Little Lunches Flatter Wartime Menus.
(See Recipes Below)
Victory Lunches
Mid-day meals with that go-and
get-it spirit are those that are prop
eriy oaiauccu,
and have plenty
of eye-appeal.
The days are
gone when you
can make a quick
dash to the cor
ner grocery and
bring home lamb
chops to Droii quicKiy. uuhc,
are days when you had loads of left
overs from yesterday's roast.
But, homemakers, you need not
be foiled, rather let your ingenuity
devise new ways of getting nutri
tion requirements into your menus.
Use protein foods like peas, beans,
eggs, and vitamin B1 foods like ce
reals as extenders to make up for
meat. Your New Year victory menu
parade starts off with a meat loaf
“stretched” with oatmeal.
Savory Meat Loaf.
(Serves 8)
1 pound ground beef
pound ground pork
% cup oatmeal
1 egg, beaten
% onion, grated
% cup milk
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
3 tablespoons catsup
1% teaspoons salt
Combine ingredients in order giv
en. Mix lightly until well blended.
Place in a greased loaf pan, pat
ting smooth. Bake in a moderate
oven (375 degrees) about 1 hour.
Makes approximately 2%-pound
meat loaf.
•Little Luncheons.
(Serves 6)
2 cups sifted enriched flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 to 4 tablespoons shortening
% to % cup milk
% cup ground ham
6 poached eggs
Creamy Cheese Sauce
Sift flour, baking powder and salt
together. Cut or rub in shortening.
Add milk to form
a soft dough.
Turn out on light
ly floured board
and knead Vz min
ute. Roll dough
out into a long c
rectangle 8 inches
wide and % inch
thick. Cut in half
lengthwise and
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jelly-roll fashion, sealing edges well.
Cut rolls into 8-inch pieces. Form
each piece into rings on baking
sheet. Pinch ends together. With
scissors, cut through rings almost to
center, in slices about 1 inch thick.
Turn each slice slightly on its side.
Bake in hot oven (450 degrees) 10
to 12 minutes. Place a poached egg
in the center of each ring and serve
with Creamy Cheese Sauce.
Creamy Cheese Sauce.
,2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Lynn Says:
Cans and Jars: You will have
noticed that your grocery shelves
present a different picture than
in the past. Instead of all food
being put up in cans, some food
has been preserved in glass.
In those foods placed in cans,
the government has decreed
three different sized cans.
A number two sized can, one
of the standard sizes yields 2(6
cups and will serve four to five
people. The number 2’6 sized
can averages 3(6 cups and feeds
six people.
Largest food can is number 10,
sually used by institutions and
restaurants. This large size is
not usually practical for a fam
ily of less than eight since it
yields 12 cups and would last for
at least two meals.
A few additional sized cans
are allowed in the case of canned
meats, fish, baby food, and citrus
juices.
This Week’s Menu
Hot Tomato Juice
•Little Luncheons
Cranberry-Orange Salad
Celery Radishes
•Date-Pecan Pie
•Recipes Given
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
56 teaspoon salt
56 teaspoon pepper
56 cup grated cheese
Melt butler and stir in flour. Grad
ually add milk, stirring constantly.
Boil sauce until it thickens. Cook 3
minutes. Add seasonings. Add
cheese and stir over low heat until
cheese is melted.
Baked Corn and Sausage.
(Serves G to 8)
% pound link or bulk sausage
56 cup chopped onion
56 cup chopped green pepper
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
54 teaspoon pepper
256 cups whole kernel corn and
juice
256 cups canned tomatoes and
juice
1 cup oven-popped rice
If bulk sausage is used, form into
shape of link sausages. Brown sau
sage in heavy frying pan. Remove
sausage and brown onions and pep
per in fat remaining in pan. Add
flour and seasonings and blend. Add
corn and tomatoes and simmer until
juice has partially evaporated
(about 56 hour). Pour into casse
role; arrange browned sausages on
top like the spokes of a wheel. Sprin
kle oven-popped rice on top. Cook
in moderate oven (400 degrees)
about 15 minutes until oven-popped
rice is golden brown.
As golden as sunshine and as wel
come is this luncheon souffle. Rich
in vitamin A carrots and cheese,
this dish will boost your resistance
to colds and infection this winter.
Rice-Carrot Souffle.
(Serves 6)
156 cups of cold cooked rice
2 beaten eggs •
2 cups of milk
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 cup of grated cheese
56 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of cooked and riced carrots
Make a thin custard of eggs, milk
and salt. Add the cheese and, when
melted, add the rice which has been
boiled in salted water, drained and
shaken dry. Pour into a buttered
baking dish, cover with the riced
carrots, a fine sprinkling of sugar,
and grated cheese. Bake over a
pan of water about three-quarters
of an hour in a slow oven.
•Date-Pecan Pie.
(Makes 1 9-inch pie)
Pastry for 1 9-inch pie
1 cup unbroken pecan meats
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup sugar
56 cup dates, cut
1 cup dark corn syrup
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
56 teaspoon salt
Line pie plate with pastry. Ar
range pecan meats over the pastry.
cream butter and
sugar together
thoroughly, then
add remaining in
gredients, beat
ing well. Pour
into unbaked pas
try shell over the
pecans and bake in a not oven (45U
degrees) 10 minutes, then reduce to
moderate (350 degrees) and bake
30 to 35 minutes or until knife in
serted in center comes out clean.
CooL May be served with whipped
cream.
I.ynn Chambers can tell you how to
dress up your table for family dinner
or festivities, give you menus for your
meals in accordance with nutritional
standards. Just write to her, explaining
your problem, at U extern Mewsf/aper
Union, 21 n South Despluines Street,
Chicago, Illinois, flense enclose a
stumped, self-addressed envelope for
your answer.
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Buyers Will Pay More
For Your Clean Eggs
Frequent Gathering Also
Aids in Reducing Soilage
Consumers willing to pay high
prices will not readily accept eggs
that are soiled.
The poultryman who markets
dirty eggs must sell to less dis
criminating buyers at lower
prices. Records show that soiled
eggs bring from 7 to 12 cents
less per dozen than clean eggs
of the same quality.
Soilage of eggs can be reduced
with only a little care in addition
to that usually exercised by good
poultrymen. A few simple practices,
generally applied, would make ev
ery egg produced this year clean
and attractive in appearance.
A deep litter on the floor of the
laying house and roost poles screened
with poultry wire to keep them from
walking on the soiled dropping
Pretty Marteal Oglesby awards
an “E” for efficiency to a represen
tative of American hendom for their
expected contribution of billions of
dozens of eggs to the nation’s war
effort this year.
boards, will prevent eggs from be
ing soiled by dirty feet.
At least one large nest Is need
ed for every five hens to pre
vent excessive '‘traffic’* per
nest. If the nests are made of
good clean material, such as ex
celsior, shavings, or straw,
breakage of eggs will be re
duced and clean whole eggs will
not be stained by broken ones.
Gathering the eggs frequently—at
1 least three times a day—will reduce
the time of their exposure to soilage.
If an egg becomes soiled, it can
be cleaned by applying baking soda
with a damp cloth, and allowed to
dry thoroughly before casing.
When the eggs are ready for
crating, pack them in clean con
tainers. It will be found the
appearance of eggs makes a
great deal of difference in their
value on the market.
Agriculture
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Industry
By FLORENCE C. WEED
Fiber Plants
A half dozen fiber plants, growing
mostly in the southern states seem
to offer some possibilities for indus
trial use as stuffings, mattings and
brushes. The drawback is in com
peting with wild grasses growing on
other continents which can be har
vested by cheap labor and imported
here at low cost.
Kapok will grow in the ex
treme southern part of Florida.
It is much liked for upholstery
and pillow stuffing. Palmetto,
from this section, will produce
a useable fiber. A few thousand
tons of Spanish moss, growing
on southern trees, are collected
each year and sold as a substi
tute for curled horse hair in up
holstery.
The cabbage palmetto is used in
the manufacture of brushes. Some
slough grass is cut along the Mis
sissippi river, dried and used in
matting manufacture. Jute will also
grow in the southern states and Es
parto will grow in southern Califor
nia, but these can not compete in
price with the cheap jute from India
and the wild Esparto from north
ern Africa.
Eventually, all these less impor
tant plants as well as our important
agriculture products will be thor
oughly investigated at the new re
gional laboratories which have been
established by the government to
search for new and wider industrial
uses for farm products.
Farm Notes
The U. S. crop of soybeans in 1942
is estimated at 14,241,000 acres, as
compared with 9,990,000 acres in
1941
• • •
One way of meeting the farm la
bor shortage is to determine to
produce high crop yields. Good seed
beds, fertilizer, adapted seed, and
excellent cultural practices will per
mit higher production on fewer
acres.
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THE WORKING LIVER
For a number of years I found
myself writing about the liver al
most once every month. I pointed
out the various jobs done by the
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Dr. Barton
liver such as manu- |
facturing bile and j
then the various jobs
done by the bile; the
storing of sugar in
the liver for future
needs of the body;
the importance of
the liver in filtering
out the harmful sub
stances from the
blood and the effects
these harmful sub
stances would have
on the body tissues
and body processes if they were not
filtered out; the coloring and other
materials in the liver used to help
form the blood; that the liver was
the largest organ in the body and
had within it about one-quarter of
all the blood of the body.
There was one point I mentioned
once or twice but did net emphasize
as I should have done and that was
the advisability of having the liver
tested for its working ability just as
the heart, kidneys, stomach, blood
vessels and other organs are tested.
A test can be made showing the
working ability of the liver by the
use of substances taken by mouth
or injected into a vein. The liver
should remove these substances
from the blood within a definite time
if it is doing its work properly. One
of these substances is hippuric acid.
In the Medical Journal of Austra
lia, Drs. Margaret Henderson and B.
Splatt report their results in 89 pa
tients with liver disease, 86 with va
rious other disorders, and 25 normal
adults or patients recovering from
minor ailments. Not only did the
results show the extent to which the
liver was damaged or unable to do
its work, and the extent of heart
damage, but it showed also how the
damaged condition of the liver was
' allowing poisons to aggravate other
i conditions present in the body, such
as pernicious anemia, tuberculosis
and rheumatic arthritis.
In the treatment of a sluggish
liver or a liver that is not doing its
work properly, the physician pre
scribes special diets and various
drugs.
However, we can keep the liver
in good working condition by taking
long deep breaths or by bending ex
ercises, keeping the knees straight
(both exercises squeeze the liver)
and by avoiding overeating.
♦ • •
Mental Clinics
Doing Good Work
A few years ago the statement
was made that at the present rate of
increase in the number of mental
cases in any and all communities,
within 50 years it would mean that
at least one - half the population
would require mental care. Natural
ly health departments everywhere
are trying to prevent this condition
by various means.
Today mental institutions by regu
lar and special forms of treatment,
by the help of visiting or resident
specialists — throat, teeth, heart,
lungs, and others—are able to send
back to home and business about
6 in every 10 patients admitted.
Where the greatest progress is be
ing made, however, is the recogni
tion of the “early” symptoms and
signs of mental ailments by the fam
ily and general physician, and the
sending of these early cases to a
mental or psychiatric clinic.
If the average taxpayer stopped
to think of what it costs to keep
just one patient in a mental institu
I tion, he would gladly pay a few
cents extra yearly to prevent it.
Dr. Victor H. Vogel of the U. S.
Health Service, as recorded by Sci
ence Service, states:
“It would not cost taxpayers a
cent if their local health services
added mental hygiene clinics to
their child health clinics and other
services. Such clinics would pre
vent mental breakdowns and so re
duce the number of patients cared
for in mental hospitals. Mental ill
ness is the most expensive kind be
cause of its long duration. If only
three people a year are saved from
becoming public charges in a men
tal institution, that means enough
money saved to support a mental
hygiene clinic for an entire year.”
The saving of money is but the
least of the benefits of a mental
clinic. It cannot be compared with
tlje saving of life and happiness.
Mental hygiene clinics help peo
ple whose lives are threatened by
other dangers, too. A divorce can
sometimes be prevented, a home
kept intact or a suicide prevented.
• • *
QUESTION BOX
Q.—What is the cause of white
spots on the skin?
A.—Cause of these white spots—
vitiligo—is unknown. There is no
cure. Your druggist can supply you
> with a coloring sub? lance for these
white spots.
Q.—Is electrolysis a safe method
| for removing superfluous hair?
A.—Electrolysis treatment by an
expert—not necessarily a physician
usually gives good results.
Patterns
SEWBNG CDIRCLE ~
8268
36-52 |
It’s Flattering!
U'VERY line of this easy-to-look
at dress flatters the mature,
larger figure. The deep cut neck
line shows off an expanse of throat
which makes your face appear
younger and prettier. The smooth
shoulders and simple sleeves sim
plify the top of the dress, gathers
through the bodice give the soft
fullness which is best for you, the
panelled skirt fits flat over the
hips.
• • •
Pattern No. 8268 is in sizes 36 . 38 , 40,
42, 44, 46, 48. 50 and S2. Size 38, short
sleeves, requires 4 yards 39-inch material.
2 yards bias told.
'8273
7-6 yr*.
Child’s Frock.
DRETTY frocks for children are
1 easy to come by, even at lowest
possible costs, when you sew at
home. Today’s pattern suggests
an adorable style for two to sixers
with a perky scalloped front,
curved shoulder yokes framing a
flattering neckline and a wide,
waist-smoothing girdle which ties
firmly in back.
• • •
Pattern No. 8273 ta In sizes 2. 3. 4. 5
and 6 years. Size 3 takes 1»« yards 36
ineh material. 2<Si yards braid to trim.
Send your order to::
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN PEPT.
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 20 cents In coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No. Size.
Name ..
Address .
Koreans Ignore Wives
In Chosen (Korea) if a man
meets his wife on the street cus
tom requires him to ignore her
completely and pass her as though
she were a stranger.
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ASK ME 7 A quiz with answers offering ?
■ANOTHER'. information on various subjects •
The Questions
1. What does “recherche” mean?
2. Why did King Arthur’s knights
sit at a round table?
3. In architecture, what is an
abacus?
4. If England is invaded what
signals will spread the alarm?
5. Where does genuine mocha
coffee come from?
6. How old was George Wash
ington at the end at the Revolu
tionary war?
7. Is the slogan “America First”
original with us?
8. Who was the “March King”
of America?
9. What was the most popular
ballad ever composed in the
United States?
10. Can you define can-can, beri
beri and paw-paw?
The Answers
1. Rare or exquisite.
2. To avoid showing distinction.
3. A fiat stone placed above the
capital of a column.
4. Church bells.
5. Arabia.
6. Forty-nine.
7. No. Previously an Australian
Fascist organization used “Austra
lia First,” and the British Union
of Fascists used “Britain First.”
8. John Philip Sousa.
9. “Frankie and Johnnie” was
the most popular ballad ever com
posed here. During the latter part
of the Nineteenth century, more
than 300 variations of it were sung
from coast to coast.
10. Can-can is a dance with plen
ty of kick in it. Beri-beri is a dis
ease, chiefly in the Orient. Paw
paw is a tree bearing an edible,
pulpy fruit.
Home of Rubber Trees
Most of the rubber trees in the
world today that produce latex in
commercial quantities are located
in a narrow belt that encircles the
earth and extends approximately
700 miles north and south of the
equator.
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Passed It Up
Registrar—Age, please.
She—I’m around 30.
Registrar — I can see that,
but how many years is it since yo*
got around it?
Never the Same Again
Teacher — Why ii it that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place?
Jimmy— Because when it strikes once
the same place isn’t there any more.
Insistent Fellow
A pretty girl got into a bus that
was full of shoppers.
Immediately a man got up, but
before he could speak the girl
said: “It’s very good of you, but
I’d rather stand.”
He raised his hat and began:
«<J_»»
“No, really, I mean it.”
“But-”
Again she interrupted him.
“I assure you, it’s quite ajf
right.”
“But,” he shouted, desperately
“I’m trying to get out!”
He Should Know
Dolly—We women endure pal*
much better than men.
Molly—Who told you that? Your
doctor?
Dolly—No; the shoe salesman.
There are some open minds that
ought to be closed for repairs.
Man Grounds Dog
“Hullo,” said a voice, “is that
the police department?”
“Yes, madam.”
“Well, there’s a nasty tramp sit
ting up in a tree in my garde*
teasing my dear little dog.”
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PENETRO
Many users say "first use is
a revelation." Has a base of
old fashioned mutton suet.
Grandma’s favorite. Demand
stainless Penetro. Generous
iar 2W, double supply 35<.
Youth’s Expression
This young man expresses him
self in terms too deep for me.—
Sir W. Watson.
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
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9,000 miles In 1941, disked ell
at the rate of about *,700 miles
a yeer In 1943 before gasoline
rationing was natlonoBsed. Is
sentlal driving Is now pegged at
an average of 8,000 miles annu
ally and the "A" rationing book
allows for 3,880 miles of driving ,
a year.
Don't always be content srith an
“on the wheel'' inspection. Have
your tiros removed bom the wheels,
spread and closely checked. Ton'll
be surprised what this inspection
sometimes shows in the way ol In
ternal carcass injuries. Catch them
in time and save mileage.
In 1941 u total new supply of
rubber amounting to 1,441,000
tons, 310,000 or 11\ consisted
of reclaimed rubber.
f “LISTEN,” SAYS MIKE, “IT 1
SMOKES RICH*" ROLLS RIGHT!”
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EASY-PULLIN' SMOKES ARE A
CINCH WITH PRINCE AL6ERT. P.A.
* ROUS RIGHT AND QUlCK-ITS CRIMP CUT.
IT'S SETTER TOBACCO, TOO,- BETTER-TASTIN
EASY ON THE TONGUE. NO OTHER
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