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Meat Point Pointers . . . Ric« Balls in Mushroom Sauce
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Flavorful Meats
You'B be using more of the lower
grades of beef as time goes by. Most
at the AA and A, top grades of beef,
are going to armed forces and utili
ty or lower grade beef will be more
available for civilian consumption.
That calls for pulling out the old
fashhmed, flavorful recipes that will
really make this beef taste good. We
used to do, and can still do it as
long as we pull the bunny of inge
nuity out of the proverbial hat, or
cookbook, as the case may be.
Inexpensive cuts of meat can be
made teoder by several methods.
Round steak can
be pounded with
a small hammer
or mallet to break
down the tissues,
then braised with
liquids and sea*
> sonings to savory
goodness. Stew
ing is another
good method (or
cooking this type
of meat. Adding tomato juice,
spicea, mushroom soup and other
liquids gives peak flavor.
Here are recipes which may be
made with utility beef, but which
will have just as much flavor as
the mere expensive cuts:
Swiss Steak.
(Serves 61
Ketmd or Arm steak, cut S
Inches thick
Salt and pepper
1 onion, thinly sliced
S tablespoons lard
t cups tomatoes
1 carrot, diced
K cup corn
1 small green pepper, sliced
K cup water
Mix flour, salt and pepper; pound
Into steak. Brown steak in lard.
Add vegetables and water. Cover
pan and cook In slow oven (300 de
grees) for SVfc hours. Add more wa
ter If needed. Serve with vegeta
bles poured over steak.
Short Ribs With Vegetables.
(Serves 6)
8 pounds short ribs of beef
8 teaspoons salt
K teaspoon pepper
t tablespoons lard
8 medium-sited potatoes
8 small onions
4 parsnips
4 carrots
Wipe meat with damp cloth, sprin
kle wtth salt and pepper and brown
In hot fat Add
water, cover and
allow to ilmmer
an hour. Prepare
vegetable*. Add
whole potatoes,
onions, parsnip*
and carrots cut in
hall Season vegetables, cover and
oontinue cooking until vegetables
•re tender. Serve meat on platter
garnished with vegetables.
Lynn gays
Paint Pointers: Use low tem
peratures in cooking meat, re
gardless of the method. High tem
peratures shrink meat unneces
sarily.
Save aU the meat you buy. If a
roast is boned at the butchers,
bring the bones home and use
them for soup.
Different seasonings add inter
est to meats. Try onion gravy
with beef. Mushroom soup, di
luted and heated, goes well with
lamb. Horseradish adds pep to
pot roast or short ribs gravy.
Pork gravy is good with a dash
of sage, lamb gravy with a bit of
curry.
Leftover vegetables such as
peas, carrots, celery, lima beans
and green beans added to gravy
make it colorful, different and
more nourishing.
Lynn Chambers' Point Having
Menu
•Rice Balls with Mushroom Sauce
Baked Squash Green Lima Beans
Jellied Fruit Salad
Bread Butter
Lemon Souffle
Beverage
•Recipe given.
Spiced Beet.
3 pounds chuck steak
11 teaspoon cloves
6 medium-sized onions
H teaspoon peppercorns
2 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon allspice
6 bay leaves
12 gingersnaps
Wipe meat with damp cloth. Place
in a saucepan and cover with a
mixture of half water and half vine
gar. Add 2 tablespoons salt, sliced
onions, bay leaves and spices. Let
stand at least 24 hours. Place on
stove and simmer gently until meat
is tender. Take meat out and let
drain. Strain broth through a sieve
and let it come to a boil. Then add
gingersnaps which have been sof
tened into a paste with cold water.
This will thicken broth so that it
will have to be stirred about 3 min
utes. Return meat to gravy and let
stand for about 13 minutes before
serving.
The favorite combination of ham
and sweet potatoes takes a new turn
in this following recipe:
Ham and Sweet Potato Roll.
(Serves 6)
H pound ground ham
K pound ground pork
K cup cracker crumbs
1 egg
% cup milk
Pepper
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
Combine all ingredients except po
tatoes. Spread on waxed paper to
Vi-inch thickness, making a rectan
gle about 6 by 10 inches. Spread
with seasoned potatoes and roll
like a Jelly roll. Place in dripping
pan and bake lVi hours in a mod
erate (350 degree) oven.
Potted Veal With Dumplings.
2 pounds veal shoulder
1 onion
1 quart water
2 teaspoons salt
V4 teaspoon pepper
K teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 cups diced potatoes
6 carrots
4 tablespoons flour
W cup cold water
Remove fat and cut meat into 1
lnch cubes. Simmer veal and sliced
onion for 1 hour. Add salt, pepper,
sauce, potatoes and sliced carrots.
Continue cooking for IS minutes
longer. Thicken mixture with flour
and water. Prepare dumplings and
drop by spoonfuls on top of meat.
Cover closely and steam 12 minutes.
Dumplings: 1% cups flour, 3 tea
spoons baking powder, teaspoon
salt, 2 tablespoons lard, V« cup milk.
Sift flour, measure and sift again
with baking powder and salt. Cut
in fat and mix to a fine crumb. Add
milk and mix to a soft dough.
Many dishes are made better by
the addition of mushrooms, or by a
mushroom soup that combines both
the goodness of the rmtshroom and a
well blended white sauce. Try:
•Rice Bails With Mushroom Sauce.
(Serves 6)
1 pound hamburger
H cup rice
1 104-ounce can condensed
mushroom soup
1 teaspoon salt
Mix together meat, salt and rice
which has been washed and drained.
Shape Into small balls. Brown them
in hot fat. Add mushroom soup
which has been diluted with an equal
amount of water. Cover. Simmer
for 1 hour.
Do you have recipes or entertaining
suggestions which you'd like to pass on
to other readers? Send them to Miss
Lynn Chambers, Western Newspaper
Union, 210 South Desplaines Street,
Chicago 6, Illinois.
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The ilory thus far: Robert Scott It
graduated from Wett Point at a second
lieutenant, and after winning hit wlngi at
Kelly Field takes up pursuit flying. When
the war breaks out be Is an Instructor in
California and told he is too old for com
bat flying. He anpeals to one General aft
er another for a chance to fly a combat
plane and Anally the opportunity comes.
He says goodby to his wife and child and
flies a four-motor bomber to India, where
he becomes a ferry pilot, flying supplies
to Burma. After Burma falls he rislts
General Chennault and tells him his story.
Chennault promises that the first P-40
to arrive from Africa will be his. Scott
soon gets a Klttyhawk and flies the skies
over Burma. He gets his first Jap.
CHAPTER XII
After following the Salween to the
South until I could see Lashio, I
turned West for the field and came
In right on the treetops, strafing the
anti-aircraft guns in two passes. On
the second run across the field I felt
and heard bullets hitting my ship,
but didn’t see their origin until near
ly too late. Down close to the West
end of the field, almost under the
trees, were Japanese ground sol
diers. They were grouped into two
squares like the old Macedonian pha
lanx, and were firing rifles at me. I
turned my guns on them and could
see the fifty-calibre fire taking good
toll from the Jap ranks. But even
after I had made three runs on
them, I noted that they continued to
hold their positions, an excellent
demonstration of perfect battle dis
cipline. Later on one of the AVG
aces, Tex Hill, told me that he had
seen the same thing down in Thai
land, and that after he'd strafed one
of the squares of about a hundred
men and there were only two or
three on their feet, those few still
were shooting at him when he left
the field.
Leaving Lashio, I went to Katha
looking for a Jap train on the rail
way, but succeeded only in gather
ing a little more ground-fire. From
there 1 went back North to Bhamo,
and seeing no barges, continued on
to Myitkyina, keeping very close to
the surface of the Irrawaddy, and
strafed the gun positions of the ene
my on the field with the last of my
ammunition. When I landed I had
made almost eight hundred miles,
which is just about the limit for a
fighter ship, especially since I had
strafed at full throttle for several
minutes. There were a few holes
in my ship, but mostly in the fabric
of the rudder and the flippers. The
Japs couldn’t learn to lead me
enough; I guess they’d never hunted
game birds. .
In less than an hour I took ofT
again and made a shorter trip to
Mogaung and Katha, searching
without success for a train. After
getting more fuel I went back and
strafed Myitkyina, turned South, and
caught a barge of enemy equipment
at Bhamo. Though I didn’t sink this
river boat, I put at least eight hun
dred rounds of ammunition in it,
and left it settling in the water and
drifting slowly with the current The
crew either were killed or jumped
into the river.
And now, to close the big day, I
got in the air again and set my
course for the bridge on the Sal
ween about twenty miles West of
Paoshan. I had received a radio
report that the AVG under Tom
Jones, Bishop, and Tex Hill were
dive-bombing the Japs who were
constructing a pontoon bridge there.
Reaching the rendezvous point I
couldn’t see a thing except some
burning trucks that the AVG had
strafed on the Jap side of the Sal
ween; evidently I had got to the bat
tle too late.
I had turned South towards Lashio
and was Hying through a moderate
rain when, down below on the Bur
ma Road, I saw a troop column
marching South, probably towards
Chefang. At this point the Burma
Road is about eight thousand feet
above sea level, rising nearby to its
ceiling, just over nine thousand feet.
The troops below me were Japa
nese soldiers, evidently retreating
from the mauling they had taken
back there on the river, when the
AVG had bombed them with five
hundred-pound bombs. I turned to
the side, to watch them—they were
in heavy rain, and from the stand
point of their own safety they were
in the worst possible place on the
road. The Burma Road was cut out
of red Yunnan clay, and there were
steep banks on both sides of the
column—besides I don’t think they
had heard me over the roar of the
rain, and I know they hadn't seen
my ship.
I turned my gun switches on and
dove for the kill, sighting carefully
through my lighted sight. My trac
ers struck the target dead center,
for I had held my fire until the
last moment. There was no need of
doing this Job at high speed, for
if 1 merely cruised I’d have longer
to shoot at them and could also look
out for the hills hidden in the rain
and the clouds. This time there was
no dust, but the red, muddy water
went up like a geyser. The six
| Fifties seemed to cut the column to
bits. As I passed over, I could see
I those who hadn’t been hit trying
desperately to crawl up the muddy
bank to the safety of the trees and
slipping back.
Turning very close to the hills, I
came back over. Every now and
then I’d lose them, for the rain was
heavy and it was dark in the clouds,
so dark that my tracers burned bril
liant to the ground and then rico
cheted away into the air again, still
burning. I think it was in my third
pass, as the Japs seemed to be giv
ing up the effort to climb off the
road, that I decided my ship would
be called “Old Exterminator.”
Their officers must have called
double-time, for they spread out as
much as they could and ran South
on the road through the rain. I kept
on cutting them to pieces until my
ammunition was gone; I fired 1,800
rounds into those three or four hun
dred Japanese, and I don’t think
more than a handful escaped.
As the May days drifted into
weeks, I made up little schemes to
fool the Japs. Perhaps the schemes
worked, perhaps they didn’t—any
way they eased the disappointment
of not getting letters from my wife
and little girl and from the other
folks back home.
During this month I went to China
as much as possible to talk to mem
bers of the AVG. Some of these pi
lots 1 had taught to fly in the Army
Schools back home. I had checked
quite a few of them and I was old
er, but I’m glad I realized then
Symbol of the American Volun
teer Group "Flying Tigers" which
made aerial combat history over
China and Burma when the Japs
were having their inning. The AVG
was later inducted into the Army
Air Corps, with General Claire
Chennault as commander.
that these younger pilots knew a
million times more about combat
than I did. I’d corner some of these
Flying Tigers and ask them ques
tions, for I longed for the day when
I’d get to fly on attacking missions
with them.
At first they were hard to know.
The men they had met as represent
ing our Army in China had been
pretty harsh with these high-strung
flyers, who after all had done the
greatest job in the war against the
enemy. In the beginning they were
reluctant to answer my questions or
tell me the secrets of their success
in combat. They couldn't understand
why a Colonel in the Army Air
Corps had to know anything. As
George Paxton put it: Didn’t the
Army know everything? “Seems
like to me," he said, “every army
officer we’ve seen out here knows
all the answers."
When he found out that I was se
rious, and that my ambition was to
get over there and fly with them,
and learn combat from them, so
that in the end I might teach it to
our younger pilots who would be
coming out, he told me things that I
would never have learned otherwise.
“First,” he said, leading me off
under the wing of one of the P-40’s,
"first, the Old Man says, never turn
with one of the Zeros. He says
that’s bad."
I learned mat the Jap ship would
outmaneuver anything and would
outcllmb the P-40 four to one. “But
that doesn’t matter.'* Paxton said.
"The P-40 is the strongest ship in
the world. It’s heavy as hell, but
that makes it out-dive just about
anything, and it'll out-dive the Jap
two to one. With those two Fifties
and the four thirty-caliber guns in
the B’s we have done pretty good.
Now with the six Fifties in the new
Kittyhawks we out-gun anything.”
He told me that Hill, Rector, Bond,
Neal. Lawler, and other aces had
seen Zeros disintegrate in front of
their six Fifties, and went on to ad
vise that I use the good qualities of
the P-40’s against the bad qualities
of the Jap, but never try to beat him
at his own game—climbing and ma
neuverability.
Paxton did me a lot of good—he
got me my first flight with the AVG
on the Emperor’s birthday. But the
Jap didn’t come in. We were the
most griped bunch you’ve ever seen.
Everyone up and waiting at three
a. m.—and then the dirty so-and
so’s didn’t have the guts to come in!
I heard a story on George Paxton
that will show you the kind of tough
Texan he was. It was down over
Rangoon, near Mingaladon air
drome, in the early days of the Bur
ma war. Doctor Gentry, who told
me the story, said that the squadron
George was in was aloft and engag
ing the Japanese over the field. Look
ing upstairs, you could see the con
densation streamers criss-crossing
the sky, and every now and then a
trail of smoke as a Jap Zero burned
and plunged towards the earth.
Finally eight or nine Zeros ganged
up on George Paxton. They got
on his tail and they got all over him.
He fought his way partially out of
the trap, but two of them right on
his tall literally shot him to pieces.
George's ship was seen to trail
smoke and dive straight down, from
about fifteen thousand feet. Doctor
Gentry said they watched the striek
en Forty and knew who it was by
the number. As it disappeared be
hind the trees they mentally crossed
the boy Paxton off their list of liv
ing men.
But George and the sturdy P-40
were not through. There was the
surging scream of an Allison en
gine’s last boost, and the ship
skimmed over the trees and made
a belly landing on the soft part of
the field. Even then, considering
the number of Japs who had been
using George for target practice
and the way the ship looked, with
big holes in the tail, wings, and fuse
lage, as they drove out for him in
the jeep they expected to find just a
body.
Instead, they found George Pax
ton standing by the side of his ship,
swearing and shaking his fist at the
sky.
Doctor Gentry said he looked into
the cockpit. The instrument panel
was just about shot away, the rud
der pedals were partly shot to
pieces, the armor of the pilot's seat
was badly bent—but Paxton was out
there yelling:
“I still say those little snakes
can’t shoot!”
Even his Texas boots were practi
cally shot off. Two doctors picked
rivets from George’s back all the
afternoon, and Jap explosive parti
cles from his feet, legs and hands.
The worst injuries had been caused
by the Japanese explosive bullets
hitting the seat armor and driving
the rivets through into George’s
back. But for the armor, those ex
plosives \yould have been in Pax
ton’s back, instead of just the rivets.
On May 17, I flew with the AVG on
a mission from Kunming into Indo
China. Squadron Leader Bishop led
the attack. I flew the wing position
with R. T. Smith, one of the aces of
the Flying Tigers and one of the
pilots I remembered checking dur
ing his training days at Santa Ma
ria, California.
We got off the Kunming field with
our fighters and headed South over
the lakes at twelve thousand feet
In a few minutes we passed Meng
tze and the clouds thinned out and
the weather got pretty clear. We
went Just about over Laokay, on
the Chinese-Indo-China border. Then
we followed the River Rouge
through the very crooked gorge in
the mountains, on South towards Ha
noi.
Just about halfway between the
border and Hanoi we saw a train
coming North on the railroad. Bish
op led four of us down to strafe it
while the other four stayed at twelve
thousand for top-cover. We circled
over the train as we spiralled down
to attack, and while the speed of
the dive built up I got my gun
switch on and tried to trim the ship
for the increasing speed.
As we levelled off and went In
for the kill, I saw Bishop's tracers
hitting the engine. By the time 1
got there—in number two position,
on Bishop’s wing now—the white
steam was spraying from the punc
tured boiler. I saw the engineer and
fireman jump from the locomotive,
and as we went on down the cars,
shooting into them, I saw Jap sol
diers and probably Vichy French
civilians jumping off too. We came
back and set some of the cars on
fire. It was a cinch now, for the
train had stopped and was no longer
weaving through the narrow curves
of the gorge.
While the boys talked to one an
other, we re-formed and I heard
Bishop say, "Let’s bomb the rail
road yards at Laokay with our
frags.” (Fragmentation bombs.) I
thought then that was wrong, for we
had alerted Laokay as we flew over
and they were probably listening to
us and would be waiting for us.
That didn't matter, though; we’d get
the railroad yards and some of the
anti-aircraft crews too, if they didn’t
look out.
We spiralled down to bomb the
target and I saw Bishop’s bombs hit
dead center on the round-house.
Then I dropped mine. Just at that
instant Bishop’s fighter belched fire
and smoke, and I saw him slide his
canopy open and jump. His chute
opened so close in front of my ship
that I pulled up for fear I’d run into
it I hung there for what seemed
like hours, with my air speed indi- j
eating three hundred miles an hour, j
while black bursts of anti-aircraft
fire broke all around me. The ship
just seemed to stand still, but I
saw Bishop floating down towards
the river that was the boundary
between China and Indo-China. At
the very last moment, as I got my
nose down and got out of the cen
ter of the anti-aircraft, I saw an
unlucky wind blow the chute back
to the Indo-Chinese or Jap side of
the river, and Bishop was captured. '
We heard from him later that he
was really a prisoner of the French
and was getting along all right.
We re-formed North of Laokay
and went back to Kunming. General
Chennault said that the train wasn’t
worth Bishop—we should have left
Laokay alone.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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