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
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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.
• • •
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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:
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Enclose 20 cents in coins lor each
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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?
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