Bake Your Christmas Goodies Now!
(See Recipes Below)
Homemade Gifts
Christmas can put a strain on
your sugar budget especially if you
■re baking lots of
foodies for your
friends. But to
day I’m giving
recipes that will
keep the dents
out of the sugar
ration and still
give plenty of
good holiday eating.
Sugar savers or substitutes are
plentiful in most localities now and
answer the need for sweets without
sugar. The homemaker can use
light and dark corn syrups, honey,
dried fruits, etc.
If you are giving cookies as gifts,
wrap them prettily in small boxes
well lined with waxed paper. Cover
them in gay Christmas wrappings,
and anyone will be happy to get a
homemade present from you!
Honey, though expensive, will not
bring up the price of these cookies
which are crispy and well spiced:
Honey Crlaples.
(Makes 3 dozen)
K cap shortening
H cup honey
2H cups sifted flour
K teaspoon allspice
K teaspoon cloves
14 teaspoon cinnamon
% teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Boil shortening and honey togeth
er 1 minute. Cool. Add sifted dry
ingredients. Roll
to Yb inch thick
ness and cut in
desired shape
with cookie cut
ter. Sprinkle with
z colored sugar and
bake on a greased
baking sheet in a
moderate uou-aegree) oven. Can
died fruit or nuts may also be
pressed Into the center of the cook
ies.
Oatmeal has long been a favorite
ingredient of cookies. Here the dry
ness of the cereal Is balanced by the
moistness of apricots:
*Aprlcot Oatmeal Cookies
(Makes 70 cookies)
1H cups flour
K teaspoon so,,~
194 teaspoons salt
94 teaspoon nutmeg
94 teaspoon cinnamon
94 cup shortening
94 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn s>rup
1 egg
1 cup mashed, cooked apricots
194 caps rolled oats (uncooked)
94 cap chopped nutmeats
Cream shortening and sugar. Add
gyrup, beat well. Add egg and beat
until light and fluffy. Add apricots,
oats and nuts; mix thoroughly. Sift
LYNN SAY8:
A Bit »f Dresminr: Varying the
dressing In salads helps add Inter
est to this course. These simple
tricks will help:
Use lemon juice and sugar for
plain lettuce. Or, mix mayon
naise with shredded cooked beets,
chopped hard-boiled egg and
pickle relish.
For lettuce, cabbage or fruit
salads, you’ll like peanut butter
blended with rich milk, honey or
sugar and salt to taste.
To use French dressing for
fruit salads, sweeten with honey
and add a dash of lemon juice for
taste.
Sour cream is an ideal dress
ing for mixed fresh fruit salads.
Add vinegar or lemon juice to
sour cream and season with
salt and pepper. Chopped apples
and sliced bananas may also be
added to the dressing. Pour this
mixture over the fruit salad,
sprinkle with finely chopped nut
meats and top with marashino
cherries that have the stems left
on. Very pretty, indeed!
Christmas Gift Box Suggestions
•Apricot Oatmeal Cookiea
Whole Nut* Candied Fruit
•Slices of Regal Pudding
Assorted Jellies
•Recipes given.
flour with other dry ingredients and
add, beating well. Drop by half
spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet
about 1 Mi inches apart. Bake for 13
to 18 minutes in a 375-degree oven.
If you frost these ginger cookies
with a simple powdered sugar icing,
you will have a very dressed up
cookie:
Soft Ginger Cookiea.
(Makes 3 dozen)
% cup sugar
H cup shortening
1 cup molasses
H cup sour milk
3*4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cream sugar and shortening atid
add molasses. Beat well. Sift dry
ingredients together and add alter
nately to creamed mixture with
milk. Let stand several hours in
refrigerator. Roll on floured board
and cut into desired shapes with
cookie cutter. Piace on a greased
baking sheet and bake for 13 min
utes in a pre heated oven (375 de
grees).
Thinking about an appropriate
pudding for the festivities? Here ia
an inexpensive
one which will
serve a large
qonntit)'. It has a
lot of fruit but re
quires no sugar
and only a little
honey for sweet- '
ening. Serve with a creamy orange
sauce, hot.
•Regal Pudding
(Serves 10 to 121
H cup shortening
H cup honey
2 beaten eggs
2 cups chopped dried llgs
H cup chopped dried apricots
h cup white raisins
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1 cup grated carrot
H cup chopped walnut meats
2H cups Hour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
K teaspoon soda
H teaspoon nutmeg
% cup milk
Cream shortening; add honey;
blend; add eggs. Beat thoroughly.
Add fruits, rind, carrot and nut
meats. Sift dry ingredients and add
alternately with milk. Pour into a
greased and floured 8-inch tube pan
and bake in a moderate (350-degree)
oven 1 hour and 15 minutes. Serve
with the following:
Orange Sauce.
S tablespoons flour
94 cup sugar
H cup orange juice
1 cup hot water
I tablespoon grated orange rind
S tablespoons butter
Mix flour with sugar. Add orange
juice and hot water. Cook until
thick, stirring constantly. Add grat
ed orange rind and butter and serve
warm over pudding.
Oven Tip.
When baking fruit puddings or
fruit cakes, place a pan containing
2 cups water on the bottom of the
oven. This will help give greater
volume and shiny, glistening top to
either pudding or cake.
Making Sauces.
Sauces for puddings are best
made in double boiler to prevent
them from scorching. It will also
help keep them warm until time to
serve.
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GOD IS MY
*. CO-PILOT
“Col. Robert L.Scott W-N.U. RELEASE
The story thus far: After graduating
from West Point, Robert Scott win* his
wing* at Kelly Field and take* up combat
flying. He ha* been an Instructor for
four years when the war breaks out, and
Is told that be I* now too old for combat
flying, He appeals to several Generals
and I* Anally given an opportunity to get
Into the fight. He flies a bomber to India,
but on arrival I* made a ferry pilot and
this does not suit him. After paying a
visit to Gen. Chennault he gets a Kitty
hawk and soon becomes a "one man air
force" over flurma. I,ater be Is made
C.O. of the 23rd Fighter Group and still
keeps knocking down Jap planes. In one
of these fights his "Old Exterminator”
gets badly mauled up and Is condemned.
^CHAPTER XXII
With my first burst the next ship
rolled over and dove, with one en
gine «hot-up. By now I had caught
up to the lead 1-45, who was shoot
ing at the bombers from exceeding
ly long range. I methodically aimed
for his engines, putting a short burst
into one and then into the other.
The Jap must have felt the fire,
for he went into a steep, climbing
turn—which incidentally is very good
if you have a ship that will outclimb
your opponent. I thought this climb
ing turn might be a trick; so I
watched closely for him to turn on
me. But when he rolled over he
dove not for me but for the clouds. I
kept going after him and must have
put two hundred shots into him be
fore he got out of my sight in the
cumulus cloud. Pieces had begun to
come from his fuselage, and smoke
was trailing behind. I believe his
engines were hit and were failing,
for the props seemed to be “wind
milling.” And yet I could only claim
it as a “probable,” for I didn’t see
it catch fire or crash.
We got all our bombers back, of
course, and the pictures showed
very good results for the bombing
of Gia Lam field. We claimed nine
of the thirteen enemy fighters defi
nitely destroyed, and we hadn't even
gotten a hole in one of our P-40’s. In
our opinion the new 1-45 had turned
out to be a flop for the Jap. Either
it was not all they expected or the
pilots didn’t know how to use the
fast-climbing ship. Sometimes I no
ticed that when I got on the tail of
one, instead of climbing away from
me—and he could easily have
climbed away from a P-40—he tried
to dive away from me, which is defi
nitely a very poor thing to try with
your opponent in a fast-diving Kitty
hawk.
Just as the General had been ex
pecting, heavy movement began In
late September along the Burma
Road, from Lashio North towards
Lungling. The Japs were seen by
our observation to be moving many
trucks filled with troops. They were
evidently going to renew the at
tempt to cross the Salween that the
AVG had frustrated back in May.
Bruce Holloway and I caught
these trucks the first day and burned
twelve of them near Wanting. On
the next afternoon, I got through
the rain with a single fighter and
caught four of them on a curve in
the road at Chefang. From then on
for six days, until the end of Sep
tember, we harassed every move
ment on the wet and muddy road.
Twelve of us burned ninety-six
heavy trucks in six days. We used
fragmentation bombs as well as the
fifties. When we couldn’t find their
trucks, we’d hit the dark green troop
barracks they were constructing
from Lungling to Lashio.
One day Daniels dove on a truck
column to find that the Japs had
placed light tanks along with the
truck convoy. When Daniels, who
was an offensive-minded fighter any
way, saw the tanks he forgot about
the trucks and concentrated on the
more formidable vehicles. His Fif
ties tore two tanks rather badly,
and his frag bombs knocked two
more from the road, but he was
wounded by the heavy fire from the
tanks.
Lieutenant Welbom, his wing
man, saw the tracers from the
ground firing at his leader’s ship
and went to the aid of Pat Daniels.
But the damage had been done.
One bullet had come up through the
side panel of Daniels' P-40 and had
struck him in the shoulder. The
wound was very bloody, and the
shock bad just about paralyzed the
pilot's arm. Nevertheless, Cocky
Daniels flew the ship back three
hundred miles to Kunming and land
ed it there with his left hand.
Maj. Bruce Holloway, the Group
Executive, had been leading several
fighters on the truck columns near
Chefang. As he pulled from one
diving attack he felt something
strike his ship. At first he didn’t
notice it and continued to strafe
from just about tree-top altitude.
Then his coolant light popped on.
Bruce turned immediately towards
the friendly Chinese lines, which
were nearly twenty miles away He
must have known immediately that
the enemy bullet had punctured his
prestone tank (the coolant of the
American liquid-cooled engine) He
had a very few minutes to stay in
the air before the engine would
catch fire or "freeze ”
He must be getting closer to the
river, he knew, for he was indicat
ing over two hundred miles an hour,
but in his anxiety it seemed to go
farther away. With almost his last
gasp he crossed the river into
friendly Chinese country and crash
landed in one of the ever-present
rice paddies.
Now begins Bruce’s trip back
from the interior of China to our
base at Kunming. It'a almost a
saga, for Holloway was feted, wined
and dined in the primitive fashion
of the remote village people, who
were tribesmen called "Miaows.”
Though Bruce was only fifty min
utes by plane from Kunming, his
mode of travel by sedan chair, don
key and water buffalo required three
weeks. From the moment he rode
into headquarters on the last buf
falo he had hired, he became known
as the "Lochinvar of the Salween.”
Later Lieutenant Welborn was
shot down farther to the South. Wel
born had gotten out of his burning
plane two hundred miles South of
Paoshan, and his trip out of the
rough country was the longest of any
man that was lost. I remember that
when he reached the first village
from which he could get word to
us, he sent a message that at first
sounds facetious, until you under
stand the conditions under which one
travels in the interior of China; then
you realize that he was conserva
tive. His message read: "Landed
safely such and such a sector. My
motto is Kunming by Christmas.”
It was then September, and Wel
born beat his original estimate. He
required fifty-four days to travel two
hundred miles across the trails of
southwestern Yunnan.
Our truck-strafing caused us to
lose several planes and two pilots,
but we cost the Japs lots of ma
terial. Towards the first of October,
there were skeletons of enemy
trucks and tanks from the Salween
to Kutkal, near Lashio. The Jap
Gen. Caleb Haynes, who went to
China to head General Chennault’s
bombers.
may have moved a few at night, but
not many after Morgan and Bayse
got through bombing the bridges on
the Burma Road. We caught a few
Jap planes near Lashio and shot
up several on the ground. I shot into
a Zero there on October 5, and be
lieve it went down, but only claimed
it as a “probable.”
The Japs kept coming towards
Kunming from Indo-China nearly ev
ery day in early October, but 1
think they remembered that the last
time they had been in the capital of
Yunnan, they had lost all their ships
to the AVG. Way back on Christ
mas Day, 1941.
Even with the hardships that a
rugged country like China imposed,
I was living a wonderful life there
in Kunming. Those were days that
I would never forget—not only for
the adventure that I was sharing
with the other fighters in the Group,
but for the great privilege of liv
ing with my boss, General Chen
nault.
Gen. Caleb Haynes, Doctor Gen
try, and I lived together with the
General in a house the "Gissimo”
had built for him. Situated near
the field at Kunming, it was a mod
ern home, or as modern as a bunga
low could be in Yunnan. With a
private room for each of us, with
the Chinese houseboys the General
had collected in his six years in
China, we lived a wonderful life in
a war-torn land.
There was “Wong Chauffeur” who
drove the General's car. Wong had
a little boy—of course called “Lit
tle Wong”—who was suspicious of
foreign devils and who used to cov
er his face with his hands when I
spoke to him. The General told me
that as far as he had been able to
find out from a long time in China,
we'd always be foreign to the Chi
nese. For, after all, the only word
in China that could mean a per
son other than a Chinese was “for
eign devil.”
The General told me about an au
tomobile trip he had made with Ma
jor Shu down the road from Chih
kiang to Kweyang. This wfas bandit
country, through the wilds of Kwey
ang province. Arriving at Kweyang,
the capital, they had found an an
cient walled city. The General, as
a trusted servant of the Gissimo,
had been taken to the Governor’s
house, and there dinner was served.
All through the meal General Chen
nault noticed that strangers whom
he did not meet would come in sin
gly, sit down at the other end of the
table, and after watching his every
movement for a minute, would
leave. Then another would come in
and take the seat. After this had
gone on during the entire meal, the
( General finally turned to Major Shu
I
and asked what was going on—what
all these staring people meant? Ma
jor Shu replied that here in Kwey
ang the people had never seen a
foreign devil, and the Governor had
given them permission to come in
and look at one.
General Chennault’s other house
boys were "Wang Cook,” who had
been on the US Gunboat Panay,
and “Gunboat," who had served in
the American Navy for three years.
The General used to take me hunt
ing with him, and I came to under
stand that throughout these hunting
trips he was giving me lessons in
tactics, lessons he had learned the
hard way against the Japanese.
Without my knowing it, he would, in
effect, criticize my method of for
mer attacks and advise me about
better ways to do the job. I used
to listen to him for hours as he told
of cases in which he had got his
own ship si jt up by going in too
close, and then, after he learned
how and knew that his longer range
fifty-calibre guns would out-shoot the
Jap, had accomplished the same
destruction on the enemy without
getting his own ship shot to pieces.
These critiques taught me exactly
what he meant to impart without
his ever hurting my pride by telling
me that I was wrong and could ac
complish more by fighting in his
way.
Coming home some nights from
the exercise of our hunts together,
I would think of my wife and little
girl far away in Georgia, and get
very homesick. Once I looked at
the General and told him how I
wished that I could press a button
and kill all the Japanese, to end
the war, so that we could all go
home. He thought for a second or
two and then looked back, smiling.
"Aw now, Scotty,” he said, “we
don’t want to do that. We’ve got to
learn to hate this enemy. Think of
how much fun it is to kill them
slow.” Yes, sir, the General’s busi
ness was killing Japs.
Then we’d go home in the dark
ness, and Wang Cook would fix us a
peppery dove-pie from the Gener
al’s doves and some canned oysters
out of the loot of Rangoon.
Col. Meriam C. Cooper was the
Chief of Staff to the General. His
business was war, too. Cooper had
been one of the greatest heroes of
the First World War, and was one
of the greatest soldiers I have ever
seen. I never discovered when it
was he slept. At any time of night,
he was apt to come into my room,
when he visited us in Kunming
from his usual headquarters in
Chungking. Or when I’d go to see
him, I could find him smoking his
ever-present pipe at any hour. Coo
per had served in the American Air
Force in the last war, and when the
war was over he had kept right on
fighting. He had enlisted with the
Poles in the Russian-Polish war, and
had been second in command of
the Kosciusko Squadron. After lead
ing many dangerous strafing raids,
he was awarded Poland's highest
military decorations. Later he made
a reputation as an explorer in Per
sia, Siam, and Africa. Following
an active part in the formation of
Pan-American Airways, he became
one of the best known moving-pic
ture producers in America.
Cooper was a soldier through and
through, one of the most intelligent
men that I could hope to meet, and
the perfect Chief of Staff for Gen
eral Chennault. Through his con
stant attention to our espionage in
eastern China we learned of the
Japanese Task Forces coming
through Hongkong on their way to
the Solomons and Saigon, and also
of the large amount of shipping in
Victoria harbor.
Now Cooper was working tireless
ly to plan our greatest raid against
the Japanese. I remember vividly
how he toiled for six days and six
nights at the General’s house on
the logistics for our proposed at
tack on the largest convoy that had
come through Hongkong. Morning
after morning, when I went in to
breakfast, the floor around the table
would be ankle-deep with "Walnut”
tobacco from Cooper's pipe, but the
plans would be those of a master.
General Chennault and Coion el Coop
er made, in fact, the perfect tacti
cal team. Everything was ready
tor the bombing raid by the middle
of October, and we merely waited
for word from the East that the har
bor between Kowloon and Hongkong
was filled with Japs.
General Haynes had come to Chi
na to lead General Chennault's
bombers when he left the leader
ship of the Ferry Command. He
had hurt the Jap plenty with his pre
cision bombing, and had built up a
great bombing force, mainly
through the inspiration of his per
sonal leadership on the most dan
gerous missions.
Radio Tokyo had recently been
“panning” Haynes, referring to him
as “the old broken-down transport
pilot.” In a way, this was music to
our ears, for it meant that the Japa
nese were being hurt by his bomb
ings or they would not have re
sorted to such propaganda. But it
made General Haynes so mad that
he could have torn the Jap to pieces
with his bare hands. After all, he j
had been a pursuit pilot for years, j
and for the last ten years he had
been dean of American four-engine
bombers. The records he had set
with the B-15 had made history end
were inspirations to the Air Corps.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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