Give Us . . . Our Daily Bread (See Recipes Below) Good Breads ”1 want to know how to make good bread,” is a desire expressed often by readers ^ who write in and tell me their prob lems. Some feel nM making bread is P a matter of good C luck, while others f are certain that w.— -’ ■ r ■> — ii mey yusi naa a good recipe, they could make good bread. Bread, good bread, is one of the easiest of all baked goods to make. The yeast bread takes longer for the process to be completed, but there is nothing hard about any of the Steps. Bear in mind these essen tials when baking bread with yeast: 1. Liquids used may be water, milk, diluted evaporated milk, pota to water or a mixture of any of these. When using milk, scald and cool to lukewarm. 2. Yeast may be compressed, granular or dry. 3. Sugar is used to help yeast make leavening gas. Salt controls fermentation, gives flavor. 4. Add all flour necessary at the time of mixing, to keep dough from ■ticking, and to avoid dark streaks in bread. 5. Dough Is kneaded until smooth ■nd satiny. Curve the Angers over dough and push into it with the palms of the hands. The first knead ing is longest—8 to 10 minutes re quired, never less than 3. After the dough ia punched down the second time, only 2 minutes' kneading is necessary. 6. After the dough is kneaded, it ia placed in a greased bowl. Turn the dough over in bowl to grease it entirely and prevent a hard crust from forming. Cover dough with a cloth or waxed paper while rising. Temperature at which dough rises should be 82 degrees. T. When punching dough down, punch hands into the center of the dough. 8. When dough has been punched down the second time and risen un til double in bulk, and the dough re tains dents when | pressed lightly. It is ready for mold in* Knead down and divide in por uons ror loaves. '*=■ — Cover and let rest 10 to 15 minutes. TO mold dough, flatten into a ball, fold lengthwise, and stretch three times the length of the pan. Over lap ends at center and fold length wise; flatten again, fold in thirds; seal edge; roll lightly and place in greased pan, fold down. White Bread. (Makes 4 1-pound loaves) % cop sugar 2 tablespoons shortening 4 teaspoons salt 4 cupa liquid, scalded 1 cake yeast 14 cup lukewarm water 12 te 14 cups flour Combine sugar, shortening, salt and liquid in a large mixing bowL ____._ : ■ ■ - ■-- *• "" Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menus Grapefruit Juice Veal Cutlets in Sour Cream Lima Beans Baked Potato Lettuce Salad •Refrigerator Rolls Grapes in Gelatine Beverage •Recipe Given Cool to lukewarm, then add yeast, softened in lukewarm water. Add 4 cups of flour and beat thoroughly. Add remaining flour and mix gradu ally to a dough that won't stick to hands or bowl. Knead lightly on a floured board 8 to 10 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, cover closely, and let rise until double in bulk (2 to 2^ hours). Punch down and knead 2 minutes. Let rise again until dou ble in bulk. Knead down. Divide into 4 portions for loaves. Cover and let rest 10 to 15 minutes. Mold in loaves. Place in greased pans. Cov er closely and let set in a warm place until doubled in bulk and a light touch leaves a dent. Bake in a moderately hot (400 to 425-degrees) oven 40 to 45 minutes. Bread is done when it shrinks from the pan and sounds hollow when tapped with finger. Remove loaves from pans immediately and cool on rack. For a crisp crust, neither grease nor cover loaves when cooling. For a soft crust, brush top of loaves with fat or salad oil after removing from oven. 'Refrigerator Rolls. (Makes 3 dozen medium-sized rolls) 1 cup milk, scalded 1 cup hot mashed potato Vt cup shortening % cup sugar 2 teaspoons salt 1 cake yeast W cup lukewarm water 2 beaten eggs 5 to 6 cups flour Combine milk, potato, shortening, sugar and salt in large mixing bowl. Add yeast softened in water and eggs. Add 1V4 cups flour and beat well. Cover and let stand in a warm place for 1 hour, or until full of bubbles. Stir In 3 Vi to 4V4 cups of flour to make a fairly stiff dough. Knead until smooth on a lightly (loured surface. Return to greased mixing bowl. Grease top of dough. Cover and chill in refrigerator. About 1V4 hours before serving time, shape desired number of rolls. Place in greased pans; let rise 1 hour. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) 15 to 20 minutes. Punch down un used dough and return to refrigera tor. You don't have time to make yeast rolls or bread? Then you will enjoy a love ly quick bread with a cherry- -y~ ' J.A. r bran combination that is tops: AU-Bran Cherry Bread. (Makes 1 loaf) 1 tablespoon butter V4 cup light brown sugar Vi cup chopped maraschino cherries V4 cup chopped nutmeats 2 Vi cups flour 4 Vi teaspoons baking powder Vi cup sugar Vi teaspoon salt 1 egg 1V4 cups milk 2 tablespoons melted shortening I cup all-bran Vi cup chopped maraschino cherries Vi cup chopped nutmeats Melt butter in loaf pan and sprin kle sugar, cherries and nutmeats evenly over bottom of pan. Sift flour with baking powder, sug ar and salt. Beat egg, add milk and shortening and stir into flour mix ture. Add bran, cherries and nut meats. Pour over cherry mixture and bake in a moderate oven. Loaf may be baked omitting cher ry-nut mixture on bottom of pan. Are you having a lime stretching meats? Write to Miss Lynn Chambers for practical help, at Western Newspa per Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, III. Don’t forget to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. ReluMd by Western Newspaper Union. BLACK SOMBRERO! CLIFFORD KNIGHT .ZZY« i Margaret Nichols owned some property in Joint tenancy with Kitty Chatfleld. When Kitty died it meant *200,000 to her. , She explains the situation to her friend, Barry. While they are talking, Elsa Chat Oeld, a niece of Aunt Kitty, drives up. Elsa had been disinherited at Aunt Kit ty’s death. Huntoon Rogers, a detective, asks whit Aunt Kitty died of. He is told an overdose of morphine, but that the district attorney’s office had their doubts as to whether the morphine was seif administered. Elsa, who admitted that she hated her Aunt Kitty, was “glad to be free of her and the centuries of no and cannot.” Reed Barton, one of the last to see Aunt Kitty alive, was said to have had a motive. CHAPTER 11 The tires rippled on the pavement as we dropped down off the hills be hind Hollywood and came presently to Laurel Canyon. Other cars flashed past. Laughter, song, earnest voices In wisps and snatches fell upon ouf ears and were swept away, but in none was there the note of deadly earnestness that vibrated in Elsa’s voice. We had started off from Dwight's amid laughter, Elsa in her working girl suit, which proved to be one of Margaret’s street dresses. She car ried an overnight bag the lightness of which she explained by saying: "Just pajamas, Barry. I have to have something." We had moved off down the curving driveway and en tered the road which descended Hol lywood’s backdrop of hills. She was very sure, this young woman with the almost golden hair, and eyes I believed to be gray, and which Dwight called blue. "Put me down anywhere on Holly wood Boulevard,” said Elsa. We had emerged from the winding can yon road and were speeding into Hollywood. "I start from there." "It’s eleven o’clock,” I reminded her. “It doesn’t matter. Time never meant anything to me.” And so I dropped her on the boule vard. She flashed me a smile, pat ted my cheek with a soft, caressing hand, and skipped out to the side walk in that working girl suit and carrying the overnight bag with just pajamas, because she had to have something. The crowded sidewalks swallowed her up. I got into a traf fic snarl. After a while it was bro ken up and I moved on. Near Vine Street the crowd opened for a brief moment on the sidewalk, and there went Elsa, the working girl suit and the overnight bag. Then crowd, night, and the moving traffic contrived to shut her wholly from sight, and I drove onward re flecting upon things like bravery and courage and marveling at what we call youth. Wondering, too, about Aunt Kitty’s overdose of morphine. For the district attorney, who was an old friend of mine, had asked me if I wanted to try my hand at the problem. One usually dashes into a railway terminal. In the taxicab as one approaches, the demoralizing dis covery is made that it lacks but three minutes until the 4:36 is due to leave, or the train for the White Mountains, or Seattle, or wherever it is you are going. By not waiting for your change, commandeering a red cap and prodding him along, you gain the gate just In time to be num bered among the passengers. It is all right, of course, if you have the sporting instinct. Only fixed ideas occupy the mental processes once you enter the terminal. You grasp thoughts like luggage, tickets, gate, kiss somebody good-bye; and your legs do the rest I had just seen my sister and her two boys off for New York. I had driven them down in my own car, so there had been four minutes in stead of three, and the boys had en tered into the spirit of the thing. Therefore, we made the gate with a full minute to spare, which accounts for the word Anne was able to put in about Reed Barton. ‘‘Where?” I asked, turning to stare back through the crowd which had closed in behind us. “Over by the information booth. Here, kiss me good-bye, quick! Don’t forget to write.” The gate slammed and they all went running down the platform, boys, Anne, red caps, boiling and bobbing in a last melee. The fact that Reed Barton was standing still had caught Anne’s at tention. He would be doing Jbst that in the station when others were rushing about like ants in a disturbed anthill. “I try to live with the fundamen tals,” he had said one night at Dwight’s. "Simple things are more satisfactory. The world is befuddled with needless things, with complexi ties. They are so many that there is no longer room in life to live. I must have time for the contempla tion of beauty.” "Finding beauty?” I asked, slap ping him on the shoulder. He turned his gaze upon me, reaching slowly for my hand and said: "I've just seen one of our slaves off for Mazatlan—Chesebro’s slave. A mining engineer.” Somehow his words brought back that dreamy, sun baked town far down the western coast of Mexico, and a vague wind of prescience stirred uneasily within me as at the prospect of some horrible thing. It was one of those strange, unaccount able experiences; it caused an In ward shudder which Reed Barton detected, for he looked at me in quiringly. But, instead, he asked, “Can you give me a lift out to Holly wood?” “Yes, glad to have your compa ny." We walked out to the car and climbed in. "Living in Hollywood now, Reed?" I asked as we rolled on out Sunset Boulewird. “Yes, since father—died, in Pasa dena.” I didn t say anything more just then, remembering the shock of his father's suicide. Beaten and penni less after a lifetime of comfort, the soft-spoken, courteous old gentleman had leaped Into the Arroyo Seco from the Colorado Street bridge. “Oh,” he said after a moment, “you asked me at the station if 1 were finding beauty. I’ve found her.” He motioned with his fingers as if he would wipe out the miles of pavement, the street lights, the De cember night itself, and bade me contemplate an address in Holly wood. “It’s onljf a step or two off the boulevard. The place smells a little. They all do, with the cabbage “Put me down anywhere on Holly wood Boulevard." of yesteryear. And of course there’s chintz—” “There, too, is the haunt of beau ty?” "Chesebro sent me with some pa pers for her to sign. Had to do with her aunt’s estate. But it was diffi cult to track her. She’d dropped out of sight, and I'd been hunting her for several weeks.” I made mental note of the address as Reed Barton went on talking. “Ink on her fingers. Some on her nose too. Hair—you know how it would be—I mean, beauty won’t yield even to disorder. That’s Nature’s way. But the color —I’m still trying to decide what it is. Drawing like mad. There were sketches all over the place. Clever things commercially. They’ll get by easily. Probably make her a living. She signed up the things I brought without looking at them. ’Get out!’ she said. 'Tell Jimmy the Cheese (meaning my boss), to let me alone.’ ” I pulled into a parking lot at a restaurant on Vine Street. I was hungry. The excitement of getting a woman off on a long journey is fa tiguing. Reed Barton said he wasn't really hungry, but he went in with me. “Hello,” called a voice from a booth. Huntoon Rogers was sitting alone over the dessert of a late din ner. “Not brooding, are you. Hunt?” I inquired lightly, for there was a glumness about him. I Introduced Reed Barton. "No-o,” he said hesitantly. “Sit down and let me enjoy your com pany.” "What’s the trouble?” "Theme papers,” he said with a wry smile. "They get me down sometimes and I’m driven to ex tremes. Therefore, I spent the after noon looking over the flies in the Katherine Chatfleld case.” Reed Barton shot a quick glance at Rogers but said nothing. “Find anything to interest you?” “Yes. And no. It’s one of those cases you keep coming back to, won dering what the answer is.” Reed Barton ate mechanically, like a man in a mild trance. "Reed was telling me about Elsa Chatfleld as we drove out from town,” I said to Rogers. “You know her. Professor Rog ers?” Reed inquired quickly. "I've met her." "Interesting, isn’t she?” He sketched briefly what he had told me on the way out. "You know," he concluded, "even when they clutch economic independence to their blessed little bosoms they haven’t got all there is in life. Not even half. They’ve only got the begin | ning.” At the time it didn t occur to me that Reed Earton had never heard of the baby. I supposed, of course, he had, for he knew Elsa’s friends. But it was revealed subsequently that, during the height of the gos sip, he was in Mexico. The conversation came back to Aunt Kitty Chatfleld. Rogers asked if there had been any physical re semblance between Elsa and he» aunt. "None whatever,” answered Reed Barton. "That is, as I remember Katherine Chatfleld. I never saw the two side by side, however. As a matter of fact, I had never met Elsa until today. She must have been at home that night her aunt died, for I remember that the maid asked me which Miss Chatfleld I wished to see.” "You were there that night?” in quired Rogers, his mild blue eyes coming to rest upon Reed Barton’s face. "Yes. You see, I’m one of Chese bro’s slaves. At times only his er rand boy, although I'm supposed to be something of a mining engineer. But I am required to run a great many personal errands for Chese bro. I think I took Miss Chatfleld a book—something that had inter ested Chesebro, and which he want ed her to read too.” "I see," said Rogers. “And she died that night?” "Yes. She killed herself some time that night.” Rogers was silent for a moment, then he looked at me. "There’s one chap from the police department in Pasadena whose report interested me, Madison. He says that he smelled chloroform faintly when he went into the room to investigate. That was several hours afterward. No one else smelled it, however. It might have been an overactive odor of it noted in the autopsy re port. But chloroform is peculiar in that respect; the odor is not neces sarily present even at autopsy in a death from chloroform." "Yes, of course,” I said. "You’re not by any chance think ing that Katherine Chatfleld was murdered, Professor Rogers?” in quired Reed Barton. Rogers smiled faintly. "I have no opinion, Mr. Barton. The case has been closed for over a year now. Who am I to stir it up at this time? The police were satisfied that it was suicide; there were no fingerprints, except her own, on the hypodermic syringe she used, or on the bottle in which she kept her sup ply.” "I guess I was one of the last to 1 see her alive,” said Reed Barton after a short silence, looking beyond Rogers to a group making merry in an opposite booth. ’Tve since been glad it wasn’t murder. The police might have made it uncomfortable for me; they could have saddled a motive on me that I couldn’t have denied. Because Katherine Chat fleld killed my father just as much as if she had pulled a trigger. Things were looking up, you know. Father had struggled all through the worst of the depression to keep things together; he’d managed somehow to make the interest pay ments to her. She held a mort gage, you know, on all he had. Even as little as a two months’ extension would have seen him out of the woods. But—you know, there’s no Shy lock like a woman Shy lock—her pound of flesh must come from the heart. And—so,” he shrugged his shoulders, “father jumped." He went on after a moment: "The po lice could have said I hated her. But I don’t think I did.” Dwight Nichols tapped the ash from his cigarette and looked away through the gathering dusk across the vast Pacific into which the sun’s dark red ball had sunk. The air was humid; small waves lapped wetly on the damp sand> Indeed so all-pervading was the feeling of wet ness that I fancied I could push off from the veranda rail of the beach club, where Dwight, Huntoon Rogers and I sat, and swim out across the lawn. Two screaming children had been engaged in a feud on the beach and the mother with difficulty was now bringing them toward the club house. Dwight seemed more inter ested in them at the moment than in my remark about Kitty Chatfleld, for he drew twice on his cigarette before he replied: * Oh, I should say tnat Katherine Chatfleld might have been forty-one or two when she died. She was not old.” “According to the flies,” Huntoon Rogers said, coming to life after long contemplation of the sea, “she was forty years and ten months old.” “But Elsa—” I began. “I am coming to her. We are al ways getting back to Elsa. There was new blood with Elsa’s mother. It was an alien strain to the Chat flelds—new and fresh and vigorous, like a clear mountain stream flow ing into a sluggish river Sam Chat fleld married his stenographer. That sort of thing is heroic. It does vio lence to family traditions; it puts a terrific strain on family pride, but biologically it is a good thing, pro vided it doesn’t become a habit. Sam didn’t reason things out quite like that. He loved the girl, which is much simpler, and so he mar ried her. He was young. (TO BE CONTINUED) i By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. INGRID BERGMAN’S su perb performance in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is one of those things that people re member for years. It’s the more notable because in that opus she was up against real ly tough competition. Katina Paxinou, the talented Greek actress who plays “Pilar,” can dominate any scene without half trying, and the list of male actors reads like an all-star cast. Incidentally, after 100 performances the picture was still selling out at all performances in INGRID BERGMAN New York; that meant that for eight solid weeks the public had been trooping to the theater to see just that picture—no news reel, no com edy, no other attraction. -X Mentioning Ingrid Bergman re minds me that in "Gaslight,” which she is making with Charles Boyer— who plays a most villainous villain —you’ll see Tarquin Olivier, son of Laurence Olivier and Jill Esmond, the clever and attractive actress who was his wife before he married Vivian Leigh. Young Tarquin is only five, so he's starting his career fair ly early. -* It’s a nice break that Gall Rnssell, new in films, gets. She’s making “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay,” playing one of the principal roles, and Paramount has given her a new term contract and the starring part in “Her Heart in Her Throat,” scheduled first for Loretta Young. Looks as if Loretta liked her role in “And Now Tomorrow” better. “Her Heart in Her Throat” is a mystery. -* A curious soft slapping sound heard occasionally during rehearsals of Morton Downey’s afternoon radio program, usually just after he had finished a song, has finally been eliminated. Radio engineers, check ing on the origin of the sound, dis covered that it was caused by Downey’s thumbing his bright red suspenders. He began doing it after he was warned not to jingle coins while he was singing. Now he wears a belt in the studio, and empties his pockets before he steps up to a microphone. -W. It’s no wonder that producers get jittery. Michael O’Shea was riding a motor scooter, crashed into a stage wall—and landed in a hospital, with severe bruises, to put it mildly. That held up shooting on United Artists’ “Jack London,” as he was to ap pear in every remaining scene. -* Joseph Cottcn, narrator and act ing star of “America—Celling Un limited,” and greatly in demand In Hollywood, Is billed as the Great Joseph, “The Wizard of the South,” In Orson Welles’ Mercury Wonder show; It’s done nightly under can vas, In Hollywood, for the edifica tion of service men; they’re enter tained — and highly — by feats of magic, and all for nothing! -* It was a thrill for Dinah Shore re cently when her new picture, “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” was sneak previewed at WSM’s Air Castle stu dio in Nashville, Tenn., where Dinah started her singing career. All her old friends came. Her new com mercial starring series starts on CBS September 30, and will be heard Thursday evenings at 9:30, Eastern War Time. -* Back in the 1920s Gertrude Law rence made a guest appearance on a radio variety show for which the sponsors paid her 20 pounds a min ute—about $100 American money. 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