I
Sugar Restrictions
Prevent Solution
Of Dessert Problems
Mounds of creamy ice cream ride
•n top of peach halves set on
square* of tasty, hot milk sponge
cake. A dessert sauce made of the
peach Juice Is a delightful foil for the
fruit. Ice cream and cake.
Now that food rationing has loos
ened up in most of the eatable goods,
and we are once again able to get
back on a prewar standard, cooking
problems need not be pressing.
However, in spite of this lifting of
restfictions, we still have at least
one major problem—that of sugar.
Little relief is in sight right now,
and the situation will probably pre
vail for some
months. What
(shall we do about
dessert?
Well, first of all
there are fruits
which can be
dished up in any
number of per
fectly delightful ways. There’s
whipped cream and ice cream, and,
of course, sugar substitutes.
One cup of sugar or less is a good
rule to follow if you are using rec
ipes calling for this sweet but scarce
commodity. If your cake calls for
1V4 cups of sugar, use % cup of
sugar with % cup of corn syrup. In
this case you must use 2 table
spoons less milk than the recipe
calls for and 2 tablespoons of flour,
additional.
The fat scarcity also limits us to
some extent on the baked goodies
we want to make. That's why
sponge cake will be popular, as in
this following recipe:
Peach Sponge a la Mode.
(Serves 8)
Sponge cake
1 No. 2H can peach halves
I quart vanilla Ice cream
Dessert sauce
The cake used uses 4 eggs and Is
made with scalded milk to give it
• fluffy texture:
Sponge Cake.
* 2 cups sifted cake flour
II teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 eggs
1 oup sugar
1 cup milk, scalded
| 1 teaspoon vanilla
5 tablespoons butter, melted
Sift flour and measure. Sift three
times with salt and baking powder.
Beat eggs with rotary beater until
thick and letnon colored. Add sugar
gradually and beat until fluffy. Fold
in flour mixture, then milk, flavoring
and melted butter. Fold until well
blended. Pour into square cake pan
lined with waxed paper. Bake in a
moderate (350-degree) oven for 30
minutes. Cool in pans.
Dessert Sauce.
Liquid from peaches
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
Remaining peach halves, chopped
14 cup salted almonds, slivered
I tablespoon brown sugar
Cook the peach liquid down to %
cup. Stir in the granulated sugar
Lynn Say*:
Make Meals Good: No family
enjoys eating the same, same
foods every meal. It's a good idea
not to repeat dishes more than
once every three or four weeks.
Even favorite foods get monoto
nous when served too regularly.
To get contrast in every meal,
follow the basic seven charts to
see that you get in all different
types of foods.
In planning a meal, have some
things crisp, others soft, and still
others hard. For example, meat
can be the “soft” food, while
broc'oli or salad add the crisp
ness, and rolls are the “hard”
part.
Try to combine colors, too.
Cauliflower, potatoes and creamed
chicken may all be good, but they
don’t stimulate the appetite
However, consider the colorful
ness of creamed chicken with
french fried potatoes and peas
with carrots
There should also be a com
bination of hot and cold dishes
Even with a salad luncheon, the
hot foods can be soup and coffee.
Some cooked, some raw is an
other good rule Be sure to have
a salad—a big one, too. if you
are having roasted meat, cooked
vegetables and pie or pudding,
which are all cooked.
Lynn Chambers’ Menu.
Praised Liver with Vegetables
Creamed Potatoes
Celery Sticks
Molded Plum-Pear Salad
Corn Sticks Honey
•Open-Faced Apple Pie
•Recipe given.
and chill. Serve over the peach
halves a la mode and top with nuts
mixed with brown sugar.
To serve, arrange a peach half on
a square serving of coke. Top with
a mound of Ice
cream and serve
with the dessert
sauce.
If it’s apples
you want, then
you will like this
pie which is easy on rat Decause u
does not have to have a top crust. It
uses an egg for richness and flavor:
Open-Faced Apple Fie.
(Serves 6 to 7)
3 cups sliced apples (about !4
pound!
1 egg, well beaten
% cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
% teaspoon cinnamon
H teaspoon grated lemon rind
*4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted butter
I’lain pastry for 1 erant (about
1 cup flour!
Line pie pan with pastry, building
up the edge. Fill with sliced apples
Add remaining ingredients to beat
en egg; beat well. Pour batter over
apples. Bake in a hot (425-degree)
oven for 25 to 30 minutes.
Apples which are best to use in
this type of pie are Rome Beauty
or Macintosh.
Black walnuts can lend a distinc
tive flavor to pie when fruit supplies
dip to a low during the cooler weath
er as In this recipe:
Black Walnut Fie.
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
8 tablespoons flour
2 egg yolks
% teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons butter
1 eup black walnuts
Baked pastry shell
Whipped cream
Make a custard of the milk, sug
ar, flour and egg yolks, cooking unti
thick in a double boiler. Add salt
vanilla and butter. Cool. Add nut
meats and pour into a baked pastr.'
shell. Let set and cool. Serve wit!
whipped cream topping.
This novel apple pie saves short
ening by using Just one crust. For
delicious flavor and good, old-fash
loned heartiness, add an egg to the
apple mixture.
The old-fashioned puddings are al
ways popular because of their mo
lasses sweetness
and fragrant
spices. Suet is
usually used for
the base, but one
> of the fats may
be substituted it
it is unavailable.
Buttermilk it
used to give that
fluffy texture which is so appe
tizing.
Quaker Pudding.
(Serves 10)
24 cups sifted flour
14 teaspoons soda
4 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon nutmeg
4 teaspoon cinnamon
14 cups buttermilk
1 cup ground suet
1 cup molasses
1 cup raisins or other choppcc
dried fruit, or candied fruit
4 cup rolled cats
Sift flour with soda and salt. Adc
all other ingredienti in order giver
and mix thoroughly. Pour into twc
one-quart greased molds. Cover anc
steam for 3 hours. Serve witt
Foamy or Orange sauce.
Stuff green peppers with creamec
chicken or turkey and rice. The pep
pers should be parboiled first, anc
after stuffed, they may be heatec
for tO minutes in a moderate oven
If you like stuffed green peppers
try them with a stuffing of cornec
beef hash mixed with onion. It’
mighty good.
Like sweet potato pudding? Oni
way to make it Is to mash si:
cooked sweet potatoes with 0 ta
blespoo’.is butler, 2 tablespoon
grated lemon rind and 1 cup o
orange juice Bsxe ‘his mixture ii
a greased casserole In a moderati
oven for 15 minutes.
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•BRISTOW ^y^yiJ^VCA,
THE STORY THUS EAR: Spratt Her
lone, motion picture producer, met and
married Elizabeth, whose Br»t husband,
Arthur Klttredge, was reported killed In
World War f, but who later appeared in
Hollywood and secured a Job with Spratt.
Under the name of Kessler, and with his
disfigurements, he was not recognized
and became a good friend of the Her
longs While Elizabeth, Cherry and Die* '
were helping Margaret, Kessler's ward,
decorate her Christmas tree, she told
them about the man who killed her moth
er. Kessler later told them the truth of
Nazi flermany, how Margaret's parents
were driven to suicide, and how thou
sands of children were killed before they
could contribute to mankind.
CHAPTER XIX
Fie Jerked himself back angrily.
He had given her the chance to be
happy and she had used it; If happi
ness brought its own penalties that
wag not his fault or hers. She had
a great deal to lose. Nobody knew
what the war might do to this coun
try before it was over, and the whole
fabric of her life and her children’s
future might be ripped to shreds in
the days to come. She had made
that clear to him when she said, ‘‘If
my world Is shot to pieces again I
can’t go back and start ovef. I did
that once.” Elizabeth did not sus
pect that when he heard her say
that he had nearly burst out sobbing
with defeat. He had been so sure,
back in 1918, that when he gave her
the chance to start over it was the
chance to build for permanence.
Now he had no consolation to give
her, or to give himself—nothing but
a desperate courage. There was
nothing to do but go on telling her
what he had already tried to tell
her: that in the final analysis life
consisted mostly of doing things one
did not want to do, and the only way
to keep any self-respect through the
whole wretched business was to look
squarely at what had to be done and
then go ahead and do it.
Now he had to tell Dick the same
thing. Not tell him to go to war,
that Dick was ready to do; but he
could understand from the boy’s
awkward little letter that now Dick
wanted to be told what it was all
about. It would be so much simpler
If Dick could be left with the idea
that it was merely a matter of kill
ing Japs and Germans before they
killed.
Kessler turned to his typewriter,
holding the paper with his thumb
and forefinger while he turned the
platen with the other three fingers,
made steady by the pressure of his
palm. He wrote:
My Dear Dick,
Can you come around Sunday aft
•rnoon about three? Margaret is
earning to skate and will be at the
ce-rink with her playmates, so we
■an count on not being interrupted.
I’ll be very glad to see you.
Your friend,
ERICH KESSLER.
Dick arrived at ten minutes to
■hree. They did not waste any time
m preliminary courtesies. Dick had
a lot to ask and he immediately
started asking it.
"You see,” said Dick, “I’m Just
about to be eighteen, and as soon as
I'm eighteen I’ll get into the service.
Maybe I’ll join up before then. I
kind of like the Marines. That’s okay
—I’m not saying I’d join the Ma
rines if there wasn’t a war, but there
is a war. so that’s what you do, the
Marines or whoever will have you.
But there are some things—” He
hesitated.
“The day of Pearl Harbor I was
so mad I could have lit into every
Jap gardener I saw and it burned
me up to think I couldn’t do any
thing about it. I just wanted to kill
them. I still do. The Japs, I mean.
I never did get that excited about
the Germans, I guess it was be
cause they were going after other
people but it was the Japs who had
tried to sink the whole Navy when
the Americans weren’t doing any
thing to them. The Germans—I
don't mean because you’re a Ger
man, anyway you never do seem
like one—but I'd been hearing about
Hitler practically all my life and I
guess I’d got kind of used to him."
“I suppose you would,” Kessler
observed thoughtfully. "You were
eight years old when he burned the
books.”
"Well, I was pretty innocent my
self until just lately,” Dick con
fessed with confiding wisdom. “I
thought wars were just wars, be
j cause somebody had to run the earth
| and it had better be your side than
their side, and mostly wars were
fought to take care of trade and
' | profits and it was principally the
: ! Morgans who got us into the last
1 one, and we’d never have been in
this one if the Japs had minded their
l own business. Now I see that’s not
1 right, you can’t go along letting
' things happen the way they are
l happening, things like Margaret I
mean. But what 1 want to know is,
what can I say to my mother and
l father? I can't just go off and have
* them smiling and shriveling up in
side the way they are doing. Don’t
! think my mother has said anything
E to me. Mr Kessler! She hasn’t. She
won’t either.
"Let her and your father under
f stand that you know what you’re do
1 ing,” Kessler answered. "Don’t let
J them believe that you’re going off
grinning, as you express it, just
I to put an end to a lot of toothy vil
lain* because mass hatred happens
to be the emotion of the moment.
It’s not merely that they have a
right to think better of you than that.
But if you expect them, and the rest
of the decent people in the world, to
get anything from this war except
more destruction and suffering, if
you want it to be something more
than just another war, you’ve got
to have an idea of what you want it
to bring about. Even if you know
what you want you may not get it,
but if you don't know, this certainly
won't be anything but just another
war."
"WeH, what do we want to get?”
Dick demanded. He laughed uncom
fortably. "I guess you think I’m
pretty silly to ask that, don’t you?
I guess you think I ought to know.”
“No, Dick, I don’t think you’re
silty not to know. We who are
older than you ought to be wiser, buf
sometimes we feel we don’t know
any more than you do. I’ll try to
tell you how it looks to me. That’s
all I can tell you.”
"Go ahead,” said Dick. He added
with an embarrassed grin, "I guess
I’ve been talking a lot. But now
I’m listening.”
Kessler turned his cane under his
hand and looked at it, then raised
his eyes again.
“Dick, the sweep of history
doesn’t take much account of indi
viduals. That’s hard for us to real
"Don’t get too discouraged about
your country, Dick."
ize, because we are individuals and
we can’t think except in terms of
ourselves.”
“I guess it didn’t,” Dick acknowl
edged. “But Mr. Kessler, what’s
that got to do with us?”
“Don’t get too discouraged about
your country, Dick. The United
States has a standard it’s trying to
live up to—of course you haven’t
reached what you’re aiming at, but
you're closer than you used to be.
Look back and you can see the idea
coming—slowly, painfully, cruelly,
but always on the march. The
American Revolution was part of it
and the French Revolution another
part. They went as far as they
could, but not as far as the idea was
destined to go. The American Revo
lution was a war for liberty, but it
didn’t finish the fight—haven't you
ever read about the howls that went
up in this country, long after the
Revolution, at the suggestion of free
public schools for all children?”
Dick shook his head. “I thought
they always wanted schools in this
country.”
"Not for everybody. There were
opponents who said compulsory
schooling would break up the home
by taking children away from their
parents and putting them under con
trol of the state. There were others
who said it would destroy the or
dained order of society by making
the working classes dissatisfied with
the position in which God had placed
them. But the schools came, be
cause they were part of the current
toward human equality.”
"Gee.” said Dick. “You know,
you're encouraging. The place is
getting better, isn’t it?”
"Of course it is. Whenever you're
tempted to believe it isn't, you might
remember that it was in 1870, a
good deal less than a hundred years
ago, that the State of Massachusetts
was hailed as an enlightened leader
of progress when the legisature
passed a law that children under
twelve should not be allowed to work
in factories more than ten hours per
day.”
Dick nodded slowly. "I’m begin
ning to see it.” He wrinkled his
forehead, and exclaimed, "But right
now, I don’t mind telling you, that
big idea sure is up against a lot.”
Kessler nodded too, in agreement.
"Suppose I try to tell you why it's
up against so much right now.
Shall I?”
"I wish you would.”
"Well, you see, a few years ago
the idea had gone so far that in
several of the most powerful nations
of the world, people were actually
asking one another if any common
wealth was benefited by keeping
part of its citizens in compulsory
degradation. In cases where they
were still doing so—as with the Ne
groes in this country—they were
ashamed of it and made excuses for
it. The march toward human free
dom seemed to be going along very
well. But then, certain persons,
more farsighted perhaps than their
neighbors, looked ahead and saw
what we were headed for. The re
sult was a long, long way ahead,
so far ahead that most of us never
thought about it, but for those who
did visualize it the very suggestion
was so dangerous, such a threat to
all nations and all established in
stitutions, that something simply
had to be done to stop the march,
and quick.”
“Gosh, go on!” exclaimed Dick.
"What's that suggestion you’re talk
ing about?”
“Can’t you see it? It's very log
ical—simply the suggestion that if
a country could be improved by re
leasing the talents of its people,
might not the world be improved by
releasing the talents of all its peo
ples? That’s a terrible idea.”
"Why?" Dick asked with ingenu
ous defiance.
"Don’t be so simple-minded, Dick!
Why, that contradicts everything
we’re used to. It takes away our
colonies. It drives us out of places
where we’ve invested our hard
earned money. It means that the
coolies no longer have any respect
for their betters. It makes us ac
knowledge we are no longer called
of God to meddle with the private
lives of the heathen. It turns us
upside down and flattens us out and
leaves us no better than anybody
else.”
Dick considered this, slowly and
soberly. At length he said, “I be
lieve I get it.” He turned it over
in his mind again, then ventured, "It
means—‘all men are created free
and equal, endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights—’ it
means alL Not just us. Every
body.”
"Most of the important facts of
life are very simple, once you make
up your mind to look for them, but
they’re often very hard to accept.
Like that business of loving your
neighbor as yourself, for instance—
it’s very difficult to admit that he’s
as much worth loving as yourself.
Most of us hate nothing so much as
an idea that threatens our good opin
ion of ourselves. We don’t like own
ing up to it that if the earth belongs
to us, it also belongs to the Chinese
coolies.”
Dick began to laugh suddenly,
then he sobered again. "Cherry said
once that Mr. Wallace thought this
war was being fought for the coo
lies. We laughed when she said it.
It sounded preposterous. But you
mean it really is?”
"Why yes, though not many of us
are willing to admit it. But that’s
what we mean when we say we’re
fighting for human freedom.”
‘‘This country is still uncertain,
said Kessler, “because it has gone
into the war on the side of history.
The people know it’s the right side,
they’re fighting valiantly for victory,
but they’re frightened at what vic
tory will mean.”
“It will mean—?” Dick stopped.
“That Americans will have to go
on, marching through more blood
and pain toward a goal they are not
sure they can bear to reach. You
are fighting for the coolies, Dick,
not because you give a damn what
becomes of the coolies but because
you care a great deal about what
becomes of yourself. You don't dare
not to fight for them. They've come
so close to you that what happens
to thefn touches you already, and
will touch your children even more.
Don't stop to think of this now if it’s
too much. I know it’s terrifying. Go
on and fight for your country. That’s
what is being asked of you now.”
“I want to think about it,” said
Dick. "But you don’t think I’m a
dope because I’m—well, kind of
shocked, do you?”
Kessler laughed a little. “01
course not. It’s the most shocking
conception that has shaken the
minds of men and women since they
were asked to believe that on the
other side of the earth people were
walking upside down. If you said
you weren’t shocked by it, I
shouldn’t believe you.”
Dick rambled among his own
thoughts for a moment. At length
he inquired, "How did you come to
think of all this?”
“I was pretty badly hurt in the
last war,” Kessler answered frank
ly. “When a man’s life is so vio
lently changed, he has to do a lot
of thinking. At first I thought in
terms of individuals, each learning
to manage his own problems. But
when hell broke loose again I had
to start thinking all over, not in
terms of individuals only but in
terms of the human race. That's
all"
Again Dick was silent He thought,
contemplating himself, the world,
and himself again. Finally he said,
“Well. I’m going to stick to my
own country awhile. I like Ameri
cans and you can say what you
please but by and large I do think
they’re more decent than other peo
ple.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Tarragon Vinegar
Tarragon vinegar is a favoritr in
dressing summer salads. The dark
green. leaves of tarragon are used
for seasoning the vinegar. They are
used both fresh and dried. This herb
needs a little covering of litter and
leaves for winter protection.
Cage Crickets
rn the Orient the chirping noise of
the house cricket is highly appre
ciated and many households keep
them in cages, the cages often elab
orately wrought and decorated.
Two-Headed Stream -
The Rhine river rises as a two
headed stream in southern Switzer
land, enters the Boden See (Lake
Constance), and emerges to con
tinue its winding 850-mile course to
its multi-mouthed outlet in the
North sea. In its oceanward jour
ney it picks up several important
tributaries, such as the Lahn, the
Neckar, the Main, and the Ruhr
from the east, and the Mosel from
the west In some stretches the
river is an international boundary.
It is a frontier between Switzerland
and tiny Liechtenstein, between
Switzerland and the old Austria, be
tween Switzerland and Germany,
and between France and Germany.
Through Germany the river flows
iir a geperal northwesterly direc
tion. turning sharply west at the
Netherlands line to enter the North
sea.
Freshen Grass With
Fertilizer in Fall
Late August or September is the
best season to give lawn grass ai
‘Tift.” After the hard summer sea
son. some refreshments in the way
of fertilizer, and possibly lime, is
called for. Thin stands of grass are
particularly in need of help. If your
lawn has not been limed in the last
few years, it is suggested that you
apply 50 to 75 pounds of ground
limestone per 1,000 square feet.
This will sweeten the soil and make
it possible for the grasses to respond
better to fertilizer treatment.
The addition of 10 to 20 pounds of
fertilizer per 1,000 square feet of
lawn will do wonders. Fertilizers
such as 5-10-5, 4-12-8 or those of
similar ratios are well adapted for
thickening lawn grasses. Uniform
distribution can be obtained by
spreading the material in two di
rections. Measure out half of the fer
tilizer needed for the lawn and
spread it in a north-south direction.
Then spread the other half in an
east-west direction, and there should
be little difficulty in, getting even
coverage.
Lawns given a tonic in. the manner
described soon will assume a good
healthy color and develop a dense
stand of grass. Lawns composed of
dense turf will resist invasion by un
desirable weeds such as crabgrass,
buckhorn and dandelion.
Gombustionlble Hay
Experienced farmers know that
hay, if incompletely cured at time
of storage—meaning that it has a
moisture content of 25 to 30 per
cent — is subject to spontaneous
combustion. #
Perk Up Potato Salad
Potato salad will taste better if
placed in the refrigerator to chill
several hours before serving time.
This gives the onions and season
ings a chance to permeate the sal
ad, making it uniformly delicious.
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