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Sunshine Saiad—Carrots, Orange and Pineapple
(See Recipe Below)
Springtime Salads
With warm weather already here,
fend warmer breezes Just around the
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family’! Interest
doesn't turn to
cool, lovely sal
ads? The thought
of jewel - green
vegetables rest
ing like gems on
lighter green
leaves of lettuce
and endive, or
brilliantly sparkling fruits on the
dark green of watercress or frilly
leaves of garden lettuce are certain
remedies for getting rid of swelter
ing heat waves.
I know of some families who
make salads the main ingredient of
the menus during the really warm
weather. Not enough protein, did I
hear you say? Oh, but yes, for
you can put enough meat, fish and
cheese into the salads to give them
that "stick-to-the-ribs” quality.
Keep your salads crisp and fresh
looking. Wash the lettuce as thor
oughly as you can, letting the cold
water trickle on every leaf. Keep
your salads as pretty as picture
plates. Even a tossed salad which
Is sort of thrown together can be
lovely, as long as you don’t fuss with
It until it looks weary.
Mold them, too, for a change, us
ing fruits or vegetables or both, for
pretty molds are again reaching the
markets. Unflavored gelatine can
be used with tomato juice and fruit
juices if you want to.have a bit
of color on the salad plate.
A salad that looks like a sunburst
ltaelf is this one with tiny wedges of
pineapple and carrot curls:
Sunshine Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 envelope plain unflavored gelatine
K cup cold water
1 cup hot pineapple syrup, drained
from can
M cup orange Juice
M cup mild vinegar
Vk teaspoon salt
1 cup grated raw carrots
1 cup orange segments, rut small
1% cups canned pineapple, cut Into
small pieces
Soften gelatine in cold water and
dissolve in hot pineapple syrup. Add
orange juice, vin
egar and salt.
Cool, and when
mixture begins to
thicken, fold in
carrots, orange
and pineapple.
Turn into a mold
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ter and chill. When firm, unmold
onto greens and serve with mayon
naise.
If fresh pineapple is used, cook
the fruit a few minutes. The acid of
Iresh pineapple prevents gelatine
from stiffening.
To make this salad as pleasing
as it appears in the photograph,
serve the salad on greens and All
the center with carrot curls. These
latter are made by cutting the car
rots in paper thin slices (try a po
tato peeler), wrap tightly around
the Anger and chill in ice water. If
Lynn Chambers’ Menus
Rice and Eggs Baked In
Cheese Sauce
Raw Spinach and Carrot Salad
Bran Muffins Asparagus
Banana Cream Pie
Beverage
you place the carrots close together
in a glass of ice water, they will not
come apart or need toothpicks to
hold them together.
If you’re getting into the habit of
serving something pretty but sim
ple for Sunday night suppers—
which, by the way is a good idea
for saving yourself work—try this
salmon salad which is a meal in
itself:
Buffet Salmon Salad.
(Serves 8 to 10)
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatine
% cup cold water
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
% cup vinegar
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 pound salmon, cooked and flaked
I cup chopped celery
% cup heavy cream, whipped
Olives, sliced
Plmlento strips
Lettuce or watercress
Soften gelatine in cold water. Mix
sugar, salt and mustard thoroughly,
uomDine vinegar
and egg yolks In
double boiler.
Cook until thick,
stirring constant
ly. Remove from
heat, add gela
tine and stir un
til dissolved. Add horseradish. Chill
until mixture begins to thicken. Add
salmon and celery; fold in cream.
Place olive slices and strips of
pimiento on bottom of an oiled fish
or loaf mold. Turn mixture Into
mold. Chill until firm. Unmold onto
platter and garnish with watercress.
Note: Smoked salmon, trout, stur
geon or shrimp may be used in the
above recipe in place of salmon.
Two very pretty salads which
might be served as tidings of spring
are these:
Strawberry Cheese Salad.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 pint strawberries
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
4 three-ounce cakes cream cheese
% cup whipping cream
Wash and stem berries. Crush
with sugar and lemon juice. Mix
small portion at a time with cream
cheese until well blended. Fold In
whipped cream. Place in freezing
tray and freeze.
Ham and Tongue Slaw.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 cup cooked ham. In strips
6-ounce can tongue, cut in strips
1 small onion, minced
4 cups cabbage, shredded fine
1 egg white
94 cup mayonnaise
Mix ham, tongue, onion and cab
bage and chill. Beat egg white,
fold In mayonnaise and mix with
cabbage, etc. Serve from salad
bowl.
Here Is a good salad dressing
which Is tart and light You will
like It for all types of fruit salads:
Fruit Salad Dressing.
94 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup pineapple juice
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 orange
2 beaten e?gs
1 cup whipping cream
Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt
Mix fruit juices and add to drj
mixture. Cook in top of double boil
er for 20 minutes. Remove fron
range and add well-beaten egj
yolks. Let cook for 5 minutes long
er. then let cool. Fold in beaten eg*
whites. This may be placed In a Jai
and refrigerated until used. Befori
using, add whipped cream.
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INSTALLMENT FIFTEEN
The thing I liked best of all about
the Soviet Union, and it is one we
would do well to copy, is the intelli
gently decent Russian attitude
toward minority races. They are
helped without being patronized, and
they have developed self-respect
and an understandable gratitude. If
they have no real freedom, neither
do the Russians.
While this Soviet racial-colonial
policy may not be so good as our
handling of the Philippine Islands,
it is infinitely better than our bun
gling and thoughtless treatment of
the Negro.
We fly south out of Siberia, down
into the ancient Oriental peoples
now ruled by the Soviet Union.
Suddenly we are crossing a huge
blue lake. It is so big that when
land drops away behind us we still
cannot see the shore ahead. When
it does appear, we see the begin
ning of a rolling desert. On our
left a chain of blue, snow-capped
mountains rises like a fence. Geo
logically, they seem about as old
Entire factories have been moved
front one part of Russia to another.
as our Rockies. On the east side
of this fence is China.
We enter Kazakstan, of which
Alma-Ata is the capital. The Kazak
people are part of the savage no
madic tribes who for a thousand
years have pressed against Europe
and once formed a part of the
armies of Genghis Khan and Tamer
lane and Atilla’s Huns.
When Europe invented the rifle,
they sank from the status of a ter
rible menace to that of a constant
ly harassing threat.
In the past few centuries the Rus
sian people have been pouring
through the Urals to colonize Si
beria. The Russians had to struggle
with these savage Mongolian nom
ads, whose culture was only a little
higher than that of our American In
dians. They battled the equivalent
of Geronimo and Sitting Bull and
they have their Custers who made
valiant Last Stands, but who finally,
after a series of border wars,
opened the continent to the White
Man. We penned our Indians up in
reservations. The Russians found
another solution as we shall see.
We step out onto Alma-Ata air
port at the base of the foothills into
a country exactly like that around
Boulder, Colorado, or Colorado
Springs. The trees, the scenery,
even the weeds are the same.
The prominent Russians and the
prominent Kazaks wear immaculate
white raw silk suits. Alma-Ata, like
Denver, is on an irrigated plain
with mountains rising in the back
ground. We pass through cornfields,
where sun flowers grow along the
irrigation ditches — again exactly
like Colorado. The farm houses are
of sun-baked brick, made of clay
and straw—the adobe of our South
west.
This Soviet Denver is a sprawl
ing Russian town, which before the
war had 180,000 people and now
bas 400,000.
That evening after the customary
banquet we go to the local opera,
where they give a performance
based on an old Kazak folk tale.
The actors are all Kazaks as are
the words, music and costumes.
It is a beautiful show, and gives us
a vivid idea of what these people
once were like. The costumes are
clearly derived from the Chinese
and a musician picks out a haunting
Oriental tune on what looks like e
Chinese banjo while a pair of twir
Kazak boys sing.
All of their culture came over the
mountains with them but it Is pre
served only here in the opera, foi
the clothing of those we see in the
streets is not picturesque, but is s
drab composite of clean patches in
. distinguishable from the rest of the
; Soviet Union.
Next morning they take us for i
> drive out through the irrigated rivei
valley, past pink adobe bouses liki
those of New Mexico (lacking only
the strings of red peppers) to a great
Soviet experimental station—one of
four in the Kazakstan Republic. Ka
zakstan is four-fifths the size of all
Europe exclusive of Russia, but it
is largely arid like our American
dust-bowl.
This is a fruit farm, where under
irrigation they raise apricots,
peaches, cherries and plums. They
are keenly interested in the plum,
which they recently brought here
from Canada, and is already pro
ducing more than twenty-five pounds
of fruit per tree. In this particular
orchard they use the most modem
pipe system of subterranean irriga
tion. They are proudest of their
vineyards; in 1914 they had 3.000
hectares of land in grapes. Now
they have 30,000.
Workers on this state farm get
only 300 noubles a month in salary,
but at the end of the season they
get a produce dividend of about 700
kilograms (roughly 1,500 pounds) of
vegetables, which includes corn,
melons and pumpkins. Then each
has his own irrigated garden plot—
about a quarter of an acre for each
worker. They may sell the produce
dividend on the free market, at
prices lower than the Moscow free
market.
The director gets l.vuu roumes a
month and pays monthly 35 roubles
for two large rooms In a big house
he shares with someone else. The
rent, he says, is figured on the basis
of 1 rouble, 30 kopeks, per square
meter of dwelling space. In Amer
ican figures, this is about 10 cents
a square yard.
Eisenstein is of German-Jewish
origin. He is a short, fast-thinking,
friendly little man. He and his staff
wear colored polo shirts with short
sleeves in the Hollywood manner,
and Eisenstein wears a well-cut
white linen suit.
He is filming the life of Ivan the
Terrible. Ivan is one of the newly
resurrected Soviet heroes. Eisen
stein speaks fluent English, with a
slight but agreeable accent.
The name of the President-Pre
mier of Kazakstan is Nutras Un
da sinov. He is a pleasant, kindly
old Comanche or Sioux, who except
for his European clothes, might be
the dignified tribal chief you would
meet on any Indian reservation.
Most of his cabinet ministers are
also Kazaks, but there are a few
blue-eyed, blond Russians present.
The Russians, however, are in the
background.
The Kazaks tell us the people
racially belong to the Turkoman
Mongol group, and fought for inde
pendence as early as the twelfth
century, when the southeastern part
of the present republic was under
the rule of the Chinese Seventh
Dynasty. Later they adopted the
Mohammedan religion. The title of
the hereditary ruler was the Khan—
as in Kublai Khan and Genghis
Khan. The Mohammedan religion
is still popular—many people go to
the mosque.
But Kazakstan is now one of the
Soviet republics and has a great
measure of independence; recently
it was given the right of a separate
foreign minister.
Joyce, turning to the premier says,
"You say now this is an independ
ent republic; well, tell us about
some of the conflicts you’ve had
with the central government.”
The premier says there haven’t
been many conflicts, and lets it rest
at that.
"You say that you have the right
to send ministers to other countries;
who will you send them to? Will
you send one to America?”
A big Russian down at the end of
the table, hitherto silent, now tact
fully leans forward and suggests
that such ministers will be sent to
those countries most useful to them
commercially.
Joyce turns back to the premier.
"Are you going to send one to Amer
ica or not?”
Of course, that would be decided
in Moscow, the premier explains.
The premier explains at the time
of the 1917 Revolution the people
were 93 per cent illiterate. Today
illiteracy is gone, and the Soviets
have built many theaters and
schools. Naturally, the people are
grateful, so why should there be any
disputes with the Moscow govern
ment?
The premier explains that the
people elect delegates to a regional
Soviet, who send delegates to the
Kazakstan Soviet, who chose him as
premier.
“All right. Now ask him how
Stalin got his job; we want to un
derstand it. Ask him that.”
The handsome Russian down at
the end of the table leans forward
and explains smoothly and briefly
the intricacies of the Soviet elec
toral system. He did it politely and
there was no feeling that he was
brushing the premier aside; only
helping him over the hard places.
Likewise when we ask how many
i refugees are here, it is the alert
and friendly Russian who tells us
> that a million are still here, al
1 though many have already gone
back to the reoccupied territory.
They now present Eric with a
complete Kazak costume which con
sists of a gold-embroidered robe
more gorgeous than anything I have
seen this side of a Shriner’s con
vention. But its crowning glory is
a hood of red velvet, with ear flaps
the size of soup plates, and the
whole, including the ear flaps, is
lined with silver fox fur.
The party they gave us at the
hotel that night was the most pleas
ant we attended in the Soviet Union.
It was the most informal. The din
ner was elaborate as usual, but it
wasn’t stiff. The local notables were
easy, friendly notables.
There is an attractive girl—she
teaches dancing at the local acad
emy and she speaks fairly fluent
good English but curiously awk
ward. She explains she learned it
from books and until now has never
spoken with an American or an
Englishman.
mere are vice premiers, council
ors and members of the local gov
ernment, some Russian and some
Kazak. There are also half a dozen
stars from the local opera—all Ka
zaks. There are twin boys in their
teens, who sang last night, now re
splendent in twin Tuxedos, of which
they are very proud. There is a
Kazak girl of about twenty, who
danced the role of the Oriental
princess with the cruel father. She
could be any of the pretty Indian
girls who, when Indians had oil
money, were sought after by sorori
ties at the University of Kansas,
Then there are two older artists
—women in their forties, who, ex
cept that they look like sisters-in-law
of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, could
be any of the Russian artists who
have entertained us in the other
towns. Their evening dresses are
just as good, they have as many
gold teeth, but in addition they wear
beautiful Oriental jewelry set with
precious stones—old Kazak work
manship worthy of a museum.
Most of all, we liked them as peo
ple. They were gentle and friend
ly, and obviously had never been
warned against foreigners. Almost
the same thing could be said of the
Russians. That invisible barrier of
tension and suspicion which sepa
rates Russians from all foreigners
had been slowly dissolving since we
left Moscow. Here in Kazakstan, it
disappeared entirely.
We have now left Kazakstan and
enter the neighboring Socialist So
viet Republic of Uzbekistan, whose
capital is the ancient Mohammedan
city of Tashkent. I am riding in
the caboose plane with the corre
spondents. The buffet service is as
good as in the plane ahead. It even
includes fresh strawberries, taken
on at Alma-Ata. Dick Lauterbach
pays a visit to the toilet and returns
shaking his head.
“I’ll never get used to them. Five
thousand feet above a howling des
ert they serve us strawberries, cavi
ar and champagne, and then I go
back there and find nobody has re
membered to empty the chemical
bucket for three days.”
The crowd of airport-greeters, as
at Alma-Ata, are wearing white silk
suits. Again half are Russian and
half local Orientals. The local boys
are known as Uzbeks. The jackets
American mission to Russia in
1941 included Gen. James II. Burns
and William L. Batt.
of all Russian white silk suits but
ton up to the collarbone and have
high turned-down collars like the
Chinese. They wear caps of the
same white pongee silk.
The cap, incidentally, is a relic of
revolutionary days and was sym
bolic of the working class, since only
bourgeois exploiters wore felt hats.
Recently, the government began
making felt hats, explaining that in
the new Russia, they need no longer
be regarded as a badge of shame.
However, all the old-time Bolshe
viks still cling to caps. Nesterov
always wears one. Mike Kalugin
wore one. And, of course. Stalin, in
all his pictures. As a hall-mark of
the old Bolshevik aristocracy, the
cap is probably politically safer
than the liat.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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