Heap High the Cookie Jar!
(See Recipes Below.)
That Sweet Tooth
"Mom, may we have some cook
ies, please?”
That question asked in a childish
voice with real pleading is going to
be as daily as tne
' sunrise and sun
set these days
as your younger
members of the
family feel the
snap of fall in the
„ air. School days
S with their de
^ mand on youthful
energies will pern up summer s lag
ging appetite too!
Very few of you can say "no” to
a request for cookies. Far from
spoiling the appetite for dinner, a
cookie or two with a glass of milk
will help the child get gracefully
through the late afternoon hours un
til dinner time.
Keeping the cookie Jar full may
have been your major problem in
former years. This year it will be
that plus making cookies with a ra
tion of sugar. But you’ll do it, I
know, and these recipes will help
you:
Oatmeal Crisples.
(Makes 4 dozen)
1 cup shortening
M cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
2 eggs, beaten
94 cup sour milk
2 <4 cups sifted flour
94 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups oatmeal
2 cups raisins
Cream sugar and shortening. Add
corn syrup. Blend. Add beaten eggs.
Sift together dry ingredients. Add
alternately with sour milk. Stir in
oatmeal and raisins. Drop by spoon
fuls on an oiled baking sheet. Bake
in a moderate (350-degree) oven for
IS minutes.
Ginger Snaps.
1 cup molasses
. 314 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
94 cup butter
2 tablespoons sugar
94 teaspoon soda
114 tablespoons ginger
I Heat molasses to boiling point and
pour over fat. Add sifted dry in
vuivma w mu*
lasses and fat.
Mix well and
shape dough into
a long, thin roll.
Wrap in waxed
paper and place
in refrigerator to r
chill overnight. If*
v-ui uhu uun slices wim snarp Kinie
and bake in a moderate oven until
lightly browned. Remove from pan
while hot and store in tightly cov
ered container to keep crisp.
That son of yours may be grown
up now and in the service, but my
guess is that some of those good,
Lynn Says:
Preserving Food: Eat and can
whatever you can from your Vic
tory garden. But you still may
have some left, you say?
There are several methods to
take care of the surplus. First,
investigate to see whether your
community has one of those stor
age lockers where you can rent
space in the freezing locker.
Cleanliness and speed are impor
tant factors in this type of stor
age. Food must be well select
ed to w-arrant the expense of this
type of preserving.
Drying at home is another ex
cellent way and one of the oldest
methods available. Driers can
be bought for a reasonable sum
and used to advantage for drying
and storing fruits and vegetables.
Other foods such as root vege
tables, pumpkins and squash have
good keeping qualities if stored
in their natural state under well
regulated temperatures such as
in attic or cellar. Dried beans,
peas and cured onions may be
stored in an attic. Squash and
pumpkins require a relatively
warm place with free circulation
of air.
This Week’s Menu
Apricot Juice with Lemon Slice
Macaroni and Cheese
Tomatoes Baked with Chopped
Green Pepper Center
Shredded Green Salad
Rye Bread Butter
•American Prune Pie
Beverage
homemade cookies of yours will be
mighty welcome to him at camp:
Honey Fruit Bars.
(Makes 3 dozen)
2 eggs
14 cup honey
14 cup sifted flour
14 teaspoon salt
H teaspoon baking powder
14 pound pitted dates, sliced
6 ounces mixed, candied fruits
Beat eggs and honey to blend. Add
sifted dry ingredients and fruits and
mix well. Turn into a greased, wax
paper lined pan. Bake in a moder
ate-to-slow (325-degree) oven for 45
minutes. Remove paper. Cool and
cut into bars. Roll in powdered
sugar if desired. Store in covered
jar for several days to mellow.
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
(Makes 314 dozen)
14 cup butter
14 cup honey
1 small egg
1 cup sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
H cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
14 cup nutmeats
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter and honey until light
and fluffy. Add egg and beat well.
Sift dry ingredients twice, and add
to butter mixture. Add vanilla and
blend well. Fold in chocolate chips
and nuts. Chill, then drop by spoon
fuls on a greased cooky sheet. Bake
at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.
Can you spare a cup and a auar
ter of sugar? I
think you can if
you know that
you will spread
that sugar over
eight dozen cook- '
ies as in the fol- ,
lowing:
vanuia niii ice tsox rookies.
(Makes 8 dozen cookies)
2 cups sifted cake flour
154 teaspoons double-acting baking
powder
54 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter or shortening
54 cup brown sugar, (irmly packed
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg. well beaten
1 cup chopped nuts
154 teaspoons vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add bak
ing powder and salt. Sift again.
Cream butter and sugars gradually,
creaming thoroughly. Add egg, nuts! !
vanilla and mix well. Add flour
gradually, mixing well after each
addition. Shape into rolls, 154 inches
in diameter and roll in waxed paper. ;
Chill overnight or until firm enough
to slice. Cut in 54-inch slices. Bake
on ungreased baking sheet in a hot
oven (425 degrees) 5 minutes or un
til light, golden brown.
A fruity, unusual pie is this one
combining prunes and bananas with
cornflakes and coconut. A sugar
saver, too:
^American Prune Pie.
(Serves 6 to 8)
2 cups cooked prunes
154 cups whipping cream
54 cup honey
1 cup sliced bananas
Few grains salt
2 cups uncrushed corn flakes
54 cup shredded coconut
Baked pastry shell (9-inch)
Cut prunes from pits in small
pieces. Whip cream. Measure one
cup and blend with honey. Add fruit
and salt and stir to blend. Add corn
flakes and blend lightly but thor
oughly. Pour into baked pie shell
and sprinkle with coconut. Top with
remaining cream and serve soon aft
er preparation.
W hat problems or recipes are most
on your mind during these fall days?
Explain your problem to Lynn Cham
bers and she uill give you expert
advice on it. Address your letters,
enclosing a self-addressed stamped en
velope for your reply, to her as Miss
Lynn Chambers, If extern Neu s/mpet
L'nion, 210 South Desplaines Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
WHEN the State passed a
law prohibiting the death
penalty, two men were
deeply affected. The first
was John Watson, sheriff of Homaya
County. The second was Carl Holmes,
murderer.
“It’s a darn shame,’’ John
said to his deputy, Rosroe Hoyt.
“Nobody deserves to die more’n
Carl Holmes. Why, dang It,
three killings are already laid
at his feet. Brutal, ruthless kill
ings, too. What's the country
coming to. I'd like to know?
Seems like the State is en
couraging crime, rather than
trying to prevent it.’’
Deputy Hoyt shrugg^d his mas
sive shoulders indifferently. ‘‘There's
two ways of lookin’ at it, sheriff.
Guess nobody would argue with you
about what Holmes deserves, but on
the other hand, suppose some inno
cent party was sent to the gallows?”
"Which would happen once in a
dozen years,” John replied scorn
fully. "For the one innocent, we’d
rid the country of a hundred dyed
in-the-wool murderers. Be worth it.”
"It would,” Hoyt agreed, "if you
or me or somebody we knew right
well wasn’t the innocent party.”
Sheriff Watson might not have
been quite so bitter if he didn’t
harbor a personal grievance
against the notorious Carl
Holmes.
Holmes had been at large for
two years, had successfully
evaded every trap which the of
ficer had set for him, had
matched wits with and laughed
at John's Inability to capture
him. He even threatened the
officer’s reputation, because dur
ing the two years as a fugitive,
he had added two more killings
to his first offense, thereby caus
ing citizens who were closely
affected by the crimes to won
der and ask questions about the
sheriff’s efficiency.
It was, therefore, a bitter pill for
the officer to swallow when, two days
Holmes, an old hand at eluding
pursuers, hibernated somewhere
and bided his time.
after he had captured the outlaw,
the legislature passed a law dispens
ing with capital punishment.
Sheriff Watson’s attitude was, in
a sense, justified six months after
Holmes was convicted and installed
in the State Penitentiary to begin
lis life sentence. For Holmes at
tacked and killed a guard, fatally
wounded another, and escaped. Yet
it was not until on the day following
when the convict entered an outly
ing farm house, demanded food,
clothing and money and killed the
woman who hesitated to obey his
orders, that the countryside was
stirred to the point of wondering
whether the State legislature had
acted without giving due considera
tion to the bill before them.
"There you are," said Sheriff
Watson in disgust. "Six killings
he’s guilty of and still he's been
given the maximum punish
ment. What if we do capture
him? We’ll fetch him back and
sooner or later the thing is apt
to be repeated, over and over
again as long as the skunk has a
breath of life in his body.
“I tell you a law that prevents
hanging such a man is cockeyed.
Human lives are in danger every
minute he's above ground. Further
more, Holmes knows it and don't
care a dang what he does.”
Posses were formed and the coun
tryside scoured for traces of the
escaped convict, but without suc
cess. Holmes, an old hand at elud
ing pursuers, hibernated somewhere
and bided his time, waiting for
things to quiet down. No clue was
unearthed that might reveal his
whereabouts.
And so, after awhile, the chase
was abandoned, or that is, aban
doned by all save Sheriff Watson
and his deputy, whose duty it was to
continue the search unceasingly un
til eventually Holmes was once more
behind the^bars of justice.
A month passed and nothing was
heard of Holmes. Citizens be^an
to breathe easier, believing that he
had quit the country and was no
longer a menace. All but Sheriff
Watson. He knew that Holmes would
never leave a state that had dis
pensed with the death penalty, and
he knew, too, that sooner or later
f the fugitive would be heard from.
In this he was correct. A ranch
er's hired boy, returning from town
with a wagon-load of provisions, was
attacked and brutally slain. Word
went out that Holmes had come out
of hiding and was once more terror
izing the country.
Sheriff Watson journeyed up to
that section of the country where a
rancher lived alone. The rancher’s
name was Murdock, Eben Murdock,
and he was a lifelong friend of the
sheriff’s.
’’Eb,” said John to his old friend,
“I’m going out and get that var
mint. I’m not coming back till I
do.”
“Get him?” said Murdock bitter
ly. “What good’ll that do? You’ll
chuck him in the state penitentiary
and after awhile he’ll escape and—”
"Eb," said John soberly, “I want
you to come along with me. I’ll
need a witness."
So Murdock saddled up and
accompanied Sheriff Watson into
the Kills. They camped for a
week near a secluded spring
where both had hunted many
times before, laying their plans
with care and due respect for
the crafty mind of the man they
sought.
When the week had passed, Sher
iff Watson saddled his bay mare
and rolled his blankets. “You stay
here, Eb,” he directed, “and keep
your eyes peeled. Keep out of sight,
too. I’m going up to the spring
where we shot that deer last fall.
It’s the only other spring around
here, and sooner or later Holmes
will come down to replenish his wa
ter supply. That is if he’s hiding
out in this section, and I got a
hunch he is.”
It was a day’s ride to the second
spring; Watson spent a day and a
half in making the trip. The last
five miles he covered on foot, car
rying only his rifle and a supply of
ammunition through a country that
was wild and rugged, far removed
from a habitation of any sort.
It was, thought John, the kind
of country that a fugitive from
Justice would choose as a hide
out.
The Sheriff approached the spring
with caution. When within a mile of
it, he mounted to a high ledge, from
which point the spring was visible.
A little tingle of excitement ran
through his veins. Near the spring
was a horse, cropping at the vegeta
tion. The horse was Holmes' pinto.
John came down off the ledge and
followed a deer path which he knew
led to the spring. There were prints
in the trail other #than those made
by wild animals.
After awhile John stopped. Sounds
of a horse coming up the trail had
reached his ears. He cocked his
rifle and stood still, in plain view,
waiting.
Presently the horse came into
view. John lifted his rifle. “Go
for your gun, Carl Holmes! This
ain't an arrest, it’s a shootin’!”
Holmes’ eyes grew wide. He hesi
tated for an instant Then he real
ized the sheriff’s purpose and he
cursed, at the same time reaching
for his gun.
» • •
When John got back to where
Murdock was camped, he shook his
head soberly.
“Holmes resisted, and I had
to shoot him. Seems like a
man’s a fool to resist arrest
when he hasn’t more’n life Im
prisonment to face.’’
Eben nodded gravely. “Seems so,
don’t it?" he agreed. “By the way,
John, you better give me the details
of what happened so’a I won’t get
confused when I’m tellin’ what I
seen."
And so John sat down and told
how it had happened.
Simple Precautions Can
Eradicate Swine Losses
American farmers can more than
meet the government’s increased
pork production quota this year, of
ficials of the American Veterinary
Medical association reported after
a study of the swine production situ
ation in the nation's principal hog
raising areas.
"One-third of the pig crop usually
dies before the pigs reach market
age.” the association president, Dr.
H. W. Jakeman, reported.
"If we can cut these needless
losses only one-half we will far ex
ceed the increased pork needs for
lend lease and home consumption—
irrespective of the increased far
rowings this year.”
Five major threats to the pig
crop, which the farmer can avoid by
simple precautions, were cited by
Dr. Jakeman. These include inter
nal parasites, cholera, erysipelas,
enteritis, and influenza,
“The best safeguards against
parasites and enteritis are to raise
pigs on clean, fresh pasture, away
from old hog lots which may be
breeding grounds for disease,” he
said.
The best safeguards against
cholera and erysipelas are vaccina
tion while the pigs are young, so
they will be immune to these dis
eases until they can be marketed.
Influenza and pneumonia can best
be avoided by proper housing and
care and by prompt veterinary
diagnosis and treatment in case an
outbreak occurs.
“American farmers and veterina
rians throughout the hog belt are
working as never before to keep
down swine disease losses by thor
ough preventive and control meas
ures, and we believe that the pork
quotas now set up will not only be
reached but considerably ex
ceeded."
BAKING CAN BE
ENJOYABLE
One reason so many nome
makers use David Harum
Flour is because their bread
and cakes always turn out so
and feathery light.
They say it makes
home baking enjoy
I able. Just try labora
tory controlled David
Hamm Flour. It’s
guaranteed to give ab
jl solute satisfaction.
_I
Each bag contains a
valuable premium
coupon and in addi
tion each bag is a
premium in itself.
The bags are made
of a variety of mate
rials for making tow
els, pillow cases, etc.
For baking better
bread be sure to ask
your dealer for David
___ ► Harum Flour.
HOUSEWIVES: ★ ★ ★
Your Waste Kitchen Fats
Are Needed for Explosives
TURN ’EM IN! ★ ★ ★
Don’t store linens where there
is heat which will dry the fibers
and cause them to break. Avoid
also damp places. Wrap them in
tissue.
• • *
nutmeg to your regular waffle
recipe. Hot strained honey, mixed
with a little cream, butter and a
dash of cinnamon makes a de
licious topping for these waffles.
* * *
To help prevent peeled pears,
apples and bananas from darken
ing when they’re to be used in a
fruit cup, cover them with grape
fruit juice and chill.
• * •
To remove the shine from worst
eds mix a small amount of vinegar
with water, dip a pressing cloth in
it, place the cloth on the right side
of the fabric and press with a warm
iron.
* • *
Spiced waffles are delicious. Add
a teaspoon of cinnamon and half
a teaspoon each of cloves and
• • •
Make aji oilcloth cover for your
ironing board, to use when brush
ing and sponging garments.
J. Fuller Pep
By JERRY LINK
Talkin' to a fellow the other day, I
couldn't help thinkln’ that lots of
folks claim they have an open
mind when the fact o’ the matter
Is It's only vacant.
Which reminds me that If you
really think straight about vita
mins, you’ll see why X keep tellin’
folks about KELLOGG'S PEP. An’
that’s because this swell cereal Is
extra-rich In the two vitamins
most often short'in ordinary meals
—B, and.D. And believe me, PEP
is a mighty slick-tasting cereal.
Why don't you try it tomorrow?
A delicious cereal that supplies per serving
(1 oz.)t the full minimum daily need of
vitamin D; 1/4 the daily need of vitamin Bu
Mr.Hitler!
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▼ YE HAVE potatoes in America. We also have fruits, meats and green and
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