alleged to have constructed by the hundreds in order to protect impor tant objectives? Or is it that the censors believe the aim of any attacking pilots will be so bad that they will be bound to hit something important if they are trying to hit something else? In short, how about a little intelli gence in the intelligence service? • • • Harold Ickes Henry Morgenthau Jr. In many respects Henry Morgen i thau Jr. has one of the most sur prising combinations of economic | views in the federal administration. To understand how amazing the j man is, it is necessary to consider a few basic factors, the mpst im portant of which is his absolute de votion and slavish obedience to President Roosevelt Morgenthau and Harold L. Ickes have the faculty of sounding off in public print, or before committees, most sensationally, and then quickly coming to heel when the President frowns. No matter what either thinks, or has said, it is the will of the President which will guide their actions. Both like their jobs—could not be pried loose from them—and hence never risk the break which would restore them to private circulation. But right there the similarity ends. Ickes generally gets out of step on the radical side. When Morgenthau gets out of step it is usually on the conservative side. His best friends say that he would rather be a conservative. If only the President would approve. This is just a theory, though accepted by people who not only know him well, but have studied his actions. It could never grow out of his pri vate conversations. They run to favoring social service, and that sort of thing, growing out of his wife’s championship of most of Mrs. Roose velt's hobbies. Of all his public utterances, one on the conservative side with respect to which he has never been publicly spanked, and never been made to retract, relates to silver. Morgen | thau is against the government sil 1 ver policy, and has been since its inception. He saw no point in trying to bid up the world price to the $1.29 an ounce the silver fanatics wanted. He watched the experiment fail, at a cost of hundreds of millions | to the treasury, and to the enormous profit of foreign speculators. The 50 per cent special tax on silver profits took care of the domestic specula tors. PATTERNS SEWQNG CMRCLE IJ APPY choice for the girl who * •* is soon returning to school! The tailored snirtwaist teamed with a full gathered dirndl skirt has the casual charm modern youngsters want. It is an outfit How Life Is Spent Did you ever wonder how the average man spent his life? Plac ing the age of Mr. Average Man at 57 it is estimated that he puts in 18 years seven months sleep ing; 15 years five months work ing; eight years going to church and at recreation; five years eat ing and drinking and the same time traveling; three years of ill ness and two just dressing. which looks graceful in action and tidy when at ease! Let her have several of these sets to carry her through the school year. • • • Pattern No. 8235 Is designed for sizes 6. 8. 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 years re quires 2>,i yards of 35 or Si-inch material for blouse and skirt. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1116 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins lor each pattern desired. Pattern No.Size. Name ... Address . Watery Vegetables The quantity of water in some fruits and vegetables exceeds that in many beverages. For instance, peaches, lettuce, spinach, cucum bers and summer squash contain a much higher percentage of wa ter than beer, wine, whole milk and carbonated drinks. Porter Knew Where ^ To Get Quicker Service The young lovers were trying to find some quiet, secluded spot for a long embrace. But everywhere they went there were people, peo ple, people. And the girl was shy. Suddenly the man had a bright idea. Triumphantly he led her to the railway station and, standing beside the door of a railway car riage as though seeing her off, kissed her fondly. After the couple had repeated the experiment at four or five dif ferent platforms, a sympathetic porter strolled up and whispered to the young man: “Take ’er rahnd to the bus stop, mate. They goes ev’ry three min* utes from there.” If you are ever stumped by the question of what to send a friend or relative in one of Uncle Sam’s armed forces, here’s a tip. If he smokes a pipe or rolls-his-own, nothing would please him more than a pound of his favorite to bacco. Surveys among the men themselves show that. Prince Al bert Smoking Tobacco has long been known as the National Joy Smoke—it is the largest-selling smoking tobacco in the world. Lo cal dealers are now featuring Prince Albert in the pound can as an ideal gift for service men who smoke a pipe or roll-their-own.— Adv. America’s favorite ready-to-eat cereal! / Get several packages today and enjoy the SELF-STARTER breakfast” A big bowlful of Kellogg's Com Hakes with some fruit and lots of milk. gt<fw#,ieU' VITAMINSI MINERALS! PROTEINSI FOOD ENERGY! No, Thank Tou, Mr. Hirohito / N - JL l OT as a steady diet. You’ve done pretty well on rice, but can you keep on doing it? What about Midway and the Coral Sea? Ever hear of Doolittle? MacArthur? Chennault? w What about the Solomon Islands? You can’t get around it—those U. S. boys are better, man for man. And they’re not sun-worshippers, either—just plain free men, well-fed and fighting mad. Sure it takes a lot of food to keep them going, but we’ve got what you haven’t got, Hirohito ... an army of free women fighting the home front because they know the need to fight! Not with guns. Not everyone can make shells or build airplanes. It takes an American woman just half of a split second to see where she fits in; the empty shelves at the grocery were enough of a hint for her. 50% more home-canning is our goal, and it’s just like making bombs for Tokyo. No one in America will ever live on rice. We’ll have fruits and fruit juices, vegetables and meats—home-canned for a few cents a jar. Can you beat it, Mr. Hirohito? A war won—by women? BALL BROTHERS COMPANY M U N C I E, INDIANA, U. S. A. Can Successfully! 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